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.”
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Theresa-
I watch your show and love it. I would like to know how much you charge and would like to set up a phone conversation.
Theresa the best of luck with your new show,I love watching you help so many people.My son Justin was killed 15 years ago at the age of 17.He left to go on a camping trip with friends and some how he was killed that night on the N.J.,Parkway alone,a car killed him.As I watch your show I pray to him to contack you I tell him he’s strong and can find a why to you and to get you to contack me he was one of the lights that keeped me going his love for everyone he meet just shined throw his smile,he was a friend to everyone that met him and his death made no sence.He would light up a room when he came in,and lived each day to the fullest.Yesterday would have been his 33rd Birthday,but he is forever 17 in my heart.I am sending his facebook page just in case he does find you you will know how he is http://www.facebook.com/#!/memories.finnerty Thank you so much for all the help and peace you give to so many people keep up the good work you do.You are loved by all Thank you again Vivian
Hi Theresa, Love your show and would love love a reading. Your family is so cute! Please let me know if you get an opening, I Would really appreciate it. Thank you! Nancy
im a big fan i feel things to,i lost someone i was with sence i was 15 for 25 years after i left and he past in a horibale death alone in a basment for three months he lyed dead i still 10 years later have no closer me and my son cant cop its hard to know he died that way alone it was a close cascet i never got to say good by to my soul mate how do i move on i feel alone in this world
Hi Theresa, my mom just recently passed. I live in Canada, I had 2 months notice that my mom was going to leave us.So I dropped everything to be with her on her last days, and to give my dad support. I was with her when she passed. I would just like to know that she could here me talk to her and that she was, and that she is now in no pain and
at peace.
HI THERESA, I WOULD LOVE TO GET A READING FROM YOU THERE ARE SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS FROM PASSED FAMILY MEMBERS I REALLY WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOU AND CONNECT TOGETHER,PLEASE GET BACK TO ME AT YOUR CONVIENCE,SINCERELY,DOROTHY
Hello,
I am a young girl and lost my father a few years ago. You could say I am a bit of a daddy’s girl. I would be very very greatful if I could meet with you and talk about him. I know it sounds off the wall but I am being held back by some lingering, need to know questions. I don’t mean to sound over dramatic but it would most likely help me move on with my life if I could get a chance to meet with you. I live in Missouri and would do anything to meet with you. I hurt so much and I think what you do is so beautiful…you give wounded people a chance to move forward. If you find it in your heart to contact me it would mean the world. Please I beg of you.
Thank you so much!
McLane Buesking
I would love to have a group reading with you. There has been so many losses in my life that I really need some answers. I have lost my dad,mom,sister and son. Understanding the waite will be long is not a problem. Just knowing a reading will be in the future is good enough for me.Thanking you in advance…
i would love to meet you and talk
Pleae contact me via E-mail and let me konw how to go about getting an appointment.
Hi Theresa I have lost all my family.I am the oldest I lost my Son 2years ago I would like to know if they are together and o.k. please help me ,i am so lost and alone for my family. love the show wish it was on more.
Hi Theresa I have lost all my family.I am the oldest I lost my Son 2years ago I would like to know if they are together and o.k. please help me ,i am so lost and alone for my family.
I would Love to make an appointment with you Mrs. Theresa, I need some things Validated. i feel that there is something different about me, what I dont know. I’ve always felt this way as long as I can remember. I feel I should be doing something, what it is I dont know. I know you will never see this comment from me. But if this happens to finds you. I would like to make an appointment. Im sure now because of the show you have to filter, whom you can take or make appointments with. There’s alot of crazies out there. And you have to be careful and “SAFE” . I know this will be lost amongst all the fan mail you receive.. I’m just praying for direction I can feel that theres is something beautiful I’m suppose to be doing to uplift otheres lives… I just dont know what it is, My mom lost her mother when she was 3 yrs old she only knows her name, and nothing else not a birthday,burial site,..nothing. Though my Mom is not skeptic she just doesnt take part. But I know my mother is lost alot at times, never having her mother, I would like to bring my mom who’s a beautiful person some peace so her Mom can tell her things my mom dont know. My mom doesnt even have a clue what her mom looked like, yet I can feel my Grandmother so closely.. If I could give my mom the best Mother’s Day gift in the world one day it would be to sit down with you… GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY Mrs. Theresa… Please Stay Safe.. Sincerly Ms. Letanya Stone of Tampa, Florida .
i would love to get a phone reading its really for my daugther she had sent u a email earlyer tonite this would give her a piece of mind so if you can do aphone reading i know it would mean so muuch to her, she watches your show every time thatits on tlc .
need help with my gift im afraid of it.
I live in Charles Town, WV, my friends and I would like to come to New York and meet you and hopefully get a reading from someone on the other side; just to get the experience, and maybe even just make a vacation out of this. If it is 1, 2 or a 3 year wait that is fine. (That just shows how good you are) 🙂 Please get back to me through the email I left and give me a date Spring, or summer is better time to drive to New York from West Virginia. Also I need to know more information…Like your fee, office, date, time , how to confirm the appointment? Would not want to drive all the way from WV and the appointment now be made or something….Hope to hear from you soon.. God Bless you S.Morris
what a crock of shit
Hi Theresa I’m interested in a group meeting and was wondering how long the wait is and how much do you charge? Thanks
you mean she charges for “talking to dead people”? Give me a break
I have left a comment on April 23 11:02 am. I know you are really busy with you work and can’t answer everyone but,I hope you can mabe try to read my comment about my daughter who just lost her youngest son on April 6th (good friday) The autopsy was negative his heart was healthy and so were the other organs as of now nothing wrong he had a cough for two days no fever and he was healthy.She was at the drug store buying some cough syrup when she got home her daughter and 11 yr.old son came running out the door crying and her 20yr.old son was on the phone calling the fire department. Her husband was inside doing CPR on him she took over the CPR until the fire department got there they work on him took him to the hospital and they work on him for another 45 minutes but could not bring him back. My daughter has so much guilt for going to the store and wasn’t there. She wants to know if he suffered or tried to call out.She believes he is with God but why would God take two baby Boys from her at 5 month and 51/2 months both normal fetus autopsy showed nothing and now her 9 yr. old son again normal healthy. I’m not asking for you to do this reading for her for free I will pay whatever you would charge.If you could email me I will give you any information you might need. Thank you
please i have left messages but no reply…I know you are super busy….but i really could use your help with a reading i feel like i have the state of new york laying on top of me the feelings are so heavy. would appreciate any guidance. Love Love love your show.