The Mandela effect

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Does anyone have any strong assertions that their false memories are real, even though it's been proven they are not?

I've just read about 100 people all absolutely swearing that the fruit of the loom logo had a cornucopia. I don't remember it with one at all, I think they're all batshit, honestly 😄

I also don't think there was a movie called shabaaz or whatever it was, I don't think Mandela died in prison and I don't think the monopoly man had a monocle

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

I listened to a podcast about this recently and my OH told me about the James Bond one.

https://www.cbr.com/james-bond-moonraker-jaws-dolly-braces-legend-mandela-effect/

OH is a huge Bond fan and he said he was always convinced that the young lady was indeed wearing braces. Apparently the producer said that she was never wearing braces but that he wished he had thought of that as it would have worked well!

I wonder if some of the people who remember playing between the stones actually went to Avebury before / after Stonehenge? You could definitely go between the stones there at least as late as 2000, don’t know if you still can.

I was born in 1971. We didn't live that far from Stonehenge and regularly used to park up and walk up right up to the stones, touch them etc. as kids.

I remember seeing on the local news one day that Portsmouth FC fans had spray painted 'PFC' onto one of the stones. I can still see it now, blue spray paint. In my memory, it was after this event that they were roped off and a visitor centre put in.

I don't think you could walk up to them as last as the last 1980's, no. 1977 sounds right.

My DMum insisted Derek Jacobi was dead for over a decade - so everything new he was in couldn't be was new - she did finally conceed she might be wrong.

I think he had a series of heart attacks when filming something and either there was mis- reporting or she mis connected the dots but over 20 years later he's still around.

Walkers were always the other way around from Golden Wonder as far back as I remember.

When I was little Golden Wonder were the most common crisp brand round our way, then Walkers suddenly popped up everywhere instead and I remember at school we all moaned about their Salt and Vinegar and Cheese and Onion colours being wrong way round.

People are just remembering Golden Wonder.

Seems about right, or maybe a bit before 1977?

DM had photos of her DM standing with the stones, but always said she couldn't take us because you couldn't do that anymore.

Could it possibly have been Avebury you visited rather than Stonehenge? Avebury was always open to wander round the stones - haven't been there for about 20 years so don't know if it still is but it certainly was in the late 20th century/early 21st century.

I was going to say no idea other than 80s and don't remember what else we did or how old I was.

However teacher I remember it being said sorted was only one to live in village and had small holding - and I had her only two years though she could have done other year trips as small school -but most likely sometime 1983-85 with me being very young primary school age.

You can still walk right up to the stones at Avebury.

@nomas I think it may have been possible if it was an arranged school trip. I am sure I heard from someone not very long ago that they had been on a private group visit to Stonehenge one evening where they were permitted to walk right up to and among the stones.

So it may not be a false memory. Or it could have been Avebury.

My 11 year old has trypophobia. I’d never heard of it until at about aged 4 she started getting freaked out about holes 🤷🏻‍♀️

Same my earliest memory of it freaking me out was a boy in my primary 1 class with holes in the soles of his shoes. My daughter also started with the same thing at the age of 4.

Yes that parts true, there's loads of footage of it around the internet, she tried to get out of the bag on the way into the ambulance, she unzipped it and sat up! Then she died in hospital a couple of days later, so weird.

I must have seen a video of it at the time, and god knows why my mind has now played a trick on me about thinking I saw it all 20 years ago.

I remember Ronnie Barker dying years before 2005.

Yes, that's the point. We all know what's said but we have false memories. That's what the thread is about

Ooh, Mandela Effect is one of my special interests, the Retconned sub Reddit is somewhere to find loads if alleged examples.

I'm pretty on the fence about it, although some of the Biblical "changes" are interesting, however, I will die on the hill of Dolly's braces in Moonraker. It was such a stand out comedy end to the film, and let's face it, the most likely reason for her and Jaws to "gel" would be both having a mouth full of metal.

Either way it's a fascinating concept whether it's simply neurological, the LHC, or aliens 😁

See also synchromysticism for those in need of multiple rabbit holes 😉

Not looked into it at all so someone may be able to explain, but it was always Looney Toons at the end of cartoons not Looney Tunes .. I even asked DH to spell Looney Toons and he thought the same as me.

Edit to clarify - the internet says Tunes and I absolutely remember Toons.

I have a memory of when Walkers became more popular that I couldn't get my head around them doing the colours wrong because I was used to cheese and onion being green because of Golden Wonder and Ringos 😁

The monoply man not having a monocle will fry my head

Don't get my grandchildren started on who invented A Christmas Carol.

The muppets, obviously.

Same here. I remember getting the creeps at a dotty pattern when I was about 14, that would’ve been early 90s.

Mine is Tinkerbell not being in the Disney VHS intros. I have memories of the Disney logo where Tinkerbell flies over the top with her trail of pixie dust behind her, then uses her wand to dot the i.

Apparently that never happened.

Yes! I agree. Someone somewhere that collects old crisp packets will have one. I hope someone on here is a crisp packet collector! I saw a collector on t.v so they too exist!!

Oh, that’s the first one of these where I have the same memory