

Although the first Mandela Effects came from the realm of history, they were soon identified in other areas, including popular culture.

The term steadily gained traction on online, especially in places like Reddit, where people came to share and discuss memories that seemingly contradicted reality. It was meant to describe the phenomenon where a group of people share a distinct memory of some historical event that historical records state never took place. memories are still missing, and although Sloane and James have found their. He didn’t pass away until 2013.Īccording to Broome’s official website, someone in that green room - she says she’s not sure whether it was the security manager, her husband, or herself (and even if she was, who could trust their memory?) - coined the term “the Mandela Effect” right on the spot. Shadow Captain Alastair Reynolds The gripping sequel to the Locus. In fact, Mandela was still alive he was actually released from prison in 1990 and went on to become South Africa’s president. The producer and writer Junko Kawano released Time Hollow for the Nintendo DS in 2008, which shares some parallels to Shadow of Memories but no direct links and is not a sequel. Several people in the room were absolutely convinced that Mandela had died in prison many years earlier. Shadow of Memories is set in Lebensbaum, a small German town in 2001 but makes use of time travel as your protagonist fights against destiny. In 2009, paranormal researcher Fiona Broome was sitting in a green room at a science fiction and fantasy convention when a conversation began about South African politician Nelson Mandela.
