According to Medical News Today, the Mandela Effect is a kind of false memory that occurs when several individuals have the same mistaken recollection.
According to Verywell Mind, the word originated from people’s memories of Nelson Mandela’s death in jail in the 1980s, even though he passed away in 2013.
According to experts, this occurs because our brains attempt to construct coherent narratives from fragments of information. Neil Dagnall, a specialist in cognitive and parapsychology, told CNN:
Because we digest information so fast in daily life, persons with the Mandela Effect often recall things the way they believe they should rather than the way they really are.