Comments on: Documentaries – from May 10th

By: Buzz

Buzz — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:39:47 +0000

I thought this series was hugely entertaining and insightful. It’s frightening how many intelligent people that I know believe in such delusional and magical thinking, and just accept it as part of reality without further investigation. Please do another series with more episodes. There must be loads of stuff out there that could do with this treatment – conspiracy theories, alien abduction, magical martial arts, homeopathy, crystal healing, faith etc etc.

I thought the Messiah TV special you did was great too. Please do more stuff like this, you can make such a difference.

By: noelle

noelle — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:15:30 +0000

watching this series is just like watching 60 minutes — eye-opening & educational; and very appreciate your dare to explore those subjects, really looking forward for more ep. like this.

By: Vincent Kuro

Vincent Kuro — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:24:49 +0000

Derren, your insights provided throught this show are very intresting however the subjects of your show seem to me, are some of the more obvious frauds that dont leave a person guessing, i could see in your eyes on each of the cases from the moment you began your investigations, you had sumerized how they were faking and why, i presume that the entirety of the show is nothing more than a display for our, the viewers benafit, to slowly be courerced into understaning the insurmoutnable evadance that prooves a conclusion that you used your deeper level instinct, not only to predict, but this is infact the very reason you choose these subjects,
what im saying is, as impartial as you make this seem, you knew from the start they were fakes, thats why you investigated, in the end Derren, bogus.

- Hi Vincent – good point – however is there a ranking or rating of people who are better or more skilled at this or is it just via opinion? If there is a list we are open to seeing it and how people are rated as better or more skilled as opposed to individual testimonials (all we have to go on at the moment). So many people have email suggesting we try hundreds of different mediums and that they are “better” than Jo. Who’s opinion would we follow in choosing valid subjects? – please let us know you thoughts – thanks – Phillis

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:26:01 +0000

Just watching the Ghosthunter programme; in the photo of the “face in the mist”, there was also clearly a cat’s face to the left of the red circle used to highlight the human face…

By: Andy Hughes

Andy Hughes — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:11:08 +0000

I enjoyed this series, but sometimes I felt you weren’t hard enough on these belief systems. So much so that it felt almost as if you were acknowledging their authenticity, and that only the people you personally investigated were the frauds/delusional.

I realise that you couldn’t have said large swathes of the populace are gullible fools foold on national television, but I believe if you would’ve been a little more forthright in your denounciations, you could’ve swayed more fence sitters and those with weaker beliefs to be more logical in their thinking.

I know you think that if people find comfort in these systems, there is nothing wrong with them, but I think that the less people believing in rubbish, the more people there are to figure out the actual way the universe works.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:05:04 +0000

Was quite sad to hear about the Ghost Hunter fella passing away – and out of all of the people who made these very ‘big’ claims, he was the only one to me who seemed genuine. Even though I think Derrens investigation made me more inclined to to be skeptical of what the guy was using as ‘evidance’ and ‘proof’ – I dont think he was using it to take advantage of people or earn profit or fame, beliving what he was doing was real and effective.
Its intresting how when Joe and Bronnikov, when faced with the oppotunity to sit down and prove their claims to the world on TV, which would validate everything they do – they chose not to do it.
Another great Tv Series!

By: Charlie Thomas

Charlie Thomas — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:57:31 +0000

I would love to see Derren do an episode like this on Aliens…as there is vast evidence for it and would love to see him investigate the subject.
This series has been brilliant, great work.

By: William

William — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:17:15 +0000

Very interesting and will definitley make me think more about things.

By: Abe

Abe — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:26:44 +0000

I seem to have missed one

Did the schedule change, or did I just miss it?
It’s not on 4od or indexed anywhere!

Msg from Abeo: There’s 3 episodes. Next one is Monday 31st. The previous 2 are on 4OD.

By: Nick Magee

Nick Magee — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:50:58 +0000

This is awesome…im pretty wasted right now which is probably making it more awesome…but its still pretty awesome….right…. im gonna go and tell someone or something…spread the word people…this dude knows his stuff!
Much love derren, and damn it, make more TV shows – everybody else’s TV show’s suck and they dont replay you on Bravo yet! x