Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
The Modern-Day Marco Polo’s Preferred Passport Stamp: China
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Though Robert Ripley sought as many Believe It or Not! stories as he could by researching in the library and fan submissions, he also spent a great deal of...
Dec 17, 2018
Letter To Santa Found After 120 Years
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [December 9-15th, 2018] A diamond ring found in the sewers, festive pothole, and spirit of Christmas past. Have A Heart A Southwest flight bound ...
Dec 17, 2018
Advice On How To Live Over 100 From One Of The Oldest People On Our Planet: Art Janssen
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Something in the Santa Rosa Water Robert Ripley was born in Santa Rosa, California, in 1890. He was equal parts explorer, reporter, artist, and collector-a...
Dec 17, 2018
Travis Pastrana Joins 100 Years Of Crazy Feats And Unbelievable Daredevils
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Pushing Limits Since 1918 Ripley's Believe It or Not! has been pushing human limits to the extreme for the last century, when a young Robert Ripley pulled ...
Aug 23, 2018
The Living Statue: Hananuma Masakichi
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Hananuma Masakichi The statue of Hananuma Masakichi is so life-like and so realistically detailed that you could easily believe you're looking at a living ...
Aug 23, 2018
Luckiest Or Unluckiest Man In The World?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The (Un)Luckiest Man Frane Selak, of Croatia, has a reputation as the world's luckiest man (or unluckiest, depending on your outlook). He's said to have su...
Aug 22, 2018
Fearsome Cassowary Nose Bone Decoration From New Guinea
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Nose Bone Ornament Ripley's has showcased many unusual and rare artifacts from its collection hailing from the culturally rich islands of Papua New Guinea....
Aug 22, 2018
Summer Comes To A Close With 99 Days of Strange!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's 99 Strange Days of Summer Is Wrapping Up Summer at Ripley's comes to an end on September 21st, but there is still time to have some strange fun in...
Aug 22, 2018
The World’s Oldest Spider Didn’t Just Die, It Was Murdered
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [April 30-May 5th, 2018] A beach turns blue and comes alive, China releases a new weapon in the war on jaywalking, the world's oldest spider dies...
May 04, 2018
Think A Coin Toss Is A 50/50 Shot? Think Again!
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...
May 03, 2018