Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Rare and Deadly Sawfish Rostrum
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sawfish A strikingly curious sight, sawfish look exactly like the fish their name would suggest. Their elongated noses, known as rostrums, are lined with s...
Apr 03, 2018
Zerelda James, An Unbelievable Case of Motherly Love
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Zerelda James A crook only a mother could love, Jesse James was born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, to Robert and Zerelda James. Zerelda h...
Apr 03, 2018
Wilbur D. May’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Inside The Wunderkammer
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Wunderkammer In the mid-sixteenth century, Wunderkammer (or Cabinets of Curiosity), popped up across Europe. Receptacles of exotic objects and natural ...
Apr 02, 2018
Marie Antoinette Never Said “Let Them Eat Cake”
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...
Mar 30, 2018
Just Two Classy Ladies Dueling to First Blood Over Flowers…Topless
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Princess Vs. The Countess It was 1892 and preparation for the Vienna Musical Theatrical Exhibition was underway. Austrian nobles Princess Pauline von M...
Mar 30, 2018
Police Use Deceased People’s Fingers To Unlock Phones
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [March 25-31st, 2018] An owl ring-bearer, lonely karaoke, a surprise mummy, and dead fingers unlocking phones in this week's Weird News! This Wed...
Mar 30, 2018
Phone Booth Stuffing: A 1950s Pop Culture Challenge
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Phone Booth Stuffing The Internet may enable and perpetuate any number of ridiculous challenges, but the art of doing stupid or reckless stuff just for the...
Mar 29, 2018
A Relic Of Brutal Foot Binding: Lily Foot Bath
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: A Relic Of Brutal Foot Binding: Lily Foot Bath
Mar 27, 2018
Rudolph Valentino’s Cursed Ring Remains Locked In A Hollywood Vault
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Valentino's Cursed Ring The shopkeeper never wanted to sell the ring. "It's cursed," he said. It's called The Destiny Ring. But for Hollywood actor Rudolph...
Mar 27, 2018
Space Cowboy’s “Million Volt Man” Is Shocking
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Space Cowboy Chayne "Space Cowboy" Hultgren, a street performer from Australia, is one of the most extreme performers Ripley's has ever encountered. Beside...
Mar 27, 2018
