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Are You Going Crazy? 52 Examples of The Mandela Effect and Your Missing Memories
Have you heard of this groupthink phenomenon?
“Luke, I am your father.” — Not an actual quote from Star Wars
He actually said, “No, I am your father.” in the movie. Don’t believe me? Watch for yourself:
That’s crazy, right?
I didn’t believe it myself at first, but here we are. And here’s a page full of 51 other weird Mandela Effects!
What is the definition of Mandela Effect?
These groupthink mistaken memories are a result of something colloquially called the Mandela Effect.
In medical terms, it’s called a false memory. But in this all-too-common case, it’s a collectively held false memory.
It’s when thousands — if not millions — of people share the same memory of something that never happened.
With the Mandela Effect, it’s not often something major that’s different — but still collectively remembered in the wrong way nonetheless.
While the effect has been around for probably thousands of years, the slang term for it was invented in 2010.
A woman by the name of Fiona Broome coined the term when she recalled a false memory of hers that Nelson Mandela had died in prison in the 1980s. (He actually passed away in 2013.)
She claimed this same memory was shared by at least thousands of people — and the name has stuck.
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