Trainee hypnotist forced to call in help after girls are locked in a trance

Girls at a private school in Canada were locked into a trance for several hours after a trainee hypnotherapist could not snap them out of it. 

Maxime Nadeau (Picture), 20, hypnotized a group of 12 to 13-year-old students at College du Sacre-Coeur in Sherbooke, Quebec, for an end of year show.

But five students – most of whom were merely watching in the audience – got more than they bargained for when they remained in ‘mass hypnosis’ and could not be roused.
One student was locked into the trance for five hours, forcing the trainee hypnotist to call his mentor, Richard Whitbread, for an emergency intervention. More