Sylvia Browne and the Living Amanda Berry
The medium Sylvia Browne spent decades on television answering the families of missing people. In November 2004, on the Montel Williams show, she told Louwana Miller that her daughter Amanda Berry, missing in Cleveland, was dead: in the water, in the rubbish. Her mother died a year later believing it. On 6 May 2013 Amanda Berry got out of Ariel Castro's house on Seymour Avenue, where she had been held for ten years, and called the police herself. A year earlier Browne had likewise pronounced Shawn Hornbeck dead; he was found alive. These two cases are rare in the genre: a checkable statement that refuted itself.
Uri Geller on the Tonight Show
By 1973 Uri Geller was bending spoons around the world and being tested at the Stanford Research Institute. On 1 August 1973 he was booked on the Tonight Show. Johnny Carson had begun as a magician and asked James Randi's advice: the props were prepared by the crew, the spoons and sealed cans of water sat on the table from the morning, and Geller's people were kept away from them. For twenty-two minutes of airtime Geller sat repeating that he felt no strength and that he was being pressed into it. Nothing bent and nothing moved. The tape has served ever since as the standard demonstration that preparing the props is the entire trick.
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