Renowned oracles Nostradamus and Baba Vanga made the same chilling prediction for next year, anticipating ‘cruel wars’ and plague will leave Britain in ruin.
Michel de Nostredame, the 16th-century astrologer and seer known widely as Nostradamus, penned Les Prophéties, apparently predicting the rise of Napoleon and the World Wars – along with an unsettling forecast for next year.
In prophecies written nearly 500 years ago, Nostradamus warned England would see ‘cruel wars’ break out from ‘her flanks’, creating ‘foes from within and without’.
‘A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies,’ he added.
The French writer went on to predict that next year would see a ‘decrease in the influence of established Western countries’ and the ’emergence of new world powers’ as a prolonged conflict comes to an end with soldiers ‘exhausted’ by attritional warfare.
The late Bulgarian psychic likewise left a series of predictions for the 21st century before her death in 1996, accurately predicting 9/11, the death of Princess Diana and the rise of China.
Baba Vanga, born in 1911 as Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, wrote before she died that 2025 would see earthquakes ravage the world as Europe is rocked by a devastating war.
‘Russia will not only survive,’ she wrote. ‘It will dominate the world.’
Nostradamus was a 16th century French mystic and reputable ‘seer’
Baba Vanga, who died in August 1996, is even said to have predicted her own death
Nostradamus had prophesized that an extended war through 2024, like the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, would come to an end next year when the armies are spent.
‘Through long war all the army exhausted, so that they do not find money for the soldiers; instead of gold or silver, they will come to coin leather, Gallic brass, and the crescent sign of the Moon,’ he wrote.
Gaul is the historical name for France. Gallic may refer to France or the French.
He did go on to suggest that ‘great powers will clash’ and the influence of the West would wane.
The mystic believed 2025 would see European powers clash with England, devastating the country and spawning new ‘foes’.
He also warned of an impending ‘pestilence from the past’.
Nostradamus also expected 2025 to bring pioneering advances in medicine as England battles its ancient plague.
In a more worrying prediction, he suggested next year would see a ‘fireball from the cosmos’ devastate the earth.
‘From the cosmos, a fireball will rise, A harbinger of fate, the world pleads. Science and fate in a cosmic dance, The fate of the Earth, a second chance.’
He also anticipated that climate change might cause natural disasters in Brazil, home to the Amazon rainforest.
He went on: ‘Garden of the world near the new city, In the path of the hollow mountains: It will be seized and plunged into the Tub, forced to drink waters poisoned by sulphur.’
Some of his claims were more absurd. Nostradamus believed that a ‘mysterious leader’ would rise from the sea during the chaos and form an ‘aquatic empire’.
Baba Vanga meanwhile suggested that next year would see Putin re-elected as Russia’s leader.
Putin was re-elected earlier this year, and Russia is not due another presidential election until 2030.
She also predicted a devastating war in Europe that would decimate the continent’s population, and more catastrophic natural events, including the eruption of dormant volcanoes.
Specifically, she mentioned an earthquake along the west coast of the United States.
California has experienced strong tremors in the past, including a 7.1 magnitude quake in 2019. None died.
Like Nostradamus, she also predicted that scientists would make a breakthrough in medicine, namely in lab-grown organs helping facilitate transplants.
And she predicted that telepathy would finally become a reality next year.
Perhaps most intriguingly, Baba claimed that humanity will make contact with extraterrestrial life during a major sporting event.
Her record is patchy. This year, she predicted a worldwide economic crisis, environmental meltdown and major medical advances in cancer and Alzheimer’s treatment.
One of her significant predictions for 2024 was the use of biological weapons by a powerful country.
Her supposed predictions run until the year 5079 when she believes the world will come to an end.
The mystic previously claimed the American president would suffer deafness and mortal illness in 2021, while Europe braced for a chemical attack from Muslim extremists.
Her predicted ‘great Muslim war’ in Europe has obviously not materialised.
The strange obsession extended to claims Europe would be dominated by Muslim rule by 2043, and that Communism would spread around the world in 2076.
By 2028, she expects that humans will begin to explore Venus as an energy source.
The second planet from the Sun has a surface temperature of 465C and is uninhabitable.
Baba, who died at the age of 85 in 1996, was also known as the ‘Nostradamus of the Balkans.’
She mysteriously lost her eyesight at the age of 12 during a massive storm.
Her family allegedly found her several days later on death’s door – with her eyes sealed shut and covered with dirt.
She later claimed to have experienced her first vision when she was missing and believed she had been given the power to predict the future and heal others.
Believers claim that Baba even foretold the 9/11 attacks in 2001, saying ‘two steel birds’ would attack ‘American brethren’.
She said: ‘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 claim is vague enough that any number of disasters could be seen to fulfil the prophecy, but the ‘accuracy’ of her prediction has helped to give her a cult status.
There is no authoritative source on her predictions and experts say many of them are passed on through social media in Russia.
Among the less successful predictions attributed to her was that Barack Obama would be the ‘last American president’. Donald Trump proved her wrong on January 20, 2017.
Baba Vanga predicted a devastating war in Europe that would decimate the continent’s population (pictured: Vladimir Putin in Moscow, December 27)
‘From the cosmos, a fireball will rise, A harbinger of fate, the world pleads. Science and fate in a cosmic dance, The fate of the Earth, a second chance,’ wrote Nostradamus
Oracles proclaiming to have supernatural foresight have existed for thousands of years.
Fascination with the vague statements of Greek oracles, anticipating the direction of war and plague, have been carried down in folk stories and mythology ever since.
The Pythia of Delphi claimed her oracular powers came from vapours from the Kerna spring waters running under the temple.
The Greeks also warned against sceptics in the myth of the Trojan princess Cassandra, fated to deliver true prophecies never to be believed.
