Here's a precursor to the Candy Land board game.  From The Judge, 1917.

Here's a precursor to horror villain Michael Myers of John Carpenter's Halloween.  From the Duke yearbook of 1970.

Forty years before the phenomenon was named, here's a woman who woke up one day to find that the universe she inhabited was slightly "off" from her memories.  Yes, it's the Mandela Effect, in the Duke yearbook of 1970.  Speaking of our video clip about how to use the Mandela Effect to your advantage, the inimitable Gary Barwin said: "This new video on the Mandela effect locked me in its uncarny Full Nelson. You play Heidegger and go seek with the Wyrd sisters of quantum estrangement or perhaps attainment and, not to make streetlight of it, I found it shone light on what it is to be a prism-er of the quotidian and to eschew the night vision of one's internal intuitor, one's inner child who makes strange."

You've heard of the horse whisperer.  Before that, there was the whispering horse [ghost].  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1909.

Here's a precursor to one of the things that happens in Vegas -- strangers flinging sexy card adverts at you.  These, at least, have clever finger holes in them.  From Le Courrier Français, 1888.

Here's an example of doing it all wrong.  If only this had already been written: How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Les Hommes du Jour, 1915.

Here's a precursor to Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.

Supersized drinks aren't newfangled.  From The Judge, 1921.

Here's a precursor to the film Devil's Dominoes.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.

Here's a precursor to Wolfgang Stiller's unsettling human-faced matchstick exhibition.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

Here's a precursor to Henry from the comics.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

At first glance, we thought these were ancestors of the Sea Monkeys.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.