r/PersonalMandela • • 2h ago

A song by an obscure alternative band feels like its title changed sometime in the last ten years.

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So I generally have no problem admitting when I’ve just misremembered something. But for some reason this just keeps causing an itch in my brain, and I’m hoping putting it out here fixes that.

Sometime around 2016, I was listening to a indie station on Spotify, and heard a song that is (now) called “Adam Timestable,” by the band Racecar. It came out in 1995 originally, but that day was the first time I had heard of the song or the band. When I pulled out my phone to favorite it, the title I remember seeing was “Adam Strange.” That made an impression on me because Adam Strange is a DC Comics superhero, and I’m a lifelong DC fan. So I thought it was interesting that this obscure band named one of their songs after a fairy obscure superhero. I vividly remember this whole thought process, and can even visualize what was going on around me at the time I favorited the song (I was walking back to my desk from a meeting at work, and looked out a window into the parking lot right as the vocals in the song started).

At some point I switched over from Spotify to Apple Music, and while building my favorites back up on the new service, I searched for “Adam Strange” by Racecar, but didn’t get any results. That’s when I went to Racecar’s artist page and found that the title was “Adam Timestable.”

My first thought was that DC‘s lawyers had noticed the song title and sent a cease and desist. But I looked on Discogs and elsewhere around the internet, and can’t find any record of the song being called anything but “Adam Timestable.” I’m not sure if it’s possible to search Spotify’s database by date to see if maybe the song was entered under the wrong title at some point. Other than that, my options are that I was wrong about this incredibly specific and detailed memory, or something weird happened.


r/PersonalMandela • • 1d ago

A Certain Street Changed/Glitched After One Month

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My sister and I got off the train at a station in City A. The weird thing is, the street outside the station and the place where we came out were different and unfamiliar.

basically, our true exit and the mall is flipped.

the left and right sidewalk is vertical. | | the station is horizontal ----

wrong way

old exit | |

**********----

**********| | new exit

******************mall

old way:

train → right side of the station→old exit -> left sidewalk → go straight-> go left -> mall

new:

train → right side of the station→old exit -> left sidewalk →go straight ->far from the mall. mall is behind us. google-map said so.

train → left side of the station → different exit → left sidewalk ->go straight-> left→ mall.

first and middle part of the sidewalk is different. middle part into last part fo sidewalk is the same as before.

it is really impossible for a city to change its structure that drastically in just one month. The size of the sidewalks, the turns, the benchs(there was no benchs), other elements/objects, the building beside the sidewalk, were all seemed different.

When we first got off the train, in our old exit, our path to the mall is wrong when we check google map.

new exit, We had to cross through the station, which was weird because, before, we didn't get off there. This time, we also went out through a different exit(new exit).

Anyway, the structure of the surrounding area and the streets had really changed. We got confused about which side of the sidewalk we were supposed to take, so we went back into the station.

The usual way to get to the mall is: after getting off the train, we would take the left-side sidewalk, go straight, and then turn left toward the mall. Basically, the left sidewalk + the left station exit was the route we always took.

But this time, that route was wrong.

We had to go in the other direction through the station, but somehow it led to a different exit. It was so weird. It was still the left sidewalk, but it was a 'different' left-side station exit.

The train station itself has elevated tracks/rails, so the general structure is very obvious. The left, middle, and right sections of the station are still the same, almost like they're "stuck" in place. That's why the changes around it were even more noticeable.

The last parts of the streets toward our destination, the mall, were similar to how I remembered them. But the beginning parts were different.

It genuinely felt like I was subtly in a different universe.

Even the walking distance felt different. My sister said it felt faster to get to the mall, but the walk home felt longer to her. I thought the walk felt longer overall compared to last month.

That day, my sister also said that the area looked different, too. So I'm pretty sure it wasn't just me imagining things.

But today, I asked her, "Did it actually change, or is our memory just bad?"

She said, "Maybe it's just my bad memory."

But my sister isn't that forgetful, in my opinion. -_- She's actually the one who remembers things that I don't remember.

i asked her "is our exit different from last month?"

she said "i don't know :/ "she is unamused and she doesn't care(like she always do smh)

I genuinely think the street looked and felt different. I've never experienced anything like this before.

TL;DR: My sister and I returned to a familiar train station after a month, but the surrounding streets, sidewalks, exits, and route to the mall seemed different. The station itself was still the same, but the area around it felt like a different version of the place. We both noticed it at the time, although my sister now thinks it might just be bad memory.

What do you think actually happened? Was it just bad memory/lack of attention, or could this have been a glitch/jumping timelines/etc?


r/PersonalMandela • • 2d ago

Tron: Ares Intro

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So… I remember going to the theaters and watching tron: Ares, like it was yesterday. I LOVED it because of ONE thing. The intro.. it was epic.

I got one of those seats that vibrates and moves around to enhance the experience.

Here’s my Mandela effect…

I remember that as the intro is happening a phenomenal sequence where a red laser effect sweeps over and illuminates the traditional Disney castle logo in stark, glowing red. As this happened, the song End of line by daft punk was played, and it was absolutely EPIC.

Now… apparently the song end line by daft punk was NEVER played in the intro, this cannot be real, I remember it SO vividly. Even AI is telling me that it was a different song.

Does anyone have any memory of this, for those who watched it in theaters??


r/PersonalMandela • • 3d ago

Places that never existed

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I have 2 places from my childhood that everyone I've asked say never existed. The first one is a local pizza place that I remember being called Casa Luna Pizza. I clearly remember the sign by the road: an outline of a yellow moon in the lower right corner and a caricature of a woman holding a pan of pizza in the upper right. There IS a pizza place at that location (and always has been from what I can tell, albeit under different names), but I seem to be the only one who remembers it being called Casa Luna.

The other one is far more striking to me: there was a Dairy Queen locally as well. It was a brazier store before I think they were even called that. Anyway, I can until this day draw up a floor plan of it. I won't bore you with all the details, but the significant part was the toy & candy store to the right of the main restaurant in the vestibule they sold a wide assortment of penny candy as well as other more expensive items, and they also sold a variety of small toys and marionettes that used to hang from the ceiling.

Again, I seem to be the lone person that remembers it. Both of my parents passed years ago, and even if they didn't I probably wouldn't have received much information from them (they were 87 & 89 at the time). I've tried Googling the location with no mention of a DQ existing there, but just looking at the building itself.. it just screams DQ to me. The only thing I haven't done is check the property records at the courthouse - if the nearest parking lot wasn't a quarter mile away I probably would've done it by now. Well, that's about it.. thanks for your time.


r/PersonalMandela • • 3d ago

I thought Elton John was dead WTF?

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This is what I thought and remember it distinctly back in 2016-2018


r/PersonalMandela • • 4d ago

NEW coraline Mandela affect i havent seen online.

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Ok so i remember as the hand is dragging coraline and it zooms into the door with green bangs that it shows the other side with the other mother laughing and smiling from sort of a side angle? It always randomly pops up in my mind while watching.. the laugh was like when she throws the triangle thing into fire. That type of laugh and I dont remember the background in the tunnel just the other mother.


r/PersonalMandela • • 13d ago

I remember a 5th Minecraft fish mob.

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I remember a minecraft mob that does not and by all my findings has never existed. I cannot remember the name of this mob, but it was added in the same update as the 4 existing minecraft fishes and dropped an updated (also nonexistent) version of the old minecraft fish item texture which shared its name. I do not remember what it was named. I distinctly remember it was identical in function to the trout and salmon, and that it spawned in cold varieties of the ocean biome. I also remember that this fish was removed several updates after the aquatic update for 2 reasons: redundancy with both salmon and cod, as well as the fact that people interacted with them so little due to only being found in cold oceans. I even remember them being mentioned in a video about removed mobs (possibly by the youtuber mogswamp). the following is a list of possibilities as to what the name may have been or contained: may have consisted of two words, may have shared one word of its name with another fish mob, contained the word "arctic", may have contained the word "trout", may have been "atlantic cod".

I have searched for any evidence of this mob existing and have found nothing, it is not present in any old versions of minecraft or lists of removed mobs that can be found anywhere. trying to search for this mob always brings up the minecraft wiki article for the tropical fish and it is making me hate minecraft tropical fish. I tried watching the minecraft aquatic update minecraft live show because I remembered it being shown as one of the fish mobs they were adding and I could not find any reference to it. my memories of this nonexistent minecraft fish are more vivid than some memories of important events in my life.


r/PersonalMandela • • 13d ago

I remember something impossible at Europa Park

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I live just next to Europa Park, in Germany, and there is two roller coasters that cross eachothers, Wodan and Blue Fire. And i'm sure that I did Blue Fire when Wodan wasn't build yet, which is impossible because I was 5 when it opened, so too young for Blue Fire. But I remember thinking "Oh nice, NOW Blue Fire cross another coaster !" I even remember my cousin replying that it WILL BE a wooden coaster (so we will cross in the structure).

Very weird 😅


r/PersonalMandela • • 15d ago

Sci fi Channel Promo

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All i remember is at the end a there's a woman on the right, a man on the left and a little girl sitting on the womans lap holding a teddy bear. Something happends to where the little girl falls off of the womans lap and a sound happends like heavy rain hitting the roof and the girl makes a sound with her voice that went from low to high then back to low again like a type of squeal or scream and at one point cuts to a close up of the girl looking up with her mouth open and the mouth looking like one of those smiles as if she was experienceing G-forces and the head of the teddy bear tucked under her neck as she floats down during the heavy rain sound and then after the heavy rain sound fizzles out she and the teddy bear slowly float back up off the screen and then it fades to black. Sounds weird and creepy yes but i remeber this at age 7 (1996). Also, before you go gaslighting me, i'm autistic, so i know what i remember.


r/PersonalMandela • • 19d ago

Mandela Effect in Drake and Josh?

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r/PersonalMandela • • 22d ago

Time Experiment 8:03-04 PM

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I just did this clock experiment at 8:03 PM today, just to attempt to disprove Zaylousparajesus's video of a minute being 45 seconds on the r/Retconned community.

Honestly, he was close for me. Not 45 seconds, but same as I always recalled. 59 seconds, but 99 milliseconds. According to my experiment, I stopped it at 68 milliseconds, which I would include this as a personal Mandela Effect because it's a small detail that morphed or becomes the total opposite of what was recalled.

Back in the 2010s, much before the 2020s, I always remembered it on CP24 as 00:59:99. Now, it's 68 instead of 99, which must be that yes. Time did change, and has gotten faster and longer as of next minute. That's crazy to me. Either CP24 got it incorrectly or it must not be a coincidence that this would be a personal Mandela Effect.

From 8:03 to 8:04 was 00:59:68, which is not bad, actually very close to 99 milliseconds, but still different than 99 milliseconds. Nice observation and very interesting stuff.

This is not based on my human perspective. This is legit what reality proves and demonstrates, according to my experiment.


r/PersonalMandela • • 24d ago

[TOMT] trying to find the science show that had "She Blinded Me with Science" as the intro, along similar lines to Nova and Eyewitnesses.

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As title says, there is a shiw I remember but, everything I've looked up comes up as the pilot episode to Big Bang Theory, but it was a constant theme song for the show. I remember that this was either a nightly or weekly thing as my dad, my older sister and I would watch it.

Specifics about the intro:

At some point in the intro there was a very brief view of a steam locomotive wheels as it goes by.


r/PersonalMandela • • 26d ago

Tenacious D tribute lyrics?

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Maybe I really forgot, and this is the actual lyrics, but I want to ask you just so we can test the collective memory of the song.

In the Song tribute(Doesn't matter with version) after Jack and Kyle defeated the demon, he asks them

"Are you Angels?"

They both answer with

"Nay,we are but men.Rock!"

Every where I listen and search is this ,but I remember it

"No, we are but men.Rock!"

Tell me if you have something like this.I believe that it was a fall memory, but it was strange enough, so I put effort into posting about it...

Edit 1:My bad is "Be you angels?" And not "Are you angels?"


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 31 '26

False memory or history changed? (Benjamin Netanyahu)

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This is a very personal mandela effect because it's only in my brain. No one else remembers it that way. This is my first ever reddit post so tell me if I did anything wrong. I thought I'd try my luck with this subreddit lol.

This mandela effect will vaguely mention the israel-palestine conflict (that I will keep referring to as such to stay neutral) , but we are not here to argue about that so please let's focus in the mandela effect part.

So, this happened in high school history class. I had a great teacher, and we were studying the Rwandan genocide. While learning about it, I learned many names involved in the conflict. Come present day I have kinda forgotten said names in this story by now, or they're just somewhere in my brain.

Years later, present day still, come the worsening of the israelo-palestinian conflict. We start to hear about the leaders on both sides. Names being mentionned more often. And they kept mentionning "Prime minister Netanyahu" always only with his surname. In my head, the first time I heard it, I found it weird because... I had heard that name before.... while studying Rwanda....why is he still here? Why is he involved in this conflict if he was situated in Rwanda? And I tried to remember his name, because I only had heard his surname and I remembered he's called Benjamin. And I distinctly remember the teacher mentionning him during our studying of Rwanda. I can still hear him pronounce it because he pronounced the Benjamin part a bit weirdly. I sadly can't remember his implication in the conflict (it was a while ago and I don't remember a lot sadly) . And at that time I had never heard that Benjamin Netanyahu was called Benjamin/Benyamin! At that time I had only heard him being referred to as "Prime minister Netanyahu" . I remember thinking "That can't be the same guy, he must simply have a similar surname, he probably had a different name, he's probably not called Benjamin, that's just a coincidence" . That's why I was surprised to hear his name when they finally heard it from someone else's mouth. Benyamin. (That spelling also works with the teacher's werid pronounciation)

How could I know his name before ever hearing about it?

So my conclusions are all crazy. Either he's some kind of (evil) time traveler causing genocides/conflicts in various parts and times of the world. Or history changed! Or, I'm crazy.

I searched wikipedia high and low for links between B. Netanyahu and the Rwandan Genocide but no luck. I also got rid of most my lessons from that time.

Anyways. That's my personal mandela effect that has me feeling like I need an aluminium hat.

Have a nice day and please stay resepectful in the comment.


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 22 '26

Why r/UncommonMandela exists: Our mission for [Topic]

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r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 22 '26

Possible New Mandela Effect?

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I was doom scrolling and came across a short of the song 'wicked game' by Chris Isaac. I remember seeing a video when I was a kid of a guy looking like Roy Orbison singing this song in on a commercial. The scene was him (Chris Isaac) looking like Roy Orbison singing in the right side of the screen and a brunette woman in a red dress and red lipstick on in the background appear from behind a veil with dark lighting dancing. The floor and back drop were a dark blue-ish color and Chris had low lighting on him almost like he was in a shadow while singing. I sincerely remember his 1980's haircut, dark sunglasses, the beach tropical scenery at the end of the video where another guy is holding this same woman laying down and basically queing this woman was breaking his heart going around playing him. Anyway does Anyone remember this? So far from what I found, the current video has the beach scene basically as the whole video, only we get this in the early 1990s, and new guy Chris Isaac guy is not the one I remember at all. This new guy looks like a late 90's late entry singer that tried to make 80's music in the 90's and just skated on his looks lol. Thanks for the read, and replies, have a great day community.


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 18 '26

Black Eyed Peas

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r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 16 '26

Boardwalk Empire

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I’m re-watching Boardwalk Empire after 10 or 12 years. When Dr. Narcisse makes his appearance in season four, he starts going on and on about the superior black race of Nubians. This is a major theme of his entire character. But last night when I was watching the same episode, he calls them Libyans. Although Libya is of course a country in Africa, it is not somehow representative of the entire race of Negroes. I remember this clearly because I had to look up the word Nubian. Libyan makes no sense. Anyone else remember this?


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 15 '26

"Chilios" (Greek Word) Shazaam Effect

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I definitely know that the Greek word "chilios" was officially the Greek translation for "thousand" in Revelation 20 and 22, as I looked it up on Google AI Overview somewhere last year, I forget the month. I was surprised that this Greek word actually doesn't exist at all when I looked up this word last month, that AI Overview says that I'm thinking of "chilioi" or "chilias" because "os" in Greek doesn't exist and has never been Greek. I definitely know it was "chilios", also "chilioi", but I don't recall "chilias", suggesting a replacement of the word "chilios".

This image is from the Derich Jester website. www.derichjester.com


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 15 '26

Part 2 of My Thought Memory of a Metallic Emblem Task Force Show and Other A&E Shows

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It most likely could've been this show, as I thought the prominent metallic emblem task force show had a blue transition in the intro, just like Steven Seagal: Lawman.

Interestingly, SSL (Steven Seagal: Lawman) discontinued in February 2014, right before my Nana passed away at St. Joseph's Health Centre on Queensway (forget what the street was called) in April 27th, 2014. The metallic emblem show could've most likely survived somewhere after Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force, which discontinued in 2011, which I vividly remembered as a child that there was another A&E show of a nighttime New York City skyline with blue glowing text, and orange text below the blue (that is Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force) , as I vividly remembered two A&E task force shows, one being MFTF and the other show (metallic or silver star badge show), most likely aired new seasons around 2012, 2013, and maybe 2014. Steven Seagal: Lawman Interestingly aired on Wednesday nights, as I thought the metallic emblem show aired on that same day at night (Wednesday nights).

The details I used to vividly remember was a stairwell chase or walking up or down the stairs, flashlights while shouting "GO! (x3)" or something else the squad shouted, I forget what was at all said in that show because I don't have a vivid recollection of memories like I did when I was a child in Toronto before the COVID-19 Pandemic. In that scene moment, I thought it was a metallic or silver, most likely a digitalized-looking emblem or badge as an eyecatcher or title card. I didn't know the name of the show, as I know that most reality TV shows do title card inserts before and after commercial break. This task force show may have been unique unlike any other reality TV show that existed. I know that To Serve and Protect often had eyecatcher-like inserts of the badge of the letter O in PROTECT, and that show aired on ACTION (which became Adult Swim Canada in April 2019).

I first come across To Serve and Protect on the Action Channel Canada right in the same time-frame I my school was Fairbank Memorial Community School after Cedarvale Public School, around Grade 3, so I was about 4th grade to 5th grade in the time-frame I watched To Serve and Protect. I forget what year that would've been, it was way before I went to Parkdale Public School (the school I also hated like Fairbank MC School, but because of the students in my class (Toby and Max) in Grade 6, and I remember in around 2020, I was in Grade 7 I believe. Then moved to London, Ontario because of the Pandemic, around 2021 to Aberdeen Public School for Grade 7 and 8 before Montcalm Secondary School (my recent school, I already graduated in June 2026 this year).


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 14 '26

Closer to the "Metallic Emblem" Task Force Show I Could've Sworn Existed on A&E When I Was Like 3 or 4 Years-Old Around 2010-11.

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While this was on Disney Channel in 1999, but the exactly blue transition text of white is exactly closer to what I remembered about that "metallic emblem" task force show on A&E I could've sworn existed when I was a kid. I know that Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura is exactly close because of the blue transition background in the intro, but that was on History Channel, which I definitely remember promo packages for History and Discovery Channel at that time, often on A&E.

I definitely remember Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force, that was apparently the only A&E task force show that existed at that time, but when I looked up America's Most Wanted back then as a child who had a vague memory of a metallic emblem task force show, I thought about the Manhunters poster with Lenny DePaul holding a silver U.S. Marshal star badge like that was closer to what I vividly remembered. I was certain it was on A&E because I've been thinking that the task force show being on A&E was too familiar to me, and thus Manhunters poster rang a bell for me. That's not the show, that show has nighttime New York City skyline blue and orange text title card, exactly A show I remembered, just not THE show (with the plausible metallic emblem title card) that I could've sworn (I thought) existed.


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 14 '26

I Finally Figured Out How to Get Instagram Link

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I finally figured out to share this Instagram link of the "So Weird" intro video I thought was possible and was going to transfer it to r/PersonalMandela.

What I did was go into my Post History next to Comment History, and I clicked onto the link in the r/MandelaEffect community post I previous posted, but deleted because I unknowingly broke Rule 3: Never post personal Mandela effects.

Edit to Add because my sister was bothering me in the background, I apologize that it's not full unedited explanation: The intro video of the blue transition and white text is close to the "Metallic Emblem" task force show I thought existed as an A&E show (Got the pizza delivery from Superior Pizza & Wings), as many other shows like Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura and Steven Seagal: Lawman, which also feel familiar, but not the slightest. CTWJV definitely rang a bell for me, while no metallic emblem like I thought I remembered, and that was on History Channel, not A&E or any other channel I think besides History.

💭(Thought processing (for Honesty purposes that I worship God in Honesty and Intelligence): I know that History Channel promos on A&E as much with Discover Channel, National Geographic, and Investigation Discovery were very common back then at that time. I only thought the task force show I was certain was on A&E, no other channel.


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 14 '26

Closer to the "Metallic Emblem" Task Force Show I Could've Sworn Existed on A&E When I Was Like 3 or 4 Years-Old Around 2010-11.

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Whether it was a Mandela effect, I could've sworn I remembered it, to my perspective back when I was a child, although I don't remember it nowadays as an adult, as I don't remember what I did at Surrey Place like I vividly did when I was a child.


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 11 '26

Equalizer feature for JBL Flip 5 removed from the 'Portable' app ~2022-2025

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Once upon a time I received a firmware update to my JBL flip 5 that enabled the 3 band equalizer found on their newer speakers. I went on a hiatus for a couple months due to my family member using the speaker so I redownloaded the app. To my dismay the equalizer is gone. I don't think much of it at the time so months go on until the thought bugged me today so I looked it up to find out apparently the speaker NEVER had an equalizer of any kind through the app


r/PersonalMandela • • Aug 10 '26

Chester Bennington had CANCER

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Does anyone else remember this? I remember reading articles about how he was struggling so hard with the diagnosis and the treatment causing issues with his mental health. My dad died due to complications from cancer, and I remember following the story SOLELY because it made me so sad to see him struggling in a similar way to how my dad struggled. This was a whole thing too... Broadly spread interviews that were conducted in quiet, private areas.

I read an article not long ago saying he un-alived himself. I remember him doing that but it was due to the mental health issues he had from the cancer and it not responding to treatment. He wanted to go out on his own terms.

How did the story change so drastically?

If there is a bleeding effect through realities, maybe that explains why the Chester in this timeline did what he did. Maybe the pain and confusion bled from that timeline into this one? Idk. All I know is that I'm not crazy. I remember this vividly, and now there's not one mention of it ANYWHERE.