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Mitar Tarabich lived in Serbia between 1829 and 1899, dictated the visions to his godfather priest who wrote everything in a notebook, and the list of alleged accuracies of the prophecies ranges from the assassination of a king to the “strange disease” that the world could not cure
You probably know the prophecies of Nostradamus and have heard of Baba Vanga, but Stars Insider presents a less famous and equally disturbing name: Mitar Tarabich, a 19th-century uneducated Serbian peasant whose predictions, according to the source itself, were eerily accurate.
Mitar Tarabich was a peasant from Kremna, Serbia, who lived from 1829 to 1899 and had prophetic visions recorded in a notebook by his godfather, an Orthodox priest named Zaharije Zaharich, according to Stars Insider, in a gallery published on July 9, 2026. Before proceeding, this editorial note, duly signaled: prophecy is neither fact nor scientific prediction; what this article reports is the list of alleged accuracies and interpretations compiled by the source, a phenomenon of curiosity that spans generations.
Who was Mitar Tarabich and how the prophecies survived the fire
The story of the record is almost a miracle in itself. The notebook with the prophecies was damaged by fire in 1943, after an occupation by the Bulgarian Army, but it was not destroyed and returned to the hands of Father Zaharich’s family, according to Stars Insider. Without this notebook, the peasant from Kremna would have vanished from history.
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The menu of visions is broad. Mitar Tarabich’s predictions include political events in 19th-century Serbia, all periods of the First World War, the Second, and a future Third, according to Stars Insider. It is this last one that turns the gallery of historical curiosity into a chilling alert.
The assassinated king and the wars: the “accuracies” that opened the list
The first major accuracy pointed out by the source was political. Tarabich is said to have stated that, “after the assassination of the king and queen, the Karađorđević will come to power,” and in 1903, Alexander and Draga Obrenović were assassinated and Petar Karageorgevich became the ruler of Serbia, according to Stars Insider.
Then came the wars. The prophecy spoke of a “Great War in which much blood will be shed,” with an army three times larger attacking from the other side of a river, and, in 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire started the war against Serbia that became World War I, according to Stars Insider. The source also lists the prediction of the German attack from the north, confirmed in December 1915, and the end of imperial Austria, with the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved in 1918.
From Russia’s entry into the war to the “court above all kings”
World War II also appears in the book of predictions, according to Stars Insider. The vision said that “at first, Russia will not wage war; but when attacked by the evil army, they will retaliate,” with “a red czar on the Russian throne,” and Russia was neutral until Nazi troops invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941, when Joseph Stalin retaliated, according to Stars Insider. The same source records the prophecy of the alliance “with other great kingdoms over the seas” that would win the conflict, as happened with the Allies in 1945.
And there is a passage that impresses readers to this day: the prediction of an “international court, which does not allow countries to fight each other,” above “all kings.” Stars Insider associates the vision with the creation of the UN, the United Nations, founded in December 1945 with 51 countries and a charter addressing the peaceful resolution of disputes. Subsequently, the book would speak of “many small wars” even with the court in place, and the source recalls Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
Television, imaginary flying cars, and the “gold” taken from wells
The prophecies of Mitar Tarabich are not only about war. The peasant is said to have described “a box” with “some kind of device with images” through which “man will be able to see everything happening around the world,” a vision that Stars Insider associates with television and even the news broadcast. He is also said to have spoken of cars “without oxen” and people traveling through the sky, which the source interprets as the advent of the automobile and the airplane.
Another passage sounds familiar to any Brazilian. Tarabich is said to have predicted that “people will drill wells deep in the ground and extract gold, which will give them light, speed, and power,” while “the Earth will shed tears of sadness,” and the source interprets this “gold” as the so-called black gold extracted from wells that drive the modern economy, according to Stars Insider. Even rural exodus made the list: the vision of fields turning into meadows and homes abandoned in Kremna, with people returning later “to heal by breathing fresh air.”
The “strange disease”: the prophecy that gained fame for predicting the pandemic
It is the excerpt that names the gallery and made his name go viral during the pandemic. The prophecy says that “the whole world will be tormented by a strange disease and no one will be able to find a cure,” with everyone saying “I know, I know, because I am learned and intelligent,” but no one knowing anything, according to Stars Insider.
The source itself leaves the interpretation open: Was Tarabich talking about an incurable disease, covid-19, or perhaps the “disease” of modern society, asks Stars Insider. In this editorial’s reading, duly noted: it is precisely this ambiguity that keeps such prophecies alive for two centuries, each generation finds in them their own fear, and the covid-19 pandemic gave the Serbian peasant a second viral life, with the old predictions being mined again slide by slide.
The final warning of Mitar Tarabich: the war that would make everyone sleep
And we come to the worrying future of the title. About a possible Third World War, the prophecy describes scientists inventing “different and strange cannonballs” that, upon exploding, “instead of killing will cast a spell over all life, people, armies, and cattle,” making everyone sleep and then return to their senses, according to Stars Insider.
The source ventures possible interpretations: the “spell” could be radiation or perhaps a biological weapon, and concludes that no one really knows what will happen, and maybe it’s better not to find out. Here’s the observation from this editorial, duly noted: between impressive hits listed after the fact and visions vague enough to fit any era, the case of Mitar Tarabich is less about the future and more about us, who keep reading a 19th-century notebook looking for answers. Tell us in the comments: do you believe in prophecies like Tarabich’s, or do you think we only see accuracy after the fact happens?
Watch: the prophecies of Mitar Tarabich in video
For those who want to dive into the visions of the peasant from Kremna narrated in Portuguese, the video record is worth it. In September 2025, the channel Futuro Retro published a video dedicated to the prophecies of Mitar Tarabich, covering the same predictions that the Stars Insider gallery compiled, from the pandemic to wars, which continue to intrigue the internet.
