Theresa Caputo: The Medium Who Talks to the Dead (2 page)

Around that time she said to her husband Larry that she thought spirit was trying to communicate to her.  Larry was skeptical, and thought she was crazy.

Theresa’s children Victoria and Larry Jr. were young when Theresa started realizing she was gifted to talk to dead people and since they were so young, they thought it normal for mothers to be able to do this.

Larry Jr. used to say to his classmates when he was young “my dad is a wholesale distributor for Italian foods for his job, my mom speaks to dead people.  Theresa also believes that others in her family may have this gift.

Theresa Using Her Gift

A touching session Theresa Caputo had with a guest from the audience was on the Dr. Oz show recently.  She said there was someone in the audience who has a mother and didn’t get a chance to say good-bye to her daughter.  Theresa asked who this person was in the audience and a woman raised her hand.

Theresa went on to say that her mother was telling Theresa that the spirit of her mother wanted to thank her daughter for taking care of her.  Her mother didn’t want the daughter to carry any negative emotions, and she chose to die the day the daughter wasn’t there because she didn’t want to let go with her daughter present.
  The daughter believed it and Theresa was glad to let the daughter know her mother was safe.

On the same show that day Theresa asked who had lost their son in a tragedy. An audience member raised her hand. Theresa asked if her son died suddenly and the audience member said that her son was a navy seal and died in Iraq suddenly. The spirit told Theresa that his mom had a tattoo, which the audience member did.

The son told Theresa about a necklace mom wore, and mom had the necklace on that day. Theresa reassured mom that her son was always there with her. The father was frail and about to die, so mom had asked that her son be there to greet dad when he dies. The son told Theresa that he would be there for his dad. (The audience member totally believed her.)

On another occasion Theresa Caputo was a guest on the Jay Leno show and she shared during the interview that spirits tend to line up to communicate with her and pass messages onto loved ones.  She told Leno about a couple messages she was getting about audience members while they were backstage.

She was then able to go on stage and relay those specific messages to the correct people based on what the spirits shared with her. These techniques and gifts can take a while to perfect, but with practice mediums get very good at differentiating what they are being told and who it is meant for.

On another interview with Anderson Cooper, Caputo shared with Cooper that while she was getting her makeup put on for his show, a spirit came through her regarding the makeup person. 

When Caputo did a quick session with the makeup artist, she (the makeup artist) confirmed Caputo was correct and she did have someone recently die and what Theresa said about the dead relative was right on target.

Once when Caputo was interviewing prospective assistants to help her, she channeled the spirit of one candidate's mother.
"I had no intention of channeling spirit," she says. "But this is my life." Caputo shares information with potential assistant Joseph from his departed mother, much of it so meaningful and specific that it brought him to tears.
"Everything she said was on point," he says. "I showed up here for a job interview and I didn't expect I would hear from my mom. ... It's solace in a way."
"I'm not here to prove anything or defend my gift. I'm here for you to have the experience of knowing that your loved ones are still with you," Caputo told People magazine in a recent interview.

Caputo Family

"People say oh, they probably fill out a questionnaire on the show," she also said. "That's not true. They don't." The messages she gets, she says, are "strictly coming from spirit."

When Theresa is doing readings she likes to “piggyback”, meaning even if she says something (for example to an audience) she may not look in a certain person’s direction.  

However, sometimes Theresa says something that someone can connect with and place in their life or connect with their loved ones, and she wants those to please accept that it’s a message from spirit for them.

Theresa states that sometimes Spirit will have her say something and she doesn’t stay focused on it.  She goes with the stronger energy that’s trying to communicate through her.

Theresa Caputo
Interview

Here is a recent interview Theresa Caputo did in Richmond, Virginia:

Q:
When did the psychic abilities start in your life?

I’ve been seeing and sensing things since I was 4. I didn’t realize though, I thought everyone sensed and felt and was seeing the same things I did. I d
idn’t realize it until I was 28.  That’s when I was told I had this amazing and beautiful gift from God to deliver healing messages from heaven.

Q:
Is there a way to turn it off? Does it get overwhelming?

It is not an issue with turning it off, it’s just a matter of if I choose to answer them or deliver the message.
  I’m always sensing and feeling things. But I know the difference of the “urgency” for a spirit to deliver the message.

Q:
Do you see images or do you just feel? How does it all work?

My main way of communicating with spirits is feeling. I do not see or hear how we do here in the physical world. I see silhouettes and shadows of things and then I feel the emotional bond that you shared with them in the physical world. Sometimes they show me filmstrips and things like that.

Q:
When you’re in a large group doing readings, is it hard to get a handle on just one spirit? Are they all coming at you at once trying to be heard?

They do. But the spirits guide me. They show me where I am supposed to be, they pull me in that direction. I might not look like I know what I’m doing, but I do.

It has nothing to do with me; it has to do with the spirits. I have no control. I can spend 10 minutes with someone or a spirit can say one sentence to someone and it is life changing.

Q:
Do you get emotionally involved with your reads? Is it hard not to get involved?

Oh yeah. But what some people don’t understand, these aren’t my own personal select feelings and emotions. These are the emotions of the spirits, but sometimes the spirit is so strong in what they make me feel that I can’t help it.

For the most part I am able to remove myself and let the spirit take over my entire physical body. But I think soon I might not be known as “The Long Island Medium.” I might be the “Mushy Medium.

I am feeling on how the reading is helping them. And that is emotional, too. I can actually feel the burden being lifted from their souls.

Q:
How do you handle all the disbelievers and skeptics?

I say, you know what, I get it,
I respect it. They just don’t understand what I do. And I look at it this way, how can I expect people to understand it when I don’t? I don’t understand this whole thing. I do, but I don’t. It’s crazy.

So I just say to all the people that have a hard time believing, I’m not trying to make you a medium follower, I’m not asking you shout from the mountains that you believe in mediums, I don’t have a cult or anything for you to join. This is just simply about letting you know that there is more to life and that your loved ones are still with you, just in a different way.

So I say come, try to experience it, why don’t you speak to the people who have received a message from a loved one? See how it has changed their life, how they feel that they can embrace life and get up.

There was a woman who wanted to take her own life and her daughter said to her you cannot be with me now, you cannot pray for God to take your soul, you need to be there for my brother. A spirit saved her life that night.

I got a letter and she never expected her daughter to say that or that her daughter knew that. She just didn’t want to face life without her daughter. And she said I will take what my daughter gave me and I will live my life for my son.

How do you even try to or would want to discredit what was said to that woman? I find that appalling. It changed her life that night. I guarantee it has happened more than once.

Q:
What has been your favorite read so far on or off TV?

People ask me that and I say, they’re
all my favorite. And I don’t mean to sound cliché or corny, but for each person it is life-changing to them. Is it the woman who lost her husband, is it the family that lost their child, is it someone who lost their mother who was everything to them?