(CNN)-- Whether talking about his time in prison, his struggle against apartheid, his emergence as a global icon or cracking a joke about his career, Nelson Mandela's words often have a resonance ...

Have you ever been absolutely certain about a scene in a movie, a well-known quote, or a moment on television, only to discover you had it all wrong? Welcome to the bizarre world of the Mandela Effect ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to ...

It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela toiled virtually every day for 13 years, digging up rock, some of which paved the road we were driving on. The sun was so relentless, the quarry so bright ...

Mandela was secretly appointed its commander in chief. "At the end of the day...violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid." Nelson Mandela, 1959 "Monitoring Mandela (Four Police ...

In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...

Paranormal researcher Fiona Broome first coined the term in 2010 after she realized that — contrary to what she had thought — former South African president Nelson Mandela did not die in ...

Whole crowds can also collectively remember things incorrectly – this phenomenon goes by the name of the Mandela effect. It is named after the fact that many people thought that Nelson Mandela had ...