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Do you remember the ‘90s movie “Shazaam” that stars the comedian Sinbad as a genie who appears to a pair of kids to help them deal with a tragic time?

If so, Sinbad’s kids say you might want to double-check your memory on that one.
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But if you’re “absolutely certain” you’ve seen Sinbad in "Shazaam," you aren’t alone.

Sinbad’s son Royce Adkins said even “people the closest to us who know everything about our family” have sometimes second-guessed whether the movie exists.

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So how can thousands of people across the world all have the same memory of a particular event or occasion that never happened?

It’s the Mandela Effect, “a belief that specific details from the past are being altered or changed.”
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The phenomenon is named after a common misconception that former South African president Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1990s even though he actually died in 2013.

And it's just one example of these strange lapses in our collective memory.

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When Adkins and Bryan would first hear “Shazaam” theories, they assumed people were just confusing it with the movie “Kazaam” staring former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal

“My dad and Shaq—people confuse them all the time,” Bryan said.

Uh, do they…?

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