By The Babylon Bee | Created at 2025-04-03 19:50:21 | Updated at 2025-04-04 13:58:36
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SALINA, KS — Local man Jared Halderman reportedly went through a period of confused bewilderment after realizing he was unsure whether the band Mumford & Sons actually existed or if he had just imagined it.
"I could've sworn I've listened to their music before, but what if I didn't?" Halderman said. "You know how sometimes you think you remember something happening only to realize later that it was something that happened in a dream? That's what I'm starting to think this Mumford & Sons thing is. I'm pretty sure I just dreamed it. Unless it was real. But probably not. I don't know."
Rumors persist that there was, in fact, a Mumford & Sons music group that formed sometime in the 2000s, but Halderman was unable to find any concrete confirmation.
"I asked my friends and coworkers if they had ever heard of Mumford & Sons," he explained. "Some of them said no, others said yes, but then I wasn't sure if maybe the ones who had said ‘yes' had just heard me mention the band after I had imagined them. ‘Mumford' does kind of sound like a made-up name."
At publishing time, Halderman had taken the rest of the day off from work to go home and determine if he had misremembered Mumford & Sons just like that time he spent years thinking there had been a music group called the Toad the Wet Sprocket.
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