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Did Tom Cruise really

dance in his underwear

and a pair of Ray-Bans in

“Risky Business”? If you

answered “yes,” you might

be suffering from the

Mandela Effect.

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10. Kazaam, not Shazam

The most startling example of the
Mandela Effect? The widespread belief
that an entire feature film exists titled
Shazam (or Shazaam) starring actor and
comedian Sinbad as a genie. What people
are recollecting is probably Kazaam, a
1996 comedy starring NBA great
Shaquille O’Neal as a wish-granting
mystical figure. Part of the confusion

stems from the fact that Sinbad appeared
in several children’s films in the 1990s.
One of them, First Kid, reportedly had a
preview for Kazaam on the VHS release,
which could have strengthened the
tendency to reconstruct the actor as
starring in it rather than O’Neal. This one
is so convincing even Brewer himself
says he’s caught himself “remembering”

it.

Should these processes that lead to false Louisa at Duke University in 1930. coined the term in the 1840’s.
memories be considered flaws? Not Although nothing was proven,the Rhines
exactly. Current theories in psychology helped establish the scientific merits of - ESP is often generally referred to as the
are exploring the idea that our ability to studying ESP. “sixth sense.” Researchers of ESP often
cull details from past experiences to argue that the sixth sense is inherent in all
create theoretical concepts is actually part - “Precognition” is the ability to “see” or most of us, but some are better able to
of a survival mechanism. “Taking future events, while “retrocognition” is tap into it.
episodes from our past allows us to the ability to see rhe past. Often,
construct possible futures and anticipate retrocognition is tied with claims to know - American psychic Nancy Myer claims

those events,” Brewer says. “It makes us about “past lives.” to have consulted on 300 police
adaptive to new environments.” Like investigations in the 1980s and to have
living in a world without Jiffy. [] - ESP is generally included in the wider given useful information in 80% of those.
subject of “parapsychology.” Clearly, the police believed her because
FACT*oids Parapsychology studies also include she claims that they kept on calling her.
ghost sighting and other elements of the
Proof of ESP?
supernatural. - After World War II, Leonid Vasiliev
conducted official research of ESP for
- Extrasensory Perception (ESP) refers to - Canadian psychologist, James Alcock, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet government.
senses or “powers”that are not proven, is one of the worlds top critics of ESP and Vasiliev claimed that he was successful,
qualified, or quantified by accepted parapsychology. He lectures, writes, and although the program was discontinued.
science. These can include - telepathy, conducts his own experiments that
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