Should Theresa Caputo ever decide to retire from her post as the Long Island Medium, she need look no further for her replacement than Vanessa Hudgens who revealed this week that she’s ready to step in and share her “gift.”
During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Tuesday, the actress admitted that she has been cultivating her ability to see and speak to ghosts and has had “a lot” of paranormal encounters over the course of her life. “I’ve accepted the fact that I see things and I hear things,” she said. “I shut it down for awhile because it’s scary. The unknown is scary. But I recently was like, ‘No, this is a gift and something that I have the ability to do, so I’m going to lean into it.’”
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Hudgens explained that this is actually something she’s been able to do since she was a child. “I remember getting ready for school when I was 8 years old, and there was, like, you know those ducks that you pull? It’s a toy,” she recalled. “There was one of those on the dining room table, and I started walking, and it just started going alongside me. And I was like…interesting.” As part of her exploration into her own gifts, the High School Musical star also recently went on her “first real paranormal investigation” where she discovered her new “favorite” piece of supernatural technology, a “spirit box,” which “scans radio frequencies really quickly…Something about the electricity that it creates allows spirits to speak through it.”
This isn’t the first time Hudgens has spoken out about making contact with the Great Beyond. In 2011, she told People that she was visited by a ghost while filming in North Carolina, specifically North Wilmington which she said “is one of the oldest, most haunted places in North America.” While staying in a house there, she heard footsteps one night, but was unable to locate the source of the sound. “I was chasing around my ghost for like 10 minutes solid, and then it got way too freaky, and I just left,” she said. But before getting out of there, Hudgens did manage to get a sense of the spirit that was haunting the property, telling the outlet, “I feel like she might have lost a husband at war and she’s waiting for her man to come back to her. It was definitely a female spirit. I could tell.”
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