Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

Edward Mordrake, The Two-Faced Hoax
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The story of Edward Mordrake is as compelling as it is woeful. The narrative of a doomed man, cursed with a second face on the back of his head, is a stapl...
Oct 06, 2021

There Are Waterfalls Flowing In The Well of Hell
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Last week, the Omani Caves Exploration Team (OCET) made way to Yemen to discover once and for all what lies beneath a 367-foot-deep sinkhole known as the &...
Oct 01, 2021

The Disney Roller Coaster That Doubles As Medical Treatment
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There are many physical sensations people experience when riding a roller coaster: heart flutters, a drop in the stomach, and lightheadedness, to name a fe...
Sep 30, 2021

Traditional Takedowns: The Wrestling Women of Bolivia
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Poised atop a rope in a wrestling ring in Bolivia, you'll find a woman dressed in a thick colorful skirt, her hair in swinging braids. In spite of the many...
Sep 29, 2021
Blood In The Water: The Real-Life Shark Attacks That Inspired Jaws
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! During the summer of 1916, a series of violent deaths shattered the peace of New Jersey's coastal areas. For 14 days in July, people entered the water at t...
Sep 24, 2021

Taxi Graveyard Garden Used To Feed Bangkok Drivers
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It’s no secret that businesses worldwide have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, with industries dependent on people being out and about struggl...
Sep 24, 2021

Can You Solve Cain’s Jawbone: The (Nearly) Impossible Literary Puzzle?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Cain's Jawbone is a literary puzzle and murder mystery that has been around for 90 years and, after all these years, only three people have ever solved it....
Sep 22, 2021

The Quietest Place in America
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There's an area in West Virginia that regulates the use of cell phones, wireless internet, and other devices that use electromagnetic waves, and it's consi...
Sep 21, 2021

CARTOON 09-18-2021
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 09-18-2021
Sep 18, 2021

Bearded Protection And Cat Communication Win Ig Nobel Prizes
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This week marked the return of science’s weirdest night out as Improbable Research hosted their 31st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Awards! Every year, scient...
Sep 17, 2021