The Mandela Effect: A Conspiracy Theory

Have you ever been in one of those situations where you could have sworn that something happened a certain way, yet nobody else remembers it the same as you? That’s exactly what the Mandela Effect is, except on a larger scale. The Mandela Effect is a theory that has been seen in today’s media many times and yet nobody has figured it out, though many people have tried to. The Mandela Effect is a conspiracy theory where millions of people share false memories of past events/things in the media. Or in other words, when someone has a clear memory of something that never happened in this reality. This phenomenon got its name when in 2010 blogger Fiona Broome wrote a post about millions of people believing that Nelson Mandela died in jail, yet he
Someone’s actual experience is written online. (Mandela Effect) It reads the following “I thought Nelson Mandela died in prison. I thought I remembered it clearly, complete with news clips of this funeral, the mourning in South Africa, some rioting in cities, and the heartfelt speech by his widow. Then, I found out he was still alive.” Another one of these being the “Berenstein Bears” example. Millions of people and children remember the show and books about the friendly bear family being spelled “Berenstain Bears”. When news that this could be a Mandela Effect example hit the internet, everyone went crazy and started checking all the things they had having to do with them. What they saw shocked them. The spelling had in fact changed! More examples just like these are: “Fruit Loops” and “Froot Loops”, “The Flinstones” and the “The Flintstones”, and Alexander Hamilton being killed and not being president/actually being a president.” Even some movie quotes are changed. In Snow White the evil queen is remembered to say “Mirror Mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all?”, yet now in every clip of the movie the queen says “Magic Mirror on the wall.” Or even the famous Star Wars quote “Luke, I am your father.”, is now “No, I am your father.”. There’s even one from the famous movie Forest Gump. So how do people actually explain the Mandela
People have describe the Mandela effect as the following: “This happens when someone has a clear memory of something that has never happened in this reality.” (Skeptoid) There are many theories when it comes to trying to explain this conspiracy. One of them is what we’re living in colliding alternate realities. Some even claim that the memories prove that we’ve visited holodecks. Scientist explain it as being explained with confabulation. Confabulation is a disturbance of memory where we remember events happening a different way, or we remember events that didn’t even happen. (Memory Loss and the Brain) According to scientist, many people see these Mandela Effect stories on the media and their brains trick them into thinking that they too, remember the false memory. Whether you agree with the crazy theories that the media comes up with, or the explanation that scientist give one thing is for sure, the world may never be able to fully explain or prove