{"id":964,"date":"2013-11-21T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=964"},"modified":"2013-11-21T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:07:54","slug":"after-death-charlatans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2013\/11\/21\/after-death-charlatans\/","title":{"rendered":"After Death Charlatans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dt-logo\"<\/a>Two examples of after death charlatans are in the news today. First up is that psychic Sylvia Browne died yesterday at the surprising age of 77. I say surprising because Browne had stated that she knew for certain that she would die at the age of 88<\/a>. Oops.<\/p>\n

Sylvia Browne made the news a few months ago when one of the dead women she had talked to turned out to be alive. I\u2019m talking of course of Amanda Berry who went missing ten years ago and then turned out to be in Ariel Castro\u2019s basement along with three other women and a child.<\/p>\n

You would think that at that point all her credibility would have been thrown out the window since she was not only proven wrong, but also proven to be a liar. But no, people still believe in her \u201cgifts.\u201d I\u2019m sure her family will continue to claim that Browne was a real psychic and that she really did speak with the dead. Personally, I don\u2019t even think she is talking to the dead now that she actually is dead.<\/p>\n

Speaking of speaking to the dead, the world\u2019s youngest death charlatan has a movie coming out based on a book about his alleged experiences. I\u2019m talking about Colton Burpo who at the age of three started to convince his PASTOR father that he visited Heaven and that Jesus was riding a rainbow-colored horse. I\u2019m not joking; that is actually what the kid claimed and the book his PASTOR father wrote about his son\u2019s journey to Heaven actually sold millions and will now be a major studio film (as opposed to one of those crappy Christian studio films). Check out the trailer:
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