The Mandela effect refers to the experience of a false memory that is shared by many people. In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed ...

In late 2024, a TikTok post referred to the lyrics of the popular Christmas song "I'll Be Home for Christmas" as an example of the Mandela Effect, wherein people collectively misremember a fact or ...

For instance, in late 2023, a Reddit post shared in the Mandela Effect subreddit reignited interest in whether the "Kit" and the "Kat" were ever divided by a hyphen. Users commenting on the post ...

How masses of people can have the same false memory The Mandela effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event occurred when it did not. The term was ...