The Mandela effect is something that has been talked about for quite some time now. The Mandela effect is when a large group of people remember something one way, but it turns out the memory never existed or was completely false. There are obviously believers and nonbelievers in this effect, so I’m simply going to lay down all the evidence and you can decide for yourself.

Let’s start with the reason it’s called The Mandela effect. A large number of people believed that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the year 1991. And in the year 2013, when Nelson Mandela actually died, many of these individuals were left confused because they remembered him already dead years ago. There are multiple examples on the Mandela effect and you may even start to believe the Mandela effect after hearing a couple of these examples.

The first example is one that I personally strongly believe in. Does Curious George have a tail? Curious George is a children’s book that later got turned into movies about a monkey that loves to cause trouble with good intentions. I was a huge fan of the books and movies growing up and just like thousands of people, I remember George having a tail. Whenever George would get in trouble he would start to lower his tail to show that he was ashamed. But as it turns out, Curious George never had a tail – not in the early books or movies.

Okay, so not everyone grew up with Curious George, but surely you’ve had to have heard the song “We Are The Champions” by Queen. The part that is confusing everyone and even getting a few people angry is the end lyrics that go “no time for losers, ’cause we are the champions”. Nearly everyone remembers the ending being “no time for losers, ’cause we are the champions….of the world!” In reality, this lyric never existed. To add on to this example, you can watch the movie Chicken Little to see Chicken Little singing “We Are The Champions” and ending the lyrics with “of the world.”

One of the most confusing Mandela effect examples has been the one on the infamous – Star Wars. When you think of all of the famous Star Wars lines, one of the first to pop up is the line, “Luke, I am your father.” Now, you may not believe me when I tell you that the line was never said in the movie. It was never, “Luke, I am your father.” It’s always been, “No, I am your father.” If you don’t believe me, you are free to go check out the clip of the movie to hear it for yourself. Even the actor Samuel L. Jackson remembers the line being, “Luke, I am your father.” Basically everyone, even the actor who said the line, remembers it as, “Luke, I am your father.” Not, “No, I am your father.”

In honor of Halloween being only a couple weeks away, here’s an example of The Mandela Effect for candy. Does Kit Kat have a dash in the name? Well, I personally remember it having a dash because when I was 6, I asked my mother why it had a line in the middle. I always assumed the company removed the dash from the name simply for looks and campaigning, but as it turns out, Kit Kat never had a dash. Turns out quite a lot of people actually do remember Kit Kat having a dash, then having the dash removed. While I don’t remember this as vividly as I do with other examples, I’m still almost positive that at one point Kit Kat had a dash in the middle.

Again with Halloween being just around the corner, it’s only appropriate to put in a Disney villain example. I’m sure as little kids you must have watched the movie Snow White, and even if you didn’t, you’ll understand what I’m talking about. The line that is most used from that movie is when The Evil Queen says to her mirror “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” Well, just like a lot of these examples, that line was never said. It is instead “Magic mirror on the wall who is the fairest one of all?” There’s even a movie called Mirror Mirror in honor of the quote from the Disney movie.

Still don’t believe me? Well, let me mention why exactly people believe The Mandela Effect happens. Many people believe that we transfer from one alternate universe to another. For instance, in one universe, we had Curious George with a tail, then something changed that made us switch to another universe and created Curious George without a tail. I know that it all sounds crazy and highly unlikely, but, if you really think about it, it makes sense. There are so many things about our universe that we don’t even know or understand, so how can we know for sure that an alternate universe doesn’t exist?