Believe It or Not!
Inside Ripley’s World
We pull the curtain back a little to give you a glimpse inside the world of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! You get a front row seat to all the new exhibits that come in to our warehouse before they even get to a museum, walk inside the F/X department to see how wax figures some to life, or take a peek inside Ripley’s awesome books!
Tasteful Hotel
During the holiday season in December 2011, the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California, put on display a gingerbread house of epic proportions. Constructed out of 7,500 home-baked gingerbread bricks and 1,200 lb (544 kg) of royal icing, the 23-ft-high (7-m) house was decorated with 650 lb (295 kg) of ...
Your Uploads! Gum Sculpting….
Chris Antes of Cleveland, Ohio, sent in this picture of gum that he has sculpted into a dolphin! He has sculpted more than 250 different shapes–including animals, vegetables, fruit and body parts–without using his hands. Instead, the Gum Man, as he is known, molds the gum into the desired shape ...
Ripley’s Oddtoberfest!
Check out the video from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Oddtoberfest event! It was a fun day had by all who visited! Lizardman performed some amazing feats and guests had an opportunity to have their picture taken with him! But there’s more…. Watch more here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4hqoBJtZjo4 Download The Weird features ...
Worm Delicacy
People in the Philippines eat a saltwater bivalve mollusk that bores into wooden ships, piers and docks. Known as a shipworm, because of it’s wormlike appearance and taste with rum as an aphrodisiac–a concoction called tamilok. Filipino Lloyd Lumbania says: “Tamilok is best eaten raw with a dash of lime ...
CD ART
Fascinated by the way light and color reflect off a compact disk, Sean Avery from Ottawa, Canada, makes sculptures of birds and animals–including a rat and a falcon–from old CD’s. He cuts up the disks with scissors, arranges the shards according to size and color, and then attaches them to ...
Feathered Quill Book Review
I always look forward to the annual edition of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! I got hooked when my kids were younger and loved exploring the pages of this series and now find that I too, love to flip through the books, discovering new and bizarre ‘things.’ Each year I ...
Firework Artist
Pyro-artist Rosemarie Fiore from the Bronx, New York, creates unique, abstract paintings in her back yard by exploding fireworks onto blank sheets of paper. She makes eye-catching images with colored smoke bombs, firecrackers, and lasers, bombing the paper a number of times to create layers. Fiore directs the colorful blasts ...
Hard To Credit
As a protest against what he considers to be the evil of plastic credit cards, Los Angeles- based artist Cain Motter burns and melts old cards down into creative sculptures, which he then sells for up to $1,200.00 apiece–to pay off his credit-card bill. Download The Weird features incredible people ...
I Heart Giveaways Review
What Is It Ripley’s Believe It Or Not latest book “Download the Weird” is a full-color hardcover book that’s bound to delight those who love those interesting facts about the human experience. With 254 pages and multiple chapters of content, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, yet again, is publishing a ...
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