A look at the claims, predictions and behavior of a media "psychic".
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A look at the claims, predictions and behavior of a media "psychic".
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Montel: Lynda McClelland ReadingSylvia Browne proved wrong in yet another "missing person" case. 
Lynda McClelland BackgroundOn July 27, 2000, 44-year-old Lynda McClelland was reported missing from her home in Forrest Hills, PA. Subsequent searches of the area turned up nothing. On March 13, 2002, an episode of the Montel Williams show was broadcast in which McClelland's daughters Marci and Amanda asked Sylvia Browne for help in finding their mother. The ReadingHere is a transcript of the reading (Click here to view video)
Lynda McClelland's daughters
Sylvia Browne during the reading
How Accurate Was the Reading?In March of 2003, Lynda McClelland's body was unearthed from a shallow grave in Wilkins, PA, less than two miles from Forrest Hills. Her son-in-law David Repasky was convicted of the murder. A witness, Donald Wall, said that Repasky had strangled McClelland on the night she disappeared, and that Wall had buried the body at Repasky's request. It was Wall who led police to the body. So, let's take a look at Browne's "reading," and see how it stacks up against what really happened.
AnalysisThe only thing Browne got even partially correct was her assertion that McClelland had a nervous breakdown. As her daughters said during the reading, their mother had been having mental problems. Newspaper accounts of the murder trial mention that McClelland had been diagnosed as paranoid/schizophrenic. Was that something which had been mentioned in newspaper accounts of the search? It seems likely, but I have not been able to locate any accounts of the case from that time. If it was mentioned, then it was available for Browne and her people to read prior to the taping of the show. Even if we give Browne partial credit for this one "hit," she was flat-out wrong on every other aspect of the reading, including the most crucial point: whether McClelland was alive or dead. And notice: Amanda gestures off-camera twice to her husband in the studio audience. This means that the man who murdered Lynda McClelland was in the same room with Sylvia Browne, and yet her "psychic powers" didn't pick up on that fact when supposedly trying to figure out what had happened to the woman. ConclusionHere we have yet another case where Browne was totally wrong on one of the "missing persons" reading she has done on the Montel Williams show. (other such cases profiled on this site include those of Opal Jo Jennings, Ryan Katcher and Shawn Hornbeck). People have asked me "Why don't you show some of the missing person cases she has gotten right?" The answer to that is: because I don't know of any. Not one. I know that she claims to have helped in dozens, if not hundreds of missing person cases, and yet I cannot find any examples where that is the case. If anyone knows of any case where her prediction/reading about a missing person case was documented prior to the case's resolution (such as on an episode of the Montel Williams show), and she was later determined to have been correct, please let me know. I will research it, document it, and put it here on the site. I have made this request before, both here on this site as well as in various forums where Sylvia Browne supporters sing her praises. As of this writing, I have yet to hear from a single one of them about such a case. Related LinksClicking on any of these links will load a separate browser window for viewing the linked page. StopSylviaBrowne.com is not responsible for the content of any of these linked pages.
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