Fact or Fiction: Robber Hypnotized Clerk Into Handing Over Cash
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I have been getting some interesting emails from my readers about the robber in Italythat supposedly hypnotized the cashier into giving him money from the register.
Some of you want to know if this is really possible.
In case you missed my article Covert Persuasion and Conversational Hypnosis Genesis
I mentioned how Italian police are looking for a man, who robbed supermarkets by hypnotizing the checkout staff into giving him money. See the video for yourself.
He waited until he got to a female bank clerk and, according to the video footage, appears to hypnotize her into handing over more than £600.
He then calmly walked out.
The cashier who was shown the video footage reportedly has no memory of the incident. She only realized what had happened when she saw the money missing.
The question of the week is is this type of hypnosis possible?
there is another video on youtube you can watch called The Heist where Derren Brown used hypnotic technique to influence three people to rob an armed guard, only using covert hypnosis strategies.
The catch is that was after selecting the four most suggestible people out of twenty participants, and many days of covery conditioning and programming.
Then out of those four three of them actually went through with it.
So yes, it is “possible” to manipulate people to do dangerous or devious things with hypnosis.
At the same time, I question if this is what happened in this news story with the robber and the cashier in Italy, because it would be EXTREAMLY difficult to hypnotize someone like this.
Something similar was reported a while back with a bank robber hypnotizing a bank staff into giving over money. Turns out that the “staff” that was allegedly “hypnotized” was in on it from the beginning and were prosecuted.
Whether the Italian Job is b.s. or genuine hypnotic phenomena it is despicable and this type of propaganda gives legitimate hypnotists a bad name.
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