Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Louis Tussaud’s Nightmare at the Wax Museum
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Wax Museum From the classic 1924 Waxworks to the remake of House of Wax, anything featuring wax figures-and I mean ANYTHING-has terrified me, except for Ma...
Oct 27, 2017
Or Not: Ostriches Bury Their Heads in Sand
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...
Oct 27, 2017
Scroll Work: Bending Steel Barehanded to Make Art
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Strongman Scroll Work Chris Rider, better known by the strongman pseudonym "Haircules," shapes cold metal into beautiful pieces of art with just his hands....
Oct 25, 2017
It’s Not Halloween Decor. It’s a Real Clown Corpse.
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Clown Corpse Achile Chatouilleu, "The French Tickler", died in 1912 and wished for his body to be displayed forever in his favorite clown costume. Carl Cre...
Oct 24, 2017
Theda Bara, Hollywood’s Most Famous ‘Vamp’
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Theda Bara With heavily kohl-lined eyes and a coy smirk, Theda Bara was one of Hollywood’s early silent film stars who first came to prominence playi...
Oct 24, 2017
Extreme Body Modification: the Dragon Lady
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dragon Lady Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa, otherwise known as the Dragon Lady, has undergone extreme body modification in order to transform into a dragon. A ...
Oct 20, 2017
Edgar Allan Poe Likely Died From Rabies
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Poe and Rabies Author Edgar Allan Poe spent much of his life fabricating macabre mysteries in his many works of fiction, but Poe's greatest mystery was the...
Oct 18, 2017
A Coral Skeleton You Have to See to Believe!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Coral Skeleton Filipino artist Gregory Raymond Halili spent three years creating a life-size skeleton out of pieces of washed-up coral! Halili gathered all...
Oct 18, 2017
Last Stop on the London Necropolis Railway
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! London Necropolis Railway The end of the line for thousands of Londoners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a railway dedicated to transporting ...
Oct 17, 2017
The Mysterious and Strange Mandela Effect
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Mandela Effect If movie quotes aren’t how you remember them, logos have slightly different spellings than you noticed before, or you suspect quan...
Oct 16, 2017