The Mystery Behind the Mandela Effect

it all started

when one day i was talking with a friend

of mine and they said something that

confused me

they said something about ben franklin

being president

no i may not be a trained historian but

i know enough to say hey ben franklin

wasn’t a president

this led me to look it up and see many

more people convinced that he was

president at some point in time

falling down this rabbit hole i found

the core

to this false memory the mandela effect

a worldwide phenomenon that has taken

over

with this new effect people have been

wondering

is it really an effect or just

a new wave of false memory the effect

was first founded in 2010 by

a paranormal researcher by the name of

fiona broome

she was researching late

south african leader nelson mandela and

his death because

many people were convinced that

he died in the 1980s which some of you

here may also

feel like you remember that however

nelson mandela died in 2013.

that’s a huge gap this isn’t an example

of

a few years off or a few months off this

is

33 whole years that’s over three decades

it gets even crazier considering this

isn’t the only example of this

mind-boggling effect

not only is it on death dates and

logos even how characters look in lines

from movies

one of the most popular examples is that

the berenstein bears

now i i read these books as a kid and i

love them

but when i was online and saw something

saying that it was the berenstain bears

i lost my mind how could something i

thought i remembered so clearly

clearly and something i loved so much

be wrong how could i forget something

like that

no it’s not only that if you thought

that was the end of it

you’re very wrong take the character

pikachu from pokemon

many people remember this lovable

pokemon with

a black end on his tail i mean

that’s what i remember however

he never had a black end on his tail

one of my closest friends even said she

thought she remembered

drawing pikachu with the black end on

his tail and she remembers drawing it

except when she pulled the drawing out

there was no black end on the tail

and the all-time famous line luke i am

your father

again wrong and if you watch the movie

it’s actually no i am your father

it gets even crazier considering there’s

millions of merchandises being sold

with the wrong line

now if you thought that was the end of

it you’d be wrong again

kit kat dash or no dash

froot loops fruit spelled correctly with

a ui

or a double o

looney tunes i personally remember

tunes and looney tunes being like a

cartoon

hence looney tunes

except that’s also wrong it’s actually

spelt tunes as in like

a musical tune

febreze i always remember there being

two e’s like febreze

no there’s only one e people have

started asking the company when did

febreze change the spelling of their

name

but they never did

flintstones i thought i was the only one

but turns out lots of other people

remember it only having one t in the

name

but there’s two

i performed my own study via a google

forms

and put 13 examples

and put 13 examples of different mandela

effects

and examples of a different

examples of the mandela effect into it

out of these 13 examples only

five were guest majority correct

specifically kit kat dash or no dash

curious george tail or no tail

pikachu black end on the tail or not

jif peanut butter jif or jiffy

and the flintstones one t or two

every other was guessed majority

incorrectly

now i can’t be the only one thinking

this is crazy how can

so many people be forgetting everyday

items and

characters and brands how can so many

people

forget such simple and popular things

now though there is no definitive answer

to this question

people have started coming up with

theories and

examples and explanations of

why this effect is happening the most

interesting of them being

one’s about alternate realities in

universes

yes you heard me right alternate

realities

and universes

now many people do not believe in these

topics

but there’s no definitive answer

or evidence to prove it incorrect just

as

there is no evidence to prove it correct

now on top of this people have also

started blaming their own

memory they’ve started saying i can’t

remember things correctly

or i have a horrible memory

with this kind of mentality how can the

human

race continue to be confident

if we have to be confident and positive

to survive

what will this negativity do to us

now you may be wondering why is this

important

who cares if people forget how to spell

the serial brand name

of a serial company but it’s

more than just that this effect

opens up multiple questions for the

psychology community

how does our memory change or is

everything around us changing and we

just don’t notice it

the mandela effect opens up multiple

opportunities and questions for the

human race

us to explore

question answer and study

so as i leave you all i ask you to pay

close attention to things around you

pay even closer attention to the things

that are close and dear to your heart

because who knows

one day they may not be how you remember

them now

thank you