Who the fuck remembers Mandela dying in prison??? The man was resilience itself!

The Berenstein Bears one and the Fruit of the Loom not having a horn are the ones that have me questioning reality and my childhood.

I'm never sure if Castro is dead or not. I was sure for very long time that he died already but it would turn out that he's still there. I also don't remember any events specifically related to his death. His brother (?) took over and he kind of fizzled out before he died. Or maybe he's still there? I'm never quite sure. I mean, it's 2024 now, he's definitely dead. Or is he?

I remember there was an AskLemmy question on the Mandela effect, but a week later we all realized it was just a dream.

I'm sure it was called the mandala effect

Somehow I had always thought it was Klu Klux Klan instead of Ku Klux Klan. I'm not sure where I got that or if anyone else thought the same thing though.

When i got into monster hunter 4 ultimate(the one with a good story) i was told that Deviljho, a voracious monster that will eat anything mid combat to recover its stamina, will eat its own tail if you cut it. Everyone believed it, no one tried to capture it on camera because of the hardware limitation(no "clip that", no shadowplay).

Turn out, millions of Monster Hunter fans remembered wrong because it's a hoax.

That gen 1 of Pokemon didn't have compound types (i.e. Pokemon with two types). In reality they did

A witch turned me into a newt.

I get the "feeling" of a mandela effect far more frequently than i can solidly know for sure. I guess my first experience was decades ago as a child. I recall staring at a Bernstein bears book, and being oddly transfixed by tye fact that the spelling of the title did not match that of the authors name, literally inches apart on the same page. Later i experienced a schrodenbug or two (which i think is the same phenomenon), and one really solid social ME were a church ceased to exist (or got merged into a neighboring church). After the first few, now I fully admit I am WAY too quick to believe odd circumstance is a ME, and usually find myself reluctantly disproving that to myself with notebook/journal entries... only to later wonder how they might change too.

None but I live in New Zealand and have met a lot of strange people online who think our geographic location has changed.

Shazaam!

I could have sworn Signs was a legitimately good movie when I saw it as a kid but I rewatched it recently and it’s absurdly bad. The acting is terrible and the cinematography is nonsensical. Roger Ebert gave it a full four stars. I’m convinced there’s a universe I grew up in where it was good and it’s the same one Ebert is from.

I could've sworn sprite didn't have lime in it in Australia, yet I can find no evidence of it ever being made without lime

The last word on this whole thing is this series of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVYNbe1fsUk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLA_ZK8HX6o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-HbM0Rezg

I just found out that you can't take someone's lead in order to behave like they are behaving, you can only follow their lead.

I thought that taking someone's lead, "I'm taking their lead", is an actual expression, while apparently it is not.

I could’ve sworn Jim Beam whiskey was Jim Bean. A friend of mine had a poster of a whiskey bottle on his wall that I stared at every time I was there. He was a minor at the time and didn’t drink, so I always wondered why he had it up. Years later I saw a Jim Beam bottle and had a Mandela moment. The Berenstein Bears and Mandela dying in jail were things I believed, too, but I think the whiskey one is one I haven’t heard from anybody else, yet.

Here's one I just experienced, was watching Star Wars: A New Hope and my brother asked me if I remember C-3PO every having a silver leg. I told him no, hes always been all gold. Next scene we watched his right leg from the knee down was all silver. Like wtf never have I noticed that before, I said meh maybe it was a Lucas later edit. Revenge of the Sith comes on the TV next and C-3PO's leg is so vibrantly silver that I could not even comprehend not noticing that contrast in past viewings.

I had some Berenstain Bears books as a kid and I remember noting at the time "huh, weird name but okay". So like, I don't get why people think it was "Berenstein"? It looks wrong, but it's always looked wrong.