Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
This Visually Impaired Artist Paints By Touch
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A Tactile Artist Ripley's Odditoriums are filled with the odd, unusual, and interesting. We've got shrunken heads, Marilyn Monroe's dress, bibles that have...
Aug 06, 2018
Cowboys In The Wild West Didn’t Wear Cowboy Hats
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 06, 2018
Inside Ripley’s House Of Wax And A Chance To Win With DeviantArt
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Art Department Based at our Orlando HQ, the Ripley Art Department is a tight-knit team. They do it all, from creating giant dinosaur costumes, mer...
Aug 06, 2018
Frozen Worms Wake Up After 42,000 Years
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [July 29th-August 4th, 2018] A peaceful battle between tanks, a vest vending machine, and some incredible worms. Castle For Sale If you've ever l...
Aug 06, 2018
Real UFO? Hoax? McMinnville Doesn’t Care
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! McMinnville Walking down Main Street in this quaint Oregon town is like walking back in time, which is appropriate, considering what may or may not have ha...
Aug 06, 2018
America’s Secret Unmanned Space Plane That Only The Air Force Has Answers To
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Secret Space Plane Just outside Earth's atmosphere, covertly conducting military experiments, a secret plane slices through the inky vacuum of space. The c...
Aug 01, 2018
The Death Mask Of Jeremy Bentham
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! What's A Death Mask? Before photography, paintings were one of the few ways to preserve what people looked like, but commissioned portraits took a lot of t...
Jul 31, 2018
Who Was The Mysterious Leatherman?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The mysterious Leatherman became a celebrity of sorts in nineteenth-century America. He walked a 365-mile route between the Connecticut and Hudson rivers, ...
Jul 30, 2018
Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow Didn’t Start the Great Chicago Fire
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...
Jul 22, 2018
Anthrax Island: The Secret Uninhabitable Biological Weapons Test Site
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Anthrax Island Just half a mile off the coast of Scotland, in the Northwest reaches of the United Kingdom, lies an island that was once so contaminated wit...
Jul 18, 2018
