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The Berenstein Bears and the Mandela Effect
9 years ago
~*~*~*~*~ A few days ago I asked if anyone remembered the Berenstein Bear books. I got a good handful of answers, and the majority of you that mentioned pronounciation said that you grew up pronouncing it "Beren-STEEN" or "Burn-STEEN" Personally I grew up pronouncing it as "Berenst-eye-n" because it was spelled like "Frankenstein." Or so I thought until this past Tuesday, when I learned that it has always been spelled "Beren-STAIN" and pronounced like a coffee stain. Does this sound wrong to you? Does it make you uncomfortable? Because there are a whole lot of people on team "Berenstein" (there are even t-shirts!)
This is the article I found about it: http://www.vice.com/read/the-berens.....llel-universes
The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people share a false memory. It is named after the memory many people have of Nelson Mandela dying in the 80's. Since Tuesday I've been researching the Mandela Effect, and let me tell you, the first 24 hours were not fun. I have discovered I share many false memories with a lot of other people. I don't really want to get into the details of which ones right here, partially because I don't want to influence anybody before they can discover any ME's they might have for themselves, but also because it feels like I could be viewed as joining "The Club for People Who Don't Know How to Admit They Were Wrong About Something." However, that's not what this is, though to anyone on the outside it could seem that way. It's unsettling. When something you absolutely know in your gut to be right is suddenly wrong, or something that you know happened never really happened, and there is no evidence to back you up except other people's similar memories. It's like if you woke up one day to find you are part of the "Fuzzy Fandom" rather than the "Furry Fandom" and the only evidence of ever being called a furry was a handful of us remembering. I feel like this whole thing is the greatest prank ever and either I'm on a hidden camera show, or perhaps on April 1st everything will go back to normal and someone or something will say "Ha ha! April fools! I got you good!"
If you want to check it out, I'd suggest going to http://mandelaeffect.com/major-memories/ first. There is a Mandela Effect subreddit as well, but you have to sort through a lot of common typos, misquotes, and misconceptions to find anything that might be more convicing for you. There were also a couple youtube videos I found that mentioned other ME's I haven't seen on those sites yet.
I've always been a fan of quantum theories, but experiencing weirdness like this first-hand is a trip. A trip down WTF road. To crazy town. If anyone has a similar experience to what I've had in the last three days, all I can say is just don't freak out, you're not alone. And yeah, okay, the point of this journal is I'm hoping I'm not alone on some of these ME's with you guys.
This is the article I found about it: http://www.vice.com/read/the-berens.....llel-universes
The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people share a false memory. It is named after the memory many people have of Nelson Mandela dying in the 80's. Since Tuesday I've been researching the Mandela Effect, and let me tell you, the first 24 hours were not fun. I have discovered I share many false memories with a lot of other people. I don't really want to get into the details of which ones right here, partially because I don't want to influence anybody before they can discover any ME's they might have for themselves, but also because it feels like I could be viewed as joining "The Club for People Who Don't Know How to Admit They Were Wrong About Something." However, that's not what this is, though to anyone on the outside it could seem that way. It's unsettling. When something you absolutely know in your gut to be right is suddenly wrong, or something that you know happened never really happened, and there is no evidence to back you up except other people's similar memories. It's like if you woke up one day to find you are part of the "Fuzzy Fandom" rather than the "Furry Fandom" and the only evidence of ever being called a furry was a handful of us remembering. I feel like this whole thing is the greatest prank ever and either I'm on a hidden camera show, or perhaps on April 1st everything will go back to normal and someone or something will say "Ha ha! April fools! I got you good!"
If you want to check it out, I'd suggest going to http://mandelaeffect.com/major-memories/ first. There is a Mandela Effect subreddit as well, but you have to sort through a lot of common typos, misquotes, and misconceptions to find anything that might be more convicing for you. There were also a couple youtube videos I found that mentioned other ME's I haven't seen on those sites yet.
I've always been a fan of quantum theories, but experiencing weirdness like this first-hand is a trip. A trip down WTF road. To crazy town. If anyone has a similar experience to what I've had in the last three days, all I can say is just don't freak out, you're not alone. And yeah, okay, the point of this journal is I'm hoping I'm not alone on some of these ME's with you guys.
I'm something of a special case, in that my family name originally ended in -stein, and I'm used to hearing it pronounced either 'steen' or 'styne'.
My father dropped the 'stein' before I was born, and I grew up finding that folks would pronounce it 'MAR-mel' or 'Mar-MEHL' (my preferred pronunciation).
So, I'd probably just shrug, pass it off as 'different strokes for different folks' and leave it at that...
"That's FRONKENSTEEN!" - Young Frankenstein
1) Some folks think the "Mar-MEHL" pronunciation is French, for some odd reason.
2) "Marmelstein" roughly translates to "Marblestone", indicating that my ancestors were stonecutters...or, in other words, masons! Given my nom du fandom, an odd coincidence, n'est-ce pas?
Also, always went with Beren-steen...
Also, what is your reaction to the "Berenstain" spelling if you remember pronouncing it "steen?" Are you very surprised or is it just sort of "meh" to you?