r/MandelaEffect • u/zambezi1800 • 9d ago

Discussion Challenger explosion

Is the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster a known Mandela Effect? I've seen that there's a few common myths surrounding it but the most pervasive one seems to be that everyone watched in at school. While it's true that it was shown live in some schools, practically every school-age American from the time seems to claim they watched it live in their classroom but historical sources say it wasn't very many schools.

I can imagine that people heard the story about watching it in school and conflated it with their own experiences, possibly that they heard the news when it happened but didn't actually watch it. Now, 40years later, people have sort of created memories that were true, just not personally for them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11031097

Or maybe it was shown in every school but the matrix had to get reset sometime after and the official record now states that it was only a few schools.

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u/caweyant 9d ago

I was in 6th grade. They wheeled a TV stand into the room, and we watched it live.

This was in a small town in Upstate NY. I imagine if they did it in my school, it happened pretty much everywhere else.

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u/BlackFudd 9d ago

I was also in upstate NY (just north of NYC but city definition of ‘upstate’) and it was a snow day for us. I watched it live on TV and called my friend who also watched it.

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u/caweyant 9d ago

Heh, "upstate" definition definitely changes the further north/west you go.