When she appeared for her usual guest spot on the Montel Williams show in 2003, she told the parents of missing Shawn Hornbeck that their son was dead. The supposed clairvoyance both shattered their hopes and stifled the then ongoing police investigation of their son’s disappearance. But all was not dismal. Sylvia had visions of where their son might be and described his captor as a Hispanic man with dreadlocks. A month later, according to the once closure-hungry parents, she allegedly called them with an offer to continue the discussion at her usual exorbitant rate of $700 per hour. The parents couldn’t afford it.
Hornbeck was later found alive and living with a white guy, sans dreadlocks.
Browne is well know to anyone who pays attention to the James Randi Educational foundation. Back in 2001, she agreed to a test that, if she were to pass it, would net her one million dollars. As of yet, she has not participated in that test.
This isn’t the other widely reported prediction of Browne’s to be proven wrong. During the West Virginia mining disaster, a little over a year ago, Browne declared that she knew the miners had all survived, following an erroneous news report:
Browne: “No. I knew they were going to be found. I hate people that say something after the fact. It’s just like I knew when the pope was dead. Thank God I was on Montel’s show. I said, according to the time, it was 9-something and whatever Rome time was. And I said he was gone, and he was.”
Even if you believe in psychics, and the untapped powers of the human mind, there is a definite indication here that Sylvia Browne is not someone you can believe.
