Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and was President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, until he died of pneumonia on December 5, 2013, with close family present. It is named after the fact that many people thought that Nelson Mandela had already died in prison. Whole crowds can also collectively remember things incorrectly – this phenomenon goes by the name of the Mandela effect. These are, in fact, false memories, but they do not necessarily only belong to an individual. It’s becoming more and more common for someone to recall an event that did not actually happen the way they remember it. In reply, you simply nod your head a few times and nonchalantly take a sip of your thin coffee. “What? He’s still alive?” This sentence is heard more and more often these days, be it at a family celebration or at the pub. It could never happen to you, right? A look at our examples might prove you wrong.
Whether it is a case of believing someone has long since died, although he or she is still in fact enjoying the best of health, or singing song lyrics with the wrong words – when many people collectively remember things falsely, we speak of the Mandela effect. | Photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa/empics
His supposed passing away is the inspiration for the phenomenon of collective false memories - the Mandela effect. There was life in the old dog yet! At the time this picture was taken in 1990, Nelson Mandela should have been dead a long time before, if we rely on the memories of many of his contemporaries.
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