Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Are You A Left Brain Or Right Brain? The Answer Is…
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Left Brain, Right Brain Those of us who use the right side of our brains more are creative, spontaneous, out-of-the-box thinkers. Those who tap into the le...
Apr 14, 2018
Prada Marfa And The Mysteries Of Middle Of Nowhere, Texas
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Marfa Marfa, Texas, is an enigmatic and offbeat place where art meets desert and out-of-place fashion makes a wry statement. A tiny town in West Texas, Mar...
Apr 14, 2018
That Time Britain Thought Spaghetti Grew On Trees
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Spaghetti Farming In 1957, the completely legitimate and credible BBC new program, "Panorama," pulled an April Fools joke for the ages. They ran a short sp...
Apr 14, 2018
Tails From The Crypt Told At The Rotterdam Natural History Museum
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dead Animal Tales The critter didn't know what hit it. Like a brazen burglar, it jumped the fence and found its way into the $7 billion CERN Large Hardon C...
Apr 12, 2018
The Limelight That Lit The Swedish Nightingale
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Limelights Before the advent of electricity or the invention of the gas mantle, there were very few forms of artificial light that were strong enough to al...
Apr 10, 2018
Meet The First Woman Of The Ejection Club
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ejection Club Lieutenant Linda (Heid) Maloney is the first woman in history to be ejected from an aircraft while flying a mission. She's also the first wom...
Apr 10, 2018
The Marketing Campaign That Endangered A Language
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ayapaneco In 2014, news outlets began covering the tragic tale of Ayapaneco. An endangered language in the state of Tabasco in Mexico, Ayapaneco was allege...
Apr 06, 2018
A Bouncing Pickle Law And The World’s Largest Bounce House!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Pickle Bouncing In bathroom readers around the world, in every fact generator on the Internet, we've stumbled across the "fact" that Connecticut law requir...
Apr 06, 2018
A Pepperoni and Seagull Hotel Indiscretion
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [April 1-7th, 2018] A man is banned from basketball for being too tall, the FBI cracks its oldest case, and seagulls wreck a hotel room. Too Tall...
Apr 06, 2018
The Mission To Bring The First Panda Out Of China
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The First Panda Out Of China The giant panda didn't always hold its place as a cornerstone of cute and adorable animals. Before 1936, some naturalists repo...
Apr 04, 2018
