Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News

IBM Patented A Flying Robot To Sell You Coffee
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [August 19-25th] Canadians are baffled by STEVE, the Russians have a case of mistaken identity, and IBM patents a coffee-delivering drone. Lazine...
Kayla Derkach Aug 27, 2018

George Washington Carver Didn’t Invent Peanut Butter
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 Aug 24, 2018

Believe It or Not! It’s Been A Century of Strange for Ripley’s
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A Century of Strange! Ripley's Believe It or Not! has enjoyed a long, proud publishing history, beginning all the way back with Robert Ripley's best-sellin...
Kayla Derkach Aug 24, 2018

Travis Pastrana Joins 100 Years Of Crazy Feats And Unbelievable Daredevils
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Pushing Limits Since 1918 Ripley's Believe It or Not! has been pushing human limits to the extreme for the last century, when a young Robert Ripley pulled ...
Kayla Derkach Aug 23, 2018
The Living Statue: Hananuma Masakichi
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Hananuma Masakichi The statue of Hananuma Masakichi is so life-like and so realistically detailed that you could easily believe you're looking at a living ...
Kayla Derkach Aug 23, 2018
Luckiest Or Unluckiest Man In The World?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The (Un)Luckiest Man Frane Selak, of Croatia, has a reputation as the world's luckiest man (or unluckiest, depending on your outlook). He's said to have su...
Kayla Derkach Aug 22, 2018

Fearsome Cassowary Nose Bone Decoration From New Guinea
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Nose Bone Ornament Ripley's has showcased many unusual and rare artifacts from its collection hailing from the culturally rich islands of Papua New Guinea....
Kayla Derkach Aug 22, 2018

Summer Comes To A Close With 99 Days of Strange!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's 99 Strange Days of Summer Is Wrapping Up Summer at Ripley's comes to an end on September 21st, but there is still time to have some strange fun in...
Kayla Derkach Aug 22, 2018
Can A Shark Really Smell A Drop Of Blood From A Mile Away?
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 Aug 19, 2018
Dive Into This Aquatic Dreambox Made Entirely From Paper
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Art With Depth Brittany Cox of Seattle, Washington, has made a piece of art that captures the ethereal serenity and depth of the ocean using carefully cut ...
Kayla Derkach Aug 19, 2018

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