30 Times The Mandela Effect Really Messed People's Minds And Memories

If you've heard of the mandela effect then you may have experienced it as well. These 30 examples might just blow your mind.

Daphnie

• Published in Nostalgia
• January 31, 2022

The Mandela effect is something that people are starting to point out all the time now that it's become common knowledge that this is a thing. If you don't know what the Mandela effect is then this might blow your mind.

The Mandela effect is when many people remember something being one way but it is indeed not like that. For example, people might remember something spelled a certain way, like a brand of food or the name of a children's book, but when you look at it now, it's not spelled that way and supposedly has never been spelled that way.

The crazy thing about the Mandela effect is that it can only be a Mandela effect if many people remember it in a certain way. Since so many people remember things one way then it turns out to not be like that, the communal confusion is what is so baffling for people.

Some people swear that they remember these things a certain way and they are taken aback when they find out that they were wrong, but wait, they still swear they remembered it the other way. This is why the Mandela effect has taken over.

These 30 examples of Mandela effects are seriously creepy and someone needs to give an explanation of why this keeps happening.

1. Some say that it's because people are remembering the Monolpoly guy and Pringles guy combined

" The Monopoly guy not having a monocle"

2. Sometimes mandela effects are things that are in our personal lives

"I don't know if it counts, but I had a favorite orange t-shirt and I haven't seen it in years. Asked my mom if she knows anything about it and described the drawings on it.

She went "You mean the turquoise one? It's in x drawer" I fought her a while about it and finally went to check the said drawer and there it was, my favorite "orange" shirt in all its turquoise glory"

3. Froot of the Loom logos and many logos are part of a mendela effect

"Fruit of the Loom cornucopia for sure. It's was there. I remember distinctly, and no other brand has that specific cornucopia.

I could probably even draw it from memory if I needed to to"

4. I distinctly remember a black tail

"Pikachus tail having a black end Pikachu doesn't have that"

5. I honestly didn't even notice this one

"The fact that shaggy doesn’t have a protruding Adam’s apple"

6. Okay, but who's to say they didn't change this and just not point it out to anyone, so now we are all confused?

"Apparently Kit Kat has no hiphen"

7. Here's another personal mandela effect. These are even freakier.

"The one that always gets me is particular to my friends and I from when we were kids. There was a creek that ran under the street in the neighborhood and we would sometimes hang out in the banks on either side of the road.

There was this big rock that we would sit on all the time. Except one day we were walking by and it wasn’t a rock.

It was a small tree. Fully rooted in and established and the rock was no where to be seen.

Mind you, it was an extremely heavy boulder. We passed that spot all the time and all of us remember that rock.

We call it the shapeshifting rock."

8. These are so interesting

"This one is a bit more personal to me, but growing up my mom and I always made an effort to go to the beach every Friday afternoon. When it got too dark to be in the water, we would make our way to the park that was right next to the beach.

On some Fridays, we would just chill on one of the slides and look at the stars. One day I saw this light spinning around and I remember asking my mom what it was.

She told me that it was a lighthouse, and that it's used at night to stop ships from crashing into the shore. I remember this vividly because it was kind of like my gateway into hyperfixating on sunken and shipwrecked ships.

Years later, over a decade (so this was probably in the mid to late 2000s), I got back into lighthouses. I go online to see if this lighthouse that I saw was still in commission, and I can't find any traces of it.

So I ask my mom, and apparently this conversation we had never took place according to her. I insist, and finally she's like "idk babes, I probably forgot" So I go looking deeper, and apparently there was never a lighthouse where I thought it was.

To this day it f**ks me up, because I KNOW what I saw, I KNOW what we talked about."

9. This one will always get me

"It’s spelled Febreze, not Febreeze"

10. Wait, I think we probably all thought this, because what

"Beats by Dr. Dre. I’m almost positive that it was “Beats by Dre.” But I went and found my old headphones and sure enough it says “Dr.”

Its even weirder because it looks so wrong and crowded on the headband."

11. Definitely a mandela effect if even the costumes are wrong

"C-3PO has one silver leg. Every costume gets this wrong."

12. Do you remember him having a tail?

"Curious George ain’t got no tail"

13. I vaguely remember this

"I really thought the Raisin Bran sun wore sunglasses. Nope."

14. It's so weird that there are Mendela effects about people

"My friend TRULY believes to his core, that Jane Goodall passed away 15-20 years ago"

15. This one is really wild too because so many people remember this movie

"My mom doesn’t have the best memory. I called her when I found out about this one and go, “Do you remember that movie when sinbad was a genie?”

Without missing a beat she goes, “Yeah Shazam, right? You guys watched that all the time.

” I said “you’re not confusing it with kazaam with shaq right?” She says “No you guys didn’t like that one as much you liked the sinbad one better.”

She was mind blown that it doesn’t exist. I think she even looked through our vhs collection cause she’s was like we definitely have that movie but she never found it. Shame."

16. Looney Toons makes more sense in my head

"Looney Tunes not Looney Toons. I was convinced it was Toons, as in cartoons."

17. This is the Mandela effect that is super popular and many know about

"For me it will ALWAYS be Berenstien bears. My mom and I felt like our whole lives were a lie when we looked back at the books one day and saw BerenSTAIN bears. The f**k?"

18. Mickey Mouse definitely had suspenders

"i swear to f**king god mickey mouse had suspenders"

19. I don't remember this one, but I'd believe it

"On Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA album cover, there’s a red hat in his back pocket, not a bandana."

20. This is interesting

"“The Picture of Dorian Gray” always thought it was Portrait"

21. This is why I believe Mandela effects are real, because what is going on

"Froot loops” became “fruit loops” then “froot loops” again"

22. It was NOT a peanut

"I remember SpongeBob holding a V shaped purple guitar now it's a peanut?"

23. Britney Britney Britney

"Britney Spears, 'Oops I Did it Again' she isn't wearing a headset. Toys and costumes with the red outfit always have a headset.

In the video you can clearly see her adjust a headset that doesn't exist. Or in 'Baby One More Time' she was wearing a plaid skirt... I guess it's solid black??"

24. Why have I never heard of this Mandela effect or noticed it. Now I can't unsee it.

"Reddi Wip i swear to god there was an H in the wip…"

25. Tom Cruise, interesting.

"Tom Cruise dancing in Risky Business. I'd have sworn he was wearing a white shirt and black Ray-Bans."

26. I've never seen this one. What do you think?

"Walkers crisps where the salt and vinegar were blue and cheese and onion were green. I vividly remember it and can't believe that it wasn't like that"

27. Another one about people remembering people differently

"That when Agatha Christie disappeared mysteriously for several days, she was never seen again and presumed deceased. Legit had an argument with a friend over this before i figured out what was going on"

28. Is this really considered a mandela effect though?

"The "objects in mirror MAY BE closer than they appear" one still bugs me."

29. I definitely don't remember this

"How come no one is talking about the hiking emoji?? I vividly remember there was and hiking emoji where a guy/girl is climbing a rock with a stick on hand, seems like we never had one"

30. So it wasn't Stouffer's? Are you sure?

"Stouffer’s stove top stuffing has apparently never existed."

The Mandela effect really makes us think twice about what we remember. No wonder so many people are confused after seeing these things.

The brand's logos and names are the ones that most people remember, but hearing about personal experiences with Mandela effects is quite interesting and crazy. Have you ever experienced a Mandela effect in your personal life?

Daphnie