Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Could Walt Disney Really Be Cryogenically Frozen?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Walt Disney dedicated his life to the creation of children's entertainment and became such an important part of American history that his name still lives ...
Jan 24, 2019
Intense Feats At The Phuket Vegetarian Festival
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Each October in Thailand, the town of Phuket transforms to become an epicenter of zealous excitement and fervor. The Vegetarian Festival is celebrated in d...
Jan 24, 2019
Locket Containing George And Martha Washington’s Intertwined Hair
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Though it may be considered macabre by modern standards, taking the hair of the dead as a memento mori was common throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. S...
Jan 23, 2019
The Mystery of Kodinhi: India’s Town Of Twins
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There are some places in the world that just take everything science thinks it knows and shreds that rule-book to pieces. One such place is a small, unprep...
Jan 23, 2019
Octopus Wrestling Was A Real Sport
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Octopus Wrestling From 1949 to the mid-1960s, the unconventional sport of octopus wrestling ran rampant across the United States. Thousands of people would...
Jun 11, 2018
Nowhere Is Safe, Lightning Can Absolutely Strike The Same Place Twice
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Or Not In today's world many misconceptions have been perpetuated-becoming modern day "facts"-when, in reality, myths and hearsay have taken over. Sorry to...
Jun 11, 2018
A Killer Horoscope: The Murders of French Doctor Marcel Petoit
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Horoscope Killer Believe it or not, horoscopes were once linked to a serial killer...and, no, we're not talking about The Zodiac! The Ad Who wouldn’t...
Jun 11, 2018
Incredibly Rare New Guinea Midwife Skull
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Midwife Skull In the past few episodes of Ripley's Rarities, we have showcased some of the most interesting cultural artifacts from the various tribes of P...
Jun 05, 2018
The Nazis’ Attempt At Jurassic Park, Was It Possible?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Nazi Jurassic Park Ever since the novel came out in 1990, and the movie of the same name debuted three years later, humanity has been awed by the sheer pow...
Jun 04, 2018
How Fake Was Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Or Not In today's world many misconceptions have been perpetuated-becoming modern day "facts"-when, in reality, myths and hearsay have taken over. Sorry to...
Jun 01, 2018