Self-proclaimed medium and psychic Sylvia Browne has gone viral after some of her shockingly bad predictions resurfaced online. The TV personality died in 2013 at 77 years old, but her impact and many wildly incorrect predictions are still debated to this day.

Browne rose to prominence in the 1990s, regularly appearing on the television shows Larry King Live, The Montel Williams Show, and That’s Incredible!, as well as the late-night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM, where she’d offer her premonitions and take live calls from members of the public looking for her advice.

As noted by The Daily Mail, Browne went viral during the COVID-19 pandemic when people rediscovered an eerie prediction she made in her 2004 book End of Days. The quote, shared by the likes of Kim Kardashian, read, “In around 2020, a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.”

While some pointed to this as evidence of Browne’s prophetic skills, others referred to the many other incidents where the TV psychic had made completely wrong and, often, dangerously insensitive, predictions, including several to the families of missing people.

One infamous prediction happened during a 2004 appearance on The Montel Williams Show, when Browne told Louwanna Miller that her missing daughter, Amanda Berry, was “not alive,” explaining to the distraught mother, “Your daughter’s not the kind who wouldn’t call.”

Berry was found alive in 2013 after she escaped years of captivity by Ariel Castro. Unfortunately, Miller had passed away in 2005, believing Browne “98 per cent” that her daughter was dead. The medium later defended her incorrect prediction, saying, “Only God is right all the time.”

That wasn’t the first time Browne had shared wildly wrong predictions with the families of missing children. In an earlier Montel Williams appearance in 1999, she told the grandmother of a six-year-old kidnap victim that her granddaughter was “not dead,” adding that she was taken into “some kind of a slavery thing” in “Kukouro” in Japan.

There is no such place as Kokouro, Japan, and the girl’s remains were later discovered in Texas. A pathologist found that she was killed on the night of the abduction.

This happened again in 2002 when Browne told the mother of a missing woman that her daughter was in Hollywood working as a stripper. Her death was confirmed four years later based on dental records from human remains found in San Diego in 1996.

The following year, Brown told the parents of a missing 11-year-old boy that their son was dead after being kidnapped by a “dark-skinned man who had dreadlocks.” The victim was later found alive in 2007 in the apartment of a white man with short hair.

To this day, social media users still talk about Browne and her controversial career. “Special place in hell for people who exploit traumas of others for their own personal gain,” wrote one X user on Sunday (August 17). “Sad how many desperate parents would turn to her & give her evil CON any level of merit by believing her lies. Vile woman. ZERO shock the Kardashians endorsed her.”

“Sylvia Browne was basically clickbait in human form,” said another.

“Yall remember that psychic, Sylvia Browne? she used to be on Montel Williams all the time.. dont ask me what just made me think of her phony ass.. it was a random thought. such a shame that she was scamming all those people,” another added.

One X user wrote, “I just want to know why Montel Williams kept bringing that lying a** b***h Sylvia Browne on his show, just telling them people anything.”

“Sylvia Browne is a fraud she is nothing but a charlatan selling bs,” another added.