User blog comment:SecretJinx/Riddle Sensei IV/@comment-3994132-20120514025017

Everybody had been killed, because...

A long time ago, there used to be a fabled fact of the eclipse causing death and misery upon those who look upon it.

HOWEVER...

A lunar eclipses is when the moon is positioned between the Earth and the Sun and casts a ghostly shadow upon the Earth.

The only possible method an eclipse could affect the human population is if people in superiority decided to mass sacrifice/kill people whenever it happened.

There, I said it, this discussion is over. :P