Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Shipwreck Discovered In Caribbean Could Be Worth $17 Billion
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [May 20-26th, 2018] An island where childbirth is outlawed, legal protections for the smell of Play-Doh, and a shipwreck that could be worth $17 ...
May 29, 2018
More Off Limits Places That You Can’t Check Off Your Bucket List
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Last week on Cool Stuff Strange Things, we brought to you some the most dangerous destinations and intriguing in the world...that you'll never get to see f...
May 29, 2018
The Uncanny Case of the Jim Twins, Two Estranged Twins Who Led Identical Lives
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Jim Twins The Jim Twins of Ohio were reunited at age 39, after being separated at birth. When they got to talking, they found that they had lived identical...
May 29, 2018
Everyone Knows What Rosa Parks Did—But Do You Know Claudette Colvin?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Claudette Colvin The woman, tired from a long day, was asked by the driver to get up and move to the back of the bus, where the other black people sat. She...
May 24, 2018
Sunlight Art: Painting With A Magnifying Glass
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sunlight Art Michael Papadakis uses the largest paintbrush in the world: the sun. In an art form he dubs "heliography," Papadakis employs a variety of magn...
May 24, 2018
Bloodless Dueling In The Olympics With Wax Bullets
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Bloodless Duel Dueling has been a curiosity of human culture throughout history. Reaching peak popularity in Europe as feudal lords, royalty, and the arist...
May 23, 2018
Skull Drum From The Mountains Of Tibet
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Skull Drum A relic of monastic rituals in the mountains of Tibet, this skull drum is made from the tops of human heads. Called a damaru, these double-heade...
May 23, 2018
Fit for a Queen: The Bizarre Burial of Queen Victoria
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Queen Victoria's Burial It was a conversation with the poet Lord Tennyson that partly inspired the colors of her funeral. Frustrated that funerals were mou...
May 21, 2018
Off Limits: Places That You Can’t Check Off Your Bucket List
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! WARNING: This story contains the descriptions of off limits places where people are not allowed to go. Read on, but watch your step. Things could get dange...
May 19, 2018
The Royal Couple Painted On Rose Petals
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [May 13-19th, 2018] A two-headed deer, beer and diamonds, scientists transfer a memory, and the royal couple rendered with roses. Scientists Tran...
May 19, 2018
