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Have you ever heard of the Mandela Effect?

It's 2026, and if you're listening to this, then that means you've got access to the Internet.

So it's probably safe to assume that you've come across this concept before.

But just in case, you've never heard of this,

the term Mandela Effect was coined in 2009

by the paranormal researcher Fiona Broom.

Broome claimed that around that time,

she became convinced that the world-famous South African freedom fighter and

politician Nelson Mandela had died in prison sometime in the 1980s. She claimed that she remembered

seeing scenes of civil unrest on television and a speech by Mandela's widow on the occasion of his death.

Now, obviously, this did not happen. Nelson Mandela survived his time in prison.

South Africa's apartheid regime was finally defeated and he became

the country's first black president. It was arguably one of the most significant geopolitical

events of the 1990s. So why did Fiona Broom have such clear memories of Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980s?

Stranger still, as she started sharing this experience with other people, she soon learned that many other folks seemed to have the same false memory.

Amazingly, she was not the only person who thought that Nelson Mandela had died in prison.

This strange phenomenon of collective misremembering was dubbed the Mandela Effect,

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