Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Once Warlock-Owned Wiccan Implements Of The Ripley Collection
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Wiccan Bell, Books, And Candle It may come as a surprise to many, but the occult religion of Wicca started in 1953. It may copy the practices of millennia-...
Jul 17, 2018
STILL THE ONE: Meet The Biggest Celebrity In Monowi, Nebraska
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! MONOWI, Nebraska As you round a bend on the dusty highway leading into town, you see the small, green sign standing proud against the Great Plains sky. "Mo...
Jul 16, 2018
Man Trims Fingernails After 66 Years!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [July 8-14th, 2018] Encouragement to eat bugs, a woman accidentally steals a car, and the man with the longest fingernails gets a manicure. Eat B...
Jul 16, 2018
Gateways To Hell Part II
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! We showed you five of the scariest portals to the underworld last week, but we've got five more mysterious gateways for your final destination getaway. FEN...
Jul 13, 2018
Did Pocahontas Love John Smith And Save His Life?
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 12, 2018
Tightrope Daredevil Extraordinaire: The Great Blondin
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Great Blondin Charles Blondin was born Jean-Francois Gravelet in 1824 France. Spending a lifetime performing miraculous stunts on a tightrope, he is co...
Jul 12, 2018
The Prison Shirt Of Notorious Cult Leader Charles Manson
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Charles Manson Born Charles Maddox in 1934, the details of notorious cult leader and murderer Charles Manson are foggy at best. Given his later penchant fo...
Jul 11, 2018
Why Is Chelsea Football Club Fixated On Celery?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Soccer may have some odd traditions, but did you know that Chelsea Football Club has become notorious for their fans' celery-based violence? The vegetable ...
Jul 11, 2018
Clipping The World’s Longest Fingernails Straight From India!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Longest Fingernails After 66 years, it was time for a manicure. But for Mr. Shridhar Chillal of Pune, India, the clippers weren't going to cut it. With the...
Jul 11, 2018
Atomic Tourism: Vegas Visitors Watch Nukes Explode
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Atomic Tourism Las Vegas is known as the city of lights and, at one time, that light was the glow of a nuclear detonation in the Nevada desert. "It turned ...
Jul 09, 2018
