To have just done The Charlie Charlie challenge with my teens and found it really scary.

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The game where you have a price of paper and two pens. Teenage Internet fad but it moves to yes.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3096964/Children-sharing-social-media-videos-try-summon-Mexican-demon-new-Charlie-Charlie-Challenge.html

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_cWO3fFHs Found this and laughed terribly.

We love a good oiugi session. The funniest was our 15 year old dd asking a so called spirit to tell her who sits behind her at school.

Like you would travel all the way from the spirit world to answer stuff like that.

We had to send them all to the local c of e school so they were used to people spouting bollicks.

If you were an all powerful Mexican demon, why would you spend all your time moving pencils a couple.of centimetres and only answering yes or no questions?

My mother's dog is called Charlie, he is demonic. He's from Holmes Chapel though so not quite Mexican.

My ds did this Charlie thing yesterday evening and I went along with it thinking that he had caught some sort of Britains got Talent magician bug! So glad I am now in the know and he will not be doing it again. Makes sense now that he wanted to kip in with me, he tried to come across as being scared of noises under his bed!

Is it done with the candles? If so, then of course the pencil on top is going to move. Scientific, init.

I can't remember the name of it. The something-beginning-with-A effect.

Wouldn't he be the powerful demon Carlitos? Or is Charlie an expat?

Having just failed to make one pencil stay on the top of the other, I think we're looking at unstable equilibrium here, AKA 'things wobble'.

I have now found two pencils that sit there, nicely balanced, without moving at all.

Crap demons we have in this house.

Ouija boards move because of the ideomotor effect, I don't know what the Charlie thing is but I presume it's the same thing

In life Charlie was a telemarketer and now in death this is his own personal hell.

All the kids at my school have been doing this. Drives me mad, I've threatened detention if see anyone wasting time on it in lessons.

Anyone fancy describing what this game is about and how its done?

Orrla its involves 4 sides Yes opposite to yes and no opposite to no and two pencils. You say Charlie charlie can we play? The pencil spins to yes and then you ask additional questions.

Orrla two pencils balanced in a cross and yes and no diagonal on each side. You say Charlie charlie can we play and the top pencil spins to yes. You can then ask additional questions.

Oh so it can't be the ideomotor effect since nobody touches the pencils. Could it be people blowing/breathing on them and causing them to spin/move?

It's gravity.

Two pens set up here and so far sweet FA has happened

Works better if you have a window open Cudding.

Oh God, the kids at my school are all doing this.
Some of them are very spooked by it.

My year 7 tutor group are obsessed with it, bless 'em.

Ugh our kids are doing this too. Apparently there were girls crying in a year 8 art lesson over it! It's flipping annoying!

Yeah kids at my school too. Quite why the bloody hell parents are encouraging it rather than saying 'it's tosh, go do something else' I don't know...

If I'm going to summon a demon I'd rather he did more than move pencils. Not very impressive imo