Introduce Yourself : Mandela Effect by Harry Dzumhur

Harry Dzumhur

Mandela Effect

You are about to enter another dimension.../  This was partially the first sentence of the Twilight zone. Remember?  Now me and hundreds ( thousands?) or more people think that they have entered the Twilight Zone. Have you heard of the Mandela Effect? Here's a  definition: " where a person recalls something that did not happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened "  Here's a movie example from  Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back. The line is not “Luke, I am your father.” Nope! The actual line is: “No, I am your father. Creepy? Watch more examples here: https://listverse.com/2018/04/19/top-10-mandela-effects-movie-and-tv-edition/

Donn Swaby

To me, the creepiest is seeing the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz holding a gun as they walk through the Enchanted Forest. I swear for the life of me, I never remembered him holding a gun all the times I watched this as a kid. Th gun magically seems to disappear moments later and you don't see him tossing it away. Strange. Do you remember Scarecrow packing heat?

Donn Swaby

Toni, that's what I mean! I never remembered the Scarecrow having a gun anywhere in the film but lo and behold, he's carrying one now.

Donn Swaby

Toni, here's a You Tube video showing the clip of the Scarecrow with a black revolver and the Tin Man carries a large lug wrench, not just his ax (the wrench is "new" too!) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X8yS2DYVPY

Donn Swaby

It's actually a silver revolver not black. But still no one who grew up with this film remembers Scarecrow ever having a gun yet there it is in his hand clear as day.

Tennyson Stead

I actually wrote a short play in which a wife in marriage therapy keeps swapping her husband out with versions from other dimensions, called Youniverse. It was fast, funny, stupid, and it made me a bunch of new friends. We had a blast!

Anne Marie Robinson
  1. I'd love to see Youniverse! and 2. I just watched the clip of Wizard of Oz and am dumbstruck that he had a gun, and that he didn't try to use it on the flying monkeys!
Tennyson Stead

Anne Marie Robinson We staged it at a festival of one-acts at Theatre of Note in Hollywood. It was great. I'm happy to send the script, if you're curious.

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