Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga’s 2020 predictions

LONDON: A Bulgarian mystic who died over twenty years ago has foretold of a dark 2020. Trump and Putin's lives could be in danger and chemical war will see the European continent cease to exist, she said.

Despite having been blind, Baba Vanga is widely thought to have had super-human sight when it came to matters of the future, foreign media reported on Tuesday. She is rumoured to have predicted the 9/11 terror attacks twelve years prior in 1989 and the sinking of Russian submarine the Kursk the following year.

In 1989 she told horrified followers: "Horror, horror! The American brothers will fall after being attacked by the steel birds.

"The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing."

Followers of the mystic, whose name means Grandmother Vanga, say her predictions run up to the year 5079 - when she believed the universe will end.

And before her death at age 85 she laid out a series of prophecies for the year 2020.

She ominously revealed that Valdimir Putin's life could be in danger, thanks to an assassination attempt from someone already working within the Kremlin.

And president Donald Trump could face the same fate too, with Vanga foreseeing a brain tumour that could leave him deaf - or dead.

She also predicted Europe will fall at the hands of "Muslim extremists" - but the old woman had also predicted this in previous years.

She said the extremists would unleash hell with an arsenal of chemical weapons. Followers of the figure like to point to her 85 percent accuracy in previous predictions, drawn from research by a former director of the Bulgarian Institute of Suggestology, Professor Georgi Lozanov. However, a 2012 Washington Post investigation uncovered that many of the predictions attributed to the mystic actually have their origins in viral Russian social media posts. No credible written version of the Baba's predictions is available to view, either. And according to one Bulgarian newspaper, her neighbours were quick to spike the idea that she predicted 9/11 or the sinking of the Kursk.