The Mandela Effect: Why Millions Remember Things That Never Happened
Written by Niskala Picture Mr. Monopoly, the little man with the top hat and moustache on the board game. Is he wearing a monocle? Most people say yes, and they say it with confidence. He has never worn one. This strange phenomenon, where large numbers of people share the same wrong memory, has a name: the Mandela Effect . Some say it proves we have slipped between parallel universes. Memory scientists have a different, and arguably more fascinating, explanation. This article accompanies an episode of XplorasiX , a Malay-language science and mystery series. As always on Nusanaga, I separate what is fact, what is hypothesis, and what is opinion. Fact: where the name comes from Around 2009 and 2010, paranormal researcher Fiona Broome discovered that she, and many other people, clearly "remembered" Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, complete with news coverage and a funeral. In reality, Mandela was released from prison in 1990 , served as President of South Afr...
