The Mandela Crossroads Theory

Working around the clock to bring wanderers one step closer to understanding the Backrooms… as well as reality itself.
After extensive research of the Backrooms and its interdimensional nature, as well as consideration of various anomalies and oddities common in the Frontrooms, the Research for Interdimensional Fissure Traversal Tasks Group (R.I.F.T-TG) has proposed a theory on the existence of this liminal reality. This theory suggests that the Frontrooms phenomenon known as the “Mandela Effect” may be connected to the Backrooms and how it functions.This phenomenon, in layman’s terms, occurs when a large number of people claim to remember past events differently from how they truly happened. Conspiracy theorists have claimed this is the result of memories crossing over from other alternate realities, but many have dismissed such statements as wild, uneducated ramblings. However, what R.I.F.T-TG proposes may change all of that…
The Mandela Crossroads Theory, as it has come to be known, was first conceived by Lambda Team and members of the Science and Research Divisions after various instances in which operatives and other wanderers encountered across the Backrooms have claimed to remember things differently from how they truly are. For instance, individuals would claim they recognize certain places that do not (and/or cannot) exist outside the Backrooms. Others would recall events in the Frontrooms as extraordinarily different occurrences. Through these instances, λ-1 and a few researchers recalled the Mandela Effect, due not only to the similarity in circumstances but also the unusually high frequency of the phenomenon, which led to the collaborative formulation of the theory. What they proposed was that the Mandela Effect was, in fact, evidence of alternate realities, just as some have proposed in the Frontrooms.
As is common knowledge, the Backrooms is a realm outside of normal reality. It is not even a reality on its own, but rather, an amalgamated one, consisting of various environments, locales, and conditions connected through disjointed “levels,” as they have come to be known. What this theory posits is that the Backrooms is a “crossroads” between realities. It inherits the aforementioned amalgamation of environments from the countless realities that may exist, which explains why some locales and environmental conditions are so bizarre, random, and seemingly unexplainable. Such a “crossroads” would also allow for phenomena such as the Mandela Effect to occur, as doorways between the Backrooms and the Frontrooms would enable memories and concepts from each reality to bleed into one another.
Of course, this theory also begs the question, "Can the Backrooms be used to travel to alternate realities?" Many R.I.F.T-TG researchers believe it to be possible, albeit challenging. It has, for example, been hypothesized that the “false exits” throughout the Backrooms are actually potential doorways to other realities, but due to interdimensional limitations and rules that have yet to be fully discovered, those who do not belong to the reality they are entering will slowly fade back into the Backrooms. Research on this possibility is currently ongoing.
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