All 28 people with television recordings, radio archives, photographs, places and accounts traced to a publication and a date.
28 people
28 of 28 people
Family photographs, encounters on camera and memories from those who knew them.
Petrich and Rupite
Her Petrich home, its visitors and her later years in Rupite. Family recollections survive alongside photographs and a documentary filmed during her lifetime.
Phenomenon records encounters with visitors, showing how conversations unfolded. Popular lists of annual predictions need a separate source check for each statement.
Pleven
From an orphanage childhood to encounters in Pleven and appearances on television. Vera Kochovska’s life in photographs, recollections and music.
She was born on 27 July 1945 in Pernik. Her father died early, and she entered an orphanage in Kocherinovo. Biographical accounts place a difficult childhood and a later injury before the emergence of the abilities attributed to her.
Nova Zagora and Sofia
Why was Slava Sevryukova called “the microscope woman”? Her life in Sofia, an encounter with Vanga and the people who recorded her accounts.
For the recorded encounters, start with Lozenski’s diaries. For a biographer’s narrative, look at Hristo Nanev’s books. By 2010, BNR was already introducing him as the author of four books about Sevryukova.
Zlatolist, Sandanski municipality
The blind girl from Haznatar who made a church her home. Prepodobna Stoyna’s life, her room in Zlatolist and the memories she left.
Prepodobna is the name by which she is remembered. It is not evidence of official canonisation. Her familiar likeness is a painted portrait; a lifetime photograph has not been verified in the reviewed sources.
Konyovo, Nova Zagora municipality
The clairvoyant from Konyovo who refused payment. Dyado Vlaycho’s life, accounts of the camps and the belongings preserved in the House of Goodness.
Read the life storyDyado Vlaycho and Georgi Dimitrov’s death
Accounts of Vlaycho include predictions about wars, political events and his visitors’ lives. A particularly well-known story says that he foresaw Georgi Dimitrov’s death. The municipal account links this prediction to his internment in a labour camp.
Sofia region
The woman from Grigorevo remembered in the histories of dozens of churches. Bona Velinova, her family life and the monasteries around Sofia.
Read the life storyBona Velinova and the monastery in Bistritsa
An account in Sofiyski Vestnik places Bona’s birth in Novoseltsi, now Elin Pelin. She moved to Grigorevo after marrying in 1903. Her husband died in the Balkan War, leaving her with four children after two had already died.
Sliven
Korteza of Sliven in an old photograph and early twentieth-century recollections. Her journey to Momchilovtsi, Dr Mirkovich and encounters in Aytos.
Read the life storyKorteza and the holy spring in Momchilovtsi
References name her as Korteza Stefanova or Konstantina Stefanova. Information about her birth year and family life is scarce. Sliven is the city consistently associated with her.
Sofia
An officer who entered Tsar Boris III’s inner circle. He knew Peter Deunov, wrote novels and kept diaries that still attract readers.
How did a military officer become a confidant of the tsar? Hristo Nanev follows that story in Prophet of the Crown. The other recording explores the novel New People and family memories. Accounts of his predictions come from biographers and witnesses; the exact words need to be traced to their records.
Burgas and Chirpan
Founder of a society for psychic research and spirit knowledge. His books and followers reveal a less familiar chapter of twentieth-century Bulgarian occultism.
Galina Goncharova examines how Krastnikov fashioned his public identity as a clairvoyant between the wars. Zhorzheta Nazarska studies the society itself. These studies help distinguish his views from later legends.
Zlatolist and Prepodobna StoynaSt George Church in Zlatolist, photographed in 2014. Kochev / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0
Pleven and Vera KochovskaSt Nicholas Church in Pleven, photographed in 2006. Todor Bozhinov / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0
Obradovtsi Monastery and Bona VelinovaSt Menas Monastery in Obradovtsi, near Sofia. Elena Chochkova / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0
Inside the church in ZlatolistA fresco in St George Church. Teofil Minov / Wikimedia Commons. Public domain
From the early seasons of Psychic Challenge to television interviews. See who is speaking and hear their words in context.
Bulgaria
An architect and author of The Secret School. Vezneva searched for hidden messages in crop circles and Glagolitic letters, drawing the patterns and explaining her interpretations.
Read the life storyMariana Vezneva on Glagolitic letters and the future
In a 2020 Radio Vidin interview, she interprets Glagolitic letters as successive centuries of Bulgarian history. This is her interpretation of the alphabet. The recording lets listeners hear her explanation in context.
Varna
A self-described clairvoyant from Varna, known for television appearances. In a 2021 discussion with Reni Anastasova, they debated the question on many people’s minds: when would the pandemic end?
On 17 March 2021, Karadzhov and Reni Anastasova debate the pandemic’s end and whether people can prepare for the future. The discussion appears in the Let’s Get to the Point segment. bTV provides the video and a short description.
Bulgaria
The presenter of Eurocom’s Psychological Portrait. She discussed family, relationships and personal difficulties with callers, and made predictions as a guest on other television programmes.
Much of her television work involved people calling the programme. The bTV recording shows a different format: a joint discussion with Bozhidar Karadzhov in March 2021. In April 2026, Tribune.bg reported her death, citing Eurocom.
Bulgaria and Italy
A Bulgarian public figure associated with Italy and television appearances. On Bulgarian television she discusses elections, public events and sport.
Read the life storyTeodora Stefanova on the October 2022 election
On 20 August 2022 she forecast six parties in the next parliament and possible entry for ITN on NOVA. The Electoral Commission records seven formations winning seats; ITN received 3.83%. This example has both a statement preceding the event and a result for comparison.
Cherven Bryag
A potter from Cherven Bryag who became known through the first season of Psychic Challenge. bTV later introduced her as a contestant on Africa: The Stars Must Be Crazy.
Before television came clay and working with her hands. Nikoleta studied at the stoneworking school in Kunino and worked as a potter. She reached the Psychic Challenge final in 2008, then joined a very different challenge in 2013: Africa: The Stars Must Be Crazy.
Plovdiv
The Plovdiv contestant who won bTV’s first season of Psychic Challenge in 2008. Her story is part of the format’s arrival in Bulgaria.
The first season aired in spring 2008 with ten contestants. Vera Stoimenova and Nikoleta Yordanova reached the final alongside Hristova. The broadcaster publishes the format’s history.
Ruse
Ten contestants took part in the first season of Psychic Challenge. Vera Stoimenova reached the final alongside Ivelina Hristova and Nikoleta Yordanova.
Viewers came to know her in spring 2008. This portrait comes from the contestant profiles, while bTV’s programme history describes the season and its final. Vera Stoimenova and Vera Kochovska are two different women.
Varna
From Varna’s central post office to the Psychic Challenge final. Mariyana Nikolaeva won the second season in 2009 and appeared on This Morning after her victory.
Nikolaeva describes her post-office job in her own biography. Eight people took part in the second season. The 15 June 2009 recording shows her in the studio after winning. The television result concerns the challenges in that particular season.
Petar Dimkov and Ivan Raev have different places in Bulgarian healing history. Museums preserve their photographs, books and belongings.
Sofia and Varna
The officer generations of Bulgarians came to call the Healer. Petar Dimkov collected folk knowledge, wrote books and left an archive that also reveals the person behind the remedies.
Sofia’s Regional History Museum outlines his background and work. BNT also considers his legacy in Varna. His books belong to the history of folk healing; no treatment regimens are drawn from them here.
Sopot and Plovdiv
The folk healer associated with Cura Bulgara. The Museum of Medicine at the Medical University of Plovdiv presents his history in a dedicated exhibition.
Ivan Raev lived from 1876 to 1938. His use of belladonna for parkinsonism is a subject in medical history. The exhibition explores that episode through museum materials. Belladonna is poisonous; no home-use recipes are provided here.
Lectures, music, books and communities whose influence extends beyond Bulgaria.
Varna, Sofia and Rila
Known as Peter Deunov, and to his followers as the Teacher. The White Brotherhood gathered around his lectures and music; photographs show him among followers and outside his tent in Rila.
The Spiritual Heritage of the Teacher exhibition at the National Library presents documents from after his return from America and before his settlement in Sofia. BNR’s Radio Encyclopedia follows the teaching abroad, including Mihail Ivanov’s community in France.
Bulgaria
A theologian and author who developed the Path of Wisdom teaching. Director Nikolay Vasilev filmed him over many years, assembling an archive for the documentary Vaklush.
The documentary includes material filmed between 1994 and 2022. The director’s interview discusses its selection. A separate Hidden History programme explores Tolev and his books through people from his circle.
Varna, Sofia and Le Bonfin, France
Behind the name Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov is Mihail Ivanov, a pupil of Peter Deunov. His life took him to France, where his lectures brought together a community at Bonfin.
If you know Deunov, Ivanov’s story takes the narrative beyond Bulgaria. BNR traces the teaching’s spread and the development of its French community. Omraam is the name found on his books and recordings; he was born Mihail Ivanov.
Hermits and clergy venerated in Bulgaria. Their Lives belong to Orthodox tradition, as do the miracle accounts they preserve.
Skrino and the Rila Mountains
The hermit associated with the beginnings of Rila Monastery. His Life recounts solitude, encounters with visitors and veneration after his death.
Miracle accounts form part of his church Life. The history of his relics and the monastery also matters. Medieval representations are icons and frescoes; lifetime photographs do not exist.
Epivates, Tarnovo and Iasi
Venerated in Bulgaria and other Orthodox countries. The name “of Tarnovo” preserves the connection with her relics’ stay in the medieval Bulgarian capital.
Her Life traces Paraskeva of Epivates and her veneration. Miracles and visions belong to Orthodox tradition. Her likenesses are iconographic.
Basarbovo and Bucharest
The saint whose name is borne by the rock monastery near Basarbovo. He is also venerated in Romania, where his relics are kept.
His Life connects Dimitry with Basarbovo and the rocky banks of the Rusenski Lom. Accounts of the discovery and transfer of his relics explain his veneration on both sides of the Danube.
Sofia
Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev, venerated in Bulgaria as the Wonderworker of Sofia. His memory is associated with Sofia’s Russian Church.
His 2016 canonisation is documented in an official patriarchal and synodal message. His life and ministry connect him with Bulgaria without changing his Russian origin.
Osogovo and Kriva Palanka
A hermit of the Osogovo Mountains. His Life and the monastery bearing his name preserve his memory within the region’s shared Orthodox tradition.
His Life is included in the Patriarchate’s Bulgarian Saints section. St Joachim of Osogovo Monastery is in present-day North Macedonia, where worship and pilgrimage preserve the hermit’s memory.
Osiče and Lesnovo
A hermit associated with Lesnovo Monastery. His veneration belongs to Balkan monastic history and is preserved in Bulgarian collections of saints’ lives.
According to his Life, Gabriel built a church of St Michael and gathered a monastic community before retreating into solitude. The monastery later took his name and became a centre of manuscript culture. It is in present-day North Macedonia.
The municipal account of the House of Goodness says Dyado Vlaycho foretold Georgi Dimitrov’s death and connects this with his imprisonment in a camp.
Portrait: Unidentified author / Wikimedia Commons. Public domain
In the tradition recounted by ethnologist Valentina Dineva-Sharlanova, Bona identifies a site after a vision in 1925. The story concerns the restoration of Sts Joachim and Anne Monastery.
Portrait: 1333.bg · See Bulgaria photo archive
A local St George’s Day report recounts Korteza’s visit and her identification of water near the village. The story survives alongside veneration of the holy spring.
Portrait: Slovoto · Unidentified author
In a Radio Vidin interview, Vezneva connects Glagolitic letters with centuries of Bulgarian history and discusses the period from 1981 to 2080.
Portrait: Videlei · Unidentified author
On Wake Up she forecasts six parties in parliament after 2 October and suggests ITN may enter at the last moment.
Portrait: NOVA · Unidentified author
Watch the BNT videoBNT visits the places associated with Vanga and Stoyna and talks with local residents.
Watch on BNTHristo Nanev speaks with Stoycho Kerev about the woman he knew. A discussion about Vera, recorded in 2022.
The man close to Boris IIIHristo Nanev on Lyubomir Lulchev, BNR, 2017.Listen on BNRA dated interview can show that a statement preceded an event. A later recollection shows what its teller remembers. Both can be interesting, but they answer different questions. For each specific account we look for who recorded it, when it appeared and what can be checked against it.
Church Lives preserve religious tradition and accounts of miracles. Folk-healing books belong to cultural and medical history. Neither category is treated here as a list of political forecasts or practical treatment instructions.
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