Sylvia Browne was WRONG

**The An-Jel** · 02-01-2007, 12:19 AM

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On October 6, 2002, eleven-year-old Shawn Hornbeck disappeared while riding his bike to a friend's house in Richwood, Missouri.

After four months of fruitless searching, Shawn's parents, Pam and Craig Akers, appeared on an episode of the Montel Williams show with Sylvia Browne on February 26th, 2003.

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The Reading
NOTE: I do not as yet have a copy of the show. As soon as I do, a video and complete transcript of the reading will be made available on this web site.

The February 27, 2003 edition of The Daily Journal contained the following article about the Akers' appearance with Browne:

Psychic's clues lead to new searches, but no luck
By LEROY SIGMAN\Daily Journal Staff Writer

RICHWOODS -- A segment in which the parents of missing 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck talked with psychic Sylvia Browne aired Wednesday on the Montel Williams television show, but the information provided has not helped in finding the boy.

Browne told Pam and Craig Akers their son "is no longer with us" but she had the impression his body was in a wooded area about 20 miles southwest of Richwoods. She said it would be near two large, jagged boulders that seem out of place in that area.

The psychic said she believes the bicycle Shawn was riding is in a dump "in another state."

Craig Akers said that since the television segment was taped Feb. 12 there have been several searches conducted in the general area described by Browne, but with no success. He said it is in the middle of a national forest and they did not locate the jagged boulders.

After the segment aired, Craig Akers was asked how he feels about the tips that are provided by psychics. While he said he would not discount anything that might lead to finding Shawn, he added, "I don't know what to think any more. The information from different psychics doesn't match up."

"It was a little helpful," Pam Akers said of Browne's information, "but the results weren't what I had hoped for."

Shawn disappeared on the afternoon of Oct. 6 while riding his bicycle in the vicinity of the intersection of Highway 47 with Routes A and H at the north edge of this northern Washington County community. There has been no sign of the boy nor his bicycle since that day, despite intensive searches by hundreds of people.

Browne told the Akers that it was her vision that Shawn was taken by a "dark-skinned man, he wasn't black -- more like hispanic." She said he had long, black hair that he wore in dreadlocks and was "really tall."

The man in Browne's vision was driving an older model blue sedan, a car with fins like in the late 1950's and early 1960's Chevrolets. She said the man picked Shawn up.

The Akers told Browne their son had gone to visit a friend but never arrived there. She told them Shawn did speak to another boy, who she said is named Keith and lives near the Akers. Browne also said Keith was once a close friend but drifts in and out of that circle of friends.

The parents said Wednesday that while Shawn went to visit a friend who lives less than a mile away, he never got there. He was last seen about three hours after leaving home. None of the children who say they saw Shawn that day were his close friends, the Akers said, and none of his close friends say they saw him.

The Akers also did television segments with James Van Praagh, a psychic who has a television show called "Beyond." He led the search in an entirely different direction, suggesting a person who worked in a railroad car plant was involved and the body might be concealed in a railway car.

That information led to numerous searches, including the De Soto railroad yard and several others.

Despite the lack of success over the past nearly five months, Pam and Craig Akers vowed they are never going to give up on their search for Shawn. They said the Shawn Hornbeck Search Team continues to function and, with the formation of the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation, efforts are also being made to deal with the disappearance of other children.

Feb 27, 2003 - 11:35:05 CST

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Shawn Hornbeck being escorted into police station after police rescue. (CNN website)

Shawn Hornbeck Found Alive
As of this writing (Jan 12, 2007 - 4:30pm PST) this is still very much a late-breaking story, but here is what is known so far:

Police serving a warrant in an apartment complex in St. Louis, Missouri, noticed a rusty Nissan pickup truck which matched the description of a truck involved in the kidnapping of another boy, William Owenby, who had disappeared only days earlier.

Investigating this, the officers found both Owenby, 13, and also Shawn Hornbeck, now 15 years old, and very much alive.

The police arrested Michael J. Devlin, 41. He has been charged with first-degree kidnapping, and is being held on one million dollar bail.

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Analysis
I think it is too early to offer much analysis of this, other than the fact that Browne was, thankfully, totally wrong on the main issue: When she told the boy's parents that he was dead, and that his body would be found near some jagged rocks, he was in fact very much alive.

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Conclusion
Once again, Browne's totally incorrect "psychic visions" added anguish and horrible mental images to the burden already being carried by the parents of a missing child, as well as wasted man-hours for search teams as they tried to follow up on her worthless leads.

More on this case when more is known.

Right now, it's just time to feel good for Shawn, William and their families.

No Surprise here but any of you folks believing is psychics take another read of this. The Sylvia was TOTALLY OFF!

redcliff · 02-01-2007, 10:11 AM

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No Surprise here but any of you folks believing is psychics take another read of this. The Sylvia was TOTALLY OFF!

I talked to Sylvia this morning, and she told me you would say that.
and then she started to remove her bra and I ran away.

**The An-Jel** · 02-01-2007, 11:35 PM

She needed your love and comfort and you ran away? You Beast (I woulda too)

**George** · 02-03-2007, 08:08 AM

Yeah I hate to see fakes like that as well.

Too bad she uses the same excuses religions do when she's wrong.

Og · 02-03-2007, 08:24 AM

Topless fortune telling... the only way to go.

Too bad it involves some lost kid.

redcliff · 02-03-2007, 09:30 AM

Better be a lost kid than some old deluded Captain Hook.

If I were her I would say that the kid didn't want to be found and therefore he 'registered' as dead.

redcliff · 02-03-2007, 09:52 AM

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She needed your love and comfort and you ran away? You Beast (I woulda too)

To be honest, I didn't reveal it all, I was too ashamed...
I decided to tell it now so it will serve as a warning to society:

...after I started to run she began to chase me while shouting "we were meant to be together you and I" and added "Larry King also was reluctant at first but at the end he made sweet love to me".
Even though I was running for dear life, I couldn't help shouting back "Yuck", and then I tripped on a puddle ( if only a REAL clairvoyant had warned me about puddles...), she caught me and did what she did while shouting:
"Sylvia might be a spiritual person inside, but sometimes the insides of Sylvia need to feel something physical"
And then I fainted.

This is my sad story, hearken well or be doomed to repeat it.

**The An-Jel** · 02-15-2007, 02:25 PM

You know redcliff you could switch psychics. That girl they took the role in the show Medium is pretty Hot.

If your going for psychics man pick your battles!

redcliff · 02-15-2007, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by The An-Jel

You know redcliff you could switch psychics. That girl they took the role in the show Medium is pretty Hot.

If your going for psychics man pick your battles!

Who? Patricia Arquette? she's fine. I prefer the one from the ghost whisperer.
Now, why can't any one of these 2 assault me?

They'll play the medium and I'll be the weegee board and I predict they'll witness some movement.

**The An-Jel** · 02-16-2007, 12:54 AM

Was thinking the "actual" psychic they patterned Medium on if your going to pick an "actual" psychic.

Yeah I'd go for the Ghost Whisperer chick myself hehehe