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Montel: Will Her Parents Be "Around Her?"

A young woman's wants to know if the spirits of her parents ever come around.

...or does she?

The woman

The woman

Background

In the closing moments of the May 24th, 2006 episode of the Montel Williams Show (episode title: "Sylvia Browne Explains the Unanswered"), Sylvia Browne took questions from members of the audience. The following is the exchange between Browne and one such audience member.

The Reading

(Montel) Williams: Yes ma'am, you had a question for Sylvia.

Woman: Hi, I want to know if I'm ever going to have my mother around me, and my father?

Browne: Well, they are around you anyway. Uh, you mean - feel them?

Browne apparently thinks that the woman's parents are deceased. However...

Woman: Well, they're in another country and I just want to know if they (something) make it here.

Browne: (Overlapping) Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. They will be around you in about a year.

Apparently realizing that she made a mistake, Browne quickly changes her answer from "they are around you anyway" to "they will be around you in a year."

Some might say that Browne did not think that the parents were deceased, but meant "they are around you anyway" in some symbolic sense. If that were the case, why would she change it to the future tense "they will be around you in a about a year"?

Woman: Okay. Thanks.

Browne: But they're going to have to get some kind of papers or something.

Is this a psychic prediction, or just common sense?

People traveling from one country to another always have to get "papers or something" in order to do so.

Woman: We've been waiting for that. That's why I wanted to know. It's taking a long time, so...

Browne: Yeah. About a year.

Williams: You know, right this minute, for anybody trying to get papers to get into this country...

Browne: (Overlapping) Oh, it's miserable.

Williams: ...it's taking a long time. Remember, we just had a major... I mean, you've got Homeland Security to thank, but I think it's also necessary right at this time to check people. It's going to be a while.

Analysis

In that brief "reading," Browne made one incorrect statement ("they are around you"), which she immediately changed into a prediction we can't know the accuracy of ("they will be around you in a year"), followed by one statement which, although accurate, is just common sense ("they're going to have to get papers or something").

Conclusion

Not a very impressive performance, for a psychic or for a cold-reader.

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