Blood red sky phenomenon in China leaves onlookers claiming the ‘apocalypse has begun’

SHOCKING videos of deep red skies in China have conspiracy theorists claiming the apocalypse is coming.

According to NewsWeek, the red sky videos are real but there’s much more reasonable explanations for their appearance.

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For the past few days, clips of the blood red sky in China have been circulating on Twitter and Chinese social media site Weibo.

The strange phenomenon is said to have occurred in the Chinese east coast city of Zhoushan.

Clips and pictures show the red sky over residential areas.

People can be seen staring up at the strange sight, which looks like something out of a sci-fi film.

Tens of thousands of people have viewed the clips.

Some people accused them of being photoshopped while others thought they signalled the end times.

One user tweeted: “In the Chinese urban district of Zhoushan, it seems that the apocalypse has begun.”

Another joked: “Stranger things season 4 looks a banger.”

According to the Global Times, a Chinese state media outlet, the blood red sky scenes are very much real.

That report suggested the event happened on May 7 and was due to a perfect storm of wet and cloudy weather conditions reflecting the red light of fishing ships into the sky.

This was confirmed by the Zhoushan Meteorological Bureau.

Other experts have suggested that a solar storm could be responsible as solar flares are known to have hit Earth this week.