Awhile ago, I posted a short commentary on Sylvia Browne’s 2007 predictions, complete with a healthy dose of skepticism (based on her previous mistakes).
With the unexpected and welcome return of kidnapped teen Shawn Hornbeck, Ms Browne is once again in trouble for making wildly incorrect predictions. As the video below will show, Sylvia told Hornbeck’s parents on an episode of The Montel Williams Show (2003) that their son was killed after the abduction.
While Browne was able to correctly identify the abductor’s first name, Michael J. Devlin is far removed from Sylvia’s description of a “dark skinned Hispanicâ€. Thanks to YouTube, it will be hard to Ms Browne to say otherwise. The Hornbeck family alleges that Sylvia Browne offered to help them find their son’s body for the low, low price of $700/hour.
Sensing the obvious need for damage control, Sylvia’s business manager issued a statement in her defence:
Sylvia has NEVER charged a fee to any law enforcement person, agency or any individual for her work on a missing person’s case and has worked on hundreds of such cases over the years with positive results … She cannot possibly be 100% correct in each and every one of her predictions. She has a during a career of over 50 years helped literally tens of thousands of people
-Statement from Sylvia Browne’s Business Manager
This being the case, why does she feel she can charge ANYONE $700/hour for information that may be false? Does she refund the money if her predictions turn out to be wrong?
In Sylvia’s partial defence, the Hornbeck family also consulted fellow psychic James Van Praagh, who delivered an equally inaccurate prediction. Perhaps it’s not just Sylvia, but the profitable psychic “industry†that needs to be scrutinized.
I am lead to believe they talk to aliens who know everything and have answers for all.