A strange story arose about an old, downtrodden, poor husband named “Edgar Goose” who had very little money. He told his elderly wife that he decided to take his last stash of money, which amounted to $10, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to gamble the remaining money and see if he could turn that money into more money even though they had everything to lose. . So, Edgar drove his beat-up old Chevy truck to a casino in Las Vegas. When he entered, he was dressed in rags. He looked around and decided to play a slot machine. At first, it took him a while to get used to playing one, but he quickly caught on.

At first, he didn’t have much luck, but suddenly, when he lowered the lever, the machine stopped at four “hearts”. The lights around the slot machine came on and made many loud sounds. Then a ton of quarters gushed out of the output tray. Edgar watched in disbelief, as did everyone else, the number of quarters that came out of the machine. A kind woman approached her machine and offered Edgar two plastic bags to put all the coins in. But Edgar wasn’t done with the slot machine.

He inserted one of his quarters into the machine, and the slots stopped at four hearts again. More coins fell from the tray. Edgar was getting rich fast. After several hours, Edgar had a small fortune of about $4,000. Then one of the undercover casino owners who had been watching him visited Edgar at his machine and said threateningly, “You only have five minutes left, or we’ll take your winnings!”

Edgar felt a chill, a sense of terror that made the blood in his veins run cold. He had taken it personally and needed to back off. He picked up his bag of quarters and took the bags from him and exchanged them for dollars. When he left the casino, he could still hear the manager telling him that he only had “five minutes” left.

At the same time, a storm was brewing overhead, and suddenly lightning struck from the sky, striking Edgar in the leg. He quickly fell to the ground. The people who saw everything that happened, ran to him to see what they could do. Edgar had lost consciousness. Within 30 minutes, he opened his eyes inside an ambulance rushing to the nearest hospital. Two paramedics had been tending to his oxygen flow and another had placed a temporary cast around his leg.
“Five minutes.” Edgar said as he partially regained consciousness of him. “Five minutes… five minutes.” He kept repeating. The paramedics thought he was just in shock. When he was rushed to the hospital, Edgar kept repeating “Five minutes…”

When he stabilized, the doctor asked him a few questions, but Edgar said, “We’re not guaranteed the next five minutes.”

His wife was contacted and rushed to the hospital in a neighbor’s car. When she arrived at the hospital, she saw Edgar in a comfortable bed. But she kept repeating “five minutes.” When he heard his wife’s voice, he widened his eyes and said, “There are only five minutes left… Only… five my…”. Edgar fell asleep.

A minute later, Edgar opened his eyes. This time he said, “Four minutes left…” A minute later, he said, “Three minutes left…”.

His wife got nervous and tried to wake Edgar up. She thought he was reacting to painkillers that affected parts of her brain.

Then, he woke up and said, “Two minutes to go…”

At the time, the hospital was shadowed by darkness, even though it had been a bright, brilliant day at 2:15 in the afternoon. Suddenly, the hospital shook violently.
“One minute to go…” Edgar said. It would be the last.

Within a minute, a huge asteroid came crashing down and hit Earth at 10,000 miles per hour. There was no warning except for Edgar, who had counted down the hours to the end of civilization.