Under a minute | Making you smarter in under a minute | Article 02 | The Mandela Effect

Hello again!

Today we will discuss— The Mandela Effect.

“The Mandela effect is a phenomenon in which a person or a group of people have false or distorted memories i.e. when masses of people believe an event occurred when it really didn’t. The Mandela effect does not involve lying or deception. Instead, it occurs when a person or a group of people have clear but false memories.”

Why Mandela you ask? Because this phenomenon was first observed when a large number of people seemed to remember and were convinced that the former South African president Nelson Mandela died in a South African prison in the 1980s. Nelson Mandela did not die in the 1980s in a prison — he passed away in 2013.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

If you have watched Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, you probably remember the line, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” The line actually began with the phrase “Magic mirror on the wall”. “Whaaaat?” IKR. I was also a part of the “Mirror mirror” clan.

If you want to read more on this, check out: Wikipedia, 52 examples of Mandela Effect