AnonyJ
Captainess Sensible
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As a kind of fairground mirror to the Mandela Effect - things you always remembered that no-one else could, which you then thought you'd somehow made up but turn out to have been true all along!
My best one is being 8 years old, watching something on a B&W TV at my Gran's home about a man with a beard burying a golden hare and something about a puzzle book which would help you to find it. To me, at that age and in our personal circumstances, it seemed something amazing and magical.
I spent years wondering about it, mentioned it to my mum and other relatives a couple of times to utterly blank responses. As years went by I managed to convince myself I must have dreamed it and didn't mention it again.
Then we come to 1998, and my first experience of The Internet and all of its wonders. One of my first few searches on dear old Alta Vista told me of course it 1979's Masquerade by Kit Williams; the broadcast was Nationwide (The One Show of the 1970s) and I was totally correct. I bought a first edition of the book a couple of years later and showed my dear Mamma
[In fact the story intrigues me now more than ever, I even tracked down Bamber Gascoigne's out-of-print book about being involved in the original burying and the very strange history of what happened around the time of its discovery and afterwards.]
My best one is being 8 years old, watching something on a B&W TV at my Gran's home about a man with a beard burying a golden hare and something about a puzzle book which would help you to find it. To me, at that age and in our personal circumstances, it seemed something amazing and magical.
I spent years wondering about it, mentioned it to my mum and other relatives a couple of times to utterly blank responses. As years went by I managed to convince myself I must have dreamed it and didn't mention it again.
Then we come to 1998, and my first experience of The Internet and all of its wonders. One of my first few searches on dear old Alta Vista told me of course it 1979's Masquerade by Kit Williams; the broadcast was Nationwide (The One Show of the 1970s) and I was totally correct. I bought a first edition of the book a couple of years later and showed my dear Mamma
[In fact the story intrigues me now more than ever, I even tracked down Bamber Gascoigne's out-of-print book about being involved in the original burying and the very strange history of what happened around the time of its discovery and afterwards.]