8 Signs That Long Island Medium Is Fake
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Back in 2012, when “Long Island Medium” was at the height of its popularity, “Inside Edition” set out to see if Caputo really was connecting with the other side. Working with former psychic Mark Edward, they attended live readings and honed in on various tricks the TV personality reportedly uses to fool her fans. First up was cold reading, the practice of asking vague, open-ended questions that are likely to resonate with most people. While this is harder to use in a one-on-one setting, Edward noted that with an audience of a few hundred people, the success rate is almost guaranteed. If something doesn’t quite match, Caputo can try to pin the same revelation on someone else in the crowd. “If you have a group of 400 to 500 people in a room, you can say anything,” Edward noted.
And yet, Caputo’s tricks also work on smaller groups. To show just how easy it is to pull off a so-called reading, “Inside Edition” gave Edward a crowd of 24 people and asked him to connect with the dead. By posing open-ended questions, like “Who’s the dancer that I’m getting?” and making non-committal statements like “Someone just lost a pet,” he was soon able to make connections with the audience. “I made all that up,” he later confessed. “I did this for a reason, to show how easy it is to fool people.”
While Theresa Caputo’s track record on TV appears perfect, her ability to get it right may stem more from good editing. When performing live shows, Caputo has been known to guess incorrectly and try to save face by quickly moving on to someone else. That’s exactly what journalist Jaime Franchi experienced when she attended a show in 2014. As she wrote in the Long Island Press, Caputo repeatedly tried to pin messages on various folks until someone connected with them. When she asked a woman if her uncle had drowned, she said no, and so the famed medium began asking others the same thing. She continued to strike out until someone told her that when their loved one died of cancer, their lungs filled with fluid. “Perfect!” Caputo reportedly concluded and moved on, despite the obvious shortcomings.
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