Have you ever heard of the Mandela effect?
Have you ever experienced it?
I wanted to write about it for a long time and I am finally getting a chance to do it today.
Many of you have probably heard of the Mandela effect earlier, but I am guessing that it will be new to many of you too.
Even for the familiar people with it, I am sure I will get some new information for you which I am going to show you …
Let’s start with the most basic question: What is really the Mandela effect?
It is basically the idea that there are many examples of a shared false memory.
Break me down that…
We all remember things wrongly.
We forget that where we have left something …
We find the details wrong or cannot miss them at all …
This is one of the reasons that “eyewitness testimony” is so notorious that incredibly incredible.
In the study after the study, researchers have shown that eyewitness testimony is constantly wrong and conflicting.
At that point, have you ever seen this video?
It can only blow your mind:
So there is no doubt that we do not all have the right memories, of course not in long periods and often not in short term.
Hek, if all of us had the right memories, all of us would have scored A+ in every class at any time!
Of course this is not the case, but it is not that the Mandela actually makes the effect so strange.
Strange comes because we are not just talking about bad memories or remembering things incorrectly, we are talking about shared false memories.
It is a false memory or a hallucination for a person….
But it is extremely rare, if not impossible, do dozens of, hundreds, thousands or even millions of people have the same shared false memory or hallucinations for all.
And this is what is about the Mandela effect.
All this started with his name, Nelson Mandela.
Millions of people are adamant that they remember him dying in jail in the 1980s, but it is revealed that it was not so. After his release from jail, he died peacefully at home in 2013 after serving as the President of South Africa.
And once people started talking about the shared false memory of dying in jail in the 1980s, people began to realize that this was not the only example.
There are really hundreds of shared false memories that are really harassing people.
I am going to show you a list of 100 of them and I want to know which people echo with you.
If you are like me, most of these will not be the things you remember (or “misinformation) and something will seem that they can clarify how you can turn in a few years and decades, almost like a huge game of telephone.
But if you are like me, there will be 5 or 10 in this list, or perhaps just a small handful, which will make you die in your track and you will say that there is no way that is true. There is not that this (wrong) way I remember it!
And this is what makes it so fully compelling.
So now I give you a list of 100, and I will put you in red color that I miss exactly 100%:
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Nelson Mandela dies
- Wrongly: He died in jail in the 1980s.
- reality: After serving as the president of South Africa, he died at home in 2013.
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Berenstein Beer vs Berenstein Bear
- Wrongly: “Bareenstein” spelling with “E”.
- reality: Always “Berenstane” with a “A”.
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Star Wars: “Luke, I’m your father”
- Wrongly: Darth Wadar says, “Luke, I am your father.”
- reality: He says, “No, I am your father.”
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Monopoly man’s monocal
- Wrongly: The monopoly man (rich uncle penibags) wears a monocal.
- reality: He never had a monocal.
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Loom corneukopia fruit
- Wrongly: There is a corneukopia behind the fruit in the logo.
- reality: No cornukopia has ever been a part of people.
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Shazam (Sinabad Jinn Movie)
- Wrongly: A 1990s film was starring as a genie in Sinabad, a film “Shazam”.
- reality: No such film exists; Often confusing with “Kazam” in which Shakeel O’Neel is starred.
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Curious George’s tail
- Wrongly: The monkey has a tail.
- reality: Curious George has always been telless.
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Febreze vs febreeze
- Wrongly: “Febreeze” spelling with two “E”.
- reality: This is “e.” There is “Fabrase” with.
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Snow White: “Mirror, Mirror”
- Wrongly: Rani says, “Mirror, mirror on the wall.”
- reality: She says, “Magic mirror on the wall.”
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JIF vs Jifi Peanut Butter
- Wrongly: “Jifi” is called peanut butter.
- reality: Always “jif.”
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Loni Tunes vs Loni Toon
- Wrongly: “Toon” (small for cartoons) spelling.
- reality: It is “tunes” (mentioning music).
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Sex and city vs sex in city
- Wrongly: Title “Sex in the City.”
- reality: This is “Sex and the City”.
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Chic
- Wrongly: “Chic-Fil-A” or “Chik-Fil-A” spelling.
- reality: Always “Chik-Fil-A.”
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Fruit Loops vs Fruit Loops
- Wrongly: “Fruit loop” spelling.
- reality: This is “fruit” with two “O” with “fruit loops”.
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Thinker statue
- Wrongly: Hands on the forehead or fist.
- reality: The hand rests under the chin, the knuckle near the mouth.
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C-3po color (Star Wars)
- Wrongly: Sleeping completely.
- reality: A silver has a lower right leg.
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Pikachu’s tail (Pokémon)
- Wrongly: Black tail given tail.
- reality: Completely yellow tail.
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Kit cat dash
- Wrongly: “Kit-khat” with a hyphen.
- reality: Officially “kit cat” with no hyphen.
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Forest Gump Quotes
- Wrongly: “life is like a box of chocolates.”
- reality: “Life was like a box of chocolate.”
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Mickey mouse suspenders
- Wrongly: Wears red suspenders.
- reality: Someone wears suspenders, just red shorts.
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Oscar Mayor vs Oscar Mayor
- Wrongly: “Mayor” spelling with a “E”.
- reality: This is “A” with “Mayor”.
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Queen’s “We are champions”
- Wrongly: Ends with “… of the world …”!
- reality: The studio version does not finally include that line.
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Sheep’s silence: “Hello, Claris”
- Wrongly: “Hello, Claris.”
- reality: He says, “Auspicious evening, Claris, or other variations.
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Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood song
- Wrongly: “This is a beautiful day in the neighborhood.”
- reality: “This is a beautiful day in this neighborhood.”
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The Wizard of Oz: “Fly, My Proteiz”
- Wrongly: The wicked witch says, “Fly, my print, fly!”
- reality: She says, “Fly! Fly! Fly!”
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“I” dots in Tinkerbel Disney logo
- Wrongly: Tinkerbel crossed “I” in Disney Intro and dots.
- reality: Never officially part of standard logo animation.
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Sally Field Oscar Speech
- Wrongly: “You like me, you really like me!”
- reality: “I can’t deny the fact that you like me, now, you like me!”
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Cinderella’s Castle Location (Disney World)
- Wrongly: At the entrance of the park.
- reality: Main Street is located at the end of the USA
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Ed McMahon and Publishers Clearing House
- Wrongly: Distributed huge checks to the publishers to the Sleeping House.
- reality: Worked for publishers of American family, not PCH.
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Flintstone spelling
- Wrongly: A “t.” “Flinstones” with.
- reality: “Flintstone” with two “T”.
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Chartress color
- Wrongly: A shadow of pink or magenta.
- reality: A yellow-green color.
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Henry viii Turkish leg portrait
- Wrongly: His famous painting holding a turkey leg.
- reality: No such painting exists.
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Mother Teresa’s saint
- Wrongly: Canonies were performed in the 1980s or in the ’90s’.
- reality: Saint in 2016.
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Dolly’s Bracese (Moonrekar)
- Wrongly: The film James Bond stars Dolly’s bracese.
- reality: He has no braces.
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Billy Graham death
- Wrongly: He died years ago with television funeral.
- reality: He died in 2018.
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Tianmen square tank man
- Wrongly: Run by tanks.
- reality: Standing in front, the tank stopped, and he left.
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Smokey bear vs smokey bear
- Wrongly: “Smokey bear.”
- reality: Officially “Smokey Bear.”
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Cheez-It vs Cheez-Its