NARRATOR: Novo Selo,
a 12-year-old peasant girl, Vangeliya,
is playing with her cousins in a field when she gets
caught up in a freak storm.
She was carried off into the air by a tornado
and they found her motionless body in the field.
And strangely, her eyes were completely caked
with sand and dust.
And she said that she couldn't open
them without excruciating pain.
And what then began was a decline in her ability to see.
NARRATOR: After the accident, Vangeliya
developed a striking ability to predict the future
and began making accurate revelations
for the local population.
By the 1980s, Vangeliya, who adopted the name Baba Vanga,
had given thousands of accurate predictions
and gained a reputation as the Nostradamus of the Balkans.
WILLIAM HENRY: Baba Vanga said that she
could see in her mind's eye.
And when she would look at a person,
she said that she could see their whole life
in its totality, complete from birth through their life
until death as if she were watching a movie.
JOHN HOGUE: She was a study of many Bulgarian and Soviet
scientists, who scientifically started
testing her and interviewing her and the people that she read.
And they have found that it is an 80% accuracy.
CAROLINE CORY: Her predictions were actually very accurate,
which tells us that the ability to retrieve information
beyond this earth plane has nothing
to do with our five senses.
In fact, when she became blind, it
is as if her other senses developed
to receive messages and information about the future.
NARRATOR: Among her numerous claims were predictions
relating to world events.
Many of which would later come true.
New York City, September 11, 2001--
BABA VANGA: American president will fall after being
attacked by the steel birds.
NARRATOR: Two planes hijacked by members of a terrorist group
called al-Qaeda crash into the World Trade Center
taking the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent civilians.
Sumatra, Indonesia, December 26, 2004--
BABA VANGA: A huge wave will cover a big coast covered
with people and towns, and everything will
disappear beneath the water.
NARRATOR: A 9.1 magnitude earthquake
off the coast of the island creates a devastating tsunami,
completely engulfing over 3,000 miles of land
and claiming the lives of over 230,000 people.
Washington, DC, January 20, 2009--
BABA VANGA: The 44th president of the United States
will be an African-American man.
Everyone will put their hopes in him.
I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear.
NARRATOR: Barack Obama, an African-American senator
from Illinois, is sworn into office as the 44th president
of the United States.
Congratulations, Mr. President.
JOHN HOGUE: We must remember these amazing things are coming
from someone who was born a peasant, who has not read
books, had a slight, maybe functional literacy
with Braille, but she has essentially
has no access to televisions, no access to movies.
This is coming out of her interiority.
NARRATOR: Baba Vanga proclaimed her prophetic abilities not
only allowed her to tap into an unknown realm of information,
but it also put her in contact with extraterrestrials.
BABA VANGA: Baba Vanga has talked
about these extraterrestrials that are invisible or more
like they are presences like clear reflections of water
shimmering.
And they shared with her many secrets
which she says are locked inside the scriptures
of many religions.
We have to wonder with her where she
was getting this information.
Is it possible she was able to access some
kind of knowledge that's out there that
normal people cannot access?