Theresa Caputo respects how her skeptics feel.
“I’m the first one to say that what I do is crazy,” she said.
After making a living speaking to the dead on two reality television shows, a podcast and a decade of live events, Caputo has seen her psychic abilities change people’s lives. She said the spirits she connects with “give us faith, hope and peace.”
Bethlehem audiences will once again get a chance to have this experience with Caputo, who is bringing her live show to Saturday and Sunday. She has done nine shows in the area since 2017.
Caputo — who rose to fame with her 14-season reality show “Long Island Medium” — has “no idea” how her power works.
“It just happens,” she said. “I just start sensing and feeling things and the reason why I believe I am so good at what I do is because I know this has nothing to do with me. This is the souls guiding me.”
She typically receives messages from departed souls through signs and symbols in an experience that feels like “very strong intuition, or recall,” .
During her live shows, the medium enters the crowd and communicates with the souls of audience members’ loved ones, translating those signs and symbols for them to interpret.
“I choose to have the souls guide me around the space, stand in front of them, because I want them to focus on me,” she said of the audience. “I want them to focus on the messages from their loved ones.”
She centers her readings on the healing of participants and leaving them with a “little mustard seed of hope.”
“What I’ve learned is how to deliver these messages with dignity and grace, because this is about healing,” Caputo said. “It’s not about calling people out or airing people’s dirty laundry.”
To prepare to enter a theater of thousands of people who are hopeful that Caputo connects with the souls of their friends and family, she meditates, prays and asks “that the souls that speak are the souls that can deliver as many messages at one time.”
Dealing with people’s grief can bring out heavy topics.
“It takes me almost two hours sometimes to go to sleep after a live show, and there’s other times that I fall asleep within 15 minutes of getting on the bus,” she said. “But I know that I was born this way, and I was physically and mentally built to do this.”
She said that she has the easy part. The people receiving the reading “have to not only continue to live their life without their loved one, but to take these messages and tools and apply it to their life to help them heal.”
While not everyone who goes to her Bethlehem show will receive a personal reading, she said that people often walk away satisfied to see the healing of others.
“To watch a perfect stranger or maybe even one of your own family members heal right in front of your eyes is something that is absolutely incredible,” Caputo said.
Kaylin Guerrero of Center Valley has been going to Caputo’s live experience in Bethlehem every year since 2017. She said she was drawn to Caputo because of the medium’s personality and realness.
“My experience watching the show goes from crying to laughing to just goose bumps with every emotion going through you,” Guerrero wrote in an email. “What really sticks out for me is her compassion and sympathy for every person she reads.”
While Caputo’s connection with the spiritual realm may be unique, she believes that everyone has the ability to connect with departed loved ones in their day-to-day lives.
“I want people to know that the things that they sense and feel that remind them of their loved one that has died, know that that’s them,” Caputo said. “Know that that is their soul, reminding them that they’re with them at that exact moment and that they are little hellos from heaven.”
Tickets for this experience are available on ticketmaster.com starting at $75.90. Ticket purchase does not guarantee a reading from Caputo.
Isabella Gaglione is a freelance writer.
