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Easter Island statues

Alternate:
Easter Island statues did not have hats

Current:
 Some Easter Island statues wore hats

Where did you get that hat?

One look at the picture of the Easter Island statues wearing hats makes most people ask if they are real, along with comments along the lines of them looking silly, or more generally out of place.

These images are so striking that the hats are being reported as a Mandela Effect, because many people are sure they would have seen them and remembered them before. In other words, it's not a case of them misremembering, but instead the past has somehow changed for them.

Some hats appear red, and some of their eyes are painted blue too.

They are called the Moai, and represented deceased ancestors. They were carved by the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island in Polynesia around 1300 years ago.

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Mona Lisa

Alternate:
Never been known

Current:
Always been known

Enigmatic

She's the subject of the most famous portrait in the world, but who was the subject of the Mona Lisa?

Many people remember this as being a big mystery, and are surprised to hear today all the reports of her being the wife of Francesco del Giocondo.

Her name - Lisa del Giocondo - is even listed officially in the Louvre.

The idea of so many people remembering, and being sure of that memory, of no-one knowing who she was is being classed as a Mandela Effect, since that's exactly what's happening here.

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God Sistene chapel

Alternate:
 No, Michelangelo did not paint this

Current:
Yes, Michelangelo did paint this

You cannot be serious

This is a crazy one even for the uber-craziness of the Mandela Effect!

First, the type of phenomenon here is similar to the Razzle Dazzle ships or the second longest wall in the world, i.e. it's something you'd expect everyone to know about but hardly any do. This kind of knowledge can happen in any field, but some, like this, are so startling it seems very unlikely it can have been missed by so many people for so long, hence the idea it suddenly appeared from nowhere and so is being classed as a Mandela Effect.

The painting does indeed show God flying away from Moses baring his buttocks.

It definitely is God, because the image forms part of a narrative and is next to an identical one showing God creating the Sun and the Earth. And it's clearly not a slip of the robe or similar clothing malfunction, since there actually is also a reference to it in the bible.

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Vitruvian Man

Alternate:
6 arms and 6 legs

Current:
4 arms and 4 legs

Da Vinci's 1490 "Proportions of Man"

Do you remember 4 or 6 arms for the Vitruvian Man? This is similar to the Shiva's arms Mandela Effect where many people similarly remember 6 arms.

People who remember Da Vinci's Vitruvian man with 6 arms and legs describe each limb as being turned slightly from the ones before it, illustrating how the body would look from those angles, and each set being symmetrical, whereas the limbs today are not.

Da Vinci is no stranger to The Mandela Effect - he already has The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa to his name. There is also evidence of the Vitruvian Man flip-flopping between 4 and 6 limbs when some experiencing the effect check again after some time has passed. 

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Mona Lisa Theft

Alternate:
The Mona Lisa was not stolen for 2.5 years

Current:
The Mona Lisa was stolen for 2.5 years

An enigmatic disappearance

Another Mona Lisa Mandela Effect?

First we had her smile changing over time, then the non-mystery over her identity. Now it turns out many people today are surprised to learn the painting was stolen in 1911. 

The theft was actually an inside job. In 1911, Vincenzo Perugia had worked at the Louvre for a time and was familiar with the daily routines and procedures of the staff. One day, he and two accomplices wore the same white smock as them and hid when the gallery closed for the evening. He then removed the painting from its frame, and in the morning when it opened up just walked right out of the door with it under his smock. They boarded the 7:47am express train with it, mingling with the morning city commuters, and got clean away with what just became the most famous painting in the world.

He wasn't doing it for the money. He believed the painting was the property of Italy and was attempting to return it to what he saw as it's rightful home. For this reason he served a very light prison sentence, which no doubt made him smile, enigmatically, when he heard that news.

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Sphinx head

Alternate:
The Sphinx is a dog

Current:
The Sphinx is a cat

Old 1941 photograph shows major restoration?

A amazing photograph from 1941 has been found which appears to show some major restoration work being done on the Sphinx. 

It's long been assumed the Sphinx is older than the pyramids, but the new photograph appears to show it's been worked on, and changed it's appearance significantly, much more recently. It seems to show a new head, a new set of secret tunnels and has no shoulders, which all suggests the familiar landmark we see today has had a modern makeover.

There is even a suggestion it was not originally a cat due to the posture and the fact the Egyptians of the day worshipped dogs. The photograph shows restorations along the base from various ancient times, such as distinctive elongated roman brickwork, as well as Ptolemaic and Greek building styles.

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Creation of Adam

MMDE: God's hand above Adams

Current: God's hand below Adams

Which is the upper hand?

Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" forms part of his world famous Sistine Chapel masterpiece. Some people remember the hand of God being higher than Adam's, and claim Michelangelo would not have painted such a detail any differently. Seen today, however, it shows Gods hand below that of Adam's.

This isn't the only famous religious artwork which is the subject of an MMDE - many statues show the Horns of Moses where most people don't remember them. And of course, having the hand of the creator directly involved in one has all kinds of mind blowing implications...