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S2 Ep22: The Psychic (Sylvia Browne)

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Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A self-proclaimed psychic makes a fortune by using her supernatural powers to help solve missing person cases. 

Prelude: The rise-and-fall of Miss Cleo and the Psychic Readers Network telephone hotline.

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0:00.0

Who asked you to go out of town?

0:01.6

The stupid young one or the married one?

0:03.4

The married one.

0:04.4

That's what we thought.

0:05.3

Don't go.

0:06.0

You hear me?

0:07.2

And you know what?

0:07.9

You're not listening to me because I see you going.

0:11.3

I see you going.

0:12.4

I'm just telling you, I'm trying to help you

0:14.4

to avoid the heartache.

0:16.2

Don't go blindly, if you like.

0:18.0

Let me use the power of the terror to show you the way.

0:21.3

Call me now for your free reading.

0:23.5

Call 1-800-355-3765.

0:28.4

In the late 90s and early 2000s, a mystical psychic named

0:31.9

Miss Cleo permeated the late night television

0:34.2

airwaves of the United States of America.

0:37.1

She starred in dozens of commercials

0:38.6

and infomercials advertising a telephone hotline

0:41.2

called the Psychic Readers Network, which

0:43.4

featured highlight reels of supposed actual phone

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