Panic broke out on the side of a busy interstate highway in Arizona after a number of motorists found what appeared to be the wreckage of a space capsule lying abandoned. Concerned motorists pulled over to assess the scene and immediately decided to contact the authorities of the closest city of Casa Grande.
The police promptly attended the scene and reported that the supposed space capsule was attached to a parachute and was labeled with ‘United States and Capt. J. Millard’ and a depiction of the American national flag.
Witnesses at the scene automatically assumed that the capsule had somehow been knocked out of orbit, with many expressing worries that this was a clear sign that the United States was under attack. Rumors immediately began to proliferate about who could be attacking the country. One rumor was that the country was under attack from a foreign country, with the most likely culprit identified as China.
In the wake of President’s Trump controversial and aggressive attitude towards the major world power which has a reputation for pre-emptive strikes, it was speculated that China had attacked a military space facility. Others suggested that the space capsule could be a sign of attacks from extra-terrestrials. As it transpired, the origin of the space capsule wasn’t quite so dramatic as the first shot of World Three or an attack from outer space.
After a brief investigation, the Arizona Department of Public Safety found that the space capsule was nothing more worrisome than an expertly made art installation. A local artist named Jack Millard came forward to claim responsibility for the panic-inducing installation. He said that he had crafted the space capsule construction from the abandoned remnants of a cement mixer. Rather impressively, he added that it had only taken him two days to create the sophisticated art work. "I just get these impulses to create, "Millard said to the press, "It's a glorified yard ornament."
Every-time CERN turns on that machine, we all get another dose of reality colliding with another reality, just a little change here, a little change there? It doesn't matter because it's only minuscule things that are changing... right? What happens if somebodies ancestor accidentally takes a plunge down a 200 foot well or a cliff? I just learned today that Black Panthers don't even exist? Never did!
WTF!
Here is an awesome Mandela Effect video. Is the Devil playing trick's on us all?
I hope that the Mandela Effect doesn't get us all in to too much trouble? We know it's having a negative effect on our history but what if it start's to have an effect on our DNA and or animals existence? If they are tweaking the past to control the future (that's my theory) then it's a massive gamble that they get it right, what ever it is they're doing?
I suppose they have their reason's and I really hope it's better than "just because they can"? If that's their main reason for doing these "Big Bang" experiment's then this is a flawed experiment because as we know now, CERN is changing the past. The thing's being changed are mind blowing? I remember black Panther's (the animal) but apparently my friends, they don't exist and never have!
Are you living in an alternate reality? Welcome to the wacky world of the 'Mandela Effect'.
o you remember the Looney Toons? Many people will swear blind that it was always spelled "toons," as in cartoons. They can clearly visualise the logo with all those "o"s, and they are astonished if not completely disbelieving when confronted with the evidence that the animated series is and has always been called Looney Tunes. But could that be proof of the Mandela Effect – the latest online conspiracy theory that argues we are living in an alternate reality?
Yes the Mandela Effect is real and is changing history
The Mandela Effect was named by paranormal enthusiast Fiona Broome when she discovered she wasn’t the only one who wrongly believed Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s.
It wasn’t one of those casual misconceptions that we all have that a certain person must be dead simply because we haven’t heard about them for years. Broome vividly recalled the media coverage of Mandela’s funeral and subsequent riots. And that was in 2010, when he was still alive, so it wasn’t that she remembered footage from 2013 and had simply mixed up the dates.
When Broome started mandelaeffect.com she quickly discovered that there were groups of people who remembered other periods of history differently, such as insisting that the protester who defied the tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989 was run over by them. Some claim they were taught that in school.
According to the theory, such memories are accounted for by something such as a time traveller (or, to blame those meddling scientists, a quantum ripple created by CERN’s Large Hedron Collider) changing history and creating sci-fi-style alternate realities.
Is it really a phenomenon?
Moreover, that some of us have moved between those realities, hence remembering things that have been written out of our current timeline.
It sounds far-fetched, but it’s the claimed changes to small details, such as the spelling of well-remembered brand names and the subtle "altering" of familiar logos that has convinced believers history has been tampered with during our lifetimes.
Take a look at the Ford badge, for example. Do you remember it ever having that unusual little pigtail on the end of the bar that passes through the "F"? Despite the logo being one of the most recognised in the world, many will swear they’ve never seen that little loop before, and moreover that it just doesn’t look right.
It’s not an updated logo, however – the loop’s been there since at least 1912, so throughout the entire lifetime of most who claim the bar never had a flourish on the end.
Some alleged examples of the Mandela Effect are easily debunked. If you grew up reciting a line in the Lord’s Prayer as “forgive us our trespasses,” you may be momentarily taken in by a YouTube conspiracy theorist’s claim that such a familiar text has changed overnight to “forgive us our debts.” Check with Wikipedia and – my god! – it is “debts” – how did that happen? Scroll down, though, and you’ll find there have always been different versions favoured by different denominations.
Just random newspaper clippings about Mandela's death in 1991
Similarly, there’s nothing wrong with the memories of those who say La-Z-Boy chairs used to be spelt Lay-Z-Boy. Whether misprints or otherwise, plenty of old adverts exist with the Lay-Z-Boy spelling.
The case that most excites believers, however, is that of the Berenstain Bears, a children’s book series that hundreds or even thousands of online commenter's remember as the Berenstein Bears. According to Mike Berenstain, whose father Stan created the series, the spelling has always been "stain." And although there are old press clippings with the "stein" spelling – it’s an easy typing error – no misprinted versions of the books have surfaced to explain why so many people would be so convinced their treasured childhood reading once had Berenstein on the cover.
False memory experts explain the Mandela Effect as confabulation, where different memories get mixed together to create something that a person comes to believe is true. Berenstain would therefore be remembered as "stein" simply because readers have grown up seeing far more names ending in "stein," such as Einstein.
Psychology, meanwhile, offers a number of reasons why memes like the Mandela Effect can quickly gain a following.
The first is another ME – the Misinformation Effect. If someone tells you the Ford logo looks different to what it did, there’s a natural tendency to believe them if you’ve never looked closely at it before.
More changes in this crazy reality
That effect would be doubled if the theorist began – as they often do – by showing you a photo-shopped version and fed you the suggestion that “this is what we all remember the Ford logo to look like, don’t we?”
If the doctored version looks plausible, because you have no firm memory to check it against, it’s a short step to accepting that the real badge is the impostor.
For those who have always misremembered a particular spelling, meanwhile, cognitive dissonance describes the difficulty of accepting evidence that contradicts a deeply held belief.
Basically, we’re more likely to trust our fond (if faulty) memories of the Berenstein Bears and believe that Berenstain must be wrong.
Confirmation bias then plays its part: converts to a belief tend to seek out evidence that confirms their belief and disregard evidence to the contrary.
Of course, one reason conspiracy theories catch on may simply be that they’re fun. You don’t have to actually believe in the Mandela Effect to be entertained by the notion of how cool it would be if time travel and alternate universes were real.
Even more proof of the Mandela Effect
A hunger for the uncanny has always drawn an audience to science fiction, so why not to YouTube, where countless flat Earth proponents and ufologists are waiting to convince you that their far-fetched stories are true?
Then again, it could be that every Mandela Effect convert was once a sceptic, chuckling at those who believe in alternate universes, until they each had that sudden WTF moment when they came across an example like Looney Toons, which they personally knew with absolute certainly was never, ever Looney Tunes. Here is the link to this extraordinary post.
