Cowboys playing poker: True or false?
- Ian Grogan
Alternate:
Cowboys in the Old West mainly played poker
Current:
Cowboys in the Old West seldom played poker
Smokey Saloon
The image most people conjure up of the Old West when thinking of how the cowboys spent their leisure time is a smokey saloon with a table of grim faces, all intent on betting the farm on that one last hand.
This picture is so common it's been depicted since the silent black and white dawn of the Western movies.
However, it turns out not to be accurate. Sure, there were saloons, piano players and colorful dancing girls, as well as the card tables surrounded by gamblers. But were these cowboys playing poker? It turns out probably not, because whilst poker did exist as a card game at the time, the most common one by far was called "Faro"
Was the Dick Cavett show where someone died ever aired?
- Paul Baker
Alternate:
The Dick Cavett Show aired an episode where a guest died on air
Current:
The Dick Cavett Show never aired an episode where a guest died on air
Guest dies on air
An amazing video showing a Mandela Effect has was recorded in 2010 - way before the term even existed. It's been available on YouTube since then, and it fits the definition perfectly, because it describes an event which has very strong evidence for never occurring being remembered the same way by groups of people.
This concerns an episode of the Dick Cavett Show, which was supposedly aired in 1971. The recording is of Dick Cavett himself recorded in 2010, describing the death of a guest on his show which, in his own words, many people have asked him about since claiming they distinctively remember seeing it. Yet, there is clearly no-one more authoritative than Dick himself, who insists it was never aired.
Gene Wilder was never in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
- ZachKnife
Alternate:
Gene Wilder was in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Current:
Gene Wilder was not in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Gene Wilder's most famous role?
Roald Dahls famous book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" has been delighting children, and many grown-up children, for decades since it was written in 1964.
Featuring the colorful Willy Wonka, the book went on to be adapted as a musical movie twice, the first of which starred Gene Wilder as the lead role, Willy Wonka, in 1971.
Yet there's something odd here, because although world famous for the role and this movie, he wasn't in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at all - the one he was in was called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.
King Harold didn't get an arrow in his eye?
- mikey1979
Alternate:
King Harold died from an arrow in his eye at the Battle of Hastings
Current:
King Harold did not die from an arrow in his eye at the Battle of Hastings
The death of Harold
King Harold, or more formally King Harold II, was born in 1022 as Harold Godwinson. He was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England and famously died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
This battle was depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, where it appears to show him getting killed by an arrow in his eye, and from that the legend of the manner of his death this way was born.
However, all is not as it appears, and today serious doubt is being thrown on if this is what actually happened.
Is blood blue inside your veins?
- James Taylor
Alternate:
Blood in the veins is colored blue
Current:
Blood in the veins is colored red
The color of blood
Many people remember being taught at school that the blood inside the human veins is colored blue, and only turns red when it comes into contact with air. The fact that it looks that way when checking is out on your arms, legs etc appears to only reinforce this idea.
In fact it's not true, and this is coming as a big surprise to many people, who in turn have been telling their children this is the case and so perpetuating the myth. It's red because the way it carries oxygen around the body is in the form of hemoglobin, which is rich in iron and gives it the red shade.
There is a clue this is the case without having to conduct some elaborate experiment. When blood is drawn into a tube via a syringe, it usually goes into a vacuum in the tube, not air. This prevents contamination, yet it's still always red.
"Thousands cheering" on TV right after 9/11?
- Eve Clemmons
Alternate:
TV showed "thousands cheering" on 9/11
Current:
TV did not show "thousands cheering" on 9/11
Seen on TV on 9/11?
The Mandela Effect does not discriminate across religion, culture or, as seen with this one, politics. It is only concerned with facts being misremembered by groups of people, no matter what the subject is.
9/11 was a series of tragic events which are etched permanently in many peoples memories. Many of those memories were from the media being broadcast as the events actually happened on the day, but amid all the chaos and confusion some details may not be all they appear when viewed back years later, after all the dust has settled - literally.
One of those details was the report that "thousands of people" were seen on TV dancing, cheering and celebrating after 9/11. Did this happen, is it propaganda, or is it an actual Mandela Effect?
The issue is not whether any crowds celebrated, it's whether it was shown on TV.
Dogs playing poker: No transparent green bookie hats?
- Ian Scott
Alternate:
One dog had a transparent green bookie hat
Current:
No dog wears a transparent green bookie hat
All bets are off - did one wear a bookie hat?
Most people are familiar with the famous 'Dogs playing poker' painting. There are actually a few in the set, and they were really popular in the 1990's in many US homes, and quite a few bars worldwide too.
People remember the realistic looking dogs sat round a table in a smoky room, intently focusing on their poker game. Do you remember any of the dogs wearing a transparent green dealer's hat? Many do, but can't find it anywhere now, and so it's being classed as a Mandela effect.
There were spin off paintings where they were involved in other sports, like billiards, but it's the poker one which is the best known. People are describing every detail of the hat, right down to it's transparent green-tinted visor and wide band. Yet there's no trace of that today...