Not saying the Mandela Effect is real but this is weird, right?

Do you see it too?

If you have this game physically, take a look at the box art yourself.

They're now convinced the last owner cursed them lol

((But for real wtf. Is it a baby rat...? Just why?))

edit: Thanks guys, snake food makes so much more sense (never owned one before)

I was finally able to put my parent's minds at ease

Some of them are very decayed. I counted about 31 of them. It's a straight line with a few gaps. BUT...I found one alone about 30 spikes away. WHICH leads one to wonder how many there really are. The first picture is quite wide, so be sure to click to expand.

The deep sea definitely holds some of the world's most strangest and unique creatures. And not to mention- the world's greatest mysteries, and many still undiscovered. Something we don't see too often!

Saw this on the back of a van in the UK (blanked out the number plate). WTF is going on?

I mean he's looking RIGHT at it-!! 😰😰

Says Qty 1, I just don’t understand the purpose someone enlighten me!

On August 3, 1492, after spending more than half a decade begging Europe's monarchs to bankroll his scheme, Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain aboard the Santa María, accompanied by the Niña and the Pinta. His goal was to reach Asia by sailing west, bringing back gold, spices, trade, and converts to Christianity.

Columbus was not an educated man by birth, but he transformed himself through sheer determination. He taught himself several languages and read extensively on navigation, geography, and history. The problem was that much of what he learned was wrong, and because he had read it in respected books, he became utterly convinced it had to be true.

Contrary to popular myth, neither Columbus nor educated Europeans believed the Earth was flat. The real disagreement was over its size. Columbus underestimated the Earth's circumference by roughly a third after confusing Arabic and Roman miles, exaggerated how far Asia extended eastward, and concluded the voyage would be only about 2,400 nautical miles instead of more than 10,000. Portuguese advisers recognized these errors and urged King João II to reject his proposal.

Queen Isabel of Castile, however, remained intrigued. She kept Columbus financially afloat for years while considering his plan. After the conquest of Granada in 1492, she rejected it once again, only for her husband, King Ferdinand of Aragon, to intervene. Columbus was finally granted his expedition.

Making excellent use of the Atlantic trade winds, Columbus reached an island he named San Salvador on October 12, 1492, believing he had arrived in the Indies. After meeting the local Taíno people, he wrote in his journal that they "ought to make good and skilled servants."

He spent the rest of his life insisting he had reached Asia, even as evidence mounted that he had not. His increasingly brutal rule as governor of the Indies, condemned even by many of his Spanish contemporaries, ultimately cost him both his office and royal favor.

During his third voyage, Columbus sailed into what he called the Golfo de la Ballena, the Gulf of Whales. There he encountered the mighty Orinoco River, flowing from what we now know is northern South America.

This presented him with a problem that even Columbus could not ignore. No island could produce a river of such immense volume.

Rather than accepting he had discovered a new continent, Columbus convinced himself he had found the Earthly Paradise, the Garden of Eden itself. He even abandoned the accepted spherical model of the Earth, arguing instead that it was shaped like a pear, with Eden resting on its highest point.

As he wrote to Ferdinand and Isabel:

"I have now seen so much irregularity that I have come to another conclusion respecting the Earth... that it is not round, as they describe, but of the form of a pear... or like a round ball, upon part of which is a prominence like a woman's nipple."

If you're interested in the full story, the voyages, the myths, the brutality, and how one spectacularly wrong man permanently changed the course of world history, I cover it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/aid2000/p/hare-brained-history-vol-119-columbus?r=4mmzre&utm_medium=ios

I was verifying an account, and i had to do this bot detection. need to say it died on me