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Email: Face to Face With Sylvia Browne

A woman with a missing daughter recounts her experience with Sylvia Browne.

Amy Bradley

Amy Bradley, missing since 1998

Background

One thing which puzzles me is how fans of Sylvia Browne can watch her television appearances and say that she comes across as warm and caring.

From my perspective, she almost always comes across as cold, dismissive, impatient, snide, and often just plain scornful of the very people who have come to her for answers and help.

I suppose that, for her supporters as well as for me, it could be a case of seeing what we expect to see.

However, a few months ago I received an email which I believe illustrates, from a first-hand perspective, just how cold, uncaring and dismissive Browne (and her office staff) can be.

The Email

Here, with the author's permission, is that email:

Subject: Face to Face with Sylvia Browne
From: [email address]
Date: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 8:11 pm
To: [email address]

Dear Mr. Lancaster,

My name is Iva Bradley and I am Amy's Bradley's mother. Amy disappeared on March 24, 1998 while in the docking procedures on the island of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Amy's site is www.tggweb.com/amybradley/.

On April 1, 1998, after many phone calls from people trying to help, someone furnished me a phone number to Sylvia Browne's office. As parents, we were in tremendous need of help to find our daughter. I called her office and was told a 30 minute booking for a telephone conversation would be $600, however, she was booked up for the next 6 months. I cried and begged the person on the phone to please let me speak to her, because someone had taken our daughter. The person again stated she was booked up, however, if I wanted to I could send $75.00 and one question to Sylvia and she'd answer it within 2 weeks. I was floored, absolutely floored. I hung up and remembered to tell anyone who suggested I talk to her what her office did.

Over time people continued to tell me to try to call her again, watch the Montel Williams show, maybe she could have some answers if I could get in touch with her.

On a return trip from doing the Leeza Show about Amy in California, we had a layover in Philadelphia. I wanted some chocolate covered peanuts so I told my husband I was going to one of the stores. I walked down the corridor and came eyeball to eyeball with Sylvia Browne. She was standing in the entrance of one of the stores. I walked up to her and told her my name and told her I needed her help. I was very emotional and trembling with tears streaming down my face. I told her my daughter had been taken from a ship and we couldn't find her. She calmly repeated what I had said, 'your daughter was taken from a ship'. I stared at her and shook my head yes, crying. She said 'I have to go now (as she walked away from me)....watch the Montel Williams show on Monday.'

That was it. She was gone. I watched the Montel Williams show on Monday and there was never a mention of Amy.

Note: This was before "Sylvia Browne Wednesdays" became a regular feature on the Montel show.

Because Amy was in the media's eye, at some point the Montel Williams show called and asked if I would appear on camera on a show he was having with Sylvia Browne. I declined and told them why and I felt she is positively an uncaring fraud. They knew nothing of my encounter with her.

We did do a Montel Williams show at a later time with John Walsh.

Sylvia Browne didn't even take the time to help me in anyway, face to face with me standing there trembling and crying. I figured out why. Obviously she was caught off guard and off camera. She was nothing more to me than the little person behind the big curtain in The Wizard of Oz. A zero.

I applaud your work and intentions to uncover her. She's made millions hurting people. She hurt me for nothing. The worst kind. Her notoriety is sickening and Montel Williams also needs a gut check.

Saw you on one of the cable news networks and wanted to touch base with you.

Sincerely, Iva Bradley

Analysis

Browne has said many times in the past that:

1. She does not take missing person cases unless they are from the police, and
2. She never charges for taking a missing person or homicide case.

Iva Bradley's experience with Browne's office staff would seem to indicate otherwise.

Shouldn't they have told Mrs. Bradley to have law enforcement contact Sylvia Browne for help with the case? Instead, they told her to either wait six months (an eternity to a parent with a missing child), or mail in a question along with $75.

And what about Browne herself? I would imagine that she gets approached like this frequently, and perhaps that becomes aggravating. But shouldn't she have told Mrs. Bradley to have law enforcement contact her about helping with the case?

Instead, she simply walks away, telling a weeping mother with a missing daughter nothing more than to "watch Montel on Monday."

Conclusion

Iva Bradley practically begged Browne for much-needed help, and Browne was cold, uncaring, dismissive, and above all, was of no help whatsoever.

I would like to thank Mrs. Bradley for sharing her experience with me, and for giving me permission to publish it here.

AmyBradley.net

More information about Amy's case can be found at www.amybradley.net.

AmyBradley.net

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