00:00Baba Vanga predictions say aliens may appear live during a 2025 international sports event.
00:06Baba Vanga foresaw a massive European war sparking World War 3,
00:11disasters swallowing huge chunks of the planet and even humanity unlocking telepathic powers.
00:18Some even talk about a cryptic double fire rising this year,
00:21wildfires or maybe political chaos.
00:23And of course the viral favourite, Russia rising to dominate the world.
00:27Sounds terrifying right?
00:29But wait, this is not the first time Baba Vanga has trended.
00:34Over the years, people have credited her with all kinds of spooky hits,
00:38predicting the 2023 Turkish-Syria earthquake, warning of digital wars before the ransomware attacks of 2021,
00:44even hinting at a blue star, some say match the James Webb Telescope's cosmic finds.
00:49Go further back and you'll see claims.
00:51She foresaw 9-11 with two steel birds, Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown,
00:56the rise of ISIS as black hordes, Brexit as a great divide and even Barack Obama's presidency.
01:02But here's the twist, the truth behind the legend.
01:05Vanga, born Vangelia Pandeva Gustarova in 1911, lost her side at 12 after a storm.
01:11She became famous in Bulgaria for her supposed visions and by the 1960s,
01:15people from across the Iron Curtain were lining up to hear her advice.
01:19But key fact, she was illiterate.
01:22She never wrote anything down.
01:24No notebooks, no diaries.
01:25Every prophecy we know today was passed down by word of mouth,
01:28relatives, visitors and later Soviet-era writers.
01:32In other words, second-hand, sometimes decades later.
01:35Fact-checkers from Snopes and Reuters point out that many of her most viral predictions,
01:39like 9-11, Chernobyl or the end of the world in 2025, have no documented source from before those events.
01:46They were attached to her name after the fact.
01:48The so-called two steel birds quote, no evidence it existed before 2001.
01:52Same for claims about Obama or ISIS.
01:55And here's where things get wild.
01:56In the 1980s, Soviet writers started publishing vague lines like Russia spreads its wings,
02:02later recycled by Russian media as proof she predicted Moscow's global dominance.
02:07Tabloid outlets picked up yearly prediction lists and repackaged them for clicks.
02:12Websites like vanguard.ru even let users add their own twists, aliens, telepathy, apocalypses.
02:18Before long, you've got a Frankenstein prophecy machine churning out content every new year
02:23or every time the world feels unstable.
02:25So, what's the bottom line?
02:26Baba Vanga's legend lives on because we crave certainty in uncertain times.
02:31She's become a Balkan Nostradamus.
02:33Part 4 Kiro, part clickbait.
02:34Did she have intuition?
02:35Maybe.
02:36But most of what trends today is retrofitting, exaggeration or outright invention.
02:40The future is not written in her visions.
02:42It's written by us.
02:44Tell us if you remember reading about a Baba Vanga prediction.
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02:50Explain us like this.
02:51I'm Manisha Dikari.
02:52Thank you for watching The Culture Project on Mo.
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