Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News

These Pups Know How To Sit, Stay, And Conga!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Pompeyo Family Dog Show A true family circus act, the Pompeyo family of Sarasota, Florida, has even trained their dogs to perform feats of acrobatics and e...
Kayla Derkach Dec 03, 2018
How Tall Was Napoleon Bonaparte Actually?
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...
Kayla Derkach Dec 03, 2018
Meet The Woman Who Can Juggle Anything With Her Feet
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Emma Phillips of Whangarei, New Zealand, is the only performer in the world that can juggle both umbrellas and tables with her feet! After seeing a Cirque ...
Kayla Derkach Dec 03, 2018
GIANT SLOTHS OF DOOM: Ground Sloths and Their Tunnels
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Giant Sloths Besides being adorably cute, present-day sloths come in two and three-toed varieties and are closely related to anteaters and armadillos. They...
Kayla Derkach Dec 03, 2018
Six Doctors Swallow LEGO Pieces For Science
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [November 25-December 1st, 2018] An ATM bonus, abandoned storage unit fortune, ingesting LEGO pieces to keep kids safe, and the rest of the week'...
Kayla Derkach Dec 03, 2018

The Great Lobster War Between France And Brazil
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Once considered cockroaches of the sea and a reviled food item, lobster are now averaging around 12 dollars per pound. Believe it or not, the access of the...
Andrew Snook Nov 28, 2018

The Great Lobster War Between France And Brazil
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Once considered cockroaches of the sea and a reviled food item, lobster are now averaging around 12 dollars per pound. Believe it or not, the access of the...
Kayla Derkach Nov 28, 2018

Dodo Birds Are Even Harder To Find Than You Think
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Dodo Bird There is perhaps no animal more emblematic for the perils of extinction at the hands of human interference than that of the dodo bird. Native...
Andrew Snook Nov 28, 2018

Dodo Birds Are Even Harder To Find Than You Think
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Dodo Bird There is perhaps no animal more emblematic for the perils of extinction at the hands of human interference than that of the dodo bird. Native...
Kayla Derkach Nov 28, 2018

Set Of Skull Drill-Saws For Trepanation
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Trepanation Trepanation is the practice of drilling, cutting, boring, chiseling, or scraping into the human skull. It's a practice that dates back to the e...
Andrew Snook Nov 27, 2018

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