Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Down The Dark Alleys Of Sesame Street
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Our beloved friends on Sesame Street have always given us sunny days and swept every cloud away. But, of course, in 50 years of airtime, there's no surpris...
Jul 31, 2020
Emus Banned For Bad Behavior
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [July 27-August 2, 2020] A 99-year-old pilot, spectators in the sky, and the great Australian pub emu ban-all round-up in this week's weird news ...
Jul 31, 2020
Do Piranhas Really Make Mincemeat Of Humans?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Who can forget Helga Brand's demise? Eaten alive by starving piranhas in SPECTRE's volcano lair during the Bond flick You Only Live Twice? Her death helped...
Jul 30, 2020
Spinning With Rubik’s Cube Speedcubers
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A simple game with over 43 quintillion ways to solve, the Rubik’s Cube has come quite a long way since its early years. Now an art form, a friendly p...
Jul 29, 2020
Hair-Raising Facts About The Queen Of Country, Dolly Parton
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When it comes to crowning the Queen of Country, there’s no competition for America’s own, Dolly Parton. While her chart-topping hits are hard t...
Jul 28, 2020
Watch Ripley’s San Diego Comic-Con@Home Panel: Inside the Vault of Ripley’s Most Exclusive Finds!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Inside the Vault of Ripley's Most Exclusive Finds! Expanding on the legacy of explorer and world traveler, Robert Ripley, the Ripley’s Believe It or ...
Jul 26, 2020
’90s Movie ‘Homeward Bound’ Becomes A Reality
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [July 20-July 26, 2020] Our San Diego Comic-Con panel might be the weirdest thing you see/hear this week, but Homeward Bound became a reality, a ...
Jul 24, 2020
Are Venus Flytraps Indiscriminate Killers?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The 1986 movie Little Shop of Horrors features a geeky florist shop worker who discovers his Venus flytrap, Audrey II, can talk. Before the end of the movi...
Jul 23, 2020
10 Doomsday Scenarios That Never Happened
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! As the great alt-rock band R.E.M. sang, "It's the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine." Turns out, there have been many times in the past when...
Jul 22, 2020
The Surprising Story Of Pirate Captain Kidd’s Buried Booty On Liberty Island
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The likes of Peter Pan and Robert Louis Stephenson's Treasure Island have really warped our view of pirates in popular culture. The exploits of roguish ant...
Jul 21, 2020