Do you believe in mediums?

[hawkbirch]

The birches went to Omaha last weekend to see Teresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium. I'm still trying to take in everything we saw and heard but wow, her gift is incredible and undeniable.

It made me curious what you all think. It seems you either believe or you don't and there isn't much middle ground. I'm a total believer.

 

[Ferentz_Fan]

Can you share some of those things?

I'm skeptical but sometimes things can't be exclaimed...

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

Nope. I think they are very good at reading body language, do background research, have gimmicks, etc.

But I’ve never been to one to judge for myself, so what do I know.

 

[QChawks]

 

[Moral]

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

No.

You ever been to a magic show?

 

[hydro2.0]

 

[Chuck C]

 

[Rifler]

Was a time when they worked for me,.. now I wear XL.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

I remember one time a midget palm reader escaped from police custody. Headline the next day read "Small Medium at Large".

 

[Brian_Fantana]

As someone said above, i think they are very good at telling a story. I mean, if they are in an arena of hundreds or thousands of people and they throw out "does anyone know a "john" that recently passed over", the odds are very good someone will raise their hand. Then they just start saying "i see he was related to you", or something like that...

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

At 5 10 Im medium height.

 

[desihawk]

The birches went to Omaha last weekend to see Teresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium. I'm still trying to take in everything we saw and heard but wow, her gift is incredible and undeniable.

It made me curious what you all think. It seems you either believe or you don't and there isn't much middle ground. I'm a total believer.

details please. i've heard some incredible tales from people who been to some (not caputo) and i know they aren't lying

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

Nope

 

[luvmyhawks]

Come on birch, don’t leave us all hanging. Tell us more

 

[torbee]

I believe they are very skilled at making people believe absolute bullshit, which is pretty impressive.

 

[JWolf74]

I believe they are very skilled at making people believe absolute bullshit, which is pretty impressive.

Like chiropractors.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

As much as I believe magicians are actually magic.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Haven't seen a photo, how can I tell?

 

[Tom Paris]

Like chiropractors.

My no pic wife went to one she really liked. Then he tried to get her to spend several thousand on some health program, BUT he wanted me to sign off on it and attend a little seminar. My wife wanted to do it - probably did if I remember right but I wouldn't sign anything. I said, "She's an adult. She can make her own health decisions. This is ridiculous." He kept trying to convince me so he literally sent out the hot front desk girl to go over things to see if she could convince me. It was so stupidly obvious, I almost walked out, but since she was an Iowa 10, I just sat there...never really heard a word she said. It was high pressure sales and I HATE that stuff.

 

[Colonoscopy]

Yeah. I'm wearing an extra medium shirt right now, in fact

 

[poophawk]

no mediums and no ghosts

 

[BrianNole777]

The birches went to Omaha last weekend to see Teresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium. I'm still trying to take in everything we saw and heard but wow, her gift is incredible and undeniable.

It made me curious what you all think. It seems you either believe or you don't and there isn't much middle ground. I'm a total believer.

If they're legit, they're powered by the dark side...the devil.

I'd highly recommend you and your family avoid them or else you may get spiritually attacked.

Bible Gateway passage: Leviticus 19:31, Isaiah 8:19 - New International Version

“‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

www.biblegateway.com

 

[TailgateTom]

My mom had a reading over Zoom a few years ago after my grandpa (her dad) passed. She nailed so many things about him and my mom--stuff she had no way of possibly knowing. Like my grandpa's birth weight, and about the time my grandpa accidentally stepped on my mom's cat and killed it. Things about Mom's childhood and her relationship with my grandpa. My dad was sitting in the opposite corner of room, the medium had NO idea he was even there--mom's laptop was facing my mom the entire time. She asked, "Who is *dad's name*?"

Mom: My husband
Medium: I have another male who I think is your father in law? (My other grandpa passed nearly 25 years ago). He wants to know why *Dad's name* is over there hiding in the corner and not participating. He also wanted me to tell your husband, "See? This is NOT a bunch of fvcking bullshit."

The night before the reading, my dad was giving my mom a ton of shit about doing it. I was there when the conversation took place. Dad said, "*Mom's name*, you know this is all a bunch of fvcking bullshit, right?"

My mom recorded the entire reading, it was really awesome to listen to.

 

[JWolf74]

If they're legit, they're powered by the dark side...the devil.

I'd highly recommend you and your family avoid them or else you may get spiritually attacked.

Bible Gateway passage: Leviticus 19:31, Isaiah 8:19 - New International Version

“‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

www.biblegateway.com

Probably should get the Ghostbusters involved.

 

[TailgateTom]

If they're legit, they're powered by the dark side...the devil.

I'd highly recommend you and your family avoid them or else you may get spiritually attacked.

Bible Gateway passage: Leviticus 19:31, Isaiah 8:19 - New International Version

“‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

www.biblegateway.com

I mostly agree with that, but I think that is more for fortune telling, and trying to gain an advantage, right?

 

[BrianNole777]

I mostly agree with that, but I think that is more for fortune telling, and trying to gain an advantage, right?

All of that should be avoided, IMO.

 

[TailgateTom]

All of that should be avoided, IMO.

That's why I purposely didn't sit in on my mom's reading 😁😂

 

[OrlandNole]

I'm 6'1" and 180 and could technically wear a large, but I prefer a medium because I like the way it hugs my arms.

 

[luvmyhawks]

My mom had a reading over Zoom a few years ago after my grandpa (her dad) passed. She nailed so many things about him and my mom--stuff she had no way of possibly knowing. Like my grandpa's birth weight, and about the time my grandpa accidentally stepped on my mom's cat and killed it. Things about Mom's childhood and her relationship with my grandpa. My dad was sitting in the opposite corner of room, the medium had NO idea he was even there--mom's laptop was facing my mom the entire time. She asked, "Who is *dad's name*?"

Mom: My husband
Medium: I have another male who I think is your father in law? (My other grandpa passed nearly 25 years ago). He wants to know why *Dad's name* is over there hiding in the corner and not participating. He also wanted me to tell your husband, "See? This is NOT a bunch of fvcking bullshit."

The night before the reading, my dad was giving my mom a ton of shit about doing it. I was there when the conversation took place. Dad said, "*Mom's name*, you know this is all a bunch of fvcking bullshit, right?"

My mom recorded the entire reading, it was really awesome to listen to.

Whoa man. That is pretty crazy. Maybe even creepy. Makes me want to hear more from birch but apparently she has been possessed by the devil and is playing games with us.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

The birches went to Omaha last weekend to see Teresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium. I'm still trying to take in everything we saw and heard but wow, her gift is incredible and undeniable.

It made me curious what you all think. It seems you either believe or you don't and there isn't much middle ground. I'm a total believer.

Nope...multiple "mediums" have been exposed as charlatans with a gift for telling people what they want to hear. They use techniques to draw out information and, in some cases, have background information fed to them by accomplices. Mulitiple debunkers have demonstrated how it's done.

I was on stage in college with the Amazing Kreskin. He readily admitted there was no such thing as hypnotism and then proceeded to get us to do things over which it felt like we had no control. The trick is if you fail to do what he asks, you get sent off the stage, so everybody wants to stay up there. Regardless, when he told me I had springs in my fingers and couldn't close my hand, I'll be damned if it didn't feel like there were tiny springs in my fingers preventing me from curling them up. Definitely weird...definitely all in my head.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

I used to do a lot of the stuff like paranormal stuff and aliens {hence my avatar} and all that jazz as a hobby, even tried to come on here and make predictions. coast to coast am radio stuff.

I maybe got one earthquake right or a train wreck or something in some euro country. I finally decided it was not so much fun as a hobby any longer. some of these people are a scam. sort of started getting back to my old hobbies of working on bikes and cars when able to.

 

[TailgateTom]

Whoa man. That is pretty crazy. Maybe even creepy. Makes me want to hear more from birch but apparently she has been possessed by the devil and is playing games with us.

Yeah, listening to it I didn't know whether to be in awe or scared lol

 

[hawkbirch]

I remember one time a midget palm reader escaped from police custody. Headline the next day read "Small Medium at Large".

Just had to share this is one of the birches' favorite jokes. It's so dumb but so funny.

 

[ICWestfan]

We had a teacher in high school that was a medium/palm reader. She actually went to UCLA one summer for their "paranormal classes" one summer. She said it was amazing, one of the professors told the class she was in that everyone is surrounded by energy and proceeded to go around the room gathering it. Once he got back to the front of the room he had a softball size ball of "energy" and then passed it around.

Her "gift" to seniors the last day of class was to read your palm if you wanted to. She read mine and a lot of things she read off my palm have come to pass. Some things she told me about the present (at the time) were true or came true.

(@GOHOX69 )

 

[hawkbirch]

Sorry, I had to do a court hearing after posting my question.

So the one that stuck with me the most was she was asking about a car accident. So several people respond thinking it was them and she said no, was someone impaled? Or ejected and died? Then she said there were kids in the car. And a guy said that when he was 17 (so probably 20 years ago judging from appearances), he was driving down a highway and saw a cloud of smoke behind him and something told him to turn around so he did. He came up on an accident where a car had rolled over many times and there were two little girls around 4 and 2 in the car still screaming but not seriously injured. He helped them get out of the car and they were asking for their mommy. He said he looked around and found the mom who had been ejected from the car, impaled on something and obviously dead. So he took the girls away from her and the car and sat with them until help arrived.

Teresa told him that the mother was who made him turn around because he was the only person even remotely close to the accident scene. She wanted to thank him for watching over the girls because they had gone on to live good lives without horrific trauma because this guy sat with them and kept them safe and they hadn't seen their mother or her injuries. The guy said he thought about the girls a lot and wondered what ever happened to them.

Wow. It was crazy how people were dying to be who she was talking to but the person the message was actually intended for took awhile to figure out it was them. How could she have possibly known about this accident and what this guy did when he was 17? No way. There is no freaking way she could have known the details. And that he was wondering about the girls and the mom wanted to tell him thank you. Gives me goosebumps now just thinking about it.

 

[artradley]

The birches went to Omaha last weekend to see Teresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium. I'm still trying to take in everything we saw and heard but wow, her gift is incredible and undeniable.

It made me curious what you all think. It seems you either believe or you don't and there isn't much middle ground. I'm a total believer.

Her "gift" is not incredible and is completely deniable.

 

[hawkbirch]

Yeah, listening to it I didn't know whether to be in awe or scared lol

This is exactly how I feel. The show was Sunday afternoon and I was just exhausted as we walked out. And I've spent a couple days now trying to work through what we saw. I think I'm mostly in awe but also comforted.

She told one guy that his father relived his life but through the son's eyes after death so they can see and feel how their actions affected people around them. I like the idea of my dad having to relive things he has done but through my siblings and my eyes to know what he did to us. He would tell us that we were wrong for feeling the way that we do but still it's nice to know he had to see things from our shoes.

 

[hawkbirch]

Her "gift" is not incredible and is completely deniable.

Fun hater!

 

[tarheelbybirth]

Wanna see how it's done?



Notice they all ask the same questions. They know the routines and they're skilled at reading body language. They're charlatans. They bleed vulnerable people dry, stealing their money. Other than that, I don't give two shits about them. Go to them for their entertainment value but understand, they aren't in any way "real".

Just for educational value...here are the other techniques they use...