The 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have affected Earth’s rotation, shortening the days by as much as 1.26 microseconds, says research scientist Richard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. It is also estimated that the Earth’s figure axis has shifted 3 inches (8 cm).

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Yes, you read that right. The Atlantian host of the 700 Club, who recently came under fire for blaming the Haitian earthquake on a “pact with the Devil” in order to free Haitians from French slaveowners, has now decided to out-crazy himself, this time stating that the Chilean earthquake was a result of the Chilean people’s pact with the legendary bloodsucking Latin American crytptid.

“Something happened a long  ago in Chile, and people might not want to talk about it,” Robertson said. “They were under the heel of the democratically elected SOCIALIST regime of Salvador Allende …and they got together and swore a pact to the chupacabra. They said, ’We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the the man we elected president, and install a military dictatorship that will make thousands of ‘troublemakers disappear.’ True story. And the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.”

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