Mandela Effect Memory, Multiverses, and the Mystery of Timelines Some say it’s just bad memory. Others feel something deeper stirring beneath the surface. I believe it’s both—and more. The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where large groups of people recall events, names, or details differently than what the official record shows. Named after the widespread belief that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, this phenomenon reveals the strange fractures in our collective memory. Or perhaps… echoes from parallel timelines. These aren’t just one-off memory slips. They’re collective experiences. Shared knowing that something used to be different. And while traditional science explains it away through cognitive bias or social influence, many of us have learned to trust what we remember—even when it goes against…