Prophet Vanga predicts major scientific discoveries in 2018

Blind Bulgarian prophet predicts humans will find a new form of energy on Venus in 2018.

Prophet Vanga. Photo: Wikimedia.

Baba Vanga, a blind mystic who died in 1996, predicted a major scientific discovery in 2018 about a new form of energy on Venus. However, her prediction is unlikely to come true because no space agency has plans to explore Venus in the near future.

More than 20 years after Vanga's death, many are waiting to see whether her prophecies for 2018 will come true, including the discovery on Venus as well as the prediction that China will surpass the US to become an economic power, although it is unclear where these comments are based.

Baba Vanga, whose real name was Vangelia Gushterova, was blinded as a child after being hit by a tornado. She became famous after making many predictions about world events before her death at the age of 85. Perhaps the most famous of these was her 1989 prediction of the 9/11 attacks.

“The twin brothers of America will fall under the attack of the iron birds. The wolves will howl in the bushes and innocent blood will flow.” People often interpret “the twin brothers of America” as the Twin Towers and “the iron birds” as the hijacked planes.

Her vague prophecies are sometimes still widely accepted, such as her prediction that Europe would end in 2016, which could be seen as a prophecy of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. Vanga also claimed that Barack Obama would be the last president of the United States, but this prediction was proven completely wrong.

The effect in which people compare Vanga's vague prophecies with actual events is related to confirmation bias, the tendency for people to favor information that confirms their own beliefs or hypotheses. This tendency is similar to the Barnum effect or the Forer effect.

This phenomenon describes how people perceive general descriptions of their personality as specific statements about themselves, leading them to believe in horoscopes and psychics. With these effects, people tend to remember prophecies that they can interpret as true and ignore predictions that are false.

Vanga's prophecies are even more complicated because there's no clear evidence that she actually made the predictions or what they specifically were about, according to Forbes. Over time, basic details like the year of the predicted event have changed.

Vanga’s Venus prophecy was published 10 years ago. “Create a new source of energy. Hunger will soon pass. Launch a manned spacecraft to Venus,” Vanga said. The prophecy was supposed to come true in 2028, but current reports have changed the predicted date to 2018.

Current manned missions are aimed only at the Moon and Mars, with no missions to Venus, although a small satellite could be deployed to further study the planet's atmosphere.

According to VNE