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The picture below breaks down the numbers of Sylvia Browne's life time of crime.

Emotional connection, this woman was a criminal who preyed on confused and desperate people to make a quick buck, and boy did she work hard. Numerous guests on the Montel show came forward to say they were approached by her  and offered to help them for a fee

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The picture below demonstrates how to be a successful at a cold reading. Cold reading is when a psychic plays of a room to make predictions. Its called a cold reading because the psychic is going into the room with no prior knowledge. Sylvia Browne uses this technique to great effect on Montel.

Emotional connection and unexplained. She just shouts random names until she gets a hit, she also claims to led by another spirit in the room who she balems when things go wrong.

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This picture below shows a cold read of a room being performed. Sylvia was very adept at cold reading utilizing some advanced techniques such as having the audience sit alphabetically or shouting common names like Jim. Everybody knows a Jim.

The red flags here are emotional connection, since she is cold calling peoples dead relatives to try and illicit a response. There is also unexplained as she sometimes utilizes a spirit guide to reach the audenices dead relatives.

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This video highlights some of Sylvia Browne's correct predictions that have been correct. Specifically Madonna having a second child,  the Oklahoma bomber being two people and Arnold Schwarzenegger running for political office.

Sylvia Browne has made tons of predictions about pop culture and current news. Only a couple of these have to be right and in hindsight she looks like she actually has psychic powers. The red flag associated with this is proof by verbosity

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Sylvia Browne Fraud Montage - World's Worst Psychic

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The video below shows more of Sylvia's blunders over the years including the one where she tells parents wanting to know the mechanism of their daughters death that she was shot. She collapsed in her bedroom from undetermined causes, and Sylvia Browne said that  she was shot. Sylvia then refuses to back down from her prediction and Montel defends her.

Emotional Connection because those poor parents just wanted some form of closure

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Psychic Sylvia Browne's 5 Biggest FAILS - Epic Cringe

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The website below analyses Sylvia Browne's predictions to prove that she is fraudulent. There is also a quote from the first of her 4 ex husbands about how "Anybody who believes this stuff oughtta be taken.". Shedding some light into how Sylvia views her clients and the work she does for them.

Red flags present are as always emotional connection and Ideology. Most of Sylvia's failed predictions hurt parents looking for their lost children, parents that were so desperate for answers because of their emotional state.

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Sylvia Browne is a world renowned spiritual teacher, psychic, author, lecturer and researcher in the field of parapsychology. Sylvia is well known for her dynamic, genuine, down-to-earth style and personality. She lectures, teaches, and counsels people from all over the world including Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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The website below compares predictions that Sylvia Browne made. She only got a couple right Oklahoma bomber being two people, Arnold Schwarzenegger running for political office. The same Kind of predictions that you make with friends it seems to me. The article goes on to say that it turns out she got a lot wrong. Shouldn't speak ill of the dead (article says that too) but Sylvia Browne's predictions caused a lot of grief for families experiencing undue stress and hardship.She also got her death prediction wrong 77 actual instead of 88 predicted.

Red flags present in all of her failed predictions emotional connection and belief in a higher power. Sylvia Browne preyed on desperate families looking for information about their missing children, and gullible police departments that used their budgets on her instead of capable resources.

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Many of us only had a nodding acquaintance with Sylvia Browne, the high-profile psychic who passed away on Wednesday. So how will her body of work be remembered? For the things she got right, or for the things she got terribly wrong?

What she got "right"

It's difficult to find much proof of what Sylvia Browne got right in her psychic predictions, leading one to wonder how she became so popular on shows like The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live. She did predict that Arnold Schwarzenegger would run for political office before his campaign for governor of California. She also predicted that two people would be arrested for the Oklahoma City bombings. She prophesied that the Jon Benet Ramsey case would never be solved and that Madonna would have another kid by a different man. It's probably fair to say anyone could have made those last two "predictions."

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Not so right

We would never want to speak ill of the dead, but Browne's legacy is filled with predictions that she not only got wrong, but that caused family members undue stress and grief as a result of her false claims.

Two predictions that Browne has been criticized harshly for are related to the Amanda Berry and Shawn Hornbeck cases. She said Berry was dead, which as we all learned recently, the woman who was held hostage by Ariel Castro in Ohio is very much alive. When Browne was called out on her erroneous declaration, she said in a statement, "Only God is right all the time."

In the case of 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck, Browne told his parents he was dead and had been kidnapped by a dark-skinned man with dreadlocks. Five years later, Hornbeck was found alive and had been abducted by a Caucasian man with short hair.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry published an article in March 2010 that studied 115 of Browne's predictions related to criminal cases. They found 25 to be completely wrong, and the remaining cases had no available details or remained unsolved, so there is no way to prove Browne's accuracy or lack thereof.

The study goes on to criticize details Browne provided to parents in criminal cases that increased their suffering. Browne told a grieving grandmother of a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her yard in Texas that she had been sold into slavery and taken to Japan. Four years later authorities found the girls' remains in Texas.

Not all of Browne's false claims had to do with heinous crimes. A few of the lighter predictions she made, but also got wrong were:

"Volcanic eruption in Japan causes poisonous cloud mass in April (1998)." (What did Browne have against Japan?)

"David Letterman decides to call it quits from his nightly late show after this year (2000)."

"American troops will be pulled out of Iraq by June or July (2004)."

"Julia Roberts' marriage will end (2004)."

Browne also famously claimed she would die at the age of 88, but she was 77 when she passed away on Wednesday.

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What Sylvia Browne got right, and what she got so, so wrong

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Many of us only had a nodding acquaintance with Sylvia Browne, the high-profile psychic who passed away on Wednesday. So how will her body of work be remembered? For the things she got right, or for the things she got terribly wrong?

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The website below is Sylvia Browne’s son Chris Dufresnes cheap attempt of leveraging his mother's legacy as being a scam artist and a psychic grifter, to reach lofty new heights of being a scam artist and psychic novelist.  The website offers pre recorded sermons by Sylvia Browne before she died(a new one each day). It seems to me that she must have retired when she died, because if everyone is really psyhicic like the say they are then why cant we get new sermons from the afterlife?

The website heavily appeals to the red flag emotional connection via plastering Sylvia Brownes leathery 12 pack of cigarettes a day face all over, mainly to remind you thats she’s dead and also to remind you that her son somehow inherited the exact same powers, and is also using them to swindle lonely gullible people.

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Psychic | United States | Sylvia Browne Group Inc

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Psychic | United States | Sylvia Browne Group Inc

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Celebrate the life of world renowned psychic and spiritual leader, Sylvia Browne, as her son Chris Dufresne continues on his mother's legacy by reaching out to as many people as possible in order to guide them to their own personal happiness.

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