Last Wednesday CMC put on another night of entertainment for the students. At precisely 9:00 p.m. the doors for late nite opened and we were greeted with a rather unique looking man named Christopher Carter. Mr. Carter is someone that calls themselves a mentalist/hypnotist/body language reader/nut case. After we got our dinner, the lights dimmed and all attention was on Carter. The first thing he told the audience was things are going to be weird. Only after it gets weird, it will get even weirder. We had no idea what was in store for us.
According to Christopher, he has spent his entire life dedicated to psychology and how the mind works. He claims that just by looking at a person's body language, he can extract any bit of information from that person that he wants. His first example was when he told someone in the crowd to pick a card and remember it. At this point I was thinking "oh great... another magician..... woohoo." As the audience member drew a card I got to snag a glance to see that it was an 8 of clubs.
Christopher looked at the kid who drew the card and instantly knew it was a black card. How he knew this was beyond me. He then asked questions like is it a heart? Diamond? Club? Spade? Simply by the kids reactions to his questions, he was able to detect that the card was a an 8 of clubs. WIERD!!! He did this several times only with different things and he didn't even stutter, or fail once. I was impressed. Yet I assumed there was some kind of trick to all this. So I wasn't totally banboozeled. This is when his act took a turn. I couldn't believe what he was doing, but he said he could do all these things while blindfolded. I was skeptical. He took 2 silver dollars and duct taped them to his eyes. Followed with more duct tape. He then managed to wrap a light proof cloth over his face and duct taped it some more. Why he did all this? I have no idea however there was no way he was going to see any light on that sort of makeover. He then made everyone write down their name, a question and a piece of information nobody on this earth knows on the card. He then collected all the cards.
With all eyes blindfolded, he drew out a card and knew exactly the name of the person who wrote on the card! He called out "Who has the initials SW?" That would be Shandra Winters, the Resident Hall Director of the dorms. She called out "thats me!" He asked her several non important questions and gave out her husbands name, some activities they have done in the past and some other personal information about her life that nobody even knew about. I would have thought he was joking except for the fact that Shandra was blushing in total awe. Everything he had said was correct right on the dot! At this point I started to get weirded out. After 2, 3, 4, 5... and up to 10 people's cards, he nailed every single one of them. Not a single thing wrong about everyone's secerets and questions. I was in awe too. Also a little bit nervous for him to call out my name. Luckily he didn't...
His next act not only was weird, but it scared the royal hell out of me. I thought I was in some horror movie. What he did was call out a volunteer. That volunteer happened to be Caity H, the same girl that kicks my ass in bowling every week. Anyway, he made Caity stand behind him and set a watch to whatever time she wanted. At the same time, a person in the crowd was holding 2 mini chalk boards sandwiched together with nothing written on them.
He then told Caity to think she is writing on the chalkboards. He told her use her mind to write the time she set on the watch because her mind was going to write the time... After Christopher Carter made Caity show the audience the chalkboards, we all were presented with a chalkboard that had the time 5:15 on it. We were impressed that somehow, chalk made it to the chalkboard. After Caity flipped it around she almost freaked! The chalkboard said 5:15 and so did the watch that she set. WEIRDDD!!!! I had no idea what to think at this point... I was mind boggled. Ok so I know you are probably getting tired of all these stories but this next one is downright crazy. To make this long story short, Chris Carter took 2 girls with 2 fluorescent light bulbs and turned the light bulbs on. I have nothing more to say other than that. Just watch this video.
So all in all... Christopher Carter... Google him.
that is all I have to say
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