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In this episode, this confused Gen Xer goes down the "It's Me, It's Verity" rabbit hole to find out who—or what—Verity actually is and why this bizarre Minecraft horror character has caught on.

But the deeper I went, the more familiar the whole thing started to feel.

Gen X had HAL 9000, WOPR, Skynet...and, God help us, Clippy.

Maybe every generation takes the technology it doesn't completely understand and turns it into a monster.

From Cold War computer paranoia to creepy internet legends to today's artificial intelligence, we're looking at how our technological fears have changed—and why Verity may not be quite as weird as Gen X thinks.

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Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were friends—but their radically different beliefs about the supernatural eventually helped tear that friendship apart.

Houdini spent years exposing fraudulent mediums and séance tricks. Conan Doyle, creator of the famously logical Sherlock Holmes, became one of Spiritualism's most passionate defenders.

So who was right?

Tonight on Carpe Noctem with Adie & Phil, we're joined by Justin Joseph and Patti from Apostate Sisters for a LIVE panel discussion exploring Houdini's war against fraudulent mediums, Conan Doyle's belief in communication with the dead, the séances and controversies that divided them—and the question we're still arguing about a century later:

Can the dead really communicate with us?

And our panel doesn't necessarily agree.

We'll look at the history, the evidence, the frauds, the unexplained—and our own very different perspectives on belief and skepticism.

We're not here to tell you what to believe.

You decide.

Join the conversation LIVE and tell us where you stand.

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You remember it.

You're absolutely certain you remember it.

There's only one problem.

It apparently never happened that way.

Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s.

The Berenstain Bears were the Berenstein Bears.

The Monopoly Man wore a monocle.

Fruit of the Loom had a cornucopia.

Darth Vader said, “Luke, I am your father.”

At least…that's how millions of people remember it.

This phenomenon has become known as The Mandela Effect—instances in which large groups of people share the same memory of something that seemingly never existed.

The conventional explanation is fairly straightforward: human memory isn't nearly as reliable as we'd like to believe. We misremember things. Our brains fill in missing information. And once enough people reinforce the same incorrect memory, it can begin to feel unquestionably real.

But there's another explanation.

What if we're not remembering it wrong?

What if something changed?

Following our investigation into CERN and the conspiracy theories surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, Adie takes Carpe Noctem even further down the rabbit hole.

Could the Mandela Effect be evidence of parallel universes? Alternate timelines? Quantum phenomena? Did reality somehow split—or have we crossed into a world that's almost exactly like the one we remember?

Or is the strangest thing about the Mandela Effect not the universe at all…

…but the human mind?

Tonight, we're looking at the famous examples, the obscure ones, the possible explanations, and the cases that might just leave you questioning your own memories.

Because if your memory says one thing and reality says another…which one do you trust?

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