Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News

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...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Tsavo Man-Eaters Just east of the famous Kilimanjaro peak, in the unforgiving Tsavo desert, a pair of lions ate a reported 135 people! Tsavo lions have...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Real Beauty and the Beast Believe it or not, the beast from a tale as old as time was based on a real story. The beast was indeed covered in hair and r...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Goldfish Swallowing While the Internet’s cinnamon, saltine, mannequin, and ice bucket challenges may be just recent memories, mankind has long been s...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Hartford Circus Fire On July 5, 1944, trains carrying the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus pulled into Hartford, Connecticut. The circu...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [February 4-10th, 2018] A 4-year-old climbs into a claw machine, a Tesla Roadster cruises through space, and a Canadian goose knocks a hunter unc...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! An Assortment of Lies As Valentine’s Day approaches, you may be inclined to shower your sweet with sweets, but if you think your sweetheart deserves ...

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...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Oskar Speck Born just before the outbreak of World War I and growing up in the impoverished Wymar Republic, Oskar Speck was dissatisfied with the winds of ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Voynich Manuscripts In 1639, Georg Baresch, an alchemist from Prague, revealed to the world a mystery that was recently dated to have existed as far ba...