Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Are Hot Dogs Doing Joey Chestnut Dirty?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! BION of the Week Ripley's is constantly on the hunt to find the strangest Believe It or Not! stories, or BIONs, to share with our fellow fans of the bizarr...
Aug 27, 2021
Is A Dog’s Mouth Actually Cleaner Than A Human’s?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! As any dog lover will attest, there's no feeling quite like waking up or returning home to the adoring, drooly kisses of a beloved pet. Many of us enjoy th...
Aug 25, 2021
Erin Blaire And The Art Of Hair Hanging
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A rare and difficult circus act, to say the least, hair hanging has been around since the early twentieth century. Only a handful of aerialists, including ...
Aug 24, 2021
Historic Roadside Attractions For An All-American Road Trip
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When traveling, do you seek out the familiar, or do you head off the beaten path to hunt down the weirdest roadside attractions? If you've ever taken a fam...
Aug 23, 2021
Could This Be The Derringer Responsible For Abraham Lincoln’s Demise?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Up Close & Peculiar More than 100 years ago, the globetrotting Robert Ripley began collecting artifacts from his journeys around the world, which today...
Aug 21, 2021
Three Alaskan Volcanoes Simultaneously Erupting
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! BION of the Week Ripley's is constantly on the hunt to find the strangest Believe It or Not! stories, or BIONs, to share with our fellow fans of the bizarr...
Aug 20, 2021
Wriggling Worm Blobs Help Scientists Build Better Robots
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The most the average person thinks about worms is probably when fishing or to side-step them on the pavement after it rains-but Believe It or Not!, scienti...
Aug 19, 2021
Protected: Step Out of the Box and Into the Unbelievable with Ripley’s
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Aug 17, 2021
On A Roll With Freestyle Skater, Vasilisa Maslova
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Taking the world by storm with her gravity-defying skate tricks is Belarussian freestyle slalom rollerblader, Vasilisa Maslova! Winner of the 2018 Netherla...
Aug 17, 2021
10 Facts You’ll Vant To Know About Bela Lugosi, AKA Count Dracula
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Bla Ferenc Dezs Blask was born in then-Lugos, Hungary, in October 1882. From humble beginnings, dogged by social unrest and smaller performances, he rose t...
Aug 16, 2021