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  • Jame is hot.. I'd totally hit her ghoast

    fap fap fap

  • Fuck man it's midnight, how am i suppose to sleep now.

  • They didnt put much thought into that letter at the end. "...oh, and one more thing: Janes dad worked as a builder."

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  • Funny, I wrote down Manchester and picked Jane, but I didnt follow his instructions about the black and white.. Cool coincidence.. Love Derren, he can even make my cold atheist heart shiver

  • Derren is the Messiah! He can bring people back for the dead!! Excellent work as always, this was brilliant.

  • brilliant thx for posting... i checked darrens wiki and i really wanted to watch the seance.

  • @MountcastleFilms I'm not going to engage in adhominem attacks, it just demonstrates the piss poor knowledge you have. This isn't "stage" hypnosis. He uses a range of techniques from NLP to subliminal suggestion to influence a persons subconscious thoughts, thus affecting their conscious actions. Perhaps you should watch another show of his which explains further. Better yet, You can go to one of his LIVE shows, Svengali. Where he can convince you otherwise.

  • @MountcastleFilms Umm no, the techniques employed are in fact real techniques. Neurolinguistic programming, hypnotic suggestion, subliminal messages etc. Maybe you should do more research, beyond your computer screen. I've read books on these techniques, and it works.

  • @MountcastleFilms Im not sure you understand the point of this show.

  • I need more of an explanation. Did all of that happen by suggestion, hypnosis, actors???

  • @MountcastleFilms Jesus, those "actors" are quite something then! You can literally see and hear that genuine choke of words coming out of Holly's mouth from the adrenaline pumping experience.

    You seriously cannot believe in something so amazing because you simply have no explanation for it, very pathetic. The people that live these days.

  • bugger, i wanted to see her walk into the room

  • holy shit, i wrote manchester !!

    so sick

  • i like the guy that goes mental behind the curtains that was cool

  • how the fk did derren get the cup to fall over? Is it one of his tricks .. cos if i was were i would have been shitting my pants !

  • awesome!!!! just brilliant!!!

  • what a bunch of pussies

  • Did the mind make the objects move?

  • lol does 'jane' walk in at the end or something?

  • fake videos

  • Mediums don't tell you to pick a photo by selecting a colour photo, moving across to a black and white photo, moving diagonal then back up to a colour photo again. Using this technique you can start anywhere and you always end up picking "Jane". Then everything else was set up around "Jane" That's fine for a magician but that's not how mediums work so what's he debunking? The fact that gullible people are gullible?

  • I must admit, Derren Brown has made a believer out of me.

  • @kitjohnson1

    Lol... A believer of skepticism or what....?

  • @Erectoralporicy Glad someone spotted the irony!

  • @Erectoralporicy I'm glad someone spotted the irony!

  • @kitjohnson1

    that makes no sense at all as derren is a skeptic. the point of this experiment is that people's subconscious beliefs about the paranormal manifest in themselves and grow and people think they experience paranormal activity, when actually it's all in their head.

  • @tntbrett I guess you didn't get the irony. I just meant that Derren Brown has helped my de-conversion process.

  • Experiments like this prove how powerful the element of belief is. You can make something from nothing because you anticipate it and in a sense expect it to occur.

  • I wish they'd shown the reaction of the participants when Jane walked into the room.

  • I wish they'd shown the final reaction of the seance participants Jane walked into the room...

  • sally is cute

  • The Amazing James Randi has a million dollars for this man if he can pass a test, Unfortunately, these are parlour tricks. He has no supernatural powers these "students" are weak minded. Parlour tricks. Shame on this man . Does he ask for money??? He should hook up with Sylvia Browne. What a lot of idiots

  • @melodykniss

    Idiot. Of course is he using tricks. He even admits that to the students. Derren is very open about that. He says, that he is dishonest, but very honest in being dishonest. He , at no point, insist, that he has any sort of supernatural power. There is no such thing as supernatural powers. The whole show is just for entertainment, nothing else.

  • @melodykniss Derren Brown is a skeptic, he told the students before and afterward that everything was a trick, and on his TV show he does tons of other tricks with subtle mental manipulation and trickery. He's not nor has he ever pretended to do this for real. Perhaps you should do some research [or actually watch the videos you are commenting on] before making yourself look foolish.

  • @melodykniss Seriously? Did you completely miss the point of this entire show? Derren Brown is just trying to show how easy it is for people to be fooled. For heaven's sake, he shows us 'Jane' at the end of the show, thus making it clear that there was no spirit whatsoever!

  • Why do the notes of this video say that The Seance is not availble on DVD? I just checked and a compilation called The Specials was released in 2008 with the following:

    Synopsis

    More 'magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship' from the psychological illusionist Derren Brown. This collection includes some of Derren's greatest one-off television specials, each an exciting television event in its own right. Features THE HEIST, THE SYSTEM, THE SEANCE and RUSSIAN ROULETTE.

  • @Montypython777

    when I published this video it wasnt out on dvd so I felt it worth putting on youtube as before the dvd this episode was very hard to find

  • @Montypython777 to all you people..how are so sure there is no supernatural powers or gohst you guys sound like u have it all figured out, so we die and thats it...it oes not make sense because energy cant be destroyed....there is lots of proof and people that can pick up on dead poeple without any knowlwgde of ANYTHING and like my girlfriend she can see spirits and explaind to my a spirit she saw in my grandmothers house and she never has met her and she pionted to a picture & it was my dead GM

  • @AztecWonderWTF So apparently your girlfriend and you are every bit as gullible and superstitious as the participants in this seance...

  • lol somhow I feel fooled...xD

    but seriosly, this was scary, wasn't it?

  • Wow Jane's really hot

  • Wow Jane's really hot

  • didn't even participate i the experiment, and I was freaking out. and i mean tears. First I choose Jane, then I write down a city just as they did; London-which happened to be exactly where she was from, and the exact same place both the other girls wrote down...

    it is incredible how our minds work...

  • This is terrific!!

  • They were all mind fucked! XD

  • this is so mean lol

  • 5:49

    what does he say?

    how is it called???

    ideo.... suggestion???

  • @buckckck its called the ideomotor Effect, you can find information about it easily

  • I wanna see what they say when they see the real JANE!!!!!!

    Ps, she's pretty.

  • What I find most intriguing about this is how completely the participants bought into it....even though Derren said SEVERAL times to them, right from the beginning, that seances were just clever trickery, and there was no actual paranormal activity.

    Just goes to show how powerful the mind can be when it wants to believe something.

  • jane was so beautiful, but anyways from what i can remember his last command was go to a diagonal black and white picture and move left or right to the nearest colored picture, jane was in the middle farthest right, the three to her left were black and white. i mean its just logic. i still dont get the london though i missed that, also its not impossible to create a character and im guessing derren fed her subliminal information. she obviously unconsciously madecharacter, but she believed in it

  • holly is hot 

  • derren rox man wat a brain he has damn xD

  • I wished he had explained how he did more of that.

  • waitwaitwait. was that Jane at the end?!!

    wtf?

  • @piratesluvr4lyf exactly.... wtf

  • @piratesluvr4lyf Yes it was Jane. Derren was putting thoughts into their head that they were talking to Jane and that it was her spirit there, making them think that she had died. I wish he would have explained how he did it though. Hes got a lot of cool mind tricks that he does.

  • freaked out!!

  • How the hell could she know that the cats name was Harry and that his dad was a builder?

    NLP?...

    I dunno

  • I really wanted to see the students reaction when they saw Jame

  • Thank you derren! I still can't understand how you did that. It would be nice with some more explanations. Hope to see more from you.

  • Brilliant!

  • I don't believe in ghosts. But I was watching it in my basement and got scared. Darren is a genius. I just don't understand how "possessed" girl talked without realizing it.

  • i've got a suggestion, y most of us or if not all hose jane. the only reason y i chose her she stood out amongst the other pics. she somehow seemed much more modern as compared to the other pple with very retroistic style. somehow derren might have made her look more relevent to todays pple n made her jump out thru make up n etc. he is a genius. one in a million..brillaint act this chap

  • thats not the only reason u choose her derren brown put on purpose pictures black and white and others in color he simply chose a patern of saying move left ,right, diagonally and made it impossible or very probable to end on her the 2 that did not choose her simply did not follow his instructions or were in the improbable percentage wich doesnt matter bcause 10 out of 12 is a lot if u dont believe me simply choose another first picture and redo it over and over ull always end on her

  • True, I thought she was the prettiest.

  • @thelegendarypaki

    IMO, not only was she the most attractive, but her photo had the best quality portrait...made her stand out.

  • I wanted to see what their reaction was to meeting Jane in person at the end! Bummer!

  • What a strange thing mind is...

    Derren Brown makes me see that...

  • i bet everyone predicted that when he said they all died in that bizarre suicide

    ahahaha he was smirking when she said manchester coz that was just a pure fluke that worked in his favour

    pretty good

  • @thedepersonified very true as a performer myself and mentalist you get those at times where just out of pure luck the spectator says or does things that you did not expect lol its just pure luck lol and he knows that lol ..very well put togethor though

  • Look how much secure they feel when the light is turned on - human nature. Dark scares people - we think bad stuf happens in the dark - when it's light we are safe! Silly really - like "spirits" or "ghosts" care if the light is on or not! But it works every single time! Why do you think they do those Ghost hunter shows in the dark! It's scarier!

  • like you say take some one out of there comfort zone like in the dark an they may be prone to being more suggestible.

    I saw this many moons ago when it first aired on channel 4. Was great cause Im a skeptic and athiest so i was supper happy it was all explained.

  • I'm a skeptic and atheist as well - unfortunately we are a rare breed!!!

  • Its what makes us so special : )

  • Haha - so true!

  • @Lillyvon Are you really? The notion that atheism and skepticism is the "tough, narrow way" and a rarity has never made sense to me, but then again, Norway isn't very religious at all, and the few devouted believers are those who stand out as different from the masses rather than the skeptics. Maybe things are different in Australia - I know they are in the US. Don't think they are very different from Norway in the UK.

  • omg... I love the way she was still alive at the end... brilliant...

  • holy fuck I would have believed all that if it wasn't for the ending. How did they make the ball fly was there a string attached to it??

  • fuck i said manchester

  • LOL - JANE walks with Derren to meet them? WTF? Hahahaha -

  • HOLY CRAP what an ending!

    Derren's shows are always so fukkin cinematic.

  • Who was the lady at the end?

  • That was "Jane"

  • Too bad he didn't explain the fling ball. I'm guessing that was a rigged stage trick?

  • What are you saying. That there has never been a real spirit to ever enter a seance?

  • well seeing that derren just perfectly replicated a seance using fraudulent techniques... yes, that is a possibility.

  • yes

  • I love the way it ended, showing that "Jane" was not a real person and she is actually a living person. Being a magician and a mentalist i had already figured that out but the way Derren performed the whole thing was incredible. He explained to the public everything in the end in 5 seconds without saying a word. Brilliant!

  • I love it, have you ever been in any situation like this?

  • lol..why did dis receive so many complaints???

  • because people are scared of what they can't understand.

  • Wow, Derren is awesome.

    And I'd love to see how they reacted when she came walking into the room!

  • Most likely, they laughed.

    Like Derren said, the majority of séances performed are fraudulent, if not all of them.

  • agree with

    samaelmagnus

  • lol someone in that crowd has read dune lol. anyone else catch the mantra against fear lol. "I shall not fear, fear is the mind killer, I shall face my fear and I shall let it pass through me and when it is gone only I will remain"

  • sorry litany not mantra

  • man, i wish they would have shown the part where jane comes in the room and meets all of them, i would have loved to see their reactions

  • Absolutely amazing.

  • does anyone know what the title of the music in the end is?

  • Amazing! Great planning and incredible timing!! Thanks to Derren and his team for putting this together. I Really enjoyed it!

  • but wait how did holly know all the info, like the cat harry, and her dad being a builder.

  • NLP,,, he gave a few secret hints (subliminal messages), he is a bloody genius i tell ya XD

  • ya dats what im finking too.. but im trying to figure out what the msges were..

    dis d.brown, is freaking master in maninupatling the midn

  • maybe he can "maninupatl" your mind so you dont spell like a 4 your old with aspegers

  • Derren just used mind control techniques throughout the whole thing.

  • I have been using a ouija board for several years now. It is one thing to use the mind to push a planchette around a wooden ouija board, but tell me how the room I was in became freezing cold on a sunny California day? So cold we could all see our breaths? I have no explanation for this. I would love to hear Browns reply or others replies to this. I can buy into tricks of the mind, but I cant envision the mind throwing someone across a room or the temperature changing drastically.

  • try getting off drugs and then repeating the seance, you will probably have different results

  • It was a very interesting show. My name is Dave and I focused on the photo "Dave", but my eyes were glued to Jane. Very interesting.

  • Well i am pretty well scared out of my wits. Derren once again leaves me with more questions then answers. Thank you Derren for lighting up what would have been another boring afternoon. As thanks you should be reciving my therpy bill in the mail promptly

  • Darren Brown can bring people back from the dead? Will his talents ever stop emerging?!!

  • When i did the one with the wineglass and the letters i actually realised that i was moving the glass towards "y" without thinking about it. Theres just one thing i dont understand... how did the ball move?

  • @GustavJorgensen give you a hint, it was pitch black and derren brown was there. doesnt seem that extraordinary

  • so jane is alive then right??

  • There is no Jane lol.

  • wait im lost lol so why he have her picture can u explain whats goign on and that women in the van was?

  • No, you're way too fucking stupid.

  • u think saying this makes u cool well it dont. so keep thinking people are pieces of shit, cause i guess that makes u the same thing cause ur a human too, well barely.

  • Makes me cool? I'm not trying to be cool. And yeah, I am a piece of shit.

  • well it sure sounds it and no what im glad u know what u are let the whole know. but also u shouldnt say that about ur self but what ever

  • Listen, Megan, sooner or later you're gonna have to realize that some people on this earth are just assholes without any motive. The sooner you accept it, the better.

  • i do except it . and guess u do what u do its not my problem

  • Glad you finally got it.

  • im glad u let the world know what an asshole u are

  • It's a pleasure.

  • im sure it is

  • This has probably been mentioned in the comments already, but the thing about choosing a picture, moving left/right, etc is a classic trick whereby you always end up on the same picture, Jane in this case.

  • He did say it was a psychological experiment. this has nothing to do with ghosts and everything to do with the people. the study of people :)

  • He is not proving it is just superstitious he is showing how frauds did it. There are spirits and there are frauds. Here are frauds in today's society: John Edwards, That dumb ass guy from most haunted, and that is all I can think of right now. A real medium is James Van Praagh.

  • lol, well everyone new that it was fake cause its derren brown, and cause it superstitious bullshit. good to watch anyway

  • These blokes sure swear a lot.

    IT'S JANE I TELL YOU, JANE!!!

  • He didn't explain it...

  • bell, cup and flying shit were tricks to get all that people believe spirit is there. Derren do not hide this information. In his book he writes, that more emothional or tragical situation, the better and faster u can achieve target.

  • aw.. i'd love to see their reaction upon seeing jane

  • What bullshit.. You're worried about the kids feeling cheated? I feel F'n cheated.. He explained virtually NOTHING.. yes, the picture game was obvious that we'd land on the name of Jane.. but they explained almost nothing else.. what was flying around, what was hitting the bell?? Why didn't we get to see the guy that's supposed to be conscious throw the papers up into the air?? What bullshit.

  • hehe! To leave you guessing & amazed. If he explained everything, then we'd all run around trying it.... & Derren would be out of a job ;o)

  • I would have felt so cheated and so, so used if I were any of these kids. Great trick, yeah, but it depends on making someone feel like one big horse's ass.

  • He has a tendency to do that, but come on....wouldn't you feel awesome about having taken part in something like that? If you've seen what he does, you've got to know he's constantly doing crap like that and lying and then telling the truth and you never really know what he's up to, but you can always be sure, your gonna get had.

  • Lawl! Did you hear the guy reciting the "litany of Fear" from Dune, while Derren was lighting the candle? Cracked me up!

  • It's a really good little mantra, though. :)

  • I loved this. Derren is a great showman.

  • But there are so many things unexplained!

    * How did that girl know so much about Jane?

    * Why did BOTH girls write down London?

    * What caused the wine glass to float in the air?

    * Why caused the hallucinations, first from the man behind the curtain, then from the woman in the room, then from everyone sitting around the table?

    * What caused that woman to throw the tambourine, then think that she hadn't?

    * At the beginning, how did Darren know so much about that woman's grandmother?

  • He did explain it all. He planted a seed and then their imagintation put together witht the state of fear he ut them in took over. The glass was probably on a string, remember its all a trick of the mind ;)

  • Watch all of his other stuff here on youtube, and you will see quite clearly how all this is done. For example when the lady gets in the "cage", he hypnotize her when shaking her hand, and straight after he say "I want you to do this on your own". She`s hypnotized without even knowing it. It`s brilliant. It`s Derren...

  • But I'm still confused... I mean, how could the girl have known all those things about Jane?

  • there is no jane. Derren made up everything about her and then suggested the info to their subconscious.

  • I thought Jane was the girl at the end. And even if there is no Jane, how did the girl say exactly what was on the letter which had been written earlier?

  • I think Derren induced stuff throughout the meeting , several versions of the letter written and then switched at the ending using sleight of hand :)

  • But how did he suggest the info that the cat was called Harry into her subconsciousness?

  • how did he suggest any of it?

  • Easy. Put a suggestion in someone's head when they are out of their comfort zone - hell, how do you think Manson got four young people to go and murder inncoent people on his behalf. Power over someone elses mind is very powerful and dangerous at times.

  • That's creepy. The thing is,when I was looking at the photos,I started off with Jane instead of ending up with her.

  • i started and ended with jane

  • how did the person next to her kno that she was rockin, can u feel a person rockin by holding their hand?

  • Fantastic! This show got more complaints than any other on the t.v before or sinse. I love how gullable people are, and the fact that called in to complain baffles me. If they do beleive in it, surely by showing how the girl "knew" jane's details only confirm this beleif. Some people are beyond me.

  • Yeah, and he tells them before hand pretty much that its all fake. So it makes no sense why anyone would get upset.

  • He has manipulated them and hypnotized them throughout the exercise so that they will react in this way. It's not because they are lesser people than you. Anyone except a trained psychologist or seance holder would be freaked out.

  • He's excellent at faking confusion and surprise. But bear in mind all these people were chosen to be particularly susceptible to this kind of suggestion (a fair few religious types, I noticed.) A roomful of hardhead atheist cynics aware of Derren's uncanny ability to mould people like clay might have produced a less interesting show.

  • He did do an instant conversion once where he took a group of atheists and instantly converted them to Christianity. Granted at the same time all the people he converted came there for a talk on spirituality which in and of itself makes it seem that they are insecure in their beliefs.

    Also by no means do I believe that people who are susceptible to this kind of stuff are lesser than those who aren't. I was mainly confused why according to the description of the video did people call in mad?

  • haha so right!

  • Thanks very much for posting!!!

    One of Derren's very best - the old Ouija board trick. GREAT!

  • Does anyone else think it was just a "coincidence" that the cats name was Harry? As in Harry Houdini. Maybe it was, maybe not...

  • Who is the girl at the end?

  • Jane

  • That's the girl everyone picked who was supposed to be killed - Jane

    Of course they all are still alive, that's why it's so crazy, as he always says his show is about tricking the mind and MISGUIDANCE!!! you believe in ghosts, you'll see and feel it being there, yet there was never one, because she was never killed in first place!!! All one's own mind and believe. Of course some do want to believe in ghosts, they will, even if there aren't any... or - maybe there are...

  • What Derren does here in this seance is certainly extraordinary, but alot of physical mediums back in the victorian days did these seances in lit rooms with scientists watching their every move! Mediums like Daniel Home could levitate heavy tables and make instruments play tunes and he did this while being thoroughly examined. So Derren has demonstrated what the fraudulent mediums created back in the day, but many were genuine and never found out to be fakes!

  • You posted this exact same comment on at least one of the other videos. Someone rebutted you, I remember.

  • Brilliant! But I wanted to see their faces!

  • I just love that ending; there faces must have been such a picture!

    This opinion never changes (for me anyway): Derren Brown is fantastic, and also a little bit spooky. But that just adds to the effect!

  • I think it's just a little funny that no one caught "Jane's" last name as being "Dowie" pronounced like "Doe", as in "Jane Doe". Suggestability really gets people to overlook a lot...

  • haha!! I never noticed, after all this time.

  • Mhahaha love the ending. I think that he saying not to waste your time or money on magicians and other crap.

  • Damn, Derren is a true magician. He brought the dead girl back to life at the end of the show. Never seen a magician do that. Crazy shit!