The Mandela Effect

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 1 October 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Mandela Effect is a trendy term used to describe a particularly strange phenomenon that a large number of individuals feel they are experiencing. Numerous different people all over the world have discovered that they share the exact same memories of certain subjects and events… Memories that in reality turn out to be completely false. Those who dig deeper into this theory have used it as evidence of such outlandish claims as time travel, parallel dimensions, and shifting timelines.
The root of the Mandela Effect lies in circumstances when people suddenly find out that something that they believe they know from their past is suddenly changed. This can range from song lyrics, movie lines, and even to how the way words are spelled being completely different from how they remembered in the past. In certain people’s memories, what they used to remember clearly and vividly is no more, and never has been. While many consider the Mandela Effect to be merely a case of mass misremembering or false memories, others aren’t so sure. There are claims that due to the large amount of people sharing these similar false memories, that it could be evidence of something, or someone, tampering with our past. These theories range from meddlesome time travelers, to people being unknowingly shifted into a different timeline in which things are much different from what they remember.
So is it possible that there are multiple parallel dimensions that we are constantly switching between? Or is the Mandela Effect simply a case of mass coincidences? Tune in and listen to some of the theories and popular examples of the Mandela Effect in action!
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0:00.0	And the Hello everyone and welcome to the Strange Matters podcast.
0:17.0	Here at Strange Matters we discuss everything as bizarre, mysterious, and unexplained.
0:24.6	I am Sean and I will be the host for this discussion.
0:28.0	In this episode we will be discussing a pretty strange and recent theory known as the Mandela effect. This idea has gained popularity
0:36.1	over the past couple years and generated a lot of buzz on the internet. For
0:40.1	listeners who may not know what the Mandela effect is and wondering exactly what it's all about.
0:45.0	It's basically a theory or phenomenon in which many people have apparent false memories of things that they otherwise would have sworn that they truly know.
0:55.4	Those who truly believe that this idea is more than just faulty memories, claim that the
0:59.7	Mandela effect is evidence of such extraordinary claims as time travel, parallel
1:05.0	dimensions, and shifting timelines. In this episode I will go over some of the
1:10.3	different thoughts and theories on the Mandela effect as well as some of the different thoughts and theories on the Mandela effect, as well as some of the popular examples commonly used.
1:17.0	And this topic was suggested to us by Carlos, so thanks a lot.
1:21.0	Before we get started, though, I wanted to make a few announcements about some of our future
1:24.8	episodes coming up to get some feedback and participation from you listeners.
1:30.0	We are planning on having a full-length discussion that is all about the zombie apocalypse,
1:35.0	which I'm sure will be fun for all you out there who are zombie lovers like us.
1:39.0	So if you have any particular topics or ideas involving the undead world and its reanimated corpses that you like for us to include, please let us know.
1:48.0	Also in the spirit of Halloween, one of my personal favorite holidays, we would like to put out a couple of creepy and
1:54.7	scary episodes next month.
1:56.9	To keep with that theme, we'd again like to ask any of you listeners out there to send in any of
2:01.2	your own personal, spooky or otherwise unexplained stories that you have.
2:07.6	You can either write your tales to us or if you'd prefer you can even record it yourself and send
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