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Long Island Medium Shares the Spirit World at the Crown by DR. SHANESSA FENNER TC: The only thing to expect is that I am going to show up with my hair The Crown Coliseum presents Theresa Caputo, star of TLC's Long Island and my nails done, great dress and fabulous shoes. Even if you do not get Medium, on Monday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. She will give live readings to audience members throughout the show. During a recent interview, we read, you will walk away that evening different. I will talk about 15 minutes discussed her life experiences and communicating with the dead. about my gift. I incorporate some stories and examples of how the spirit UCW: When did you first realize that you could communicate with the will communicate in a large venue. I also include some answers to the most dead? Did it scare you? frequently asked questions that I get and then we go TC: I began seeing spirits at the age of 4. I did not into spirit communication for about an hour and a know that I was communicating with people that half. It really is an experience. UCW: How do you handle non-believers? had crossed over until the age of 28. I just actually TC: I don't handle them. It is what it is. I try to thought it was normal that people just saw and heard explain to people I am not here to prove or defend things when no one else was in the room. I suffered my gift. This is not about them believing in what I do. with anxiety for many years; I went to a spiritual This is about you knowing that there is truly more to healer. She told me that I was empathic and was know in life that is here in the physical world. Also feeling other people's feelings and emotions and I have learned that we have all lost somebody who also the emotions of people who have crossed over. I didn't learn to be a medium. What I learned or has died and we've all lost somebody in a common understood was what the spirit was trying to tell me. or similar way: heart attack, cancer, stroke or car My gift is always there; it is just a way of interpreting accident. There's nothing that I can do about it. That it in the way the spirit would like to tell the person is the way people die. What separates it apart are the Theresa Caputo, also known as the Long Island Medium, that needs to receive a message. unique things that the spirit talks about. The spirit will will be at the crown on Oct. 21. UCW: What should we expect to see this season talk about the things that happened after they left the on the show? physical world. It will describe intimate moments that TC: We had major construction in the house due to having mold in the you had after they died. I am not making the stuff up. Somebody is telling it to house. Besides the bathrooms, we did some additional construction. Victoria me. When I am in the presence of someone that needs closure or peace from and I went to a farm for a mother/daughter getaway. My son, Larry, thinks he their loved ones, spirits start making me feel things and hear things that mean can move out and make it on his own so he kind of sprung that on me. I meet everything to the person that is receiving the message. For more information about Theresa Caputo, visit www.tlc. some beautiful people with some amazing stories. What I love about what they com/tv-shows/long-island-medium. For more information have done this season is going back and catching up with people that I have about her appearance at the met in the past and hearing from them firsthand how the experience changed Crown or tickets, visit the Crown DR. SHANESSA FENNER, Principal, their lives. website at www.atthecrown.com. Alger B. Wilkins Elementary School. UCW: When you come to the Crown on Oct. 21, what should Fayetteville ContributingWriter. COMMENTS? expect with your live experience? Walk on the Dark Side at Historic Hauntings by ERINN CRIDER on our history in a unique way. It makes history fun. Bruce Daws, our city Fayetteville has a colorful history, but what you may not know is that it is historian, and his team work so hard to be accurate with the costumes, props also spooky. In and around downtown Fayetteville, there are many buildings and scripts. Its like you are really on the eve of Sherman's march. That is that have historical significance and more than a few ghosts. One of the most our theme for this year. It is a fun and accurate and entertaining ways to learn educational way to learn history," said about Fayetteville's spooky history is King. through the Historic Hauntings Hayride. For anyone that is interested, the Historic Hauntings has been a fun and night of history and ghosts doesn't educational tradition for several years. This have to end at the conclusion of the year's ride is a very special one, however. hayride. King added, "We are also "This year is very different. We doing a haunted house this year. We have written a different script that depart from the Lion's Club at 725 we have never done before. It is not West Rowan St., and when we return concentrating on downtown and the there after the ride, patrons can make a Cross Creek Cemetery. We have moved a $6 donation and go through the Hillside little up hill and are focusing on Historic House of Horror. If patrons bring Haymount on Hillside Ave. This year canned goods to benefit the Fayetteville it is also more interactive," explained Urban Ministry they will get $1 off." Carrie King, the executive director of the Reservations are required for Historic Dogwood Festival. "Before, patrons would just get on and Hauntings, and tickets cost $17.Tickets off the hayride and have skits going on are available by calling 323-1934 or by around them, but this year patrons can be going to www.etix.com/ticket/online/ pulled into the skit. A prime example would venueSearch.jsp?venue_id=4265. The be our amputation scene where patrons can Relive some of Fayetteville's spookier moments on at the Historic Hauntings Hay Ride. hayride will depart from 725 W. Rowan be pulled in to participate. This year there is St. at the Lion's Club. It is advised to also a lot more walking. This is not an activity intended for people with limited come early to ensure time for parking as the wagons leave at scheduled mobility or strollers. There is just no way we could fit a stroller through some of times. There will be hayrides on Oct. 17-19 and Oct. the paths through the neighborhood yards," continued King. 24-26. This is a rain or shine event so bring umbrellas if needed. For more information visit The Historic Hauntings Hayride is a unique haunted tour. Of course, there ERINN CRIDER, Contributingwww.faydogwoodfestival.com/ are ghost stories and spooky houses, but there is also the real history of this Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@ historic-hauntings. community. Fayetteville is a community full of a rich and often surprising history. upandcomingweekly.com. "This is a great opportunity for education. We are educating our community 10 OCTOBER 9-15, 2013 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM