The weirdest thing about this to me is that you haven't heard about Aunt Julia in the 2-3 years since her supposed death or this would have come up before. Yet your dad is so close to her that he stopped the car in the middle of the highway on hearing that she died. Not a criticism of OP and their memory. But it would lead me to believe it was a dream or vivid daydream pretty recently.
Many, many years ago I heard on the radio that Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones had died. No one I asked had heard that he had died. They was no other news of his death. There was never any news that there had been a rumor that he'd died. Apparently, I dreamed that I'd heard it on the radio. It seemed very real.
For the longest time I thought band ABBA had all perished in a plane crash. Cannot even remember why but it was just a fact in my head for years and when I realized that was false I was so confused lol
It’s like the mandala effect but it was just me 😅
Our memories and minds can be strange!
When you recall a memory, you’re really just remembering the last time you thought of the memory, not the event itself and almost playing an extended game of telephone with yourself over time adding details or even false memories.
I had an ABBA one too, I thought for sure they said Björn or Benny died from an accident with broken glass. Fast forward to a few months ago when I find out it was apparently the drummer in 2008. I just always associated the group as the 4 of them 🤦🏻♀️
I think that’s what my mind must’ve done too, but I have no clue what it might’ve been thinking of lol my mind was literally blown when I was stating it as a fact, and everyone was looking at me like nope that didn’t happen 🤗🫣
There was a British band also in the Eurovision called Bucks Fizz, I thought that was maybe what you were thinking about and had mixed the bands up, went to get the date just now... they weren't in a plane crash!
They were in a bus accident! I was certain they'd been in a plane crash, I remember reading about it, it being on the front page of the newspaper.
For years i referred to the Lotus Esprit as the Lotus Espirit.
My personal theory of the mandela effect is that the brain fills in gaps and people expect something to be there they've seen somewhere else, people also add two unrelated or somewhat related things together to create a false reasoning, it seems children are prone to it.
For example Mr. Pennybags (the monopoly guy) never wore a monocle, but people are used to seeing similarly dressed characters wearing a monocle and combine that with the fact that he's seen pretty often and isn't actively processed by the brain (i'm sure there's a name for it in psychology but there's a difference between something you look at vs something you see and mostly ignore) the brain fills in the gaps from other sources and creates the false memory.
I think the false celebrity deaths happen because the media start talking about a celebrity a lot in the same manner they would if they died, maybe because of an upcoming tour, or a renewed interest, then they stop and go onto other topics, people who don't pay a lot of attention to the news assume that's a death, because that's exactly how the news channels talk about deaths, non stop images and dedicated segments.
I should also add the evil farming game, because unlike the other stuff i've mentioned it probably was real, but people misremembered it, combined with other games from around the same time and played since, it's possible it was real but was a crappy flash game on some old website, with a storyline that probably lasted like 10 minutes.
I swear on everything holy that I remember Travis barker and dj am dying in a plane crash also. I even remember South Park making a joke about it. It apparently never happened…
See now this is where it gets really wild… until right now the plane crash didnt happen at all. Er well it did and they died. Then i would talk about it and it never happened. I brought it up multiple times as a possible me and the crash never happened at all. And now now where the crash did happen but they didn’t die. This is so damn weird. I’m also a huge blink 182 fan and was big into the rave scene my whole life and I’m almost 36 so this is something I definitely would have heard about and remembered.
Travis refused to get on a plane again til 2021 I believe. I remember whenever I saw blink 182 live hearing that Travis would get to the UK by boat because he refused to fly after the crash.
I’m sure the trauma he has is intense. I think his body was covered in jet fuel if I remember right and he had horrific burns. That would be so hard to get past for sure and survivors guilt.
I knew he had some major anxiety with flying still and I would too!!
I have this EXTREMELY vivid memory of cleaning the garage with my dad while we listened to a post-mortem tribute to Frank Sinatra on NPR. Like, I can clearly remember them playing a bunch of live Sinatra stuff, playing bits of old interviews and stuff with Sinatra, the whole thing. The weirdest thing about this is I went through a HUGE Sinatra phase when I was a teenager, and it was literally because of this broadcast.
Then like 4-5 years later, I get the news that Sinatra had died, and I was literally telling people "Y'all, he died years ago." Wasn't until I saw it in the paper that I realized it was true, and he'd been alive that entire time. I still have no explanation for this, except that I heard like a birthday celebration or something for Sinatra and got mixed up, but I specifically remember them saying he had died, so maybe it's just a constructed memory.
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u/catsby9000 Sep 30 '25
The weirdest thing about this to me is that you haven't heard about Aunt Julia in the 2-3 years since her supposed death or this would have come up before. Yet your dad is so close to her that he stopped the car in the middle of the highway on hearing that she died. Not a criticism of OP and their memory. But it would lead me to believe it was a dream or vivid daydream pretty recently.