Reports of Nelson Mandela’s death in 2013 have rocked the internet community. Outraged people from different countries reproached the media for false information, claimed that he died behind bars in the 1980s, and could not be the president of South Africa. They could not provide evidence or references, but they assured that they had read in the newspapers, saw the broadcast of the funeral on TV.

In reality, there was no information in the media. The researcher of the phenomenon, Fiona Broome, found witnesses from among the prisoners of the Paulsmoor prison in Cape Town, where the former president was serving his sentence. Independently of each other, they recounted obituaries from the press.

The Broome Archives contains hundreds of similar eyewitness accounts. According to some, boxer Muhammad Ali died of a stroke after converting to Islam back in 1964 (although he actually died in 2016 at the age of 74). Many recalled that Ronald Reagan was killed by a bullet in 1981, although he died in 2004 at 93 from pneumonia (in 1981, two months after taking office as President, Reagan did survive a serious assassination attempt).

A new example of the Mandela Effect in 2019 concerns the infamous Aum Shinrikyo sect. One group of adherents claims that their leader, Seko Asahara, who was executed in 2018 by hanging, actually committed suicide in a cell. Others are convinced that Seko Asahara was not hanged, but shot, and several years earlier.

Seko Asahara, head of the notorious totalitarian sect Aum Senrike, was hanged in 2018 for the 1995 terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway by his henchmen.

What’s the point?

It manifests itself simply: most of the population, due to some kind of trigger, suddenly recalls an event that happened in the past. People describe all the smallest details in the same way and remember him clearly. However, later it turns out that in fact nothing of the kind happened. Or – there really were similar circumstances, but they happened in a completely different way. People who are faced with the fact that their memories turn out to be false, try to find all kinds of evidence of what happened. But, naturally, they find nothing.

The Mandela Effect – Memory Grimaces or Echoes of a Parallel Universe?

Mandela’s effect is reminiscent of the plot of a science fiction novel. A person lives an ordinary life, and then the familiar canvas of being begins to creep away, leaving the protagonist alone with a brave new world. The heralds of fatal changes are the hero’s memories that do not coincide with the stories of family and friends. In such a phenomenon as the Mandela effect, examples of false memories go beyond personal biographies: for many people, well-known facts of modern history look quite different from those in official documents.

The Mandela effect was first discussed in 2010. A controversy flared up among the Dragon Con fancon over the life of the legendary anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela. Contrary to the obvious facts, some strange people stubbornly insisted that Mandela had never been the president of South Africa and died in prison in the 80s of the last century, although there were still three years left before the death of the South African leader.

Nelson Mandela, who either died young in prison, or lived a long time and was president

After some time, the researcher of the phenomenon Fiona Broome, who also took part in the discussion, found witnesses to the funeral of the first president of South Africa from among the prisoners of Paulsmoor prison in Cape Town, who were serving a sentence at the same time as the future president of South Africa. Independently of each other, the respondents recounted obituaries from newspapers in detail. Since then, more frequent cases of mass false memories have been referred to as the “Mandela effect.”

There is evidence of a torch site visit in the 90s. However, it closed in 1916.

The Mandela effect is also confirmed by examples from the life of other historical figures who were sent to the next world ahead of time. In the collection of Fiona Broome there is eyewitness testimony that the famous boxer Muhammad Ali died of a stroke six months after converting to Islam, and the 40th US President Ronald Reagan was killed by a bullet from John Hinckley in 1981.

There are more than a dozen options for the explosion of the Challenger. Including, and “all survived”

The Nelson Mandela Effect can manifest itself in different ways. For example, some adherents of the destructive sect Aum Shinrikyo claim that their spiritual leader Seko Asahara, who was executed in 2018, committed suicide during his arrest. Other cultists are convinced that the guru’s death sentence was carried out earlier than 2018. If history did not verify such an ambiguous phenomenon as the Mandela effect, we would be completely lost in the maze of probabilities.

Matrix glitch and parallel worlds?

Because of what people massively form false memories – there are different versions of this. Mystics, for example, talk about parallel universes, in one of which things are as we remember, and in the other – differently. The third version of the universe contains even more changes that distinguish it from the first. And there are infinitely many such options. Each of them contains us, our copies, each of which is slightly different from the other. In some millionth variation, you are no longer blond with blue eyes, but a brunette with brown eyes, you have not a dog, but a cat, but still you remain yourself.

Matrix theorists have their own explanation. They believe that everything around us is in fact a program written by someone or something, and we are characters in it. When the matrix fails, errors start popping up. This can be observed if something breaks in the computer. The Mandela Effect is an example of such a mistake when something went wrong.

Other people are sure that the unusual phenomenon is not a false memory, but the result of the work of the hadron collider. With the help of it, scientists not only opened doors to parallel worlds, but also learned how to change them. So rewriting our past for them is like clearing the memory in a smartphone.

The adherents of this version believe: scientists at CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research), experimenting with dark matter, change reality. Supposedly, every time the collider is launched, due to the release of a huge amount of energy, some part of the past changes, and at that moment those same parallel universes are layered on top of each other. In general, there is also some kind of failure.

Politics

Not one, not two, or even a hundred people are ready to argue: Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation from the presidency on December 31, 1999 with the words “I’m tired, I’m leaving.” At least, the phrase that has become a winged phrase sounds like this in my head. in fact, leaving the post, the politician said only: “Today, on the last day of the passing century, I am leaving. I did everything I could.” Why and how a new version appeared, which is so strongly engraved in memory, remains a mystery.

In addition, the well-known communist slogan never sounded like “Workers of all countries, unite!” In reality, it looks like this: “Workers of all countries, unite!” It is in this form that the slogan is used in the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. But it was more convenient for humanity to remember another option.

Music

There are also examples of the Mandela effect in culture. For example, there is controversy over one of Queen’s most famous songs, We Are the Champions. If you strain your memory and sing to yourself the finale of the composition, the phrase “Cause we are the champions … of the world!” It seems that the very voice of Freddie Mercury sings it. Even ardent fans of the group are sure: these words are there.

False memories in large groups of people

Thus, the Mandela effect is a phenomenon, which
means the emergence in a large group of people of memories that
contradict the real state of affairs. It is noteworthy that false
memories do not relate to any difficult to verify, but to well-known
events: historical, astronomical, geographical, and so on.

In other words, checking such information is as
easy as shelling pears, especially now that everyone has the Internet at their disposal.
However, faced with this phenomenon, people become somewhat
confused and confused. How so? They remember very well
that Mandela died behind bars! This was reported in “Novosti”, wrote in
numerous newspapers, and on TV they even showed the funeral of an
African revolutionary! ..

But no, in fact, no one wrote anything, did not report anything, and
did not show it anywhere. Would journalists around the world decide to
concoct such a “duck” at the same time? The question is, why? Enthusiasts have
long and persistently searched for newspaper articles and television reports about the
event, even if done by some provincial reporters
who suddenly wanted to have some fun like this.

TOP 7 episodes of the Mandela effect in recent history

The assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. According to some eyewitnesses, there was only one woman in the president’s car – the first lady. In fact, there was another lady in the car – the wife of the Governor of Texas.
Disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926. 10 days after fleeing home, the detective’s queen was found in a hotel in Harrogate, where she lived under the name of her husband’s mistress. Nevertheless, many contemporaries were convinced that Mrs. Christie is still listed as missing.
The participation of the GDR army in the suppression of the “Prague Spring”. Officially, the Czechoslovak military group was in reserve, but some local residents note that East German soldiers also took part in breaking up the demonstrations.
The death of a black preacher Martin Luther King by a sniper. According to investigators, the shot was fired from a Remington rifle. Nevertheless, some witnesses claim that the killer fired a pistol, while others “witnessed with their own eyes” the explosion of a home-made bomb.
Canonization of Mother Teresa before 2016. There are also people who are sure that the famous nun was canonized during her lifetime.
Explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. The catastrophe occurred in 1986, but sometimes other dates are called – 1985 or 1987; there is also evidence that there were not seven, but six astronauts on board the shuttle.
Segway invention. The first gyro scooters appeared on the streets in the early 2000s, although some people claim that segways were found on the streets in the nineties.

The gaining strength of the Mandela effect throws up new examples with enviable regularity. The canvases of old masters, logos of famous brands, geographical maps and poems familiar from childhood are changing.

Mind games?

Psychologists are also familiar with this phenomenon and consider it quite ordinary, not mystical. They explain the Mandela effect by the fact that sometimes a person, recalling an event, somewhat modifies it in his head.

Memory is a complex complex mental process. Both the brain and the psyche, and sometimes the social context, are involved in the implementation of actions such as memorization, recollection, and reproduction of facts.

“Parts of the brain provide a physical basis, so-called long-term memory matrices. They store information. Now there is more and more evidence that different mental processes can be provided not by one specific site, but by links and chains of neurons from different areas of the brain, “he explained.

According to him, malfunctions can occur in the work of such links, as well as in specific areas of the brain. This is possible due to trauma, intoxication, or deliberate influences such as programming the necessary information. For example, as with trance or the 25 frame effect.

Thus, memories from memory can be erased or distorted. This often happens as a defense so that the psyche can adapt and supplant unpleasant, painful information. In part, the Mandela effect works in a similar way. But we must not forget about the presence of the so-called social mechanism associated with collective memory, when information is often distorted in the direction of the socially acceptable or necessary within the framework of a given society. Similar phenomena are collective psychosis that can occur in children, since their psyche is very plastic and subject to external influences.

Unexplained Details of Fake Memories

Another strange feature of the Mandela effect
is that such memories are not
just false information recorded in a person’s memory, but a whole system of
sequential memories. Here’s an interesting example.

What color were Adolf Hitler’s eyes? Most
people swear they are brown. Moreover, many of them
will confidently tell you that they know this fact very well since school
days. Like, the history teacher specifically emphasized that the Fuhrer was
brown-eyed and at the same time advocated the Aryan racial purity,
according to which the eyes of the “superman” must certainly be
blue.

Obviously, this could not be. All contemporaries of
Hitler claimed that he had blue eyes, and liked to emphasize this
fact, speaking about the chosenness of the leader of the Third Reich. Below is a
fragment of a rare color photograph of the Fuhrer, which clearly shows
that his eyes are blue. Why is it that so many people remember not only his
brown eyes, but even ridicule about this over Hitler? ..

Carriers of false memories often associate the
incident itself with events in their personal life, for example, “my
son was born on the same day ,” or “this was my last school year”. That is, a false
memory firmly sits in the memory of an individual and is associated with many
other events, creating the illusion that in fact it was so. It
is not surprising that someone can foaming at the mouth to prove to you that the Americans
landed on the moon only three times, but it is worth showing him an article from
Wikipedia, which clearly states that there were six landings, and the person is
seriously lost … He remembers very well how the news said that
NASA made its last, third, flight to the Earth satellite. And there
are a lot of such people.

Explaining the Mandela Effect

First. Unscientific. This effect appears due to the fact that people move between worlds. Yes, many people believe in the same idea from the comics about parallel universes.

Second. It would be fair to call it pseudoscientific. The main idea is laid out in the movie “The Matrix”, and the effect is the result of this failure.

The third. Scientific. Scientists associate the effect with changes in memories. Memory often embellishes certain events. This is especially true in children. There is even a scientific term – “infantile amnesia”, which is understood as distorted memories at an early age. The fact is that many adults are faced with the Mandela Effect, recalling exactly the events that happened to them at an early age.

There is also a so-called false memory. It is often called paramnesia. It is with her that the effect of deja vu is associated. Cognitive training, in particular, Wikium simulators, is excellent for memory problems.

Fourth. Also scientific. It is associated with the peculiarities of the dissemination of information. Someone remembered “an example from life”, told another, embellished. Then the situation grows like a snowball: it spreads among a huge number of people, acquiring new details. Simply put, you get a damaged phone only on a much larger scale.

Examples of the Mandela effect

The Mandela Effect 2020 affects many areas of our reality.

Geography and architecture

Many had misconceptions about the geolocation of countries. In their opinion, they were located on the map in other places. One example is New Zealand. The country lies in the southeast of Australia at 1200 one miles. On the Reddit website, a user writes that at the age of 16 he bought a globe and, when studying, noted that the country is in the west. There were also self-righteous people who argued that New Zealand was located in the northeast of Australia. On the world map, some have lost Cuba, Sri Lanka, Greenland.

One of the new phenomena is the Svalbard archipelago with an area of 61,022 km2 in the Arctic Ocean. For many experts in geography, he was the discovery of the century. They claim that it was not on the map before. This applies to the Canadian Nunuwut, the size of Texas, California, French territory combined.

Examples of Mandela effects from architecture in Russia and abroad:

The figure of the goddess Ishtar appeared on the dome of the Capitol in America.
Easter Island statues were left without white spots.
On the nose of Roosevelt, standing on Mount Rushmore, glasses materialized.
On the building of Moscow State University there is a red stripe, on the spire there is a drum.

Even the White House has changed. The type of structures remained unchanged, but the building in the center became smaller, the transitional corridors were longer

Film and creativity

The Mandela effects in Russia prove that images in paintings, brand logos change, words of famous poems and songs disappear. The phrase: “Boy, get away from the car” became winged. Most are sure that it is borrowed from the movie “Beware of the Car”. Many refuse to believe that it was pronounced in the film “In Secret to the Whole World”.

To test your memory, you can recall the expressions of the characters from the films Love and Doves, Prisoner of the Caucasus, and other bestsellers of the Soviet period. Many will find clear inconsistencies with the originals. For example, the phrase “Well, you have a face, Sharapov” never actually sounded in the film “The meeting place cannot be changed” and, in fact, was created from two other phrases (addressed by Zheglov to Sharapov): “Well, you have a face” and “Well, you have Vidocq, Sharapov.”

In the film “White Sun of the Desert” now instead of “Abdul, set fire”, Mahmud came from somewhere. It is appropriate to draw a parallel with Star Wars. The phrase “Luke, I’m your father” has become a quote. In the original it sounded “No, I am your father”. However, movie fans claim that this famous phrase sounded like that.

Other examples of the Mandela effect defy explanation. For example, Superman’s logo has changed – a notch has appeared on the letter S, which makes the sign look like a snake. And where did the brand symbol disappear – the monocle of the banker from “Monopoly”

Inconsistencies in the inscriptions

A controversy flared up in foreign forums over the title of a children’s book. The difference between “BerenstEin Bears” and “BerenstAin Bears” was the spelling of one letter. Famous Youtube game critic James Rolfe, better known as Angry Video Game Nerd, dedicated this phenomenon.

Bears Berenstein. Or Berenstein ?! By the way, this is a picture from the series “The Simpsons”, in 2017 a special issue of this famous cartoon was released, dedicated to the Mandela effect

It is appropriate to recall the English title of the famous TV series “Sex and the City”. Many believe that the correct spelling is Sex IN the city, which is confirmed by the translation. Others argue that the name was originally Sex and the city. There are plenty of examples that create illusory ideas and change reality, and every year there are more.

The Mandela effect: examples from Russia

In our country, the Nelson Mandela effect is most often manifested when discussing old films and cartoons. The dialogues of the heroes have long diverged into quotes and memes, which sound differently for different people. Examples confirming the Mandela effect surface in many Soviet tapes:

“Prisoner of the Caucasus”
“Ivan Vasilievich is changing his profession”
“The Diamond Arm”
“Love and pigeons”
“Meeting place can not be Changed”

New examples of false memories of the death of Edward Radzinsky also clearly illustrate the Mandela effect. Newspapers repeatedly “buried” the popular TV presenter, and each time there were witnesses describing the farewell ceremony in detail. In addition, among our compatriots there are witnesses to the shooting of the White House in 1991.

Possible explanations for the Mandela effect

So, there are several of them, and one is more fantastic than the other:

First, many researchers of the Mandela effect believe that this phenomenon is a consequence of the movement of people from one parallel world to another – the so-called quantum immortality, when a person, unnoticed by himself, moves from one reality to another, neighboring. In the past reality, the world could be somewhat different. For example, there Lermontov appropriated Pushkin’s poem, Agatha Christie really disappeared with the ends (perhaps she also moved somewhere), and America grabbed a piece of Canada or Mexico, having acquired one or two new states. A person, however, has certain memories of the reality where he lived before;
Secondly, it is quite possible that someone created a time machine and went to the past, where something was accidentally or deliberately changed. That is, an unknown inventor could trigger the butterfly effect, when even minor changes in the past (like killing an insect) generate a chain of changes that significantly affect the future. Thus, some of us still have memories from that version of reality, where the events of the past and, as a result, the present were not changed;
Thirdly, there is also such an opinion that we all live in a matrix – a simulation of reality created by intelligent machines, people of the future or representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization. This simulation occasionally crashes, certain problems occur. For example, on the same day you can meet the same stranger in different parts of your city. Or notice a car on the road that simply disappears, dissolving into thin air. Similar failures can occur in our memory, which is entirely formed by the matrix, since the real world has never been available to us, and we do not even know what it is.

The Mandela effect has also been studied in conventional science. So, in this regard, confabulation is often mentioned – a psychopathological phenomenon of false memory, when a person is fully convinced that some fictional events actually took place. Nevertheless, scientists are unable to explain why such a false memory can sometimes be observed in tens of millions of earthlings living in different parts of the world.

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