A blind mystic ‘foresaw the coronavirus in 1996’

And other stories from the stranger side of life

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It has been claimed that a blind mystic predicted the coronavirus outbreak in 1996. According to her followers, Baba Vanga also foresaw both 9/11 and Brexit. A devotee who met the mystic shortly before she died, says she told her: “The Corona will be all over us.” She also apparently predicted that Donald Trump would suffer a brain tumour leaving him deaf or dead.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.