Vanga's Predictions: How Many Times the Seer Was Wrong## Contribution

Vanga is considered one of the most successful prophetesses in history - many of her predictions actually came true and continue to come true before our eyes. However, even the most devoted fans of the Bulgarian seer acknowledge an undeniable fact: not all of Vanga's prophecies found their confirmation in reality. As often happens with human memory, we tend to forget inaccurate predictions, but long remember those that amazingly came true...

Percentage of successful predictions

Experts studying Vanga's phenomenon provide various data on the success of her prophecies, but all agree on one thing - the prophetess was more often right. Alexey Rakitin, author of the study "Mysteries Without Mysteries," calculated that out of a thousand predictions, Vanga was wrong in only 300 cases. Bulgarian researchers, having analyzed an impressive array of more than 7,000 prophecies, found that only about 20% of them did not come true. Sociologist Velichko Dobriyanov presented a more conservative estimate - 68% of fulfilled events, while noting that half of them can be interpreted in two ways, both in favor of the clairvoyant and against her.

Without documentary evidence

Serious questions arise about many of Vanga's alleged predictions that are considered fulfilled but have no documentary evidence. These include prophecies about Stalin's death, the Chernobyl disaster, Boris Yeltsin's victory in the 1996 elections, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and chess player Topalov's championship. People from the Bulgarian prophetess's inner circle claim that she never mentioned the sinking of the submarine "Kursk" or the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. According to specialists, most of the fulfilled prophecies attributed to her are nothing more than myths and fabrications.

Unfulfilled predictions

We cannot fail to note cases when Baba Vanga was frankly wrong in her forecasts. As Oleg Feigin testifies, in the 1970s, the prophetess predicted the introduction of Soviet troops into Chile. According to some reports, the USSR leadership did indeed consider such a possibility but ultimately abandoned the idea due to the geographical remoteness of the region. Svetlana Kudryavtseva, author of the book "The Phenomenon of the Clairvoyant Vanga: Divinations, Predictions, Spells," mentions that in the 1990s, the seer predicted the death of the 41st US President George Bush Sr. in a plane explosion. However, in reality, he died in 2018 at a Houston hospital from natural causes related to advanced age and Parkinson's disease.

Some researchers of paranormal phenomena explain Vanga's inaccuracies by saying that the future is not static and can change under the influence of key events. However, this contradicts the words of the Bulgarian prophetess herself, who was firmly convinced that the future is predetermined and cannot be changed...