She allegedly said: 'The day will come when cancer will get tied with iron chains.' On a positive note, Vanga was also said to have predicted that a cure for cancer would be found in 2021. Some speculate the 'dragon' to be China, and that this prediction means the nation's global power will continue to strengthen. (She had reportedly predicted in 1980 that Kursk would be flooded, but at the time, it was believed that she spoke of the Russian city Kursk.)Īs for 2021, the U.K.'s Metro writes that Baba Vanga is said to have predicted that the world will suffer from 'a lot of cataclysms and great disasters' during the year, while three 'giants' unite, and a 'strong dragon' seizes humanity. However, Baba Vanga became known internationally four years after her death, when the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in 2000. While she was alive, there were people who believed she had powers of clairvoyance, and they would seek her out to contact dead relatives. One of the more interesting aspects about the phenomenon of Baba Vanga, who has been called the 'Nostradamus of the Balkans,' is that she gained much of her reputation after she died in 1996 at the age of 85.īorn Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova in 1911, she was blind since childhood and spent most of her life in the Bulgarian Kozhuh mountains.

Blind mystic Baba Vanga in an undated photo.

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