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Wang facts. Vanga: the main secrets of the fortune teller

AiF decided to conduct its own investigation: was she a real soothsayer or is it a well-promoted brand?

The town of Petrich, twenty kilometers from the border with Greece, is nothing special. An ordinary Bulgarian village - most of the inhabitants work as laborers with the Greeks in the summer, and come home only for the winter. However, it is here that one of the main tourist sites in Bulgaria is located - the house of "Baba Vanga": a blind seer who died in 1996.

Vanga's two-story house in the city of Petrich: the clairvoyant lived there for 20 years. Photo: AiF / Georgy Zotov

Since then, disputes have not stopped about her personality - for some she is a saint, for others she is a servant of demons, and for skeptics she is also a clever schemer. Despite this, many researchers put Vanga on a par with Nostradamus and seriously discuss at conferences: is it true that the rural old woman predicted the collapse of the USSR, the Fukushima accident and the war in Syria? The so-called gift from Vanga opened 90 years ago - on November 20, 1923, when during a strong storm a twelve-year-old girl was covered with sand in her eyes. Soon, visions began to appear to the blind child: the events of the coming years.

“Sometimes everything was revealed to her herself, and sometimes some creatures whispered prophecies,” she says, walking me through Vanga’s house in Petrich, her goddaughter Verka Tokov. “Grandma thought they were angels.”

Prayer room: here Vanga locked herself to communicate with the "angels". Photo: AiF / Georgy Zotov

A visit to the seer's two-story mansion costs 1 euro (video filming - for separate money). At the entrance - a portrait of Vanga on glass, in the courtyard - a bronze monument. In the kitchen there are presents from visitors, including a Tula samovar and Gzhel plates. “For some reason, they tried to impress Wang with the beauty of the gifts,” Tokova recalls. “People just forgot that she was blind.”

Kitchen: why were beautiful samovars given to a blind grandmother? Photo: AiF / Georgy Zotov

"Product of PR and special services"

In 1967, Vanga was registered as a civil servant with a salary of 200 levs per month, - recalls former Major of the Bulgarian KGB Nikolay Stoychev currently living in Madrid. - Each citizen of Bulgaria paid 10 leva for a meeting, and a foreigner - 50 dollars. The case is unique - imagine, in the USSR they would take a holy fool or a monk to an official position? Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov twice came to Vanga incognito and was impressed: she knew everything about his life - "your friends were killed, you were hiding in the basement." Zhivkov was unaware: he provided "sensations" to Vanga's entourage KGB chief Angel Solakov.

Then it became a system. The guest came to Petrich, stayed at the hotel. The maids, waiters, taxi drivers spoke to him, asking: where are you from? And who is your mother? Do you have kids, are you married or not? All these people collaborated with the KGB. Then a person came to Vanga, and the clairvoyant amazed with her knowledge of the secret details of his life. This, of course, was not with everyone, but with many.

Specially hired people spread myths about Vanga, word of mouth worked. I'm sure - undoubtedly, Vanga had a gift ... but rather a psychological one: she easily guessed the details of the life of strangers. Otherwise, the Bulgarian soothsayer is simply a “product” of PR technologies.

The opinion is, of course, tough and controversial. But what then is true about Wang, and what is fiction? Chatting with me over tea in the seer's mansion, Verka Tokova refutes a popular myth - they say that Hitler secretly visited Vanga at one time. “This is fantasy. I don't even know where this came from. The entire Internet, all the newspapers are crammed with news - they say Vanga told the Fuhrer: “Do not go to war with Russia,” but he did not obey ... Hitler did not appear in Bulgaria. In addition, Vanga's assistants deny the announcement by the clairvoyant of the dates of Stalin's death and the third world war.

“Grandma tried not to make political forecasts,” she said in an interview with AiF. former assistant clairvoyant Elena Milcheva. - She told fortunes ordinary people telling them how to do things better in life. 99% of the information about Wang is a complete fiction. She said nothing about the future accident at Fukushima, or about Syria, or about the upcoming collapse of the USSR. The problem is this - the grandmother forbade visitors to make audio recordings. Therefore, so many rumors were born without documentary evidence.

By the way, for the Bulgarians themselves, Vanga is primarily a “healer”: it is believed that she could relieve pain, heal by collecting herbs, laying on hands and conspiracy. Now hundreds of “healers” offer services in Bulgaria, almost everyone has a biography that says “Vanga’s student”. There are no diplomas - they confirm the “teaching” with joint photos with Vanga: although it is known that the seer was photographed with everyone. The blind grandmother flaunts on Petrich's badges, magnets, calendars ("This is our oil," they joke in the town). After her death, Vanga turned into a brand. A very popular wiring in Petrich is to inform the guest that a clairvoyant once predicted his arrival in the city: they can extract a dossier with a revelation from the archives ... for a fee of 500 euros. Crooks are selling a bunch of "miraculous" items that Vanga once allegedly touched - so they, they say, should be applied to sore spots.

"Mysticism has become a conveyor"

Baba Vanga had little interest in money, explains journalist Ivan Angelov. - But in addition to government agencies, a lot of various people fed near it - there were hundreds of them. They spread rumors about miracles. Vanga herself gave very vague predictions. For example, she liked to tell her parents that their children would stand on the mountain and wave a stick. This has been interpreted in different ways. Kirkorov's father, after the success of his son in Russia, considered that the mountain is a musical Olympus, and the stick is a microphone. There were whole crowds of visitors, each Vanga allocated no more than a couple of minutes, often these were blank answers.

Bedroom: old furniture, the clairvoyant did not live well. Photo: AiF / Georgy Zotov

Perhaps in the 40-50s, Vanga was a soothsayer. However, the transformation of mysticism into a conveyor with consumer goods in the service of the state killed the clairvoyant in her. Dozens of her predictions have not come true - but people don't think about it. Everyone loves a myth.

And in fact, from within Bulgaria itself, the situation with Vanga is seen as completely different. This is an iconic figure for the country, but there is no blind adoration, worship, as in Russia. So you’ll think about it: would a blind grandmother from the rural outback have become so popular if it weren’t for the powerful PR support of the state? Therefore, I am going to Rupite - a village on hot springs, Vanga's "office", where she received visitors from all over the world for 20 years until her death ...

“Vanga had strange moods. Sometimes she suddenly shouted to the guests: “I see you! You are demons!" .

On August 11, 1996, a resident of Bulgaria, Vangelia Pandeva Gushterova (nee Dimitrova), died at the age of 85. The whole world knew her as the famous seer Vangu. But did she really have paranormal powers? Here are some facts.

Krasimira Stoyanova's pamphlet "Vanga" was published in 1989 by the publishing house "Bulgarian Writer". According to the information provided by Stoyanova, Vanga was born on January 31, 1911 in the Yugoslav city of Strumitsa, in the family of a Bulgarian peasant Pande Surchev.

At the age of 12, the girl was carried away by a hurricane, and after a while she became blind. Later, relatives recalled how, being small, Vanga hid various objects and, by touch, “blindly”, looked for them.

At the beginning of 1941, Vanga had a vision - a fair-haired rider on a white horse. The guest said: “Soon everything will turn upside down in this world, many people will die. You will stay here and speak of the living and the dead. Don't be afraid! I will be there, I will always help you.

During the war, almost all the men of their town were drafted into the army or deported to Germany for forced labor. Their relatives came to Vanga to tell her about their fate. And the young woman always gave accurate information: this one is alive, this one is not, this one will return then ...

The fame of the "sorceress" quickly spread throughout the district and beyond. People with their troubles went to Vanga from all over. In April 1942, the Bulgarian Tsar Boris himself secretly visited her. Before he had time to utter a word, the clairvoyant spoke: “Your power is growing, it has spread wide, but be ready to soon fit your possessions in a nut shell ... Remember the date - August 28!” August 28 next year the king died.

The seer herself explained that she comes into contact with the dead and they tell her about everything she wants to know. It was enough for another visitor to enter the room, as Vanga delivered her "verdict". With others she talked for a long time, asking questions. She asked many to bring a piece of sugar with her: holding it in her hand, Vanga, obviously, received information about the person. She categorically refused to accept some petitioners.

Vanga collaborated with the special services?

In 1967, a special state service was created, whose representatives kept order in the courtyard of Vanga's house and kept records of its visitors. Vangelia Gushterova was officially registered as a civil servant with a monthly salary of 200 leva. A fixed payment for a visit to her was set - 10 leva for residents of Bulgaria and other socialist countries and 50 dollars for residents of capitalist countries. Prior to this, the seer received people for free, except that she took gifts ...

At the same time, Vanga's mysterious gift has been disputed by skeptics more than once. There were rumors that the Bulgarian special services help Vanga collect information about the right clients, and she also receives the necessary information through leading questions.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.B. Alexandrov, who headed the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research, wrote about it this way:

“Do you know who prayed for Vanga the most? Taxi drivers, waiters in cafes, hotel staff - people who, thanks to the "clairvoyant", had an excellent stable income. All of them willingly collected preliminary information for Vanga: where the person came from, why, what he hopes for. And Vanga then laid out this information to clients as if she herself saw it. They helped with dossiers on clients and special services, under the cover of which the state brand worked.

According to retired KGB lieutenant colonel Yevgeny Sergienko, Vanga was often mistaken, but they tried not to disclose this, since the seer often hosted high-ranking people, and for the special services this was “a way of extracting information.”

So, Anatoly Stroev, who worked in 1985-1989 as his own correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda in Bulgaria, once came to Vanga with a certain journalist, and she predicted to the woman that she would never marry and have no children. Within a year, the journalist married and gave birth to a daughter.

In 1991, Vanga said about the Soviet journalists Viktor Nogin and Gennady Kurinny, who disappeared during the war in Croatia, that they were alive and would be found soon. But later it turned out that both were shot on charges of espionage.

Some of the prophecies allegedly made by Vanga, she never uttered

Vanga is credited with prophecies about the death of Stalin, about the Chernobyl accident, Boris Yeltsin's victory in the 1996 presidential election, the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, and finally about the coming end of the world. But nothing like this has ever come from the mouth of the soothsayer; there is no reliable evidence of this.

The book of Krasimira Stoyanova mentions the story of how the Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov visited Vanga, and she allegedly told him: “Why didn’t you fulfill the desire

his best friend Yuri Gagarin? Before his last flight, he came to your house and said: “I don’t have time, so buy an alarm clock and keep it on your desk. Let this alarm clock remind you of me."

Meanwhile, Anatoly Stroev personally asked Tikhonov to comment on this episode. The artist replied: “I didn’t promise Gagarin any alarm clock! Yes, we did not know him ... "

The number of correct predictions made by Vanga slightly exceeds the probability threshold

A few years ago, Vanga's compatriot, sociologist Velichko Dobriyanov, published a book in which he outlined a thorough analysis of the predictions of the famous clairvoyant. Of the 99 Vanga messages analyzed by Dobriyanov, 43 were completely true, 43 looked ambiguous, and only 12 turned out to be absolutely wrong. Thus, the number of accurate "hits" was about 70%. This is a little higher than probability theory promises. So, Vanga still possessed some abilities ...

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Let's make a reservation right away that the famous Bulgarian fortuneteller Vanga never named the year 2019, however, she sometimes mentioned the end of the second decade of the coming century. Moreover, even at the same time, she did not say anything specific about our time, these were all hints and some general phrases that today everyone can interpret in the way they like best. (website)

Nevertheless, let's analyze the most interesting interpretations of the vague phrases thrown by Vangelina regarding the future. Moreover, even a translation from Bulgarian can fundamentally distort the meaning of the prediction, not to mention many other factors (for example, falsification) that can reduce all these prophecies to almost nothing.

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And yet, to whom it is interesting, let's read what Vanga allegedly said about our time, and what the most insightful researchers of her heritage think about this:

The actions of a huge country will plunge the whole world into turmoil

There can be only three options here: these are the United States of America, China or Russia. Whom the blind seer had in mind is not given to anyone, but every nation has the right to interpret this prophecy in its own favor. How else? Many in the world hope that this is still Russia, since Vanga always called our country the brightest and most spiritual.

The old order will be replaced by a new one, pleasing to man and God.

They say that in last years Vangelina repeated this saying like a refrain, moreover, often pointing specifically to the end of the second decade of our century. Experts believe that this is the most optimistic forecast of the Bulgarian fortuneteller, but now it is hard to believe in it. Can everything change so drastically and so quickly? ..

People will kill each other for their faith, confident in the justice of such killings.

But this prophecy is already coming true. It is enough to follow how the confrontation is growing in the Middle East, the real threat of terrorists acting supposedly on behalf of Allah, and so on. In this case, even the migration wave that swept over Europe, its deadly consequences are quite suitable for this prediction.

The earth will rebel and many will perish for this reason

Natural disasters in the form of volcanoes, earthquakes, monstrous hurricanes, incomprehensible climatic cataclysms are already rampant on the planet today. It seems that in the near future such a protest of the Earth will only grow, which Vanga warned us about.

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Researchers of the predictions of the Bulgarian seer constantly mention that she spoke about the victory over cancer, old age, flights to the Sun and many other amazing things that will certainly happen in the future, without naming a specific date, but necessarily emphasizing that much depends on the people themselves from their faith and love. And now, if we take into account, first of all, these words of Vangelina, we can single out the main thing - she perfectly understood that the future is ambiguous, that it can be radically changed by bringing the Apocalypse closer or, conversely, pushing it back. The main thing is to believe in the best, strive for it, and everyone does for this a little good that is in his power.

And then, it is quite possible that the coming year 2019 will become a turning point for our civilization in better side when, as well as, an order will reign on Earth that will be pleasing to both God and every person living on our planet ...

Most know or have ever heard of a blind soothsayer from Bulgaria named Vanga (Vangelia). For science, her gift is a phenomenon that physicians, physicists and hypnotists have tried to study. But there was no unanimity among scientists. The verdict was this: no rigorous evidence of prophetic abilities was found, but it is impossible to deny it.

Biography of Vangelia

She was born in the Bulgarian town of Strumich, in a poor peasant family. She was a premature 7-month-old, and she was even given a name only after 2 months. And in those days, if a child was born in a Bulgarian family, then there was a custom to go out into the street and ask for advice on how to name it. So did the grandmother of Vangelia Pandeva Gushterova (Vanga's maiden name is Dimitrova). She went out into the street and the wanderer called the name - Vangelia (means Good News).

When the girl was only 4 years old, Vanga's mother died. While the father was on the fronts of the First World War, the child grew up with a neighbor. Returning from the war, Vanga's father married a second time. As if anticipating her fate, the girl from childhood loved to play doctor and ... blind. Her biggest amusement was to blindfold and find things hidden in advance.

In 1923, the father and stepmother, together with Vanga, moved to Macedonia. In the same year, Vanga lost her sight: a whirlwind threw her several hundred meters away. Twelve-year-old Vanga was returning from a spring - a terrible hurricane rose, a huge air funnel lifted the girl into the sky and carried her away. They found her with sandy eyes… They couldn’t cure her because of the lack of money and Vangelia became blind… Then she was sent to a school for the blind, where she learned to read the alphabet for the blind. The gift of clairvoyance dozed in her, before going blind, she often closed her eyes, doing some work or looking for something. And she told others that for some reason she thinks that it will still be useful to her.

From 1925 to 1928, Vanga was in the House of the Blind in Zemun, Serbia. When her stepmother died, the girl returned to Strumitsa. For the first time she heard voices in her head in 1941, and she was afraid to say it, she did not want to be recognized as crazy. They say that before the start of World War II, an ancient warrior who appeared to her predicted: “Soon the world will turn upside down and many people will die ... you will stand and predict the dead and the living.” A rumor spread through the surrounding villages that the girl accurately indicates the location of people who disappeared in the war, determines whether they are alive, or names the place of their death and burial. At this time, Vanga met her future husband, Dimitra. He wanted to find out who killed his brother and take revenge. A stately and handsome guy wooed Vanga, they got married and lived together for 20 years. In recent years, he began to drink heavily and died. A few years later, an orphan boy came to her house and his name was also Dimitar. And he became Vanga's own son.

The rumor spread throughout Bulgaria. On April 8, 1942, he himself came to Vanga Boris III- King of Bulgaria. Pieces of sugar "helped" Vanga to look into the future. Vanga demanded from visitors that they keep them under the pillow all night. Meticulous statisticians calculated that the clairvoyant had about a million visitors who brought her 2 tons of refined sugar!

Vangelia also helped the sick. She could diagnose, suggest how to treat or refer to doctors. And she said where this or that doctor lives. She pointed to the cause of the disease, since the cause is not always physical, it happens that it is given to us as a warning, bad thoughts or deeds.

She healed physically and mentally. And in the Bulgarian city of Petrich there is not a single family that Vanga would not help.

Since 1967, she has been in the public service.

Vangelia is very popular in Bulgaria and countries former USSR. In the USA, Wang is almost unknown; in Europe, her prophecies are treated with great skepticism. At home, Vanga is primarily considered a healer who could find an individual approach to each patient. Some of Vanga's general healing tips can be successfully applied by all people.

The "miracles" of Vanga are known mainly from the book of her niece

Vanga collaborated with the special services?

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.B. Alexandrov, who headed the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research, wrote about it this way:

“Do you know who prayed for Vanga the most? Taxi drivers, waiters in cafes, hotel staff - people who, thanks to the "clairvoyant", had an excellent stable income. All of them willingly collected preliminary information for Vanga: where the person came from, why, what he hopes for. And Vanga then laid out this information to clients as if she herself saw it. They helped with dossiers on clients and special services, under the cover of which the state brand worked.

Some of the prophecies allegedly made by Vanga, she never uttered

The book of Krasimira Stoyanova mentions the story of how the Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov visited Vanga, and she allegedly told him: “Why didn’t you fulfill the desire

your best friend Yuri Gagarin? Before his last flight, he came to your house and said: “I don’t have time, so buy an alarm clock and keep it on your desk. Let this alarm clock remind you of me."

Meanwhile, Anatoly Stroev personally asked Tikhonov to comment on this episode. The artist replied: “I didn’t promise Gagarin any alarm clock! Yes, we did not know him ... "

The number of correct predictions made by Vanga slightly exceeds the probability threshold