Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Motordromes Pitted Daredevils Against Lions And The Wall Of Death
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Motordromes Today, Motordromes, circular board racing tracks to put the popularity, speed, and power of motorcycles on the map, are nearly extinct. There a...
Aug 19, 2018
Got Milk? Dressing In Dairy Does The Body Good!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Wearable Milk Milk does a body good, but can you wear it? German microbiologist and fashion designer, Anke Domaske, says yes! She uses dried milk powder to...
Aug 16, 2018
This Artist’s Food Photography Is Out Of This World
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Spacey Scans When viewing the work of photographer Navid Baraty one might think they are peering through a telescope into the vast mysteries of space. Blue...
Aug 16, 2018
Up Close With A Mammoth Tooth
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mammoth Tooth Among the many ancient artifacts of the Ripley's collection are a number of very large teeth. These teeth once belonged to wooly mammoths. Wo...
Aug 16, 2018
The Soviet’s Tsar Bomba: The King Of Bombs
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Tsar Bomba The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb-codenamed Ivan-is known in the west as Tsar Bomba: the King of Bombs. It is the most powerful explosive ever cr...
Aug 16, 2018
Cows Corner Criminal In Police Helicopter Chase
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [August 5-11th, 2018] A giant dominoes display ruined by a fly, Amish Uber, a gator graduate, and crime-fighting cows! Amish Uber Utilizing just ...
Aug 10, 2018
Could The “Missing Link” Be Oliver, An Alleged Human-Chimp Hybrid?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Oliver the Humanzee The 1970s sideshow circuit gave audiences the chance to meet Oliver-a chimpanzee like no other. In fact, Oliver was so different from o...
Aug 10, 2018
Is Stopping A Hurricane Even Possible?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Hurricane Prevention Since the dawn of time, man has felt the deadly effects of storms. From legends of the sunken city of Atlantis to the real-world devas...
Aug 09, 2018
The Truth About Van Gogh’s Severed Ear
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...
Aug 09, 2018
Bathroom Reading: “Moby Dick” Typed On Six Rolls Of Toilet Paper
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The White Whale on TP Herman Melville's whale-hunting epic is one of the cornerstones of American literature. The narrator introduces us to colorful charac...
Aug 07, 2018
