The new Nostradamus: Baba Vanga

Yes, we've all been told since childhood that Nostradamus, the French apothecary who made prophecies, got the rise of Hitler, Napoleon and many other things right.

And this week, we're being told Nostradamus seems to have a successor - Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova, more known as the blind Bulgarian seer Baba Vanga - who has a roster of 10 terrifying predictions for our future, including a big Muslim invasion of Europe in 2016, reports Huffington Post.

Local legend has it that Baba Vanga, the 'Nostradamus of the Balkans' - first gained the ability to see the future when she was blinded in a terrible storm at age 12.

She began to make predictions at the age of 16 and "her powers of foreseeing took shape after she turned 30".

In the autumn of 1952, the prophetess found herself in big trouble when she said that Josef Stalin would go into the nether world. She was jailed as a result of that prediction, albeit not for long.

Believers claim she correctly predicted some key global events of the past few decades including:

• The assassinations of Indian prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi

• The Kursk nuclear submarine disaster

• Global warming

• 9/11: "Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing."

• The 2004 tsunami: "A huge wave will cover a big coast covered with people and towns, and everything will disappear beneath the water. Everything will melt, just like ice."

• The election of Barack Obama: she predicted that the 44th President would be an African American. She also predicted he would be the last US President

• World War II

• The date on which Tsar Boris III died

• The break-up of Czechoslovakia

• The break-up of the Soviet Union

• The break-up of Yugoslavia

• East and West Germany's reunification

• Boris Yeltsin's election

• The Chernobyl disaster

• The date of Stalin's death

• The conflicts in Syria

• The separation of Crimea

'Specialists' have calculated that 68% of her prophecies have come true.

But the biggest problem with these predictions is that they have no official source. While Nostradamus left written articles, Baba Vanga did not. Which is why changing what she may have said to imbue events with meaning post facto is not just possible but probable - think of it like playing Chinese whispers.

Source - Catch News