Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Or Not: Can Cockroaches Survive Nuclear Apocalypse?
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...
Sep 07, 2017
Making and Tasting Salt from Human Sweat
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Tasting Human Salt Japanese language news blog RocketNews24 made salt from their own reporter's sweat, and then tasted some human sweat-garnished rice ball...
Sep 07, 2017
This Man’s Salt Art Will Leave You Thirsty for More
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Shatter Your Senses: Salt Art Croatian artist Dino Tomic creates detailed pictures by spreading kitchen salt onto a black background! He carefully sprinkle...
Sep 06, 2017
The Charlatan Count Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Selling the Eiffel Tower Though he had no claim to the land or tower at all, one man managed to get two French scrap-metal dealers to pay him quite handsom...
Sep 05, 2017
Elephant Graveyards: The El Dorado of Africa
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Elephant Graveyards Deep in the heart of Africa, explorers and big game hunters were told eerie tales of an elephant graveyard. This alleged location was t...
Sep 01, 2017
Tyler: A Well Balanced Young Man
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Balancing Tyler Tyler Scheuer, of Pennsylvania, can balance just about anything on his face, including a 10-ft ladder! The 22-year-old discovered his uniqu...
Aug 31, 2017
Bat Bombs Were In Competition With the Atom Bomb
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Bat Bombs After hearing about the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Pennsylvania dentist and inventor Lytle S. Adams hatched a scheme...
Aug 30, 2017
Lawn Chair Larry and His Balloon Trip to the Sky
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Lawn Chair Larry On July 2, 1982, Vietnam veteran and truck driver Larry Walters of California set out to fulfill his life-long dream of flying. The plan w...
Aug 29, 2017
This Snake Covered Statue Will Leave You Awestruck!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Snake Covered Statue Every May, hundreds gather in the Italian town of Cocullo to drape snakes onto a statue in a festival known as Processione dei Serpari...
Aug 29, 2017
How the Massive Niagara Falls Ran Dry
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Niagara Falls Ran Dry Everyone knows about the day the music died, but what about the day Niagara Falls ran dry? On the morning of March 30, 1848, people l...
Aug 25, 2017
