Talking to dead people is just an average day for Theresa Caputo. The Long Island, New York, housewife/medium doesn’t know why she’s been given this gift, but she certainly is using it as best as she can. Caputo is a psychic medium who spends her days and evenings helping people find closure and connecting them to loved ones they have lost.
She’s never read a spiritual book. Doesn’t watch all those “I see dead people” movies. Nor does she follow paranormal stories or other mediums.
“I’m a very sheltered person,” she tell us.
Caputo’s built her business on reputation alone and has a waiting list that starts taking new appointments first in January 2013. And the wait is only going to get longer.
TLC cameras capture her work in a new series titled Long Island Medium. I caught up with Caputo to discuss her new series and what it’s like to be a psychic medium. Despite the interruption from my deceased mother [see separate blog Theresa Caputo talks to my dead mother], Caputo was forthcoming with her gift and how’s she sharing it with others.
Discovering her gift began with the feeling of not belonging… “I was in therapy. The therapist would tell me ‘Theresa there’s nothing wrong with you.’ And I’d say, ‘I don’t feel right.” I always had this feeling of I didn’t feel right. Like I didn’t belong. I can’t explain it, it was like something is missing. I have my parents. I still have grandparents from the physical world. I had the most amazing childhood so blessed to have the family I have. My husband survived a brain tumor. I have two beautiful children so you would think that I have it all, why would you feel something is missing? It was my spiritual gift. It was my spiritual journey and path that I was missing. It had to do with my soul. It had nothing to do with anything else. Because once I accepted my gift that feeling went away. And I had that feeling for most of my life but could never understand it.”
Accepting and understanding her gift was a journey… “I had been suffering from anxieties for many years, went to many doctors and things like that. My mom had asked her friend who is a spiritual healer to work on me, do a little healing energy to try and figure out what was going on and she had immediately picked up it was spirits. It was spirits trying to communicate to me, so I immediately became freaked out by that. ‘What do you mean? How could that be?’ I struggled for many years going back and forth with it. I attended a spiritual class where I learned what was happening to me and they were showing me how to communicate through a spirit.”
Caputo feels and hears spirits… “For me I feel spirit. I don’t see the way we see here in the physical world. When I say I hear them I can’t explain it. I hear them but I really don’t. It’s more like a feeling for me. What was happening to me was that I could be in a store and I could be standing next to a woman and her husband passed of a heart attack. I would feel as if someone was laboring my breath, like I couldn’t breath. That’s my symbol for someone passing by the heart, chest, lung area when they labor my breathing. So that was happening to me and I didn’t know what that was. I’d be in the store and all of a sudden I couldn’t breathe for no reason. So what I learned through meditation was what the feelings meant. You’ll even see me now, if I do a reading, I take a gasp for air and I won’t freak out I’ll ask who passed from the chest and you can actually see them labor my breathing.”
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Caputo experiences how a person died… “They will bring me through their passing. So if someone has a question of someone’s passing, I’ll say to them ‘Look, do you really want to know what happened because they’re going to bring me through it and I’m going to have to go through it? I’ll kind of feel certain things, so if there was a blow to the head, for a split second, I’ll feel like someone whacked me in the back of the head. I can’t explain it, It’s odd. It’s not scary because I know what it is now, but I’m able to control it now. I know what the symbols and signs mean.”
It took Caputo a long time to say “I’m a medium”… “Really to be honest with you, the past two years I really started feeling comfortable that when people ask me what do I do for a living that I say ‘I’m a medium.’ You say that to people and right away they think I’m a fortune teller or I’m reading their mind or I know what they’re thinking. It’s not like that. It took me a long time. There would be people I’d say that to and they would be like ‘Oh, that’s weird” or ‘She’s a weirdo, I’m not talking to her.’ It’s a topic of conversation but people are uncomfortable with death. It took me a long time to say ‘I’m a medium’ or to hand out my business card to people.”
Spirits reach out to people who need them… “It amazes me for every reading I do. People who come to the events that I host and they aren’t expecting to be read, and they are the first ones that get read. You know. Because it’s always about what we need. … What I learned about being a medium — people leave the physical world a lot of times in a very tragic way and we might be wondering if they are at peace. Or if they are OK. What a beautiful gift of knowing they are at peace, and I don’t think you can put a price on peace and comfort, you can’t.”
Caputo considers herself a vessel for the spirits… “I really don’t think it’s me. I really believe I’m just a vessel that allows them to do it. A lot of times a spirit will just validate for the person I’m reading what’s going on around them, what they are experiencing is real. And here I am able to validate that for them. I’m just a vessel that can validate for them that they are still with us.”
It’s hard for Caputo to shut it off… “Technically, I could turn it off if I choose but how do you, it’s there, it’s just who I am. And that’s just how I look at it.”
Spirits don’t always take their turns, a lot can come at her at a time…“Well you know what, that’s what just happened. You kind of just bounce back and forth until they kind of get settled. Sometimes the people I’m reading are nervous. Sort of a lot of little things before we get started. Yes, things can get confused, and more than one souls do speak at one time. And you kind of got to settle them down a little bit.”
And, yes Channel Guide readers, spirits do hear you!… “Oh yeah, they hear me. They hear you!”
Communicating back to spirits has it challenges… “Umm, I know this is going to sound stupid but I can’t tell you. It just happens. How did this happen? I didn’t ask for what happened. It just happens. I know that sounds silly but like I don’t physically say, and you can witness it through the way I read, I don’t go ‘OK, wait a minute, let me ask them this. I may say ‘wait a minute’ because I’m telling them ‘you sit down, you go to the back to the room, you step forward.’ It’s almost just a subconscious thing that happens that I do. To be honest with you, I cannot explain it. I can’t. This is just the way that I am. It just happens.”
For more information on how to contact Theresa Caputo, see related blog.
Teresa, I was wonder how you make an appointment? i know you have a waiting list and the wait is worth it to possibly hear from a few people that were suddenly taken. Please contact me as soon as you can so i can make an appointment!!
thank you
jessica
Hello Teresa,
Your insight is truly a gift and your show very intriguing.
I was very skeptical but now truly believe our loved ones are with us. I recently lost my husband tragically. He was a brilliant, accomplished man and left an emptiness in both my life and that of my children. Would love to have the comfort and piece of mind that he is now happy and proud of his growing children and know that he was and is very loved and so missed.
Meg,
Better watch what you and perdict! You know the old saying. what goes around comes around. I bet the Tsar’s palaces that true. No one made up that saying for laughs. Some one is watching us. Were not here by accident.
Why do I cry with every episode? you are amazing, keep up the good work!
I would like to make an appointment for me and my sister. I live in NC now but lived on LI for many years and my sister is still there in Levittown. Can some one call me with a date?? or email me with info?
i was born and raised on long island i am in florida now. i love your show i would love to talk to my dad and see if he is with us and my mom. he passed in 2000. your show is so emotional i imagine its hard on you to. i will keep watching thank you
Threresa, just found ur show – love it – love you – you are so funny with a great personality – your long island thing is great. I would love a reading but you have a long waiting list. Thanks for the work you do
I watch your show faithfully and believe with all my heart …. and you touch me every week. thanks for being you .. GOD BLESS you and your family…
My name is Marie and i am 15, I love your show so much my brother just passed away i was never sure if when i talk to him that he could here me until i seen your show now it gives me hope that he is still with me. thank you so much.
I love her and her show! What you can do is amazing and beautiful.
This shows that Satan has a sense of humor. He picked a ditsy, flamboyant, L.I. mom, and made her think she has the gift of speaking to the dead… from God? I don’t think so. Then give her a television show so she can reach the multitude of grieving gullable people and make them believe in something that God forbids. The bible says beware of psychics and mediums. The dead do not communicate, but Satan does. He comes to kill and destroy and most importantly to deceive.
IF by chance my Ogre reaches you & asks you to call me, please do.
I heard about you through an ADC website. I have tried for years to find answers and get help and I am falling deeper and deeper into this dark abyss.
I hope you can help me and maybe help me with a very major loss in my life. I feel as though I am being dragged under a bus and if I don’t get away from it, it will run over me and I will disappear
I’ve seen your show and you are amazing! Would like to schedule an appt. wtih you, although I know it’s a 2 year waiting list. Could you please contact me and also let me know your prices? I would like to schedule for both me and my sister, together. Thanks.
My sister Judy & I were 17 months apart & always very close. She died at age 15 in 1962. We never had a chance to talk or say goodbye. Why did she have to die? Can she help me now & how can I talk to her? I love her & miss her so much. I would have been a better person had she lived or better that I would have died instead of her, she was such a good person. I’m sure she is an Angel. Did I somehow cause her death when we were very young or was it our abusive father banging her head into the fireplace when she was 5? I pray God has sent him to HELL to burn for what he did to us!! If Judy would have lived I know we could have got through all of our troubles together from all that abuse. I still harbor it & passed it onto my older children when they were young. No matter what I do they won’t forgive me or talk to me. I miss them so very much, no Christmas’s, no Thanksgivings or their birthdays, just lonliness & heartache.
I’m a fan of your show, and I have a wish from my bucket list to get in contact with my cousin and her boyfriend who was found dead by their daughter. I really would like to get in contact with my family members who have past on to other side, and that is one of many wishes from my bucket list. I know you have a 2yr waiting list and every one wants to contact their family, but if you help me contact my family members who are on the other side you are for filling one of my wishes and also my family who are on the other side sometimes I can feel that my family members is wanting on me to get in touch with them. So can you pleaseeeeeee give me one of my wishes from the bucket list and just know that God is with you and your family, because I have seen the non-believer believe in your ability to make people happy when you leave them. May God Bless your many works that you do. Thank You
I would love to contact u I lost both of my parents 2 yrs ago and I needs some peace of mind about their passing. If u could help me I would appreciate it very much
With the cameras following you Theresa around, how am I not to believe that these are all scripted acting scenes being filmed for this tv show? Just wondering…
Dear Theresa;
I saw your show, and I could not have been more happier. I know that some people who have not experienced a loss of a loved one or are detached socially because of a lack of spiritual guidiance are skeptical of your gift.
I think it is wonderful how you have excepted to help so many people get through very hard situations of loosing a loved one to have closure. I cried through the whole show.
I my self have lost a young son and have so many unanswered questions. I hope to be able to meet with you one day soon.
Please inform me how to accomplish this…
I know that God has put you in my reach for a very good reason… Thank you for being so strong and brave… I will be waiting for your response…
Sincerely;
Sheila Menendez
Dear Theresa, I think what u do is amazing.. I cried emotionally with the reading from the little boy Stephen.. I myself have lost special people in my family including miscarriages.. sometimes i miss my grandmother so dearly that it makes me sad..I dream alot about people who have passed on and some of them i dont know.. it scares me sometimes because i dont know what it means.. I was given the gift of reading fortunes with regular playing cards.. I would love to speak to you and find out how ,when,where and how much it would cost to get a reading from you.. I love your show and will continue to watch it … GODBLESS Lisa Medeiros