StopSylviaBrowne - Montel: Amanda Berry Reading

It's such a sad story especially because Amanda's still missing.

I cannot believe that Sylvia would continue doing these missing person cold readings knowing what harm she has caused but there is a large demand for answers as there are many missing persons so any charlatan would take advantage of supply and demand.

I don't usually call people names but there are many I could call Sylvia Browne. None would sum it up though.

Great article Robert!!

TruthBeTold
 
Robert I got goosebumps reading that, Louwana's pain is almost palpable.

If nothing else this one article more than any other is why that woman must be stopped.



Keep up the good fight.



Boo
 
Robert: She has no morality. Sylvia is devoid of humanity, she is careless and wreckless and it makes her not just wrong, but evil.

This is a sad, sad story. Thank you for telling it. I don't know how you contain your rage and treat her followers and believers with such curtesy.

BTW: as a fan of real life police proceedruals...a'la Helter Skelter, and THe Stranger Beside Me...I have read several books on Ted Bundy. If Sylvia ever attempted to contribute anything to the case, her contribution was put in the pile with all the other crazys' Bundy was solved by luck and very hard police work from several different police forces. You might try contacting the author Anne Rule (I think that's her name), she wrote extensively about Bundy and the police investigation...she would know if Browne was involved in any way, it seems to me.

Sylvia is all so depressing.
 
Well done as usual, RSL.

I was wondering about something: When you're working on these articles, do you ever send them to Sylvia's people to give them a chance to comment or clarify before you post them?

If they reply, it would be interesting to see what they have to say about it. If not, article after article with a note at the end reading: "Sylvia Browne and her organization declined to comment" would look pretty damning after a while. Plus it would give them one fewer opportunity to claim unfair bias.
 
Boo said:
Robert I got goosebumps reading that, Louwana's pain is almost palpable. If nothing else this one article more than any other is why that woman must be stopped.Boo
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Many of us have talked about this one particular reading and feel as you do. It's unforgiveable.

ST
 
Wow. A very moving and tragic story. It shocked me that Louwana died at such a young age. It surely does show the toll that this tragedy, compounded by Sylvia's useless nonsense, took on her.
Your analysis is honest and right to the point. I somehow doubt it, but I hope that Sylvia herself reads this article. Will it stop her? I doubt it. But if it even causes her to stop and think for just a moment maybe, just maybe, she will at least phrase herself more carefully when next time a desperate person seeks her "help." Not that it would have any positive effect on the desperate, but it could show that Sylvia has at least an ounce of conscience left. :(
 
Minarvia said:
Wow. A very moving and tragic story. It shocked me that Louwana died at such a young age. It surely does show the toll that this tragedy, compounded by Sylvia's useless nonsense, took on her.
Your analysis is honest and right to the point. I somehow doubt it, but I hope that Sylvia herself reads this article. Will it stop her? I doubt it. But if it even causes her to stop and think for just a moment maybe, just maybe, she will at least phrase herself more carefully when next time a desperate person seeks her "help." Not that it would have any positive effect on the desperate, but it could show that Sylvia has at least an ounce of conscience left. :(
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Your post was along the same lines of what I have been thinking since reading this story.. as to how Sylvia could possibly be dealing with this sort of thing, internally.

I don't know why, but I cannot bring myself to believe that it is just completely ignored by her on every level, as some suggest. I just can't make myself accept that. Maybe I'm just unable to see outside of the values I was raised with. I don't know. But I just find it impossible to believe that someone could realize what they had done and not at least have some, small level of personal torment over it. Maybe one sleepless night.. Maybe??
 
Once again - great article RSL.

It seems I read this article somewhere else - was it posted in the JREF first (or maybe it was the link to the newspaper article)? ETA: I followed the link you provided like I should have done in the first place.

Given this abysmal track record, it would seem to me that Browne has to be one of three things:

1. A cold-reader, pretending to be psychic, or
2. Self-deluded, and mistakenly thinks she is psychic, or
3. An extremely bad psychic who is seldom if ever right about missing persons cases.
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I think it could actually be a combination of one or more of these things. As fast as her answers come out, it seems like she has an internal narrative running (based on her imagination or thoughts) like we all have. SB seems to lack the internal mechanism to "censor" these thoughts and they fly out. This would be item 2 above.

Once she sees that this actually can make her money, she picks up item 1. I find it hard to believe she is actually psychic but bad at it (item 3).

Again, thanks for what you do RSL.
 
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You continue to amaze me with your restraint. Even as emotionally charged as this article is, you didn't go over the deep end. I've said something like this before, but your ability to keep from really letting a few choice phrases fly is very commendable. It really gives credence to your site, and as an aside, I don't think I could quite do the same thing.

I wonder if Sylvia would get a few more callers if she advertised that one could spend $750 to curse at her for a half hour.. Well, just a thought anyway.
 
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That's an excellent suggest FramerDave!
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I have to agree, excellent suggestion.

However, I would think that her people would start claiming that they wanted to reply but RSL either ignored them, or they had no way to get in touch with Robert. Similar to what she claimed about not being able to contact Mr. Randi about the agreed upon challenge.
 
grayman said:
I have to agree, excellent suggestion.

However, I would think that her people would start claiming that they wanted to reply but RSL either ignored them, or they had no way to get in touch with Robert. Similar to what she claimed about not being able to contact Mr. Randi about the agreed upon challenge.
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That does sound exactly like a tactic Sylvia would try. But considering the fact that RSL has been in direct (civil) contact with her son's girlfriend and webmaster for gosylviabrowne.com, and I believe some of her minions, any attempts to make such a claim would fall flat.
 
FramerDave said:
Well done as usual, RSL.

I was wondering about something: When you're working on these articles, do you ever send them to Sylvia's people to give them a chance to comment or clarify before you post them?

If they reply, it would be interesting to see what they have to say about it. If not, article after article with a note at the end reading: "Sylvia Browne and her organization declined to comment" would look pretty damning after a while. Plus it would give them one fewer opportunity to claim unfair bias.
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Wow, what a great idea! RSL?

ST
 
Sometimes, Browne has given false hope, telling people that their loved one was alive when that loved one was in fact already dead.

Other times, she has taken hope away falsely, telling people that their loved one was dead when in fact the loved one was still alive.

I've often wondered whether SB would do better to just tell everyone the person was dead.

Me, if someone was missing for several year and any rational person would have long ago concluded they're dead, I'd want to be told they were dead. There's nothing worse than false hope.

However, there is an inkling of a chance that person could still be alive, like in Shawn Hornbeck's case and SB could also jeopardize the search for that person if the family and community give them up as dead, the way Amanda Berry's mother did. Who knows if a body or more information about Amanda might have been found if the family hadn't give up the search.

Plus, all that's keeping them going is the search and the hope of finding their loved one and she has no right to take that away from them. Case in point, Amanda's mother.
 
It seems to me that she pretty well does tell people their dead...especially in missing persons cases where a couple of years have gone by...and why note? Someone mysteriously disapears, a kid goes missing...the chances are pretty good that something bad may have happened. It isn't psychic, it is just a pretty good bet. It's cruel, but not psychic.
 
Three words: Opal Jo Jennings. And Lynda McClelland. And Holly Krewson.

What she was thinking telling Opal Jo's grandmother she was in white slavery in Japan, I still don't know. Out of all of the possible scenarios, why come up with something so outlandish?

Maybe she got her confused with Shawn Hornbeck- switch them around and they're perfect. He's a sex slave for a child molester and she's dumped in the woods miles from where she was abducted.
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
Three words: Opal Jo Jennings. And Lynda McClelland. And Holly Krewson.

What she was thinking telling Opal Jo's grandmother she was in white slavery in Japan, I still don't know. Out of all of the possible scenarios, why come up with something so outlandish?

Maybe she got her confused with Shawn Hornbeck- switch them around and they're perfect. He's a sex slave for a child molester and she's dumped in the woods miles from where she was abducted.
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In her cruel way, I suspect she never expects the missing persons cases to come back on her...so why not varry it...is it any worse to have her dead or in white slavery? ITs bad all around, but since it isn't your kid, and your chances are pretty good if its gone a couple of years that it isn't going to come back on you...why not through darts?
 
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