Have any of you had experiences similar to the changed histories described in JDatE? I have, and it's bugging the hell out of me.

Recently, we rented and watched "Good Night, and Good Luck" - a fabulous movie that every American should watch. My wife and I both looked at the actor playing Sig Mickelson, and thought - that's Dave Coulier, I thought he was dead? Of course, it wasn't, it was Jeff Daniels. However, in searching for Dave Coulier, we discovered that he is alive and well, and still making movies. Problem is, both of us clearly remember him committing suicide in the late 90's. We remember tributes to him from other actors he had worked with, and seeing his picture on the national news with the story.

We tried googling him with various modifiers like "suicide" or "dead" - and found two references, both from 2003. They were forum entries where people thought he had died in 2002, and it's explained away that the voice actor who he replaced on "The Real Ghostbusters", Lawrence Musick, had died of cancer. But this that's not what we both remember.

We remember Full House, then America's Funniest People - and then his suicide.

Are we the only people that remember this? What other changes have you, the readers of JDatE, noticed?

No, you're thinking of Chris Farley.

Yourself?

A couple of days ago, there was a guy on the UK quiz show "Who wants to be a millionaire?" who was convinced that the playwright Harold Pinter was dead.  This was unfortunate for him, because he had to answer the question "Who won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature?" (answer: Harold Pinter). He lost all of his money.

Of course he was thinking of the playwright Dennis Potter, who is dead.

Jeff Daniels is in Good Night and Good luck, not Dave Couiler.  They do look alike. 

Ummm, I meant to say "You're thinking of Pat Morita."

I'm still unsure whether Ray Bradbury is alive or dead.

I thought he was dead, then my friend told me he was still alive, so I just assumed I was wrong.  However, when I mentioned to my brother that Bradbury was still alive, he assured me that he was dead.

So I really don't know.

Yeah they did. You're thinking of Jonathan Brandis.

I could have sworn "south" was spelt with a silent 'L.'

don't know about the changing experiences...But I have seen a shadow person.

In The Empire Strikes Back when Luke is on the planet with Yoda, he goes into a cave where he has a vision about Darth Vader. When he first drops into that cave, there is a big lizard that is sitting there. But its only there half the time. And I don't mean that I'm watching two different versions, I mean the same video, when I watch that scene and see the lizard, when I rewind it isn't there. My family and friends think I'm insane because they always see it, even though for me it is sometimes simply is not there.

Darren from bewitched used to be played by Dick York. I remember it so clearly...
But I saw some old reruns on TV the other day and he was being played by Dick Sargent!

Damn you, Shadow People! Goddamn you to Hell!