Believe It or Not!
Inside Ripley’s Books
Ripley Publishing has a huge collection of amazing books packed with every conceivable item within the universe of Believe It or Not!. Our fabulous annuals have hundreds of pages in multiple categories of the odd and incredible. Always new, always weird and 100% true. Dive inside our books, including previews into our latest book Strikingly True!, and get online exclusive prices when you buy any Ripley title.
Librarina: Great books for Tweens & Teens Review
My son and I like looking through these books together to see who can gross the other one out with the weirdest things. I usually lose, but we both end up in hysterics! But there’s more…. Read more here: http://librarina.wordpress.com/tag/ripleys-believe-it-or-not-download-the-weird/ Download The Weird features incredible people such as The Odd ...
Booger Ball
Over a period of two years, James Ford, an art student in Nottingham, England, collected his own boogers on a daily basis and molded them into a 3/4-in-diameter (21-mm) ball–about the size of a brussels sprout. He collected the boogers in an eggcup and then glued them together to create ...
Bone Jewelry
Columbine Phoenix from Somerville, Massachusetts, makes jewelry from human bones. Among her creations are an earring with a middle finger bone, a necklace from five fingertip bones and a necklace from a hand bone. She obtains the bones from universities and medical schools, and always uses hand bones because they ...
Record-holding diver in ‘Ripley’s’ book!
Groveland native and 10-year scuba instructor Allen Sherrod, 45, may soon be making his way onto the bookshelve, believe it… or not. That’s because he is featured in the pages of “Download the Weird;” the latest book published by “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” for a world record he broke ...
Your uploads! Squeezed Shoulders
Joshua Carter from Leesburg, Georgia, can touch his shoulders together in front of his chest, but don’t try this yourself. Joshua was born without collarbones, which means that he has hypermobile, or double-jointed, shoulders. The collarbone normally forms a strut between the shoulder blade and the breastbone, and is the ...
Eye Poppers
Sunday, May 5, 2013 · 1 Comment
Brothers Hugh (left) and Antonio Francis from Essex, England, can pop their eyes out of their sockets. Antonio, who has been able to do this since childhood, has demonstrated his eye-boggling skill on Britain’s Got Talent and in a music video for electropop act Hot Chip. Download The Weird features ...
The Fence Post Review
This year, you’ve promised yourself that your hand is going to be in the air as much as possible. Your teacher asks for volunteers, up it goes. There’s an oral quiz, your hand is waving over your head. And if there’s a question you really know the answer to, you ...
Bat soup
Fruit bat soup is a delicacy on the Micronesian island of Palau. Frozen bats are taken from the freezer and cooked whole–complete with fur, wing membranes and feet–before being ripped apart by hand and eaten. The fur can be chewed until the musky taste has been sucked out of it. ...
Chinese Treat
The slippery sluglike marine creature the sea cucumber (or sea rat) is a popular delicacy in Chinese cooking. It is considered and aphrodisiac an is used in medicine to treat everything from high blood pressure in humans to joint pain in pot-bellied pigs. The dried ovary of the sea cucumber ...
Examiner.com Review
Saturday, April 27, 2013 · 1 Comment
Ripley’s ‘Download the Weird’ boldly goes where no book has gone before (Photos)…… Imagine the personality conflict that ensues when the two-faced cat, Frank and Louie, sets its mind on something. Picture a woman making artwork from her own vomit. Better yet, hop on board with Norman, the scooter dog, ...
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