The Mandela Effect

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What is the Mandela Effect?

The Mandela Effect occurs when someone believes they have a correct memory of an event or the way something looks, but it is has never actually happened in our reality. It is a collection of false memories.

The name came from Nelson Mandela. Many people believed he died in 1983 when he went to prison for twenty seven years, but he did not die until December of 2013.