There's the cinnamon challenge. I've heard of the Chubby Bunny Challenge.

Um, I've actually tried it at home once, but then there's also the Charlie Charlie Challenge.

Step one gather your supplies two pencils and a piece of paper. Draw two lines to divide the paper into equal quadrants.

3. Label the quadrants so that as you move from quadrant to quadrant they alternate yes no

yes no four balance one pencil on top of the other on the dividing lines do you you recognize these steps? Have you heard them before?

Maybe you'll recognize the last one. Five, say, Charlie, Charlie, are you there?

And then ask your question.

Will he say yes or will he say no?

Are you scared to find out?

And more importantly, is he really in the room with you. My name is Elise Perizian and we will answer

all of these questions and more on this episode of Unspookable. Oh, Last week we talked about Bloody Mary, a scary game that kids in the US have played for decades, passing it down to each other through word of mouth.

Maybe an older sibling tells a younger sibling, or a group of students tried at their school and

then their classmates hear about it.

So the story and the game and the cloud of mystery around it passes from person to person, from school to school,

town to town, and then state to state until today when you can probably mention Bloody

Mary to almost anyone and they will at least have heard of it. It may seem simple but this is an important

part of being human. We share information with each other, body to body, voice to voice. We communicate

and ideas spread.

Homo sapiens, our modern human species, evolved sometime around 200,000 years ago

and survival depended on communication in order to secure the basics of survival like food and food. The survival But now humans have evolved to the point where we have so many different ways to share

information and ideas.

Our ancient ancestors may not have had the capability to share stories over the internet or

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