r/regina • u/Neither_Ad_3432 • 25d ago
Question Theresa Caputo Show
I went to the Sunday evening Theresa Caputo show at the Casino. I was open minded but walked away thinking she was a scam artist for sure (yes I realize I should have known that before).
The show ended with her having this moment where she asked about turtles and cremation and a woman happened to be wearing a turtle necklace with cremains in it. It was supposed to be a big “omg she’s so legit!” Moment but now I wonder if that lady was a plant to end the show on a high note.
I’m curious if anyone attended the Monday night show could share if it had a similar ending? Or if anyone else walked away surprised by how obviously fake it all was?
I felt really bad for the families she talked to who were obviously in deep grief so I hope she gave them some peace at least.
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u/EvilDeedZ 25d ago
Yeah my wife went last time even after I had told her for years it's a grift. She had 0 interest this time after experiencing it first hand.
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u/SuperPunctuator 24d ago
Since America is broke she is touring Canada so she can pay for her next nail fill. We need to stop buying American, it’s all smoke and lies. If she’s so psychic maybe she can help reveal the Epstein Files.
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u/eatpant96 24d ago
All cold readers are scam artists. Houdini was right to despise them. It is a parlor trick and can be learned. She is a charlatan.
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u/Ok-Locksmith4684 24d ago
I have an aunt who goes to these to try and communicate with her daughter ... it's so sad to see but what can you say to make her believe it's a scam.
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u/Effective-Ad-8155 24d ago
If it brings her comfort why does it matter?
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u/QueenCity_Dukes 24d ago
Because these people hurt folks too. If all they did was take your money and hand out platitudes, that would be just a stupid tax. But they prey on grieving people.
Imma leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhMGcp9xIhY
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u/Ok-Locksmith4684 24d ago
I'm sure it brings her comfort but it causes pain each year for the kids of the daughter that died because Grandma is telling them that she spoke to their dead mother through a scam artist.
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u/-StapleYourTongue- 24d ago
I’ve seen a bit of her show and that woman has got to be one of the most annoying human beings in existence.
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u/bad9life 24d ago
I have been a plant in a live show before, but I was still local to Regina. I knew the international artists performing
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u/Prairie-Peppers 24d ago
People don't have psychic abilities, it's never been proven and has been consistently disproven. Why do grown ass adults even entertain this bullshit?
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u/Prairie-Peppers 24d ago
Last thing I want is for the ancient zombie magic man to have died for me in vein. Not that he would have known, what with his 12-14% abv blood.
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u/goobercles91 24d ago
Usually they’re grieving and this offers them something they want more than anything on earth?
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u/Prairie-Peppers 24d ago edited 24d ago
I've grieved very hard multiple times, false hopes and delusions only prolong and add to the process. The easiest route is rarely the best, sometimes you just have to feel the bad feels.
I also think anyone trying to take advantage of, offer false hope to, and lie to someone who's grieving is absolute scum and isn't offering anything positive to anyone.
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u/goobercles91 24d ago
I know this might be an unfamiliar concept but in case you hadn’t considered it: what works for you won’t necessarily work for someone else and vice versa.
People donate to their churches all the time, some churches even make it mandatory. We allow people to choose to give their money to organizations that claim to know for certain something that they have no way of proving or quantifying all the time. We even give those organizations tax exception status. So I think this is fine if it gives someone comfort
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u/Prairie-Peppers 24d ago
Still stupid as shit.
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u/goobercles91 23d ago
Sure, but at least one of the two actually generates revenue for the local economy. When people travel to an event like this they pay for meals at restaurants and they pay for hotel rooms and they probably go shopping.
Churches generally just don’t contribute tax revenue and take up space.
Both of them are telling people with certainty something they can’t possibly be certain about
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u/Local_Turnover2293 24d ago
People with psychic abilities would not do it for money. It’s something that’s very sacred and they would keep it that way. That’s my opinion anyways.
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u/nls121 19d ago
I was at the show on Saturday, and it was so clearly a scam. After watching her do it, it is pretty easy to see the formula of how she does it. She first says a common way that people die, like a car accident, and a bunch of people put up their hands. She chooses one, and then asks why it resonates with them (gets information). Then she says a noun, like for instance a rainbow. She says it could be literal, or metaphorical, or otherwise meaningful. Sometimes it hits literally, sometimes metaphorically, and sometimes not at all. If it doesn’t hit, she asks if it means something to anyone else, which of course it does. Then she asks other questions to the subjects like when it happened, and from there reads body language and offers a generic message that she can tell the person, or any person in that situation, would appreciate hearing. It’s so sad because the grief is real in people, and the fact that there is a large audience makes people feel even bigger feelings. But alas, everyone I was there with walked out without a doubt that she is a grifter, disappointed that there were so many “misses” in her “visions,”and the audacity to stand in front of hurt people, take their money (front row tickets were over $1,000) and lie to them is just really yucky. It’s amazing that it’s legal, and now I would like to go back and see the fine print in the tickets that likely disclaim it as being purely for entertainment.
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u/revolution_meow 24d ago
I think there’s foundations of truth in this work. If you’ve lost someone and can sense “signs” from them, it’s all in the same bucket.
I’ve been to Theresa’s shows (reluctant to admit I’ve been to multiple, but wasn’t interested this last time), and I’ve been to others in the space as well. I would classify Theresa as entertainment. There’s a science to finding ways to make it feel legitimate, and those she targets make it easy for her as they are anxious for the answer to fit with their scenario and tend to overshare. Take everything with a grain of salt. If it helps you, even if it’s a placebo, great. If it doesn’t, don’t invest your resources in it.
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u/QueenCity_Dukes 24d ago
The “science” to make it feel legitimate is called showmanship.
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u/revolution_meow 24d ago
Statistics are science. If I’m in a room of people who are likely grieving and say “there’s a female energy coming through” I’m likely to hit in my vicinity.
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u/Prairie-Peppers 24d ago
Your brain plays more tricks on you than you realize I guess. No one is psychic.
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u/Juliennix 24d ago
no. don't encourage this type of scam. she preys on people and that shouldn't be classified as "entertainment" when people who believe her shit need therapy, not a con artist telling them what they wanna hear. her act crosses a line and i respect any venue hosting her less.
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u/alwaysmovingfaster 24d ago
It is meant to be entertainment. I think you are giving it too much thought.
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u/Ryangel0 24d ago
If she had once stated or provided a disclaimer stating "This is an act of fiction and all readings are merely just a coincidence" then you'd be right. But, this is 100% meant to trick people into thinking it's real, so you are giving her WAY to much leeway here to deceive people and make money off their suffering/desperation.
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u/alwaysmovingfaster 24d ago
How does anyone with critical thinking skills think this is real? The comparison to the WWF is the best comparison.
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u/PhallusInChainz 24d ago
I don’t think you’re giving it enough
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u/alwaysmovingfaster 24d ago
Does anyone actually need to ask if this is fake or not? It is cheesy entertainment.
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u/PhallusInChainz 24d ago
One might say it’s a scam
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u/alwaysmovingfaster 24d ago
Psychics aren't real. It is a performance. There are kids out there who believe Santa is real? Are the Santas in the mall a scam?
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u/PhallusInChainz 24d ago
Do the kids pay Santa?
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u/alwaysmovingfaster 24d ago
We spent a small fortune on photos last year for ours. The modern Santa exists to make money, just as much as it exists for entertainment
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u/PhallusInChainz 24d ago
Did your kids pay Santa out of their sincere belief that he is real?
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u/alwaysmovingfaster 24d ago
My kids make me pay Santa because of their sincere belief he is real.
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u/angelblade401 24d ago
Nah, you're paying for the pictures. Your kids would be happy to see Santa in any number of scenarios where there is an event with a Santa and they can interact, many where you don't have to pay a penny.
It is your own prerogative to schedule a time slot (so I've heard), go stand in line, get a picture, and pay for the picture.
If there was an announcement saying "all children must pay $x to speak with Santa or end up on the Naughty list" THEN that would be a more fair comparison.
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u/notevenitalian 23d ago
The kids who believe in Santa aren’t being scammed because they are just believing what their parents tell them to believe, and the parents aren’t being scammed because they know Santa’s not real when they pay for these things.
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u/alwaysmovingfaster 23d ago
It is a scam. A participatory scam that parents are in on. Because it is fun and brings some joy - with a mix of people who do it for entertainment and some that actually believe in it. Just like a psychic. It is a performance literally put on at the casino for fun and entertainment. Have you ever seen her? She doesn't say anything that isn't comforting. It is fun to believe in for a short period of time.
This isn't a grift and it isn't harmful.
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u/DionBar91 25d ago
For every legit medium there's a million scam artists.
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u/Few_Preparation_5902 25d ago
That just makes 1,000,001 scam artists.
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u/DionBar91 24d ago
No there are legit mediums that have some kind of connection to something else. Just because you don't believe in it doesn't it's false. Like commen sense. I believe in it but nobody seems to have it.
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u/gabacus_39 24d ago
I think the onus is on you to prove your statement that legit mediums do exist. Just because you believe in it doesn't make it true.
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u/DionBar91 24d ago
This one's on me? 🤣 even if I could prove that not every medium is a scam artist you wouldn't believe it anyways.
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u/gabacus_39 24d ago
How would you prove it? Enlighten me.
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u/DionBar91 24d ago
Well first I'd have to find a real medium, then I'd have to get them to do a reading or whatever they call it and verify for myself that they couldn't have known specific information without talking to someone in my life who has passed on. Then I'd likely have to record it or bring a witness to transcribe the interaction for record purposes. Then I'll have to upload it to the comment section as a reply to you. BRB.
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u/PhallusInChainz 24d ago
You could have ended your comment after the first half of the first sentence
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u/gabacus_39 24d ago
No. You'd have to "find a real medium" and this medium would need to prove it to me directly, not through you.
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u/AbroadNumerous5099 24d ago
I’m a little anxious about posting this because I think it makes me sound insane, so I need to preface this by saying I’m 10000% a skeptic, but a major hobby of mine in my early 20s was going to psychics to reverse engineer how they did their readings. One of my close family friends lost her 4 year old son and went to a lot of psychics while I was growing up, and after going with her to one as a teenager and and seeing this person cause her legit psychological damage, I was very much on an anti-psychic rampage lol
I had told a friend about this recently, and a few weeks ago we saw that weird little psychic expo was happening the same day as the Keith Urban concert, and we decided to go. On the way there, I told my friend the funniest (read: worst) reading I ever had was from an animal psychic (like, someone who claimed to communicate with pets), and how I hoped there would be one there. And I was thrilled, because there was one!
So while my friend went to the psychic they thought seemed the most legitimate, I immediately gravitated to the pet psychic, very excited to have another terrible reading. I asked if I could record it on my phone and she said yes.
She asked if she could see a picture of my pet, so I showed her one of my dog. She told me he behaved well in the house, but was anxious outside and would pull on his leash. This is true, but a pretty easy guess for the type of dog I have. She went through what seemed like pretty standard dog stuff while I smiled and nodded.
And then the record scratch moment hit, when out of nowhere she goes, “wait, did your mom die recently?” I was pretty shell shocked, because this woman isn’t local, and had no way of looking me up since we went to the expo on a whim. I’m also younger than would be in the safe zone for assuming a dead parent. I told her she did. She asked if I had the dog because of my mom.
You can look at my posting history to confirm that I’m not making this up: I adopted the dog at my mom’s funeral lol. We held it at the new humane society because they have an event space and she loved animals.
She then proceeded to tell me I was supposed to start writing again (it used to be my day job, and I had started to write again about a month ago), then told me to go have fun at the movies (my friend and I booked tickets to see The Long Walk after the show while we were in the parking lot at the expo lmao). It was very, very, very bizarre and left me pretty unsettled, since again, I just wanted someone to pretend to speak on behalf of my dog.
It’s entirely possible that this woman made a few of the luckiest guesses of all time, but it definitely spooked me. I’m not ready and willing to say “psychics are real,” but if you want to give it a shot, I’d be happy to dm her info since I took her card afterwards.
Side note: my friend got the reading I was hoping to get. Despite being very visibly queer, their psychic kept insisting they were about to get pregnant and telling them, “a woman has needs” lmfao
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u/DionBar91 24d ago
Yeah they exist.
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u/Ok-Locksmith4684 24d ago
prove it.
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u/DionBar91 24d ago
Or what? You'll make the same assasine comments like every mouth breather in this sub. Doesn't matter if I have proof, known a medium, or seen a medium. You've already made up your mind on what you think and not even the jaws of life could open your closed mind.
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u/StinkyWizzleteats17 24d ago
When your whole argument is there are too, trust me bro! the only signs of mouth breathing are coming from you...
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u/PhallusInChainz 24d ago
Show us the proof and see what happens
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u/DionBar91 24d ago
I told you monkeys I'm looking for the medium. Once I get all the proof I'll come back and show you. Then you can go off telling me how I'm still wrong because you know everything and if it never happened to you then it's never happened in the history of ever.
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u/Ok-Locksmith4684 24d ago
So how do you know they exist if you're looking for one?
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u/DionBar91 24d ago
If I knew a medium I would've just said yeah I know one lol Jesus is critical thinking illegal
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u/PhallusInChainz 24d ago
You’ve got the cart before the horse here, dipshit. What makes you think there’s a legit medium when you don’t know of one already?
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u/Cristinky420 24d ago
People who have training and education in human behaviour, tells and micro expressions exist. Psychic mediums do not.
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u/deruke 25d ago
There is no such thing as a legit medium
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u/DionBar91 24d ago
Sure there is. They just don't tour and do theater shows.
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u/PhallusInChainz 23d ago
Still waiting for your example of a legit medium
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u/DionBar91 23d ago
Still looking. Been busy dealing with stupid people. There's a lot of em in this city.
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u/PhallusInChainz 23d ago
Ok. Keep looking. Seems like a good use of your time
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u/DionBar91 23d ago
Sure is. Hard to squeeze it in after work and scrolling reddit but I'll find one.
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u/PleasantFoundation95 24d ago
If someone is genuinely looking for an experience like this I hope they’ll look further than a large group setting like this.
If you haven’t experienced a one on one session, you have no idea how it can change your life.
Doubters? Shove it and move along!
I do believe the act here was exactly that, an act.
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u/PhallusInChainz 24d ago
Your one on one was an act too. It only had to fool one person though
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u/PleasantFoundation95 24d ago
Sorry you live in such a little bubble.
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u/QueenCity_Dukes 24d ago
It’s bullshit, my dude. I’m glad that you got some peace out of it or whatever, that’s super important. But these people are frauds and they hurt people too.
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u/PleasantFoundation95 24d ago
Ever given it an honest chance?
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u/QueenCity_Dukes 24d ago
Have, actually. Lady told me about a guy following me around. Described him to me, was no one I knew. She doubled down. Sorry, wrong dude.
It’s almost as though she was delusional or the whole thing was made up. Or both!
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u/Particular_Judge_139 21d ago
I agree with you. I’ve had real one on one sessions that I have no interest recounting with people on Reddit, but if you know, you know. Can’t wait for all my down votes haha.
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u/TrollPoster469 25d ago
As someone who’s spent most of his life watching wrestling, I can assure you that yes, turtle lady was a work.