The self-proclaimed psychic will speak at CityStage on Saturday.
Lisa Lanno
Have you been wondering how Uncle Charlie is doing? Do you miss those comforting words your grandmother used to give you? And, how about your mother, who died in an accident and you never had a chance to say goodbye to?
On Saturday night, Lisa Lanno will reportedly “bridge the gap between our world and the other side” to bring messages and answers from loved ones who have passed in a two-hour program at CtiyStage in Springfield called “Messages from the Other Side.”
“I’ll take a few questions from the audience first, then go straight into abbreviated messages so I can connect as many people in the audience as possible to the other side,” said Lanno.
“And that includes to pets, as well,” she added.
Lanno, who has only been a professional medium for the past three years, said she has been interested in the paranormal since her teen years growing up in the “ghostly” town of Salem.
“It started with what is called remote viewing. I was the party favorite where friends would ask me to tell them what their house looke
d like, and I would close my eyes and be able to tell them,” said Lanno.
“I grew up in an Italian neighborhood in Boston back in the fifties and sixties where it wasn’t that easy to talk to someone about your abilities. So, I had no direction and didn’t know what to do,” she added.
So, for years, Lanno read Tarot for friends and busied herself studying handwriting analysis, creating something she calls Tarograph, a combination of Tarot and graphology (handwriting analysis).
Always somewhat afraid of the ghost world - those who haven’t passed over, she explained - and with those who had passed over, Lanno said “someone made the jump for me.”
“My daughter’s friend had passed away and she just came through and started talking to me,” said Lanno, who also dabbles now and then in ghost hunting today.
Before going professional, Lanno wrote “The Secret Cave”...”Imagination Station” in 2007, a juvenile fiction, mystery adventure which she was inspired years ago by her own children and their sense of adventure along with their vivid imaginations.
“I’m also presently working with families of murdered and missing people, mostly youngsters. This is something I do to try to give back for the ability that I have and try to help others. What they do with the information, whether they take it to the police or otherwise, I have no clue,” said Lanno.
As for skeptics who have their doubts when it comes to ghosts and talking to dead people, Lanno said it doesn’t bother her.
“It’s okay to be skeptical. I’m skeptical about mechanics and doctors and I think there are good and bad in any profession, frauds and true people,” she said.