Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Can Your Hair Play Guitar And Take Selfies? This Artist’s Sculpted Scalp Can!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Hairplay Laetitia Ky, a 21-year-old fashion designer from Abidjan, Cte d'Ivoire, Africa, took social media by storm after posting a photo series where she ...
Sep 04, 2018
Was Civil War Surgery Really Performed Without Anesthetic?
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...
Sep 04, 2018
Ancient Hunger Stones Emerge As Ominous Drought Warning
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [August 26th-September 1st, 2018] Solving crimes on Reddit, meat vending machines, and dire warnings on ancient stones. Midnight Meats If you've ...
Sep 04, 2018
Is The Lost City Of Atlantis Revealing Itself Off The Coast Of The Bahamas?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Lost City For hundreds of years, the story of Atlantis has captured our attention. The famed lost city makes its first appearance in the works of Plato...
Sep 04, 2018
The Man Who Ate An Airplane Piece By Piece
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Monsieur Mangetout The world can unfair at times. We all have our talents, but some simply aren't celebrated as much as they deserve to be. World-class act...
Sep 04, 2018
You Won’t Want To Play This Medieval Shame Flute
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Shame Flute In Medieval Germany, unappreciated musicians and other disturbers of the peace were punished by the schand flte-the shame flute. Brutally ironi...
Aug 29, 2018
Longyearbyen: The Town that Bans Death
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Longyearbyen In the town of Longyearbyen, Norway, death is not allowed. If you're sick or dying, they send you to the mainland, and, if you do happen to di...
Aug 29, 2018
Hairculese, The Man Who Pulls Cars With His Hair
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Hairculese A veteran strongman, Chris "Hairculese" Rider of Thomasville, Pennsylvania, has a vast repertoire of stunts that display his great strength. Amo...
Aug 28, 2018
How The U.S. Once Hijacked A Soviet Space Satellite
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Stealing A Satellite In the early days of the Space Race, the Soviet Union was making bold moves putting itself far ahead of the United States. With the su...
Aug 27, 2018
Is It Safe To Fly Through An Asteroid Belt?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Navigating Asteroid Belts In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, C-3PO tells Han Solo, "Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an aste...
Aug 27, 2018
