- You know someone that died tragically
in a car accident or?
- Whoa. Wait! Whoa.
That's weird, that is so weird.
(intense music)
- Hey guys, I'm Theresa Caputo,
the Long Island Medium
and I am here on the Buzzfeed.
- On the Buzzfeed.
I'm Eric Tabach.
I work for Buzzfeed
and I'm going to contact the dead.
Is that-- - You are?
- I don't know, is it-- - Oh, I don't know.
- Oh, you're going to contact the dead for me--
- Maybe, I don't know.
- How does this work?
Can you talk a little bit about what you do?
- Yeah sure, so I've an amazing and beautiful gift.
I have the ability to sense
and feel the souls of the departed.
And more importantly, I've been blessed
to share my gift on TLC for the past eight years.
- I've watched a bunch of the episodes.
- Yeah.
- And that's why I'm like stressed--
- No! - Because I feel like some
of them are very intense.
We also saw an episode where the sound guy
or the camera guy got read instead,
so I've been warning Ade that--
- That happens.
- Might have something happen.
- Everyone has lost someone,
that's the bottom line, right?
But not everyone wants or more importantly,
needs to hear from their departed loved ones.
When I first learned about my gift,
because I'm the first one to say
that what I do is absolutely crazy,
I couldn't understand why someone
would even want to come and see me.
- Yeah.
- But what I learned is that unfortunately
when we lose someone, young or old,
we here in the physical world are left
with all these negative emotions and burdens.
Maybe a should've, could've, would've
and only if.
And all of these emotions,
don't give us the ability to heal.
So what I do is about healing.
You have amazing energy by the way.
- Oh, thank you!
- Yeah, you're so beautiful.
I just feel so beautiful-- - I'm going to cry!
- But when I see someone, I see their soul.
I see really, what's inside.
I feel like you're so talented and--
- Thank you!
- So, yeah. - Thanks.
- Very, very beautiful soul.
I always just say whatever I see or feel
and I've never seen this before
so this even makes it even more amazing.
Do you remember years ago, you used to take
sidewalk chalk and make a hopscotch?
- Yeah, what?
- What is that?
I don't have a meaning for that.
So usually if a spirit wants to communicate,
they show me things like that. - Okay.
- But I find it interesting about this drawing
of the sidewalk chalk so I don't know what it is.
Who was the young soul that's departed?
- A young soul that's departed?
- Yeah, you know someone who died tragically
in a car accident or?
- Whoa. Wait! Whoa!
That's weird, that is so weird.
That is so weird, oh god, I'm sorry.
Ooh, I'm having emotions.
My cousin did.
- See because I found that interesting,
"Why are you bringing me back to this childhood?",
you understand that?
So usually when spirit shows me a car accident
and then they switch seats with me,
that's my symbol for what someone,
when they carry a survivors guilt.
And what I mean by that, is "Oh my god, I was supposed
to be with them, this never would have happened"
or "I was supposed to pick them up".
Whatever it is, or there was a switching in plans,
it validates that they do not want us
to feel guilty or bad
because we survived
and we're still here and they departed,
especially in this tragedy.
So was there something about the seatbelt?
Because usually when spirits shows me a mark on a seatbelt,
it means that they want to make reference to it.
Whether it could have been they weren't wearing it
or they were wearing it
and there was the mark from the seatbelt.
- Well I'm not sure if he wasn't wearing a seatbelt or not,
he was on his way to a church retreat
and I think he was driving but I'm not sure.
- But there had to be something
about where the plans were switched.
Maybe he took a different car,
maybe he wasn't supposed to be driving--
- Yeah.
- Whatever it is because remember he showed me
the switching of the seats with the survivors guilt,
I said to you.
I kind of felt like it wasn't directly
for you, that it could
be for someone else. - Right.
- Did you have to open yourself up to feeling something--
- I didn't do anything. - Or it started happening?
- It just started.
You have to understand, I was born this way.
So for me, I've always sensed and felt things.
What I had to understand,
was what spirit was trying to communicate.
So that's why it's important when I share
my signs and symbols, where it could have
a different meaning for someone else.
But you'll have to tune in and watch
the new season of Long Island Medium on Friday nights.
- Well, that's super exciting--
- Fantastic-- - I'm excited to check it out,
thank you so much for coming-- - Yeah, thank you.
- in and everything, you're such a pleasure.
- So nice to meet you-- - Thank you.
(upbeat music)
- How does she know that?
Like it was weird.
When she said "car accident",
it just hit me.
Like, I froze.
She hit it right on the nose and for me,
it hit me like a ton of bricks.
She knew exactly who I would've wanted to talk to
and that was so weird.
It was so bizarre.
I don't have words for it.
It didn't hit me really until
I had talked with my family
and they were like "Yeah, no he wasn't supposed
to be in the car".
And I was like, "Okay so she
definitely spoke to my cousin".
- Hello.
- Hey.
- Hi Kayline.
- Hi, how are you?
- I'm okay.
Unfortunately, we don't know
what was going on inside of the vehicle.
But we do know that he was sitting
in the second or third row of the van.
- Yeah.
- And he wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
- He wasn't wearing a seatbelt?
- No.
- Yo, oh my god I didn't know that.
You know, mommy felt guilty
just about how everything happened.
She was like "We weren't that close after we moved"
and she felt guilty of not being around as much
or being together with the family as much, with him.
And he was like, or at least
the medium said "that any guilt that you're feeling",
and I don't know if this applies to you too,
"but any guilt that you're feeling of anything, let it go.
He's happy and he's in a good place".
- You don't understand what this has done for me.
Thank you.
(both crying)
I replay his voicemail.
Okay, I won't throw away this phone
just to hear his voice.
Because of a message he left for me.
Imagining that I just spoke to him
a week prior.
And him promising to come visit me.
I'm just very thankful but happy
that he knew how to reach out to one of us.
I was so happy.
I can finally let it go.
I can let it go.
And thank you, Kayline.
- Of course.
- Thank you.
I'm so happy that he reached out.
- I'm so happy that I was able
to even relay this message, so.
- Yeah.
And thank you so much.
- Of course.
- Okay, love you.
- All right, I love you too.
- Okay.
- All right, bye.
- Bye.
That was a really dark time for the entire family
but I'm so thankful that somehow, the stars aligned,
that whatever, the universe made this happen.
Somehow I ended up at Buzzfeed
and somehow I ended up meeting the medium
and my family got closure, which, that's amazing.
Not everybody can say that, so.
(emotional music)