Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Scientists Classify Exploding Ant Species
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Exploding Ants Scientists have just named a new ant species in the forests of Borneo. It's called the Colobopsis explodens, and-like the name suggests-it e...
Apr 26, 2018
Scientists Classify Exploding Ant Species
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Exploding Ants Scientists have just named a new ant species in the forests of Borneo. It's called the Colobopsis explodens, and-like the name suggests-it e...
Apr 26, 2018
Halloween In Spring: Saint Mark’s Eve Is A Day You Can See Ghosts
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Saint Mark’s Eve While it's easy to see why the frightening festivities of Halloween fall in Autumn when the greenery has dried out and the cold deat...
Apr 24, 2018
Kapala: The Tibetan Skull Bowl
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Skull Bowl From the far reaches of Tibet, this traditional skull bowl-known as a kapala-was used to make offerings to the deities of the mountains. A ritua...
Apr 24, 2018
Kapala: The Tibetan Skull Bowl
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Skull Bowl From the far reaches of Tibet, this traditional skull bowl-known as a kapala-was used to make offerings to the deities of the mountains. A ritua...
Apr 24, 2018
Halloween In Spring: Saint Mark’s Eve Is A Day You Can See Ghosts
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Saint Mark’s Eve While it's easy to see why the frightening festivities of Halloween fall in Autumn when the greenery has dried out and the cold deat...
Apr 24, 2018
5 Weird Stories from the History of Embalming
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! History of Embalming More than 5,000 years ago the Ancient Egyptians developed the first embalming rituals to preserve lost loved ones. But, let's get real...
Apr 23, 2018
5 Weird Stories from the History of Embalming
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! History of Embalming More than 5,000 years ago the Ancient Egyptians developed the first embalming rituals to preserve lost loved ones. But, let's get real...
Apr 23, 2018
Angry Badger Takes Over Tunnel In Scottish Castle
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [April 15-21st, 2018] A hot pepper causes a rare type of headache, ketchup makes a controversial transition, and a badger takes over a Scottish c...
Apr 23, 2018
Angry Badger Takes Over Tunnel In Scottish Castle
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [April 15-21st, 2018] A hot pepper causes a rare type of headache, ketchup makes a controversial transition, and a badger takes over a Scottish c...
Apr 23, 2018