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	Reviewing the opening episode, ''The Guardian''{{'}}s Sam Wollaston noted the format's departure from Brown's usual audience-demonstration style, describing the direct engagement with Power's own claimed evidence as a more pointed approach than his other paranormal-adjacent work.<ref name="guardian-wormwood"/>		Reviewing the opening episode, ''The Guardian'''s Sam Wollaston noted the format's departure from Brown's usual audience-demonstration style, describing the direct engagement with Power's own claimed evidence as a more pointed approach than his other paranormal-adjacent work.<ref name="guardian-wormwood"/>

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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{{InfoboxTV
|name=Derren Brown Investigates
|type=Documentary / paranormal investigation series
|network=Channel 4
|presenter=Derren Brown
|first_aired=10 May 2010
|status=Ended
}}
'''Derren Brown Investigates''' is a three-part British documentary series in which mentalist and illusionist [[Derren Brown]] examined specific individuals' claims of paranormal or extraordinary ability, testing them through direct, firsthand investigation rather than the general demonstrations that made up most of his other television work.<ref name="c4press">{{cite web |title=Derren Brown Investigates |url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/derren-brown-investigates |publisher=Channel 4}}</ref> The series aired on Channel 4 across three consecutive Mondays from 10 May 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Derren Brown Investigates — Episode list |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/1713691/episodes |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>

== Episodes ==

=== "The Man Who Contacts the Dead" (10 May 2010) ===
Brown travelled to Liverpool to examine the claims of psychic medium [[Joe Power (psychic)|Joe Power]], who says he can communicate with the dead.<ref name="guardian-wormwood">{{cite news |title=Wormwood Scrubs and Derren Brown Investigates |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/may/11/wormwood-scrubs-derren-brown-investigates |work=The Guardian |first=Sam |last=Wollaston |date=11 May 2010}}</ref> The episode included Brown reviewing footage of Power's stage readings, sitting in on celebrity sessions, and arranging independent private readings to test Power's claims directly, including a reading with ''Hollyoaks'' actress Claire Cooper in which Power appeared to correctly identify the car she drove — a detail Brown noted one of his crew had separately observed her arriving in.<ref name="guardian-wormwood"/>

=== "The Men with X-Ray Eyes" (17 May 2010) ===
Brown travelled to the Netherlands with Judy Dunk, a British woman who has been blind since 1995, to investigate the Bronnikov method — a programme developed by Vyacheslav Bronnikov that claims to teach blind people to "see" through non-visual psychic means.<ref name="c4press"/>

=== "The Ghost Hunter" (31 May 2010) ===
The series concluded with Brown travelling to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, an American ghost hunter who claims two decades of experience helping people rid themselves of unwanted paranormal presences, and who has stated that some hauntings can be powerful enough to be physically dangerous.<ref name="c4ghosthunter">{{cite web |title=Derren Brown Investigates: The Ghosthunter |url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown-investigates-the-ghosthunter |publisher=Channel 4}}</ref>

== Reception ==
Reviewing the opening episode, ''The Guardian''{{'}}s Sam Wollaston noted the format's departure from Brown's usual audience-demonstration style, describing the direct engagement with Power's own claimed evidence as a more pointed approach than his other paranormal-adjacent work.<ref name="guardian-wormwood"/>

== See also ==
* [[Derren Brown]]
* [[Joe Power (psychic)]]
* [[Mediumship]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.channel4.com/press/news/derren-brown-investigates Channel 4 — Derren Brown Investigates]

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