Author Archives: Syndicated Content

The Magician Who Allegedly Made Battle Tanks Disappear
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Among the chaos of WWII, a British magician claimed he could fool the Nazis by hiding tanks in plain sight and making armies invisible. But was he a hero o...
Mar 17, 2022

Bearcats Smell Like… Buttered Popcorn?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Animals communicate through innovative, multi-sensory means, including sight, sound, and smell. As the American Scientist points out, we've known since anc...
Mar 16, 2022

Catch of the Day: A 12,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! New England scallop fishing isn't for the faint of heart. Scallopers head out on boats measuring between 70 to 100 feet long in crews of seven, including a...
Mar 15, 2022

Bizarre Bits About Brainiac Albert Einstein
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the German Empire's Kingdom of Wrttemberg, in March 1879. From humble beginnings and a struggle to find work, he began ...
Mar 14, 2022

Saskatchewan Country Closeup – Bruin
Ever since he was young, it was clear that BRUIN was destined to be a part of the country music world. His songwriting and musicianship caught the eye of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; who helped mentor ...
Mar 11, 2022

Palm-Sized Floating Spiders Prepare To Parachute Around East Coast
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Have you ever seen a spider as big as your palm? If you’re living on the East Coast, you may check it off your bucket list soon enough. According to ...
Mar 11, 2022

Saskatchewan Country Close Up: Kris Klyne
I had a chance to chat with Saskatchewan recording artist Kris Klyne about, well, lots of stuff! From his latest single to a little history on him to our shared Covid fun….ugh. Catch our full co...
Mar 10, 2022

The Kentucky Meat Shower Of 1876
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Strange rain has long fascinated humanity, and people have written a lot about it over the years. For example, in June 2009, residents of Japan's Ishikawa ...
Mar 10, 2022

The Surprising Legacy Of Sign Language In Martha’s Vineyard
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In the late 1600s, Jonathan Lambert, a native of Kent, England, journeyed to Chilmark, a small town on the west end of Martha's Vineyard. He was Deaf, as w...
Mar 09, 2022

Monster Waves Caught Off The Coast Of Portugal
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! On October 29, 2020, NASA's Landsat 8 satellite snapped a remarkable series of images of gigantic waves breaking along Praia do Norte (North Beach) in Naza...
Mar 08, 2022