Before you go and get your Christmas tree up, just know that there’s something that’s just over the horizon that’s going to ruin next year’s celebrations.

If you’ve not heard about Baba Vanga, she was born as Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, a blind Bulgarian woman who was known for her uncanny foresight.

The clairvoyant was even known to have presidential visitors who would rely on her expertise when making strategic decisions.

Scarily, she made predictions that surpassed her death by thousands of years, and she’s got the next 3,000 years locked down with what will happen.

It’s world-ending.

Even though she died in 1996, those who follow her word believe that she’s been majorly accurate with a lot of her predictions.

Notably, it has been claimed that she predicted the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the death of Princess Diana, and even a 2004 tsunami that ravaged South and Southeast Asia, causing a horrific number of deaths and casualties.

But there’s something she predicted which will begin next year, and it’s all downhill from there, according to the New York Post.

Baba Vanga predicted that 2025 will begin a conflict in Europe that will destroy much of the population – and will actually lead to the end of times in 5079.

Let’s break it down.

So, next year loads of use will die – check.

Then, in 2028, humans will take this as an opportunity to find new energy resources on Venus, which is the second planet from the Sun.

In 2033, the polar ice caps will melt, which will have a terrible effect on the climate, and will also rise our sea levels to disastrous numbers.

In 2076, get ready for communism!

Yes, Baba Vanga believed that this is the year that communism will spread to countries across the world, and will spread within that same year.

So, comrades, I guess we’ll all be united regardless of region.

She made startling predictions about next year marking the beginning of the end (gremlin / getty images)

Then, when no one who is reading this right now is alive in 2130, the aliens will finally make contact (…why is it taking them this long?) and it’s not going to end well.

Afterwards, we’re going to go to war with Mars, but that won’t be for another 875 years.

In 2170, we’ll experience a drought like no other which will ruin much of the world.

Then there’s that war I talked about above, in 3005, which will see those remaining on Earth picking a mighty battle with the Mars civilisation.

Some 700 years later, in 3797, humans will have to leave Earth because it’s been ruined beyond repair thanks to our naff lifestyles and climate change, and so we’ll spread out to inhabit other regions of the solar system.

Then, there’s the end of Earth in 5079, thanks to a natural disaster (a drought).

Thankfully, she’s only like 85 per cent correct in her predictions, so maybe two of these could be wrong?

I’m banking on the 2025 prediction and also the drought prediction.

But who knows?

The future ‘ain’t what it used to be, which makes predicting it something of a tricky business to be in since you’re always liable to be proven wrong in time.

However, someone who’s made a decent stab at prophecy is Baba Vanga, a Bulgarian blind mystic who died in 1996 and can boast an accuracy rating of about 85 perc

Born in 1911 and blind since childhood, she was able to make startlingly accurate predictions and even Soviet leaders sought her out.

Now, a lot of what she said was pretty cryptic, so her saying ‘Horror, horror!’ The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing’ is apparently an accurate call of 9/11.

She’s also apparently predicted that the 44th president of the US would be a black man – meaning she predicted Barack Obama – while saying he’d be followed by someone who would ‘bring the country down’ which sounds like Donald Trump.

If 2023 was a dud year for Baba Vanga, then perhaps 2024 will be a return to reasonably accurate form.

1) Putin assassination

She believes that the Russian leader will be assassinated next year, according to Astrofame.

The Kremlin continue to deny any speculation surrounding the 71-year-old.

2) Increase in terrorist attacks in Europe

In 2023, terror attacks are more deadly with 26 percent more people dying in each incident – the first rise in lethality in five years, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).

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3) Biological attacks

Similar to last year’s prediction, she believes that a ‘big country’ will conduct biological weapon tests or attacks in 2024.

4) Huge economic crisis

She has predicted a major economic crisis in 2024.

Baba believed that geopolitical tensions, a shift in economic power from the West to the East, and escalating debt levels could be an issue.

Those are the big four predictions she made for 2024, so if she’s right then we’re in for some turbulent times and another economic crisis which is a bit of a p****r since we haven’t properly recovered from the last two or three yet.

Perhaps we should cross our fingers and hope this is another one of those 15 percent years where she’s wrong.

She did predict her own death accurately, and her claims are often vague enough to give her a bit of protection under ambiguity.

Additional words by Anish Vij.

Despite dying in 1996, blind mystic Baba Vanga was apparently able to see into the distant future and made a whole host of chilling predictions about what will happen to mankind.

Spoiler alert, none of them are any fun.

Born in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, Baba Vanga – real name Vangelia Pandeva Gushterova – led an eventful life and is most widely remembered for her claimed abilities to see the future.

Over the years her followers have claimed she was able to foresee events such as Princess Diana’s death, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and even the date of her own passing.

In more recent years, various prophecies predicting doom and misery to fall upon the world have been attested to Vanga – including a predicted date of the ‘end of humanity’.

Let’s take a look at them below.

2025 – Major European war

Kicking things off with next year, Baba Vanga believed 2025 would see the continent of Europe devastated by a major war.

But what about the war already happening in Ukraine? Well apparently this one will be even bigger, enough to decimate the continent’s population.

2028 – We mine Venus for energy

Global energy supplies are already a concern, but apparently things will be bad enough that we’re heading to Venus in just four short years in search of resources.

Although, given the planet’s inhospitable climate, it seems unlikely this will happen. Maybe she confused Venus with Mars?

Global warming will be a disaster for our sea levels (Getty Stock Image)

2033 – We wave goodbye to the ice caps

Arguably the most probable of all her predictions, Baba Vanga believed the polar ice caps will be completely gone by 2033 – an event which will cause global devastation as sea levels drastically rise.

2076 – Communism

State communism may currently seem so last century to us, but apparently the political philosophy will be back in fashion in just over 50 years. And this time, the workers of the entire world will be uniting.

2130 – We make contact with aliens

According to this timeline, it takes us just over a century to make contact with aliens.

However it’s worth noting that Vanga also claimed that aliens will reach out to us as soon as next year, maybe extraterrestrial life wasn’t her strong point?

It’s not a predictions of the future roundup without aliens (Getty Stock Image)

2170 – Global drought

As climate change continues to wreak havoc on the Earth, a drought will allegedly sweep across the whole planet. And just like the melting of the ice caps, this one feels much more likely than colonising Venus.

3005 – War with Mars

Vanga may have forgotten to tell us about either colonising or finding life on Mars but it seems that hostilities are inevitable, as our planet will eventually go to war with a civilisation over on Mars – human or otherwise.

3797 – The end of Earth

Whoever is left on Earth will need to evacuate as it’s apparently not going to be able to support life anymore. Let’s hope there’s peace with Mars.

By 3797, Earth will apparently be no more (Getty Stock Image)

5079 – The end of everything

And that’s all folks, after a chaotic few thousand years the last survivors of the human race will apparently take their last breaths in 5079.

At least we’ll all be long gone by then.