Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Corporal Wojtek: the Bear who Fought in WWII
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Wojtek the Soldier Bear After Germany seized Poland in the Blitzkrieg, Polish forces were evacuated into the Middle East to assist Britain in the Africa ca...
Nov 30, 2017
The Poison Garden of Alnwick Castle
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Poison Garden Cannabis at the poison garden. Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England, plays host to the small but deadly Poison Garden-filled exclusively...
Nov 29, 2017
The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger: a Carnivorous Marsupial Ghost
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Tasmanian Tiger The Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, was the apex predator of Australia for a time, native to the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea, as ...
Nov 29, 2017
Leech Collectors and the Leech Craze of the 1800s
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Leech Collectors You thought your job was tough? Imagine being a medicinal leech collector in the 1800s, possibly one of the least awesome professions in m...
Nov 24, 2017
Or Not: Flush Direction Changes Depending on the Hemisphere
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...
Nov 24, 2017
The Fascinating Art of Butter Sculpting
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Butter Sculpting Every year across North America, state fairs present something mysterious, awe-inspiring, and very fattening: life-sized sculptures made f...
Nov 24, 2017
Black Lit Black Friday Fun
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Black Light Visuals In 2016, flower crowns, floppy hats and other festival fashions got some competition! Created by Brad Lawrence of Detroit, Michigan, Bl...
Nov 22, 2017
Believe It or Nots and Toys for Tots
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Toys for Tots is truly an unbelievable organization. To date, the program has collected and distributed more than 512 million toys! The original Toys for T...
Nov 21, 2017
The Most Expensive Painting and Billy the Kid
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [November 12-18, 2017] A man forgets where he parked for twenty years, a surfer punches a shark and a Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for an ast...
Nov 20, 2017
The Weird, but true, History of Presidential Turkey Pardons
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Turkey Pardons The annual practice of pardoning a turkey at Thanksgiving has become something of a tradition at the White House, but do you know how it got...
Nov 20, 2017