Mandella Effect

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello listeners, It's time once again for another episode of
the Paranormal Activities Podcast, a show dedicated to all those
things that go bump the night and then some. We've
got a fun episode in store for you today. We're

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going to talk about the Mendella effect. You know, there's
some things that you could just swear so would everybody else,
but we'd all be wrong. We're gonna start off talking
about Nelson Mandela's death miss remembered. The phenomenon now known

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as the Mandela Effect, began with one woman's unsettling memory.
Fiona Broom was attending any science fiction conference in two
thousand and nine when she casually mentioned that she clearly
remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the nineteen eighties.

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To her shock, several others agreed. They recalled emotional news coverage,
public mourning, and even speeches from his widow. But history
stated that Mandela was released in nineteen ninety, became South
Africa's president, and died in twenty thirteen. This contradiction between

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personal memory and historical fact laid the foundation for what
would become a widespread phenomenon of collective misremembering. How about
the Baron Stain Bears versus the Baron Steam Bears. For

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many children growing up in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties,
the Behrenstein Bears were as familiar as Sesame Street. Yet
millions swear the name was spelled Berenstein with an E,
not an A. Entire generations recall reading Berenstein Bears books,

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discussing them in school, or even watching the TV show
under that spelling. However, all physical copies of the books
going back to the original in nineteen sixty two say Berenstein.
The eerie realization has led some to speculate that at

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some point the spelling shifted due to alternate timelines. Parallel
verses were mass memory revision. Next up, Looney Tunes or
Looney Tunes. The name Looney Tunes is deeply etched in

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pop culture, yet many fans recall it being Looney Tunes.
The confusion seems logical. The show featured animated characters and
was viewed as a cartoon tunes. However, the original name

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paid homage to the musical aspect of the series, hence Tunes.
That explanation has stopped people from insisting they saw VHS
tapes merchandise or episodes titled with tunes on the label,
leading to further suspicion of reality shifting inconsistencies. Next, the

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breeze versus the Breeze. This household odor eliminator sparks debate
among consumers who vivid or recall the product being spelled
the breeze. The added E seems natural for a word
meant to evoke a fresh breezey scent, Yet the product

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is officially and always has been, the Breeze with one E.
Some point to early TV commercials or product labels as
containing the extra E, though no hard evidence has surfaced. Still,
thousands insists that remember the alternate spelling, raising questions whether

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our minds are filling in linguistic planks or something more
unusual as at play. Next up, Luke, I am your
father verses no, I am your father. Perhaps one of
the most quoted lines in movie history, never actually happened,

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at least not the way people think. In The Empire's
Strike Back nineteen eighty, Darth Vader doesn't say Luke, I
am your father. He actually says, no, I am your father.
Yet the misquote is everywhere parodied in TV shows repeated

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in pop culture, and even misremembered by actors themselves. This
widespread misremembering suggests an oppotent combination of collective reinforcement, meme culture,
the mind's tendency to recontextualize famous quotes of forclarity. Next up,

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mirror Mirror on the Wall versus Magic Mirror on the Wall.
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Evil Queen
famously consults her enchanted mirror, most remembering her saying mirror
mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?

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But Disney's original line is actually magic mirror on the wall.
Countless children's books, Halloween costumes, and parodies quote the wrong line,
yet everyone insists they heard it differently growing up. Some
believe it's another example of our culture bending to memory

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rather than fact. The monopoly man rich uncle Pennybags is
remembered by Mini as wearing a mincaele all he's a
wealth heilled banker, right, Yet Hesbro, the game's publishers of
firms that he never wore one. Despite this, people swear

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they saw him with one of the game's boxes. Commercials
and parodies. Some theorists argue people are confusing him with
mister Peanut, who does have a monocle. Others say it's
yet another proof of a glitch in reality. Next up,

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Pikachu's black tail tip real or not. Pikachu, the beloved
electric mouse Polkemon is often remembered as having a black
tip on his tail, but official artwork, trading cards, and
games all depict Pikachu with a yellow tail no black

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tip at the end. Despite this, legions of fans are
confident that earlier versions showed the black coloring. The discrepancy
as fueled theories ranging from faulty memory to Pokemon merchandise
miss prints two dimensional crossovers. Next, Sex in the City

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versus Sex in the City. When HBO's hit show aired
in the late nineties and early two thousands, many fans
believe the title was Sex in the City. It made
intuitive sense the show was about relationships in life in
New York City, but the real title has always been

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Sex and the City. The mistaken title has appeared in conversation,
pop culture references, and even words shows, confusing generations of
viewers who could have sworn they saw otherwise. Next up,
Fruit of the Loom Cornucopia that never was The iconic

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fruitful Loom logo is often remembered as featuring a cornucopia,
a wicker horn spilling fruit, but the logo never had one,
not in the seventies, not in the nineties, and not now.
Despite this, thousands insists they remember the cornucopia clearly, especially
on packaging and underwear labels. The mental effect has baffled

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even artists and designers who thought they had drawn it before.
Next the Shazam movie that didn't exist. A strange and
persistent memory haunts many adults who grew up in the
nineteen nineties a comedy film titled Shitzam starring comedian Sindbad

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as a genie. They recall a lighthearted movie with magical hijinks,
Sinbad wearing genie like costumes, and even scenes of kids
rubbing a lit lamp. Yet despite countless searches, no such
movie has ever been found. Sindbad himself has denied a
starring in such a film, calling the memories false. Some

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believe this is a conflation with the nineteen ninety six
movie Kazam starring Shaquille O'Neal as a genie, while others
suspect a collective memory glitch or parallel timeline interference. Unfortunately,
that's all the time that we've got for today's episode
of the Paranormal Activities podcast. I can't thank you enough

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for stopping by for another episode. Until next time,