# Sylvia Browne crosses over **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403 "2013-11-21T02:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/21 "2013-11-21T11:09:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Apparently she’s not really dead; she’s just locked up in Cleveland. Yes, she was one of the kidnap victims rescued in Cleveland but her mother died in 2006. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/22 "2013-11-21T11:17:22Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Yes, she was one of the kidnap victims rescued in Cleveland but her mother died in 2006. No, I meant Sylvia Browne…never mind. [joke fail] ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/23 "2013-11-21T11:24:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > No, I meant Sylvia Browne…never mind. > > [joke fail] Sorry, I didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/24 "2013-11-21T11:55:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > No, I meant Sylvia Browne…never mind. > > [joke fail] I got it! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/25 "2013-11-21T13:47:09Z")
Okay, Sylvia… I’m seeing someone… someone with the initials G.R.? He’s here with us now. He’s very tall, and wearing a hooded cloak… holding some kind of sickle… and he’s tapping his watch. Did he have a watch that meant a lot to him? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/26 "2013-11-21T13:54:18Z")
Can we just bury this piece of garbage in a landfill? Not with any sort of dignity. She doesn’t deserve it. I picture her corpse tumbling out of the back of a garbage truck with the rest of the delivery. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/27 "2013-11-21T13:57:15Z")
Did she really die? I’m not seeing it reported at all by NBC this morning. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/28 "2013-11-21T14:06:50Z")
Confirming my long-held belief that NBC is actually pretty good at figuring out what counts as news worth reporting. I’d be happy if people like this didn’t even get their deaths reported, we just all sort of found out years later. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/29 "2013-11-21T14:25:37Z")
Did anyone have her in the Death Pool? It would have been artistically appropriate. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/30 "2013-11-21T14:34:18Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned yet her apparent attitude towards her victims. She would be very abrupt and dismissive to the people she spoke to. It was not hard to imagine once she was away from the camera she would laugh at the poor dupes who bought her BS. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/31 "2013-11-21T14:59:09Z")
Any idea why Montel loved her so much? Were they just pot smoking buddies or what? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/32 "2013-11-21T15:07:13Z")
She was the only one telling him “I see great success in your future.” ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/33 "2013-11-21T15:29:35Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Any idea why Montel loved her so much? Were they just pot smoking buddies or what? She brought viewers to his show. Even stupid viewers buy shit, and that’s all the advertisers want. They aren’t fighting ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/34 "2013-11-21T15:41:32Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Good riddance to bad rubbish. Agree. She was such scum that ponds rejected her. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/35 "2013-11-21T15:43:27Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Did she really die? I’m not seeing it reported at all by NBC this morning. There was a minor headline on the NBC homepage this morning. (Top, right side, in smaller font below some other stuff.) I looked just now, and it wasn’t there so I searched. [Here’s the NBC News article](http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/20/21554383-famous-psychic-television-personality-sylvia-browne-dies-at-77?lite). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/36 "2013-11-21T15:45:52Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Did she really die? I’m not seeing it reported at all by NBC this morning. Maybe the afterlife didn’t want her and threw her back. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/37 "2013-11-21T16:08:13Z")
I have a vision that all the people she claims to have channeled are now waiting in line to have a few choice words with her. Each carrying a sock full of doorknobs. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/38 "2013-11-21T16:10:24Z")
I wish I believed in Hell, because I’d like to picture her there. I got in trouble at my local library because I kept moving her books to the Fiction section, it occurs to me that I should have just thrown them away. ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/39 "2013-11-21T17:08:29Z")
Ding Dong the witch is dead. 🙂 Wait… I feel a void… now who am I gonna hate? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403/40 "2013-11-21T17:29:02Z")
I wonder if people who talked to her on talk shows had to sign a disclaimer, because she practiced medicine without a license on those shows. She would tell people flat out that “it’s your thyroid” or “I see an embolism” when they asked about a health problem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-browne-crosses-over/674403.md?page=3)