THE MANDELA EFFECT | WHEN THE SMITHSONIAN WAS STILL AN INSTITUTE

Mandela Effect
Noel Joshua Hadley

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BEFORE MY GRANDFATHER DIED HE LEFT ME A SIZABLE PORTION of stamps from his own personal collection, each ranging the span of decades that made up the incredible years of his life. After contemplation on the matter, mainly what to do with them, I finally decided to make a collage of those stamps without damaging or threatening their integrity, which is now hung, framed, and comfortably preserved behind a wall of glass in our South Carolina home. There’s only one glaring problem with his collection. The 1946 3cent SMITHSONIAN stamp never said “INSTITUTION” on it, until now. I’m quite confident of that fact. I can read those letters from all the way across the room, and when I do it’s almost like pinpointing a black hole in space. What bothers me most, whenever I stare at it from across the room, is how it so often seems to stare back.Smithsonian logo.jpg

There’s clearly a huge difference between “Institute” and “Institution,” and I’m quite certain that many of you will immediately recognize that as such, further discerning this title swap as wrong through and through. But that’s the Mandela Effect for you. Even the definition of “Institution” has changed since I last looked it up in the dictionary last summer. Realities are changing around us, and there’s nothing we can do about it except to keep up to date with the alterations. The JESUIT SUN for its logo adds further antagonistic fuel to the conspirators fire. Uh-huh, Jesuit, as in the Church of Rome with Pope Francis as its pontiff. Is this the hidden secret in which the Mandela Effect is finally letting us in on, that we live in an institution and the Jesuits are behind the whole thing?

We’ve known for a very long time that the Jesuits were behind the whole thing. But I digress.

The swap from “Institute” to “Institution,” I believe, happened roughly one year ago, around April of 2016. That’s the best that any of us have so far come up with. For those of you who are having a difficult time understanding what the Mandela Effect is, it’s like this: From the time the Smithsonian was established in 1846 until some unspecified morning in 2016, with its many decades of celebrated publications and museums in Washington DC, termed “the nation’s attic” for its eclectic collection of 154 million items, the Smithsonian Institute, as we all knew it, simply became an Institution. Everything in history regarding its title changed, or rather was erased.  Even the stamp on my wall was effected by the alteration. And as of a month ago when I first sat down to research this article, there were no longer any records of it being an “Institute” on public record that I could find, save one.

The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS was the only known remaining data bank left in existence that still recognized the Smithsonian as the Institute so many of us properly remember. I was lucky enough to capture a screen shot. Kind of odd, don’t you think, that the Library of Congress of all data banks would spell the Smithsonian “Institute” wrong.

Smithsonian INSTITUTE (Library of Congress)

This would be what we call “residue.”

The thing is, and this isn’t talked about much, there’s one major glaring error when we observers of the Mandela Effect recognize it as a genuine phenomenon. As I see it, when we stumble upon residue that may be left behind after the “reprogramming in the Matrix” occurs (or whatever you want to call it), like the Library of Congress web page, pointing those bread crumbs or residue out on Google is basically just informing the architect behind all of this that the job hasn’t been finished yet! Quick, more re-coding in the Matrix! It’s almost like a cosmic game of chess, and by merely attempting to outsmart the machine by replicating its moves we only succeed in putting ourselves closer to checkmate.

See, this Library of Congress web page caught the excited attention of many in the Mandela Effect community about a month ago, perhaps too many, because as of today, when I visited the exact same page in order to write this article, well, see it for yourself.

Smithsonian INSTITUTE 2 (Library of Congress)

It now reads: We’re experiencing technical difficulties.

Why the original LIBRARY OF CONGRESS page didn’t change, I can’t say. Maybe it will in time, as these things often do…..but not always. If you’re reading this it’s because you’ve stumbled upon the Mandela Effect, and the entire world is having technical difficulties. Or in the case of the Smithsonian, we’re all living in an Institution.

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

Watch the Interviews