In 2015, people all over the world, from Europe to America, Asia and the Middle East, began Remembering History, differently. In a phenomena that is now known as The Mandela Effect, sufferers of this curious affliction believe that the very fabric of the universe is being warped, twisted or just interacting with one or more other parallel universes.

The first majorly reported occurrence of the Mandela Effect happened a few years ago when a prominent Internet blogger, who goes by the name of Fiona Bloom stated that she remembers Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the late 1980s and not in 2013. Since then, thousands of people world wide have come forward with the exact same memory, or a very similar memory saying that he died in the early 1990s.

In mid/late 2016, the phenomena went from being just discussed by a fringe group of ‘Mandela Effected’, to a mainstream viral sensation across the internet, with thousands of people suddenly remembering many anomalous changes occurring that history said never happened. Although many skeptics of the phenomena naturally state that this is merely a case of confabulation (that means bad memory in layman’s terms), believers site many compelling factors that go a little way to show that maybe something strange may actually be occurring internationally. 

What makes the Mandela Effect so fascinating, is not the mere fact that people are Remembering History Differently, but they are all remembering history in exactly the same way. As of late 2016, huge clusters of people share vivid memories of certain events, branded products and even geographical features that are different from everyone else. Could this be evidence of a ‘multiverse’ being tampered with, or something weirder?

What is most fascinating about the topic is that its a global anomaly; from Americans stating that the JFK assassination played out differently ‘in their reality’ to Egyptians wandering how the three Pyramids of Giza could have literally been reordered. Its that strange. 

One of our contributors to One Nine Seven One Media (Amjad AbdulHamid, above) who recently set up a new YouTube channel looking at scientific, social and cultural issues, grapples with the phenomena from a scientific perspective, and asks if the Mandela Effect is merely psychology, or could it really be evidence of parallel realities influencing our own. Please watch his report, like and subscribe.