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American Hysteria

THE MANDELA EFFECT (mini episode)

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.43.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our culture, our society, our very sense of self, relies heavily on a faith in our memories as perfectly accurate. But what if our memories aren’t as reliable as we think? What if we can recall vividly, things that never actually happened? And what if that can extend out to an entire culture, a whole group collectively remembering something wrong? The Mandela Effect, however, says that parallel dimensions are to blame for discrepancies of mass childhood memories, such as the spelling of Berenstain Bears and the Sinbad's 90s genie movie Shazam. These mini episodes will cover the strangest viral phenomena of the world wide web, coming every two weeks during our off-season. American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios Research assisted by Riley Smith Become a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On these many episodes, we'll be exploring the strangest viral phenomena of the World Wide Web.

0:20.7

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith,

0:22.9

and this is American Hysteria.

0:28.9

It's not.

0:30.3

No, it is not.

0:31.8

No.

0:32.8

No, no, no, no, no, no.

0:34.6

No, no, no, no.

0:36.2

That's a lie.

0:37.0

Tell me that's not true, because it is.

0:39.0

I've seen the movie.

0:44.1

Think back to the 90s for a second.

0:46.7

You remember that ridiculous knockoff kids' genie movie that came after Shaquille O'Neal's movie, Kazam?

0:52.8

You know, Shazam, starring stand-up comedian and Pivotal

0:56.2

Nineties staple Sinbad? Well, what if I told you it never existed, like at all? If you're like me,

1:03.0

you might literally be able to see Sinbad on the cover of the VHS, arms crossed in typical

1:08.9

genie fashion, that wild-eyed smile of his. And now, remember the

1:13.6

Berenstein Bears, that folksy-for-some family of bears that taught us wholesome and slightly

1:18.8

religious lessons as kids? How do you remember Berenstein being spelled? Do you remember it

1:24.5

being spelled with a S-T-E-I-N?

1:29.7

What if I told you, you were dead wrong?

1:35.0

And that it was actually spelled S-T-A-I-N, Baron-Stane.

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