Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Savage Tsavo Man-Eaters and the Man Who Stopped Them
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Tsavo Man-Eaters Just east of the famous Kilimanjaro peak, in the unforgiving Tsavo desert, a pair of lions ate a reported 135 people! Tsavo lions have...
Feb 15, 2018
The Destructive and Deadly Hartford Circus Fire
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Hartford Circus Fire On July 5, 1944, trains carrying the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus pulled into Hartford, Connecticut. The circu...
Feb 13, 2018
College Bros in the 1930s Were the Champs of Goldfish Swallowing
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Goldfish Swallowing While the Internet's cinnamon, saltine, mannequin, and ice bucket challenges may be just recent memories, mankind has long been swept u...
Feb 13, 2018
The 1930s Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Oskar Speck Born just before the outbreak of World War I and growing up in the impoverished Wymar Republic, Oskar Speck was dissatisfied with the winds of ...
Feb 12, 2018
Twinkies Aren’t the Immortal Snack Cakes You Think They Are
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...
Feb 12, 2018
Everything You Thought Was a Fruit, Veggie, Berry, or Nut Is Wrong
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! An Assortment of Lies As Valentine's Day approaches, you may be inclined to shower your sweet with sweets, but if you think your sweetheart deserves someth...
Feb 12, 2018
A Kids Gets Stuck in a Claw Machine and Tesla Drives Through Space
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [February 4-10th, 2018] A 4-year-old climbs into a claw machine, a Tesla Roadster cruises through space, and a Canadian goose knocks a hunter unc...
Feb 12, 2018
Can You Break the Code of the Mysterious 15th-Century Voynich Manuscript?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Voynich Manuscripts In 1639, Georg Baresch, an alchemist from Prague, revealed to the world a mystery that was recently dated to have existed as far ba...
Feb 07, 2018
Everything You [Don’t] Need to Know About Flea Circuses
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Flea Circuses Is your head buzzing trying to figure out what exactly is a flea circus? Flea circuses have been entertaining audiences for centuries. As one...
Feb 05, 2018
A Super Bowl Showdown: Pat the Patriot vs. Swoop the Eagle! Which Mascot Would Win?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mascot battle While two teams will champion their mascots in trial by football this weekend, we wanted to know the literal answer to the match-up. Who woul...
Feb 02, 2018
