UNEXPLAINED
ENIGMA FROM THE POD brings to you stories of the unexplained - Everything from lights in the sky to what hides in the darkness.
UNEXPLAINED
CERN and The Mandela Effect
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Between 2008 and 2012 the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, now referred to as CERN, commenced and completed the creation of the Large Hadron Collider. The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, its purpose was to advance our understanding of fundamental physics. The Collider was able to accelerate two counterrotating beams of heavy ions or protons at speeds close to the speed of light, with the goal of recreating conditions believed to have occurred in the first moments of when the universe came into existence. But what if the Collider did more than that? Whether we knew it or not? What if those who tried to warn us of the dangers were silenced, and maybe some that are trying to bring awareness to the effects of the Collider experiments, are being pushed to the fringes. And what if more of us than we realised, were very aware that the world before and after to Collider existed, are now different?
Social media: Instagram - YouTube - TikTok
Support us - Buy Me A Coffee
CREDITS
https://www.vice.com/en/article/is-cern-causing-mandela-effect-by-creating-portals-to-alternate-dimensions-an-investigation/
https://www.lightnet.co.uk/cern-the-mandela-effect-and-the-fracturing-of-consensus-reality/
https://mandelaeffects.co.uk/cern-is-cause-of-the-mandela-effect-simulation-theory/
https://home.cern/about/
https://news-nest.com/2025/08/14/worlds-smartest-kid-reveals-cern-opened-a-portal-to-another-dimension/
https://patriotpages.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/max-laughlin-cern-and-the-quantum-portal-hypothesis/
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=max%20loghans%20ehg%20&mid=8C379B6CA9ACC921773B8C379B6CA9ACC921773B&ajaxhist=0
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=max%20loghans%20ehg%20&mid=E810AFCBA59B0E53CA36E810AFCBA59B0E53CA36&ajaxhist=0
https://uppbeat.io/t/we-are-all-astronauts/wasteland
https://dailydot.com/fruit-of-the-loom-cornucopia
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mandela-effect/id1615076880?i=1000616780496
Social media: Instagram - YouTube - TikTok
Support us - Buy Me A Coffee
Although every effort is made to ensure that the episode is researched and accurate we cannot guarantee the complete contents is entirely factually correct, and AI tools maybe used to enhance the dramatization of episodes.
Between 2008 and 2012, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, now referred to as CERN, commenced and completed the creation of the large Hadron Collider. Located up to 175 meters below ground. It is held within a 27-mile tunnel near Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland. The world's most powerful particle accelerator. And its purpose was to advance our understanding of fundamental physics. And it worked. The collider was able to accelerate to counter-rotating beams of heavy ions or protons at speeds approaching the speed of light. With the goal of recreating conditions believed to have occurred in the first moments of when the universe came into existence. But what if the collider did more than just that, whether we knew it or not? What if those who tried to warn us of the dangers were silenced? And maybe some of those who were trying to bring awareness to the effects of the collider experiments are being pushed to the fringes? And what if more of us than we realized were becoming very aware of the differences of the world today and before the collider existed? Welcome to Unexplained, brought to you by Enigma from the Pod. And this episode is CERN and the Mandela Effect. As a child, Max displayed an insatiable curiosity with regards to how things worked. He would pull apart gifts and toys just to figure out how they worked and gravitated towards subjects such as science, engineering, and technology. His family provided a supportive environment for him to experiment and create the groundwork that would play a crucial role in the development of Max's talents. By the age of 13, he was already studying advanced scientific concepts and launching the company Lowen Labs with his brother, with a focus on building practical innovations. A product that gained global attention was the Energy Horizon Gatherer, which at a very low production cost used common materials to enhance the Tesla theory surrounding radio waves to create unlimited free energy.
SPEAKER_13What have you done? How have you changed the world of art?
SPEAKER_10A whole bunch of different stuff that probably won't matter now. But the most recent thing which has gotten me a little bit of attention of a lot is my energy debugging.
SPEAKER_13So do you think you can solve our energy crisis here on planet Earth?
SPEAKER_10I believe I I will.
SPEAKER_12Because of the the collider, the super collider?
SPEAKER_10Yeah, we alternate the way out of the single electronic way to start out of the universe. And so a furlough universe can turn that off. Maybe it's a third unflower to another universe or not your belief at all. Or in my belief at all, of course it's just a theory that's still being developed. But yeah, maybe in that infinitely small moment of time.
SPEAKER_01It was then that Max disappeared. Videos and social media posts were deleted, and he went from online internet sensation to becoming the subject of wild speculation. Groups believed that Max had been silenced by the government due to him speaking about CERN, and others who suspected energy companies who had everything to lose would have made threats against him and his family. Some point to the online criticism of his free energy claims, causing him to step back and focus on his work, or that he simply decided to change paths, and part of growing up involved prioritizing privacy during his teenage years. There were no missing person reports, no known police investigations, or any credible news stories about his disappearance from public life. But what was left was a global interest in what CERN was and what they were doing. Two months later, an agreement was signed establishing the provincial council, and the acronym CERN was born from its French translation. In 1954, the name officially changed to the European Organization for Nuclear Research, but the name CERN stayed, as it had become such an iconic reference within the scientific community. Those that worked for CERN conducted breakthrough research in science and gained accolades such as Nobel Prizes. Notable works included the creation of anti-hydrogen that enabled the detailed research of antimatter, the discovery of Quark gluon plasma, the invention of the World Wide Web, and pushed their innovations beyond the field of physics into modern-day living. Then in between 2008 and 2012, the European Organization for Nuclear Research commenced and completed the creation of the large Hadron Collider. Located up to 175 meters below ground, it is held within a 27-mile tunnel near Geneva, on the border between France and Switzerland. The world's most powerful particle accelerator, its purpose was to advance our understanding of fundamental physics. The collider was able to accelerate two counter-rotating beams of heavy ions or protons at speeds close to the speed of light, with the goal of recreating conditions believed to have occurred in the first moments of when the universe came into existence. And in 2012, this enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson, often referred to as the God particle. The discovery was an instrumental moment in physics and helped to explain the existence of mass. The claims by Max Lochlin concerning CERN and the shift in between parallel universes may sound like something from a sci-fi movie script, but it's not a subject written off by all those who hear about it. Have you ever been completely certain you remember an event from your past? Only to discover the world insists it never happened like that at all. That strange, unsettling jolt. The moment your memory in reality don't line up. It is at the heart of what we now describe as the Mandela Effect. It was an American paranormal researcher named Fiona Broom that first coined the term the Mandela Effect. Fiona recalls that during the 1980s, the political prisoner Nelson Mandela had died while still in prison. She could remember the news reports, a televised funeral, even reactions from world leaders on news coverage at the time. But she later discovered that this memory simply wasn't true. Nelson Mandela did not die, but was released from prison, became president of South Africa, and lived until 2013. She realized she wasn't alone with regards to remembering Nelson Mandela dying in prison when speaking with others, and so created a website where people could post comments about this false recollection and promote the discussion concerning why they had the wrong memory. But the discussions did not stop at this one event. Others started disclosing false memories from a complete spectrum of events and discovered that these were shared not by just a few, but by millions globally. Psychologists will argue that the answer lies in how memory actually works. We like to think of memory as a recording, fixed, stored, and replayed, but it's not. Memory is reconstructive. Every time we recall something, our brains rebuild the memory from fragments. We fill in the gaps and we blend details. We can borrow from conversations, movies, cultural references, even other people's memories. And once a false memory is reinforced, especially if by a group, it becomes incredibly convincing. But for many, the Mandela Effect feels like more than just a mental glitch. It feels like a crack in reality, a glitch in the matrix, a hint that timelines have shifted, or that we've somehow slipped between different versions of the world. Whether you lean towards psychology or a stranger explanation, the Mandela Effect forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth. Our memories that are believed to be absolute truth are sometimes completely wrong.
SPEAKER_07That the population at large had a collective memory around, specifically around Nelson Mandela, which is why this phenomenon is called the Mandela effect.
SPEAKER_09But the reality and the timeline that we're on constantly confused between multiple different timelines and multiple different realities.
SPEAKER_08But you're able to prove that one of the most popular millions of people remember certain events that never happened. And so how do you explain that? As we go through our conscious progression, as we raise consciousness, the way we perceive the world, and therefore all that will exist in our world, will morph to that new resonance as a sympathetic resonance.
SPEAKER_14Despite ongoing discussions and investigations, the Mandela effect still lacks a comprehensive explanation, challenging our understanding of memory's reliability and our interpretation of reality itself.
SPEAKER_01Examples of the Mandela effect are not limited to just a few numbers of individuals who rarely have anyone else to support their claim. They often work on a far larger scale where millions of people find themselves unable to explain a false memory. One of the most popular family games to have ever existed is the board game Monopoly. And if you ask anyone to describe the famous Monopoly mascot, you would commonly receive comments describing a rotund gentleman with a top hat, suit, carrying a cane and wearing a monocule. Except he's never had one. People will swear they remember him with a monocule, but there's no image stored historically that shows that this was the case. So why have people remembered him this way? The US clothing manufacturer Fruit of the Loom has an instantly recognizable logo with fruit pieces hovering above the company name. Except people remember the logo once being different, with a cornucopia nestled behind the fruit. The company itself has issued statements detailing that their logo has never included a cornucopia. But the claims have continued as people check the labels of their old clothing to see if their memory was correct. If you ask anyone who grew up in the 1990s, many will swear they watched a movie titled Shazam, where the comedian David Atkins, more commonly known by his stage name of Sinbad, played the lead role of a genie. They will even remember the VHA's tape and its cover display in the actor and costume. However, no such movie was ever made, but it is still commonly referred to during conversations. Even Sinbad himself has joked about it online. Famous quotes from movies we know existed have often been speculation to unexplained differences to how people remember them. Star Wars fans will often quote that Darth Veder's most famous line was Luke, I am your father. But if you watch the movie again, the iconic scene during which the line is spoken, you hear that this was not the case. But instead, the real line was, No, I am your father. The evil queen from the Disney movie Snow White is remembered for her interaction with the mirror into which she says those famous words, mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all. Except she didn't. Instead, she calls out, Magic Mirror on the Wall. It can often seem that the more you look, the more of your memories are incomplete, often causing intrigue, confusion, and resulting in questions about the world around us.
SPEAKER_11Mandela Fact Check, the Monopoly Man. Does he have a monocle or not? Fun facts aside, top hat, mustache, bow tie, and a monocle. Right? The truth. No monocle. Not in the ads, not on the bottom.
SPEAKER_03This next one I am absolutely guilty of. I don't know where this happened for me, but some people remember like a whole movie that doesn't actually exist. This is like 100% feel like I have I have seen this movie.
SPEAKER_04I definitely fell in that camera as well. Um people across the internet at Reddit message boards everywhere. I'm confident that a movie like this exists.
SPEAKER_05That's what that fruit is. What do you remember being told the fruit is? If it has apple, you are 100% apple in a round. It turns out that the Bible actually never mentions what fruit is around the Mandela.
SPEAKER_14That's impossible.
SPEAKER_06She was like, I'm not kidding, I've got to be a little bit more.
SPEAKER_01Who is the famous wonderful If our memories are apparently capable of creating false perceptions of reality, what could possibly be capable of causing such a dimension shift into a parallel universe? And people point to the large Hadron Collider. Despite its demonstration of advance in modern science, it wasn't without its critics. Public opposition to the Collider centered on fears that high-energy collisions might trigger catastrophic events. The concerns fell into a few clear categories. Hypothetical physics risks, legal challenges, and public anxiety amplified by media coverage. The hypothetical risks centered around microscopic black holes, strangels, and vacuum decay. These speculative ideas mostly argued that particle collisions could trigger the creation of conditions capable of destroying the Earth. There were legal and public challenges, including court cases and public petitions as the collider came closer to its scheduled activation. CERN addressed the opposition with a series of safety reviews and commissioned external physicists to evaluate all the hypothetical risks. These reports concluded that the collider posed no conceivable threat and their findings were endorsed by international scientific bodies. But the fears have persisted, with a mixture of media sensationalism and conspiracy theories, which continued to claim the collider would destroy the world even after years of safe operation. But that governments were silencing those who were trying to speak about it, people like Max Loughlin. So, what did happen to Max? Many have been asking the same question, and some now believe they have the answer.
SPEAKER_02So a lot of people were wondering where Max is, and I've seen some videos kind of talking about this. The ridiculous ridicule that experience of the 13-year-old would probably find a little bit too much for even an adult new experience of being last I like that so that's my dad anyway. I would love to hear if anyone can find out more information. And who knows, maybe all of this uproar will make him come out of the woodwork and do a public interview one day. We can only hope, right?
SPEAKER_01The Mandela effect continues to remind us of something uncomfortable. Our memories that we believe to be solid and secure are in fact fragile and prone to manipulation. We build our reality from fragments, stories we've heard, images we've absorbed, and details that our brains quietly put together. And when enough of us share the same false memory, it stops to feel like a mistake and starts to feel like evidence of something bigger. Whether you see the Mandela effect as psychology, misremembered pop culture, or a hint that our timeline isn't as fixed as we think, one thing is certain. It exposes the cracks in the way we understand our world. This has been unexplained, brought to you by Enigma from the Pod. And you have been listening to CERN and the Mandela effect. As a startup podcast, your support is greatly appreciated. Please follow us on social media and leave us a review.