Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
Baba Vanga, the blind seer of Petrich
Vangeliya Gushterova (1911–1996), blinded as a girl, began attracting visitors as a seer in the Second World War and became Bulgaria's most famous prophet, consulted by ordinary people and leaders alike.
1942 CE · 41.40, 23.21 · status: claim
The account
Tsar Boris III reportedly visited her. From the 1960s the Petrich municipality employed her and charged visitors fees, and the Institute of Suggestology studied her abilities. She lived later at Rupite, where she built a church and is buried.
The sceptical view
No written records of her predictions exist from before the events; people close to her denied many attributed prophecies, and several famous ones failed.