Do you think Sylvia Brown is for real?

Yes and No, I've seen Montel and his audience always looks shocked, and they look real. Although they could be real good actors.

Let's look back to just one particularly cruel hoax perpetrated by this woman Browne. Years ago on Montel Williams' show, she spoke to the grandmother of a local missing child, a six-year-old named Opal Jo Jennings who disappeared from her home in north Texas in March of 1999. Browne told the distraught woman that the child was still alive but had been sold into white slavery and was currently being held in Japan. She even gave a city name, but there is no such city in Japan. Moving ahead three years and nine months, we find that the body of little Opal was recovered — just seven weeks ago; she had been killed by a blow to the head. Currently, there is a man in prison in Texas who has confessed to, and been convicted of, Opal Jo's abduction and murder.

Think about what's happened here: Sylvia Browne callously raised the hopes of the family of this little child, placing the fictitious location on the other side of the world. She did this well after a comprehensive search had already been performed in Texas, so she was pretty sure that the girl would never be found. She thought she was safe against exposure. She wasn't; the body was found and definitively identified. That was a callous, cruel, manipulative act by Sylvia Browne. But no one calls her to account for it, and her supporters continue on in Lotusland cooing over her wonderful powers. You have to wonder how someone can do such a heartless act. Sylvia can, and does.

Actually no. I don't. I think there are somethings in this world that can't be explained. I believe there are spirits all around us. I believe that the Bible is true and a lot of the time we don't understand it and don't appreciate it's value. But, I think Sylvia Brown is not a good example of any of this. As I listen to her answers to people's question, in her husky smoke scared voice, it seems as though she just gets tired and pulls up any old answer out of her back pocket as if she could care less. She's just trying to sell books, and I don't think she has any special skill other than shocking me with her voice that's deeper than mine.

i love sylvia I think shes the real thing

Yes. I have seen her personally in action at a lecture. She answered my question and hit it right on. I never filled out anything and I was not prepped by anyone.

She herself has said she is not right 100% of the time. She says that all she can do is take the info that she is given and tell it. If she misinterprets that information, she's only human.

No, I think Sylvia Brown is a fraud

sometimes yes she can hit it on the head sometimes no. the only thing to remember is that the audience fills out a card that tells a little bit about them and facial expressions tell a lot.

I think I lost respect for her after she agreed to take Jame Randi's paranormal test and then welched out on him. That reeked of snake oil salesman, to me.

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/browne.html

http://www.randi.org/

And then her backtracking while in the middle of an interview about the dead miners in January.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180681,00.html

Don't get me wrong, I believe there are psychics who are the "Real Deal" out there. I just don't think she's one of them.

I can't say that she is for real but I like her better than most out there.

Yes she is amazing. I also think John Edwards is amazing too.

Doris D. You can't get information from someones facial expressions, that's ridiculous.