There are a few Lincoln City stories we remember so clearly that we’re certain they must be true. Sometimes, though, our memories play tricks on us.
That brings me to the Mandela Effect. It is effectively a shared false memory that more than one or two people accept as fact, remembering something to be true when it is not. The phrase was coined in 2009, when someone called Fiona Broome was discussing the death of Nelson Mandela, mistakenly believing it had occurred during his time in prison in the eighties. She was surprised to find that many people ‘remembered’ him dying when he did not.
There are some other famous examples for those who do not recall Mandela being in prison. Remember the line ‘Luke, I am your father’ from Star Wars? If you do, then you’re suffering from the Mandela Effect: there was no such line. The actual line was simply ‘No, I am your father.’ If you ever watched Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, you might remember the line ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’. You might even have uttered it yourself. Welcome to the Mandela Effect: the actual line is ‘Magic mirror on the wall.’
There are other examples, one of which I confess to suffering from. New Zealand is situated southeast of Australia, but plenty of people remember it as being to the northwest, me included. I even checked Google Maps when a friend of mine moved there and, for some reason, I wanted to see where exactly north of Australia it was. There’s one last Star Wars one as well: everyone remembers the gold C-3PO, but do you remember him as having a silver leg? No? Well, he did.
That’s the Mandela Effect, and I thought it might be fun to find a few Lincoln City examples to form an article. There were one or two that jumped out at me, a couple that I even take the time to correct people on. The list includes some stuff that’s perhaps more misconception than Mandela Effect, but I had to be a little loose with the interpretation. It’s a bit like Alanis Morissette and Ironic: not all these examples are strictly Mandela Effect, but they’re close.
See what you think and see if there are any you have that always crop up.
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