'Japanese Baba Vanga’ has disturbing warning for this month
Between fears of nuclear war and geopolitical tensions being at an all time high, a woman hailed as 'Japan's Baba Vanga' could be poised to stress everyone out even more with a worrying prediction for the coming days.
Ryo Tatsuki is a manga artist who has been credited with eerily predicting a number of high-profile events such as Princess Diana's death and even the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 70-year-old says her visions come to her in the form of vivid dreams and it wasn't long before she started logging her premonitions and publishing them for the world to see.
The artist-turned-fortune-teller exploded in fame in 1999 after she released a manga based on her dreams called The Future I Saw, having gained a new wave of followers recently after an updated version of the book was released in 2021.
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Those who have been pouring over her so-called predictions have been claiming they spookily mirror real life events. And of course, in true fashion, they're always incredibly bleak or outright terrifying.
For instance, she wrote that 'in 25 years, an unknown virus will come in 2020, will disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later,' which many believe refers to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tatsuki's apparent gift for being able to see into the future has seen her compared to Baba Vanga, a supposed Bulgarian mystic and healer who is credited with a slew of accurate prophecies including 9/11.
But the manga artist's latest prediction could come true in a matter of days as she warned of a 'real catastrophe' that would take place on 5 July.
It comes as fears over World War Three are at an all time high following escalating conflict in the Middle East, though Tatsuki's prediction has nothing to do with war, but mother nature instead.
Tatsuki wrote that she was having visions of the ocean 'boiling' south of Japan, which could trigger a terrifying 'mega tsunami' in the region.
And she reckons the impact zone will be huge, covering a diamond shape over Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Chillingly, just under two weeks ago over 500 earth tremors began rattling through the Tokara Islands in Japan, deepening anxieties over Tatsuki's warning.
According to Japanese officials, 525 tremors at one or higher on the seven-point Japanese seismic scale had been observed in the region up until 28 June. No tsunami was recorded as a result of the quakes.
While it might sound like something out of a disaster film, it could all have real consequences for Japan's tourism industry following reports from a Hong Kong-based travel agency that bookings for the region had plummeted by more than 50 percent as superstitious travellers avoid the area.
Of course, if Tatsuki's prediction has got you seriously panicking, you might want to hold your horses.
It's important to remember there's currently no scientific evidence that anything she's said will actually come to fruition and that her warnings are just predictions, not facts.
Plus, in science terms, Japan is one of the most at risk locations for an earthquake, with the Japanese government estimating an 80 percent chance of an earthquake of magnitude eight or nine along a seabed known as the Nankai Trough - meaning tremors as observed in the past couple of weeks are not all that rare in the region.
Topics: Baba Vanga, World News
Chloe Jackson