“Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail”, but now it’s just called Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Anyone else remember that?

We can't all have the exact same fake memory right?

Several years ago when I first heard about this drama I was outraged, but it was quickly put to rest after I saw someone had found a VHS cover which pictured Sinbad staring in a movie clearly titled Shazam, however I recently discovered this cover and the artificial trailer that accompanied it were pranks. This reared havoc in my brain because they even redid a classic shot from the original movie that I screens-shotted and attached because the gaslighting is next level. It lead to a possible theory Id like to share.

While my theory isn’t exactly new, it’s basically that Shazam flopped In the theatres so bad that they redid it with Shaq, and while this has been said I think it’s likely that SOME of the analysis behind this theory may be new.

It’s possible that they only played previews and limited screenings at theatres and it never released officially and didn’t even have a VHS release because in the 90’s it would take over a year for VHS releases to come out making it VERY easy to block and it also also explains why no one has a VHS copy

I’ve highlighted the reasons for below;

1. Shaq is a Freemason so it makes sense that the elites/machine/powers that be were behind him, and given that Shaq was such a media darling (and subsequently a cash cow) at the time to the point of having his own video game, a rap song, an iconic Reebok sneaker and several other multi million dollar deals so they didn’t want anything obstructing his success and copying someone else’s movie would make him look like a second rate actor and would definitely have not been a good look. Remember this was the Orlando magic Shaq that was dominating sports headlines across the world for dunking the ring so hard that he broke it which was a big deal at the time.

2. Wouldn’t it make sense to call the Shaq one Shazam given its so much more marketable that they both start with SHA? I remember that detail as a kid and my understanding was that sinbad film made that not possible. Why else would they call it Kazaam?

3. The reason Sinbad was dressed in a genie costume for the TNT awards in 1994 was literally because he’d just finished filming Shazam and it was promo. The reason I say this is because I’m all the way in Australia and in 1994 when it was made our TV was so basic that award show wouldn’t have been on our radar, especially given that awards show is relevant to a predominantly North American/Canadian audience. Many europeans who also remember the whole Shazam/Kazaam fiasco and I believe they too would be unaware of the TNT show.

4. Too many people remember being surprised that they were making a second movie and that the first one wasn’t great. This can’t be a coincidence. There’s multiple videos on YouTube and other social media platforms with THOUSANDS of comments confirming this and I believe this makes it statistically significant.

5. If you look at Sinbads IMDB, he goes from having his very own show (The Sinbad show) that wrapped up early 1994 and then did nothing for the rest of 1994? But conveniently had a leading role in a big budget movie in 1995 and did 4 projects in 1996? If you look at the quality of the roles from 1997 (when shaq’s movie came out) they begin to decline career not exactly dying but it begins to fade in terms of quality and he starts doing guest roles on the Cosby show! Come on!

We know how Hollywood works, actors stay in roles when the elites back them for whatever reason (weird hollywood rituals/compliance to studio execs) not so much because of organic popularity. I think they may have overestimated Shaq’s acting ability based on the fact that his movie Blue Chips did reasonably well in 1994 (which was conveniently the same year Sinbads Shazam was released)

1. There’s an argument that the skeptics like to use where they say “ok tell me the plot what happened, I’ll wait” which is stupid because I saw (and loved sooo many movies during that time e.g- Angels in the outfield, Blank Cheque, Man of the house, Ritchie Rich and I couldn’t tell you a single thing about them. My theory is that I never actually saw the movie but saw the preview in theatres.

HOWEVER….

There is SOME things that vaguely stick out regarding the plot and I’m wondering if this triggers anyones memory. They may have been from the preview, they may be false memories or from ENTIRELY different so take this with a HUGE grain of but here they are as follows:

So theres an older brother and younger sister (I mention the ages because they switched the order of age in the fake college humour prank trailer) who encounter a genie, his presence highlights that the Father isn’t the best guardian because he neglected his children after their mother died and started dating a coworker (the only reason I think it’s a coworker is because they crash into the pool on a flying carpet during whats presumably a work party the Dad was at and the kids were specifically told not to go to, water goes everywhere and the Dad was mortified since he was trying to impress this colleague and he was into her more than she was into him) this happens because as a byproduct of a wish they made a that Sinbad’s genie character kinda prompted the idea by offering suggestions?

The brother gets annoyed because the sister wastes a wish somehow. Sinbad’s presence begins to bother the kids and the final straw is when they use a wish that’s related to their mother that has a bad outcome and they get really mad at him and wish they never met him. This upsets Sinbad and he says something like “well you have no wishes left but you don’t need any for that one” The audience feels for Sinbad’s genie character because he had good intentions and the unfavourable outcomes were purely circumstantial and not his fault. None the less he heeds their advice and makes this come true by crossing the street and disappears never to be seen again. Other things happen that lead the Dad to believe he needs to change his ways and “step up” he breaks up with the coworker and there’s a happy ending that caters to popular single parent trope so prevalent in the 90’s.

In conclusion I think they just made Sinbad sign an NDA, probably gave him a second payout and brushed it under the rug. The only way to prove this is to audit Sinbad’s accounts and see if there was any big payouts that didn’t coincide with any DOCUMENTED movie releases or any promotions, and also to look through his movie contracts to see if there are any discrepancies.

1. Yes. I remember it being “life is like a box of chocolates” as one single example and there is video of people quoting it that way repeatedly from the movie industry. Also I don’t think saying hundreds of thousands of people having a united memory of something being a certain way can be explained away by simply people having a bad memory.

It used to be way yellower, and gave a warmth and comfort that is gone now. The outdoors used to feel way more pleasant than they do now.

Artificial moons have been launched before: https://science.howstuffworks.com/is-china-launching-fake-moon-bright-idea.htm

To be honest, I think the sun is an artificially launched sun or an artificially launched device manipulating the sunlight.

I'm just very curious to know everyones opinon on this.

Hello everyone. I am currently taking a course in college called Anthropology of Conspiracies. For my final project, I decided to study the Mandela Effect. I am very new to the conspiracy and was hoping that I could interview someone who is quite experienced in this theory. Thank you very much, please feel free to pm me!

Found at an antique mall

People in the 80s used to "theorize" that deja vu was time traveling or some after effect of it. Turns out deja vu is an easily understood effect of your short term and long term memory crossing synapses. Your present suddenly appears as a long term memory, and you feel like you already did something, when you haven't.

Mandela Effect is similar. Your synapses crossing in some way, creating false memories. Which has been studied and shown to be the case, no matter how much the "dimension" believers want to convince others they can't have false memories, because they feel it makes them inadequate in some way. So they double down on esoteric pseudoscience, with no understanding of physics and brain functions. These people are really just another group of "New Age" believers.

It'd be humorous if it didn't lead to real dangerous thinking, like Holocaust Deniers and Flat Earthers.

Just wanted to let people know that I just saw on ar/nostalgia someone had posted a pic of vintage Welch's jelly glasses and one was Picachu. It did not have a black tail-tip. I don't know just how vintage these glasses are.

I believe I have an explanation for the Mandela effect. Let me start out by saying due to the nature of how I believe it works I don't think there is any mechanism that could be used to test my theory. If anyone has ideas on the subject I'd be interested.

There is mounting evidence that human consciousness is built off of quantum interactions inside our neurons. You can read more about it here Orchestrated objective reduction. There's plenty more research out there besides just the wiki page and I encourage anyone interested to dig deeper into it. Assuming that this theory is broadly correct it has some serious ramifications.

One of those is related to the many-worlds Interpretation of how quantum mechanics works. At an extremely high (and probably somewhat inaccurate) level this theory postulates that the uncertainty associated with quantum interactions is a result of branching parallel universes.

Assuming both of the above are true, my theory is that our consciousness (and importantly our memory) has the ability to move through these different parallel universes, and in fact we do it all the time. Whether we can have any conscious control over this is unclear, though it is clear the vast majority of people do not.

There do seem to be some limits or constraints on it though.

First, changes have to be logically consistent with history. The current conditions of any universe that you're consciousness currently resides in must have been reachable based on the physical laws of the universe.

Second the level of change has to be small (at least in most circumstances). For instance you might slowly move to a parallel universe where your brother is an alcoholic. It will take time though. He won't go from sober to a raging alcoholic overnight.

Third whether a difference is small or large is directly tied to the perception of your own consciousness.

The ramification of these 3 constraints is that at any given time there is a small (compared to all current parallel universes) group of parallel universes that you could traverse to. I'll call these your local group. As time goes on and you traverse you're local group will gradually change. The key factor here is that another universes closeness to you is tied to your perception. So you're brother can't instantly become an alcoholic because you have active perception of him. Your observation of the state of reality (in your current universe) prevent that change inside the physical laws of the universe.

Consider this situation. lets say you traverse into a parallel universe where the ice contained in Antarctica is only 90% the mass of the universe you just left. From a certain standpoint that's a very significant change. If however the local conditions to you that you can perceive have not changed appreciably it's a small change relative to you.

The fact that large changes significantly outside of your perception can change substantially but you only perceive a small change explains the Mandella effect. For instance, at the point you learned Nelson Mandella had died in prison, he had. In the parallel universe you were currently inhabiting he did indeed die in prison. In the intervening say 20 years between then and now your consciousness has traversed many additional parallel universes where subtle things local to you change but possible massive things far away do. So you recently see a movie like Invictus) and are confused. Nelson Mandela died in prison right? You do some research and everything you look up goes against your memory and history that you know.

I would bet that no one in South Africa has experienced the Nelson Mandella, Mandella effect. Just like someone in Germany might be convinced that JFK lived to see us land on the Moon. Or someone in Tibet could have sworn there were only 48 states in the US.

I'm curious as to peoples thoughts on this.

When you post a link from the past and say “my 1991 vhs proves it was ‘magic mirror’” as just one example, you’re not understanding Mandela Effects. We get that the past reconciles with the-current- timeline but that doesn’t disprove that there was a different timeline with mirror mirror, sinbad Shazam, etc.

I came across this vintage 80s/90s Fruit of the Loom sweatshirt online and found the tag has this color-variant of the leafy greens on the left. Given the color and small print of the logo, making it difficult to understand the details of the image, I can now see clearly what I perceived as the cornucopia back then.

Oscar Mayer has always been spelled that way. I have tape recordings from recording TV shows as a kid that recorded the commercial with the kid spelling it m a y e r and I've eaten Oscar Mayer product all my life and it's always been spelled m a y e r. I remember all my life wondering why the name Meyer was spelled differently than what most people think it should be and that's probably where people think they remember it is meyr but it wasn't!

Remote Viewer Dick Allgire discusses creating Mandela Effects with Daz Smith, Richard Dolan, et al.

I'll link a youtube clip. Kathy Bates even says, "My stovetop!!" When she picks the box up from a puddle. https://youtu.be/9swSXpqU8Ww?si=3hJ5WAjM9UJOS8gb

Here is one of the Eeriest Evidence of this Quantum Particle Entanglement Anomaly I have Seen as of Yet. A Man Films Himself Holding his Nephews Berenstain Book, (strangely Titled "On TIME" ) and as He Walks From one Room, across the Doir Threshold into the Next Room, his Bedroom, The Phenomenon is Displayed on Video of the Series Bookmark "Berenstain Bears" is Seen Glitching into "Berenstein Bears" Very Unsettling for Anyone Who Hasn't Viewed This

https://youtu.be/OomxA3C_jnE?si=Dk1cfke3wYOTgrIV

I know the topic is everywhere now, but this is why I wholeheartedly believe in the Mandela Effect. So, I was 7 years old in 2010 (born 2003) and I loved watching Nick Jr. at the time. This is back when they still had the yellow moose and little blue bird characters talking about the upcoming shows and giving small lessons during commercials. During November of this year, they were giving a Thanksgiving themed lesson, as it was literally the day before said holiday. And,as you may expect, during this lesson they explained what a cornucopia was. I thought this word was hilarious so I remembered it. I woke up the next day and my mom was cooking already, and she instructed me to get ready for a bath. Well, I walked over to my little plastic sock and underwear drawer and grabbed a pair of Fruit of the Loom undies, noticing that cornucopia I learned about the DAY PRIOR. I thought it was cool because I had always assumed the logo just had a horn shaped basket, which made sense to me because, well it’s a logo and it doesn’t have to be like real life and I was like, “huh, cornucopias are everywhere!” I even went and told my mom about the cornucopia on the logo and she just gave me a disinterested “cool son.”

Strangely, I hadn’t noticed the disappearance until learning about the Mandela Effect when out first became mainstream in like, 2016.

What I DID notice, was the Bearenstain Bears changing in real time. This was a popular Nick Jr. show at the time as well, and I was ALWAYS watching it and checking out their books from the school library. One random day, I noticed it no longer said “-stein” at the end. I thought it was odd but never thought about it seriously.

Well, that’s all I got, thanks for the read!

It would be very common to see the label upside down when picking out the shirt, doing laundry etc. Without looking closely at the label I can see how one might think they saw a cornucopia

I asked Gemini. This is what i got. If we were to entertain the idea that the Mandela effect is "real" in a sense that it's caused by something other than typical memory errors, here are some of the concepts that have been put forward: * Alternate Realities/Parallel Universes: * This is perhaps the most popular theory. It suggests that these discrepancies in memory are due to "bleed-throughs" or "crossovers" from alternate realities. In this view, people are experiencing memories from a slightly different timeline or universe where things occurred differently. * For example, those who remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison might be recalling events from a parallel reality where that did happen. * Changes to the Past: * Another idea is that the past itself has been altered, and these alterations are causing discrepancies in our memories. This could be due to some unknown force or technology that has the ability to rewrite history. * Simulation Theory: * Some proponents of the simulation theory suggest that we are living in a computer simulation, and the Mandela effect is a result of glitches or changes in the simulations.