Your Mandela Effect moment

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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?

Oh and I'm certain that Haley's comet became Halley's comet somewhere along the line

OK. Why is it called a Mandela effect ??

What was the painting? I had a browse of the Walker gallery website but couldn't find it and I'm curious!

Mine is about Torville and Deane winning their Gold at Sarajevo.

I have a distinct memory of arriving late to the pub, having watched them win the gold and joining DP & friends in the pub garden where it was daylight and lovely and warm. But the Winter Olympics were in February, and the pub in north London - not known for it's warm light evenings in February.

Even though I know this - can't shift the memory of sitting in the pub garden and someone saying - well they won then.

Weird

I remember that episode! I'm sure it was the last ever episode! I clearly remember being upset that they would never make it back home!

A very personal one but along the same lines: when I was in my late teens my grandmother told me that she had already purchased her burial plot and it was in X cemetery. I think she even showed me the paperwork.

In my younger years I was known for my excellent memory (not so much in perimenopause 😂)

Anyway, my grandmother lived happily for many more years and when she eventually passed away I mentioned the burial plot to my uncle. He turned the place upside down looking for details of the plot she had supposedly reserved. I no longer remember whether he actually called the cemetery… suffice to say there was no plot reserved and I had somehow imagined (dreamt?!) the whole thing!

It's something to do with when Mandela died, lots of people had a memory of him dying previously.

Yay! Glad it jogged your memory - there’s nothing worse than half remembering something.

Walkers cheese & onion and salt & vinegar swapping colours in the 90s

Richard E Grant and Hugh Grant being brothers

I'm sure there are more

Yes they've never changed colour - people are just confusing the brands. I remember eating salt & vinegar walkers crisps in the 80s because they were my favourite and at that time they were definitely green and still had the see-through window where you could see the actual crisps.

Yes Golden Wonder, before Walkers become big, were green for cheese and onion.

And thats the way it should be, because a spring onion is green and cheese is yellow so the colour fits better in my opinion

And vinegar is what you have on chips and you often have chips near the sea which is blue....

The windmills of my mind....!!!

Because some people remember Nelson Mandela dying in the 80s.

Great thread. Mine was regarding the the ending of the film called "District 9". It's South African sci-fi about aliens who landed in Cape Town (I think), their ship broke down and they were stuck here on earth . Humans walled them off creating a slum. Spoiler alert re ending.

First and second time I watched it I can vividly remember the character of the alien father dying when he and his son were leaving earth after successfully managing to restart their spaceship. I remember being quite sad about it too! When I rewatched it few years later the father doesn't die! I looked everywhere on line but couldn't find any alternative/director's cut ending. Bugs me to this day.

It’s also Johannesburg not Cape Town!

I was convinced (and still am tbh) that the Vicar of Dibley ended with Geraldine leaving her post for whatever reason and the other characters are all standing around in the church hall discussing that she'll be missed and wondering who the next vicar will be. David says something along the lines of "Well, whoever it is it won't shock us more than having a woman!" The scene cuts to a outside where a car pulls up outside the vicarage and a black vicar gets out. Cue much of-its-time laughter from the studio audience. But when I've googled no such scene seems to exist in the main series or any of the specials.

Sort of sounds like something that comic relief would have done years back.

DH and I had one a couple of months ago that I was reminded of earlier today.

We were positive that Todd Cantwell who plays for Rangers was Australian. But he's English and hasn't ever played for an Australian team. I don't even think Rangers have had any other Australian players in recent years so I have no idea how DH and I both thought he was an Aussie.

Golden Wonder

I know but I can't find any record of it!

And thats the way it should be, because a spring onion is green and cheese is yellow so the colour fits better in my opinion

And vinegar is what you have on chips and you often have chips near the sea which is blue....
Agreed. This is entirely my thought process. Nothing to do with Mandela Effect or erroneously thinking Walker's switched at some point but green for s&v is just wrong.

The Mandela effect doesn’t make sense to me. How did all the people who supposedly remember Mandela dying in the 80’s not notice the huge fanfare around him being released from prison or becoming president. You would have had to be living under a rock to miss all that.

Agreed. It's probably a combination of things. Eg if you were a young child in the 80s, the Nelson Mandela concert etc might have seemed like a tribute concert. I don't know really, it makes no sense to me either 😅

Wasn't it called Knightmare?

I was starting to thing I'd dreamt that film, noone has ever heard of it!

Omg this!