Self-proclaimed medium and psychic Sylvia Browne has gone viral after a few of her shockingly unhealthy predictions resurfaced on-line. The TV character died in 2013 at 77 years previous, however her affect and lots of wildly incorrect predictions are nonetheless debated to this present day.
Browne rose to prominence within the Nineties, often showing on the tv exhibits Larry King Reside, The Montel Williams Present, and That’s Unbelievable!, in addition to the late-night radio discuss present Coast to Coast AM, the place she’d provide her premonitions and take dwell calls from members of the general public in search of her recommendation.
As famous by The Day by day Mail, Browne went viral throughout the COVID-19 pandemic when folks rediscovered an eerie prediction she made in her 2004 e book Finish of Days. The quote, shared by the likes of Kim Kardashian, learn, “In round 2020, a extreme pneumonia-like sickness will unfold all through the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all identified therapies.”
Whereas some pointed to this as proof of Browne’s prophetic abilities, others referred to the numerous different incidents the place the TV psychic had made fully incorrect and, typically, dangerously insensitive, predictions, together with a number of to the households of lacking folks.
One notorious prediction occurred throughout a 2004 look on The Montel Williams Present, when Browne informed Louwanna Miller that her lacking daughter, Amanda Berry, was “not alive,” explaining to the distraught mom, “Your daughter’s not the type who wouldn’t name.”
Berry was discovered alive in 2013 after she escaped years of captivity by Ariel Castro. Sadly, Miller had handed away in 2005, believing Browne “98 per cent” that her daughter was lifeless. The medium later defended her incorrect prediction, saying, “Solely God is correct on a regular basis.”
That wasn’t the primary time Browne had shared wildly incorrect predictions with the households of lacking kids. In an earlier Montel Williams look in 1999, she informed the grandmother of a six-year-old kidnap sufferer that her granddaughter was “not lifeless,” including that she was taken into “some sort of a slavery factor” in “Kukouro” in Japan.
There isn’t a such place as Kokouro, Japan, and the lady’s stays have been later found in Texas. A pathologist discovered that she was killed on the evening of the kidnapping.
This occurred once more in 2002 when Browne informed the mom of a lacking lady that her daughter was in Hollywood working as a stripper. Her demise was confirmed 4 years later primarily based on dental information from human stays present in San Diego in 1996.
The next yr, Brown informed the mother and father of a lacking 11-year-old boy that their son was lifeless after being kidnapped by a “dark-skinned man who had dreadlocks.” The sufferer was later discovered alive in 2007 within the house of a white man with quick hair.
To this present day, social media customers nonetheless speak about Browne and her controversial profession. “Particular place in hell for individuals who exploit traumas of others for their very own private acquire,” wrote one X consumer on Sunday (August 17). “Unhappy what number of determined mother and father would flip to her & give her evil CON any degree of advantage by believing her lies. Vile lady. ZERO shock the Kardashians endorsed her.”
“Sylvia Browne was mainly clickbait in human type,” stated one other.
“Yall do not forget that psychic, Sylvia Browne? she was on Montel Williams on a regular basis.. dont ask me what simply made me consider her phony ass.. it was a random thought. such a disgrace that she was scamming all these folks,” one other added.
One X consumer wrote, “I simply wish to know why Montel Williams saved bringing that mendacity a** b***h Sylvia Browne on his present, simply telling them folks something.”
“Sylvia Browne is a fraud she is nothing however a charlatan promoting bs,” one other added.