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“The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people remember something contrary to the known publicly accepted fact”

Do you remember certain personal or world events happening differently than they apparently did?

Some people remember the death of Mandela as far back as the 1970's in prison. This is where the effect gets its name.

Share your experiences here!



Mandela Effect: The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people share a common memory of something that differs from what is generally accepted to be fact.



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Lost Colony of Roanoke

Hello everyone,

So, tonight I found myself watching a YouTube video explaining early US settlements leading up to Plymouth and the first thanksgiving. Of course the video mentioned the failed lost colony of Roanoke. I was shocked to discover the lost colony was located in North Carolina. I could’ve sworn it was in Virginia. Do you guys remember this the same way I do? I feel like I remember being taught the colony was in VA in school.

Roanoke IS a city in Virginia, but I have always thought it was named that AFTER/in honor of the lost colony. I know this isn’t something everyone would think back on, but I have a different recollection of this and need to share it with someone.

What do you think?

4 Comments
2024/12/01
06:23 UTC

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The Sopranos Ending

 When I was 16 a friend recommended me to watch the sopranos (wasn’t that long ago but long enough). I heard it was good so I gave it a watch, I liked it but I was never a fan of shows where you follow the “bad” guy. Just hard for me to resonate, anyway I specifically remember the ending scene being an abrupt cut to black as it is now. 
  However the part that gets me is I specifically remember it being instead of just at the table Tony goes to the urinal after meadow gets there and they’ve talked for a bit. In this urinal spot while he is pissing the screen cuts to black, atleast that’s what I remember it as. I heard a friend mention the scene so I googled it and clearly the one I’m seeing now is not that. 
  I don’t know if I’m completely thinking of another show or if I’m just losing it. But I specifically remember it being while he was in a urinal. I know the one guy goes to the bathroom and it’s sort of highlighted but I thought it went deeper.
2 Comments
2024/12/01
06:10 UTC

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Charlie and the chocolate factory

In Charlie and the chocolate factory the original… the money Charlie finds in the gutter… i remember him finding a dollar bill… i just watched it on tv and he finds a dollar coin… am i crazy?

26 Comments
2024/12/01
05:39 UTC

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Hires root beer commercial

The commercial as I remember goes “Hires root beer, the finest root beer, it’s not watered down, all it is is good.” It’s a jingle advertisement. Remember this commercial on TV late 80s or early to mid 90s. Can’t find it. Please help me find the commercial. Thank you.

1 Comment
2024/12/01
04:11 UTC

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Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms

I’ve been listening to Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms for as long as I can remember, and something weird hit me this year. In the lyrics, the line goes:

"To go gliding in a one-horse sleigh..."

But I could have sworn my whole life it was:

"To go riding in a one-horse sleigh..."

Does anyone else remember it this way, or am I just mistaken?

9 Comments
2024/12/01
03:19 UTC

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Robber emoji

Yes, there was an emoji commonly referred to as the "robber" emoji, but it's important to note that it was actually an emoji depicting a person wearing a mask, often associated with a burglar or a robber. This emoji is officially known as the "Face with Mask" emoji, which depicts a person wearing a surgical mask. However, it became popularly used to represent a robber or thief, particularly due to the mask resembling what burglars or criminals sometimes wear in cartoons or media.

In Unicode, this emoji is officially called "Face with Medical Mask" and was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. While it was not specifically designed to represent a robber, its association with criminal imagery emerged through how people used it in messaging.

If you were thinking of a different "robber" emoji, there wasn't a separate emoji officially categorized solely for a "robber," but rather this face mask emoji became the go-to.

3 Comments
2024/12/01
00:25 UTC

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Tinkerbell

Omg! In the new Disney+ Beatles 64, at the 1 hour 31 min and 43 second mark, they show the Tinkerbell/castle thing we all remember!

17 Comments
2024/11/30
20:07 UTC

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Volvo logo amazing residual

Stumbled upon an old Audi commercial that I saw years ago, but now I noticed an interesting oddity...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=350tD8E7htM

Volvo logo depicted on respective key does not contain the current up arrow that's involved in Mandela effect, but is a simple circle.

I searched for images of volvo old keys and all now contains the arrow... so this seems really an amazing residue.

Worth to be noted that's not an amateur image or gadget like key holder, but it's an official commercial which wanted the rival brands to be the most recognisable as possible...

4 Comments
2024/11/30
18:13 UTC

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Billy abobs surname has changed!

I just realized I've had a rather big Mandela effect. I am a huge fan of the actor Billy Bob....I know his surname was spelt Thorton....I am surprised to see it's now ThorNton. There was never an N is his surname in my reality!

20 Comments
2024/11/30
17:06 UTC

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Was Sylvester Stallone the Terminator in T2?

For years, I’ve vividly remembered Sylvester Stallone playing the Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I’m not alone—many people insist it was Stallone, not Arnold Schwarzenegger, who brought the T-800 to life.

I can picture Stallone’s intense gaze, his gravelly delivery of “I’ll be back,” and the emotional weight he brought to the character. The scene of him lowering himself into the molten steel felt so real that I’d swear I watched him do it.

21 Comments
2024/11/30
17:03 UTC

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Bill Murray death

Ok I know this time I’m not going crazy. Bill Murray died sometime between 2018 and 2021 I remember seeing it on the news. It was all over twitter. Instagram. Facebook it was everywhere I could be wrong but I think it was a heart attack? I even remember Dan Aykroyd making a memorial post I even remember his Wikipedia updating as of today he’s alive and well. This definitely happened and I need to know who else remembers this

25 Comments
2024/11/30
16:41 UTC

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The Christmas carol 2009 Disney+

I swear on everything holy I remember in this movie that bitter old man gets hit with a snow ball, but he doesn’t. I just finished the movie and was waiting patiently for him to get hit with a snow ball and he didn’t. I remember him getting hit with one clear as day and so does my mom. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it in a different Christmas carol? Is that scene not in Disney+?

1 Comment
2024/11/30
07:23 UTC

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Soccer boppers

I remember them being Sock Em' Boppers .

7 Comments
2024/11/30
02:56 UTC

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The Kid with Spencer Breslin from 2000

Does anyone else remember this movie starring Tim Allen as the main character and not Bruce Willis?

5 Comments
2024/11/29
22:18 UTC

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Michael Rapaport

Hi guys,

First time poster.

Did I Mandela effect Michael Rapaport into a sort of... my-wife-and-kids-esque TV show before the war at home? In the late 90's / early 00's (sure it was before 2005) - I seem to remember a red baseball hat.

Any help?

8 Comments
2024/11/29
22:15 UTC

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Mandela effect with the game “postal 2”

Am I the only one who remembers the “health pipe” being an actual m3th pipe???? Now when I play it it’s a tobacco pipe???!??? And supposedly has always been one… me and my bf are certain that a few years back it was a m3th one LOLLL

6 Comments
2024/11/29
20:56 UTC

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Slade the band and 3rd week of Nov. Thanksgiving?

I just got this cool rock and roll shirt. It’s a great shirt with all the cool bands from the 70’s to the 90’s and it has Slade on it- who is Slade- never in my 52 years have I heard of them and I consider myself very versed in rock. Is this an additional added Mandela? Also, wtf is going on with Thanksgiving? It was always on the 3rd Thursday!

28 Comments
2024/11/29
18:58 UTC

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CHERNOBYL DRAGONS

Either I made up something I loved on the daily for a total of 2 years of my life, or something happened and if so, then well, i’m SOL anyhow. If you know what this is, the exact thing i’m referring to, please help me out. It’s very specific. I’m not even saying what exactly it is because I’m 100% convinced it exists and I need to know if anyone else remembers it by this name too. Fingers crossed here….

5 Comments
2024/11/29
17:56 UTC

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I am losing my mind...I KNOW this viral cat song video ended differently

I have watched this video easily HUNDREDS of times over the years. I have shown it to people, I can quote it word for word and have on multiple occasions. Tonight I watched it, and suddenly the ending to it changed.

Normally, after the song, it goes 'Now you can songify YOUR life at (url).com!'

Now, the ending after the song has changed COMPLETELY. Different tone, different background music, different words. I listened to it just now and I literally feel like my world has been torn off its axis. I KNOW EXACTLY how this video went. I double checked the upload date to see if it's a different one from the one I've seen so many times, but it's still the same one from 13 years ago.

This isn't a matter of mistaking some words. This is a video I have seen and quoted word for word hundreds of times. I can literally hear it in my head when I think about it. I have never felt as utterly baffled and shook as I do right now.

If anyone also remembers the way the original ending went or has an explanation please tell me.

https://youtu.be/sP4NMoJcFd4?si=DG6VfrYjXWLtCbcD

4 Comments
2024/11/29
05:25 UTC

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Different edition of a book, ok, I swear I own a copy of the 2nd edition of the ttrpg SLA industries, but I cannot find it just the original printing of the first edition and a reprint...I remember reading the second edition book!

Seriously, what is going on...?

17 Comments
2024/11/29
01:37 UTC

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Trojan Horse... NEVER HAPPENED. It was a myth.

I swear, everyone I've spoke to as well all thought the Trojan Horse thing (big wooden horse) was real. But no, it was a complete made up story.

35 Comments
2024/11/29
00:11 UTC

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Footprints in the snow in the JonBenet Ramsey case?

I remember hearing (back in 1996 or 1997) that there were footprints in the snow, leading to the basement window where the suspected “intruder” made entry. Does anyone else remember this? But now, looking at the photos of the house from that day, there was no snow on the ground?

3 Comments
2024/11/28
20:13 UTC

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Stouffer's stove top stuffing for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving and Stouffer's stove top stuffing were like two peas in a pod. This is the first Thanksgiving I will be celebrating with them apart. Feels weird lol. 35 Thanksgivings except for one when I made my own stuffing. As a kid I'd have my fruit of the loom underwear on thinking how fitting to be wearing them on this day. It seems the two most mind blowing Mandela effects for me are the ones that have to do with Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving.

48 Comments
2024/11/28
18:38 UTC

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Does anyone remember the date of thanksgiving always being November 25th?

Is it just me and my husband? Are we wrong? I know I've read something about a debate being the third or fourth Thursday of November but I stg it's always been the 25th? Am I wrong?

29 Comments
2024/11/28
17:23 UTC

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Mandela effects in Downton Abbey?

I watched the tv series Downton Abbey 12ish years ago. Best series I had ever watched, and I have thought and talked about it a lot over the past 12 years, the things I loved about it and the things I didn’t like.

This fall, I decided I was ready to rewatch it. And… I am confused. A lot of the series seems to have changed. Some of it I could perhaps blame on me just misremembering, but there were certain things that were A BIG DEAL to me when I watched it the first time, things that now don’t exist at all in the series. One example is Lady Mary living in the new house with her fiancé. 12 years ago the couple lived there for quite a while and it bothered me because I didn’t like how cold and uninviting that house was, especially compared to Downton. In the series today, they never even move into the house. Another one is a couch at Downton Abbey. I noticed it because we have one just like it in my house, and I was so bummed when they got rid of the couch halfway through the show, 12 years ago. I am now on the last season and the couch is still there. These are just two of many many things that seem to have completely changed.

So my question is, has anyone else watched and rewatched Downton Abbey and felt like something was off about it the second time?

5 Comments
2024/11/28
16:25 UTC

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New Netflix movie seems like it never existed in the first place?

I remember somewhere in the middle of march or may of last year, there was a list of new Netflix movies/series that came out, one of them caught my attention. The summary said something like “a girl loses her significant other in an accident and during the grieving process, the boyfriend reaches out to her beyond the grave” and a short clip plays, it appears to be a dark library with some blue light coming from a window, then the camera pans to a page fallen from a book that starts floating around until it reaches it’s destination, that we don’t really get to see because the clip ends there. Now, I don’t remember the name, nor if it’s a movie or a series, but I do remember it was a Korean drama. I was so excited to see it, but the next day when I had the time to watch it, it was gone. I looked all over for it, even searched the internet, but there was no such thing as what I remembered seeing. I know I should’ve saved it or written the name down at least so I wouldn’t forget, but since it said it was new, I assumed it was easy finding it again. I don’t know what happened to it, and I don’t know if I had just experienced a Mandela effect.

9 Comments
2024/11/28
15:48 UTC

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Pulp Fiction - Bruce Willis eats the Pop Tart?

Okay I swear Me, my Brother, and my Cousin all would watch Pulp Fiction as a kid and remember him taking one of the Pop Tarts out and eats it in almost one go then goes to wipe the gun off. In every version of the film than it on TV on a very Liberal/Uncensored channel like Showcase or Bravo or something, I remember him grabbing it and chewing it, my Brother, and my Cousin all felt like we recall him eating it. This is legit one of the only cases where I could have manufactured the memory from someone else's certainty it was there, cause it's what I'd do with a delicious Pop Tart that's still good and it feels like Tarantino would direct that to humorize the scene even more.

But yeah no matter what, he never touches the Pop-Tart and I swore someone touched the Pop-Tart. Maybe there were other people who lived in the Quentin Tarantino Pop-Tart alternate universe, fit in with the food porn he loves to do cause he says he likes making people crave a certain dish when they leave the movie like "I like to eat Pie after I watch a movie" he wants us to create our little rituals, like my Mom made some heart delicious stew cause she watched The Hateful Eight that Christmas, and man it's cool having a cinephile for a parent, they legit let a part of your imagination live in the movie, cause Tarantino wants to put a craving into us to remind us that Cinema is a relationship between us and the movie, I always remember him making that Pop-Tart look good, one handed?

10 Comments
2024/11/28
10:30 UTC

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Does anyone remember the “Washing butter” meme?

This is my first time posting here, but I had to get this to more people. I was talking my friends the other day about stuff from the pandemic era,( can you believe it's been 5 years?) and I mentioned the washing butter meme, he had no idea what I was talking about, so i elaborated on it, he still had no idea, and we went our separate ways for the day. I asked some of my other friends about it, and half of them knew and half of them didn't, do any of you remember it? I remember it being pretty popular, but when I searched it on Google there was nothing. It was like the knee surgery meme, funny cause it was random, the image was like some sort of emoji like an angry face, with a caption that said, "just washing butter, what's the problem?" Does anybody remember that? Am I just misremembering?

5 Comments
2024/11/28
08:17 UTC

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Jonbenet Ramsey was missing for Decades!

My husband and I are super weirded out right now. We decided to watch the new Netflix series about her and right away I said, why are they saying she was murdered, she was never found...my husband agreed, as we get thru the first episode we see that she was found in the house.

We can't be the only ones that know it's been a topic of media, people, Even conspiracy theories for over 2 decades!!She has been missing!

We have experienced Mandela effects but this is a whole other level, I remember seeing a magazine at the grocery store and also a documentary a year or 2 ago saying "we're is Jonbenet" now it's she was murdered and found almost right away?!?

20 Comments
2024/11/28
06:46 UTC

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Fruit of the Loom, where's the "Loom"?

This has surely been discussed here, but to me this it the most obvious and real one for me. I grew up with my Fruit of the Loom tighty whiteys and t-shirts. I know what the freakin' label looks like.

Until around 2010 or so when my wife bought me a pack of underwear and the first words out of my mouth were "What did they do to the damn logo!!". I was outraged - there was no cornucopia, just a pile of fruit. My wife didn't believe me, so she came over and looked and was aghast they would change such an iconic brand's logo/label.

100%, no hint of doubt in my mind - this is the "biggie" of Mandela effects for me. I mean it makes no sense with no cornucopia!

33 Comments
2024/11/28
05:16 UTC

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