Sylvia Browne | America's Favorite Psychic
Sylvia Browne | America's Favorite Psychic  
Podcast: Crimelines® True Crime
Published On: Wed Jun 11 2025
Description: 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.jonronsonPretend Podcast Grave Detector Part 1https://player.fm/series/pretend-1846581/ep-1602-the-grave-detector-part-1See me at the True Crime Podcast Festival! https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.com/SponsorSupport the show!Get the exclusive show Beyond the Files plus Crimelines episodes ad free onSupercast: https://crimelines.supercast.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crimelinesApple Subscriptions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crimelines-true-crime/id1112004494 For one time support:https://www.basementfortproductions.com/supportLinks to all my socials and more:https://linktr.ee/crimelinesSources:2025 Crimelines Podcast Source List Transcript: https://app.podscribe.ai/series/3790If an exact transcript is needed, please request at crimelinespodcast@gmail.com Licensing and credits:Theme music by Scott Buckley https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/Cover Art by Lars Hacking from Rusty HingesCrimelines is a registered trademark of Crimelines LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.