# Have you experienced the Mandela Effect?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 19, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-the-mandela-effect/818190 "2018-07-19T10:52:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-the-mandela-effect/818190/54 "2018-07-31T01:10:09Z")

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> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#):
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> After looking around for this topic, I saw this [Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/8zxxeb/to_celebrate_nelson_mandelas_birthday/) on the Mandela Effect for Mandela’s birthday also. There’s an entire [subReddit on the Mandela Effect.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/)
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> Some examples in that post include: (He listed these as personal to him).

If we’re also including false memories personal to us, I have a very clear memory of being on a school bus, on the way back from a field trip my senior year of high school, and hearing for the first time the revised “Candle in the Wind” by Elton John that was released shortly after Princess Di’s death. I even remember the road we were driving on when the song. My friend Heather was sitting beside me, and it bummed her out too.

The problem is that Princess Di died just before I started my junior year of college, and I hadn’t been on a school bus for more than two years at that point, and I hadn’t seen Heather in about a year.

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