Berenstain Bears or Berenstein Bears: Does this VHS Prove The Mandela Effect is Real?

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Berenstain Bears or Berenstein Bears: Does this VHS Prove The Mandela Effect is Real?

By Ted Gilbert


For those of our rewind-inclined readers unfamiliar with "The Mandela Effect," it is an odd psychological phenomenon that manifests as a shared false memory. A whole bunch of people will all claim to remember some mundane aspect of the world that never was. 





A particularly compelling example of the effect has to do with the ubiquitous children's franchise, The Berenstain Bears. That's right -ain, though I'm sure some of you reading this will swear on your life that it was actually The Berenstein Bears. The wilder fringes of conspiratorial thought even posit that The Berenstain Bears come from a different parallel universe, and that sometime between 1986 and 2011, that universe merged with this one, where it was always Berenstein… 


But of course it was never ein; it's just our minds playing tricks on us. Our brains are primed to see the more common ending, so we just look past it, move on, and never think about it. 







Or do we? The spine label on the VHS release of “Learn About Strangers” and “The Disappearing Honey” clearly reads Berenstein Bears on the spine label?! Don't worry: it's not a hoax or a photoshop (as many have thought before) and we've got video evidence to prove it! See the video above on our YouTube. 





So that leaves us with the lingering question: is this curious artifact merely the work of a lazy copy editor, or is it a rewind relic from another world? And could this typo have a sort of chain reaction where one kid (or parent) saw it, and started saying Berenstein… and then others did the same… all stemming from this one typo? That brain melter is up for debate, and destined for you to decide, Tapeheads!


8 comments

  • Jennifer Hyland

    This VHS is definitely not why I know it was Berenstein. I had the book “Bears in the Night”. I had my parents read that book to me so many times that people thought I could read when I was 2 1/2 years old. I remembered every word because they would point out the words they read them. I had no concept of phonics or “I before E”. I know that I know that I know it was spelled that way because I looked at that book every day multiple times a day for years. The weird thing is I called them the Bernstaine Bears.
    I believe it must’ve been my father because we would read the cover of the book before we started the first page and he pronounced Berenstein as Berenstain

  • Megan

    It was Berenstein. I remember this distinctly, because I have a photographic memory. I’m also very into words: word parts, word games, and linguistics; I always have been, and I definitely would have noticed and remembered if a name ended in -“stain”. Also, I distinctly remember my mother telling me the Berenstein Bears were Jewish, because “-stein” indicated a Jewish name. (Which is probably why the authors’ son changed it – He is a born-again Christian, trying to scrub any perceived “Jewishness” from his product line and gaslight the entire country while he’s at it).

  • Chris

    Did you really possess these two copies

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