Expert’s shock claim about Baba Vanga’s ‘predictions’
Baba Vanga is credited with predicting some of the world’s biggest events. But an expert has now revealed the truth about her “predictions”.
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Baba Vanga is one of the most famous psychics of all time.
Before she died in 1996, she allegedly predicted a number of events that later came true, including the Covid pandemic, 9/11 and even Princess Diana’s death.
But now a leading expert has cast doubt on Baba’s so-called “predictions”, and has revealed to news.com.au who might be responsible for pushing the fake claims that she ever made such predictions.
Who was Baba Vanga
“She’s probably one of the most popular Bulgarians of all time,” Viktoria Vitanova-Kerber, an academic who has studied Baba Vanga for years, told news.com.au.
“She was born in 1911 into a poor family and her mother died when she was a child.
“Then, at the age of 12, she lost her eyesight in a storm,” Ms Vitanova-Kerber said.
It wasn’t until the 1940s that Baba discovered she had ‘psychic abilities’ and she allegedly used those powers to help people find lost soldiers towards the end of WWII.
After the war, her fame grew.
“People were consulting her, not only the people from her town, but also from the whole country and people from abroad,” Ms Vitanova-Kerber said. “And by the 1960s, people were queuing in front of her door.”
The majority of people were asking Baba questions of a personal nature, such as “will my daughter ever get married?” or “am I going to have children?”
“She died in 1996 but her fame didn’t,” Ms Vitanova-Kerber said. “And as you have seen, there are a lot of articles with predictions she allegedly made (that are still being published) today.”
What did Baba Vanga allegedly predict
According to Baba Vanga’s supporters, the Bulgarian mystic predicted several historical events in advance, including the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000.
Baba also allegedly predicted that an African-American would be elected as the 44th President of the United States, which is exactly what happened when Barack Obama won the 2008 election.
According to articles online, Baba predicted humans will make contact with aliens in 2130 and that there’ll be some kind of war against the aliens in 3005.
It’s also claimed she predicted the world will end in 5079.
Did Baba Vanga actually predict those things
Here’s the thing, even though it’s claimed that Baba Vanga predicted all these things, there’s no actual proof.
“She wasn’t the type of person who had a diary or was documenting a lot,” Ms Vitanova-Kerber told news.com.au.
“The prophecies are not documented … so we will never know what she really said or not, because as I said, there are almost no documents about anything in her life.”
Where are these ‘predictions’ coming from
The big question is, if there’s no actual evidence that Baba made any of these predictions, where exactly are the claims coming from?
According to Ms Vitanova-Kerber, some are coming from people who visited Baba for readings back when she was alive.
“People who knew her or who visited her once or twice … and now in the present time, they come up with new memories,” she told news.com.au.
“They say, ‘Oh I forgot that she (Baba) said this and that.’
“For example, if she said, ‘in future there will be great sickness spreading,’ then in 2021, of course, people said, ‘oh, she meant Covid for sure.’
“In most cases, those are just inventions or constructions,” the academic said.
Another person pushing claims that Baba made all these accurate historical predictions is Baba’s niece who used to live with the mystic.
“She (the niece) claims to have written down some things (that Baba predicted), but she has never shown them,” Ms Vitanova-Kerber said.
“In a 2021 interview she (the niece) … came up with the information that allegedly Baba Vanga had predicted Covid as early as 1988, but again, she’s not giving any proof.
“She says she’s waiting for the right moment (to release the evidence).”
There’s also a Russian journalist who claims to have secret tapes containing some of Baba’s predictions, but the tapes have never been verified, and most of the claims allegedly relate to Russia’s primacy over the world.
There’s one other reason why Ms Vitanova-Kerber is sceptical about Baba’s historical predictions.
“Most of her prophecies, they were not political, they were of a private matter,” she told news.com.au. “It’s only after her death, I would argue, that people started interpreting these things in a political sense.”
Was Baba Vanga actually psychic
As Baba’s fame grew during her lifetime, so too did the interest in proving or disproving her abilities.
“In the 1970s there was a research team of psychiatrists, neuroscientists … who tried to find out (if Baba was psychic) with the methods of hard science,” Ms Vitanova-Kerber told news.com.au.
“They put electrodes on her head and were trying to measure her brain activity … but they couldn’t find much.”
The researchers then sent out questionnaires to thousands of people who had visited Baba Vanga and asked them to report back with her accuracy.
“The results were kind of positive, but still so-so,” Ms Vitanova-Kerber said. “So even this study couldn’t prove or disprove anything.
“At the end of the day, we will never know,” the academic said.
Originally published as Expert’s shock claim about Baba Vanga’s ‘predictions’
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