Who here is familiar with the Mandela Effect?

Question

The news I heard that day as I walked through my apartment was of the death of imprisoned Nelson Madela. I thought, wow, they let him die. It was summer 1995.
If you are familiar with this theory, then can you tell us your 'Mandela Effect '?

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

There was a Sears store near here and, after they closed up , the windows along the street were boarded up for years!! A main bus stop was right outside the front doors and a bunch of people in this mostly black area sprayed all kinds of graffiti all over the boards and even the metal walls outside the store and some stuck posters on the boards OF Mandala. Otherwise, I would've never known who he was! One day, I'm sitting at the bus stop waiting to go home and U hear that he was killed! Hmmm, isn't that who's on these posters behind me? I turned around to look and, sure enough, it was!! Decades later, I find out he never died!!
There's been many other instances of this over the decades but, at the moment, I can't recall any. Stuff like, I KNOW I've seen a bit in a movie or t. v. show a long time ago but now, when I watch it, that bit's gone!! I was just asking about one here a week ago! One of the biggest reasons I liked the t. v. show, "Mission: Impossible" was because of Martin Landau making all these masks of people and they'd SHOW him making the masks in nearly every episode!! That was the coolest thing I'd ever seen so, I wanted to see it as much as possible! First, he opens this jar of this clear goop that looks like jelly, scoops some out, smears it all over someone's face, let's it dry and then pops it off, fills it with some pink liquid latex, I guess, rolls that around in the mask until it's completely coated on the inside. Once that's dry, he peels the mask from the mold and sticks it onto his own face or that of whoever's gonna play the part of the person the mask was made from.
A year ago, I bought the entire series on DVD and watched every episode and that was only done ONCE in the 5th or 6th season!! By that time, Martin had quit the show and Leonard Nimoy was in so, I quit watching it, by then and would've never seen it happen in those 2 seasons!!
So, how could I have seen something happen dozens of times in the first 4 seasons in the `60's when it only happened ONCE in the seasons I never saw (mostly from the `70's) until last year?

Another one: we used to have this late night horror movie show on t. v., "Chiller Theatre". In the later `70's, they ran a movie that wasn't exactly scary, it was more of a suspenseful thing. I'm pretty sure it was called, "Lifeboat". In the movie, there's a house party gong on. An adult thing, talking, drinking, maybe some dancing, and someone decides they should play a game called, "Lifeboat". They all agree. (About 8 or 10 people.) They all sit around the dining room table with nearly all the lights out and start the game.
The premise of the game is, you've just fled from a sunken ship in the middle of the ocean and there's only one lifeboat and it only has enough room for, say, 2 people. Everyone at the table has to discuss who gets to stay in the boat and live based on their abilities and what have you that might make them the most worthwhile candidate for being in the boat. One of the main people at the table is Eugene Roche (The Ajax "squeaky clean" dish washer). One by one, the party goers are eliminated and have to leave he table and the party. Some parts of the discussions are pretty intense!!
The show went off the air in the early `80's and the host found himself on radio doing an easy listening show. Mom called him up a few times just to chat (he also died a few days before mom) and I called him up once to ask him what that movie was. He had no clue! The only, "Lifeboat" he knew of is a movie about a real life boat situation from the `40's staring Tallulah Bankhead!
Once I discovered IMDb. com a few years ago, I looked it up on there and no such movie exists!! The closest I can get to it is a 1975 courtroom drama about pretty much the same thing

HawkPerception · Accepted Answer

I'm very familiar with the Mandela effect and have been talking about it with friends consistently when it was first mentioned.  There are many theories related to it. False memories, confabulation, social influence, deja vu, parallel universes, quantum mechanics, cognitive bias, memory reconstruction, information overload. But my honest belief is it's none of that. I genuinely believe it's just a mass social experiement that the government is pulling to see how much they can lie to the masses about and get away with. My secondary (less realistic) belief is that it might be the effects of time travel and that the change doesn't effect everyone's minds. It's the only way I can explain the changes on such a mass level where there's literally no evidence of them ever being that way in the first place. There are so many Mandela effects that affected me.  The Raisin Bran sun mascot DEFINITELY wore sunglasses. Febreeze DEFINITELY had 2 "E's" Kit-Kat DEFINITELY had a dash in between Monopoly guy DEFINITELY had a monocle 
 Fruit of the Loom DEFINITELY had a cornucopia Tinker Bell DEFINITELY flew across the screen in Disney movies Pikachu DEFINITELY had a black end of its tail C3PO DEFINITELY never had a silver leg... he was always fully golden... I would've noticed if he had a silver leg Froot Loops DEFINITELY was spelled Fruit Loops at a point in time All of these pissed me off a ton, but the one that I can say pissed me off the most was the Froot Loops one because I LITERALLY REMEMBER the day it happened. I remember when I was extremely young and my mom often took me to the groceries with her that I always saw Fruit Loops spelled like that. Then one day I saw it again and all the boxes were spelled Froot Loops and I asked my mom "Why did they change the spelling of it?" She didn't think anything of it back then and just told me something along the lines of "Oh they do that sometimes". And then years later, I hear it's part of a Mandela effect. I'm like NO IT'S NOT YOU DAMN LIARS.  Monopoly man 100% had a monocle. All my family agrees that he did and we were big Monopoly players back in the day, doing it pretty often at family functions.  Tinker Bell definitely flew across the screen and did the little tap (can't remember clearly if it was once or twice) with her wand. I remember it in my head. How can I make that up?  I have a clear memory of going to my uncle's place a long time ago and receiving a Kit-Kat from my mom on the drive and the dash was so vivid in my head. I remember the first time Febreeze got big and I saw it in commercials often. It definitely had 2 E's then.  Pikachu's tail 100% had a black tip. I remember playing that game so much back in the day. And now they have the balls to tell me it never had one? That's like telling me Charizard doesn't have a flame at the end of its tail. I'll get a mob to lynch them, I'm telling ya.  Another one that genuinely pisses me off the Fruit of the Loom and the cornucopia. Why the fuck would we all imagine the same thing in our heads. It definitely had one. Now watch these.

Lliam · Answer

Yes. Apparently it's pretty common for people to misremember, usually because things have been repeated. For example, Rick in Casablanca never said "Play it again, Sam."

Or people remember things incorrectly. For example, they may think that Loony Tunes is spelled Loony Toons as in Cartoons.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Yes. In fact I have a movie called  The Mandela Effect  in my collection.

jack1924 · Answer

In Pokémon  Pikachu has a black stain at the end of his tail, I remember it does

gorydetails · Answer

Barenstein bears.

strateguy632 · Answer

Not me

StudyingAuthor · Answer

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