Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Octopuses Don’t Have Eight Arms
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Octopuses have six arms and two legs, not eight tentacles as they are sometimes mistakenly called. The eight-limbed mollusks even have a preference when it...
May 06, 2019
Harmless Sea Skate Or Spawn Of Satan?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The beliefs of 16th-century scientists were imaginative, to say the least. From early plans for lunar travel to the vegetable lamb of Tartary, some explana...
May 01, 2019
The Danger Committee Follows One Principle: Escalating Stupidity
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! What do you get when you combine two world champion combat jugglers and a man described as being possibly the best knife-thrower to ever live? You get The ...
May 01, 2019
The Often-Overlooked Women Behind Famous Male Writers
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Many legendary male writers have women to thank for their success. If it weren't for these ladies' tireless attention to detail, encouragement, and backbre...
Apr 30, 2019
Behind The Scenes Of Ripley’s Return To Television
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not! has cornered the market on the extraordinary, the death-defying, the odd, and the unusual. Now, 100 years after Robert L. Riple...
Apr 26, 2019
Will Touching A Baby Bird Make The Mother Abandon It?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Were you-or are you-the kind of kid who liked to get into nature, to handle things from the great outdoors in order to learn more about the world around yo...
Apr 26, 2019
You Can Now Live Inside A Giant Potato
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [April 21-27, 2019] Living inside a giant potato, releasing a wayward bear, writing without hands, and the rest of the week's weird news from Rip...
Apr 26, 2019
Australia’s Glow Worms: A Stunning Larva Light Show
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The glow worm, one of Australia's most dazzling bioluminescent creatures, is actually the larvae of a fungus gnat. The insect, which looks like a maggot, i...
Apr 26, 2019
The Strange But True History Of Robert Ripley
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Born LeRoy Robert Ripley in Santa Rosa, California, the small-town boy who would eventually be called the Modern-Day Marco Polo cultivated a curiosity for ...
Dec 17, 2018
Listen To The First-Ever Radio Broadcast LIVE From A Snake Pit
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Never satisfied with the ordinary, Robert Ripley had to make his radio broadcasts unique. He spoke from all over the globe, with transmission towers carryi...
Dec 17, 2018