Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
This Unstoppable Game Boy Survived a Gulf War Bombing
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Gulf War Game Boy This original Game Boy was hit by a barracks bombing during the first Gulf War, and it still works just fine! As you'll often hear people...
Kayla Derkach Mar 08, 2018

The Devilish Baboon Incident of the Hellfire Club
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Hellfire Club The Hellfire Club probably needs no introduction, as it was one of the most notorious men's clubs in all of history. Its members frequent...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

Cheese Before Bed Will Not Give You Nightmares
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...
Kayla Derkach Mar 03, 2018
What Is Still Standing After Chernobyl’s Nuclear Nightmare?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Chernobyl's Nuclear Nightmare Releasing at least 100 times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the Chernobyl Nuclear Powe...
Kayla Derkach Mar 03, 2018
Vatican Ramps Up Exorcism Training as Possession Reports Skyrocket
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [February 25th-March 3rd, 2018] Cloned doggos, a rare bird, networking on the moon, and exorcism training from the Vatican in your weird new roun...
Kayla Derkach Mar 03, 2018
The Mysterious and Explosive Tunguska Event in Northern Russia
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Tunguska Event On June 30, 1908, the forest near the Tunguska River in north Russia exploded. "The sky was split in two."-local observers Thankfully occurr...
Kayla Derkach Mar 01, 2018
Sex, Drugs and the CIA: Operation Midnight Climax and Project MKUltra
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! MKUltra Inspiring hundreds of TV shows, movies, and conspiracy theories, the secret CIA project-codenamed MKUltra-is a story of government black ops, drugs...
Kayla Derkach Feb 28, 2018

Man-Made Meteorite: Titanium Fuel Cell
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: Man-Made Meteorite: Titanium Fuel Cell
Kayla Derkach Feb 28, 2018

Why are Painted Cars Sprouting out of Nevada’s Desert Sands?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The International Car Forest Near Goldfield, Nevada, the International Car Forest of the Last Church looms with 40 cars, trucks, and vans planted in the de...
Kayla Derkach Feb 26, 2018
Man Burns Down House Trying to Smoke Out Skunks
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [February 18-24th, 2018] A woman gives birth on the radio, a man burns down his house chasing skunks, and Apple employees keep walking into glass...
Kayla Derkach Feb 26, 2018

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