What is the Mandela Effect? – IOTW Report

What is the Mandela Effect?

This is a risky post, because people do not like to be challenged on what they steadfastly believe to be true.

So what is the Mandela Effect?

It’s when a large swath of the population believes something happened, even saying they saw it happen when it never happened.

When Nelson Mandela died in 2003, many people said that was impossible because he “died in prison” in the 80s.

There are may more examples much more fun than that one.

I’ve run into so many people who swear they saw (fill in the actress) on the Johnny Carson Show who brought her pet cat onto the show. She asked if Johnny would like to “pet her pussy”?

Johnny said, “sure, move the damn cat.”

It never happened.

Many people back in the day said they were watching the Giants game on TV when Bobby Thompson hit the shot heard around the world and Russ Hodges went nuts on the broadcast saying over and over “the Giants win the pennant.”

It never happened. Russ Hodges was a radio announcer, the clip we see is woven together with archival footage of that day.

There was never a Jiffy peanut butter.

The Monopoly Man never had a monocle.

Ed McMahon and Publishers Clearing House. He never worked for them. Ever. I promise. Look it up.

Which color below is chartreuse?

Which color below is

What did Tom Cruise wear on his face dancing in his underwear in Risky Business? You’re wrong. lol. Look it up.

Remember SHAZAM! starring Sinbad? It was about a genie. Was it a TV Show or a Movie? You’re wrong. Look it up.

Who said at the Oscars, “You like me, you really like me!”? You’re wrong. Look it up.

We all know the apocryphal tale of the Newlywed Game when Bob Eubanks asks the brides “where is the strangest place you ever made whoopie?”

And one lady says, “in the butt.”

That didn’t happ…

Oh. Wow.

Yes it did…

And it’s actually WORSE than what most people “remember.”

She says, “in the ass.”

21 Comments on What is the Mandela Effect?

  1. Dems will have you believe Trump told the American people to swallow bleach to fight covid. Never said it.
    Sarah Palin never said “I can see Russia from my house.”
    And you could go down a whole list of false attributes to Trump statements.

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  2. Great funny examples sadly the mentally deranged libtards use this to their advantage all the time and poison the population with their BS – Kyle Rittenhouse shot 3 black men, Palin said she could see Russia from her house etc. etc. etc.

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  3. We’ve got 12 years before the planet is destroyed (said 12 years ago).
    Immigrants crossing the southern border are better people than you are.
    Gas prices and inflation was caused by Putin’s war.
    The rich do not pay their fair share.
    The last election was the most scrutinized and fair election like ever.
    Biden is a moderate.
    Hunter’s laptop is Russian disinformation.
    Faucci always tells the truth.
    CNN, the most trusted news network.
    Removing all the guns will keep America safe.
    Ukraine is winning.

    We could go on like this for hours, progs are so diluted and bereft of logic, that they will believe anything.

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  4. Was dentistry really that bad in the Sixties? Did you notice the dental train wreck inside the mouths of Olga and her husband?

    Even the British would have been apalled

  5. Another Mandela effect.

    Where the international Left was so effective in turning him into a saint, you few people know that he went to prison for causing the deaths of numerous people. Of course they were white South Africans, so that was OK

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  6. The first one that introduced me to the Mandela Effect years ago was the whole “Luke, I am your father” which most people believed was said by Darth Vader. It wasn’t.

    Some of the ones in list above I am aware of, others I need to now look up again as I would have said they were true.

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  7. George Floyd did not get shot by the police. I know it’s a futile effort to quash that Mandela Effect , but I had to try.

    Thanks, WaPo. You hire the very best of the worst journos.

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