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The Mandela Effect: What Science Says About False Memories
Millions of people clearly remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. He died in 2013. Millions more remember the children's book series being spelled 'Berenstein Bears' — it was always 'Berenstain.' These are not misremembrings of obscure facts: they are vivid, confident memories that contradict documented reality, shared by large numbers of people who arrived at them independently. Neuroscience has a precise, non-mysterious explanation for every major Mandela Effect case, and it reveals something more striking than any alternate timeline: human memory is not a recording. It is a reconstruction.