I was about 15 minutes into my conversation with medium Theresa Caputo about her new TLC series Long Island Medium when my mom decided to show up.
Caputo interrupts my questioning with, “You’ve lost a lot of loved ones.”
I disagree, saying “I wouldn’t say a lot, but a few, yeah.”
She confidently asks, “Is your mom departed?”
“OK, that’s weird,” I think. After all, most people my age still have their mothers, so she really took a long shot throwing that one out there. But, I acknowledge that my mother is indeed deceased.
Caputo goes on to explain that prior to answering my call she had written down a few things including my name, mother, daughter, young male, 4 and 62. She tells me there’s a “lot of energy” going on, and suddenly I get a little nervous, thinking this could be my doing. Although I didn’t tell Caputo, when I drove to work that morning I had actually talked to my mom in my head [and that’s something I just don’t do. I’m a bit skeptical on ghosts and spirits]. I simply thought, “Hey, if you want to reach out to me I’m talking to a medium today.” And that was it.
Caputo asks: “Where you at the actual passing of your mother because your mother showed me the holding of the hands, which means she wants to go back to the day of her passing. Were you actually there for that moment or did you just miss the passing?”
I gulp. It’s a sensitive topic for me, since I was the only family member who actually wasn’t there when she passed. So I tell her I was not.
Caputo says that my mother is validating that nothing was left unsaid and that “everything and anything you said to your mom was heard.” She then asks? “Whose birthday is now? If it’s not today or the week of it’s usually the month we are in.”
“That would be me,” I tell her. “OK,” Caputo says. “So your mom’s just wishing you a happy birthday.”
I give an uncomfortable laugh and jokingly ask Caputo to tell my mom to hush up, so I can get back to doing my job.
But Caputo — well, maybe it’s my mom — isn’t quite finished. We go on to connect months and dates, discuss that “young male” reference, significance of April and more. She presses on with “Do you remember the year 62? Or could it stand for the month of June and the month of February as far as birthdays or anniversaries?”
“My mom was born in February, died in June,” I confirm.
“Perfect,” Caputo says. “Just validating your mother’s presence and that she took this opportunity. Spirits will take any opportunity to get a message to someone.” Then Caputo’s Long Island accent comes out as she describes my mom as a “chatty catty.” Glad, she’s having a good time.
“Whether you believe or understand what I do, and I don’t mean to be rude, but it really doesn’t matter,” Caputo says. “That’s not what this is about. This phone call is not about you believing in what I do. What just happened right now, what I interpreted it as a beautiful gift you just received from your mother. Knowing that even after all these years of her not being here in the physical world she hasn’t missed out on anything. She acknowledged your children, that she held the children before coming here in the physical world and she’s still with you, and loving and guiding you from the other side. Right?”
Gulp.
What a loaded thought. I pause. I collect my thoughts. “Did I tell her I had kids? Could this seriously be real?” And I simply say: “That’s awesome. Thank you.”
So add me to Caputo’s long list of clients who have been given the gift of closure. Now, as for my sister, she’s really ticked my mom didn’t even give her a shout out! She’ll have to join Caputo’s long waiting list and maybe we’ll here back from her in a few years.
Long Island Medium airs on TLC Sundays beginning Sept. 25.
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I know you are being bombarted with coorespondance from all over the place. I am a widow, six years going on 7. I was widowed young, 37 years old. My daughter was 10 at the time. We both lost not only a father and husband. We lost my Aunt and Uncle with in months of my husbands death as well. My mom passed away when I was 19 years old and my estranged father passed a few month back. I, over the passed six years have been to numerous readings and the such searching for something…. I think, hope a need closure and reasurrance to move forward and to be strong for both my daughter and myself. She, not only lost her father but his family as well due to immaturity, sibling rivalry and just plain out.. selfish adult crulety. Basically ,they turned there back on her. No truer statment could be made when they say “only the good die young.” I would like to give her and I a little boost of support from the people who mattered to us. She and I feel alone and it would help for her and I to connect one last time. I hope you could help more sooner then later, Thank you..
On the same network there are detective shows and such. Would Theresa;s gift help if she was to be with the parents of missing family members? If they are no longer a live at least the families could have some peace.
Hi Teresa,
I love you and your show. My grandmother, who was an intricate part of my life, passed away when I was in college. I miss her everyday. I’ve since graduated from college but haven’t been able to get a job in my field of study. I’m often depressed and feel like a failure. The worst part is I don’t have my grandmother’s kindness and wisdom to turn to. Can you contact her? I need to know she’s in a better place–and that she still loves me. Can you also ask her if she knows if I will ever get the job I’m looking for?
Theresa, people think that I am gulable(?spelling) for believing in you (and others who share your gift). I feel that I too have a connection to the spirit world, but while I have a connection, I havent been able to communicate, and thats ok , if it is meant to be it will happen. Maybe all that I am meant to have is the “feeling of connection”. Prior to watching your show there have only been 2 other mediums that I felt had the true gift, one more than the other. About 12 years ago, I had the opportunity to go to a gathering that he was at, and I like so many was hopeful and desperate for a reading. I left sad and more depressed than when I got there. As the years have gone by, I realize, my loveones are at peace and that they are around us all the time . While I would love to hear from my relatives that have crossed over, it is not something that consumes me like it used to. I love what you do for others, I think you are amazing, and you have an amazinf family that is willing to share you and your gift with the living as well as the dead. Keep up your good work, I am sure it puts all the people you touch on the road to healing.
@ pat longo!! you taught theresa how to open her gift??? sorry but if thats true then im not buying into this “long island medium” being the REAL DEAL. I have grown up with a true medium all my life..my sister has the gift of speaking with the dead and noone ever had to TEACH her anything..its comes when it comes…also another thing is how NORMAL and FUNNY she acts when reading people..again ive seen the real thing and my sister sometimes looks like she is in agony or doesnt speak so clearly when the DEAD is talking to her!!! just my honest to god experience talking here.
Hi Theresa,
I saw your show in TV and would love to ask you to please help me. I lost my son 5 years ago in Iraq while in war. When he left us he didn’t wait for us at the airport to say our good-byes. Then 2 months later he passed. We are so hurt and we can’t seem to accept his passing. I miss him so much and I would love to know if he has any message for us. He passed just 5 days before Christmas so when the holidays come my family and I start to feel the pain again. Pls help me a broken hearted mother. God bless you.
Theresa, i know you are book in till 2013 , please find a time to contact me, i need to find out if my
dad still a live or not , he desapire 2 years ago and nobory know what heppend
Me and my sister kate lost are dad at a very young age 9 &10. We tjhink all the time about him. We leave in milwaukee wi and we would like to no how we could come get a reading from you. Because we have so many unanswered questions for are father. My mother and dad were seperated when he deid and we want to make sure that he was ok when he died. Please get back to us. Were watch your show every week. Hope to hear from you.
love your show would love to see you in person. my grandmother passed away almost 6 years ago and i think about her a lot and i wonder if she knows how much we all miss her.
Hi my daughter passed away when she was 1 year and 24 days old. She would be 19 years old this past May. I have always felt like it was my fault that she passed even though a disease made her pass away. I really need to know how, what, who, why????? Lots of unanswered questions. Please help
my brother committed suicide, 2 yrs ago i have felt him all around me since, i was going to call him the day of his death, i didnt but at 1 pm it hit me call him, it was to late last month i had a dream so real, he said he didnt do, he kept saying it i didnt do it, he said her boy freind did, soon after his widows house burnt all but where he hung himself, and didnt burn his wrestling trophys everything else gone. could he really have visited me to tell me someone else killed him, how can i find out. the dream was just so real i think he was telling me this so he could go on, and so people knows what really happen do the spirts tell us this?
thank you anything back would be great.
Hi i have never done this befor i been told this this is all falk. my mother die 11 years ago. i never got to tell her how much i love her and how much she meet to me, i told he it was ok for he to go. and for 11 years i blame my self.i miss he everyday, beside being my mom she was my best friend.
just want to get intouch and is it possible ever to have reading ? ..crazy times
Hello Mrs. Caputo,
My name is Mari and I live in Milwaukee WI, since the day that I first saw your show I new I had to find a way to contact you. There a very special someone who past away when I was 7yrs old, I am 25 now and I still feel like I have not had any type of closure, I would really like to get in contact with this person because there are days when I feel like I dont want to go on with out him. I would also like to know how much you charge.
Thank you,
Mari
In august of 2010 I was 7 months pregnant…my boyfriend scott went to work that day at 3 then showed up at my house around 530 freaking out because my phones battery had died. He accussed me of talking to other guys all the time when I wasn’t..I loved only him. Around that time he had been getting physical with me so I called my mom for help..this wasn’t the first time (he was supposed to take depakote but didn’t)…so she sent my dad over and he made scott leave. Scott called me 5 min later and told me to come over and he was timing me (he lived like 10 15 min away) so I took a quick shower and drove over. I walked in and found him dead…he had taken his own life..I couldn’t revive him either. There were also loaded guns on his bed. Can u please help me and tell me why he did this. I blame myself and now I have his daughter who looks just like him. I’m sad and depressed everyday and I really need your help. Thank you theresa I reallyy appreciate it
She a cold reader and nothing more! Watch her language (e.g., body and verbiage) she plays off the emotions of others who are weak and want to believe. The video of the man at the garage can simply be explained. 1) It may be a prior set-up. Information about him from various sources may have been obtained. 2) He agreed to be interviewed by TLC prior to Theresa’s interview. 3) I feel your dad is around? Sure, he’s in the office, in the toilet, at home, but this guy’s dad just happened to dead!
Sorry, she a FAKE just like Chip Coffey and the rest. You don’t need her to connect …just have faith!
“Is your mom departed?”
Nothing like a leading question to start off a bogus reading…
paul, thank you for being the intelligent one here. i cant believe how many people fall for this stuff.
And please don’t assume that because I don’t believe in mediums, that it means I don’t believe in an after life. I don’t know why bad things routinely happen to good people. I personally believe it’s just random. I think if we learn to appreciate the little things in life, and treat your loved ones like it’s the last time you’ll see them, then you’ll be a happier person. And if you didn’t get that chance, then just know that we’re human and we make mistakes. But just because you didn’t get to say what you wanted to say, doesn’t mean they don’t know what you’re feeling. They’re just not communicating it to some person who you don’t know, and who can relay the message to you for a reasonable price, and maybe a hit T.V. show.