People around the world reported that they remembered hearing of his death decades earlier, in the 1980s. When he died in 2013, news of his death stirred up some surprising and mysterious memories.
You can also listen to a short NPR podcast, opens a new window about popular Mandela Effect memories. The Mandela Effect is named for South African statesman and civil rights activist Nelson Mandela. The X-Files episode "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat", opens a new window (aired January 24, 2018) delved into the Mandela Effect. Terms like "alternate memories" and "alternate realities" are sometimes used to describe the phenomenon. What causes these "false" memories, and are they really false? Some people believe it's because there are parallel universes that we sometimes cross over. What if the memory turned out to be false This scenario was named the ‘Mandela effect’ by the self-described ‘paranormal consultant’ Fiona Broome after she discovered that other people shared her (false) memory of the South African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s.
Why is it called the Mandela Effect? Many people mistakenly believe that Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, died in prison in the 1980s, but Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and died on December 5, 2013, at the age of 95.
Have you ever believed something like an event to be so true you feel it in your bones, but then you find out that someone else remembers something else entirely? Surprise-that's the Mandela Effect! The Mandela Effect refers to a phenomenon in which a large group of people shares false memories of past events, referred to as confabulation in psychiatry.13 Some have speculated that the memories are caused by parallel universes or alternate realities spilling into our own, while others explain the phenomenon as a failure of collective memory.
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