I just stumbled onto this, but there are vast areas of the internet obsessed with it.
Remember the Bearenstein Bears books from when you were a kid? Do you remember them well? Google it: it's not spelled "Bearenstein" but "Bearenstain."
It's seems like that can't possibly be true, but it is.
That so many people remember it spelled "...stein" is supposed to be evidence or either a) a glitch in the "matrix" of the computer simulation we are all currently living in, or b) time travelers who went back in time, stepped on a butterfly or something, and inadvertently changed how the title is spelled.
From a conspiracy website: "At some point between the years 1986 and 2011, someone traveled back in time and inadvertently altered the timeline of human history so that the Berenstein Bears somehow became the Berenstain Bears. This is why everyone remembers the name incorrectly; it was Berenstein when we were kids, but at some point when we weren't paying attention, someone went back in time and rippled our life experience ever so slightly."
It's also called the Mandala effect, because so many people remember Nelson Mandala dying back in the 80s (he died in 2013). There are a bunch of other examples, most of them bizarre, some of them believable.
Thoughts? Is it a glitch in the Matrix? Time travel? Or people with access to the internet and WAY too much time on their hands.
I thought the people who wrote them were named "stain." Or they were German. Or something.
Never heard that story before. I do remember spending a lot of time reading them to my kids and I think we owned around 40 or so of those books. I just resented that those books made my kids decide that we needed family meetings and that the kids should get a vote in some things. Silly kids, didn't realize they weren't in a democracy but a dictatorship.
I am going with access to Google and way too much time on your hands. That and raising kids makes you a little loopy, dude.
Hmmm yeah. I actually did know that. Ha! I swear!! A couple years ago one of my kids brought home a Berenstein Bears book. But it was actually the Berenstain Bears. They pronounce it STAIN not STEEN. Wtf?! After days stuck in that Google hole I found the name had been changed. I had to record a couple episode of the cartoon to hear it's new pronunciation, thinking it would still sound the same. It doesn't. Not at all.
I remember it as Bearenstein Bears, too...however, I think at that point in my life books were being read to me. I'll have to ask my mom what she remembers.
We're wrong, and there's a very good reason why.
I remember it as "Berenstein" but I also haven't read them in a long time. My son never got into them much so I really haven't given them much attention since my youngest brother was little, which would be the late seventies-early eighties.
Lol. I took a picture, but the forums wouldn't let me post it then. Let me try now.
Nope, still no dice. It's a conspiracy. I'll post it to your wall. Study it carefully, then tell me what you see. ;)
