By Charlene Kemp
The Mandela Effect and what is it?
The Mandela Effect is a term used for a group of people, who all mis-remember the same detail, event or Physicality.
The Mandela Effect was named by paranormal enthusiast Fiona Broome in 2010. Fiona discovered she wasn’t the only one who wrongly believed Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s.
Fiona shared her memories and thoughts in a group and set up a site called http://mandelaeffect.com/. Since then the Mandela effect has took the internet by storm with many people coming forward to share the same thoughts, events and memories (seeing it on TV, hearing about it on the Radio or seeing it in the papers) even though in the archieves there is no evidence of such in reality. Some even claimed that they had learnt of Mandela’s death at school.
At this time Mandela was alive at the time and he actually died in December 2013. Three years later, after Fiona had voiced her memories if it.
Explaining the Mandela effect
There are many different theories to explain the Mandela Effect and when exploring research into the term can leave you some what mind blown!
The 3 most interesting theories I have found to explain this theory is that –
We are living in some kind of parellel universe as believed by Fiona Broome.
Lack of education
Time travellers have gone back into time and have changed our present.
There is no simple explanation, our explanations on it would be down to is our own opinions on what is occuring, it is something that people have tried to explain and have reached their own conclusions on. Best thing to do, if you want to look into the theory more is to look up the 3 mentioned explanation theories above and come to your own conclusions on it.
I feel it is also important to mention that its believed that the bible makes reference to The Mandela Effect and this could also be another explaination on it.
Some alleged examples of the Mandela Effect are quite easily debunked. If you grew up knowing the line from the Lord’s Prayer as ‘Forgive us our trespasses’ you may very well be taken in by a Youtubers conspiracy theory that the text has changed over night to ‘ Forgive us our debts’ and upon checking it, it will say ‘debts’, but after researching you will find thats theres always been different versions that have been favoured by different denominations.
Regardless of what conclusion you come to, its interesting to say the least!
Here are some other examples of The Mandela Effect which some of us may be surprised to find out, that we too may have experienced the Mandela Effect.
Curious George never had a tail
People claim to remember seeing curious george use his own tail to swing from tree to tree but if you look up pictures of him now, you will find that he doesnt have a tail.
No dash in Kit Kat
People remember the Kit Kat bar being spelt “Kit-Kat” with a dash, but there isnt one and the company has claimed that there was never one. This frustrates people who seem to think that at some point there was one.
Forest Gump – Life isnt a box of chocolates
It seems that people confidently remember Forrest Gump saying that his “mama always said life is like a box of chocolates” well it turns out that what was actually said is ” Life was like a box of chocolates”.
Snow White – It never was ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall’
One of the most famous and repeated lines and most rememebered from Snow White is ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’, It turns out the line is actually ‘Magic mirror on the Wall’ and following that many remember the second line to be ‘ Who is the fairest of them all?’ but nope wrong again its actually ‘ Who is the fairest one of all?’
‘Fruit Loops’ or ‘Froot Loops’
Many believe that orginally it was ‘Fruit Loops’ and then changed to ‘Froot Loops’ while others believe it went from ‘Froot Loops’ to ‘Fruit Loops’. Many believe this change happened during their childhood, while others noticed it in recent months, but regardless of what you believe if you look up the cereal or find a box you will see the name ‘Froot Loops’ printed across unless of course you are reading it in another dimension ;).
Whats your thoughts…have you experienced this? if so please contact us to share your story.
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