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Speaker 1: All right, folks, settle in for this one. What if

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the future isn't something we're racing toward, but something that's

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already been seen. What if the warnings we dismiss as

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superstition are actually echoes rippling forward through time. Well, tonight

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we're stepping into the life and visions of a woman

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who could not see the world with her own eyes,

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yet claim to see the world as it would become.

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Our name was Boba Vanga, and according to her, in

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twenty twenty six is not just another year. It's a threshold.

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And whether you believe a word of it or not,

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I promise you this. By the end of this episode,

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you are going to understand why people listened to a

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sclamer to the pharisees cairns out there, Oh dare you?

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All guests only show do not reflect the opinions of

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the host. The purpose of the show is to have

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interesting conversations, stretch our minds and.

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Speaker 2: Grow, not what we want.

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Speaker 1: If you are looking for an echo chamber viewer and

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listener discretion, he's adborged.

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Speaker 3: You talk about extreme.

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Speaker 1: What is happening and what is us? Hold out your

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glass because we're about to fill it up.

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Speaker 4: Join us as we travel and explore the vast unknown.

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It's a hero's journey with dragons to slay, damsels to save,

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and innumerable treasures to hoard. Porch is high, you'll look

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at it from a different perspective.

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Speaker 1: Baba Fanga was born January thirty first, nineteen eleven, in

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a small town called strew Miltza and what is now

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known as Bulgaria. Now. Back then, life was hard, Infant

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mortality was high, and folks were really superstitious about naming

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babies too early. The idea was don't get attached until

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you know the child is going to make it. But

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her midwife broke tradition and named her right away. She

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named her Bengelia, and that name means good news, which

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is interesting considering how much bad news would eventually get

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tied to her name. She grew up poor, rural, working

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in the land, just as a normal kid for the time.

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Nothing mystical, nothing strange, but her life was forever changed.

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At twelve years old in nineteen twenty three, she was

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outside playing with her cousins in a field near a

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nova silo, and out of nowhere a storm to gold

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inn not just rain, not just wind, but a full

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blown tornado. The kids scattered, running for cover, and that's

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when Vengelia got picked up and thrown like a rag doll.

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When the storm passed, her cousins went looking for They

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found her lying out in the nearby field. She wasn't dead,

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she wasn't moving either. Her body was badly injured and

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her eyes, her eyes were packed full of mud, sand

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and to breathe. When she finally woke up, she screamed

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in pained covering her eyes. Every time that she tried

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to open it. She would never see again. Later in life,

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people would say this was the moment everything changed, that

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she lost her sight in this world and gained sight

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somewhere else. She was sent to the school for the blind,

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learned braille, sewing the piano, and for a while it

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looked like maybe she'd find a quiet, normal life. But

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then her stepmother died and just like that, she was

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pulled back home. No more schooling, no more protection. Now

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she was responsible for the house and her younger siblings,

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and during these hard times, their focus was on survival,

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not education. And it was during this time when life

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got really heavy. It was at this time Baba Vegas

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vision started.

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Speaker 2: That's called.

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Speaker 1: When she was sixteen, a thief stole several of their

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family sheep. Now sheep were everything back then. That was food,

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that was that was their means of survival. Vanga told

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her father that she had seen a man take them.

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In her mind's eye. She described what the man looked like,

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and she described the path through the woods that he

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had taken the livestock. She even described where he had

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tied them up. Her father didn't argue. He went down

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the path into the woods where she had said, and

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there they were. They were tied up exactly where she

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said they'd be. That's when folks started paying attention to

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this blind seer.

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Speaker 4: Is it possible she was able to access some kind

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of knowledge that's out there that normal people cannot access.

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Speaker 1: As she grew older, her abilities grew with her they sharpened.

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People came to ask her about lost loved ones from

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the war, illness, and their futures. She claimed that when

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someone stood in front of her, she could see their

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entire life play out in her mind like a Moodie reel,

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past presence, and sometimes their future. By her thirties, her

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reputation had spread far beyond her village, and by the

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nineteen eighties, she was known as Baba Vanga, the Grandmother prophet.

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She reportedly made over one thousand predictions, and scientists who

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observed her claimed around eighty percent accuracy. That's pretty good.

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Her fame and accuracy gathered enough attention to even scared governments,

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and in April of nineteen forty two, during World War Two,

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Tsar Boris the third of Bulgaria, came to see her.

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He had sided with Nazi Germany and wanted some guidance,

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but she only told him one thing. Remember August of

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twenty eighth, and one year later, on August of twenty eighth,

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nineteen forty three, the Tsar died suddenly of poisoning. After that,

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her name spread like wildfire. In nineteen fifty two, bob

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Ivanga publicly stated that Joseph Stalin would die on March

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the fifth, nineteen fifty three. That didn't go over too well.

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She was arrested and imprisoned for making what the Soviet

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authorities saw as a death threat. Oh I'm sorry, dear,

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but like clockwork, on March the fifth, nineteen fifty three,

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just as she predicted, Stalin died of a brain hemorrhage.

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She was released. Her most famous visitor was Leoni Bryshneff.

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He was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of

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the Soviet Union from nineteen sixty four to nineteen eighty two.

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You think that was the end of it, We are

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just getting started. In nineteen eighty she said, quote Kursk

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will be submerged in water, and the whole world will weep.

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People laughed. Kursk was nowhere near the sea. Flooding was

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an impossibility, but in August of two thousand, the Russian

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nuclear submarine cursed sank, killing all on board. In nineteen

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eighty nine, she predicted many future events quote.

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Speaker 3: American president will fall after pin attacked by the steel floors.

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Speaker 1: September eleventh, two thousand and one, the Twin Towers in

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New York were taken down. She also predicted a massive

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tsunami in Southeast Asia.

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Speaker 3: Quote a huge wave will cover a pea coast covered

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is people and towns, and every silk sapir pinis ze water.

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Speaker 1: December twenty sixth two thousand and four, a nine point

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one earthquake off the coast of Sumatra created a devastating tsunami,

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swallowing up over three thousand miles of land and claiming

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the lives of over two hundred and thirty thousand people.

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She even predicted the forty fourth president of the United

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States would be a black man.

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Speaker 3: Quote, the forty fourth president of the United States will

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be an African American man. Everyone will put the hooks

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in him.

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Speaker 1: January the twentieth, two thousand and nine, Barack Obama was

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elected as the forty fourth presidents. At some point, coincidence

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starts feeling really thin. And in that same year, nineteen

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eighty nine, she also spoke about Vladimir Putin quote, all

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will thaw like ice. Only one will remain intact. The

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glory of Vladimir, the glory of Russia. Too much is

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held within one victim. Nobody can stop Russia. Everything will

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be removed from its way. Not only will it be kept,

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but also become the lord of the world. Make of

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that what you will. Now. If this isn't strange enough

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for you, here's where things get really strange. Baba Benga

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claimed she wasn't alone in her visions. Many of her

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predictions came from an external force. She said she communicated

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with beings that weren't human, invisible like entities shimmering like

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heat over water, shining ones. She said. They told her

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that answers were hidden across all religious scriptures, and that

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brings us to the sun Ray Project, also known as

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the European Area fifty one.

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Speaker 2: Most days don't look like an emergency. That's why most

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people never think about what they're carrying. We do because

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preparedness isn't about looking the part, it's about being ready anyway.

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