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Who is Baba Vanga? -

Baba Vanga was a world-famous mystic who grew up in Bulgaria. She has often been referred to as the Nostradamus of the Balkans for her grand predictions. 

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The origins of her gift -

She grew up on a farm and was blinded in a dust storm when she was 12 years old. She said that this was the moment she received a gift from God to see into the future. 

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The first signs -

According to baba-vanga.com, she began to exhibit strange behavior around the age of 18. She left a home for the blind where she had spent her teen years and returned to live with her family in what is now North Macedonia. She began to have visions and strange dreams, and would speak to the dead.

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Vanga's posthumous prophecies -

She died in 1996 at the age of 75, but by that time had already made many far-reaching predictions about the future.

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Foreseeing the fate of the Earth -

In the 1950s, she made a prediction that seemed to herald climate change and the devastating tsunami that occurred in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004.

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Foreseeing the fate of the Earth -

Vanga is believed to have said, “Cold regions will become warm … and volcanoes will awaken. A huge wave will cover a big coast covered with people and towns, and everything will disappear beneath the water. Everything will melt, just like ice.”

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The Kursk submarine disaster -

It’s rumored that she predicted a famous disaster that occurred in Russia in the year 2000. The Kursk submarine sank during a major Russian naval exercise and all of its 118 crew members were killed.

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Her most famous prediction -

One year later, her supporters claimed that she had once again predicted a major world event. It’s reported that she made a prediction that closely matched the details of the September 11 terrorist attack in the US.

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The 9/11 prophecy -

Vanga is believed to have said, “The American brothers will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing."

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Her reputation for accuracy -

These events helped to solidify Vanga’s reputation as a psychic among her followers. Many say that her predictions are extremely reliable. One researcher, the late Bulgarian psychiatrist Professor Georgi Lozanov, calculated that she has an 85% accuracy rate! 

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How did she fare in 2022 and 2023? -

Baba Vanga had a good accuracy rate for 2022, with predictions like plagues of locusts and water shortages coming true, but 2023 had a lot more misses than hits. Luckily, we avoided predictions like nuclear war, solar storms, and mass infertility.

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Late to the party -

However, some of the predictions that didn’t come true in 2022 actually came to pass in 2023. Baba Vanga predicted that we would be visited by aliens in 2022, and in 2023, there were two major cases that argued for the presence of alien lifeforms on Earth.

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Evidence of aliens? -

One was the US Congress hearing with whistleblower David Grusch (left), who claimed he saw and heard about evidence of "non-human" beings and spacecraft while working as an intelligence officer for the federal government. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Jaime Mussan presented the supposed corpses of two aliens (right) before Congress.

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Ancient viruses have resurfaced -

Another 2022 prediction that manifested in 2023 was that an ancient virus would be unleashed on the world due to global warming. In 2023, scientists published studies on “zombie viruses” being uncovered in Siberia due to melting permafrost. An outbreak of anthrax in reindeer has already occurred due to the thawing of ancient animal remains infected with the dangerous bacteria. 

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False predictions: 1994 World Cup Final -

Baba Vanga has made a number of false predictions in the past. In 1994, she claimed that the World Cup Final would be played by two teams with names that began with the letter B. She was right about Brazil, but the other team was Italy. Perhaps she was hoping Bulgaria would make it to the final!

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False predictions: nuclear war -

She predicted that a nuclear war would occur between 2010 and 2014, and that certainly didn’t happen!

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False predictions: Europe's destruction -

A rather dramatic prophecy that never came to fruition was her claim that Europe would cease to exist in 2016.

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False predictions: the 44th and final US president -

Vanga is said to have correctly predicted that the 44th President of the United States would be African American, but she also claimed that this person would be the final president!

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False predictions: the 44th and final US president -

Some have interpreted this prediction as the end of serious politics in the US, with celebrities taking over the position of president. Thankfully, Kanye 2020 didn't work out...

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What can we expect in 2024? -

So, we’ve seen what she’s gotten right, and what she’s gotten wrong. Now let’s find out what Baba Vanga prophesied for 2024.

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Putin's assassination - The mystic predicted that there will be an assassination attempt made against President Vladimir Putin in 2024, orchestrated by a fellow Russian.

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Terrorist attacks -

She also said that there will be an increase in terror attacks in Europe. What's more, a major country will begin testing biological weapons and carrying out attacks. 

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Economic crisis -

According to Vanga, a major financial crisis is on the cards for 2024. The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has already rocked the world economy and it looks like there's worse to come. 

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Natural disasters and extreme weather -

Another prediction that already seems pretty close to our current reality. Vanga said that we will even more extreme weather events and natural disasters. 

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Cyber attacks -

She also predicted that there will be an increase in cyber attacks. Hackers will supposedly target key infrastructure like power grids and water treatment plants. 

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Medical breakthroughs -

However, it's not all bad! Baba Vanga also stated that there will be major breakthroughs in the field of medicine, specifically in regards to the treatment of incurable diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. 

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The distant future -

Now, let’s see what other predictions Vanga made for the future beyond 2024. 

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An end to world hunger -

She claimed that we will finally be able to solve the global hunger crisis between the years 2025 and 2028. 

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Climate change weapons -

Baba Vanga said that in 2066 the US will unleash a climate change weapon on Muslim-controlled Rome.

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A new world order -

Apparently, communism will return in a big way by 2076! 

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Future predictions: time travel -

Finally, in 2304, Baba Vanga says that humans will discover time travel.

Sources: (Baba-Vanga) (Times Now News) (Euronews) 

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