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Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova, eternalized as Baba Vanga or the Prophetess of Rupite, was a blind Bulgarian prophetess and healer, who made several predictions throughout the 20th century. It gained fame mainly in Eastern Europe when it hit events like the Chernobyl disaster and the fall of the Soviet Union. At her peak, she served 50 people a day at her home. Baba Vanga claimed to hear voices of invisible creatures that told what she wanted to know. Died in 1996, she made predictions up to the year 5079. However, there is little documentation of her visions and many of the predictions that circulate on the internet attributed to her are probably false.
1. From a poor background, Vangelia was born in January 1911. She grew up like a normal child, but already enjoyed games like covering her eyes and guessing where a certain object was. When she was 12 years old, a storm threw her onto the beach and Vanga was rescued just days later. Exposure to sand and dust was the key factor in his blindness.
two. Vanga began to make predictions and gained fame, attracting politicians, artists and ordinary citizens. In the 1960s, the Bulgarian government installed audio and video capture devices in the seer’s home to record her visits. The result of the evaluation showed that she was right about future events between 70% and 80% of the cases.
3. In 1966, Vanga became the world’s first psychic who was hired as a civil servant. The government took her consultation money and paid her a salary in return. Her association with the Bulgarian state shielded her from harassment, but raised suspicion: some felt that the government gave Vanga privileged information for her to pass on to clients as forecasts and gain their trust.
4. The seer died on August 11, 1996, aged 85, from breast cancer. As expected, Vanga predicted the date of her own death. Before she passed away, she said that a power equal to hers was being passed on to a 10-year-old girl, also blind, who lived in France. “Soon everyone will hear about her,” she promised.
Visions beyond the eyes
See the predictions that Baba Vanga got right
– The fall of the Soviet Union: In the late 1970s, Vanga predicted that conflicts between governments would lead to radical political change in the region
– The year of Joseph Stalin’s death: Vanga was arrested for saying this, and released only after the dictator’s death
– Veselin Topalov’s World Chess victory: Vanga predicted that a Bulgarian would win a world title in 2005
– North Korea’s attack on South Korea in 2010: Vanga predicted that two Asian sister powers would clash in the 21st century
-The Chernobyl disaster: She also predicted the accident in Ukraine in 1986
Prediction or fiction?
There is no evidence that Vanga made the below predictions commonly attributed to her on the internet
2100: An artificial sun illuminates the dark side of Earth
2164: Half human animals appear
2296: Great solar flare. Space stations and old satellites start to fall
3010: Comet hits the Moon, causing a ring of rocks and dust to form around Earth
3797: At that time, everything that lives on Earth dies. But humans are capable of starting a new life in a new solar system.
4599: Humanity achieves immortality
5079: End of the world as we know it
Curiosity: The only prediction of the future safely attributed to Vanga is that, in 200 years, we will already have made contact with extraterrestrials.
QUESTION Luciano Cirne, Niteroi, RJ
SOURCES Websites Sofia Globe, 24Chasa, Pravda, The New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, Vice and The People’s Voice; Above Top Secret, Unoccult Occult, and The Twilight Zone blogs; article Vanga’s Predictions for 2014from the New Earth Center Bulgaria
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