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“I was dumbfounded to see that there was no evidence of the movie ever being made,” says Carl. It was there, just a few hours after the article was posted, that discussions of Shazaam – or the “Sinbad Genie movie” – took off. VICE’s article about the theory was shared widely, leading thousands of people to r/MandelaEffect, a subreddit for those with false memories to share their experiences. “Berenstein” truthers believe in something called the “Mandela Effect”: a theory that a large group of people with the same false memory used to live in a parallel universe (the name comes from those who fervently believe that Nelson Mandela died while in prison). The fact that so many people had the same false memory was seen as concrete proof of the supernatural. The theory went like this: many people remember that the bears’ name was spelt “Berenstein” – with an “e” – but pictures and old copies proved it was always spelt with an “a”. On 11 August 2015, the popular gonzo news site VICE published a story about a conspiracy theory surrounding the children’s storybook characters the Berenstain Bears. It wasn’t until last year that things took a dramatic turn. Reddit user MJGSimple wrote on the site: “It’s a conspiracy! I swear this movie exists, anyone have a copy or know where I can find proof!” Replies to the post were sceptical, claiming MJGSimple simply had a false I must hve played a genie. “Do you remember that sinbad movie?” they wrote. “Wasnt there a movie in the early 90s where sinbad the entertainer / comedian played a genie? … help its driving me nuts!”Īt the time, nobody remembered the film, and it took another two years for somebody else to ask about it again online. An anonymous individual took to the question-and-answer website Yahoo! Answers to pose its users a simple question. How did this Reddit community grow? It all began in 2009. Have you noticed no one my age has seen this so called Sinbad Genie movie, only you people who were kids in the 90’s. Sinbad himself has even taken to Twitter to deny that he ever played such a role. Together they have scoured the internet to find evidence that the movie existed but each has repeatedly come up empty-handed. Meredith, Don, and Carl are three of hundreds of Redditors who have used the popular social news site to discuss their memories of Shazaam. Don says he remembers the film so vividly because customers would bring the video back to his rental store claiming it didn’t work, and he watched it multiple times to try and find the “problem with the tape”. Although he is not certain that the movie was called Shazaam, he has detailed scene-by-scene recollections of the film, which include the children wishing for a new wife for their father, the little girl wishing for her broken doll to be fixed, and the movie finale taking place at a pool party. I remember two children accidentally summoning a genie… and they try and wish for their dad to fall in love again after their mother’s passing, and Sinbad can’t. “I remember the name of the film as Shazaam. “Whenever I would see Sinbad anywhere in the media I would recall him playing a genie,” she says. Meredith Upton, a 25-year-old videographer from Nashville, Tennessee, also remembers the same film. I want to be able to make it known that the movie is indeed real,” says Carl. “I’ve taken to Craigslist and have posted a bounty of $1,000 for anyone that can turn up a copy of this movie, whether it was ‘accidentally’ kept from Blockbuster or if someone made their own bootleg VHS copy.
