Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
10-Mile Lake Appears In The Middle Of Death Valley
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [March 10-16th, 2019] An ephemeral lake in the hottest place on Earth, beer for Lent, and a trick to outsmart art thieves in this week's weird ne...
Mar 19, 2019
The Mysterious Cervicorn: Nature’s Unicorn Deer
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Massachusetts white-tailed deer proves that unicorns really do exist-but he probably wasn't born like this. This "cervicorn" once belonged to the auth...
Mar 19, 2019
Scientists Find New Killer Whale Species Hiding In The Indian Ocean
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [March 3-9th, 2019] Scientists discover a new killer whale species, a stray runs in the Iditarod, and Japan gets a robotic goddess in this week's...
Mar 12, 2019
Is This Guy The Only Person In The World Who Still Speaks Carny?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Did you know there exists a secret carnival language spoken by professional wrestlers? It's called Cizarny (or Cizarnizy). Or, in English, it's called Carn...
Mar 12, 2019
Did Einstein Really Fail Math?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Most people are at least vaguely familiar with the work of Albert Einstein. We might not have a solid grasp on what exactly E = mc means or why it's import...
Mar 08, 2019
The Incredible Challenge Of Going To The Moon In 1969
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humankind had plans for traveling to the Moon as early as the 17th-century, but it was in 1969 that the American space program made this dream a reality. I...
Mar 06, 2019
Rare Whale Mysteriously Ends Up In The Amazon
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [February 24th-March 2nd, 2019] A whale in the Amazon, an underground mansion, and headless mummy in this week's weird news from Ripley's Believe...
Mar 06, 2019
The Tragic Origins Of Peter The Wild Boy
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! His headstone simply reads "Peter the Wild Boy, 1785." For his entire odd life, that was his moniker. Was Peter a feral child or was he afflicted with a ra...
Mar 06, 2019
Preserved Sailor Skin With Tattoos
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! For as long as people have been tattooing themselves, they have also sought methods to remove ink from their bodies. Today, lasers provide some of the most...
Mar 06, 2019
Guidestones Against Apocalypse: America’s Stonehenge
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sometimes referred to as America's doomsday Stonehenge, the Georgia Guidestones are a set of giant stone tablets carved with instructions for humanity. The...
Mar 06, 2019
