The Mandela Effect

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The Mandela Effect : fact or fiction?


The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where various groups of individuals seemingly recall past events, symbols, words, and titles et cetera as documented or transpiring differently than how they are actually recorded in the present day. The title comes from the 'supposed' false memory of many believing that Nelson Mandela died in prison during the 1980s where in fact this is actually contrary to how this information is actually documented in the present day. Nelson Mandela never died in prison, or so 'they' say.

Examples of this phenomenon resonate differently with different individuals, and oddly enough the titled phenomenon is actually an example of one that does not resonate with me as much as some of the others.

And here are a few examples of this phenomenon that actually do resonate with me:

1. Interview With - THE - Vampire. I saw this movie more than once, and I recall the title as being Interview With - A - Vampire.

2. Moonraker. Dolly NEVER had braces in any of the scenes, but I seem to recall a scene with her smiling at Jaws with her 'braces' twinkling in the light.

3. The word dilemma. Many, including myself seem to recall this as being spelled dilemna, and I have no idea why many would have recollection of such an oddly spelled word.

4. Mr. Rogers' theme: it's a wonderful day in THIS neighborhood. I grew up with this and I recall it as it's a wonderful day in THE neighborhood.

These are just a few and the examples are many, and it's kind of reminiscent of other phenomena such as ghosts, UFO sightings, or any other widely documented paranormal phenomena where there may in fact exist truth but often times mixed together with a plethora of lies, mistaken identity, or any other inadvertent or intentional false reports or claims, but it's like they say, it only takes one truth to prove any phenomenon.

It can also be worthy to note that with this Mandela Effect that many of the changes seem to not make nearly as much sense as the recollected original and in some instances maybe even to the point of borderline laughable.

The one that's currently getting me is the Macarena. I'm pushing 50 and that cheesy song came out when I was in my 20's. I have done it 100's of times since then and seen the video, I don't even know how many times. It's now missing part of the dance. Even the video is different to cover this. There used to be more of the girls 'showing' how to do the dance. Now there's more of them laughing like idiots.

Interview with A Vampire is how I remember it. Interview with THE Vampire is wrong. This implies Lestat already thought he was THE Vampire. He didn't start getting his God complex till Queen of the Damned and that was set after Interview. This one bothers me a lot too because this set of books were ones from about 10 that I could find in English in Germany. And they got read a LOT! LOTR and the Hobbit were the other ones.