Baba Vanga (31 January 1911 – 11 August 1996) was a blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant, and herbalist from the region of Macedonia.
Her most famous predictions
Baba Vanga reportedly made hundreds of predictions in her 50-year career, becoming known as the "Nostradamus of the Balkans".
She claimed her abilities had something to do with the presence of invisible creatures she could not explain, which gave her information about people.
Her followers believe she predicted global warming and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami when she warned: "Cold regions will become warm ... and volcanoes will awaken.
"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."
She is also said to have predicted the 11 September terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York, reportedly saying: "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 gush."
However, many of the people who were close to her have claimed she never made some of the prophecies attributed to her on the internet.
Although she is said to have correctly predicted the 44th President of the United States would be African-American, she also stated he would be the "last US President".
She also predicted nuclear war between 2010 and 2016, which she said would lead to the abandonment of Europe.
In the future, she predicted aliens would help civilisation live underwater by 2130 and that there would be a war on Mars in 3005.
