Hypnotist's Demonstration Leaves Girls in Trance for Hours

By CBC News

Hypnotist's Demonstration Leaves Girls in Trance for Hours

June 21, 2012 Updated Jun 21, 2012 at 1:42 PM PDT

A show at a private girls' high school in Sherbooke, Quebec, went strangely awry when a young hypnotist left several students in "mass hypnosis" limbo and he had to call in his mentor to snap them out of it.

One student at Collège du Sacré-Coeur was reportedly left hypnotized for five hours until Maxime Nadeau, the young hypnotist, called his mentor to the school for an emergency intervention.

It all happened at an end-of-school year event last week, when Nadeau was hired to stage a hypnotism show for a small group of 12- and 13-year-old girls.

He worked on a small group while others watched the show. When it came time to end the event, several girls in the audience remained mesmerized and couldn't snap out of it, no matter what Nadeau did.

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