Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News

That Time Britain Thought Spaghetti Grew On Trees
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Spaghetti Farming In 1957, the completely legitimate and credible BBC new program, “Panorama,” pulled an April Fools joke for the ages. They ra...
Apr 13, 2018

Prada Marfa And The Mysteries Of Middle Of Nowhere, Texas
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Marfa Marfa, Texas, is an enigmatic and offbeat place where art meets desert and out-of-place fashion makes a wry statement. A tiny town in West Texas, Mar...
Apr 13, 2018

Are You A Left Brain Or Right Brain? The Answer Is…
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Left Brain, Right Brain Those of us who use the right side of our brains more are creative, spontaneous, out-of-the-box thinkers. Those who tap into the le...
Apr 13, 2018

Are You A Left Brain Or Right Brain? The Answer Is…
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Left Brain, Right Brain Those of us who use the right side of our brains more are creative, spontaneous, out-of-the-box thinkers. Those who tap into the le...
Apr 13, 2018

Prada Marfa And The Mysteries Of Middle Of Nowhere, Texas
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Marfa Marfa, Texas, is an enigmatic and offbeat place where art meets desert and out-of-place fashion makes a wry statement. A tiny town in West Texas, Mar...
Apr 13, 2018

That Time Britain Thought Spaghetti Grew On Trees
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Spaghetti Farming In 1957, the completely legitimate and credible BBC new program, “Panorama,” pulled an April Fools joke for the ages. They ra...
Apr 13, 2018

Tails From The Crypt Told At The Rotterdam Natural History Museum
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dead Animal Tales The critter didn't know what hit it. Like a brazen burglar, it jumped the fence and found its way into the $7 billion CERN Large Hardon C...
Apr 12, 2018

Tails From The Crypt Told At The Rotterdam Natural History Museum
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dead Animal Tales The critter didn't know what hit it. Like a brazen burglar, it jumped the fence and found its way into the $7 billion CERN Large Hardon C...
Apr 12, 2018

The Limelight That Lit The Swedish Nightingale
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Limelights Before the advent of electricity or the invention of the gas mantle, there were very few forms of artificial light that were strong enough to al...
Apr 10, 2018

The Limelight That Lit The Swedish Nightingale
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Limelights Before the advent of electricity or the invention of the gas mantle, there were very few forms of artificial light that were strong enough to al...
Apr 10, 2018