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Anyone else familiar with this theory?
Until I had kids and started reading these books again I would have sworn it was Berenstein and not Berenstain. I’m not alone...many people agree with me. This discrepancy has spawned the theory that we’re remembering an alternate history. According to the publisher it has always been Berenstain. How can so many people remember it incorrectly in the same way?
therobisaur
Mandela effect. Many people also think that they remember a movie with Sinbad as a genie, similar to the Shaq movie Kazaam. I know I saw it!
commentfarmer483725596037
because people are fucking stupid
sexualcamel
The government likes to change small, non important facts just to make us think we’re going crazy to create instability
boevis
Because "-stein" is such a common end part to last names that so many of our parents just pronounced it wrong.
JasonD
It's because they made a tv show out of it, and we heard it as "Berenstein" a lot more often than we had to write it.
TCooley79
On the show it’s pronounced ‘stAin’
fartiestgirlever
Wow this is crazy, my fiance and I just found out about this Mandela effect yesterday! And it was tripping us out! Another example is the1/2
fartiestgirlever
Famous line from Forrest Gump: "Momma always said life WAS like a box of chocolates." When most people remember IS like a box of chocolates.
jessmess01
It’s called the Mandela Effect. “Luke, I am your father” and similar childhood shit that never actually happened.
Tyrfingur
It’s called remembering things wrong, which happens a lot and to everyone.
jessmess01
So does bystander effect, bandwagon effect, pygmalion effect... that’s what makes it a thing. Just bc you’re a shit doesn’t make it untrue.
Odentay
Which is true, its just trange that such a large number are remembering the same things wrong
Locke108
Mostly refered as the Mandela Effect. Been posted on here quite a bit.
TCooley79
Yeah I figured it may have been around a bit. Kids were watching the show this morning which prompted the post.
SalPic
You mean the Mengele Effect.
Locke108
SalPic