Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Are They Real? The Dubious History Of Chastity Belts
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Most of us heard the story at some point in middle school told by an overzealous peer who had just learned the undefined history of chastity belts. These d...
Feb 28, 2019
How Did This Ram Skull Get Inside A Tree?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Among the many man-made artifacts and expressions of culture within the Ripley's collection, natural oddities tend to stand out. Amidst the two-headed shee...
Feb 27, 2019
The Walking Dead Of Tana Toraja
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! For residents of Tana Toraja, the walking dead are more than just a phantasmic phenomenon-it's a reality! However, unlike those from the hit TV series and ...
Feb 25, 2019
Does The Simpsons Really Predict the Future?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Simpsons, with its impressive three-decade history, is one of the most successful and enduring sitcoms ever. The longest-running primetime scripted ser...
Feb 23, 2019
Girl Scout Includes Shirtless Jason Momoa To Sell Her Samoas Cookies
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [February 17-23rd, 2019] A reptilian drug enforcer, a junior ranger is more senior than the Grand Canyon, a new way to sell Girl Scout cookies, a...
Feb 23, 2019
The Door Gun: The Most Deadly Kind Of Alarm
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Home security has always been a fascination of academics, inventors, and tinkerers. An array of alarms, gadgets, and devices are spread all across history ...
Feb 20, 2019
How Zeppelins Caused A Sausage Ban In Germany
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Preparing for the first ever air campaign against the country of England, the German military brought its newfound aviation invention to bear: the Zeppelin...
Feb 20, 2019
Peek Inside Walt Disney’s Secretive Club 33
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In the heart of the New Orleans sector of Disneyland's Adventureland sits an unremarkable, gray-green door partially hidden by a potted plant. Nothing spec...
Feb 18, 2019
Goodbye Opportunity: The Little Rover That Could
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [February 10-16th, 2019] Missing Opportunity, a snowy tribute to da Vinci, a dating app for cows, and the rest of the week's weird news from Ripl...
Feb 18, 2019
This Space Survival Kit Has Everything A Stranded Cosmonaut Needs
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! While it took the engineering expertise of hundreds of engineers, scientists, and pilots to ensure that Russian cosmonauts could survive space itself, land...
Feb 15, 2019
