Whether you're an all-out believer in the supernatural, or a hard-faced skeptic, the idea of someone being able to look into the future and predict what lies ahead for the human race is completely flabbergasting.
With that in mind, some of the world's most renowned mystics' predictions for 2024 have been proven correct.
That's right, there's a Bulgarian lady famed across the globe for her terrifyingly accurate annual predictions for the future of our world.
Known as Baba Vanga, this 84-year-old woman had been blind since her early childhood, but was been able able to predict a range of wild events throughout history.
Advert
While the late mystic died in 1996, some of the predictions she'd made before her passing have long been accurate.
In her predictions for 2023, Baba Vanga said we'd experience a solar storm - and she was bang on the mark as the Earth was hit by one on 1 December.
She'd also previously predicted that large cities around the world would be hit by large-scale droughts and water shortages, and last year, the UK suffered the driest July since 1935 and a drought was officially declared on 12th August.
.webp)
And back in 1989, she foresaw the 9/11 attack.
Advert
So, you can only imagine the shock when a staggering TWO of her 2024 predictions have come true within the last couple of weeks.
Japan and the UK's economic crisis
Amongst the numerous predictions she'd made when she was alive was that the world would face an economic crisis this year.
And lo and behold, both the UK and Japan are facing financial hardships at the present moment.
Advert
In February, it was confirmed by the Office of National Statistics that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by a larger than expected 0.3 percent in the three months to December in the UK as a result of a decline in all main sectors of the economy and collapse in retail sales, as per The Guardian.
In Japan, meanwhile, has moved down to fourth position in global standings, having it's prior third spot taken over by Germany.
And the Yen is currently at an all-time 34-year-low, weakening to 151.97 against the US dollar.
Advert
But it hasn't been largely negative, however.
New vaccines
In recent weeks, it has been confirmed that a lung cancer vaccine is currently in the works.
Scientists at the University of Oxford, the Francis Crick Institute and University College London are jointly working on 'LungVax', having received £1.7 million ($2,139,225) from major UK charities to fund 3,000 vaccines in the last few months.
Similarly, scientists in Russia are currently working on the same idea, with Vladimir Putin telling press that they've 'come very close' to the creation of 'so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation'.
Advert
"We have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation... I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy," he said during a Moscow forum on future technologies, Reuters reported.
However, Putin didn't specify any particular types of cancer that would be treatable under this vaccine.
I wonder what else Vanga has in store for us this year...
Featured Image Credit: HTB/sunnychicka/Getty ImagesTopics: News, UK News, US News, World News