Lewis Stanek

The Great Deception of the Mandela Effect Lewis Stanek

What exactly are we discussing when we talk about the Mandella Effect? I am sure many people have never heard of it, or if they have they have discounted it as some sort of urban legend or perhaps early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Many, perhaps as many as half the population have experienced this admittedly bizarre effect while others live their life totally unaware of the changes perceived by others going on around them. The term "Mandella Effect" was coined by Fiona Broome to label instances of great numbers of people apparently misremembering settled events of history. She coined the term Mandella Effect, as the story goes, for the reason that very many people will swear that they remember Nelson Mandella dying in prison in the 1990's and not living to become the president of South Africa. Obviously many if not most people remember and accept Nelson Mandella as a major character in world history and know that he lived to become President and along with F. W. De Klerk brought an end to apartheid. But, what is the Mandela Effect? "The Mandela effect is the observed phenomenon of people having clear memories of events that did not occur or misremembering significant events and facts." Snopes defines it succinctly as "The Mandela Effect is a collective misremembering of a fact or event.". Certainly clear and concise, but does that really explain what is being experienced by possibly millions if not billions of people around the world?
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