How did mystic Baba Vanga lose her eye sight?
The late mystic was born in 1911 as Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova, in the town of Strumica – what is now known as North Macedonia.
The blind clairvoyant has been credited with foreseeing the Indonesian tsunami in 2004, the fall of the Soviet Union, the death of Princess Diana and the September 11 terrorist attacks. It's commonly said she has an 85 per cent accuracy rate. She made predictions all the way up until 5079, when she claimed the world would end.
But what was her life like before she became a cult figure among conspiracy theorists?
It's believed that Baba Vanga's mother died at an early age, and her father went off to fight in World War I for the Bulgarian army, The Mirror reported.
It's also been reported that when she was just 12, a tornado hit her village. Baba Vanga was allegedly thrown into the air by the weather phenomenon and her eyes were filled with dust. She was then dumped in a field by the storm.
Her eyes were so damaged from the dust that she could no longer open them without being in excruciating pain.
She lay in the field for days while her family tried to find her, Daily Mail reported.
It was after this alleged event she began to lose her vision, and then began making predictions.
It wasn't until the 1940s that Baba Vanga discovered she had 'psychic abilities' and she allegedly used those powers to help people find lost soldiers towards the end of World War II.
After the war, her fame grew.
Viktoria Vitanova-Kerber, an academic who has studied Baba Vanga for years, told news.com.au last year' 'People were consulting her, not only the people from her town, but also from the whole country and people from abroad.
'And by the 1960s, people were queuing in front of her door.'
Many questions were of a personal nature; people asked when they will have children and if they will ever get married.
But, there is no proof that Baba Vanga – who died in 1996 at the age of 84 – made predictions such as humans will make contact with aliens in 2130 and that there'll be some kind of war against the aliens in 3005.
'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.'
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