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A rumor that a Bulgarian mystic known as Baba Vanga predicted that the "end times will commence in 2025" circulated online in October 2024.
One X post that made such a claim had more than 15.5 million views as of this writing and had been reposted more than 6,000 times. The post also featured a Community Note stating: "Baba Vanga has a history of incorrect predictions, such as an alien invasion that was supposed to occur in 2022."
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Other X users who shared the post added tongue-in-cheek comments, with one person writing: "She says this every year girl wrap it upppppp," while another asked: "Did she say when the brat remix album is gonna come out?"
Baba Vanga died in 1996 at the age of 84 but has become known as the "Nostradamus of the Balkans" as a result of her many "predictions" that have allegedly come true.
Previous "predictions" her followers believe to have come to fruition include historic events such as World War II, the reunification of East and West Germany, the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, the 9/11 attacks, the election of President Barack Obama and the COVD-19 pandemic.
Much like with Nostradamus, however, these predictions are vague at best, and there is no hard evidence proving she even made them in the first place, only hearsay. Therefore, we have rated this claim as unfounded.
Still, this lack of evidence hasn't stopped various outlets from reporting on her alleged predictions year after year. According to the New York Post, the timeline of Baba Vanga's apocalyptic prophecies is as follows:
2025: A conflict in Europe will devastate the continent's population.
2028: Humans will begin to explore Venus as an energy source.
2033: The polar ice caps will melt, raising sea levels to drastic heights worldwide.
2076: Communism will spread to countries across the world.
2130: Humans will make alien contact.
2170: A drought will devastate much of the world.
3005: Earth will go to war with a civilization on Mars.
3797: Humans will have to vacate the Earth because it's become uninhabitable.
5079: The world will end.
However, the paper also noted that Baba Vanga's predictions have never been written down, and as such there is no way to verify the truth behind the claim that these prophecies were actually made.
According to a report by Colitco, academic and Baba Vanga expert
Snopes reached out to Vitanova-Kerber for comment and will update this piece if we receive a response.
Colitco continued:
So, if there are no official records, where did these predictions come from? Vitanova-Kerber believes that many of these claims stem from people who visited Baba Vanga while she was alive.
"Years later, these individuals recall new details, saying, 'Oh, she told me this and that,'" she explained. For example, if Baba mentioned "a great sickness" during a reading, people might now assume she was predicting COVID-19.
Baba's niece, who lived with the mystic, is another source of these predictions. According to Vitanova-Kerber, the niece claims to have written down several of Baba's prophecies but has yet to provide any evidence. In a 2021 interview, she even suggested that Baba foresaw COVID as early as 1988 but stated she is waiting for the "right moment" to release the records.
If Vanga's apocalyptic prophecies do come to pass, according to news website HuffPost UK, time travel will be invented by 2304, so perhaps a solution will be found before everything ends for good in 5079.
Snopes has reported on alleged prophecies such as these before, including the widespread rumor that Nostradamus predicted 9/11 and the Columbia space shuttle disaster, not to mention a whole collection of apparent predictions that foretold the COVID-19 pandemic.
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