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Zoneboy · 11-20-2013, 08:44 PM

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World famous psychic Sylvia Browne -- who appeared on all sorts of TV shows including "Montel" "Larry King Live" and "Unsolved Mysteries" -- has passed away .. TMZ has learned.

Browne specialized in psychic detective work, and attempted to help on several missing person cases ... with varying results.

Browne's son, Chris, tells TMZ ... Sylvia passed away this morning in San Jose, surrounded by family and friends. She was 77.

Browne most recently took heat after famously announcing that Amanda Berry had died after she went missing in 2003 ... because, as we all know now, she wasn't dead. Sylvia chalked up the misinformation as a simple mistake.

The following message was just posted on Sylvia's Facebook page, "Sylvia graduated today. She was surrounded by family and friends. What a legacy. She shared so much. We will carry on her knowledge with hypnosis and Journey of the Soul and her many books. What a great party they must be having on the Other Side. Bless everyone."

bluejazz87 · 11-20-2013, 08:56 PM

What Unsolved Mysteries segment was she on? I can't remember.

TheUntouchables · 11-20-2013, 09:05 PM

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What Unsolved Mysteries segment was she on? I can't remember.

EDIT: It was season 5, episode 7; The Ghosts at Moss Beach Distillery segment.

MegtheEgg86 · 11-20-2013, 09:12 PM

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I don't know the exact segment but it was season 5, episode 7. The following segments were featured:

Legend: The Ghosts at Moss Beach Distillery
Legend: The Ghosts at Drumm Barracks Civil War Museum
Lost: The Children of Ethel Nation
Mystery: Sandra Evans
Update: "Mystery: Pierre April"

Moss Beach Distillery was the segment.

peachysquirt21 · 11-20-2013, 11:20 PM

Normally I don't say stuff like this when someone dies, but good riddance of this scamming witch. Just awful what she did to people. She gets no sympathies from me.

LMAO at specialized in psychic detective work. Yeah right.

MegtheEgg86 · 11-20-2013, 11:51 PM

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LMAO at specialized in psychic detective work. Yeah right.

Yeah, that bit made me

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TheUntouchables · 11-21-2013, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by peachysquirt21

Normally I don't say stuff like this when someone dies, but good riddance of this scamming witch. Just awful what she did to people. She gets no sympathies from me.

LMAO at specialized in psychic detective work. Yeah right.

I'm not too familiar with her history, so I'd like to know what exactly she did to garner the label 'scamming witch' ?

isotope · 11-21-2013, 01:52 AM

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I'm not too familiar with her history, so I'd like to know what exactly she did to garner the label 'scamming witch' ?

A simple google search (try "sylvia browne cleveland" for starters) should prove plenty of material about this disgraceful, narcissisitic old fraud. I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm happy she's dead, but there's no doubt she caused a lot of unnecessary distress to the loved ones of victims of crime.

To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, every word that came out of this woman's mouth was a lie... including "and" and "the".

XCalibur · 11-21-2013, 01:53 AM

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I'm not too familiar with her history, so I'd like to know what exactly she did to garner the label 'scamming witch' ?

Many people feel she was a fraud. I mostly agree with them. There were a number of instances over the years where she told people things that either turned out not to be true or they followed her advice to disastrous results. Pretty sure she also predicted Al Gore would win the 2000 presidential election.

La Llorona · 11-21-2013, 02:33 AM

Apparently she also told Larry King that she knew she was going to die at the age of 88. But she was 77. I'd link it but I haven't posted enough for linking privileges yet.

But there's a CNN transcript online from 2003.

TheUntouchables · 11-21-2013, 02:37 AM

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Many people feel she was a fraud. I mostly agree with them. There were a number of instances over the years where she told people things that either turned out not to be true or they followed her advice to disastrous results. Pretty sure she also predicted Al Gore would win the 2000 presidential election.

I have to say, if someone is going to take a psychic's word at face value then that shows poor judgement on the part of the people who enlisted her services. It's not an exact science, or science in general.

wiseguy182 · 11-21-2013, 04:14 AM

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Pretty sure she also predicted Al Gore would win the 2000 presidential election.

I'm not sure we'll ever know the answer to that one.

TheUntouchables · 11-21-2013, 04:24 AM

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I'm not sure we'll ever know the answer to that one.

The answer lies in Chad's dimples, or it could be dimpled chads. Who knows really?

bell83 · 11-21-2013, 08:09 AM

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Yeah, that bit made me

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When I saw this on CNN, it was a puff piece, talking about how she's a "renowned psychic and author," and mentioning only the Amanda Berry case as a failure, rather than all of the other issues she's had. Like the 9/11 widow she tried to tell that her husband died in water, and all that ****. I believe in the possibility of psychic abilities....but not in her case. Not at all.

bell83 · 11-21-2013, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by La Llorona

Apparently she also told Larry King that she knew she was going to die at the age of 88. But she was 77. I'd link it but I haven't posted enough for linking privileges yet.

But there's a CNN transcript online from 2003.

88.....77....close enough. There's someone 88, somewhere.

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peachysquirt21 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 27, 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 462	Normally I don't say stuff like this when someone dies, but good riddance of this scamming witch. Just awful what she did to people. She gets no sympathies from me. LMAO at specialized in psychic detective work. Yeah right.

11-21-2013, 02:33 AM	#10
La Llorona Still afraid of Omar Occasional Poster Join Date: Mar 27, 2013 Location: United States Posts: 13	Apparently she also told Larry King that she knew she was going to die at the age of 88. But she was 77. I'd link it but I haven't posted enough for linking privileges yet. But there's a CNN transcript online from 2003.