The Mandela Effect: Texas Edition. Are Your Texas Memories Wrong?

Do you know what the Mandela Effect is? It's this really weird shared experience of false memories. Basically, we all remember the same thing...but it's wrong.

The name comes from the idea that former South African President Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, when he actually didn't die until 2013. The term was coined in 2009, when Mandela was still alive, but many people believed he had died previously.

But the Mandela Effect isn't just about misremembering events or terms; it's about people sharing vivid, false memories of those events. With Nelson Mandela, many believe they remember specific news coverage of his death. TV news coverage, radio coverage, newspapers...they believe they have memories of these things, and others share similar memories.

This isn't an isolated phenomenon either. It's not just people in New York, or Michigan, or California. This is an everywhere phenomenon, and it impacts Texans too.

Just talk to folks around Texas, you'll find multiple people who share the same false memories on multiple events. Just a quick quiz about Pokémon, Disney movies, bologna, and Monopoly proves that the Mandela Effect is real, and it impacts local residents in both Louisiana and Texas. For example, I've talked to people who grew up in Texas vividly recall the "Looney Tunes" logo having a hyphen ("Looney-Tunes"), just like people elsewhere...when it never did.

Or, they might remember the "Kit-Kat" bar having a hyphen, when it does not. Even discussions about the exact shade of blue in the Texas state flag can sometimes reveal discrepancies in memory.

Texas even has a breakdown right now with the nickname "The Lone Star State". Or is is "The Lonestar State"? Is Lone Star two words, or is Lonestar one word? How do you remember it?

Check out some of these wild Mandela Effect examples, and see if any of them resonate with your own memories, no matter if you live in Dallas, Houston, or anywhere else in Texas.