The Mandela effect

It's not that a single person refuses to believe they are misremembering. It's very specifically a false collective memory.

So while the poster who mentions Anne Heche has had a weird experience, that's not the Mandela effect, because no one else remembers this.

I always feel like I'M being gaslit by this one!!

One of my earliest memories is of my dad buying me the wrong flavour crisps because I asked for salt and vinegar and he grabbed a packet of blue Walkers, thinking they were S&V. I was very disappointed with my cheese and onion crisps. This would have been mid-80s.

No.

until 1989 when it was acquired by Pepsi, walkers was a regional crisp brand only. Those of us who were kids in the 80s will probably remember Golden Wonder, KP, Tudor, Smiths - Walkers was definitely not a big brand in Scotland. Many of these other brands used blue for their salt and vinegar flavour.

it boggles my mind that some people will not accept they are misremembering. They prefer to believe there’s this massive cover up. 🙄

I disagree. I have always hated looking at holes. I remember being a child in the 70s and there was a lorry in front of us and it was carrying loads of pipes. We were behind the lorry and all I could see was the ends of the pipes with the holes. I couldn’t bear it and begged my dad to overtake the lorry but it then kept overtaking us so I could see the holes again. It was a nightmare journey! Way before the Internet. And way before I knew that there was a name for it.

I have memories of walking through the Stone Henge stones on a school trip as a child in the late 1980s and touching all the stones.

However, Google says Stone Henge was roped off in 1977.

Is there a false memory? Or did anyone else do this in the 80s/90s?

I think the braces thing rings a bell, the inference was they had something in common , what was it then (rhetorical question I will do my own research!)

Walkers own website says they didn't change colours

Another one, I was convinced that David Bowie’s guitarist, Mick Ronson died during lockdown around 2021 ish and that I’d seen it all over the news and watched a tribute show just after his passing!

I was shooketh to find out he died long before Bowie in 1993! 😳

I still think that I was right, and somebody changed it! 😁

I seriously thought I remembered that Ann Heche died in the early 2000’s and that I’d seen photos of her unzipping her own body bag before being bundled into the ambulance on the gurney in The National Enquirer back then!

Then I saw a video of the incident on Facebook and it said she died in 2022, I haven’t even read The National Enquirer since the early 2000s either, I was shocked I could be so wrong 🥴

Ok mine that I have never been able to prove was that in the TV show Knight Rider with David Hasselhoff I am convinced that KIT (the car) was voiced by a female. She was a bit flirty. I remember it so well but I’m obviously wrong!

@Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · - What I am am absolutely certain of though, is that walkers bloody well DID change their crisp colours!!!

Did they?!

What was the snow white one? Mirror Mirror or Magic Mirror?

In the James Bond film Moonraker there’s a scene where Jaws (giant man with metal teeth) found a girlfriend, who grinned at him with full on metal braces on her teeth. I can remember this clearly, but apparently she doesn’t have braces.

I tend to not believe in the Mandela effect but this one truly baffles me, and all of my family remember the girlfriend having braces.

I have a personal one, relating to the area where I lived as a teenager into my twenties. When I drive in that area now there’s a village that is totally different, but all the houses and farms are old, certainly not new build within the last 20 years. It weirds me out every time and makes me wonder if there’s something in it.

I do though. I knew my golden wonder from my walkers. Stop gaslighting me 😅

I think it’s just suggestion. The power of suggestion is so powerful.

i read the most interesting article last year about trypophobia. Its origins can be directly linked to internet and posts asking people if they were freaked out by it. no record of it prior despite these patterns occurring in nature. The internet just said “isn’t this scary?”

Ha, that's so funny to hear that as I made those colour associations too!

Golden Wonder was the predominant brand and then Walkers came along with their different colours, so they never changed but what people were buying did

You don't. You think you do. I remember them always being green for salt and vinegar because it was always the "wrong" way in my head with salt being associated with the sea so blue and onion being a vegetable so green. Walkers have always been that confusing way round.

Why would people think Mandela died in prison given that his release was on tv and he subsequently became president of SA?

I literally remember when Walkers changed. I was annoyed because it didn’t make sense and just confused me into buying salt and vinegar.

Why do they say they didn’t then? What is there in it for them?

This is a good article: https://lux-magazine.com/article/loom-of-lies/

I think it's usually two vague memories tied to a same topic that end up creating the Mandela effect - Walkers never changed the colour of their crisp packets, Golden Wonder did and a big point of it was made at the time that they did it to match Walkers... the two things cemented in people's minds....