Cleveland abductions: fans lash out at Sylvia Browne over false prediction
Source: Guardian
'Psychic' incorrectly predicted the death of Amanda Berry in 2004 not the first time she's been wrong about a missing person
Katie Rogers in New York
Tuesday May 7 2013 15.29 BST
One of the world's most recognizable self-proclaimed psychics was wrong yet again about the fate of a missing child, and her followers on social media are taking her to task.
Browne's prediction about Amanda Berry's fate was not the first child whose fate she attempted to explain, but her fans on social media are waiting for acknowledgment from the self-proclaimed spiritual leader.
On Facebook and Twitter, Browne sends inspirational messages to hundreds of thousands of fans, often advertising her latest appearances or one of 45 books she's published over the years (most recently Afterlives of the Rich and Famous). She reached a high level of visibility after years appearing as a regular guest on Montel Williams' television show, a long-running daytime talk program that subsisted on paternity test results, cheating spouses and half-baked psychic predictions before it finally stopped production in 2008.
"I remember you on Montel Williams telling the family of Amanda Berry she was dead," wrote one commenter on Browne's Facebook page. "What do you have to say for yourself? What a horrible horrible thing to say to a family holding on to nothing but hope and faith."
"Can you admit that you're a hack now?" asked another.
"I hope todays events seal it for you and everyone else who take advantage of those in mourning," wrote another.
Not likely.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/07/sylvia-browne-amanda-berry-cleveland
Related OP in GD: Amanda's mom died in 2006 of a broken heart. "The visit with the psychic was the breaking point"
Jon Ronson's exposé: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/27/usa.jonronson
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Predict this.
savannah43
(575 posts)I was going to ask her to predict which finger I was holding up for her.
Great minds think alike, eh?
RainDog
(28,784 posts)take advantage of people who are desperate and suffering.
how sad.
I hope this will open some eyes to the fraud that is the reality of Browne and others like her.
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)◾ Obama will not be reelected.
◾The next president will be a Republican.
◾There will be a cure found for M.S.
◾There will also be a new substance to help diabetes sufferers.
◾There will be a tsunami in Florida in the fall.
http://www.sylviaspredictions.com/
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Cha
(297,218 posts)She's terrible at political predictions.. She predicted it really close between Obama and McCain. .
http://forums.randi.org/archive/index.php/t-228997.html
I'll take Nate Silver..thank you.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Kicking so I can read the Job Ronson link later
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Some oversized percentage of stranger abduction victims are dead within the first 48 hours.
Indeed, a majority are dead within the first five hours.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)suckers born every minute.