Is 'Charlie Charlie Challenge' Real? Ouija Inspired Game Leaves Teens Uneasy
The Charlie Charlie Challenge surfaced Thursday on Twitter and has gone viral across social media platforms.
According to reports, the "Charlie Charlie" challenge involves a Mexican occultist ritual of writing "yes" and "no" on a sheet of paper and crossing two pencils. The ritual is stated to be a type of "rite" for Mexican children.
People form a cross with the pencils and write the words "yes" or "no" in the quadrants created by the perpendicular pencils.
The teens then ask something along the lines of "Charlie, Charlie, are you there?"
Essentially, it's Ouija board meets "Bloody Mary," the game children play in front of a bathroom mirror.
Kids summon Charlie the Mexican demon in supernatural ritual... and it works https://t.co/xJc8aXTASV pic.twitter.com/X4msYKTR9L
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) May 26, 2015
The UK-based publication "The Mirror" asked its readers to try the challenge to "see whether it really does work." Youth responded with reports of hearing eerie voices or seeing strange sights, and some warned others to stay away from the challenge.
"I started to hear noises coming from my room," one girl named Dakota from New York wrote.
She said that she went to wash the dishes after taking the challenge.
"When I walked in the room, my Bible was on the ground faced down. I told myself it was just the cat. But then I remember my my mom took the cat to the vet. And so I said, 'Forget the dishes, I'll do them tomorrow.' Then I heard a whisper coming from the living room."
"We we felt like we were surrounded by evil and were being watched," said Zody from Texas. "[I saw a ] man figure at the top of the steps with black and red eyes."
