- The Mandela Effect, a freaky phenomenon
causing the collective misremembering of a fact or event.
Tens of thousands of people, or in some cases more,
all claim to have a memory of something
that never actually occurred.
What could cause such a phenomena?
Have we crossed into an alternate reality?
Nobody knows, but the following examples
are some of the most famous going on right now.
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Here are the 10 freakiest examples
of the Mandela Effect, Part Two.
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Number 10 is Sex in the City.
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The Mandela Effect can bring about
a subtle shift in our reality.
A change which is so small that most don't even consider it,
but when one of the most popular TV shows changes its title
as if by magic, a lot of fans
are going to take notice.
That's exactly what happened
with the show Sex and the City.
The romantic comedy drama series
was a big hit when it aired
from 1998 until 2004, but soon after
fans started noticing a problem with Sex in the City.
That being the title has always been Sex and the City.
You would think for a show which has
such a fervent following, that its fans
would at least get the name right,
and so debate has raged for many years
over the name of the show and why so many fans
remember the title being different.
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Number nine is C-3PO.
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C-3PO, the shiny gold robot from Star Wars
has been in almost every entry
of the movie series since the beginning.
Since the first toys came out
after the original 1977 film was released,
people have been obsessively collecting action figures,
statues, and even artwork of C-3PO
as well as other characters in the franchise,
so you would think that we would all notice
if there's something off
about Luke Skywalker's robotic friend.
Nearly everyone remembers C-3PO as being gold,
but the truth is he isn't.
That is, at least not all of him.
The truth is, his entire left leg has always been silver.
The only time that it was changed
was during The Force Awakens
when it was changed for technical reasons.
Even Anthony Daniels himself,
who played C-3PO is puzzled by the number of people
who even worked on the series
who are continuously shocked to learn
that he always had a silver leg.
How do you remember C-3PO?
Do you remember him always being entirely gold,
or do you remember at all the silver leg?
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Number eight is the human skull.
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Think of all those classic depictions
of the human skull throughout the years.
Even during Halloween for example,
you'll see creepy skeletons with grinning faces
and black, empty eye sockets staring at you,
but recently a number of people
following the Mandela Effect
have suggested that there's been another reality shift
as it pertains to those very skulls.
You see, while we might remember
the human skull having dark, empty eye sockets,
the truth is the socket is actually covered in bone.
This has caused great debate in the Mandela Effect community
about whether this was always the case.
Some have even looked for residual clues
that the eye sockets were once empty,
and have found the evidence in artwork
where snakes are crawling out of the eye sockets
as if there was no bone there at all.
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Number seven is Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
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In March of 1932, one of the
most famous kidnappings of all time took place,
many believing that the outcome of that tragic event
has been directly altered through the Mandela Effect.
The 20 month year old son of famous aviator,
Charles Lindbergh was taken from their home in New Jersey.
There was a mass outcry about the kidnapping,
with fliers and media campaigns
asking the public for any information,
but tragically the young boy, Charles Lindbergh Jr.
Was found to have been murdered by his kidnapper.
While there was great debate about whether the kidnapper,
Richard Hauptmann, was actually guilty,
there's an even greater controversy surrounding the case.
Thousands of people swear that they are certain
the baby was never found,
and that the kidnapper was never caught.
How could it be that such a famous case
that went down in the history books
could be misinterpreted by so many people?
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Number six is Pikachu's tail.
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One of the most famous examples of the Mandela Effect
involves the popular card game
and animated cartoon, Pokemon.
The most popular Pokemon character is arguably Pikachu,
an electric type Pokemon who was introduced
in the original first generation iteration of the card game.
Pikachu is famous for his bright, rabbit-like design
including being bright yellow all over,
but many people believe that this was not always the case.
The Mandela Effect seems to have altered
the appearance of this iconic character.
Many believe that Pikachu
originally had a yellow tail with a black tip.
Fans of the card game and cartoon especially hold this view.
No one can explain what happened,
and so the changing appearance of Pikachu
remains a mystery to all.
Think about Pikachu for a moment, how do you remember him?
Did he always have a black-tipped tail,
or was he always yellow, as he currently is in reality?
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Number five is The Thinker.
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Auguste Rodin's statue, The Thinker,
shows a man in deep contemplation.
First presented to the public in 1904, the bronze statue
is one of the most famous of its kind.
The depiction of a man sitting on a rock in deep thought
became so renowned that it even entered popular culture
with people imitating the pose of the statue leaning over,
resting its forehead on its fist, thinking,
but there's just one problem.
That's not the pose of The Thinker.
In the now-existing statue,
The Thinker rests its chin on its hand.
This has caused widespread controversy
as millions of people around the world
are certain that the original The Thinker
always rested its forehead on its fist.
This bizarre change is so drastic
that when many people look at the statue,
it just doesn't look right,
creating a sense of unease in the viewer
as though reality itself has been warped.
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Number four is Henry VIII.
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Henry VIII was King of England
from 1509 until 1547 when he died.
Much has been written about this king
who was well known for having six marriages
and separating the English Church from Catholicism
just so that he could justify his lifestyle,
but Henry was also known for being a stout man
with a large appetite, and this image was captured perfectly
in the famous portrait by Hans Holbein.
In the portrait, King Henry VIII stands proudly,
a figure full of life, holding in one hand
a large turkey leg which represents
his affluence and earthly appetite,
or at least that's how most people remember the painting.
In fact, there is no turkey leg
and instead he's standing holding a purse,
which we can assume contains gold.
In another example of the Mandela Effect,
it seems that the original picture
has vanished from history.
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Number three is 50 states.
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If you live in the United States,
you've probably been taught that
there are 50 states in the Union,
but many people claim that they were taught
that there were more states than that in the US.
No one is quite sure where this strange phenomenon
comes from, but a simple Google search
shows that this isn't a small group.
It's a large number of people
across the globe who believe this.
What's freaky about this Mandela Effect
is that those who think that there are more states,
tend to agree with each other that there are 52 states.
Now some assert that this misunderstanding
comes from believing that the US territories
such as Puerto Rico are actually states when they're not.
But despite this, there are a growing number of people
who believe that reality has somehow shifted,
and the consequence is that the US
has fewer states than it used to.
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Number two is the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated for preaching
that all races should learn to
live together and love each other.
It's a lesson that we need more than ever today,
and it's that reason that Martin Luther King Jr.
continues to be a hero for so many across the world,
but despite being so well known,
the details of King's assassination
have been attributed to the Mandela Effect.
Many people swear that when he was killed,
the murder weapon was a handgun.
Some even remember the killer having a different name.
Others remember King being assassinated
with a grenade or a bomb.
The accounts vary so widely that
the Mandela Effect conspiracy theorists argue
that his death was what's known as a pivot point in history.
That's when an event has changed so many times
that our timeline has settled into what it is now.
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And number one is Jaws.
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One of the most mindblowing examples of the Mandela Effect
is a scene from the James Bond film
including the henchman Jaws.
In the 1979 Bond film Moonraker,
Jaws is known for having teeth made out of metal.
In his most famous scene, he meets a girl and falls in love.
As Jaws smiles, showing his metal teeth
the audience thinks that the girl won't like his appearance.
Then, she smiles, showing that she has metal braces
and so they have that connection.
This is exactly how people remember this scene,
but in a bizarre example of the Mandela Effect,
when we now watch that scene back,
the girl smiles and has no braces.
Not only has that scene changed,
but the entire purpose of it has been removed.
In fact, that scene now makes no sense at all
and seems to have been altered for some unknown reason.
How do you remember that scene?
Did the girl have braces,
or do you remember her as it is now?
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So all of these cases of the Mandela Effect
beg the question, how do you remember them?
Are they exactly as they are today,
or do you remember them as something else?
Only you can answer that.