I’ve reported on The Mandela Effect before, in regards to the BerenstAin/BerenstEin Bears. For those of you not familiar with the term, it is named after Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and Civil Rights icon. It seems quite a few people have clear memories of Mandela dying in prison in the 80s, under the repressive Apartheid regime. Only, of course, he didn’t. Not in THIS reality, anyway. Believers in the Mandela Effect speculate that our reality has overlapped with parallel realities at times without us even realizing it, and that people have transitioned from one to the other, also without realizing it. That’s why some people remember Mandela dying in the 80s—because in the reality they were in at the time, he did.
Usually the Mandela Effect displays in ways less dramatic than is the case with Mandela, though. See the above-mentioned Berenstain Bears. Didn’t it used to be spelled a different way? (Yes, it did!) Likewise, is the name of the movie, directed by Neil Jordan and based upon the novel by Anne Rice, titled INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE or INTERVIEW WITH *A* VAMPIRE? It depends on which reality you were in at the time of its release. It also seems we exist in the reality in which it IS possible for Tom Cruise to deliver a credible performance as Lestat. At least that’s how *I* remember it.
