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news radio "I have done some experiments with this, and I think people are being punked. On my desk in front of me, I have the two pencils set up and the one on the top that is balanced is easily moved by just a puff of air." He continued, "I held my phone up to pretend like I was filming it and just
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The Racket Report reported online that
Charlie Charlie is a dangerous new game going viral and is said to conjure up a group of Mexican demons. "It is considered a mash up of the Ouija board and bloody Mary, but this game is physically injuring its participants. The game, which was believed to be of
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Charlie makes a killer case study in virality and how things move in and out of languages and cultures online. You'll notice, for instance, a lot of players and reporters talking about the game as if it were new, when it's actually—and more interestingly, I think—an old game that has just recently
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The two pencil game involves crossing two pens or pencils to create a grid (with sectors labelled "yes" and "no") and then asking questions to a "supernatural entity" named "Charlie." The upper pencil is then expected to rotate to indicate the answer to such questions. The first question everyone
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that when simple scientific explanations "can sufficiently explain why a phenomenon occurs, there's no reason to assume supernatural forces are at work." Although such simple scientific explanations have been offered by
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in groups, and "There's a real social bonding aspect to this whole phenomenon," and "It's almost a developmental passage for some kids, to deal with things that are scary." Donald
Saucier, a psychology professor at
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argues that teenagers go through "a period where social influence is very strong" and they are more prone to superstition. Stephen
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In an early version of the game, two players each hold two pencils in the shape of a square, pressing the ends of their pencils against the other player's. Like a
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demonic spirits, leads to scaring children who play the game and can even lead to suicide for those who get possessed by the spirit," The Racket Report said.
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liken the phenomenon of pencils moving on a desk to
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2463:Mass psychogenic illness
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2415:Blue Whale Challenge
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2216:Golden retriever egg
1820:on 20 September 2016
1618:– via YouTube.
1546:. Colombia Reports.
1251:. BBC. 26 May 2015.
966:Paper fortune teller
929:featuring the game.
818:leads people to see
812:University of London
671:ideomotor phenomenon
617:Juego de la Lapicera
479:Cognitive dissonance
474:Begging the question
421:Ideomotor phenomenon
2448:Internet challenges
2420:Momo Challenge hoax
1311:Religion Dispatches
1071:The Washington Post
1031:Zuckerman, Esther.
905:science journalists
898:David Emery argues
846:Connecticut College
696:The Washington Post
669:board, it uses the
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529:Scientific evidence
371:Scientific literacy
2061:Skeptical Inquirer
1788:The Libya Observer
1286:on 23 January 2016
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189:Paranormal fiction
114:Demonic possession
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