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Bryce Bumgardner, from left, Jonathyn Jordan and Field Soosloff all perform with invisible stringed instruments Tuesday in Havre. Hypnotist Sailesh Jiawan had participants play different instruments, eventually having all the men on stage play drums on each other's rear ends.
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Sailesh Jiawan interviews Jake Finch Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in Havre, Mont. During the interviews, participants believed they were on "The Jerry Springer Show" and told secrets about their friends in the audience.
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Sailesh Jiawan watches from the back row as participants dance onstage at the MSU-Northern SUB ballroom Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in Havre, Mont. Jiawan has been a hypnotist for 24 years and has run over 5000 shows. "I've been really blessed with this career," Jiawan said.
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Sailesh Jiawan, a world-renowned hypnotist, speaks to the audience during a show at the MSU-Northern SUB ballroom Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in Havre, Mont. Jiawan had hypnotized participants under his control during the entire 90-minute show.
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Participants place their hands on their thighs and listen to hypnotist Sailesh Jiawan Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in Havre, Mont. Some participants fell in and out of hypnosis during the show, but most were under Jiawan's control the whole time.
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Jonathyn Jordan, right, scoots away from Bryce Bumgardner while thinking Bumgardner's belt is actually a snake Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in Havre, Mont. Bumgardner voluntarily gave hypnotist Sailesh Jiawan his belt before Jiawan told the participants it was a snake.
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Hypnosis participants rub their hands together and huddle under the suggestion that they are in a freezing blizzard inside the MSU-Northern SUB ballroom Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in Havre, Mont.
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Janae Boles is near tears as hypnotist Sailesh Jiawan tells participants that they are watching a sad television show Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in Havre, Mont.
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From left, Bryce Bumgardner, Jonathyn Jordan and Elena Hamel all react as hypnotist Sailesh Jiawan awakens them and tells them everything he had them do on stage. Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in Havre, Mont.
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