Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Psychograph: The Pseudoscientific Phrenology Machine
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Phrenology Phrenology has been called pseudoscience, quackery, and fringe. During the 1800s, however, the study of the bumps on a person's head was fast be...
Jun 13, 2018
Octopus Wrestling Was A Real Sport
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Octopus Wrestling From 1949 to the mid-1960s, the unconventional sport of octopus wrestling ran rampant across the United States. Thousands of people would...
Jun 11, 2018
Nowhere Is Safe, Lightning Can Absolutely Strike The Same Place Twice
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 11, 2018
A Killer Horoscope: The Murders of French Doctor Marcel Petoit
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Horoscope Killer Believe it or not, horoscopes were once linked to a serial killer...and, no, we're not talking about The Zodiac! The Ad Who wouldn't want ...
Jun 11, 2018
Incredibly Rare New Guinea Midwife Skull
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Midwife Skull In the past few episodes of Ripley's Rarities, we have showcased some of the most interesting cultural artifacts from the various tribes of P...
Jun 05, 2018
The Nazis’ Attempt At Jurassic Park, Was It Possible?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Nazi Jurassic Park Ever since the novel came out in 1990, and the movie of the same name debuted three years later, humanity has been awed by the sheer pow...
Jun 04, 2018
How Fake Was Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds?
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 01, 2018
The Spirit of Salem: Lori Bruno
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Lori Bruno "I love you," she says, nonchalantly, before ending a phone conversation with someone she's never met. And the thing is, you really believe she ...
Jun 01, 2018
The Dystopian Program Of Practice Babies
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Practice Babies As the medical and scientific revolutions felt new wind in their sails at the end of World War I, America's confidence in science and resea...
May 30, 2018
Penis Sheath From The Forests Of New Guinea
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Penis Sheath Within the Ripley collection of rare artifacts and curious treasures are a few oddities that would make some of us blush, but as our Vice Pres...
May 29, 2018
