Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Everything You [Don’t] Need to Know About Flea Circuses
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Flea Circuses Is your head buzzing trying to figure out what exactly is a flea circus? Flea circuses have been entertaining audiences for centuries. As one...
Feb 05, 2018
Leech Therapy is Making a Comeback in the U.S. via Leech Facials of Vomited Blood and Saliva. Just What the Doctor Ordered!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! 32 brains. 3 jaws. 300 teeth. 9 testes. Leeches pack a lot of punch into their slimy segmented bodies. Beyond their unbelievable anatomical stats, they are...
Feb 02, 2018
A Super Bowl Showdown: Pat the Patriot vs. Swoop the Eagle! Which Mascot Would Win?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mascot battle While two teams will champion their mascots in trial by football this weekend, we wanted to know the literal answer to the match-up. Who woul...
Feb 02, 2018
Dead Men Tell No Tales, We Tell True Tales. Planks and Buried Treasure Were Bogus!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Pirates have troubled sea travelers for many centuries, but there was one brief time in history-the Golden Age of Piracy-when pirates actually controlled t...
Feb 01, 2018
The Giant Mansion Built for Ghosts: The Winchester Mystery House
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Winchester Mansion For 38 years, Sarah Winchester dedicated her life to building the Winchester Mystery House, a labyrinth of stairways, windows, and trap ...
Jan 31, 2018
The San Francisco House Filled with 33,000 Tabs of LSD
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Blotter Art Mark McCloud's San Francisco home is filled with tens of thousands of LSD tabs known as blotters. Blotters are sheets of paper that have either...
Jan 31, 2018
It’s National Corn Chip Day. Time to Smell Your Doggo’s Feet (and Eat ALL of the Fritos)!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Another Corny Holiday Happy National Corn Chip Day! There is no better way to celebrate than by smelling your dog's feet! Wait…What? Sweat it Out Eve...
Jan 29, 2018
Oldest Evidence of Humans in the Middle East Discovered
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [January 21-27th, 2018] 96,000 pounds of beads are pulled from the New Orleans sewers, a good reason not to hold in your sneezes, and a 177,000-y...
Jan 27, 2018
These Animals Literally Puke Their Guts Out to Clean Up
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Stomach Eversion While humans just vomit the contents of their stomach up the way they came in, a few animals vomit their entire stomach, even sometimes th...
Jan 27, 2018
Tongue Rolling Isn’t Genetic and Practice Makes Perfect
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...
Jan 25, 2018