Baba Vanga

Bulgarian psychic (1911-1996)

  • Fame63.0
  • Momentum13.4
  • Wikipedia67.9K
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Lived 1911–1996, aged 85
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  • Wikipedia
    62 languages
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  • Era
    1911–1996
    Aged 85
  • Known for
    Phenomenon
    1977
Summary
Updated 2026-08-29

A blind Bulgarian woman who spent decades in a mountain village, telling futures to a procession of visitors that included Cold War officials and ordinary believers — her claimed prophecies still circulate online, debated and reinterpreted long after her death.

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Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova was born on 3 October 1911 in Bulgaria and lost her sight in her teens. She later claimed the ability to see what was coming, and as Baba Vanga she built a following as a mystic and healer, spending most of her life in the Rupite area of the Belasica mountains. During the Cold War her reputation for clairvoyance and precognition spread across parts of Eastern Europe. She died on 11 August 1996, but the fall of communism and the rise of the internet kept her persona alive — her alleged predictions still make the rounds, parsed and argued over by people who never met…

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63.0
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Momentum13.4
Historical26.2
Now attention13.0
Source confidence65.0
Completeness55.0
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence