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The show is an unpredictable and fun-filled hour that will prove beyond all dimensions that Ripley’s is indeed, the global authority on the weird, strange and bizarre. Each show provides listeners with amazing and absolutely true tales of today as well as unbelievables from the extensive archives of the company that has been freaking out families for more than 90 years!

Cheese and Children in the White House

Cheese and Children in the White House

Episode 91 It’s President’s Week here at Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast, as we present two amazing and unusual stories you won’t find anywhere else. We hear that President Andrew Jackson may be the biggest party animal the White House has ever seen! Author and presidential historian Jacopo della ...
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Sword Swallowing, Ripley’s Historic Cartoon & 101 Marriages

Sword Swallowing, Ripley’s Historic Cartoon & 101 Marriages

Episode 90 Believe It or Not! David and Lauren Blair of Nashville, Tenn., have married each other 101 times! The couple joins Ripley Radio this week to discuss their love for each other and share some of the weirder vow exchanges the two have made: ranging from several at Hard ...
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Fish Odor, Jersey Devil & Building Your Own Casket

Fish Odor, Jersey Devil & Building Your Own Casket

Episode 89 Does the famed New Jersey Devil really have a bathing pool deep inside the state’s Pine Barrens? Author Fran Capo’s new book, Myths and Mysteries of New Jersey, has a chapter on the Devil’s Bathtub and she drops by this week to tell us about her weird experience ...
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Mental Floss, Starbucks Surprises & a Dog Named Ripley

Mental Floss, Starbucks Surprises & a Dog Named Ripley

Episode 88 Ethan Trex of the popular web site and magazine, Mental Floss, stops by Ripley Radio this week to discuss the weird topics his publication carries, how they research the bizarre, and how it compares with Ripley’s Believe It or Not! A pitiful little pooch was found in the ...
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The original talking dog, Banned from Walmart and more shocking stories

The original talking dog, Banned from Walmart and more shocking stories

Episode 87 Was Don a celebrated German pooch from the early 20th century, really able to talk as so many stories and legends proclaim? Huffington Post correspondent Marc Hartzman looked into the popular tale and talks with us this week on Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast. Do you think ...
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Bizarre Economic Indexes & Walking Over Niagara Falls

Bizarre Economic Indexes & Walking Over Niagara Falls

Episode 86 Nik Wallenda, the 7th generation high-wire walker in the world-famous Wallenda Family, is attempting to get official permission from the Canadian Government to walk across Niagara Falls in June 2012. Meanwhile, the New York State government has already given him the go ahead for that side of the ...
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Typhoid Mary & A Tree in Disneyland

Typhoid Mary & A Tree in Disneyland

EPISODE 85 In the early 1900s, Typhoid Mary cooked for people and they soon became very ill or died. It was that simple, but was she a typhoid carrier?  Fran Capo joins us this week to discuss Mary Malone, better known as Typhoid Mary, from the research she did for ...
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Hard Core Jousting, Sunken Ships & The Doors

Hard Core Jousting, Sunken Ships & The Doors

EPISODE 84 Formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, Jim Morrison & The Doors created their own recording studio in a worn-down area of Santa Monica Boulevard.  Today, that location is a Mexican Restaurant and the sound booth in which Morrison recorded is the men’s bathroom.
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Aliens, Dwarf Basketball & a Funky Tower

Aliens, Dwarf Basketball & a Funky Tower

Episode 25 This week  we learn that Aliens do exist. Jim Moroney tells us of the night he was abducted by Aliens and how it changed his life.
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Merry Christmas Weirdness and Couch Surfing

Merry Christmas Weirdness and Couch Surfing

Episode 15 Christmas expert Robin Mains tells Ripley Radio that although she is a Christian, she and her family stopped celebrating the holiday a decade ago and speaks of the deviant and strange side of the holiday.
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