Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Spirit of Salem: Lori Bruno
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Lori Bruno "I love you," she says, nonchalantly, before ending a phone conversation with someone she's never met. And the thing is, you really believe she ...
Jun 01, 2018
The Dystopian Program Of Practice Babies
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Practice Babies As the medical and scientific revolutions felt new wind in their sails at the end of World War I, America’s confidence in science and...
May 30, 2018
Penis Sheath From The Forests Of New Guinea
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Penis Sheath Within the Ripley collection of rare artifacts and curious treasures are a few oddities that would make some of us blush, but as our Vice Pres...
May 29, 2018
Shipwreck Discovered In Caribbean Could Be Worth $17 Billion
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [May 20-26th, 2018] An island where childbirth is outlawed, legal protections for the smell of Play-Doh, and a shipwreck that could be worth $17 ...
May 29, 2018
More Off Limits Places That You Can’t Check Off Your Bucket List
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Last week on Cool Stuff Strange Things, we brought to you some the most dangerous destinations and intriguing in the world…that you’ll never ge...
May 29, 2018
The Uncanny Case of the Jim Twins, Two Estranged Twins Who Led Identical Lives
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Jim Twins The Jim Twins of Ohio were reunited at age 39, after being separated at birth. When they got to talking, they found that they had lived identical...
May 29, 2018
Sunlight Art: Painting With A Magnifying Glass
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sunlight Art Michael Papadakis uses the largest paintbrush in the world: the sun. In an art form he dubs “heliography,” Papadakis employs a var...
May 24, 2018
Everyone Knows What Rosa Parks Did—But Do You Know Claudette Colvin?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Claudette Colvin The woman, tired from a long day, was asked by the driver to get up and move to the back of the bus, where the other black people sat. She...
May 24, 2018
Everyone Knows What Rosa Parks Did—But Do You Know Claudette Colvin?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Claudette Colvin The woman, tired from a long day, was asked by the driver to get up and move to the back of the bus, where the other black people sat. She...
May 24, 2018
Sunlight Art: Painting With A Magnifying Glass
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sunlight Art Michael Papadakis uses the largest paintbrush in the world: the sun. In an art form he dubs “heliography,” Papadakis employs a var...
May 24, 2018