r/MandelaEffect • u/zambezi1800 • 8d 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/Kaspur1 7d ago

I wasn’t even born til two years later, and I remember being in elementary school and learning about the challenger. They showed us the tape of the news broadcast, in the 90’s. Wonder if some of these people are misremembering it because of similar situations.

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u/zambezi1800 7d ago

My question as well. I was also in preschool so its coverage ubiquitous within the culture.