Psychic Sylvia Browne dies at 77 in California

SAN FRANCISCO—Sylvia Browne once said she was just 3 when she discovered she could look into the future and know what was coming.

For the next 74 years Browne predicted who would win elections, which celebrities would be getting married, splitting up or having babies and whether people who had disappeared were alive or dead.

Sometimes she got it right and sometimes not. Among the predictions that misfired was one she made to talk-show host Larry King in 2003 that she would live to be 88.

Browne was 77 when she died Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose.

One of the most well-known psychics of her generation, Browne often appeared on “The Montel Williams Show” and in interviews with King. She wrote dozens of books, including several best-sellers, and she sometimes offered her services to the FBI and police agencies.

She said she mingled with angels and ghosts, twice traveled through the tunnel of light during near-death experiences, and came face-to-face with extraterrestrials. She also believed in reincarnation, telling King that people keep coming back to Earth in new lives until they get it right. In a statement posted on her website, Williams indicated his belief that she made the cut this time.

“A beacon that shined for so many was extinguished today, but its brightness was relit and will now shine forever for many of us from above,” he said.

—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS