Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Modern-Day Marco Polo’s Preferred Passport Stamp: China
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Though Robert Ripley sought as many Believe It or Not! stories as he could by researching in the library and fan submissions, he also spent a great deal of...
Dec 17, 2018
Listen To The First-Ever Radio Broadcast LIVE From A Snake Pit
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Never satisfied with the ordinary, Robert Ripley had to make his radio broadcasts unique. He spoke from all over the globe, with transmission towers carryi...
Dec 17, 2018
Singapore’s 15-Story Car Vending Machine
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dreaming of the matchbox cars he had as a child, Gary Hong, the manager of Autobahn Motors made a car vending machine to remind him of the many boyhood hou...
Dec 13, 2018
Is Xmas A Secular Way To Say Christmas?
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...
Dec 13, 2018
Quack Medical Shock Machine From 1899
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Believe It or Not!, in the early 1900s, it was popularly believed that small doses of electricity could cure many ailments, from rheumatism to baldness. Sh...
Dec 11, 2018
Ancient Roman Gladiators VS Professional Wrestlers
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! If there's one thing even those with zero interest in history know about Ancient Rome, it's that they had a real flair for all things decadent. Showing off...
Dec 08, 2018
Harp Seals Keep Getting Eels Stuck Up Their Noses
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [December 2-8th, 2018] Thigh-highs are timeless, a robotic accident, white reindeer, and some silly seals. Snowball Fights Legalized Thanks to th...
Dec 08, 2018
The Caesar Salad Is Not an American Creation
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...
Dec 06, 2018
The 2,000-Year-Old Grauballe Bog Man
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Grauballe Man In 1952, two peat-diggers in Jutland, Denmark, stumbled across the remains of a 2,00-year-old man. Now known as the Grauballe Man, scientists...
Dec 05, 2018
Libyan Desert Glass Forged By Extra-Terrestrial Forces
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Forty-million years after the fall of the dinosaurs-but twenty-six million years before the rise of humanity-a meteorite exploded over the Sahara. The expl...
Dec 04, 2018
