Did you actually remember that wrong, or did everyone just agree to misremember it together?

Hunter gets into the science behind the Mandela Effect, covering reconstructive memory, schema theory, and confabulation, the cognitive quirk the NIH describes as "honest lying." Along the way, the episode fact-checks some of the most confident collective false memories in pop culture, from the Monopoly Man's monocle to Pikachu's tail, and examines why quantum mechanics and the many-worlds interpretation can't actually explain any of it.

The real reason millions of people share the same wrong memory is less mysterious than you'd hope, and more unsettling than you'd expect.

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