THE MANDELA EFFECT, APOLLO 13, & HOUSTON HAS PROBLEMS

Mandela Effect
Noel Joshua Hadley

Apollo 13 movie

FOR EVERY PERSON WHO RECOGNIZES THAT THE KNOWN FABRICS which make up our present reality appear to be changing before our very eyes, there’s probably a dozen scoffing detractors telling us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, and if we do, then we’re crazy.

Trying to explain or prove the Mandela Effect to someone, which I am fully convinced is real, can be difficult if sometimes not impossible to do, especially if that critic is prone to distrust the memory of one who claims to be effected by it. If so, then no credible evidence or leftover residue pointing to that alteration is likely to persuade them either. It’s also why I try not to focus on solitary changes so much as the ping pong effects we can observe in real time.

The 1995 Ron Howard film Apollo 13 is a perfect example.

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In the summer of 2016 Apollo 13 had my full attention, mainly because, in the movie’s moment of truth, Tom Hanks no longer spoke his landmark line, “Houston, we have a problem.” I was fourteen when the movie came out. I have a vivid memory of watching it in the theater with my parents. And I can tell you with full assurance, like so many others my age, that ‘Houston, we have a problem’ was spoken on middle-school campuses across America. Given the right circumstance in the classroom, the blurting out of that line could garnish a dozen laughs. It was one of those jokes that simply never grew old.

Well, apparently that line did grow old, for Tom Hanks at least. Because if you happened to watch Apollo 13 over the last couple of years, you may have noted that the quote we’ve probably all repeated at one time or another was never the right line at all.

He now said: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”

Small change, I know, but a small offense is still an offense. Once this discovery was made, thousands of those affected by the Mandela Effect were scouring through their old VHS tapes, just to make sure this script revision wasn’t a recent digital alteration. I even visited AFI’s 100 Greatest Film Quotes page. Nope. They all made the same claim. “Houston, we’ve had a problem” was always the line spoken.

This is where the detractors and deniers come in. See, in the actual Apollo 13 mission, astronaut Jack Swigert told NASA control, “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” in which Jim Lovell, played by Hanks in the movie, added, “Uh, Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Their argument was, since Jim Lovell always said ‘we’ve had,’ then the movie naturally would have followed suite, and therefore all of our memories were clearly wrong.

Uh-huh.

Apparently they underestimated the powers of the Mandela Effect.

Because then something strange and spectacular happened. I woke up one morning with the news online from excited ME observers that the movie Apollo 13 had been diagnosed with a case of the Ping Pong. Once again, Tom Hanks clearly said the line as we all remembered it.

“Houston, we have a problem.”

In every known online and hard copy of the film, including VHS, Wikipedia-type informational pages, AFI, and practically every online discussion about the previous changes made, the Mandela Effect decided it liked the original line best. Evidence erased. Apollo 13 was remastered and restored.

Bring in the detractors and deniers again. Keep in mind there’s probably twelve of them, maybe dozens, for every believer like myself. We’re clearly outnumbered. Do you know what they had to say about this recent reversal in the fabrics of time and space? “Oh, you crazies are just confusing We have and We’ve had with the actual Apollo 13 space mission. In the movie, Tom Hanks never said that.”

Mm-hmm. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

That’s the Mandela Effect.

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

Read the 9/11 Interviews

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