Sylvia Browne told the family of missing Shawn Hornbeck he was dead shortly after the Missouri boy vanished - and later allegedly offered to help locate his body for $700 per half hour.
The popular TV clairvoyant appeared on the “Montel Williams Show” in February 2003, four months after Shawn disappeared, and told Pam and Craig Akers she believed their son was “no longer with us.”
She also advised that his body could be found in a wooded area 20 miles from their Richwoods, Mo., home, near two large jagged boulders.
Yet the boy was found alive...4 years later.
2007-01-18 15:45:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not using this to discredit an entire group of people, just one person who has a very bad accuracy rate for being a first rate psychic...
2007-01-18 16:02:18 · update #1
"Deirdre H" Actually her fee is $750 per 20-30 MINUTES & that is just for a PHONE READING!
I just saw it the old Montel show clip w/ the parents of Shawn, Montel and Sylvia on Anderson Copper 360.
Sylvia outright lied & claimed she never charged on missing persons cases but I know for a fact she DOES!
My sister had called in 1997 when my daughter was missing & was given a quote of $700 for a 20 minute phone reading.
Miss Cleo also (which most know by now) was also a HUGE ripoff.
We were told she was dead, face in water.
Luckily that was NOT the case!
My daughter was missing for 12 days against her will & local law enforcement never did ONE thing to the 7 people involved!
People are corrupt & psychic's are frauds & prey upon desperate people because they would be willing to believe anything if it helped them find their child.
I know been there, done that!
Here is the link to Sylvia's website near the bottom is her prices:
http://www.sylvia.org/home/readings.cfm
A more affordable (LOL) reading with Sylvia's son Chris is $450.
2007-01-19 17:52:05 · answer #1 · answered by Cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok.....
I'm not saying anything about Sylvia's skills or lack thereof. I do know that no psychics claim 100% accuracy. I do know that a number of police departments rely at times on them for input in locating people, and that some have had a certain amount of success.
The error of one doesn't impugn the successes of either her or others.
On the other hand, if the $700 per half hour, if true, I find quite unethical.
The fact that the boy was found four years later is a good thing. I'm certainly glad that he was, as was the other lad with him.
Sylvia was wrong. Probably often. That doesn't mean that all psychics are always wrong. That doesn't mean that there aren't many who often significantly do better than statistics of chance would predict.
Finding one example of something being wrong, and using that to discredit an entire group is simply faulty logic.
2007-01-18 15:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I bet it will come out that Sylvia is not at fault because at the time she got her vision, Shawn was on a camping trip and fast asleep between two rocks on a hill. Sylvia just isn’t bright enough to tell the difference between a sleeping boy and a dead one!
Sylvia is the real deal, you know!
On Motel’s show, she even predicted that 9-11 was going to happen. It was just a mere few days after that terrible attack !!!
On Larry King she talked a caller that their parent was dead. Sylvia just forgot to say that she was speaking of sometime in the future the parent would be dead.
I hear that Sylvia will soon be predicting the winner of the 2004 American presidential election.
Motel Williams has squandered his good reputation by promoting that bleached blonde charlatan.
2007-01-20 19:07:53 · answer #3 · answered by ric from nj 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who is Sylvia Plath?
2016-05-24 05:49:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad news for Sylvia. Good news for everybody who will think twice before listening to frauds like her.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/489771p-412369c.html
2007-01-18 16:18:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It just shows she is money hungry and is wrong a lot of the time
2007-01-18 15:52:56 · answer #6 · answered by suzy-Q 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What, the clairvoyant was wrong? What a surprise. And to think I could trust her.
2007-01-18 15:52:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I watched her once, nearly got sick she is not even good at being a fraud. she was a joke, and I lost all respect for Montel.
2007-01-18 15:52:44 · answer #8 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That woman and people like her are manipulative vultures.
2007-01-18 15:48:50 · answer #9 · answered by Rachel 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Hope they sue her.... that's screwed up.
2007-01-18 15:51:19 · answer #10 · answered by jayden 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋