Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Surviving The Most Extreme Brushes With Death
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! History details some truly unbelievable great escapes. One of the most incredible brushes with death involved Joan Murray. In 1999, both of Joan's parachut...
Jan 19, 2019
The Most Dangerous Festival In The World: Onbashira
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Once every six years, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region to chop, ride, and raise massive 50-foot logs during Japan's Onbashira Festival-an anci...
Jan 17, 2019
Court Fools And Jesters Were Actually Very Intelligent
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Kings and Queens of history have been a confusing bunch, haven't they? They've been respectable, knowledgeable, worthy leaders, and they've been shocki...
Jan 17, 2019
126-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Dinosaur Dung
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! For 126 million years, a very specific record of dinosaur behavior has weathered the eons. Coprolite is the fossilized feces left behind by dinosaurs. Thou...
Jan 16, 2019
The 17th-Century Plan To Trade With Aliens On The Moon
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Oliver Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in the history of Britain. Following the English Civil War and the execution of King Charles I, he...
Jan 15, 2019
Thousands Want To Drink The Mummy Juice From An Ancient Sarcophagus
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Adventurous individuals are clamoring to drink contaminated red liquid contained inside an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus with the hopes of gaining mystical ...
Jan 13, 2019
England’s Newest Fatberg Is The Largest Ever Found Outside A Major City
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [January 6th-12th, 2019] A fatberg outclasses the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Australia's prime minister wears two left shoes, a sonic attack from cri...
Jan 13, 2019
Debunking 5 Of The Weirdest Laws We’ve Ever Heard
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The United States has some really odd laws scattered around the country. In Hawaii, for example, people aren't allowed to put coins in their ears (King Kam...
Jan 10, 2019
The King Of Lizards Was Actually A Whale
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Basilosaurus was a fearsome, sharp-toothed creature that lived 40-35 million years ago and could grow 50-60 feet long. Its name means "King Lizard." Yet Ba...
Jan 09, 2019
Castells: The Catalan Art Of Human Towers
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Each year, hundreds of acrobatic individuals show up for Catalan festivals to build human towers called castells. Far more serious than a human pyramid, th...
Jan 09, 2019
