Our memory is largely prone to being faulty. At this point, I can’t tell you how many times I confidently tried proving to someone that the recollection ingrained in my mind was correct, only to learn that I was completely wrong. Weirdly and interestingly enough, some of these false memories are shared among people, like Curious George having a tail or peanut butter called Jiffy being a thing.
This phenomenon is colloquially called the Mandela Effect, which the Facebook community Mandela Effect & Glitches In The Matrix explores daily. If you ever thought you were going crazy by believing some things existed when, in reality, they didn’t, you might want to scroll down and find peace in knowing you’re not alone.
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So I lost my ring in our backyard, I wouldn't cut the grass until I could find it. One day, a butterfly I've never seen in my area ever flew to the fence and I followed it, then a bumblebee and the butterfly twitted around an area I looked in over and over and boom.... My ring right there out in the open.
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I was given a present, 2 identical items, one for me and one was meant for me to pass onto whoever I felt I wanted to gift it to. We were out at a coffee shop when my friend gave it to me, I opened it immediately, I saw the 2 items, the only other thing in the bag was a gift card. I took it home and put it in the top of my wardrobe for safe keeping.
Roll on a week or so later and I get the gift bag down as I'm wanting to show it to another friend (I was taking it to her, she wasn't in my home) as we'd been talking about it. Only now there's 3 in the bag, all identical. My friend who made it and I haven't seen each other in the time between, she hasn't been in my home and no one else who had been in my house had seen her either.
The strangest part is these were crafted/homemade gifts and she only ever made 2 of them ? so a third one can't possibly exist, let alone be in my home x
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The main admin of the Mandela Effect & Glitches In The Matrix Facebook group, Devon Kramer, told us in a previous Bored Panda interview how happy he was to see the success this community has received after it was passed down to him by its creators.
"At the time I took over the page, it was at 12k. I started creating materials for the page and after a month, we started picking up traffic. The page grew from 12k to 30k,” he shared.
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So I’ve always had bad eyes & need glasses since elementary. Anywho while In a relationship with my kids father we use to get into altercations and he would always go straight for my eyes. Around 2021, I started seeing things just go past my eyes & never knew what it was it use to scare me thought it was a fly or something.
So 2022, I went to my annual eye doctor appointment & I told them about what I had been seeing they said it was something called “floaters”. They continued on with everything like normal and afterwards the doctor comes in and tells me my eye sight was getting worse. I had something call “lattice”, also said the white part around my eye was thinning out & that my retina could detach from my brain at anytime & I could go blind.
After getting the news I was scared but it was time to pick out new frames. I got these cute red ones (first time trying a color).. So my next appointment was in 2023. After they dilated and checked my eyes. I asked was the lattice & thinning getting any worse? She just looks at me in confusion and say she doesn’t know what I’m talking about my eyes are just fine. I explained what I was told my last appointment in 2022 and she tells me I haven’t been seen there since “2019” and she has no clue who told me that or why anyone would tell me those things. I still don’t understand what happened?
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“Every month, it just kept growing; by August of 2023, the page was at 69,000 members. This was the time that I decided to bring on some admins and mods to help. We jumped from 69k to over 300,000 in the first 3 months," Kramer remembers proudly. "Starting this year, the page is now at 360k and roughly 2k a day are joining! It has truly taken off!
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In just three months since the interview, the page has almost doubled and now has over 605k people who have joined in to discuss the unexplainable things they’ve witnessed. In addition to this group, he also administrates another community called 9vibesUniversal. There, people are playing with the idea of connecting the scientific and spiritual worlds.
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Weird thing just happened.
Me and my partner are watching the new Aqua Man film (it’s s**t btw) and my 3 year old daughter is snuggled up with her Daddy, I’m on the other side of the sofa scrolling through a friend’s wedding pictures in Turkey.
At the exact moment I’m being nosey and zooming in on the bridesmaids, my daughter says “I wish I was going to Turkey, all my friends are going to Turkey”
- Nothing in the film has mentioned Turkey
- I haven’t said mentioned the photo or the wedding or anything (they aren’t close friends I was just being nosey!)
- I don’t even know how she knows that Turkey is a place! We have not once said that we would like to go there as a holiday destination!
- She wasn’t able to see my phone and even if she could, she can’t read!
I’m sat here in astonishment, my partner didn’t have the same reaction I did, he shrugged and said “yeah that’s weird” WEIRD!?
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My son was born with a mark on his neck and used to wake up crying uncontrollably in the early hours of the morning. Generally around 1-3AM. Every night. At the time we conceded that it was due to something he ate or messing his diaper or whatever not realizing that it was happening the same time every night.
When he was about 5 months old, my wife at the time was invited by her mother’s friend to go and visit a psychic. She had gone to them before and was intrigued by it so she decided to go again. Especially considering the women they were told to go and see was ‘legit’ according to her mothers friend. So she goes.
She’s the first one to see the psychic and right away the psychic says to her “you have a son”. Not wanting to give in to leading information my ex doesn’t say anything. The psychic goes on to describe the mark on his neck which is quite unique. The psychic goes on to say that he was k*lled in a past life and the mark on his neck is how he died. She goes on to say that he was a furniture maker / carpenter in a past life and he was stabbed with one of his tools at a market he was selling at by an angry customer. Continuing, she says that’s why he wakes up every night at about 2AM because that’s his time of death and he’s reliving that moment. She then proceeds to write down a prayer for my ex and I to say every night before bed.
My ex and I started to recite this prayer and after about a week he stopped waking up in the middle of the night and slept through ever since. To this day he still has that birth mark on his neck. As a kicker, my family from as far back as I can remember have been carpenters or tradesmen of some sort. All the way back to my great great grandfather. So much so that some of their work is presented in museums to this day across our country. Do any of you believe that reincarnation is a glitch in the matrix? It still gives me the chills when I tell this story.
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His own interest in the Mandela Effect and glitches in the matrix started when he experienced a near-death event. "I started looking for answers to my NDE, and I stumbled across the image that CERN released of a man holding a sign that says 'Bond1' and 'Mandela' below it, and this led me to learning about the Mandela Effect."
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For those who accidentally stumbled on this article and aren’t quite sure what we’re talking about here, the Mandela Effect refers to a phenomenon where a large number of people misremember events, historical facts, and other famous pop culture moments.
The term was coined in 2009 by Fiona Broome after she found out that she and a significant number of others believed that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s when he passed away in 2013.
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The admin of this Facebook group shares that his favorite example of this phenomenon is The Lion and the Lamb.
"I was raised in the church, I am a Leo, and the Lion of Judah was a powerful statement in my house," Devon told Bored Panda. "So when I looked and saw that today it says the 'wolf will lie with the lamb,' I was completely floored! I actually collected over 100 Bibles from churches, my parents' libraries, and even friends, and every single book said the 'wolf'. It was then that I started to realize things are not as they seem."
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The second part of this community’s name, Glitches In The Matrix, represents the idea that humans are living in a big computer simulation. These 'malfunctions’ are unexplainable occurrences we experience that some people attribute to errors in the simulation. As the term suggests, it was inspired by the film The Matrix, which came out in 1999.
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As unbelievable as some of these theories might sound, the admin thinks that it’s all in good fun and isn't hurting anyone. "We share Mandela Effects, glitches, and strange things because we want to start discussing them without the blanket of fear. It could be CERN, time jumps, aliens, or spiritual; no one really knows. But no matter what it is, we can agree that it isn't hurting anyone; it's only expanding one's mind to see the impossible just might be possible," he says.
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