Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Tallest Man in the World Ever: Robert Wadlow
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Tallest Man Only 18 people in history are known to have reached a height of 8 feet or more. Measuring in at 8 feet 11.1 inches from head to toe, Robert...
Nov 15, 2017
The Most Poisonous Spider in the World
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Most Poisonous Spider Believe it or not, there is no "most poisonous spider" because spiders are venomous, not poisonous. Zoologists and veterinary sci...
Nov 15, 2017
Onbashira Festival: It’s Log, Log, Log
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Nineties nostalgia may come to mind when thinking of timber rolling, but Log from Blammo has a lot to live up to! Once every six years, thousands of people...
Nov 15, 2017
Historic Estate Cliveden Turned Canvas Covered in Blood
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Cliveden Blood Portrait Cliveden, or the Benjamin Chew House, is one of the bloodiest battle scenes of the American Revolutionary War, but it also home to ...
Nov 10, 2017
Massive Planet Discovered and Paper Made from Dung
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [November 5-11, 2017] An object massively larger than Jupiter, presidential jury duty and paper made from a different kind of waste. 5. Coconut C...
Nov 10, 2017
Or Not: Everest is the Tallest Mountain
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...
Nov 09, 2017
Key West Still Going Strong and Strange!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Only 90 miles away from Cuba lies one of Florida's most majestic treasures, Key West. The island city, also known as the continental US's southernmost poin...
Nov 09, 2017
Note: Declare Your Moon Germs to Customs
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The U.S. Customs form filled out by the Apollo 11 astronauts Collins after their return to Earth on July 24, 1969.Credit: NASA Moon Germs A mix of mundane ...
Nov 08, 2017
Orlando Brings You Hollywood History
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Before gossip magazines religiously covered presidential scandals, and way before celebrities flaunted their assets on social media, there was one provocat...
Nov 08, 2017
The Cardiff Giant: A Stone Man’s Secrets
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Cardiff Giant In the Fall of 1869, Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols made a monumental archaeological discovery. They were digging a well on a farm outsi...
Nov 08, 2017
