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Named after Nelson Mandela, you could also call it a false memory.

Something you falsely remember (or vehemently defend that memory) but history or witnesses state otherwise.

What are Mandela Effects you've encountered in your travels?


Mine has to do with the font of the Brisbane Lions' logo.

Until a few weeks ago, I was always certain it was Fritz Quadrata.
It wasn't until someone mentioned it was actually FRIZ Quadrata.

This thread will help jog my memory with regards to the others I've come across that I may've missed.
 
Speaking of Brisbane, for ages with the 2002 Grand Final when Aker kicks that famous snap at the end of the game I thought that Brisbane were behind on the scoreboard and that the Akermanis goal put them in front. I also thought his goal came right at the end of the game, when there was still a good 7 minutes or so to play out after.

Turns out the Lions were up by 3 when he kicks that goal.
 

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Lethality said:
I could have sworn this lady in Moonraker had braces. This video adds them, referencing the Mandela effect.

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Mind blown. I'm sure she had braces, which was why she and Jaws connected.
 
raskolnikov said:
Mind blown. I'm sure she had braces, which was why she and Jaws connected.
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Just checked on my copy of Moonraker - screenshot:
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I've got a couple of these that I know of, and it's fun to try and keep both versions in your memory as your brain will try to correct the memory.

First one is Ted Nugent's "Mom" used to have a Dear Abbey style column in some 1980's metal mag. I was certain that the column was titled "Ask Nuge's Mom". I could even see the page from the magazine in my mind as I talked about it. Something happened recently that led me to Google it. And the column was actually named "Ask Ma Nuge". And as soon as I saw that, I could feel the memory trying to update and then I could visualise clear as day the page from the magazine with the corrected title :tearsofjoy:

The other one was some wedding we went to 15-20 years ago. There was an acquaintance with his wife at the time who was typically quite plain. However this day she was wearing an amazing dress, plunging bits, asymmetric hemline and a bright memorable colour (or so I thought). All who knew the couple were like "whoa, where's she been hiding!?" and even strangers were making a point of how she looked in the dress. I swear the dress was coloured a bright cobalt style blue (About my favourite colour). Speaking to someone about that wedding a few years ago, and they had a photo with her in it. Turns out the dress was bright red! And just like that, I could feel my memory updating again :tearsofjoy:
 
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Biggest one for me was that I thought for years that English comedian/actor Alexei Sayle was dead. Not only did I think he was dead, but I also remembered when he died - mid 2008 - and that I found out he died by listening to the news on the radio.

It was years later that I found out Sayle was still alive, and he remains alive at the time of posting. So how was I so convinced that not only Alexei Sayle was deceased, but I remembered when it happened and how I found out about it? Could I have slipped into an alternate dimension for a day in winter 2008 where Alexei Sayle did die, then moved back to my correct dimension where he of course is still alive?
 
These days with the internet it's much easier to go back and compare memory to reality. Even without this effect, so many memories are malformed, in my case it's usually a memory that's corrupted by a similar memory to form an amalgam.
 
I had always thought that Surry Hills in Sydney was spelled Surrey Hills like the suburb in Melbourne. I even read the Ruth Park 'Harp in the South' novel set in Surry Hills Sydney and still thought it was Surrey Hills.

It's the same with Southbank. It is spelled like this in Melbourne and I thought the same for Brisbane, but 'Southbank' in Brisbane is South Bank. I always thought it was spelled the same.
 
Billy ray said:
What about it specifically?
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The knife line. It has actually made me question my sanity. Not just because I remember it differently but I have had conversation with people that made it and remember watching it on a show where they took the piss out of it that so many people quoted it wrong.

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There are some great ones ITT

Personal Experience - Berenstein/Berenstain Bears evidence of parallel universes

Nah I have specific memories that are vivid and real to do with this quote, some from this year like when I worked with the armourer who made the knife for Hogan and worked on all three movies with him, owns the patent, etc. We said the quote together and it was undoubtedly 'this is a knife'...
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I mentioned this strange one on a similar thread in the Paranormal Mysteries board. Back in early 1991 I watched an episode of English police drama 'The Bill' where there were reports of a mysterious big cat roaming the area at night. The police of course were skeptical of the notion of a large cat loose in London's East End, but after following up the case discover the reports are true, there really is a black panther. It belongs to some weirdo who is obviously keeping it illegally, and he has become afraid of the cat as it grew larger, unable to control it and was allowing it to run free every night.

I really enjoyed the episode but never saw it again when the show was repeated in syndication, and 30 years later can find no trace that this episode ever existed. There is not a single mention of it among episode lists on IMDB, Wikipedia or other sites like TV Tropes and those specifically about The Bill. There are old clips of The Bill on Youtube but none of this mystery episode. There is a 1988 Bill episode called 'Feasting With Panthers' but this is too early, and the episode has nothing to do with actual panthers. I did think that maybe the episode I remember was later deemed too frightening and banned from being repeated (it was pretty scary) but even if this was the case it should still have been listed among the episodes and such a thing would be noteworthy enough to be referenced on a page like Wikipedia. Back in the days when IMDB had message boards I posted a message to see if anyone else remembered the episode, to no avail.

So how do I remember an episode of a TV show which has no evidence of having ever existed in the first place? Did I dream it? If so, it's a very detailed dream, and I even remember which characters were in it. And I don't usually go around dreaming up episodes of TV shows. Or did I slip into an alternate dimension one evening in 1991 and watch an episode of The Bill that did not exist in my own dimension?
 

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Cool Runnings for me.

I'm convinced when I saw it in the cinema there was a scene just before the Jamaicans last race where their sled was sabotaged. You never saw by who, but you saw someone break into where the sleds were kept, and this person clipped a wire and unscrewed a couple of screws.

During their last race you see their screws loosening and then falling apart and they crash. I've never seen it on any other copy of Cool Runnings, haven't found any information online that this is correct and the only other person who remembers it is one of my mates who I watched it with at the cinema. It seems like my/our memory of it is completely fabricated.
 
Andre said:
Yeah, this one has always been That’s. Unlike Berenstein and Moonraker that have changed.
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No it hasn't.

I literally chatted to the guy who made the knives for Hogan this year about how people always get the quote wrong by saying 'thats'. I swear it.

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Schwarzenegger has video to Stallone comparing his predator knife to the Rambo knife, saying 'this is a knife'

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Broken said:
I just saw an ad for some train docco with Penelope Keith. I thought it might have been an old one as I'm sure she passed away years ago. A quick google search shows she's alive and kicking.
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When it was on the news in 2019 that Bill Collins, the movie presenter, had died I was like, "WTF? I thought he died years ago ".
 

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