Did a mystic predict that the “end times” would begin in 2025?

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A Bulgarian mystic known as Baba Vanga predicted that the world will end in 2025.

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There are no written records of Baba Vanga’s predictions, so it is impossible to know what prophecies she actually made before her death in 1996.

A rumor that a Bulgarian mystic known as Baba Vanga predicted that “the end of times will come in 2025” spread online in October 2024.

One X post at the time of publication, the author of such a statement had more than 15.5 million views. letter and was reposted more than 6,000 times. The post also included a community note that said, “Baba Vanga has a history of wrong predictions, such as an alien invasion that was supposed to happen in 2022.”

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Other X users who shared the post added mocking comments with one person. letter: “She says it every year, girl, wrap it up,” and another asked: “Did she say when the remix album is coming out?”

Baba Vanga died in 1996 at the age of 84 but became known as the “Balkan Nostradamus” as a result of his numerous “predictions” that allegedly came true.

Previous “predictions“Her followers believe that events that have come to pass include historical events such as World War II, the reunification of East and West Germany, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the September 11 attacks, and the election of President Barack Obama and the COVD-19 pandemic.

Very similar to Nostradamushowever, these forecasts are vague best, and there is no hard evidence that she even made them, only rumors. Therefore, we consider this assertion to be unfounded.

However, the lack of evidence has not stopped various media outlets from reporting her supposed predictions year after year. According to New York Postchronology of the apocalyptic events of Baba Vanga. prophecies is as follows:

2025: Conflict in Europe devastates the continent’s population.

2028: People will begin to explore Venus as a source of energy.

2033: The polar ice caps will melt, causing sea levels around the world to rise to enormous heights.

2076: Communism spreads to countries around the world.

2130: Humans will make contact with aliens.

2170: Drought devastates much of the world.

3005: Earth will go to war with the civilization of Mars.

3797: People will have to leave the Earth because it has become uninhabitable.

5079: The world will end.

However, paper is also marked that Baba Vanga’s predictions were never written down and therefore there is no way to verify the truth of the claim that these prophecies were actually made.

According to the report Kolitkoacademician and Baba Vanga expert Victoria Vitanova-Kerber said: “She did not keep diaries or record her prophecies… There are almost no written records of what she actually said, making it impossible to verify these claims.”

Snopes has reached out to Vitanova-Kerber for comment and will update this article if we hear back.

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So, if there is no official data, where do these predictions come from? Vitanova-Kerber believes that many of these claims come from people who visited Baba Vanga during her lifetime.

“Years later, these people remember new details, saying, ‘Oh, she told me this and that,'” she explained. For example, if Baba had mentioned a “great disease” during a reading, people might now assume that it 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 recorded several prophecies of Baba, but has not yet provided any evidence. In a 2021 interview, she even suggested that Baba foresaw COVID back in 1988, but said she was waiting for the “right time” to release records.

If Vanga’s apocalyptic prophecies come true, the news site reports HuffPost UKTime travel will be invented by 2304, so perhaps a solution will be found before everything ends forever in 5079.

Snopes has reported similar prophecies before, including the widespread rumor that Nostradamus predicted September 11th. And Space Shuttle Columbia disasternot to mention a number of obvious predictions that predicted the Covid-19 pandemic.