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I would swear in like, 2005?2006?2007? the Cubs won their first world series in many many decades.

and now I hear, it's happening again? well, ok.

is there some other sports team in that aprox time frame that won some kinda thing after a long losing streak?

Dent is most famous for his home run in a tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox at the end of the 1978 season.

If you fondly remember the early-1990s film "Shazaam," starring the comedian Sinbad as an incompetent genie who tries to help out two young children — then you are wrong.

Not because the movie isn't good, but because it never existed in the first place.

As Amelia Tait reported in The New Statesman, hundreds of people on the internet are absolutely certain they've seen the movie "Shazaam." And yes, they know about the 1996 movie "Kazaam" starring Shaquille O'Neal as a genie. They're certain "Shazaam" is something else. In their minds, it's a twin movie, another movie with a similar plot that came out around the same time.

But there is no evidence "Shazaam" ever existed. Sinbad himself (whose real name is David Adkins) is certain he never starred in such a movie.

The mass delusion over "Shazaam" has been attributed to the Mandela Effect, which is an idea that people have mass-misrememberings. There isn't yet any scientific literature that backs up the Mandela Effect, but it's similar to the idea of "confabulation," which is when people unconsciously distort their own memories.

The most famous example of the Mandela Effect is over the Berenstain Bears. A lot of people remember the name being spelled "Berenstein," with an "e," when it's actually spelled "Berenstain" with an "a."

Some maintain that the name was changed to make the series sound "less Jewish," but hardcore Berenstain fans will remember their television Christmas special. And anyway, the series was written by Stan and Jan Berenstain.

Just like the inaccurate "Berenstein Bears," people have been misremembering "Shazaam" for years. The earliest online evidence of the mass delusion, according to Tait's excellent article, is a 2009 Yahoo! Answers thread: "Wasnt there a movie in the early '90s where Sinbad the entertainer/comedian played a genie? I know 'Kazaam' had Shaq in it and that's not the one I'm thinking about. Help it's driving me nuts!"

Then, five years ago, Reddit user MJGSimple swore it was a conspiracy: "I swear this movie exists, anyone have a copy or know where I can find proof!" And later on, a discussion over the nonexistent movie stormed into a subreddit dedicated to the Mandela Effect.

The delusion is widespread enough for some people to think that we're all living in a computer simulation, where actors beyond our imagination are modifying the timelines of our reality.

cont'd @ http://www.businessinsider.com/does-the ... st-2016-12

MayDay » Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:20 pm wrote:I agree that the majority of the speculative discussion surrounding this topic, especially on sites like Reddit, is juvenile and often quite inane, and would call the entire validity of so called time-line changes into question for me, were I not amongst the many who remember major events differently then they are currently presented as fact.

None of you really know me, as I rarely post here, and I can't convince you of my own inate intelligence/ curiosity any further than my claim that this forum has been my primary means of understanding and interpreting the world, politics, weirdness, and current events for nearly ten years. Hopefully that counts for something. I respect the people here, and I'm greatful for the value you've brought to my life. Perhaps this is why, at the expense of sounding crazy and being ridiculed by people I admire, I feel it worth-while to share my experience in this phenomenon. Whatever you think of my subjective experience, I'm cool with it. It's not going to change my views on any of you, and it's not going to hurt my feelings much.

I remember 4 people in the JFK car. Two secret service agents in the front, JFK and his wife in the back seat. The magic bullet theory was dismissed as loony because 1 bullet was said to have gone through both Kennedys body, and into Connalys body, who was riding in a separate car behind john and Jackie. The photos with three rows of seats and 6 bodies make no sense to me.

I am a space geek, although not a space buff. I primarily read SF and I've always been curious about the space program. I was taught that we landed on the moon once, and never made it back. This was at an expensive private school near DC that is highly respected and had an 80% on to college rate. I would have known about the moon rover because it's so frickin cool it would have excited me to no end as a child. I've never even seen photos of the manned moon rover until the past month.

These are the biggest wtf's for me, and frankly I'm not all that interested in all the supposed pop culture and brand name changes, although some of them ring astoundingly true to me.

I have yet to ask someone about the JFK assasination who hasn't replied 4 when I ask how many people were in the car, btw, and I only ask close personal friends who. I know to be of much higher than average intelligence.

I don't blame you for mocking this topic, especially given the amount of non-sense strewn across the web regarding these so called changes. I would mock it too, were it not for the very disturbing discrepancies between what I've always known and what I'm now told is historical fact. And I have no idea what could explain it, just a bunch of speculation and half formed ideas I don't even trust. And I'm cool with that, too.

It's frustrating knowing our senses may have evolved to lie to us...