Since this thread in really about one of many Sylvia's f*** up predictions, we should discussion it here.

http://gma.yahoo.com/psyc...ories.html

A year after Amanda Berry disappeared in Cleveland, her mother appeared on "The Montel Williams Show" to speak to a psychic about what happened to her daughter.

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Psychic Sylvia Browne, who has made a career of televised psychic readings, told Louwanna Miller on a 2004 episode of the show that her daughter was dead, causing Miller to break down in tears on the show's set."She's not alive, honey," Browne told Miller on the show, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper. "Your daughter's not the kind who wouldn't call."Miller told the newspaper that she believed "98 percent" in what Browne told her.

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Miller died a year later from heart failure.On Monday, Berry was found alive after she broke free from a home in Cleveland where she says she has been kept for the past decade.Browne did not return phone calls seeking comment today by ABC News. The Montel Williams show, through syndicator CBS, also did not return calls for comment. The show no longer airs new episodes.

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It's not the first time that Browne, and other psychics, have come under fire for their involvement in law enforcement cases.In 2003, Browne incorrectly told the parents of missing teen Shawn Hornbeck that their son was dead, and his body could be found somewhere near "two jagged boulders," according to her premonition.Nearly four years later, Hornbeck was found alive, and Browne was widely criticized in the media for causing the Hornbecks additional grief.

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A website called "Stop Sylvia Browne," dedicated to cataloguing Browne's purported failures at prediction, sprang up in 2006.

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Last year, Dwayne Baker told ABC News that after his son went missing in 2007, he was flooded with calls from psychics offering potential leads into the whereabouts of Travis Baker."It's very hard,' Dwayne Baker said. "I went through everything. My son was missing for two years, two months and 12 days. "Psychics called me. I even received a DVD in the mail that a guy claimed he could talk to the dead and this was Travis' voice, with no return address. I don't understand why people would want to do that.""The psychics…" said Baker, 45, before pausing to let out a long sigh. "I hate to say how many of those called me and said they knew where Travis was. My mother and wife went to one and paid them $100."Travis Baker's remains were located in 2009.Brad Garret, a former special agent with the FBI and ABC News consultant said that alleged tips from psychics rarely help solve a case."As far as finding a victim, finding remains, finding evidence or in any way helping to solve the case, it's never been my experience," he said. "So, it's really a disservice to victims.""We've never had a psychic lead that turns out to be correct," said Lt. Dave Parker, of the Anchorage, Alaska, police department, after 18-year-old Samantha Koenig went missing in February, 2012.

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Today, Brown faced backlash on social media for her incorrect prediction about Amanda Berry. It is unclear whether she has helped to solve a crime with her psychic predictions."Psychics make me sick. Here's an example: Sylvia Browne told Amanda Berry's Mum (now dead) her daughter was dead," wrote Twitter user Chris McBriarty.

About 10 years ago, I interviewed Sylvia Browne around the time she released one of her books. She made a few readings/predictions about me that, shockingly, weren't true, despite being very vague. Of course she's a fraud.

Montel was always a shit show anyway.

It's really too bad that anyone believes in this kind of crap but it's downright awful that folks make money off of it. It's like being a sleazy televangelist, preying on people's hopes and emotions.

Bleh.

Efan said:

About 10 years ago, I interviewed Sylvia Browne around the time she released one of her books. She made a few readings/predictions about me that, shockingly, weren't true, despite being very vague. Of course she's a fraud.

Montel was always a shit show anyway.

I must admit that "Sylvia Browne Wednedays" was one of the biggest mistakes that Montel has ever done with his talkshow.

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But it must be said tha Sylvia has a place in history as the first guest to ever be lifetime banned from Coast 2 Coast AM. Much credit to George Noory & his producers for doing the right thing when they realize how much of a fake Sylvia really is.

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CarrieMpls said:

It's really too bad that anyone believes in this kind of crap but it's downright awful that folks make money off of it. It's like being a sleazy televangelist, preying on people's hopes and emotions.

Bleh.

Exactly.

People actually believe in this shit?

TonyVanDam said:

Efan said:

About 10 years ago, I interviewed Sylvia Browne around the time she released one of her books. She made a few readings/predictions about me that, shockingly, weren't true, despite being very vague. Of course she's a fraud.

Montel was always a shit show anyway.

I must admit that "Sylvia Browne Wednedays" was one of the biggest mistakes that Montel has ever done with his talkshow.

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But it must be said tha Sylvia has a place in history as the first guest to ever be lifetime banned from Coast 2 Coast AM. Much credit to George Noory & his producers for doing the right when they realize how much of a fake Sylvia really is.

She still hangs around with Montel. She showed up on one of his infomercials.

JustErin said:

People actually believe in this shit?

Sad but true. There are some people out there that are trying so hard to search for answers that a few of them would become suckers & marks for these psychics.

It's sad i think some people were so far in grief that asking someone like Brown was a last minute ''help''.

Sylvia wants you to pay 79.99 for an 18 month subscription to join her website

When was it like 2004 when she told another family there was dead and were to find the remains... and then it turned out he was alive.

CarrieMpls said:

It's really too bad that anyone believes in this kind of crap but it's downright awful that folks make money off of it. It's like being a sleazy televangelist, preying on people's hopes and emotions.

Bleh.

agreed.

I'm REPULSED by the Thai people's unwavering superstitions and belief in fortune tellers. It's repulsive.

Everyday I walk by this offensive young woman in her fortune telling tent, and there are always people getting readings from her. I find it so offensive that many of these people don't make a lot of money, yet they're willing to part with it so this scam artist can lazily sit there and yap away with her lies.

She's looked up at me before, and I've deliberately stared her down as I was walking by. She no longer makes eye contact with me. I absolutely hate fortune tellers.

Anyone who claims to talk to spirits or Jesus or whatever are full of shit.

she is a charlatan she may not know it but she is... but the people that put her and ALL the others on tv.

here she is getting 100% busted and then the horrable woman trys to save face!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...Rc4LkBRjIc

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Gunsnhalen said:

It's sad i think some people were so far in grief that asking someone like Brown was a last minute ''help''.

Sylvia wants you to pay 79.99 for an 18 month subscription to join her website

When was it like 2004 when she told another family there was dead and were to find the remains... and then it turned out he was alive.

do you get a t-shirt?

Thanks for posting this.

These charlatans succeed by making loads of predictions and then rely on human the nature of people to remember the hits and forget the misses. The cynical attempt to profit from someone's loss aside, thier failures need to be highlited so that folks realise it's woo. Always Woo.

lust said:

Thanks for posting this.

These charlatans succeed by making loads of predictions and then rely on human the nature of people to remember the hits and forget the misses. The cynical attempt to profit from someone's loss aside, thier failures need to be highlited so that folks realise it's woo. Always Woo.

She charges $850 for a private reading.

She's a con artist of the lowest order.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Gunsnhalen said:

It's sad i think some people were so far in grief that asking someone like Brown was a last minute ''help''.

Sylvia wants you to pay 79.99 for an 18 month subscription to join her website

When was it like 2004 when she told another family there was dead and were to find the remains... and then it turned out he was alive.

do you get a t-shirt?

Why do people even entertain this old biddy? I hope people learn after this Berry case.

CarrieMpls said:

It's really too bad that anyone believes in this kind of crap but it's downright awful that folks make money off of it. It's like being a sleazy televangelist, preying on people's hopes and emotions.

Bleh.

I aylwayys say if You dumb enough to give money for false hopes that you COULD HAVE HAD the option then yay should not have took your behind to the atm and took your money out. Just shows how dumb you are.

Now I love Sylvia Browne, but to give money to someone and expect their thoughts to be true...is stupid.

Same with people who gamble and think that they will leave a winner, no you dumb fucking idiot you might just not get your money back and you will go home broke as hell lookin stupid. but no I guess you goitta teach people common sense. Not everyone go through hard times enough to learn better But look at me like i'm the one that git a problem

NO JOKE.

I bought a newspaper yesterday (first time in ages) and in there was a big color ad for Silvia Browne appearing at the Resorts casino.

PurpleJedi said:

NO JOKE.

I bought a newspaper yesterday (first time in ages) and in there was a big color ad for Silvia Browne appearing at the Resorts casino.

Lets you know what she's REALLY all about.