Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Katar: India’s Punch Dagger
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Hailing from the Indian sub-continent, the katar is a push dagger renowned for quick and devastating attacks. With an iron handguard, the blade of the weap...
Feb 01, 2019
Abandoned Shark Found In Defunct Wildlife Park
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Luke McPherson was walking through a dark building in an abandoned wildlife park when he came across a huge tank of murky green liquid. Passing by the tank...
Feb 01, 2019
How Long Does It Really Take to Digest Swallowed Gum?
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 t...
Feb 01, 2019
The Disgusting Food Museum Will Make You Vomit
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Have you ever eaten bull penis or vomit fruit? What about roasted guinea pigs or frog smoothies? These are some of the items you can check out at the Disgu...
Jan 29, 2019
Canada’s Quest To Build A Taller Moose Than Norway
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [January 20-26th, 2019] Canada faces Norway in a giant moose-off, a Louisiana optometrist offers free eye exams, alligators freeze in place, and ...
Jan 26, 2019
Could Walt Disney Really Be Cryogenically Frozen?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Walt Disney dedicated his life to the creation of children's entertainment and became such an important part of American history that his name still lives ...
Jan 24, 2019
Intense Feats At The Phuket Vegetarian Festival
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Each October in Thailand, the town of Phuket transforms to become an epicenter of zealous excitement and fervor. The Vegetarian Festival is celebrated in d...
Jan 24, 2019
The Mystery of Kodinhi: India’s Town Of Twins
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There are some places in the world that just take everything science thinks it knows and shreds that rule-book to pieces. One such place is a small, unprep...
Jan 23, 2019
Locket Containing George And Martha Washington’s Intertwined Hair
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Though it may be considered macabre by modern standards, taking the hair of the dead as a memento mori was common throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. S...
Jan 23, 2019
Toto’s Africa Played On Loop In African Desert By Solar-Powered Speakers
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [January 13-9th, 2019] Squirrels attack a nuclear base, the North Pole goes missing, Africa eternal, and the rest of the week's weird news from R...
Jan 19, 2019
