Or mostly dead.
Posted on 05/08/2013 12:16:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
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.
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. 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.
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.
A website called "Stop Sylvia Browne," dedicated to cataloguing Browne's purported failures at prediction, sprang up in 2006.
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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.
She just meant figuratively dead.
And the "two jagged boulders" meant four years. A regular boulder would be a year, but a jagged boulder - TWO years.
So she was saying he was figuratively dead, but would be found alive after four years.
100% accurate.
/sarc
I have no doubts that there are fallen angels who will try to manipulate humanity to their ends, and if they can facilitate truths and half truths about the future to gain leverage over people they will do so.
On a far more mundane basis, I also have no doubts that we have only the tiniest bit of understanding as to how the human mind actually works. Even a dullard like myself would see a glass of water precariously perched at a table edge in a house next to the train tracks and be able to "foresee" the glass falling to the floor and shattering when the next train goes by. This is not due to some mystical ability of prophecy or precognition, but merely the application of logic to knowledge obtained from previous experience: i.e, I know the house shakes when a train goes by. I know that an object perched at the edge of a table will very likely fall when the table is rattled, and I know a drinking glass dropped on a hard tile floor will typically shatter when dropped from a certain height.
These are all very easy dots to connect, but I suspect in some people and at some level of the subconscious, some much more complicated sequences are worked out such that somebody may seem to have a unique precognitive ability, when in fact they are merely arriving at conclusions based on their past experiences and logic. Moreover, as this takes place in the subconscious, the person may not even be aware of the process, but only the conclusion, and may come to believe they are actually in possession of some sort of paranormal gift...
“shouldn’t they be calling you?”
I love that!!!
If there were one...or more...why would they open their mouths and report to the world...and the lottery commision, "I knew the numbers before they dropped. I'm a true pschic."?
Or mostly dead.
TV psychics are stupid. I am told day time talk shows still use them... apparently one is n=on Ricki Lake as we speak
Even Kreskin says his “gift” is really more a matter of being observant.
Better to stick with Kardashians and RHW repeats on Bravo, LOL.
Montel Williams is as much a fraud as Sylvia Browne. I remember him hawking Obama coins that were pictures of Obama taped to quarters or half-dollars.
I want to hit the Powerball tonight... can anyone give me the right numbers?
Psychhic Friends Network never saw their bankruptcy coming either.
I knew you’d say that.
Psychic for president!
John Edward has some competition for Biggest Douche In The Universe.
I knew you were going to say that, before you said it.
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