The Mandela Effect: A Conspiracy Theory

Going back to the old saying, don’t believe everything that you hear or see, it can really only come into speculation when one or two people assume the truth behind what they are seeing, due to people typically embellishing the truth when talking about past events and making up quick facts to fill in gaps in our memory. We have all done this, though we are not usually conscious of it when we do, but what about when you have a massive amount of people worldwide with vivid memories of events that didn’t occur or significant facts that they have turned out to have misremembered? This is when I believe the entirety of this conspiracy theory came to be.

This conspiracy theory I am talking to you about today is the Mandela Effect. You may have heard

One popular Mandela Effect is from Star Wars: Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back, released in 1980. You may have never watched Star Wars before, but I think we all know the famous quote from Darth Vader “Luke, I am your father”, but if you go back and watch the movie, you will find that Darth Vader actually said “No, I am your father”, yet many people clearly remember the quote as “Luke, I am your father” and still standby that belief. One of those people is James Earl Jones, who voiced Darth Vader in Star Wars and says that quote in the scene. He has publicly on two occasions, once in an interview and once in a documentary, referred to the line in the movie as “Luke, I am your father”, which people use as evidence for the Mandela Effect being real. Other examples include Hitler being remembered having brown eyes when he actually had blue eyes, Curious George having a tail when he doesn’t actually have one, the Queen in Snow White actually saying, “Magic Mirror on the wall” instead of “Mirror Mirror on the wall” and the Mona Lisa being completely emotionless when in reality she has a small smirk. There is even a Mandela Effect about New Zealand that I recently found out about, where some people believe that New Zealand was actually north west of

But there are currently two leading theories of the cause of the Mandela Effect. The first cause involves parallel universes, which may sound a bit farfetched but it is a theory supported by many physicists. This links into the theory of ‘sliding’, where some people out there feel that they are more entuned with the reality around them, and believe that we have tapped into a parallel universe that some people who experience the Mandela Effect are able to ‘slide’ between without realising it. In the parallel universe, certain events mirror the universe that we live in but happen at a different time, and are possibly seen in a different way. It is said that those experiencing the Mandela Effect are recalling things from the parallel universe, and because they have such vivid memories from the parallel universe, they are convinced that their memories are correct despite evidence proving otherwise. Also, some scientists have questioned whether the CERN project has had something to do with this. The CERN project’s aim is to examine the fundamental structure of the universe, and is home to the Large Hadron Collider which is a particle accelerator where two high-energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. Some worry that such quantum science tests can affect the fabric of our reality. The