Bizarre Reality Shifts - The Mandela Effect

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
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 .....
 

nivek

As Above So Below

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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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
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

Trying To Stay Awake
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

tall, thin, irritable
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 .....
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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.

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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.
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nivek

As Above So Below
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...:Whistle:

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J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
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...:Whistle:
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

tall, thin, irritable
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

As Above So Below
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...:Whistle:

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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

tall, thin, irritable
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.
 

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
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.

Ya — there's the typical offhanded denials by the skeptics out there, but just like UFOs, there are too many reports by credible people to fair mindedly assume that there's nothing to them beyond a mundane explanation.
 
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