Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Biosphere 2 The Second Earth Experiment of the 1990s
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Biosphere 2 Believing they could create a perfectly sealed vivarium for all the plants, animals, nutrients, and people needed to become self-sustaining, a ...
May 17, 2018
Vomitoriums: The Fake Roman Room Used To Vomit
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...
May 17, 2018
A Slice Of Charles and Diana’s Wedding Cake
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Royal Cake In February of 1981, a Diana Spencer married Charles, Prince of Wales, becoming the Princess of Wales herself. They were married at St. Paul's C...
May 16, 2018
Remember The Flagpole Sitting Trend Of The 1920s?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Flagpole Sitting Planking. Tebow-ing. Leisure-diving. Who knew it all started with flagpole-sitting? That's right-folks just crawled up flagpoles. And sat....
May 14, 2018
Taft’s Presidential Cow: Pauline Wayne
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Presidential Cow You might think we're talking about Taft himself when we say there was once a cow on the White House lawn-he was the fattest president-but...
May 11, 2018
Seeing Red: Turns Out Bulls Really Don’t Care About Red At All
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...
May 11, 2018
Dine With A 14-Foot Gator And Other Wild Experiences At Wild Florida
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Wild Florida Believe it or not, alligator attacks are actually extremely rare. In fact, the likelihood of a Florida resident being injured in an unprovoked...
May 11, 2018
Ancestor Head From Papua New Guinea
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ancestor Heads Tribes along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea practiced a unique form of ancestor skull worship. Taking clay and mud from the riverbed, t...
May 08, 2018
The Explosive Gunpowder Art Of Dino Tomic
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Gunpowder Art We've previously featured Croatia-born artist Dino Tomic for his art using granules of salt, but he's back with a BOOM! Similar to his salt p...
May 08, 2018
The Curious Case of Multiple Madeleine Morès
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Madeleine Mors In 2004, Madeleine Mors moved back to her native France to discover that 'she' already lived there and was drawing her pension! The Impossib...
May 07, 2018
