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 claimed to do just that, predicting 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 talkshow 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. The cause of death was not disclosed.

One of the most wellknown 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.

Over the years 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.

“They look like us but their eyes are really strange because they’re reflective,” Browne, speaking in her distinctive, raspy voice, once told Williams’ audience.