StopSylvia email: "My Mother's Reading"

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I received the following email, with the subject "My mother's phone 'reading' with Sylvia Browne"

Hello, Robert!

I sincerely hope your health has improved since your last update. You provide a VERY valuable service, and it would be a cryin' shame if you had to stop now. I don't hear much about Sylvia Browne since Montel got cancelled, and I believe that has a lot to do with your efforts. THANK YOU. You do ANTI so objectively, and that's really hard to find. With English being a dying "art", I'd also like to say your writing is without fault, very fluid, and very refreshing to read. I have a spelling peeve (it happens).

You have my permission to use this email in any way you'd like, including my name.


To begin, I'd like to state that my mother was one of the smartest people I knew. She had a VERY hard life, and because of that she didn't make herself vulnerable to people. She had very good "intuition" about people (not in her younger years, unfortunately) and it both helped her and hindered her. She could definitely see stupid coming, and knew to cross the street. Many people have told me they never met someone with so much "uncommon" sense as my mom.

My mother raised herself from the age of 12. She ran away from home, and never went back. She met a man when she was 13. He was 21. When she was 18 (1969) she had a child. Her boyfriend was very controlling. He killed several of her pets (cat out the 5th floor window, rabbits missing, nothing left but blood and stink in the backyard, dog disappeared).. He beat her the entire time she was pregnant. He was very jealous of any affection that wasn't aimed at him. He hated the baby, as her attention was aimed there.

When she was 20, she came home from work to find the house empty. No baby, no car, no furniture, nothing. He was supposed to pick her up from work, but never showed. She found out later that he was seeing an older woman, and they had also kidnapped her grandchild.

In the 70s, because they weren't married, the police didn't consider it a crime. He had as much right to the kid as she did. They stole her tax return check, and cashed it in Nevada. Her credit card was used to purchase gas from Southern California (where she lived) all the way to Las Vegas. 2 cars. She was almost certain that her son was dead. His father didn't really want him, he just wanted to punish her by taking him. He said on numerous occasions that he didn't love him. Same as the pets. There's a LOT of desert between So. Cal and Vegas.

She never stopped looking for him. But in the meantime, she got married, had 3 more children, and moved on with her life. I would say my mother was an agnostic. She couldn't say there was, she couldn't say there wasn't. She didn't claim to know. She didn't really believe in psychics, but for some reason she LOVED Sylvia Browne. Maybe it was the dispassionate way Sylvia dispensed the "truth" with her raspy voice and rolling eyes. My mom liked to hear it "like it really is, without the ********".. I didn't share this particular enthusiasm, but to each their own.

My mom also never spent a dime that didn't absolutely NEED to be spent. But in 2000 she paid Sylvia Browne for a phone "reading". $750 dollars. By this time her son would be 31. She had hired Private Detectives to find him, she had done the internet searches. She had bought every book ever written on how to find someone, and followed all the advice. She didn't know if he still had the same name, or birthdate. Babies didn't get a social security number in those days, so she had no idea there. She never came up with anything.

Sylvia Browne told her that my brother had been abandoned as a small child in Juarez, Mexico. She said he still lived there, and he was doing "the Lord's work" whatever that even means. My mother was told (when she asked about the other child who was taken) that he was with my brother, in Juarez. She also said my mom should watch her blood sugar, but that she and my dad would live a very long life, and be relatively healthy.

Before I get to the rest, I'd like to say my dad died in 2003 from a AAA . His aorta ruptured in his abdomen, and he died VERY suddenly at the age of 52. My mother died in 2010 from cancer at the age of 58. So, she was WRONG about the long life, relatively healthy part.

A woman who had gone to school with my brother, (and dated him) contacted my mother through one of her online posts (classmates.com?) She said she knew some of the family, and would try to contact them. She lived in Las Vegas. He had gone to High School in Las Vegas. She found out he was in Idaho, in prison. He had been convicted of assault of some kind 5 years earlier. We went to Idaho to meet him. He had never been to Juarez, Mexico. He had never been to Mexico AT ALL. He was not, nor had he ever been "in the church" or a missionary of any kind. The child who was kidnapped at the same time committed suicide in his 20s. To my brother's knowledge, he had also never been to Mexico. Nor had he ever done "the Lord's work".

The woman who contacted my mother about my brother began writing to him in prison. They started a relationship. When he was released they got married. He tried to take her life soon after that. He has a LONG history of violent behavior. We have no contact with him anymore. Unless trying to kill your wife is "the Lord's work" Sylvia was completely WRONG on every single thing she said to my mother.

I have to say thank you again for documenting the horrible lies of Sylvia Browne. Although my mom wasn't what anyone would call weak or gullible, she did have a SERIOUS fear of dying before she found her son. Sylvia Browne preyed on that.

Thank you for your time, Mr. Lancaster.

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Wow.

Thanks for posting this, RSL. It would make a really good article someday.

Once again Sylvia is wrong. Hugely wrong.
 
While Sylvia being wrong is nothing special, that womans story was the one of the most depressing things i've read in ages :(
 
thank you for posting this RSL. by exposing SB (yet again) you are doing "the lord's work"
 
Threads like these are perhaps the main reason I stopped lurking and started posting on JREF. Stop sylvia is a great site, and RSL an example of scepticism at its empathic best.
 
commandlinegamer said:
Tragic.

Doubly so for the SB stuff.
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Yes. At least the mother learned the truth before she died.

KodeBlue said:
thank you for posting this RSL. by exposing SB (yet again) you are doing "the lord's work"
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That's what My Better Half tells me - thanks!

Sawbones79 said:
Threads like these are perhaps the main reason I stopped lurking and started posting on JREF. Stop sylvia is a great site, and RSL an example of scepticism at its empathic best.
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You're very kind. I'm glad you are an EX-Lurker.
 
Wow. Some readings - even the one she gave my friend Sandra - are just so bad that they almost reach the realm of simply-silly. (She told Sandra she would meet a tall, dark, handsome man). This one feels different. Incredibly sad.
 
RSLancastr said:
Yes. At least the mother learned the truth before she died.



That's what My Better Half tells me - thanks!



You're very kind. I'm glad you are an EX-Lurker.
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I take it from the message and the date that you're back up and okay..
That's good :)
 
Ouch. That smacks of her thinking this guy is never going to be found, I can say what I want, just takes the money and pacifies! Evil.
That is such a sad story, it didnt even touch Sylvias cold heart.
 
shandyjan said:
That is such a sad story, it didnt even touch Sylvias cold heart.
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At least, thanks to her heart attack, we know she evidently has one.

And, thanks to mine, and if they are still keeping an eye on this forum, they know I have one too!

Speaking of which: I got an email last week on SSB from someone who had a VIP Backstage pass to meet Sylvia at her appearance in (IIRC) Illinois this past Saturday, and wanted to know if there was any question I wanted asked of Sylvia.

I told her to relay the following to her:

"Robert Lancaster recently had a heart attack, and wishes you continued success recovering from yours."

I haven't heard back, so dunno if the message was delivered.
 
It's so sad. People are so desperate for reassurance that they'll believe the kinds of stories spun by the likes of Browne.

Good on you, Robert. People need the measured, accurate antidote to Browne's lies your site provides.

Best wishes,

M.
 
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