Mandela Effect refers to a large population experiencing a major memory mistake on some event, especially on Mandela.
Mandela was the leader in south Africa and many of people "remembered" he was dead back in 80's, in fact he was dead at year 2013.
Perhaps you can Google it by typing Mandela Effect and see various of examples! But today I'm here to provide some explanations, some in scientific and some are merely an hypothesis, but I guarantee is fun and mysterious.
The first is called False memory syndrome. False memory is simple and easy to be executed by merely asking questions and can implant a false memory. The famous experiment was done by Elizabeth Loftus was the lost in the mall (1999).
Many others researchers are also able to to get the similar effect, such as creating a false photos to showed participants, the background was during their childhood on hot balloon and ask the participants whether they recalled on this event. Of course, it is completely false.
At first, they claimed has no memory recollection at all. but after sometime, they begins to remembered some of the details (Wade, Garry, Read, & Lindsay, 2001).
Hence, it explains why majority has certain false memory on something that are common, especially there is something famous. People will mis-remembered and convey into a wrong way, then this wrong information will be become a virus and spread among us.
Well, if you don't buy it, let's see another explanation, not scientific but mysterious. It is called the Glitch of Matrix!
Yes, we are living in the matrix (if you haven't watched Matrix, go and watch it), and every time something happens, the matrix may refresh something and make some changes on something.
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Creepy huh?
If you still don't believe it (I know is hard), well the next hypothesis may even unbelievable.
There are parallel universe and we are always changing when someone is doing or changing something.
All these explanations are not created by me but I read from books, social medias, and articles. Except the first explanation, the rest are purely hypotheses.
Which one you prefer to believe?