The Mandela Effect

[Essan]

Fact:  people's memories are far more fallible than they appreciate

Fact: it's very easy to implant a false memory in someone without them realising.

I first became aware of this in the early 1990s.   This was long before the internet.   But a topic of conversation in the pub was how the BBC children's TV cartoon, Captain Pugwash, got away with the characters name: Master Bates,  Roger the Cabin Boy,  Seaman Staines.    All very risque!   And when we heard the names we all remembered them.   No-one had actually watched Captain Pugwash in many many years, but we'd seen it in our childhood and the names all rang bells .....   Except they were all false.

The reality is that no such characters ever existed.   

Yet even today, I remember those names rather than the real ones!