Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Not For Skeptics, The Florida Town Full Of Mediums And Spirits: Cassadaga
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Cassadaga Stepping into the quiet town of Cassadaga, FL feels both peaceful and alarming. Amidst the unusual architecture and ominous Spanish moss dangling...
Jun 29, 2018
Firefighters Finish Wrecked Driver’s Pizza Delivery
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [June 24-30th, 2018] A World Cup water shortage, a new study on dinosaur tongues, a dog performing CPR, and pizza-delivering firemen. World Cup W...
Jun 29, 2018
Ripley’s Relic Escape Adventure Debuts In New York City
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Robert Ripley, the World Traveler Nicknamed "The Modern Marco Polo," Robert Ripley acquired hundreds of exotic artifacts from around the world. Did you kno...
Jun 29, 2018
A Penny Falling From A Skyscraper Won’t Kill You
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...
Jun 29, 2018
The Mysterious, Intrepid Aloha Wanderwell
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Aloha Wanderwell Aloha Wanderwell loved record breaking. In the 1920s, she traveled 380,000 miles across 80 countries becoming the first woman to circumnav...
Jun 29, 2018
Opium Pipe And Scales, Relics Of A Blight In China
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Opium Pipe And Scales Though the drug has been used for millennia, the 13th century popularity of opium in China outmatched any period in history before. A...
Jun 28, 2018
Operation Popeye: America’s Secret Weather Warfare Project
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Militarizing Meteorology As the United States became quagmired in its conflict with the Viet Cong in the late 1960s, one military operation looked at a way...
Jun 28, 2018
We Bought Han Solo’s Blaster, How Does It Compare To Luke’s Lightsaber?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Buying Han's Trusty Blaster Seeking to free the Rebel Alliance's most iconic weapons from the clutches of dusty old boxes in attics on Hollywood Boulevard,...
Jun 25, 2018
World Cup Goal Cheers Show Up On Seismographs
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [June 17-23rd] Birthday cakes for our San Antonio Odditorium, money-shredding rats, and a game-winning goal that shook the Earth. Odd Cake Contes...
Jun 25, 2018
Ripley’s Own Warden Of The Weird Retires After 40 Years
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Edward Meyer Ripley's Believe It or Not! boasts over 30,000 exhibits, and the man responsible for every single one of them for the last 33 years was our Vi...
Jun 25, 2018
