As a quick refresher, Baba Vanga is the nickname for Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, an honest-to-goodness blind mystic born in 1911 who lived her life in the rural countryside of Bulgaria's Kozhuh mountains, as Newsweek overviews. The Economic Times of India says that Baba Vanga went blind at age 12 because of a storm that somehow also gave her clairvoyance and that allegedly 85% of her predictions have come to fruition. As the tale goes, locals visited her to contact dead relatives. Somewhere along the line, she started making predictions, and now, 27 years after she died in 1996, we wind up with articles like this one. 

As far as 2024 is concerned, sites like Euronews break down Baba Vanga's 2024 predictions into seven categories. As mentioned, we've got the usual disastrous portends like natural disasters and strained economies due to increased debt and geopolitical complications. We've also got terrorist attacks within Europe and biological weapons testing from a "big country," which veers towards the specific but ends vaguely. 

From there, Baba Vanga gets tech-savvy. She said that 2024 would see cybercrime reach new heights as "advanced hackers" try to take out infrastructure like power grids and water treatment plants. Quantum computing, meanwhile, would achieve a "major breakthrough" that the Economic Times of India somehow connects to artificial intelligence (AI). Oh also, the Irish Examiner reports that Baba Vanga claimed a "mighty dragon" would conquer the world, which some take to be a world power like China, India, or Russia.

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