Japanese Baba Vanga's chilling prediction that sparked tourist cancellations could have just come true two days early

From the OGs to the newbies, it seems there’s always a chilling prediction from a psychic coming true nowadays.

And one from the Japanese Baba Vanga seems to have done so two days early after sparking tourist travel cancellations.

The original Bulgarian woman died in 1996 but has since been credited for supposedly foreseeing major events from the 9/11 attacks to Brexit.

While her apparent predictions carry on to this day, the Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki joins the ‘living Nostradamus’ in foreseeing current events.

She’s said to have correctly predicted the likes of Freddie Mercury’s death and Covid-19 as well as apparently foreseeing a disaster in Japan for this week.

Not to scare anyone, but an island in the southwest of the East Asian country was shaken by an earthquake today (3 July).

Japan is highly susceptible to earthquakes and tsunamis. (Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

This follows over 1,000 tremors throughout two weeks around Japan’s Tokara islands.

Tatsuki took things a little further than just predicting earthquakes as she claimed to see visions of the ocean ‘boiling’ south of the country. In her famed Mango piece The Future I Saw, she forecasted a devastating tsunami with a pencilled-in date of 5 July – this very weekend.

NDTV went on to report an 83 percent drop in flight booking to Japan with Bloomberg Intelligence also suggesting that while average bookings from Hong Kong are down 50 percent year-on-year, bookings between late June and early July have plummeted by as much as 83 percent.

Now, it’s obviously worth circling back to the two weeks of earthquakes on the island chain that perhaps play a part in these cancellations rather than solely Tatsuki’s prediction.

But it does seem pretty chilling that another quake shook the chain this afternoon. The earthquake was recorded as a magnitude 5.5 with a high of seven recorded on Akuseki Island.

It was said her prediction contributed to the flight cancellations (Getty Stock)

No major damage has been reported by the Japan Meterological Agency has acknowledged to reporters that it doesn’t know when these quakes will end.

It also added that a tsunami warning has not been issued – so that’s reassuring following Tatsuki’s disaster prediction, I guess.

The artist has herself warned that there shouldn’t be too much emphasis placed on her predictions as she recommends people pay attention to insights and analysis from experts.

But still, she did reportedly correctly predict the 2011 tsunami in Japan as well as a huge earthquake in Kobe back in 1995.

Yoshihiro Murai, the governor of Miyagi prefecture, stressed that tourism shouldn't be affected by these predictions and rumours.

He said: "It would be a major problem if the spread of unscientific rumours on social media affected tourism. There is no reason to worry because the Japanese are not fleeing abroad... I hope people will ignore the rumours and visit."