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!
VOO DOO
Voodoo is a traditional religion from West Africa. It is based on a belief that animals and inanimate objects, known as fetishes, have spiritual powers. These fetishes are used in voodoo rituals. Powders made from various animals parts are administered by voodoo priests, or bokors, which can seemingly send people ...
Killer Plant
Sunday, November 18, 2012 · 1 Comment
A carnivorous pitcher plant at a garden nursery in Somerset, England, killed and ate a great tit–only the second documented case in the world of a pitcher plant eating a bird. The plant’s inner wall secretes a nectar like substance to attract insects, and the bird probably leaned in too ...
Dad of Divas Review
If you have been a fan of Ripley’s Books in the past, this book takes it to the next level of weird (thus the title). There are some very strange and some disturbing stories within this book that will make you look twice and sometimes even cringe (or at least ...
American Odyssey
For nearly three years from June 2008 to March 2011, John and Nancy Vogel and their twin sons Daryl and Davy of Boise, Idaho, cycled the entire length of the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina–a pedaling distance of 17,300 mi (27,850 km). The ...
Reviews in Brief
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Download The Weird contains an interesting set of unusual facts and bizarre sights. For instance, Joshua Carter is pictured with both shoulders touching each other. He was born with no collarbones. Ziona Chana is shown with his 39 wives and 94 children. Read the full ...
CRASH MAN
Rusty Haight is the human crash-test dummy. As director of the San Diego-based Collision Safety Institute, Rusty has experienced more than 950 violent vehicle crash tests at speeds of up to 54 mph (87 km/h), and taken 140 air bags to the face. A former police traffic officer, Rusty uses ...
Sweaty Robots
U.K. designer Kevin Grennan has created robots with sweaty armpits. He has augmented three existing robots with “sweat glands” made from Japanese artificial sweat, a product used to test fabrics for sweat stains. In response to a chemical stimulus, each robot targets a specific form of human subconscious behavior–fear, focus ...
Autumn Blues Reviews
New oddScan app brings stories to life ! I will never forget that first time I laid eyes on Ripley’s Believe It or Not. I was in 5th grade and since my school did not have its own library, once a week the whole class would go across the street ...
Shoulder Squeeze
Saturday, November 3, 2012 · 1 Comment
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 ...
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