Mandela Effect
noun
variants
or less commonly Mandela effect
plural Mandela Effects also Mandela effects
: a phenomenon in which many people collectively misremember a specific fact, event, or detail in a consistent manner : the experience of many people having the same false memory
The Mandela Effect is a social phenomenon in which a group of people incorrectly remember very specific details about a person, place, situation or event as if it were a reality. The term was popularly coined by paranormal researcher Fiona Broome, who shared … that she had a clear memory of former South African president Nelson Mandela dying while in prison in the 1980s. But what she remembered wasn't true.—Cleveland Clinic
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