When you hear hoofbeats, think horse, not zebra.
The brain doesn't store recordings of events neatly in an archive like a computer. Each time you remember something, the memory changes.
I've noticed so many things I thought happened at a certain time in a certain order happened at a different time in a different order, or were very different from how I remembered them. It's just how the brain works. It's not perfect.

https://news.northwestern.edu/storie...telephone-game
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...ou-think-it-is

And many more (and better) articles that I can't find because I don't remember where I found them