Bizarre Reality Shifts - The Mandela Effect

[pigfarmer]

While probably not ever completely real in the past, the era of careful, vetted journalism and news reporting is largely gone. The need to get the scoop is just too pressing.

Gawd, but does anyone remember that Gene Steinberg used to beat this drum? That the news was something mandated to leaven the entertainment as a public service. He had mentioned it several times and although I've long since stopped listening he's probably had at it a few more .....

 

[Rikki]

Looks like I and my husband were not going crazy!
Queen will 'fade away gracefully' from royal duties (msn.com)

 

[nivek]

Scary Alternate Reality Incident in Labrador Woods​

Peggy, her husband Derek, and their two children moved to Clarke's Beach, a small town on Conception Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador back around 2000. Peggy always enjoyed the area until she had a frightening experience while picking berries in the woods near her home in August 2022.

I had an experience blueberry picking that left me scared to go back for a while. I still get the chills thinking about it to this day. I always loved the summer. Where we live, there are only seven houses on our road with only one entrance. It's surrounded by trees. My yard had lovely wildflowers, strawberries, and cherry trees. My neighbor had a plum tree that the moose come out and eat every fall.

Across from my house, there was a big piece of undeveloped land overgrown with trees and giant blueberries. It's one of my favorite spots to go to. Every year I'd make a few trips across the road onto this little path until I came to a small clearing full of blueberry bushes.

Every year was the same for years until it just a little while ago I remember I was waiting for my sister to come and visit. I said to my husband that I was going to pick a few berries while I waited for her, so I grabbed a bucket and I was off. It was around 6:00 PM in late August, so it was starting to get dark earlier but I figured I had plenty of time. Now keep in mind I could see my house and hear if my sister pulls into the driveway from where I was. The piece of land I'm on is maybe a couple thousand feet.

So there I was picking away one for me one for the bucket. The berries were big but today they were huge. I mean I had never seen berries so big, it was blue all around. I kept picking and picking. I soon started to notice it was getting dark. 'Oh no, another big patch, look at those!' I said to myself. I couldn't leave but no matter how many I picked, my bucket just wouldn't fill. 'Oh, it's just my eyes playing tricks on me, because it's getting dark. Keep picking, Peg, and you'll fill your bucket soon,' I said.

Suddenly, I got this strange silence coming over me. The air got a little colder. No wind. It got so quiet. No birds. Nothing. I couldn't even hear the sound of the highway. I can always hear the highway. I thought I was deaf. All I could hear is my heart and I believe that stopped for a second too. Everything started to go in slow motion around me. All of a sudden something clicked and a voice said, 'Get out of here, now!' I remember standing up and trying to go and my feet felt heavy.

I looked for the path but I couldn't find it. I started to panic because I could see my house but I couldn't find my way to it. The harder I tried to get through the trees and reach the road, the further away it would seem. It's like I was looking through something. I was walking on a treadmill in front of a big screen. I saw my sister's car pull into the driveway and my husband talking to her on the step and calling out to let me know she was there, but I couldn't call back. I tried and only whispered. I started to get scared. It was getting dark and I wanted out of those trees. I remember saying 'Not tonight, buddy, not tonight. Leave me alone! I'm not playing your games!'

Next thing you know, I'm out on the path and standing on the road in front of my house unsure of how I got there but glad I was.

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[nivek]

View: https://youtu.be/TL_8zpDsUls


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[nivek]

View: https://twitter.com/TheVallyD/status/1791495609129619868


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[pigfarmer]

I do remember braces. Somewhere up in the attic is my collection of old Starlog magazines. That'll have Moonraker pics in it. I'll look

 

[J Randall Murphy]

View: https://twitter.com/TheVallyD/status/1791495609129619868

Excellent example. The actor playing Jaws ( Richard Dawson Kiel ) reportedly stuck to his remembering braces on Dolly all the way to his death bed !

 

[J Randall Murphy]

Gawd, but does anyone remember that Gene Steinberg used to beat this drum? That the news was something mandated to leaven the entertainment as a public service. He had mentioned it several times and although I've long since stopped listening he's probably had at it a few more .....

Uh oh — you mentioned the name that shall not be mentioned here ( lol ).

 

[pigfarmer]

I had my fingers crossed as I typed that and threw salt over my shoulder afterwards

 

[pigfarmer]

The woman had braces in the movie - it's why she and Jaws fell for each other. There must be a surviving script or someone who worked on the movie that still remembers. No idea how that changed.

So much for human memory. I pulled down the old magazines and there are indeed the issues I remember in there but none show the pictures I thought they might. Yes, I quaffed a couple beers .....


I did find some interesting stuff though. William Shatner gave my mom that picture along with another autographed one. He used to come to the Hyde Park Playhouse to do summer stock theater and she was one of the waitresses at the only diner in town. She said he was very polite and quiet. She also said that other major stars that came through mostly were too. Except Sid Caesar, he was a prick. So said mom.



What the hell. I found these fold out poster books I used to hang on my bedroom wall and cracked up when I opened this one. Apparently the very young pigfarmer had a sense of humor. Those magazines and these poster books are very delicate and are disintegrating.

 

[nivek]

The woman had braces in the movie - it's why she and Jaws fell for each other. There must be a surviving script or someone who worked on the movie that still remembers. No idea how that changed.

Yes, too remember that she had braces, indeed that was pointed out in the movie, even if subtly...It's astonishing this has changed, I wonder if someone has an old VHS tape of that movie showing her with braces...

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[J Randall Murphy]

Yes, too remember that she had braces, indeed that was pointed out in the movie, even if subtly...It's astonishing this has changed, I wonder if someone has an old VHS tape of that movie showing her with braces...

There's a spoof of it made with braces by someone that went around for a while. It might be still out there somewhere. I'm also one of those who remember Mandela dying while still in jail — big funeral and all that. Several paranormal experiences here. I remember thinking when Mandela was freed that whoever it was must be an impostor. It was years before I'd hear of the Mandela Effect.

 

[pigfarmer]

I remember being at an Illinois water park with my nieces watching a Bearenstein bears - or whatever the hell they are. I just wish I took a picture.

She had braces and I thought Mandela died in prison. Next you'll be telling me that Donald Trump became president....

 

[nivek]

Yes, too remember that she had braces, indeed that was pointed out in the movie, even if subtly...It's astonishing this has changed, I wonder if someone has an old VHS tape of that movie showing her with braces...

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Here it is on VHS, I think I'll get one to see about the braces, I still have a VHS player/recorder...

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[pigfarmer]

Here it is on VHS, I think I'll get one to see about the braces, I still have a VHS player/recorder...

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Somewhere I read a kind of snotty explanation of the ME. Didn't care for it's tone.

But if it was right then she doesn't have braces. Like Humphry Bogart never saying 'play it again Sam'

I expect her to have braces.

 

[nivek]

Are strange space signals in Antarctica evidence of a parallel universe?​

Last spring, a report from the world’s largest neutrino telescope — a sprawling grid of detectors woven into Antarctica’s ice — coincided with a blaze of hyperbolic headlines. They teased the possibility of an anti-universe where, from our point of view, time runs backward and the Big Bang represents an end, not a beginning. While it’s too soon to start searching for our reverse-aging, other-handed doppelgängers, physicists are still wrestling with strange signals coming in from space that, to date, have defied easy explanation.

The signals were flagged by a NASA-funded collection of horn radio antennas held aloft over Antarctica by a giant balloon. The device, called the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), picks up radio signals produced when high-energy particles coming from deep space encounter our atmosphere. Some waves skim the Earth before they hit ANITA, and others bounce off the ice. ANITA can tell the difference. During its first float in 2006 and again in 2014, the device picked up anomalous signals that resembled the kind that skim the Earth — but strangely, they seemed to be coming from the surface.

“That means they had to pass through a huge chunk of the Earth,” says physicist Stephanie Wissel of Penn State, who works on the ANITA experiment.

At the heart of this mystery are neutrinos: ghostly, high-energy particles that can stream through almost any material unscathed but can produce the telltale radio pulses that ANITA catches. To further investigate the unusual signals, physicists turned to IceCube, a neutrino telescope made up of long strings of detectors buried near the South Pole. A neutrino passing through the ice may produce other particles that emit tiny flashes of light that IceCube’s sensors can detect.

Scientists reasoned that ANITA’s anomalies should also have produced signals in IceCube, and those signals could reveal the deep-space source of the particles. But after eight years’ worth of data was searched, the mystery remained: The exhaustive analysis turned up no matches.

“If the ANITA signal was astrophysical, then we should be able to detect it in IceCube — and we did not,” says physicist Justin Vandenbroucke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who works on the neutrino observatory.

The new findings, published March in The Astrophysical Journal, mean scientists have to continue looking for less obvious explanations. Some have proposed that the anomalies arose from radio waves bouncing through caverns or buried lakes in the ice. Other theorists proposed more exotic ideas, such as that the heavy, high-energy particles in line with ANITA’s data may describe one candidate for dark matter — the mysterious stuff that’s believed to make up 85 percent of the matter in the universe but has never been detected. Still others hypothesize that the exotic particles fit an existing theoretical model of a parallel universe — one that is symmetric to ours, but populated with antimatter and running backward.

Wissel and her colleagues are preparing a more sensitive upgrade to ANITA that, they hope, will find more of these strange signals. As an experimentalist, she says she’s beholden to data, but appreciates the ideas about where the signals originated. New questions and tests can then confirm — or refute — theories about these deep-space particles and how the universe began.

“They’re trying to do with our data exactly what we want people to do with our data,” says Wissel. “We want ANITA to push observations of ultra-high energy neutrinos into a new regime. We think that there is interesting new physics to be done.”

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[nivek]

Scientists think we may have received a signal from a parallel universe via a WORMHOLE​

In 2019, gravitational wave detectors on Earth picked up a signal that left scientists baffled. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time, usually created when massive, dense objects like black holes collide. But at less than a tenth of a second long, this sudden burst was far shorter than the drawn-out chirps normally produced by merging black holes. Now, researchers think this strange signal, dubbed GW190521, could have arrived from a parallel universe.

In a pre-print paper, a team led by Dr Qi Lai of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences argues that GW190521 could be an 'echo' of a wormhole collapsing. If a collision of two black holes was powerful enough to create a tunnel between universes, the gravitational signal could pass down the wormhole's throat into our cosmos. Since the wormhole would only be open for a very short time, this would explain why GW190521 seems to cut off abruptly. Although their modelling suggests this scenario isn't very likely, Dr Lai says evidence cannot rule out that the signal travelled to Earth from another universe.

(More on the link)

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