A photo of an excerpt from the book, 'End of Days: Predictions and prophecies about the end of the world' by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison, is once again going viral across social media platforms and is spooky enough to reach for that box of tissues to wipe your sweat and is definitely spine chilling.
Her famous prediction read: "In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely."
The prediction is that it will disappear as quickly as it arrived but surface again ten years later. While the pandemic has hardly disappeared, the prediction that it might re-appear ten years later makes it noteworthy. Though divided, netizens are absolutely stumped with the reference of coronavirus outbreak in the book.
This is not the first time that an author has mentioned something that has partially or fully occurred in the future.
Similar predictions can be spotted throughout history. For instance, a novel called 'Futility', written in 1898, tells a story about a huge ocean ship that sank in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Many uncanny similarities were noted between the fictional ship called 'Titan' and the real-life passenger ship called 'RMS Titanic' that sank 14 years after the novel was written.
Lesser Known Facts about Sylvia Browne
In this case, amid Covid pandemic, Sylvia Browne has come to light strikingly for her book. A self-proclaimed psychic and spiritual moderate, Browne was believed to have published more than 40 books, and her income comes from 'loyal' clients who were prepared to pay out $700 for a 30-minute 'treatment' over calling.
Browne rose to fame because of her frequent appearances on the Montel Williams Show between 1991 and 2008, where she would claim to speak to the dead and offer information about missing people. She also hosted her personal, hour-long, Internet radio display on Hay Home Radio.
Along with the popularity came criticism, particularly when Browne made fake predictions about such people as Shawn Hornbeck and Amanda Berry. Furthermore, she was credited to be the main person to have discovered a gnostic Christian group referred to as Novus Spiritus.
Browne subsequently started her own company, Sylvia Browne Company, and a related business, Sylvia Browne Enterprises.
Surprisingly, this is not the only piece of fiction that predicted the virus. In fact, 40 years ago, Dean Koontz also predicted the coronavirus in his book "The Eyes of Darknesss".
