The holiday season is fully upon us here in the Ark-La-Tex, and that means it is time to revisit all our favorite traditions. We are dragging the decorations out of the attic and getting ready to watch the same classic Christmas movies we have seen a hundred times…but are you sure you remember them as well as you think? You might be surprised to learn that some of your clearest holiday memories are actually total fabrications.
Have you ever heard of the Mandela Effect? Just in case you haven’t, here is the quick explanation: they are false memories shared by a large group of people. The name comes from the idea that former South African President Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, when he actually didn’t die until 2013. The term was coined in 2009, when Mandela was still alive, but many people believed he had died previously.
Maybe the best example of the Mandela Effect is the genie-based movie Shazaam…