Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Salem Never Burned Any Witches At The Stake
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 23, 2018
Bone Mutations Found In Ata Boy Skeleton’s DNA
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [March 18-24th, 2018] A couple took an accidental photo together years before they met, a gorilla likes to keep his hands clean, and new evidence...
Mar 23, 2018
Mike The Headless Chicken Will Leave You Asking “What The Cluck?!”
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Headless Chicken The idiom "running around like a chicken with its head cut off" is commonly used, alluding to the fact that the body of a chicken whos...
Mar 23, 2018
Rotten Sneaker Contest Chooses Odorous Winner
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Rotten Sneaker Contest Six young participants from across the country, New York to Alaska, smelled it out for the country's stinkiest sneaker. Despite an a...
Mar 22, 2018
The Oddity Of Neuroscience: Phineas Gage
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Phineas Gage When 25-year-old Phineas Gage went into the Vermont wilderness to work as a railroad foreman in 1848, he had no idea that his story would show...
Mar 22, 2018
This Jewelry Contains the Hair of Abraham Lincoln
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: This Jewelry Contains the Hair of Abraham Lincoln
Mar 20, 2018
The Dionne Quintuplets Spent Their Childhood On Display At “Quintland”
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dionne Quintuplets On May 28, 1934, on a small farm in the village of Corbeil in northern Ontario, Canada, Elzire Dionne beat immense odds to give birth to...
Mar 20, 2018
Saint Patrick Didn’t Drive The Snakes Out Of Ireland, Climate Change Did
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 19, 2018
NCAA’s March Madness Full Of Free Throws Thanks To Vas Madness
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [March 11-17th, 2018] This week genes are mutated by space, a set of ghost tracks appears on the New Jersey coast, and Vas Madness begins. DNA in...
Mar 19, 2018
The 15-Foot Wave Of Beer That Flooded London In 1814
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The London Beer Flood When the Horse Shoe Brewery suffered a strange accident on October 17, 1814, it caused a flood of beer (yes, BEER) that rushed throug...
Mar 19, 2018
