Specific false memories can sometimes be shared by a large group of people. This phenomenon was dubbed the “Mandela effect” by paranormal researcher Fiona Broome, who reported having vivid and detailed memories of news coverage of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, despite Mandela actually dying in 2013, decades after his release and after serving as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Broome reported that hundreds of other people had written about having the same memory of Mandela’s death,[13] some while he was still alive, and she speculated that the phenomenon could be evidence of parallel realities

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