Who is Psychic Sylvia Browne, the '90s Fixture Making a Viral Comeback More Than a Decade After Her Death? Staff AuthorOctober 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM 0 Stacie McChesney/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Psychic Sylvia Browne Psychic Sylvia Browne is going viral years after her death Browne began working as a psyc...
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Psychic Sylvia Browne is going viral years after her death
Browne began working as a psychic in the 1970s, eventually going on to appear frequently on radio and television programs — most notably, Larry King Live and The Montel Williams Show.
Clips of Browne's shocking and typically false predictions have recently gone viral online, even inspiring a Saturday Night Live sketch
Decades after making a name for herself on daytime television, self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne is resurfacing, as old clips of her outrageous predictions go viral on social media.
Browne began working as a psychic in the 1970s, eventually going on to appear frequently on radio and television programs — most notably, Larry King Live and The Montel Williams Show.
In her appearances, Browne would often chat with audience members, making public pronouncements about their lost or deceased loved ones. But many of those pronouncements were eventually proven false, landing Brown in hot water.
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In 2002, during an appearance on The Montel Williams Show, Browne spoke to the parents of a missing child named Shawn Hornbeck, telling them he had died and was buried between two boulders after being kidnapped by a "dark-skinned man who had dreadlocks."
But in 2007, Hornbeck was found alive after being abducted by a white man, with Browne's publicist telling CNN in a statement at the time: "She cannot possibly be 100% correct in each and every one of her predictions. She has, during a career of over 50 years, helped literally tens of thousands of people."
A similar situation occurred in 2004, when Browne appeared on Williams' show to speak to Louwana Miller, the mother of a missing girl named Amanda Berry. Browne told Miller her daughter was dead, saying she was "in heaven and on the other side" and that her last words had been "goodbye, mom, I love you."
Miller died a year later, of heart failure, and Berry was found alive in 2013, after escaping from the Cleveland home in which she had been held captive with two other women for more than a decade.
In a statement posted to her Facebook page following Berry's dramatic escape, Browne acknowledged she was wrong about her death, writing, "For more than 50 years as a spiritual psychic and guide, when called upon to either help authorities with missing person cases or to help families with questions about their loved ones, I have been more right than wrong. If ever there was a time to be grateful and relieved for being mistaken, this is that time. Only God is right all the time. My heart goes out to Amanda Berry, her family, the other victims and their families. I wish you a peaceful recovery."
Many of Brown's past appearances on Williams' show have gone viral in recent weeks, with Instagram and TikTok users calling her a "fraud" and a "charlatan" over her false, blunt — and sometimes unbelievable — claims.
"The way she gaslit this audience," one TikTok user commented on a video of old clips of Browne.
Added another: "All the BS that Sylvia Browne made a fortune from."
The renewed interest in Browne even led to a skit on the Oct. 11 episode of Saturday Night Live, with Amy Poehler playing the psychic and using her catchphrase: "Does that make sense to you?"
Browne also published more than 50 books throughout her career — 22 of which made the New York Times Bestsellers List, according to NBC News.
Browne died on Nov. 20, 2013, with a message on her website sharing the news to fans. "For many years she shared her gift with friends and family, gaining a reputation for accuracy with her trademark down-to-earth approach and sense of humor," the message read.
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