Bulgarian psychic Baba Vanga has successfully foreseen seismic events, including Princess Diana’s death in 1997 and 9/11 – according to her followers, at least.
But her premonitions for this year were particularly bleak – a conflict between two European nations.
With the war between Russia and Ukraine well into its third year, and conflict raging in the Middle East – another military dispute would put the world nearer to World War Three.
Vanga, whose real name is Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, turned blind as a teenager, but gained a reputation for her mystic abilities.
She forecast the new European conflict would ‘devastate’ the population.
She said: ‘As soon as Syria falls, expect a great war between the West and the East. In the spring, a war in the East will begin and there will be a third World War. A war in the East that will destroy the West.’
Known as the ‘Balkan Nostradamus’ after the classical French astrologer, Baba died in 1996, but some of her predictions have since been borne out.
What were Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2025?
As well as foreseeing a fresh war, Vanga claimed 2025 would be the year scientists would discover telepathy.
In sport, Lewis Hamilton will win a record eighth Formula 1 world championship, according to Baba Vanga.
The achievement would be his first since his shock move to Scuderia Ferrari last year and the team’s first driver’s championship since 2007.
This year’s final would be an absolute nail-biter, with Hamilton going head-to-head with reigning champion Max Verstappen for the title.
The psychic also predicted this year would be the year humans would come face to face with aliens – at a major sporting event.
Extraterrestrial beings would make a shock appearance at this year’s Super Bowl in the halftime show.
She also predicted this would be the year for a monumental scientific breakthrough in the form of a clean energy source.
The discovery would be a godsend as the world hunts for sustainable fuels and renewables amid climate change – and lower energy bills.
Which of Baba Vanga’s predictions have come true?
One such event, according to some, was the September 11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001.
She reportedly said back in 1989: ‘Horror! Horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing.’
The steel birds have been interpreted by some as the commercial aircraft that hit the Twin Towers, while the word ‘bush’ could refer to then-President George W Bush.
Some also believe the ‘howling wolves’ is a reference to the US’s subsequent War on Terror.
It wasn’t her only prediction on American politics either. Baba Vanga said that the 44th US president would be a Black man, years before Barack Obama was elected in 2008.
In an even more spooky premonition, Vanga suggested his successor would be someone who would ‘bring the country down’. A definition some argue fits that of a certain Donald J Trump.
She said in an undated statement: ‘Everyone will put their hopes in him to end it, but the opposite will happen. He will bring the country down and conflicts between north and south states will escalate.’
Among other tragic incidents, she allegedly correctly predicted the death of Princess Diana in 1997 and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
She also reportedly predicted the assassination of another major political, India’s former prime minister Indira Gandhi, who was shot dead by two Sikh bodyguards.
She said in 1969: ‘The dress will destroy her. I see an orange-yellow dress in the smoke and fire.’
Gandhi was indeed wearing a saffron yellow coloured dress.
Most bizarrely of all, according to some, she successfully predicted her death – August 11, 1996, a date be brought up in a 1990 interview.
Which of Baba Vanga’s predictions didn’t come true?
