Dimitar Gushterov was a Bulgarian soldier famous for being the husband of Bulgarian mystic and healer Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, better known as Baba Vanga.
Gushterov’s fame is tied to his wife, who was gifted with seeing the future even though she had been blind since birth. Being married to someone as mysterious as the mystic, one would expect that Dimitar’s life is also filled with mystery. But is it that way?
Dimitar Gushterov was a soldier
Dimitar Gushterov was born in 1905, although his exact date of birth is unknown. His place of birth is listed as Macedonia, Yugoslavia.
Details as regards his parents and siblings are not clear. All that is known is that he had a brother who was later killed.
Likewise, little is known about his educational pursuits, but it is later known that he became a soldier in his country of Bulgaria. Before this, Bulgaria annexed his town of Strumica, and that was how he became a Bulgarian.
Dimitar Gushterov was on a revenge mission when he met his wife
The love story between Dimitar Gushterov and Vanga seemed to be destined by fate. This is as Dimitar left his village of Krandzhilitsa near Petrich for Sofia intending to avenge the death of his brother who was killed.
At the time, Vanga was starting to gain a reputation as a soothsayer, so it isn’t known whether he came to see her in search of the person who killed his brother or if he just came to town to avenge his death.
Whatever the case might be, the soldier and the blind soothsayer and healer fell in love. They moved back to Petrich where they got married on 10 May 1942. By this time, the Second World War was already raging.
The pair was not together for a long time before Dimitar was conscripted in the Bulgarian Army and then he was stationed in Northern Greece.
Gushterov lived a troubled life before he died
The life of Gushterov was far from an easy one. The Bulgarian soldier was greeted with many tragedies during his lifetime, including the death of his brother which he found very hard to let go of.
Apart from this, Baba Vanga’s husband also battled some health challenges in the later part of his life, but the nature of the ill health was not clear.
Dimitar Gushterov also struggled with alcoholism at some point in his life. All these contributed to his death on 1 April 1962. He was 57 years old at the time of his death.
Did Baba Vanga and her husband have children together?
One of the mysterious things about Dimitar Gushterov and Baba Vanga’s marriage that lasted 20 years was whether or not they had any kids together.
Although there has been nothing on record about the couple having any kids, musician Danijela Vranic has made the claims of being the granddaughter of Mama Vanga.
According to the Serbian singer who was born on November 7, 1975, she is the daughter of a man who was Baba Vanga’s son. She added that although many people believed the claims and prophecies of her alleged grandmother, her son was the one who rejected everything.
Nonetheless, it was later clarified that the man referred to as Danijela and Baba’s son was the nephew of the famed mystic.
From the foregoing, it is clear that Baba Vanga and her husband never had any kids of their own together. However, the mystic who got blind at the age of 12 as a result of a tornado, is said to have adopted a daughter.
The adopted daughter’s name is Veneta, but it has never been made known at what time she adopted her. Baba and Veneta shared a great relationship and Veneta once described her mother as a strict but caring individual.
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Baba Vanga died 34 years after her husband
Baba Vanga lived for 34 more years after the death of Dimitar Gushterov before passing in 1996 at the age of 84.
During her lifetime, Baba Vanga made many predictions that have been claimed to have come to pass. However, there are still pessimists who believe that her predictions were nothing but guesswork works and because she did not write them herself, there were many that were not authentic.
Some of the alleged predictions of the woman referred to as the “Nostradamus of the Balkans,” that came true include 9/11, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the USSR, the 2004 Tsunami, and the earthquake in Northern Bulgaria that occurred in 1985.
