Sylvia Browne Reading Transcription

[bjb]

Here's a link to a complete transcript of a Sylvia Browne reading. Be warned that it contains graphic details of a horrible murder:

http://www.enddeathpenaltyforbretthartmann.com/sylvia.html

For those who dont' want to click on the link, here's some background information. It seems there was a rather gruesome murder and an acquaintance of the victim, Brett Hartman, was convicted and sentenced to death. Hartman's family is convinced he is innocent and turned to Sylvia Browne in an attempt to find the 'real' killer. In the reading, Sylvia implies that Hartman knows the real killer but won't give his name in order to protect his family. She also gets the date of the atumnal equinox wrong, September 9th instead of September 22nd or 23rd.

Sylvia also gives a description of the real killer and elsewhere on the website, the family proposes a more likely suspect, Scott Henretty:

http://www.enddeathpenaltyforbretthartmann.com/fastfacts_.html

It's at the bottom of the page. There is no mention if Henretty matches the description of the killer given by Sylvia Browne.

[RSLancastr]

I had read this some time ago. Thanks for reminding me of it.

[bjb]

Here's a link to another crime reading by Sylvia Browne:

http://www.realcrimes.com/Dyer/psychic_rd.htm

Once again, she relies on the old "head-n-chest" routine to detmine the cause of death, and once again, the victim, I mean, client forgets the misses and concentrates on Sylvia's confirmation of what they already believe.

[Minarvia]

And I notice how she always uses such subjective descriptions, like "lovely mouth, nice hands", etc. She doesn't say "lanky waist-length blonde hair," a "parrott tattoo on the chest" or such things that are very verifiable.

[T'ai Chi]

Are they unedited transcripts from a live reading that can be verified by a videotape of the session?

[bjb]

The first is unedited. It was posted by a client who was satisfied with the reading.

I would guess the second one is edited because it is so short.

Both readings were performed over the telephone so there is no videotape. However, Sylvia records her readings and gives a tape to her customers. According to her website (http://www.sylvia.org/home/readings.cfm):

Both Sylvia and Chris record every reading and give you the tape; they are not afraid to have their work audited. They always find a way to help you with life's troubles. Other "psychics" tell people that their problems are caused by the person's own negative blocks, curses, evil entities, demons, or karmic retribution. Do not believe these things. They do not exist. Only a fraud will tell you such things.

I find it refreshing that Sylvia Browne aknowleges that fake psychics exist, a fact that many believers are unable to accept.

[enjoytheview]

I find it refreshing that Sylvia Browne aknowleges that fake psychics exist, a fact that many believers are unable to accept.

yeah now all we need is for Sylvia to admit that she is one of the above mentioned fakes and we're done..
Plus, she didnt admit it personally (unless she referred to herself in the third person on the website) But i guess thats good enough

[darkshadows]

It's at the bottom of the page. There is no mention if Henretty matches the description of the killer given by Sylvia Browne.


No, Scott Henretty does NOT match the description of the killer. I know him personally. I lived with Henretty for six months back in 1993. I have not talked to him since he commited that horrible murder. He lived in the same building with the woman he killed, BUT he was not living there when the first murder took place. So I'd say 99% probability he's not guilty for that grizly crime. But he's guilty as hell for the second one.

[Luke T.]

Welcome to the forum, darkshadows.

They show a photograph of Scott Henretty here (http://www.enddeathpenaltyforbretthartmann.com/rachelle_html.html). And he in no way looks like the person described by Sylvia Browne.

But as you say, it is highly unlikely Henretty killed the first woman, for whose family SB did the reading.

As for Brett Hartman's family's web site, on their home page they say:

Brett was the person who discovered Winda, and placed a series of 911 calls to report it.

and during the SB reading:

"Well, my brother found the body, and a, they're saying he did it. He called, ah, the police for it when he found the body. He called 911, and was the one that identified it, but they're convicting him for it now."

and in the second link in the OP:

Brett was the person who discovered the victim, called 911, and cooperated voluntarily in all aspects thereafter.

However, the Supreme Court of Ohio's web site says:

With a 6-1 vote, the Supreme Court upheld the convictions and death sentence of Brett X. Hartman for the brutal murder of Wanda Snipes four years ago in Akron.

Hartman led police, through a series of anonymous 9-1-1 calls, to Snipes’ Highland Square apartment, where they found her partially dismembered body. She had been strangled and stabbed 138 times; her throat had been slit and both hands had been cut off. According to a coroner’s report, bruising around her ankles indicated she had been tied up prior to her death.

A Summit County jury convicted Hartman of aggravated murder, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.

(ETA: Link (http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Communications_office/summaries/2001/1003/981475.asp))
SB is pretty sleazy casting guilt around and victimizing the family of the murderer.

[Luke T.]

A series of 911 calls. What the heck is that about?

[Luke T.]

Here's a link to a complete transcript of a Sylvia Browne reading. Be warned that it contains graphic details of a horrible murder:

http://www.enddeathpenaltyforbretthartmann.com/sylvia.html


SB is the answerer, "A."
Q. "Is it satanic at all?"

A. "It's ritualistic, yeah."

Q. "Can you tell me anymore on it?"

A. "Well honey, ritualistic is ritualistic."

Q. "Right, do you know where her hands are, or the murder weapon?"

A. "No, they kept the hands. I mean, there is something really sick about that."

A. "See, what they're going to do is mummify the hands. You remember years ago when we used to hear about shrunken heads? Well now they do that with hands."


A co-worker later told police that a month before the murder, Hartman had opined that had Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman's hands been amputated and removed from the crime scene, police would have been unable to gather fiber and DNA evidence from under their fingernails.

Ohio Supreme Court (http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Communications_Office/oral_arguments/01/0620/)

[ChristineR]

Luke T., I read through some of the comment's on the Hartman family website. According to the family, he discovered the body, but didn't want to call 911 because he had outstanding traffic warrants. He took some of his personal possessions from the crime scene and called 911. Apparently there is some question as to whether his shirt was just lying there or whether it was actually used in the murder.

I wasn't able to figure out why he was going in and out of this woman's apartment at will...he had been in the apartment the day before the murder, or why he was leaving his clothes in her bedroom.

[darkshadows]

Well, I hate to fall victim to mob mentality....but I think there's a good chance that Hartman did it. His family is suffering from selective reasoning....they are only seeing what they want to see to confirm what they want to believe.

[Starrman]

Maybe I'm just a sicko - but when Sylvia says this:

"She keeps pointing to her chest, and her head."

Followed by the sister TELLING her this:

"She was, um, she was stabbed 130 times,
her throat was cut, and ah, strangled, and her hands were cut off. And
they're missing."

It almost makes me laugh. Isn't that a rather huge miss? Wouldn't you hang up on this idiot, or demand your money back at that very instant? How much more wrong can you possible be?

[RSLancastr]

Ah, but I don't think I have heard Sylvia say that people "on the other side" have the same wounds that they received in life. So just because the woman's hands were cut off doesn't mean her "spirit" would also be missing her hands.

[wahrheit]

The Harry Potter "spirits" still do have the wounds they received, Nearly Headless Nick for example.

Whom should I believe, Browne or Rowling? I feel like being caught between the devil (oops!) and the deep blue sea.

[LostAngeles]

Here's a link to another crime reading by Sylvia Browne:

http://www.realcrimes.com/Dyer/psychic_rd.htm

Once again, she relies on the old "head-n-chest" routine to detmine the cause of death, and once again, the victim, I mean, client forgets the misses and concentrates on Sylvia's confirmation of what they already believe.

Check the comment at the bottom of that one.

Information from psychics (even the most gifted ones) is seldom totally accurate, as it is based upon impressions received by extra sensory perception.

Lemme fix that:
Information from psychics (even the most gifted ones) is never accurate, as it is based upon cold reading techniques and bulls***ting techniques.

[RSLancastr]

The Harry Potter "spirits" still do have the wounds they received, Nearly Headless Nick for example.But Rowling makes it all up, whereas... Oh. Never mind.

[Luke T.]

Ah, but I don't think I have heard Sylvia say that people "on the other side" have the same wounds that they received in life. So just because the woman's hands were cut off doesn't mean her "spirit" would also be missing her hands.

She has said that everyone on the other side is 30 years old, though...

[RSLancastr]

She has said that everyone on the other side is 30 years old, though......except for those times when she says that she talks about seeing a spirit who is "a little old woman" or "a beautiful child."

I have asked some of her supporters to explain that, and they have told me that Browne claims that everyone is 30 years old on the other side, unless they are making themselves known to someone on this side, in which case they usually take the age which would be most recognizable to us.

Mmmm-hmm.

[CFLarsen]

That's correct: On the other side, Sylvia says we are all healed and well. That doesn't stop us from having reminders from wounds in earlier lives.

In her book "Past Lives, Future Healing", Sylvia Browne describes a neurologist friend of hers, who suspects a link between birthmarks and congenital illnesses. He asks her to "take a poll" among her "steady stream of clients" to see if she notices "any birthmark/health connection."

Sylvia describes it like this:

"Birthmarks weren't something I'd sat up nights wondering about, but it was a small favor for a friend to ask. If he turned out to be right, it might lead to some fascinating medical diagnostic possibilities."
p.23

She then tells of Billy, who, during a past life as an American Indian in the early 1800s, died in "a battle when he bled to death from a knife wound to his right leg, a couple of inches below the knee."

Sylvia is so captivated by this "brave, exciting, and tragic life" that she almost forgets to ask him whether he had any birthmarks or not.

"He did. Just one. A purplish discoloration, like an angry unhealed wound, about two inches below his right knee."

At first, Sylvia writes this off as a "fluke", especially since Billy turned out not to have any congenital illnesses. But afterwards, she finds a 90% correlation between birthmarks and a serious or fatal injury from a past life. She claims to have files "well into the hundreds" to support this.

Sylvia also explains why the last 10% doesn't have birth marks: Not because they haven't had past lives - oh, no, they all have - but because the issues have been "resolved": If you had been hanged in a past life for a crime (but had no birthmarks around the neck), it was because you were either "truly innocent" of the crime. But if you were guilty - I kid you not:

"...there was resolution, the subject was closed when that lifetime ended and you won't retain any residual marks."

Amazingly, she goes on:

"If you were the innocent victim of a catastrophic fire, you're very likely to have a past-life scar from being burned, but if you died in a fire you deliberately started, there won't be a birthmark because that life ended with no unfinished business."

I now have a headache.

[Jackalgirl]

Hmmmm...interesting.

A. "Uh huh, dark hair, straight dark hair, looks almost Hispanic."

Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah (http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/articles/montel_shawnhornbeck.shtml):

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."

Two readings doth not a pattern make, but...does Sylvia have a thing against Hispanics?

Well, maybe not -- the person who supposedly sold Opal Jo Jennings into "white slavery" in Japan was, apparently, white (and, of course, non-existant) (http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/articles/montel_opal.shtml):

Browne: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-uhh. It… Yeah, it was a man. He wasn’t Asian. He was white. And then he sold her, like, on the Asian market of some kind.

So far, that's 66% hispanic, 33% white (but only three readings). I'd be interested in seeing further missing persons readings to see if there actually is a racial divide. Although she seems to not be doing missing persons readings anymore (http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/articles/tvtalk_areport.shtml)...except maybe on Montel?

(Honestly, for a real psychic to refuse to answer missing-persons questions while continuing to give "guardian angel" readings -- whoo. That'd be just reprehensible. For a real psychic.)

[sophia8]

Q. "Is it satanic at all?"

A. "It's ritualistic, yeah."

Q. "Can you tell me anymore on it?"

A. "Well honey, ritualistic is ritualistic."
What sort of an answer is that???? Can't she even make up some stuff about pentagrams and chants and sacrificial knives?

Q. "Right, do you know where her hands are, or the murder weapon?"

A. "No, they kept the hands. I mean, there is something really sick about that."

A. "See, what they're going to do is mummify the hands. You remember years ago when we used to hear about shrunken heads? Well now they do that with hands."
But here, she suddenly gets good. Notice how she instantly distracts the victim - sorry, client - from the location of the murder weapon with garbage about the hands. The murder weapon never gets another mention and she nicely wastes the rest of the time with conversational stuff in which she's given all the information and provides nothing that can be checked:
A. "There's a D___, but I'm telling you look for this F____, or ask Brett
about that."

Q. "Okay, you don't have a last name on that?

A. "No. This is ritualistic, because this has been happening
everywhere, and like you say, there's all kinds of hotbeds. Missouri is a
hotbed, and Ohio's a hotbed, and California's a hotbed, they're
springing up all over." "Alright...God Bless. Bye ,Bye dear."
"Your $750 is up. Bye bye dear."

[logical muse]

From the transcript (SB is 'A'):

Q. ... "Where does this W_____R come from?" "Does
he live around here?"

A. "Yeah, yeah, he's a transient. He's with a in, he's with a group of
people that do this kind of thing."

Q. "You wouldn't know the name of the group would ya?"

A. "Ah...they call themselves ah...The Gateway."

Q. "The Gateway."

A. "Uh huh."

I've found the group that the murderer belongs to!

http://www.tothegateway.org/gateway/

They are shameless. From their website:

this is a time when our life energy goes on retreat...
we can begin to recognize how certain relationships in our life have come to an end...
the relationships that continue to serve us...
Step one, completion. To begin with, make a list of the people in your life who disappointed you in 2006....
...helping to set men free

[Starrman]

Ah, but I don't think I have heard Sylvia say that people "on the other side" have the same wounds that they received in life. So just because the woman's hands were cut off doesn't mean her "spirit" would also be missing her hands.


Ok, Ok. I suppose the hand cutting could be post-mortem as well. But it is so frustrating! If someone is murdered, there is a pretty good chance damage to the head or chest is involved. I can't imagine a murder victim showing up to Sylvia pointing to his big toe.