Your Mandela Effect moment

[StockpotSoup]

I posted about mine on here a while back… it was about two celebrities that I distinctly remembered were supposed to have dated, but there’s literally nothing about in online, and no one here remembered either (and even found proof that one half of the supposed couple was married to someone else at the time!)

Have you had a Mandela Effect moment? And, when you realised you’d misremembered something, how did you react? My instinct was to look for logic explanations (e.g. I’d misunderstood a denial of a rumoured relationship). However, when I look at these things online, I’m amazed by how many people will accept literally any other explanation than “I was wrong”.

One that particularly fascinates me is around a film called Shazam. Countless people claim they can remember it, that they used to watch it all the time when they were kids… yet it doesn’t exist. When you read into it, it actually becomes quite obvious how it happened: there was a film called Kazaam that came out around the same time with the exact plot they describe, and Sinbad - the actor/comedian they believe starred as a genie in Shazam - starred in a series of TV ads as a genie around the same time. Yet thousands utterly refuse to believe that there’s no such film.

Anyone got any good examples?

I believe a number of people could not place Mother Teresa's death because it was six days after Princess Diana's. Most other news got crowded out by the latter and I thought for many years later that Mother Teresa was still alive. Different end of the scale to yours of course.

Still not convinced about the Berenstein bears. Though I checked my three copies of old books a few years ago and annoyingly they were BerenstAin. Still don't buy it 😆

And the number of people who don’t believe the two were so close together always amazes me.

I remember actor Tim Curry dying. I remember there being posts on fb, it being reported in the news and then various films and shows he had been in being shown following this. I remember a friend posting something about it on her status on fb. Turns out none of this happened. I know he has had ill health but he is still very much alive. I remember a male news reader - saying actor Tim Curry has died aged x. I can remember being sad about this as I like him a lot.

Exactly! Initially she was a potential victim in his eyes, but when she shows her own metal-clad teeth she became a potential mate. It really makes no sense otherwise.

Possibly the way she pronounces "this" as "thee-is"...Lennox herself said many thought she was saying "cheese" (which tbh is wild)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Dreams_(Are_Made_of_This)

I always thought it was "this" but i've got other song lyrics mixed up.

I could have sworn he was too. GLad he's alive!

There’s actually famously some controversy about whether it is “in which we live in” (have seen lots of discussion about it!) for example:
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/12/lyric.html

However, if the point you are trying to make is that all song lyrics always make perfect sense grammatically or otherwise… erm, yeah, sure.

Sheet music usually renders it 'in which we live in':

Annie Lennox sings ' thees' for ' this' in There must be an angel playing with my heart , as well. I think it's her accent.

I remember this too...I have it on video I might dig it out to check

Actually, it did...

https://www.tiktok.com/@dimelifting/video/7311071477732838687

https://www.tiktok.com/@thetttvpodcast/video/7330030072625401134

No one on earth could feel like cheese😁

The comment about But that is virtually the definition of the Mandela Effect! A multitude of people believing something happened when it didn’t! is referring to the crisp colours that have dominated the thread, not the Fruit of the Loom thing that your links are about.

It's 13 going on 30, the ending is a flash forward of her life with mark ruffalo and it came out about 20 years after Big!

Plus that Fruit of the Loom video screams “spoof”.

The Fruit of The Loom shirt is photoshopped.

Thanks, it could have been 🤔 but the illogical side of my brain still thinks its East 17 (and mere facts will not persuade it otherwise 😂)

Yeah my memories of it are making a concerted decision to jump down rather than walk/slide and definitely on my own. The most obvious explanation is that it was a dream. Perhaps it is common because it appeals to kids sense of adventure and having superhero powers along with being safer and more attainable than jumping out of a window or flying off a building

Part of me still clings on to it being real because as an adult I am so far away from a "jumping down the stairs" person😂

That’s a different film. 14 going on 30 came out in 1988. 13 going on 30 came out in 2004. The pp was talking about the 1988 one.

About the Dungeons & Dragons mystery...

I also remember an episode when they got home - and were presented with a dilemma that meant they ended up going back to the magical realm again. It was heartbreaking! Looking at the episode list, I think it did actually happen, in episode 11 of series 1 "The Box". Interestingly, the next episode in the list says that they then have "the help of another group of lost children".

So perhaps people are merging these two episodes in their memory?

@mypafology not 13 going on 30, 14 going on 30. The final scene the boy is in class and a girl walks in and sits down. He looks at her, recognises her. And i think his friend become the 30 year old snd take over teaching the class. It is on youtube.

14 Going On 30 end classroom scene

@StockpotSoup what is the website with all the old sweet wrappers?

Could you actually be remembering the sinking of the MS Estonia? That was 1994 and had a similar cause to the Herald of Free Enterprise.