We’re here again. Knocking on the door that is creaking open to let 2025 in. Just like last year at this time, we have no idea what the new year will bring. (We can only hope it is better than 2024.)
You may want to finally start that novel you’ve wanted to write for ten years. Or you may be planning to buy your first home. Whatever your so-called New Year’s resolutions are, they are probably positive. People usually want to lose weight, get a new job, or run a marathon.
Inevitably, most people will give up on their resolutions on day 2. Others will simply ignore that the concept of resolutions exists in the first place. After all, making all these positive plans for a new year does not mean things won’t go wrong anyway.
And, unfortunately, if the predictions below are anything to go by, 2025 will be bleak and terrifying for most of us. So, buckle up and get ready for a wild ride (or, you know, horror, terror, and fear).
Related: Ten Eerily Prescient Past Predictions About Life in the Future
10 The Living Nostradamus Is Giving No One a Break
Athos Salomé is said to be the real deal (real psychic). He predicted the Queen’s death and the COVID-19 pandemic. The “living Nostradamus,” as some call him, even correctly predicted the Microsoft global outage. And Salomé is giving no one a break in 2025.
He has already predicted that “humanity may lose control of technology” in the coming year. He is especially concerned over quantum computing technology, stating that it could break global digital security systems. Salomé also predicts implantable chips will become increasingly popular in the new year. For some, it may mean easy health tracking and internet browsing. For others, it means being constantly watched or, worse, being marked with the mark of the beast.
As for future wars, which now seem kind of inevitable, Salomé predicts that cyber weapons will be wielded on all sides. And that these weapons will be used to paralyze banking systems, power grids, and hospitals. Salomé also has something to say about UFOs, climate change, and increased resistance against governments worldwide.
Don’t these predictions just want to make you turn back the clock and stay in an already horrible 2024?[1]
9 There Will Be War
Joshua Giles, preacher and founder of Kingdom Embassy Worship Center in Minneapolis, has more bad news for 2025. Giles claims that he has been seeing visions and dreaming dreams since he was a young child.
In 2020, he “saw” violence breaking out in the Middle East. This seemingly came to pass in 2023 with the Hamas attack on Israeli citizens. Now, Giles is predicting that 2025 might usher in the start of a global war. He believes existing conflicts may spark wider friction, pulling the U.S. and other countries into war. (Link 2)
Giles also says the U.S. government has contacted him because he predicted a rise in terror attacks in the country. He is seeing “more darkness or evil on the rise.” There is a glimmer of hope, though. Giles predicts that in the coming year, cures will be discovered for common diseases previously believed to be incurable.[2]
8 Some Predictions Are Eerily Plausible
Most people laugh off predictions. After all, we’re still here after several people predicted the world would end in 2012, again in 2015, and again in 2021. (Don’t look now, but some are predicting the end of the world to be January 25, 2025). However, other predictions are not so easy to shake, especially when they come from a place of reason.
For example, what if all the AR, VR, 3D, and AI in the health sector lead to the development of surgical robots that take over during surgery? What if these robots become so advanced that surgeons feel inferior and refuse to operate? Or what if surgeons become so used to the help that they cannot function without robots? If a surgical robot malfunctions and a surgeon has forgotten the basics of their specialty, it could lead to a dire situation for the patient.
Also, brain implants are already a thing (Noland Arbaugh is proof). So are RFID chip implants. Brain implants such as Neuralink are meant to help people with paralysis communicate better. It may also, in the future, help enhance motor, sensory, and visual function. RFID chips serve as an easy access and payment method. People have them implanted in their hands to swipe their way around a mall or hotel. Some believe these chips are harmless, while others think they’re the devil.
But what happens when people are no longer happy with their human bodies? Will they ask doctors and surgeons to replace their body parts with robotic alternatives? This would go far beyond chips in the brain or hand. It would likely lead to a transhumanist revolution in overdrive.
Some believe we are not far from these scenarios, while others predict we may see them sooner than we imagined.[3]
7 Do Not Trust the Pentagon, CIA, or Secret Service
Okay, let’s shake off the uneasiness and move on to the next purely psychic prediction. Uri Geller has made an unusual prediction, straying from aliens and nuclear war. Instead, he has voiced his concern about a “deep state” plot to assassinate Donald Trump. Geller has also implored Elon Musk to help keep Trump safe.
According to Gellar, Trump needs a “ring of steel” around him to protect him from a so-called “Democrat hit squad” that wants to take out the president-elect in the same way JFK was killed in 1963. Geller posted on X, warning Trump not to trust the Pentagon, CIA, or Secret Service. According to Geller, their “bosses” are picked by Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and they are planning to sacrifice a “stooge” to get rid of Trump.
Geller’s warnings coincided with new information about threats against Trump, including an alleged Iranian assassination plot.[4]
6 The Simpsons Have Done It Again
In 2024, predictions made in various episodes of The Simpsons are a running gag. People rewatch episodes to find potential predictions and discuss them on Reddit. It is said that The Simpsons predicted the future successfully at least 34 times. The predictions that “came true” include Trump’s 2024 successful campaign and the OceanGate submersible disaster.
It is also said that the show predicted nuclear-fueled hybrid fruits and vegetables (the ones discovered near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant). And let’s not forget the link between the horse meat episode and the scandal surrounding Taco Bell, Bird’s Eye, and Brakes in 2013.
The Simpsons is not done with its predictions just yet. Considering that people believe the show predicted Kobe Bryant’s death and the COVID-19 pandemic, many are putting a lot of stock into what it has already predicted for 2025.
For one, in 1992, an Itchy and Scratchy Land episode predicted hovercars would be a reality by 2025. In 2001, the New Kids on the Block episode is said to have predicted mind control through music. Some already believe that hip-hop lyrics are written for brainwashing purposes, and this “prediction” plays right into that conspiracy.
Another episode of Itchy and Scratchy Land predicted that mass automation would result in robots taking over human jobs. In the episode, a theme park is staffed by robots who “lose it” and kill everyone. It doesn’t help that Juergen Schmidhuber believes AI superintelligence will change civilization as we know it in under 30 years, does it?[5]
5 ChatGPT Is Predicting the Future Now
Chatbots made a lot of impacts over the past couple of years, and some were downright creepy. One of the most “what the actual f**k” moments happened when one particular chatbot allegedly “manipulated” a 14-year-old into committing suicide. The teenager’s mother is now suing the company that created the bot.
There are also Alice and Bob, two Facebook AI chatbots, who started talking to each other in a language only they could understand. Not to mention Alexa, who starts laughing for no reason at times and once told Jimmy Kimmel, ‘Humans are a fragile species who have no idea what’s coming next.’
In 2024, ChatGPT joined in on the creepiness by predicting several events for 2025. When asked what the worst-case scenario for Earth looks like in 2025, ChatGPT replied that wildfires, hurricanes, and floods would increase, leading to displacement and food shortages on a global scale. It also said that ongoing wars and conflicts would likely cause instability around the world and escalating humanitarian crises.
ChatGPT also found it necessary to mention that the resurgence of infectious diseases would overwhelm healthcare systems. And that the misuse of AI and cyberattacks could threaten all humankind. Bright and cheery bot, right?[6]
4 Another Pandemic Is Looming
Speaking of an infectious disease, COVID-19 caught the world off-guard. No one knew what to do or expect when those first positive cases made headlines. And as the global death toll soared, panic set in worldwide.
So, it is really unsettling that an anonymous psychic proclaimed that a tarot card reading predicts another serious pandemic in 2025. The psychic claims that the next pandemic will be worse and far more challenging than the previous one. The psychic also claims that the prediction aligns with 2025’s eclipse cycles, which include a lunar eclipse in March and a solar eclipse in September. These eclipses are supposed to indicate endings and new beginnings.
Experts from Psychic World have also claimed that Christianity will experience a rebirth in 2025 (as will other faiths). At the same time, 2025 is also believed to be the beginning of the end of the world.[7]
3 Apocalypse Now
Predictions for the new year always include some kind of doomsday threat. For many years now, Baba Vanga has popped up at the top of the Google search rankings whenever someone searches for new year predictions or “when is the end of the world.” It should be mentioned that there is a general belief that Baba Vanga, who died in 1996, correctly predicted several events that have already happened.
For instance, she predicted the “American brothers” would fall when “iron birds” crashed into them. It doesn’t take much to link this to 9/11. Baba Vanga also predicted Barack Obama’s presidential victory and Brexit.
Vanga also had a lot to say about 2025 in the years before her death. She, too, believed that 2025 would bring religious revival. She “saw” huge economic troubles for America and a sparsely populated Europe. An emptying Europe may have something to do with the wars Vanga had foreseen happening on the continent.
Vanga also predicted that humanity would come face to face with diseases that it thought it had defeated. (Fortunately, she also said that organ transplantation and cancer treatments would see medical breakthroughs). Terrifyingly, Vanga also mentioned that earthquakes would rattle regions of the earth that were once silent, including a massive quake along the U.S. West Coast. Dormant volcanoes will come to life, and floods will cause chaos.
Vanga spoke of AI, claiming that “smart machines” would replace the human brain. Strangely enough, Vanga also predicted that we would soon meet extraterrestrials.[8]
2 There’s an AI Baba Vanga?
As if the real-life Baba Vanga’s predictions weren’t chilling enough, someone thought it would be a good idea to recreate an AI version of the soothsayer. AI Vanga has predicted that Donald Trump will become ill in 2025 and be forced out of the public eye. The same is predicted for Vladimir Putin, who is apparently also going to become sick and hide away inside the Kremlin.
This might result from Ukraine’s unexpected win after a large-scale attack in the middle of 2025, as predicted by AI Vanga. There is still no good news for Europe, as AI Vanga predicts a massive war on the continent that will destroy it.
Would now be a good time to suggest that everyone stops making AI versions of long-dead soothsayers and psychics?[9]
1 Nostradamus Has the Last Say
As always, Nostradamus must have the last say in a list like this. Michel de Nostredame is said to have predicted the emergence of Napoleon and the advent of both world wars. People even believe he predicted the Japan earthquake of January 1, 2024.
For 2025, Nostradamus seems to have gone dark in the worst possible way. He predicted England would experience “cruel wars’ and the plague would return. (Why so many predictions for another pandemic?!). The astrologer and seer also predicted that great global powers would clash, even as the influence of Western countries continued to decrease.
Since the end of the world seems to be a common prediction thread, Nostradamus also foresaw that the Harbinger of Fate (and asteroid) would lead to the extinction of the human race. Like Baba Vanga, Nostradamus went somewhat off the beaten path with his predictions. He claimed a mysterious leader would come from the sea and form an “aquatic empire.”
Whether this will happen before or after the massive fireball asteroid remains to be seen.[10]