Sylvia Browne | America's Favorite Psychic

Crimelines® True Crime · Jun 11, 2025 · 1h 11m

Sylvia Browne made a name for herself in the true crime world on talk shows, giving psychic readings to the families of the missing and the murdered. But an evaluation of her success rate shows that she was probably just guessing and she wasn’t that good of a guesser.

Skeptical Inquirer articles:

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/03/psychic-defective-sylvia-brownes-history-of-failure/

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/03/the-psychic-defective-revisited-years-later-sylvia-brownes-accuracy-remains/

Guardian article by Jon Ronson:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/27/usa.jonronson…