It's fair to say that the last few years have been difficult. But Covid and the cost of living crisis could be the least of our worries in 2023 - if the predictions of Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga are to be believed.
Baba, a blind woman who died in 1996, has sometimes been called the Nostradamus of the Balkans. She foretold major world events in a series of mystical predictions that stretching ahead to 5079.
She is reported to have foretold everything from the attack on the World Trade Centre to Brexit, as well as the sinking of the Kursk. For 2022, she correctly predicted that that Australia and areas of Asia would be hit with "intense bouts of floods" - and that that large cities around the world would be hit by significant droughts.
However, she also foretold another pandemic started deadly virus would be released in Siberia by climate change, famine in India and an alien invasion - all of which failed to manifest in 2022.
Hopefully, the doom and gloom she predicts for 2023 will also fail to come true - because The Mirror reports that she predicts biological warfare, a solar storm that destroys the Earth's magnetic field, a shift in the Earth's orbit, a nuclear explosion - and an end to natural births.
Biowarfare
Baba Vanga had a vision predicticting a biological attack will be launched by a developed country. While the Biological Weapons Convention of the United Nations has banned such weapons of mass destruction, several countries are believed to be secretly engaged in the creation of these deadly munitions.
Solar storm
The Bulgarian predicted that a solar storm 2023 would destroy where the Earth's magnetic field, which shields us from solar winds and and cosmic rays from deep space. Baba Vanga says solar storms in 2023 could cause blackouts and communication failures.
Orbit shift
Baba Vanga foresaw a change in the Earth's orbit - such a shift would be likely to have a major impact on our climate. If the earth moves closer to the Sun, temperatures would soar - and if it moved further away, the world could descend into ice age with increased hours of darkness.
Nuclear explosion
Among her predictions for 2023, Baba warned of a potential nuclear power plant explosion in Asia. She predicted that other countries could be affected by the explosion.
An end to natural births
Baba Vanga's final prediction for 2023 is that humans will soon be produced in laboratories. According to her prophecy, governments will ban natural births and require all human life to be grown in a lab. On the plus side, she predicts that prospective parents will be able to pick characteristics for their unborn child.
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