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.”
For more information on how to contact Theresa Caputo, see related blog.
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.
Theresa I guess I don’t have to say anything but I really really need
Some answer I need some peace of mind my world and my being hasn t
Been at peace for years I really need Some closure I feel as though
I’m in another zone all the time . I need help I’m just sick to my
Stomache a lot and have knot in my throat most of the time
This causes me too loose alot of sleep Can u please intervien
I am ready for some happiness
Truly n need of help
Lou
Theresa
I getting married inn september, my mom pass over 13year ago i have a lot o pain the i need to get out i need her to talk to please let me know if i can see you please
I would love to talk with you I have so many questions. I loss my brother, grandmother, and Dad.
Teresa,
Could you please get in contact with me. I have many question s about a loved one that is now gone, and in great hopes that you can not only help me, but my family as well to try and figure out what really happened.
Sincerely,
Desiree
Most of the people on this blog no nothing about the Word of God. I would be horrified if this woman came from around the corner in a store and just started doing a reading. Theresa, I’m praying The Holy Spirit will move in you and guide you to have a better understanding of the Word of God. You are in a dangerous reality messing with very dark spirits and you are putting your children and their next generatioN and the next generation in spiritual danger. There is not enough money in this world to do this. You should not push this on the world, especially on people who don’t know any better. People sign up for a Bible study GET INFORMED!
Hello, I watched your show for the first time this evening. I have had many family members die in my lifetime, but the most recent being the most difficult to overcome. I would love the opportunity to meet with you and try to have some closure…. Thank you for time
Hi I have a question ..there’s times when I walk into my house and smell cigarettes and no one smokes in myhouse
Theresa would love to talk to you one day, Im a spirit medium and have written a book Running with the Bulle The Road to Fresh Kills I was on coast @Ccoast radio and the Bio channel. We should talk Great show Bravo
I have troubles beleiveing in this type of stuff, however, my dad was murdered when I was 5, my mom died when I was 8, and my grandma who raisedme passed away wehn I was 17. My sister was recenlty (december 30th) murdered by her childrens father and alot of things have been happening to me since I received custody of her children. I will be 23 on march 4th 2012. I want to see if this is real because I never got to say goodbye to none of them and I relly dont know my dad
Theresa
You are OUTSTANDIG. My brother past on 6/18/10 and his son is having a very hard time dealing with his pasting. I also would still use tape recorder.
Thanks,
Roseann
It amazes me how you people are so quick to cal her”gift” a gift from God when what she is doing goes against the bible and to say and believe shes doing the right thing is blasphemy at its worst, its disgusting! You guys are coming from the place of a fool because it is obvious that you ppl do not read the bible like you should so that you won’t be easily fooled by these psychics and mediums.i am not trying to put u down I am simply trying to enlighten youand the bible says a fool doesn’t like to be corrected
Hi my name is yesenia id like to know if you could explain a few things that have been going on in my life. Please call me when ever possible . Or email me
Theresa:
Do not allow people who are not open minded to what you do hurt you, they do not know what they are saying. You give people you touch, that no money in the world can give a gift from their loved ones that have past, this is the most priceless gift you give to those people and you have changed their lives for the better. I wish one day I have the priviledge to meet or talk with you Theresa! God bless you! Dorothy H.
would like to know how to get in touch with theresa caputo and if she is even in florida or can even do a reading by phone
i am having great deal of sorrow in my life right now and unhappy in marriage and life itself. i live with my husband who is bipolar and it has gone from feast to famine and we are struggling so and i know with my mothers passing 9 years ago this is not what she would have wanted for me. i am a breast survivor and i have lost more than i have gained in this marriage. i lost a house, had to voluntarily reposses a car that i leased for my husband, sold my engagement ring to cover him and so on. it just goes from bad to worse. all i want is to be able to hear from my mom on what to do and that i will be ok. i have totally given up on human nature and g-d. i want to believe again.
i would like to be able to contact theresa caputo.
please. can someone help me
Needing a name & # for a medium in Texas. Built a new house 6 years ago in Godley, TX and have 3 spirits that live with us. I have finally come to terms with them but this REALLY bothers me not knowing who they are and why they are there and why they chose our house to live. Will they ever harm us? Will they ever leave? Why, why, why??? Needing help with this for my sanity!!!!
Hi Theresa, I’m a very spiritual person and I Believe and I believe in what you do, I just LOVE you and your show, when are you coing back? I miss you on TV, I stay up late at night to watch you, You ROCK!! I wish you were in my neighbourhood, I would love to just hang out with you for a day, just do crazy fun girl things.
I do believe in the other side and that our loved ones are with us when they need to be and help guide us 🙂
I hope your coming back to TLC, I miss watching your show, I check every weekend and nothing 🙁
Please hurry back…..
Love & Light
Thanks so much for helping so many people, to get in touch with there loved one that are beyond the vile. We without them and they without us can not make it. We so much need each other… Thanks so much Teresa… Love ya.
Teresa
I lost my mother in 2009. She wanted me to promise her something and she could never get it out. Please I need to know what she wanted me to promise. My heart breaks everyday I miss her so much. I also need to now if she is with me.
thank you
Hey Theresa, I recently lost my mother and prior to her passing she voicefully expressed these words ” GIVE ME MY …” the last word was unrecognizable. My sisters and I asked her to repeat herself over and over until the third time the shouted out “GIVE MY MY ….” still the last word was muffled. Suddely, she raised her hand up and clearly said, “Come her give me your hand”. Who was she talking to?
I can sleep some nights wondering about that and another thing I need to know where is the title to her car. We prepared for her death but we didn’t think to ask her about the title to her car.
I hope that you can help me with what mommy was saying so I can sleep at night.
Thank you Ms Theresa, I truly enjoy the show.
Theresa,
Will you please contact me – I need to find out what is going on with me. I sincerely need your help and understanding.
All the best,
Elizabeth Dods Gall