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The Mandela Effect: A Worldwide Conspiracy Theory

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The Mandela Effect is a worldwide conspiracy theory that recently was brought to attention due to an old children’s book called the Berenstain Bears, however, most people remember it being spelt Berenstein. The idea of the Mandela Effect is that hundreds or thousands of people have a clear memory of something happening one way but in reality it never happened. Some examples include brand names spelt differently than most people remember, famous movie quotes that everybody has been saying wrong, incorrect dates and historical misconceptions. However, a plethora of people believe that the Mandela Effect is hoax and the reason people remember these things incorrectly is simply due to bad memory. While that could be a reasonable explanation,

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