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?

@onawave @NorthCliffs

This explains it fairly well

Why do you think Walkers lied?

Mine is literally Mandela! I swear I remember him dying in prison and watching his funeral on TV. It's so bloody weird because it's like it happened in another time line. I am so glad he didnt die at that point then but it jarred me so much because I distinctly remember tv presenters commentating on the funeral as it was happening!

I just watched it - that's fascinating about the psychological effect - the lighting, lipstick colours, the distractions etc.

Golden wonder crisps were blue for S&V

That's hilarious about the shipments of Seabrook's! Yes their cheese and onion have yellow and blue on the pkt always reminds me of Leeds United colours.

I think I've posted this before on other threads, but I'm sure I remember Wednesday from the Addams family being called Tuesday on the old series, I can we've see her face. I think it might've been black and white, so a really long time ago (they were repeats, I'm not that old 😉) Google tells me there may have been a cousin called Tuesday, so that's prob it

They were epic!

Back in the 1970s salt & vinegar were blue and cheese & onion were green, but they weren't Walkers. Can't remember which brand, but Walkers came later (certainly in the south of the UK anyway). So maybe you're misremembering the brand?

I was a child in the 1970s, I ate Walkers crisps. Cheese and Onion were my favourite. They were always blue. See photo of actual 1970s crisp packets.

Please note that I did not fake these as I was too busy recovering from faking the moon landings.

Have you ever seen the film Anita and Me (based on the Meera Syal novel)? An almost identical scene happens at the end.

@Avocadosandwic that may have been Golden Wonder! They're not around anymore, at least not in the UK as far as I know.

One day my friend one day :)

Yes I think I have! Maybe that's what I'm getting confused with!!

I was absolutely convinced that Mother Teresa had died years before she did. I really clearly remembered lots of tribute programmes and things on the news. I think she must have had a landmark birthday or been given an award or something, and been on telly for that reason, and my childhood brain had assumed she'd died because she was elderly.

I also vividly remember the Herald of Free Enterprise going down, but I was only two. I remember watching it on Newsround with Krishnan Guru-Murthy. That clearly never happened because Mrishnan didn't start at Newsround until 1991, but I remember it so clearly!

The one that drives me mad is the Britney wearing a microphone in the Oops...I Did It Again video. No she didn't! I watched that video obsessively on repeat when it came out and she absolutely did not have a microphone in it. Presumably she wore the leather outfit for a live performance, complete with microphone, and that's what people remember.

The main time I remember my memory failing with someone else was when my mum and I watched a film together that we found really funny. We quoted our favourite bit to each other for a few weeks and then decided to re-watch it. The hilarious line we'd been repeating never happened! No idea where we got it from, but the scene where we were convinced it was said had nothing even remotely similar. Same DVD so not like a different version or anything. We put it down to our own comedic genius "improving" the scene when we spoke about it afterwards

I am flabbergasted that John Denver died in 1997! I do find this happens to me a lot, I guess I get two celebrities confused with each other and think the wrong one is dead. Michael Gambon was the most recent example - no idea who I was thinking of but I was convinced he'd been dead for years.

For years, the song 'Stay another day' by East 19 has made me reminisce as I can clearly remember it playing during our sixth form pre Christmas pub crawls in 1988. So I was really shocked to have found out recently that it wasn't released until 1994?

I can absolutely see this scene too. Vividly. It must have been in the film at one point!

Did I say walkers lied?

I can also see this scene in moonraker, it’s near the end when they are trapped together in the space ship thing and James Bond is heading back to Earth. 🤷‍♀️

but i don’t remember her having braces, is that the bit you mean is the misremembering?

@CormorantStrikesBack yes - I can picture the scene and would have sworn she had braces.

The YouTube video posted about is really interesting and goes a long way to explain that, but I still feel like I'm picturing a different scene altogether - more metal around, and off the ground / in space somehow or somewhere.

Yes. I definitely remember this.

When I was very young I only met my mums biological dad a few times. Then years went by and age 15 we went to stay with him for a few weeks. I had this image in my head of how he looked from my memory and how I'd pictured him when I thought of him. When we turned up I didn't recognise him at all, totally different looking person. Turns out I'd been picturing some random man who had once delivered veg to us and somehow placed his face on the memory of my grandad. And that's who I'd pictured all those years haha.
Mum didn't have any pics of him.
I have no idea if this meets mandela effect criteria