Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Greatest Misquotes In History
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! We're a quotable society, and we love to echo the famous words of others. However, many of the most popular quotes we love to recount are actually wrong. H...
Feb 15, 2019
The Great Wall Has Stood For Centuries Thanks To Sticky Rice
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Totaling more than 13,000 miles in length, the Great Wall of China continues to astound and awe visitors with its ancient defensive architecture. Boasting ...
Feb 12, 2019
An Ocularist’s Glass Eyeball Collection
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The first prosthetic eye is estimated to have been produced in the 29th-century B.C. The eye belonged to a woman in what is now Iran. Historians believe it...
Feb 11, 2019
Wearing Dresses Made Of Ocean Plastic Underwater
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Karina Oliani, also known as the adventure doctor, she's climbed Everest twice and is Brazil's first physician specializing in Wilderness Medicine, a speci...
Feb 11, 2019
Did America’s Largest President Get Stuck In a Bathtub?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Rumors abound that the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, got stuck in a bathtub at the White House due to his portly size. Specific...
Feb 11, 2019
The Woman Behind The Moon Landing
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Fifty years ago, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins made history by landing on the Moon. Though they received the fame a...
Feb 11, 2019
Frozen Ghost Apples Appear In Michigan Orchard
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [February 3-9th, 2019] Ghost apples in Michigan, a dino that ate its own teeth, Henry VII's marriage bed and the rest of the week's weird news fr...
Feb 11, 2019
This Three-Continent Ant Mega-Colony WILL Conquer Earth Soon
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Generally speaking, we humans like to think that we're the dominant species on Earth. We're untouchable, right? Other animals exhibit great intelligence, g...
Feb 05, 2019
It’s So Cold In The Midwest That Train Tracks Are On Fire
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [January 27-February 2, 2019] Temperatures in the Midwest drop so low that the train tracks catch fire, a sinkhole reveals a robbery plot, and Th...
Feb 02, 2019
Trading Urns For Vacuums In The Afterlife At Disney
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The urban legend that some people have scattered the ashes of their loved ones at the Disney World and Disneyland parks is actually much truer than we thin...
Feb 02, 2019
