a 12-year-old peasant girl, Vangeliya,

is playing with her cousins in a field when she gets

caught up in a freak storm.

She was carried off into the air by a tornado

and they found her motionless body in the field.

And strangely, her eyes were completely caked

with sand and dust.

And she said that she couldn't open

them without excruciating pain.

And what then began was a decline in her ability to see.

NARRATOR: After the accident, Vangeliya

developed a striking ability to predict the future

and began making accurate revelations

for the local population.

By the 1980s, Vangeliya, who adopted the name Baba Vanga,

had given thousands of accurate predictions

and gained a reputation as the Nostradamus of the Balkans.

WILLIAM HENRY: Baba Vanga said that she

could see in her mind's eye.

And when she would look at a person,

she said that she could see their whole life

in its totality, complete from birth through their life

until death as if she were watching a movie.

JOHN HOGUE: She was a study of many Bulgarian and Soviet

scientists, who scientifically started

testing her and interviewing her and the people that she read.

And they have found that it is an 80

CAROLINE CORY: Her predictions were actually very accurate,

which tells us that the ability to retrieve information

beyond this earth plane has nothing

to do with our five senses.

In fact, when she became blind, it

is as if her other senses developed

to receive messages and information about the future.

NARRATOR: Among her numerous claims were predictions

relating to world events.

Many of which would later come true.

New York City, September 11, 2001--

BABA VANGA: American president will fall after being

attacked by the steel birds.

NARRATOR: Two planes hijacked by members of a terrorist group

called al-Qaeda crash into the World Trade Center

taking the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent civilians.

Sumatra, Indonesia, December 26, 2004--

BABA VANGA: A huge wave will cover a big coast covered

with people and towns, and everything will

disappear beneath the water.

NARRATOR: A 9.1 magnitude earthquake

off the coast of the island creates a devastating tsunami,

completely engulfing over 3,000 miles of land

and claiming the lives of over 230,000 people.

Washington, DC, January 20, 2009--

BABA VANGA: The 44th president of the United States

will be an African-American man.

Everyone will put their hopes in him.

I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear.

NARRATOR: Barack Obama, an African-American senator

from Illinois, is sworn into office as the 44th president

of the United States.

Congratulations, Mr. President.

JOHN HOGUE: We must remember these amazing things are coming

from someone who was born a peasant, who has not read

books, had a slight, maybe functional literacy

with Braille, but she has essentially

has no access to televisions, no access to movies.

This is coming out of her interiority.

NARRATOR: Baba Vanga proclaimed her prophetic abilities not

only allowed her to tap into an unknown realm of information,

but it also put her in contact with extraterrestrials.

BABA VANGA: Baba Vanga has talked

about these extraterrestrials that are invisible or more

like they are presences like clear reflections of water

shimmering.

And they shared with her many secrets

which she says are locked inside the scriptures

of many religions.

We have to wonder with her where she

was getting this information.

Is it possible she was able to access some

kind of knowledge that's out there that

normal people cannot access?