
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
It started with an innocent question posted on Yahoo! Answers in 2009, and snowballed into a thriving subreddit community: did anyone remember an American movie from the early Nineties called Shazaam, starring the comedian Sinbad as an incompetent genie who grants wishes to two children? Thousands of people did, vividly – and yet there was no trace of it.
In this compelling long read, culture writer Amelia Tait talks to the Shazaam true believers, sorts fact from fiction and looks at the notion known as “the Mandela effect”: the theory that a large group of people who share the same false memory used to live in a parallel universe.
This article was first published on the New Statesman website on 21 December 2016. You can read the text version, which has been updated for the podcast, here.
Written by Amelia Tait and read by Emma Haslett.
Podcast listeners can subscribe to the New Statesman for just £1 a week for 12 weeks using our special offer. Just visit newstatesman.com/podcastoffer.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
4.3
66 ratings
It started with an innocent question posted on Yahoo! Answers in 2009, and snowballed into a thriving subreddit community: did anyone remember an American movie from the early Nineties called Shazaam, starring the comedian Sinbad as an incompetent genie who grants wishes to two children? Thousands of people did, vividly – and yet there was no trace of it.
In this compelling long read, culture writer Amelia Tait talks to the Shazaam true believers, sorts fact from fiction and looks at the notion known as “the Mandela effect”: the theory that a large group of people who share the same false memory used to live in a parallel universe.
This article was first published on the New Statesman website on 21 December 2016. You can read the text version, which has been updated for the podcast, here.
Written by Amelia Tait and read by Emma Haslett.
Podcast listeners can subscribe to the New Statesman for just £1 a week for 12 weeks using our special offer. Just visit newstatesman.com/podcastoffer.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
288 Listeners
133 Listeners
62 Listeners
1,329 Listeners
104 Listeners
1,764 Listeners
22 Listeners
12,604 Listeners
3,079 Listeners
2,051 Listeners
981 Listeners
979 Listeners
0 Listeners
406 Listeners
0 Listeners
814 Listeners
523 Listeners
2,243 Listeners
898 Listeners