@@Drace90 because its a jarring thing to any organism, not just humans, to have a 100% complete and total memory of something as if it was totally normal, and not somehow off or wrong like you usually are when you suspect you may be wrong, and then eventually find out you've been wrong all along when until that point not one single thing made you suspect that. That feeling, being as surprising as it is, sparks interest because people want to know what causes us to either completely remember that incorrectly as if its correct, or if its simply a case of a large portion of the masses simply misreading something together
@@Drace90 the conspiracy part is just for fun, the fascination comes from how come we can remember things wrong in such an specific way. it's not just that we remember wrong, it's that we remember wrong and that wrong memory is the same wrong memory other people share.
@@Drace90 yes, we know we're wrong, that's why mandela effect was coined. it's the fact that we had this collective memory of something we thought is true but is actually not. like, it's one thing if you misremember something, but a group of people having similar recollection? that's the fascinating part.
If I had a nickel every time I heard about a news outlet publishing a celebrity died and actually didn't I'd have 4 nickels. Which is a lot more than I should. Honestly they probably saw a news article saying she died but it was just wrong.
In that case they should be able to find record of these erroneous articles. If they were removed by the publication, there are still records like the way back machine, or the publications posting an apology for their mistake. There will also probably be social media threads from that time talking about it, where you can get some context to how people found out about it.
@@stephenwells1831 I'm not sure how anyone could read *that* without reading it in a Dr Doofenshirtz voice either! I'm worried that I might be getting too recursive.
My guess is that there was a fake obituary on Yahoo that went viral and led to many people grieving her without realizing that it was fake; this could’ve led to those people making tributes, more people seeing said tributes and assuming she had died, etc. Basically, my hypothesis is that it was more of a butterfly effect than a Mandela effect.
I think this is the most likely answer. It is sad for sure that there are people who would do this, but there have existed fake death articles on celebrities that either exist as pranks or clickbait. Also, I don't know much about it being born in the 2000s, but I don't think Yahoo was a very reliable source. We might think that's obvious now, but back then people thought (more so than today) that if it's on the internet, it's true. They took it as real and didn't doubt it for a second, but now when we see a questionable source on the internet, we double check it. Or at least we should.
I honestly want this to become a Canon inator could make for a some good Interactions Maybe even have it not exist bit perry and monogram think it allredy does, or doof thinking he made one but didn't or something like that with some meta Mandela mandelaing
My grandfather's university reported him as deceased multiple times in the alumni newsletter. He'd write back and correct them. My dad contacted the university when grandpa acutely died.
My entire life I thought Bob Dylan was dead, but then I saw an article about him apologizing over something, so I looked it up, and he is, infact, still alive. I even could have sworn my dad told me he was dead, but my dad doesn't remember telling me and apparently knew that Bob Dylan was still alive.
One of the strangest Mandela effects I've seen is the Star Trek TNG murder mystery episode "Aquiel." The episode centers around Geordi Laforge, played by Levar Burton, falling in love with an alien woman named Aquiel while investigating the murder that took place on an outpost. Spoiler alert, the murderer tuns out to be a shapeshifting alien that can take the form of its victims. The rest of the crew begin to suspect Aquiel, abut at the very end of the episode, the shapeshifter is revealed to have taken the form of her pet dog, not her. The suspicion and trauma puts strain on her relationship with Geordi and they stop pursuing each other. Now here comes the Mandela effect: Most people who remember this episode, including my uncle with an impeccable memory and even Levar Burton himself, remember the episode ending with the reveal that Aquiel was the shapeshifting murderer after all! I assume this comes from the episode name, the scene where the rest of the crew bursts into the room and accuses Aquiel, and the fact that she doesn't stay together with Geordi, but it's still strange that the main actor for the episode misremembered its ending
This is a weird one. If it happened for you the way history remembers, how could you not remember the dog being a murderer? How could Levar Burton not remember a twist like that? I must be from this universe because I was TRAUMATIZED at the idea of a dog actually being a shapeshifting murderer. I had such an emotional reaction that it's easier for me to believe that you didn't see the same thing I did than imagining that you did, and cared so little about a dog being a murderer that you didn't even remember the end correctly.
@@megaroni4765 I didn't experience this personally. I watched the episode after hearing that Aquiel was the murderer from both my uncle and Levar Burton (on twitter or in a recorded interview, I forget) and was very confused when the dog shapeshifted. My uncle was so sure of himself, and refused to believe it was the dog until he rewatched the episode himself, and I went back and checked and the statement from Levar Burton was still there. Although I can sort of understand Levar not remembering correctly, because the shape shifting was probably done with some kind of special effect that was added later, so he didn't have any memory of the dog itself shapeshifting from when he was acting in the episode, but had a lot of memories of interacting with Aquiel
@@megaroni4765 I think it's easier for actors because shows are usually filmed non sequentially. It's hard to keep track of a storyline when you film the ending before the meeting. And sometimes the studio films two options so no one is sure which one is real. They might have done one where the girl was the murderer and went with the dog option instead.
@@megaroni4765 I thought I was the only one who was traumatized by that episode. That dog twist made me irrationally angry when I watched, though now I can at least laugh about my anger.
I wonder if the mandela effect could be a consequence of how much information (both meaningful and not) we take in today. The fact that many of these phenomena are shared experiences could be caused by many different brains experiencing the same "glitch" due to similar inputs. I think it is an interesting psychological occurence that really is worth exploring, if people (including naysayers) would just drop the "alternate reality" premise and actually engage with the concept for what it is.
It's literally not a psychological "glitch" in their brains. Several Mandela effects have been attributed to false newspapers/articles getting publishes, book misprints, or tv commercials that aired only once or twice with false information. Thousands of people read or see these things then decades later you have a percentage of people who recall information differently. There's also just the way the brain stores long term memories in "blocks", so when your brain stores information about the Target store logo it will not remember the actual amount of rings or circles but it will remember the general shape and color so if you ask a large sample of people to choose the correct logo majority of people will all recall it imperfectly.
The truth is just that our memories suck. They did a big study on 911 memories and like 25% of people got what state they were in when 911 happened wrong. What *state* they were in. There wasnt ever an evolutionary advantage to us developing memories that work how we would like them to.
@@artemisspawnofzeus7732 I need a link to this study. I was literally an hour and a half away from Ground Zero at the time and I know this despite my memory being absolutely shit.
That reminds me of how I was sure there was an episode of Ben 10 with a future/alternate version of Ben 10 000 called Ben 10 million who had even more crazy aliens and omnitrix abilities. I brought it up with my friends who had also watched Ben 10 and they had no recollection of this. Confused, I looked it up to find no evidence of this character ever existing outside of fanfiction. It was a bizarre experience.
While there is no Ben 10 Million, there is a reference for Ben 10,000 having over 1 Million forms (and likely normal memory flaw, "over a million" + "name must include 10" = "10 million")
The only "Mandela affect" I remember having was being somehow reminded of the Bee and Puppycat pilot when I got my copy of Super Mario Maker 3DS and saw Mary O. I apparently thought that B&PC's artstyle was the same as the tutorial characters in SMM3DS. I then rewatched the pilot and I remembered everything correctly from then on. Edit: I actually misremembered Max from Advance Wars also having a wrench. Like, I knew Andy had a wrench, but I remember Max having one as well…What?
@@noorayneladha470 I thought it was mostly because he was losing his hair (And thus why he wears a hat in his first appearance on Blue's Clues and You)
That *is* odd! Misremembering stuff is always a weird sensation, but I think I would be freaking out too if I thought someone was dead who wasn’t. I wonder who posted that fake obituary
I have 3-Mandela himself, the Berensteins, and a chipped tooth in my mouth. The tooth, an upper molar, was chipped 6-8 years ago, in such a way that I could poke my tongue tip in the space easily. It became a habit whenever i was concentrating on my work. Then one morning, I sat down at my computer, dug into my work annnnnd-that space was no longer there. Really annoying. I had to find another habit for concentration.
Personal mandellas do happen. I have a tshirt that changed text…and changed back over the years.. confirmed by a friend who also had that specific tshirt. Iams eukenuba light- first it said, lighten up you big dog…then, lighten up your big dog..then back to original. It was a flip flop!
My Mandela effect was that my bedsheets were blue and not white. One day they completely changed and I still have no explanation why. I know that they are the same bedsheets because I have old blood on them (old bloody nose). Still trips me out when I go to bed
The name of a street I grew up on changed spelling from singular to plural in a matter of days. What's weirder is that in my school records my old address street name never changed. It's still singular. I think that's called residual?
I never saw anything about her having died, and I knew she was alive because I heard her on the radio a couple months ago, so as soon as you said she had died I was so confused for a sec.
Weird thing about memory: we only actually remember something once. After that, we remember remembering it. That’s why it’s so easy to create a false memory.
Yes, take the name itself, Mandela. People who remember Mandela dying likely remember the death of Steve Biko, another African anti-apartheid activist who died in prison, big international incident. Played by Denzel in Cry Freedom. If you watched the movie and thought of Nelson Mandela, you may have combined the two in your brain and now its Mandela dying and not Steve biko
@@formcheck5553 Yes it does make sense. The first time we recollect something that happened, we recollect the actual event. But after that, we only recollect the recollection, in other words we remember the re-constructed memory and not the event itself.
No lie, I remember seeing a bunch of reports about her dieing, and later that same day her going onto social media (she was very active on now floundering bird site) telling people "nope, still here". I think part of the reason it's so easy to get fooled by stuff like this is that 1) those initial stories get way more traction than any corrections, which is a serious problem in and of itself but 2) some people just disappear from public consciousness when they aren't in the news, or involved with something as big as the Harry Potter movies. She's had a pretty active career before and since, but it's mostly been film and TV in the UK, so anyone not paying attention to that is probably still convinced she died.
@@shreeeze Because it might not be phrased like SHE specifically died, but something like "Voice actress from cartoon (insert name of the cartoon) died" and her photo to misslead people on purpose. Like few years ago i saw an article "Actor from Zoolander died due to overdose" and picture of Ben Stiller was shown to get some views and only after 3-4 days they changed it to an actual person that died, and it was some background character that didn't have a single line in a movie.
This might explain a few Mandela Effects but certainly not all of them. I saw countless new stations covering the death of Bill Graham back in the early 2010s. Come to find out years later that he was still alive. Something screwy is going on with time.
Most likely it was one of those celebrity death hoax articles (Dan's side of the story), and then other people picked up on it, thinking it was real, and made tribute videos and such (the woman's side of the story).
As a Brit I went through a rollercoaster of emotions just then, "Oh yeah I love her, she's occasionally on panel shows like QI and what... what? She died? What I didn't know that, oh, she didn't?"
I didn’t believe the Mandela effect until here a couple years ago when a lot of things changed. This one hit the hardest: The guitar from the SpongeBob movie where he sings in a goofy goober hits the hardest as I’ve seen that movie over a hundred times since I was a kid and watched it even just a few years ago with my sister. I vividly remember a red guitar V shaped with two necks. And I remember when it cuts to the real hand playing the guitar it didn’t have the duel neck and it was the first ever time I was like “I see an error in this!” And I told my parents and even joked about it a few years ago with my sister asking if she remembered when I noticed that and she did! Fast forward to a few months ago and I found out it’s a peanut guitar no V shape brown and isn’t double necked…
It's funny how people believe what they want whether it's alternate universe or false obituaries spreading. I too remember the double headed guitar and that it wasn't a peanut. I'm curious if the dvd or original film had double header guitar and it got changed for copyright reasons
@@Gochuyo I actually thought this as well, so I got my sisters and my old VHS that we used to watch the movie on ALL the time… like I swear over a hundred times as kids. And I booted it up… and nope. It’s not there either…
@Plaegu I remember thinking why does it have two heads if he's only playing one. It has to be another cartoon faking the place of the memory. That or changed universe lmao
@@Gochuyo I vividly remember it being like that, and I always wanted a guitar like that. My sister and I went to the beach years ago and at this guitar shop we saw a similar one like it and we thought it was so cool! Idk what the explanation is…. But I like to believe in the alternate universe thing
🤯W T F. I kinda remember the guitar being white or red but it most definitely was double necked. Checked the sweet sweet victory song and no double necked guitar there either. That peanut guitar was the most foreign thing even to my memory lol.
Inside Job on Netflix just did an episode about this, claiming it’s a side effect of a machine in the show. They were trying to make a time travel machine, but instead got a machine that randomly changes something in the past, and some people are resistant to the memory changes. It was a very good episode if you’re familiar with the Mandela Effect.
I had the same thing happen to me with Christopher Plummer Back in 2016-2017, I remember looking at headlines for the movie “All The Money In The World” and how they had to replace the actor and something with Christopher Plummer, and for some reason, instead of reading the article and finding out that the real reason was they replaced Kevin Spacey with Cristopher Plummer. I just thought the man was dead, and it wasn't until “Knives Out” in 2019 that I realized my mistake.
One of my Mandela Effects that are similar to this is that I thought Michael Jordan died in like somewhere between 2010-2016. For like 4 years I’ve been thinking he died, but earlier this year I saw him in a commercial and it freaked me tf out.
She's done a few bits on British TV, one of which was a series travelling the UK with another comedian and learning about different parts of culture. She's still somewhat ingrained in British TV culture, and its so bizarre to me that people just swear that she passed away, when she's never truly left the spotlight here. I had no idea there were even people that were absolutely certain she passed away!
I'd imagine the people of South Africa had the same impression about Nelson Mandala. Imagine... the president of your country is thought to be dead by the people of another. Of course, the same can also be said for a famous actor in their home country. You're quite right.
There is also the possibility of a fake obituary. It was a weird trend like 5-10 years ago. I remember getting really upset when a friend posted one about Jackie Chan, and when I googled it, turned out to be fake trying to get shared by news outlets or something
I had the Mandela effect recently when I rewatched the movie “TMNT” from 2007. Me and my dad love that movie so we rewatched it. But we found out that the most famous line in the movie “You must learn to be strong when your brothers are weak”, was NEVER said to Leonardo, but DONATELLO!!!
Which is weird right? Cuz like TMNT 2007 is literally a movie about Leo's growth. Doesn't he like go into like a Jungle to train himself or some shit? But in the context of the film it makes more sense for Donnie to be the one told this because I believe Leo was still gone by then... Don't remember exactly since it has been literally 15 years since I've seen the damn film haha.
I'm another one who believed Miriam had passed... I don't know who or what recombined that reality with the one we're now in, but thank you for bringing Miriam back.
I was gonna say there's a glitch in the simulation, but I think time travelers screwing up the timeline by changing things we all witnessed is a way more interesting premise.
when you change your vibration you the world changes around you thru the law of attraction, this is why people experience different timelines and thus what the mandela effect is. You are no longer in the time line you used to be with your memories but that doesnt make your memories wrong, its just personal proof to you that you changed vibration and timelines. peace.
when you change your vibration you the world changes around you thru the law of attraction, this is why people experience different timelines and thus what the mandela effect is. You are no longer in the time line you used to be with your memories but that doesn't make your memories wrong, its just personal proof to you that you changed vibration and timelines. peace.
My first one was the day I found out that the berenstein bears was actually called the berenstain bears. I even told my dad about that over the phone and he was confused as well.
I remember seeing and hearing that Wilford Brimley died well before he was reported to have in 2020. It was a specific memory that I could not possibly have wrong because he used to come to the Quaker Oats factory and my mom and dad met him. I heard it from them and then saw it on the news in I think 2006 (the exact year isn't something I am sure of). It is a clear, vivid memory. This is how I know at least some Mandela Effects are real.
I had something similar happen to me in my early teens. I remember one day finding out that my aunt had passed away, but I couldn't go to the funeral because I was really sick at the time so I wrote a letter to be read there. Fast forward a few years later and the same aunt was at my sister's wedding. When I'd ask someone about it they'd just look at me confused. Thinking about it still freaks me out to this day.
Had a cousin who died years ago , but then my wife met him when she was working in a rehab hospital . I hadn't seen him since I was a kid , but had heard he had died from my uncle . My wife showed my a picture of them from the hospital , and it was him .
This happened to my mom and me with Terry Cruise who we know we read about dying years ago, and we we're very sad because we had watched him in everybody hates Chris. And then a few years later we saw him in movies, tv shows, and commercials. What the hell! I think the news just sometimes gets things like this wrong for some reason.
so I vividly remember doing a current events report Nelson Mandela died in prison and there were riots all over, all across Africa Europe the major US cities and then I remember how weird it was that nobody talked about it the following week at all. I was shocked when years later he became president of South Africa, I asked a friend who knew the situation better and she told me I was thinking of a different aparthied activist but this person had died way earlier like 1979 and I was not alive for that
I'm sure you can research the mandela effects and discern for yourself if you can see them. Looney Toons or Looney Tunes Bernstein or Bernstain White or Pink shirt for the Tom Cruise dance in "Risky Business"
I remember this too,do you remember the big outbreak after that too?,I remember a sickness that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Africa shortly after Mandela passing, I was a kid but I remember seeing lots of horrible news clips on TV about it .
yes , you were thinking of a different aparthied activist , yeah one you've never heard of before . It's always their go to , "You're just mis-remembering that is all " . Bull!
At some point in the past few years, the earth passed through a portal and brought all of us to a different timeline that is very nearly similar to the one we used to know but with every change making us feel this effect.
I had a similar experience. I remember as a kid hearing that Louie Anderson died while his show, Life With Louie, was still on air. Fast forward to a couple of years ago, I found out he was still alive, and the really messed me up. He passed away at the beginning of this year, and may he rest in peace.
I remember as a young kid, we would watch old game shows. Press Your Luck was one of our favorites. For some reason my mom liked to state how game show hosts die. As a kid, it seemed celebrities only died one of four ways, overdose, murdered by wife, suicide, and plane crash. I don’t know why I thought that, but it seemed those were the common ways. Even though plane crash and murdered by wife aren’t common deaths for celebrities. Anyway, I swore she said the host of Press Your Luck died in a plane crash. Then fast forward years later and he and his wife did die in a plane crash. I try to explain it as maybe my mom mentioned he was a pilot, talked about how another game show host died, and plane crashes within a couple conversations that day.
Standup comedy and late night shows help the Mandela effect be what it is. When a comedian does an impression, we substitute what's being said into what was said
I think the personally have known her to be alive due to her amazing video posts she’s made, my favorite being “here’s a fart for you, ah, there we go” (in her English accent) (First time I saw the clip was second hand and just went “is that professor sprout?” Then heard the masterpiece she created haha
The mandela effect I experienced was also harry potter related. I very vividly remember seeing in the first movie the colored fire potion puzzle scene. I was lying on a bed at someone else's place as a kid while I was watching that. Years later when I started rewatching harry potter as an adult I found the scene missing, after some googling apparently that scene has never existed. The weird thing is when I was looking it up I did find several forums of people posting that they had exactly the same, thinking that they'd seen that scene in the movie too. Really weird.
Quite weird! And I clearly remember the opposite; that the potions trial was not in the movie, and I was pissed about that because that was Hermione's time to shine. Of course, I can picture the potions scene in my head, but that's only because I read the book and visualized things when I read them. I don't know whether that helps explain the misremembering / Mandela effect.
I have no memory of this, but we did have that one year when a TON of celebrities died, so I wonder if that played any part in mixing up people's memories. They all just kind of blurred together?
Same thing happened to me, except about John Williams. I remember back at the release of SW E9 that he'd passed away just before finishing the soundtrack, and I was completely heartbroken. Fast forward to this year, a few months ago I read an article that says Indiana Jones 5 is gonna be his last soundtrack before retiring. My brain just went "WHAT" so yeah it seems the news keeps jumping the gun on celebrities dying
My entire life until I was about maybe 16 or 17, I thought David Bowie was dead. My dad used to take me to our local amusement park and fair every year when I was little and they had this music themed funhouse with a picture of David Bowie on it, along with other famous and influential musicians also painted on the front of the funhouse. I remember him pointing to the painting of Bowie and he taught me who he was and that he was no longer around. I thought this for the longest time until I got into his music and looked him up. Obviously my dad was wrong. Then I remember when he actually died. So sad. Blackstar was his final album and parting gift to the world and is such a brilliant album to have gone out with.
Actually now that i think on it, im starting to wonder if the mandella effect actually is a thing. The most infamous one is the bearstien bears or w/e.. My issue with this is that i, and pretty much everyone else ive met, always go 'i remember this. i remember everyone else correcting me on how to say it' etc etc, which i also seem to share. And that last bit is super important because everyone was so very insistent that it was what it wasnt that no one ever really questioned it, despite how wrong it is. This to me says its a language issue, not a mass hallucination issue. And what i mean by that is, its like certain phrases that everyone uses that make literally no sense. Example: When two planes nearly collide, its a near miss... even though they totally missed each other, otherwise there would be a lot more fire and screaming. but when you say a near miss, that just means that whatever it was nearly hit, and everyone knows that even though its very very wrong. AND IT DRIVES ME BATTY and i think its also very related to the bears.
I agree. I think with the bears, it's that a name that ends with "stein" is far more common than "stain," so people's parents misread it without realizing because their brains were subconsciously like "that must be wrong, let's fix it" and the kids were so used to hearing it, they never noticed the error, either. I remember when I was little, my mom would say "alblum" instead of "album" because she liked it better (I asked, and that was her reason,) but because I'd learned it that way, it felt like the natural and correct way to say it, and I hadn't learned to read yet, so how could I know? I think I finally asked once I learned to read and realized she was wrong. It took some effort to unlearn it and say it the "right" way because the right way felt so wrong. I'd been saying it that way my whole life. I agree, I think this is a language issue, but their memories might also be perfectly legitimate, growing up hearing Berenstein because they couldn't read yet. Ironically, my mom read it Berenstain, so this Mandela Effect was always a weird one to me. Sometimes I wonder how many of us were born in this dimension and how many are the travelers. 😂
Regarding the bears, it looks like publishers used both spellings. Someone on Reddit had a picture of two old VHS tapes with different Bear family names.
A few years before the Mandela Effect became a big talking point online and irl, I was looking through my bookshelf and reading a bunch of kids books and stuff that I found. I remember some of those being Berenstain Bears books. And I specifically remember noticing that the title said "BerenSTAIN" instead of "BerenSTEIN" and I was just like "huh, I thought it was spelled Berenstein" and moved on. The fact that I found out and realized it a few years before everyone started freaking out about it was pretty funny to me. A lot of Mandela effects just confuse the heck out of me. Like people remembering Curious George having a tail. To me, him lacking a tail was always one of the most notable things about him. I would always wonder why he was called a monkey when he didn't have a tail. So to find out there were a bunch of people who thought he had one was super confusing to me. I think the only Mandela effect that ever got me good was the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia thing. Because I've worn Fruit of the Loom underwear for almost my whole life and I knew the logo well. There IS a local grocery store a few blocks away with a similar cornucopia logo though, so I've attributed my confusion to that. It's always interesting to try to figure out what specifically made your mind think something was one way, when it really wasn't.
It's always been the Berenstain Bears. I've seen knockoff products use a slight misspelling to get around the copyright, but it's always been the Berenstain Bears.
@@nikkimcdonald4562 I'm inclined to accept this. It's not hard at all to imagine how people could have gotten it wrong; perhaps the only truly remarkable thing is that the evidence was literally right in front of our noses, and we didn't notice it. Just like some of the best magic tricks / sleight of hand. xD
Omg that is so insane. I remember seeing something on her dying because everyone was making a big deal about it. Like every time someone dies the fandom puts the news on blast. I am shook. I'm so sorry you went through that.
Kind of similar, I remember seeing movies in the theater, when they came out, and basing certain timelines in my life, when they came out...then for whatever reason, I find out the movie was way before, or way after, that timeline in my life, that I specifically link it to. Throws me all off. For example I saw the movie "Colors" in a dollar theater. We snuck in, and it was 4 of us, and I was 12. I really remember this moment, because I hated the movie ( I was a bubble child...I thought the movie was racist cops against poor people :D) telling all my friends I didn't like it. Anyways, I watched it recently, and I realized it didn't come out until I was 17. I was in a different side of town at 13, different set of friends , and that theater had been closed for years.
My awake moment with the Mandela effect was when I seen it saying that the engine on the planes were in front of the wing , I remember the engine being under the middle of the wing. Anyone else???
Same feeling when I found that James Earl Jones was still alive. He died back in the late 90s from stomach cancer in my reality stream. Then I saw him in the Coming to America sequel and thought it was CGI.
@@jamstrat I have an excellent memory. It was PUBLISHER'S CLEARINGHOUSE with the big ass check's. Cause, "You never know, the next big winner may be you!" Ring a bell? Watch how many likes this gets!
@@jamstrat ohh, another simple proof. How come everyone remembers publishers clearinghouse, but not the other one you refer to. Seems to me that brand would be a household name. See?
This is one of the Mandela effects that gets me, famous people who I remember what I thought and the accolades when they passed, and then Whoop, they're still alive and in a movie or a tour.
This reminds me of that time everyone thought the voice of SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) had passed away. He didn't, infact he is healthy and voices SpongeBob still to this day! The Mandela effect is a friggin weird thing am I right?
I NEVER heard of him passing even once.....until youtuber @ComfortCartoons ,Marcus Jones, mentioned when Tom Kenny was on scene for an early s1 episode, Stephen Hillenberg and the crew literally made Tom Kenny acting as Patchy Pirate at the time do a underwater for a band shot with the host Patchy and Potty... The only person who died was the original Potty puppet, that they had to remake, but heard Tom Kenny almost drowned and went to the hospital for safe keeping... Other then that... Never heard of him dying or almost dying in my life without others mentioning it...I would thought I would have heard when that happened since I watch Wordgirl and Spongebob, shows that we're still running new episodes back then....especially since he plays one of the main villian Characters on Wordgirl and the MAIN character along with well liked side characters on Spongebob,....well Spongebob is the only one airing new episodes now, But there was recently a report of someone saying Micheal J Fox passed away in the hospital on Nov 5, 2022....and what a awful and creepy coincidence that it was the date Doc Brown and Marty Time Traveled too in the movie but in the year 1985....luckily it turned out to be false... But with the person spreading this, I hope he was only mistaken on the person and wasn't intentional or Maybe he was from another identical universe where Michael J Fox DID really pass on Nov, 5, 2022.....Idk....wierd how universes work🤯
Same thing for me but with Jaleel White. I remember seeing things about him being dead for a long time and only about a year ago I discovered that he's still alive.
I think it was probably a false news article if I had to guess about the time she "died" alot of news of deaths had been false and the older people they claimed died didn't correct it because of their age
There are a lot of clickbait adverts that look like news articles, and imply celebrities have died when they haven't. They will be titled something like "Celebrities who passed away in 2022", but will deliberately show some celebrity who is still alive. The idea is that you think "Oh wow, I didn't realize they had died!" and click on the link. They will choose a celebrity who is well known enough that you're likely to recignize them and click the link, but not so well known that you would immediately realize it was a scam. I would say that a supporting character in the Harry Potter films would fit the bill perfectly, and that's the most likely explanation for what you saw. Maybe we should call them "Mandela scams" or something.
Maybe it’s just because I’ve never had a huge experience with the Mandela affect but I’m still not convinced it’s real. I’m 90% certain we are just remembering things wrong
Oh, the true "Mandela effect" is almost certainly explainable via popular misconceptions, imperfect memories and a lot of other stuff. We humans are much more fallible than we tend to want to admit. That said, yeah, when it happens to you personally, it is disconcertingly tempting to believe that reality itself has shifted around you. It's painful to conceive of being wrong about something that you were SO SURE of. Like the whole universe is gaslighting you as a prank.
So funny! I never heard about her passing, but I totally just watched Miriam’s documentary on the Charles Dickens Christmas classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ on UA-cam around the time you had posted this video. I thought to myself, “Glad we still have her around! She’s a gem!” Such a funny contrast. 🤯
I could swear my elderly neighbor died, I was surprised last Christmas when his grandson(my childhood friend) came to visit and I discovered the old man was still alive. I guess both him and me not leaving our houses, him because of fragile health and me only leaving for school convinced my brain that he must have died. My brain really hasn't been the best these last couple years.
Similar thing happened to me, but he wasn't a neighbor just an aquaintance. His name happened to come up in conversation and I turned to my friend and said...isn't he dead? She looked at me bewildered and said no. But I could remember hearing about his death and how sorry I felt for his ailing widowed mother and thinking ...well at least she still has her daughter. I swear for about two weeks I was in twilight zone mood.
This is very common in our community. The same thing happed to me with Bobcat Goldwaithe (that was his name NOT GOLDWAIT) I clearly remember him dying back in the late 80’s early 90’s of an OD…nope still alive and well.
the mandela effect, also known as being gaslit by the universe itself
I never understood people's obsession with the "Mandela Effect". The universe isn't conspiring against you. You are just wrong.
@@Drace90 because its a jarring thing to any organism, not just humans, to have a 100% complete and total memory of something as if it was totally normal, and not somehow off or wrong like you usually are when you suspect you may be wrong, and then eventually find out you've been wrong all along when until that point not one single thing made you suspect that.
That feeling, being as surprising as it is, sparks interest because people want to know what causes us to either completely remember that incorrectly as if its correct, or if its simply a case of a large portion of the masses simply misreading something together
@@Drace90 the conspiracy part is just for fun, the fascination comes from how come we can remember things wrong in such an specific way. it's not just that we remember wrong, it's that we remember wrong and that wrong memory is the same wrong memory other people share.
@@Drace90 yes, we know we're wrong, that's why mandela effect was coined. it's the fact that we had this collective memory of something we thought is true but is actually not. like, it's one thing if you misremember something, but a group of people having similar recollection? that's the fascinating part.
Because people can't put their minds around why shit gets edited and changed
If I had a nickel every time I heard about a news outlet publishing a celebrity died and actually didn't I'd have 4 nickels. Which is a lot more than I should. Honestly they probably saw a news article saying she died but it was just wrong.
In that case they should be able to find record of these erroneous articles. If they were removed by the publication, there are still records like the way back machine, or the publications posting an apology for their mistake. There will also probably be social media threads from that time talking about it, where you can get some context to how people found out about it.
Not sure how anyone could read that without reading it in a Dr. Doofenshmirtz voice.
This. Especially when the source is Yahoo.
There’s clickbait UA-cam channels that I’ve specifically reported for this.
@@stephenwells1831 I'm not sure how anyone could read *that* without reading it in a Dr Doofenshirtz voice either! I'm worried that I might be getting too recursive.
Okay, it has to be done.
“QUIT TELLING EVERYONE I’M DEAD!!!”
Dead. Death incarnate.
Honestly, it’s a mistake anyone could make.
@@Relkondpeople thought Mark Twain was dead but he wasn’t (at the time).
@@matityaloran9157 people without the p I see what u did there bc it’s Eric “P” so it was already there lol 😅
@@strrawberrii4196 Actually it was just a mistake, I’ll fix it
@@matityaloran9157 oh lol 😂
All fun and games until there's a Phineas and Ferb Mandela effect that Dan remembers too
Kikikikiki....
Remember the episode where they finally
explained the giant baby head.
@@Nio744 oh, you're _evil._
@@Nio744 Mr. Mandela, please stop!!!
@@Nio744 wait
Wasn't there?
My guess is that there was a fake obituary on Yahoo that went viral and led to many people grieving her without realizing that it was fake; this could’ve led to those people making tributes, more people seeing said tributes and assuming she had died, etc. Basically, my hypothesis is that it was more of a butterfly effect than a Mandela effect.
I think this is the most likely answer. It is sad for sure that there are people who would do this, but there have existed fake death articles on celebrities that either exist as pranks or clickbait. Also, I don't know much about it being born in the 2000s, but I don't think Yahoo was a very reliable source. We might think that's obvious now, but back then people thought (more so than today) that if it's on the internet, it's true.
They took it as real and didn't doubt it for a second, but now when we see a questionable source on the internet, we double check it. Or at least we should.
This sounds more likely as, similarly, the early 2000's kept spreading the rumours online that Kel Mitchel was dead
@@seanwood2455 Nice reply; too bad UA-cam ate it…
Yeah, I think this is the answer. I'm sure some still swear that mikey from the life commercials died as well
but that's how Mandela effects are actually caused, by butterfly effect
Hmm “Behold! The mandelainator! With this machine i’ll won't be the only one who is confused again!”
I honestly want this to become a Canon inator could make for a some good Interactions
Maybe even have it not exist bit perry and monogram think it allredy does, or doof thinking he made one but didn't or something like that with some meta Mandela mandelaing
@@RustyNips LOL!
@@RustyNips OMG yes THIS!
@@RustyNips Sounds like the amnesia-inator joke all over again
@@caltheuntitled8021 what amnesia-inator joke?
I'm pretty sure I'd remember something like that...
It must suck to have everybody think that you died when you are 100% alive
My grandfather's university reported him as deceased multiple times in the alumni newsletter. He'd write back and correct them. My dad contacted the university when grandpa acutely died.
If I publish my own obituary, then “come back to life” 3 days later, can I declare myself as the 2nd coming of Christ?
@@davidlane256 yea
@@davidlane256 Imagine people praying in a church to a guy named David Lane
"Story of my life". - Joe Biden
"The report of my death was an exaggeration"
-Mark Twain
Miriam is 81 years old and going strong!
That’s insane! That’s how the Mandela Effect started and here we are… Wow!
What goes around comes around and I guess you could say that this is mind blowing literally 🤯
Those tributes are just how much we love her
My entire life I thought Bob Dylan was dead, but then I saw an article about him apologizing over something, so I looked it up, and he is, infact, still alive.
I even could have sworn my dad told me he was dead, but my dad doesn't remember telling me and apparently knew that Bob Dylan was still alive.
Double whammy with that one.
Also, Bob Dylan is still around? 😅
I could’ve sworn he was dead what
Wait no! Bob Dylan was dead. My grand uncle and grandpa have both talked about “The Late Bob Dylan” and how they were fans of his music. Tf?
He's alive?!
DUDE WHAT?! MY DAD SAID HES DEAD TOO WHAT IS HAPPENING
Never watched Phineas and Ferb, but I love Dan's work so much, he's so funny and wholesome
And hilarious
Watch it then! You won't regret it!
You should go watch it then, it's pretty good
@@realchristian77010 that's the same thing as funny-
Bro you need to watch Phineas and Ferb
One of the strangest Mandela effects I've seen is the Star Trek TNG murder mystery episode "Aquiel." The episode centers around Geordi Laforge, played by Levar Burton, falling in love with an alien woman named Aquiel while investigating the murder that took place on an outpost. Spoiler alert, the murderer tuns out to be a shapeshifting alien that can take the form of its victims. The rest of the crew begin to suspect Aquiel, abut at the very end of the episode, the shapeshifter is revealed to have taken the form of her pet dog, not her. The suspicion and trauma puts strain on her relationship with Geordi and they stop pursuing each other.
Now here comes the Mandela effect: Most people who remember this episode, including my uncle with an impeccable memory and even Levar Burton himself, remember the episode ending with the reveal that Aquiel was the shapeshifting murderer after all!
I assume this comes from the episode name, the scene where the rest of the crew bursts into the room and accuses Aquiel, and the fact that she doesn't stay together with Geordi, but it's still strange that the main actor for the episode misremembered its ending
This is a weird one. If it happened for you the way history remembers, how could you not remember the dog being a murderer? How could Levar Burton not remember a twist like that? I must be from this universe because I was TRAUMATIZED at the idea of a dog actually being a shapeshifting murderer. I had such an emotional reaction that it's easier for me to believe that you didn't see the same thing I did than imagining that you did, and cared so little about a dog being a murderer that you didn't even remember the end correctly.
@@megaroni4765 I didn't experience this personally. I watched the episode after hearing that Aquiel was the murderer from both my uncle and Levar Burton (on twitter or in a recorded interview, I forget) and was very confused when the dog shapeshifted. My uncle was so sure of himself, and refused to believe it was the dog until he rewatched the episode himself, and I went back and checked and the statement from Levar Burton was still there. Although I can sort of understand Levar not remembering correctly, because the shape shifting was probably done with some kind of special effect that was added later, so he didn't have any memory of the dog itself shapeshifting from when he was acting in the episode, but had a lot of memories of interacting with Aquiel
@@megaroni4765 I think it's easier for actors because shows are usually filmed non sequentially. It's hard to keep track of a storyline when you film the ending before the meeting. And sometimes the studio films two options so no one is sure which one is real. They might have done one where the girl was the murderer and went with the dog option instead.
@@megaroni4765 I thought I was the only one who was traumatized by that episode. That dog twist made me irrationally angry when I watched, though now I can at least laugh about my anger.
@@megaroni4765 the love interest being the murderer after all at the end without being caught is itself a pretty good double twist
I wonder if the mandela effect could be a consequence of how much information (both meaningful and not) we take in today. The fact that many of these phenomena are shared experiences could be caused by many different brains experiencing the same "glitch" due to similar inputs. I think it is an interesting psychological occurence that really is worth exploring, if people (including naysayers) would just drop the "alternate reality" premise and actually engage with the concept for what it is.
It's literally not a psychological "glitch" in their brains. Several Mandela effects have been attributed to false newspapers/articles getting publishes, book misprints, or tv commercials that aired only once or twice with false information. Thousands of people read or see these things then decades later you have a percentage of people who recall information differently. There's also just the way the brain stores long term memories in "blocks", so when your brain stores information about the Target store logo it will not remember the actual amount of rings or circles but it will remember the general shape and color so if you ask a large sample of people to choose the correct logo majority of people will all recall it imperfectly.
Yeah all that alternate reality stuff is incredibly stupid
Thank you!
The truth is just that our memories suck. They did a big study on 911 memories and like 25% of people got what state they were in when 911 happened wrong. What *state* they were in. There wasnt ever an evolutionary advantage to us developing memories that work how we would like them to.
@@artemisspawnofzeus7732 I need a link to this study. I was literally an hour and a half away from Ground Zero at the time and I know this despite my memory being absolutely shit.
That reminds me of how I was sure there was an episode of Ben 10 with a future/alternate version of Ben 10 000 called Ben 10 million who had even more crazy aliens and omnitrix abilities. I brought it up with my friends who had also watched Ben 10 and they had no recollection of this. Confused, I looked it up to find no evidence of this character ever existing outside of fanfiction. It was a bizarre experience.
While there is no Ben 10 Million, there is a reference for Ben 10,000 having over 1 Million forms (and likely normal memory flaw, "over a million" + "name must include 10" = "10 million")
@@jesarablack1661 Oh, okay. Thanks for clearing that up.
If that’s the case, you should hire Miriam Margoyle to voice a character in one of your cartoons.
You got mandela’d, Dan!
The only "Mandela affect" I remember having was being somehow reminded of the Bee and Puppycat pilot when I got my copy of Super Mario Maker 3DS and saw Mary O. I apparently thought that B&PC's artstyle was the same as the tutorial characters in SMM3DS. I then rewatched the pilot and I remembered everything correctly from then on.
Edit: I actually misremembered Max from Advance Wars also having a wrench. Like, I knew Andy had a wrench, but I remember Max having one as well…What?
I knew she was alive but this video taught me that I've been pronouncing her last name wrong this whole time.
Celebrities get articles claiming they died all the time, I believe Macaulay culcan from home alone gets it all the time
Steve from Blues Clues kept getting killed by the internet all the time back in the day 🤣🤣🤣
@@AdamAddictL yeee I believe it really got to him
@@AdamAddictL that would explain one of the real/main reasons why he left the show in the first place.
@@noorayneladha470 I thought it was mostly because he was losing his hair (And thus why he wears a hat in his first appearance on Blue's Clues and You)
@@noorayneladha470 that doesn’t really make sense to me, i’m pretty sure the death rumors started long after Steve left Blue’s Clues.
That *is* odd! Misremembering stuff is always a weird sensation, but I think I would be freaking out too if I thought someone was dead who wasn’t. I wonder who posted that fake obituary
The Mandela effect isn't just misremembering, it's a shared mistemembering.
It could just be that the obituary had gotten leaked by accident this has happened more than once with different celebrities
@@CookiedoughProductions Wait, like, people have obituaries pre-made?
@@MBZ901 famous people do
@@CookiedoughProductions Huh. I guess that kind of makes sense.
I have 3-Mandela himself, the Berensteins, and a chipped tooth in my mouth. The tooth, an upper molar, was chipped 6-8 years ago, in such a way that I could poke my tongue tip in the space easily. It became a habit whenever i was concentrating on my work. Then one morning, I sat down at my computer, dug into my work annnnnd-that space was no longer there. Really annoying. I had to find another habit for concentration.
Personal mandellas do happen. I have a tshirt that changed text…and changed back over the years.. confirmed by a friend who also had that specific tshirt. Iams eukenuba light- first it said, lighten up you big dog…then, lighten up your big dog..then back to original. It was a flip flop!
The Bernstein bears
@@NoFapKing insert reference that no one will get (TAKE THE SHOT)
My Mandela effect was that my bedsheets were blue and not white. One day they completely changed and I still have no explanation why. I know that they are the same bedsheets because I have old blood on them (old bloody nose). Still trips me out when I go to bed
The name of a street I grew up on changed spelling from singular to plural in a matter of days. What's weirder is that in my school records my old address street name never changed. It's still singular. I think that's called residual?
I never saw anything about her having died, and I knew she was alive because I heard her on the radio a couple months ago, so as soon as you said she had died I was so confused for a sec.
Same
I think yahoo just mistakenly posted a news that she died and was wrong about it. It IS Yahoo News after all.
The real lesson here is, never trust the Yahoo homepage...
Weird thing about memory: we only actually remember something once. After that, we remember remembering it. That’s why it’s so easy to create a false memory.
That's true. It's why I try not to remember nostalgic things. I want to preserve the memories.
Yes, take the name itself, Mandela. People who remember Mandela dying likely remember the death of Steve Biko, another African anti-apartheid activist who died in prison, big international incident. Played by Denzel in Cry Freedom. If you watched the movie and thought of Nelson Mandela, you may have combined the two in your brain and now its Mandela dying and not Steve biko
I remember hearing that and the person saying directly after that that they just made it up
I think you mean we only experience something once. This comment doesn’t really make any sense
@@formcheck5553 Yes it does make sense. The first time we recollect something that happened, we recollect the actual event. But after that, we only recollect the recollection, in other words we remember the re-constructed memory and not the event itself.
I'm convinced that the Mandela Effect is just people ending up in the wrong, but very similar, universe.
No lie, I remember seeing a bunch of reports about her dieing, and later that same day her going onto social media (she was very active on now floundering bird site) telling people "nope, still here". I think part of the reason it's so easy to get fooled by stuff like this is that 1) those initial stories get way more traction than any corrections, which is a serious problem in and of itself but 2) some people just disappear from public consciousness when they aren't in the news, or involved with something as big as the Harry Potter movies. She's had a pretty active career before and since, but it's mostly been film and TV in the UK, so anyone not paying attention to that is probably still convinced she died.
*dying is the word
@@shreeeze Because it might not be phrased like SHE specifically died, but something like "Voice actress from cartoon (insert name of the cartoon) died" and her photo to misslead people on purpose. Like few years ago i saw an article "Actor from Zoolander died due to overdose" and picture of Ben Stiller was shown to get some views and only after 3-4 days they changed it to an actual person that died, and it was some background character that didn't have a single line in a movie.
This might explain a few Mandela Effects but certainly not all of them. I saw countless new stations covering the death of Bill Graham back in the early 2010s. Come to find out years later that he was still alive. Something screwy is going on with time.
Most likely it was one of those celebrity death hoax articles (Dan's side of the story), and then other people picked up on it, thinking it was real, and made tribute videos and such (the woman's side of the story).
As a Brit I went through a rollercoaster of emotions just then, "Oh yeah I love her, she's occasionally on panel shows like QI and what... what? She died? What I didn't know that, oh, she didn't?"
Several years later...
"Queen Elizabeth II Celebrates Oak Jubilee After Being Queen For 80 Years"
I feel like it’s gonna happen
I didn’t believe the Mandela effect until here a couple years ago when a lot of things changed. This one hit the hardest: The guitar from the SpongeBob movie where he sings in a goofy goober hits the hardest as I’ve seen that movie over a hundred times since I was a kid and watched it even just a few years ago with my sister. I vividly remember a red guitar V shaped with two necks. And I remember when it cuts to the real hand playing the guitar it didn’t have the duel neck and it was the first ever time I was like “I see an error in this!” And I told my parents and even joked about it a few years ago with my sister asking if she remembered when I noticed that and she did! Fast forward to a few months ago and I found out it’s a peanut guitar no V shape brown and isn’t double necked…
It's funny how people believe what they want whether it's alternate universe or false obituaries spreading. I too remember the double headed guitar and that it wasn't a peanut. I'm curious if the dvd or original film had double header guitar and it got changed for copyright reasons
@@Gochuyo I actually thought this as well, so I got my sisters and my old VHS that we used to watch the movie on ALL the time… like I swear over a hundred times as kids. And I booted it up… and nope. It’s not there either…
@Plaegu I remember thinking why does it have two heads if he's only playing one. It has to be another cartoon faking the place of the memory. That or changed universe lmao
@@Gochuyo I vividly remember it being like that, and I always wanted a guitar like that. My sister and I went to the beach years ago and at this guitar shop we saw a similar one like it and we thought it was so cool! Idk what the explanation is…. But I like to believe in the alternate universe thing
🤯W T F. I kinda remember the guitar being white or red but it most definitely was double necked. Checked the sweet sweet victory song and no double necked guitar there either. That peanut guitar was the most foreign thing even to my memory lol.
Inside Job on Netflix just did an episode about this, claiming it’s a side effect of a machine in the show. They were trying to make a time travel machine, but instead got a machine that randomly changes something in the past, and some people are resistant to the memory changes. It was a very good episode if you’re familiar with the Mandela Effect.
I had the same thing happen to me with Christopher Plummer
Back in 2016-2017, I remember looking at headlines for the movie “All The Money In The World” and how they had to replace the actor and something with Christopher Plummer, and for some reason, instead of reading the article and finding out that the real reason was they replaced Kevin Spacey with Cristopher Plummer. I just thought the man was dead, and it wasn't until “Knives Out” in 2019 that I realized my mistake.
That must’ve been weird watching the movie and then seeing someone you thought was dead in the movie.
@@thecluckster3908 spoiler for knives out
He dies in the movie so it wasn’t that big of a deal.
But in early 2021 he did die for real.
@@noorayneladha470 yeah when that happened i had to read the full article just to be sure
One of my Mandela Effects that are similar to this is that I thought Michael Jordan died in like somewhere between 2010-2016. For like 4 years I’ve been thinking he died, but earlier this year I saw him in a commercial and it freaked me tf out.
Are you mixing Michael Jackson up with Michael Jordan?
@@Tonybaloney6969 No, I specifically remember the basketball player Michael Jordan dying
I remember hearing & reading in the late 90's that he had contracted a deadly disease... and he wouldn't be playing anymore... thought I was alone.
@@Just_a_Steve Face-palm you are so right. Thank you Steve - you fixed my glitch. 😜 Merry Christmas!
Magic Johnson is still alive also.
Ah the old “make ‘em think you’re dead but you’re actually not” classic Miriam, the old scamp.
She's done a few bits on British TV, one of which was a series travelling the UK with another comedian and learning about different parts of culture. She's still somewhat ingrained in British TV culture, and its so bizarre to me that people just swear that she passed away, when she's never truly left the spotlight here. I had no idea there were even people that were absolutely certain she passed away!
I'd imagine the people of South Africa had the same impression about Nelson Mandala. Imagine... the president of your country is thought to be dead by the people of another. Of course, the same can also be said for a famous actor in their home country. You're quite right.
It's easy to have an explanation when they aren't your memories
There is also the possibility of a fake obituary. It was a weird trend like 5-10 years ago. I remember getting really upset when a friend posted one about Jackie Chan, and when I googled it, turned out to be fake trying to get shared by news outlets or something
I had the Mandela effect recently when I rewatched the movie “TMNT” from 2007.
Me and my dad love that movie so we rewatched it. But we found out that the most famous line in the movie “You must learn to be strong when your brothers are weak”, was NEVER said to Leonardo, but DONATELLO!!!
Which is weird right? Cuz like TMNT 2007 is literally a movie about Leo's growth. Doesn't he like go into like a Jungle to train himself or some shit? But in the context of the film it makes more sense for Donnie to be the one told this because I believe Leo was still gone by then... Don't remember exactly since it has been literally 15 years since I've seen the damn film haha.
@@cragl3yman343 , I guess Leo doesn’t need this to be said to him. In fact he may have already had this said to him and that’s why he’s Like That
@@Nortarachanges Possibly! I mean Donnie being the smart one was also kinda the emotional one for support and stuff.
What? Splinter didn’t say that?? I thought when he went to visit him after coming back from the jungle splinter told him that…
@@FlamesUp1602 he said it, just to Donatello
I'm another one who believed Miriam had passed... I don't know who or what recombined that reality with the one we're now in, but thank you for bringing Miriam back.
I was gonna say there's a glitch in the simulation, but I think time travelers screwing up the timeline by changing things we all witnessed is a way more interesting premise.
when you change your vibration you the world changes around you thru the law of attraction, this is why people experience different timelines and thus what the mandela effect is. You are no longer in the time line you used to be with your memories but that doesnt make your memories wrong, its just personal proof to you that you changed vibration and timelines. peace.
when you change your vibration you the world changes around you thru the law of attraction, this is why people experience different timelines and thus what the mandela effect is. You are no longer in the time line you used to be with your memories but that doesn't make your memories wrong, its just personal proof to you that you changed vibration and timelines. peace.
I agree
If that were true then it'd be impossible to remember things from before the changes. Your brain isn't immune to reality.
Timelines are converging.
I heard this and thought "Wait a minute, wouldn't she be among the Harry Potter actors who died?" And then I thought, "She's not dead!"
I feel this is a specific American one as she's been doing stuff for the BBC for years and years 😅
My first one was the day I found out that the berenstein bears was actually called the berenstain bears. I even told my dad about that over the phone and he was confused as well.
I remember seeing and hearing that Wilford Brimley died well before he was reported to have in 2020. It was a specific memory that I could not possibly have wrong because he used to come to the Quaker Oats factory and my mom and dad met him. I heard it from them and then saw it on the news in I think 2006 (the exact year isn't something I am sure of). It is a clear, vivid memory. This is how I know at least some Mandela Effects are real.
For the longest time, I remembered seeing articles and news about the death of James Earl Jones to find out later that he was still alive.
Hey Dan. I had to put down my dog recently and your shows and videos have been helping me get through it all. Thank you.
I had something similar happen to me in my early teens. I remember one day finding out that my aunt had passed away, but I couldn't go to the funeral because I was really sick at the time so I wrote a letter to be read there. Fast forward a few years later and the same aunt was at my sister's wedding. When I'd ask someone about it they'd just look at me confused. Thinking about it still freaks me out to this day.
Strange! My great granddad passed recently, I hope this doesn't happen to me!
Had a cousin who died years ago , but then my wife met him when she was working in a rehab hospital . I hadn't seen him since I was a kid , but had heard he had died from my uncle . My wife showed my a picture of them from the hospital , and it was him .
This happened to my mom and me with Terry Cruise who we know we read about dying years ago, and we we're very sad because we had watched him in everybody hates Chris. And then a few years later we saw him in movies, tv shows, and commercials. What the hell! I think the news just sometimes gets things like this wrong for some reason.
Is he that Terry on agt and b99?
@@sericat IKR❗
so I vividly remember doing a current events report Nelson Mandela died in prison and there were riots all over, all across Africa Europe the major US cities and then I remember how weird it was that nobody talked about it the following week at all. I was shocked when years later he became president of South Africa, I asked a friend who knew the situation better and she told me I was thinking of a different aparthied activist but this person had died way earlier like 1979 and I was not alive for that
Yes , You remember someone you've never heard of "died " and not Mandela , who you know of . Makes sense to me too .
I'm sure you can research the mandela effects and discern for yourself if you can see them.
Looney Toons or Looney Tunes
Bernstein or Bernstain
White or Pink shirt for the Tom Cruise dance in "Risky Business"
I remember this too,do you remember the big outbreak after that too?,I remember a sickness that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Africa shortly after Mandela passing, I was a kid but I remember seeing lots of horrible news clips on TV about it .
yes , you were thinking of a different aparthied activist , yeah one you've never heard of before . It's always their go to , "You're just mis-remembering that is all " . Bull!
At some point in the past few years, the earth passed through a portal and brought all of us to a different timeline that is very nearly similar to the one we used to know but with every change making us feel this effect.
That would make sense, as maybe the new timeline has hours go quicker, because, for me, a day is 3 hours and I wake up at 9am and sleep at 3am
I had a similar experience. I remember as a kid hearing that Louie Anderson died while his show, Life With Louie, was still on air. Fast forward to a couple of years ago, I found out he was still alive, and the really messed me up. He passed away at the beginning of this year, and may he rest in peace.
Or did he
@@runedoom dun dun daaaaaa
@@chazhowell6Holy crap,you just remembered that….I freakin loved that cartoon when I was little Louie was one of a kind….freakin miss him 😭😭
I remember as a young kid, we would watch old game shows. Press Your Luck was one of our favorites. For some reason my mom liked to state how game show hosts die. As a kid, it seemed celebrities only died one of four ways, overdose, murdered by wife, suicide, and plane crash. I don’t know why I thought that, but it seemed those were the common ways. Even though plane crash and murdered by wife aren’t common deaths for celebrities. Anyway, I swore she said the host of Press Your Luck died in a plane crash. Then fast forward years later and he and his wife did die in a plane crash. I try to explain it as maybe my mom mentioned he was a pilot, talked about how another game show host died, and plane crashes within a couple conversations that day.
Standup comedy and late night shows help the Mandela effect be what it is. When a comedian does an impression, we substitute what's being said into what was said
Bro the universe is pranking us💀
I also had a Mandela effect episode by thinking someone died and then finding out they were still alive.
I wish David Bowies' passing was just a fake story and that he is still going strong - dropping a new album. 😭💔🎶
I think the personally have known her to be alive due to her amazing video posts she’s made, my favorite being “here’s a fart for you, ah, there we go” (in her English accent)
(First time I saw the clip was second hand and just went “is that professor sprout?” Then heard the masterpiece she created haha
The mandela effect I experienced was also harry potter related. I very vividly remember seeing in the first movie the colored fire potion puzzle scene. I was lying on a bed at someone else's place as a kid while I was watching that. Years later when I started rewatching harry potter as an adult I found the scene missing, after some googling apparently that scene has never existed.
The weird thing is when I was looking it up I did find several forums of people posting that they had exactly the same, thinking that they'd seen that scene in the movie too. Really weird.
Quite weird! And I clearly remember the opposite; that the potions trial was not in the movie, and I was pissed about that because that was Hermione's time to shine.
Of course, I can picture the potions scene in my head, but that's only because I read the book and visualized things when I read them. I don't know whether that helps explain the misremembering / Mandela effect.
I have no memory of this, but we did have that one year when a TON of celebrities died, so I wonder if that played any part in mixing up people's memories. They all just kind of blurred together?
Same thing happened to me, except about John Williams. I remember back at the release of SW E9 that he'd passed away just before finishing the soundtrack, and I was completely heartbroken. Fast forward to this year, a few months ago I read an article that says Indiana Jones 5 is gonna be his last soundtrack before retiring.
My brain just went "WHAT"
so yeah it seems the news keeps jumping the gun on celebrities dying
My entire life until I was about maybe 16 or 17, I thought David Bowie was dead. My dad used to take me to our local amusement park and fair every year when I was little and they had this music themed funhouse with a picture of David Bowie on it, along with other famous and influential musicians also painted on the front of the funhouse. I remember him pointing to the painting of Bowie and he taught me who he was and that he was no longer around. I thought this for the longest time until I got into his music and looked him up. Obviously my dad was wrong. Then I remember when he actually died. So sad. Blackstar was his final album and parting gift to the world and is such a brilliant album to have gone out with.
Actually now that i think on it, im starting to wonder if the mandella effect actually is a thing. The most infamous one is the bearstien bears or w/e.. My issue with this is that i, and pretty much everyone else ive met, always go 'i remember this. i remember everyone else correcting me on how to say it' etc etc, which i also seem to share. And that last bit is super important because everyone was so very insistent that it was what it wasnt that no one ever really questioned it, despite how wrong it is. This to me says its a language issue, not a mass hallucination issue.
And what i mean by that is, its like certain phrases that everyone uses that make literally no sense.
Example: When two planes nearly collide, its a near miss... even though they totally missed each other, otherwise there would be a lot more fire and screaming.
but when you say a near miss, that just means that whatever it was nearly hit, and everyone knows that even though its very very wrong. AND IT DRIVES ME BATTY
and i think its also very related to the bears.
I agree. I think with the bears, it's that a name that ends with "stein" is far more common than "stain," so people's parents misread it without realizing because their brains were subconsciously like "that must be wrong, let's fix it" and the kids were so used to hearing it, they never noticed the error, either. I remember when I was little, my mom would say "alblum" instead of "album" because she liked it better (I asked, and that was her reason,) but because I'd learned it that way, it felt like the natural and correct way to say it, and I hadn't learned to read yet, so how could I know? I think I finally asked once I learned to read and realized she was wrong. It took some effort to unlearn it and say it the "right" way because the right way felt so wrong. I'd been saying it that way my whole life. I agree, I think this is a language issue, but their memories might also be perfectly legitimate, growing up hearing Berenstein because they couldn't read yet. Ironically, my mom read it Berenstain, so this Mandela Effect was always a weird one to me. Sometimes I wonder how many of us were born in this dimension and how many are the travelers. 😂
Regarding the bears, it looks like publishers used both spellings. Someone on Reddit had a picture of two old VHS tapes with different Bear family names.
A few years before the Mandela Effect became a big talking point online and irl, I was looking through my bookshelf and reading a bunch of kids books and stuff that I found. I remember some of those being Berenstain Bears books. And I specifically remember noticing that the title said "BerenSTAIN" instead of "BerenSTEIN" and I was just like "huh, I thought it was spelled Berenstein" and moved on.
The fact that I found out and realized it a few years before everyone started freaking out about it was pretty funny to me.
A lot of Mandela effects just confuse the heck out of me. Like people remembering Curious George having a tail.
To me, him lacking a tail was always one of the most notable things about him. I would always wonder why he was called a monkey when he didn't have a tail. So to find out there were a bunch of people who thought he had one was super confusing to me.
I think the only Mandela effect that ever got me good was the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia thing. Because I've worn Fruit of the Loom underwear for almost my whole life and I knew the logo well. There IS a local grocery store a few blocks away with a similar cornucopia logo though, so I've attributed my confusion to that.
It's always interesting to try to figure out what specifically made your mind think something was one way, when it really wasn't.
It's always been the Berenstain Bears. I've seen knockoff products use a slight misspelling to get around the copyright, but it's always been the Berenstain Bears.
@@nikkimcdonald4562 I'm inclined to accept this. It's not hard at all to imagine how people could have gotten it wrong; perhaps the only truly remarkable thing is that the evidence was literally right in front of our noses, and we didn't notice it. Just like some of the best magic tricks / sleight of hand. xD
So many people in the US think 'The Onion' is real and the Trailer Park Boys show in Canada is reality tv not a satire.
Are you from the USA?
She has had six years playing the greatest Halloween ghost pranks ever and now you've ruined it, she's never going to forgive you!
I can't believe they decided to resurrect a dead body for a 60th anniversary special for Doctor Who!
I'm wondering if she might have been a victim of the celebrity death hoaxes that were going around a few years ago?
She was in fact i found a website that had an about her life and several years right on to what dan said there were a few comments morning her death
@@fish8415 woo! Guessed right!!
I did try to find something about it, but I didn't come across anything
I have a perfectly logical explanation for this. She is not dead because she hasn't died yet.
Ohhh yeahhh I bet that's why! Good call!
no shit sherlock..
we got mr 1000000 iq here
Wish this were still true :(
Omg that is so insane. I remember seeing something on her dying because everyone was making a big deal about it. Like every time someone dies the fandom puts the news on blast. I am shook. I'm so sorry you went through that.
Some obituaries are released by accidents, since news channels usually have prepared ones for older public figures…
Nelson Mandela was so good as red in Shawshank Redemption
Kind of similar, I remember seeing movies in the theater, when they came out, and basing certain timelines in my life, when they came out...then for whatever reason, I find out the movie was way before, or way after, that timeline in my life, that I specifically link it to. Throws me all off.
For example I saw the movie "Colors" in a dollar theater. We snuck in, and it was 4 of us, and I was 12. I really remember this moment, because I hated the movie ( I was a bubble child...I thought the movie was racist cops against poor people :D) telling all my friends I didn't like it. Anyways, I watched it recently, and I realized it didn't come out until I was 17. I was in a different side of town at 13, different set of friends , and that theater had been closed for years.
That is sooo cool!
I wonder what other changes are currently happening around you now as we are multidimensional!!
❤👍😄
My awake moment with the Mandela effect was when I seen it saying that the engine on the planes were in front of the wing , I remember the engine being under the middle of the wing. Anyone else???
Same feeling when I found that James Earl Jones was still alive. He died back in the late 90s from stomach cancer in my reality stream. Then I saw him in the Coming to America sequel and thought it was CGI.
I swear, sometimes the news tells us the wrong things and then instead of making a correction, they just act like nothing happened. 😉
More like 💯 scripted
Imagine if you had seen her on the street instead of hearing she was alive from a vid
When I found out that Ed McMahon never was affiliated with publisher's clearinghouse, I knew it was real.
Absolutely real,
Ed McMahon was the spokesperson for the American Family Publishers sweepstakes, never Publisher's Clearing House, the Mandela Effect isnt a thing
@@jamstrat I have an excellent memory. It was PUBLISHER'S CLEARINGHOUSE with the big ass check's. Cause, "You never know, the next big winner may be you!" Ring a bell? Watch how many likes this gets!
Wait, what? I grew up seeing him in commercials for publisher's clearinghouse! He was a freaking punchline regarding this for years!
@@jamstrat ohh, another simple proof. How come everyone remembers publishers clearinghouse, but not the other one you refer to. Seems to me that brand would be a household name. See?
I just happened upon your channel and your really freaking me out right now ?
This is one of the Mandela effects that gets me, famous people who I remember what I thought and the accolades when they passed, and then Whoop, they're still alive and in a movie or a tour.
I guess the Harry Potter Universe *does* have revival spells, and they used it on Professor Margoyles.
This reminds me of that time everyone thought the voice of SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) had passed away. He didn't, infact he is healthy and voices SpongeBob still to this day! The Mandela effect is a friggin weird thing am I right?
damn lol got me, thought he died
maybe you confused tom kenny for stephen hillenberg (show creator)
@@kjmusic99 oh, no. This rumor was a thing years before his death
I NEVER heard of him passing even once.....until youtuber @ComfortCartoons ,Marcus Jones, mentioned when Tom Kenny was on scene for an early s1 episode, Stephen Hillenberg and the crew literally made Tom Kenny acting as Patchy Pirate at the time do a underwater for a band shot with the host Patchy and Potty... The only person who died was the original Potty puppet, that they had to remake, but heard Tom Kenny almost drowned and went to the hospital for safe keeping... Other then that... Never heard of him dying or almost dying in my life without others mentioning it...I would thought I would have heard when that happened since I watch Wordgirl and Spongebob, shows that we're still running new episodes back then....especially since he plays one of the main villian Characters on Wordgirl and the MAIN character along with well liked side characters on Spongebob,....well Spongebob is the only one airing new episodes now, But there was recently a report of someone saying Micheal J Fox passed away in the hospital on Nov 5, 2022....and what a awful and creepy coincidence that it was the date Doc Brown and Marty Time Traveled too in the movie but in the year 1985....luckily it turned out to be false... But with the person spreading this, I hope he was only mistaken on the person and wasn't intentional or Maybe he was from another identical universe where Michael J Fox DID really pass on Nov, 5, 2022.....Idk....wierd how universes work🤯
@@Tonso_fun2023 nice essay! Really, commentors like you have my upmost respect 👏
I mean, I remember seeing stuff about Warwick Davis dying back in 2017 I think, but he's definitely not dead. So I 100% know how this feels.
I didn't realize the actress who played Narcissa had passed!
*fresh pain and sadness activated*
Same thing for me but with Jaleel White. I remember seeing things about him being dead for a long time and only about a year ago I discovered that he's still alive.
Wait... he is??
I think it was probably a false news article if I had to guess about the time she "died" alot of news of deaths had been false and the older people they claimed died didn't correct it because of their age
That is crazy! Cool that she’ll be in the new Doctor Who though, I didn’t know that.
There are a lot of clickbait adverts that look like news articles, and imply celebrities have died when they haven't.
They will be titled something like "Celebrities who passed away in 2022", but will deliberately show some celebrity who is still alive.
The idea is that you think "Oh wow, I didn't realize they had died!" and click on the link.
They will choose a celebrity who is well known enough that you're likely to recignize them and click the link, but not so well known that you would immediately realize it was a scam.
I would say that a supporting character in the Harry Potter films would fit the bill perfectly, and that's the most likely explanation for what you saw.
Maybe we should call them "Mandela scams" or something.
Maybe it’s just because I’ve never had a huge experience with the Mandela affect but I’m still not convinced it’s real. I’m 90% certain we are just remembering things wrong
Oh, the true "Mandela effect" is almost certainly explainable via popular misconceptions, imperfect memories and a lot of other stuff. We humans are much more fallible than we tend to want to admit.
That said, yeah, when it happens to you personally, it is disconcertingly tempting to believe that reality itself has shifted around you. It's painful to conceive of being wrong about something that you were SO SURE of. Like the whole universe is gaslighting you as a prank.
Now imagine being her and thinking “What the fuck, people think I’ve been dead? WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST ASK?!”
Lemme just send Mary a quick facebook message, "yo are you dead?"
So funny! I never heard about her passing, but I totally just watched Miriam’s documentary on the Charles Dickens Christmas classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ on UA-cam around the time you had posted this video. I thought to myself, “Glad we still have her around! She’s a gem!” Such a funny contrast. 🤯
For me it's Wayne Knight and Wee Man. I remember seeing reports of them dying, but nope, they are alive.
Yep get your early popcorn while they're warm
mandela effects are hilarious when you're on the side of not being effected
Just wait until you ARE.
I could swear my elderly neighbor died, I was surprised last Christmas when his grandson(my childhood friend) came to visit and I discovered the old man was still alive.
I guess both him and me not leaving our houses, him because of fragile health and me only leaving for school convinced my brain that he must have died.
My brain really hasn't been the best these last couple years.
Similar thing happened to me, but he wasn't a neighbor just an aquaintance. His name happened to come up in conversation and I turned to my friend and said...isn't he dead? She looked at me bewildered and said no. But I could remember hearing about his death and how sorry I felt for his ailing widowed mother and thinking ...well at least she still has her daughter. I swear for about two weeks I was in twilight zone mood.
i've never heard of this woman in my life
multiple dimensions of reality exist in infinitum. which one are we actually ever in at any given moment?
It's possible it was one of those celebrity death hoaxes. Those were really popular pranks for a while.
This is very common in our community.
The same thing happed to me with Bobcat Goldwaithe (that was his name NOT GOLDWAIT)
I clearly remember him dying back in the late 80’s early 90’s of an OD…nope still alive and well.
If I had a nickel for every time this has happened to me I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but its weird it happened twice.