Believe It or Not!
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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!
Zombification, a Zombie Café & Zombies in Pittsburgh
Episode 143 We take a different view of Zombies this week as we look at the pop culture side of the walking dead. We hear from Tony Rossi, the manager of the Georgia Coffee Shop and Café in the Georgia town where the popular Walking Dead TV series is filmed ...
Unbelievable Volcanoes, Dinosaurs & Whales on Tour
Sunday, May 5, 2013 · 1 Comment
Episode 142 Believe It or Not, during the 20th century, frozen whale carcasses were big draws on the circus and carnival midways! Historian James Taylor visits this week and talks about frozen whales, live whales and exploding whales. Mark Oswald wraps up his series on natural oddities and unbelievable sights ...
Smelling Like a Zombie & a Lake Monster Named Pepie
Episode 141 Believe It or Not! there’s a perfume out there that makes you smell like a Zombie. What does a Zombie smell like? While hard to describe, Mark Crames, president of the company that manufactures it, explains why he created it and compares its smell to something that will ...
Rocks that Move, an Honest Thief & a UFO Festival
Episode 140 We begin a series of reports this week on the unbelievable, unusual and strange aspects of our US National Parks. Author Mike Oswald kicks the series off by revealing the one park that is many things - below sea level, the hottest, driest AND largest, and is the ...
Peanut Shell Artwork & The Sexiest Con-joined Twins Ever
Episode 139 Artist Steve Casino has chosen an unusual medium for his art – peanut shells – on which he paints the famous and the infamous. He tells us how he does it and why he began this strange endeavor and what his friends really think of it (and him). ...
Why We Love Horror Flicks & a Chat with a Blind Movie Critic
Episode 138 Actor J. Larose, star of several popular horror films, joins us this week to talk about the genre and why it is so appealing to the public and world-renown FX artist Barry Anderson describes his new adventure – Ghoul School where he teaches the precise and often macabre ...
Seven Years of Hiccups & Human Spontaneous Combustion
Episode 137 This week on Ripley Radio, we present two unbelievable mysteries. What makes a person hiccup for seven years and is there really such a thing as spontaneous human combustion? Is there a cure and what is it like to live with continuous hiccups, and is there such a ...
Visiting Popeye’s Home Town & a Half-Blind Baseball Pitcher
Sunday, March 24, 2013 · 1 Comment
Episode 136 One of the oldest cartoon characters in the world is Popeye the Sailor Man and this week we learn from Chad Lewis that Chester, Ill. lays claim as the hometown of the character and each year holds an off-beat picnic in his honor. Getting into the big leagues ...
Favorite Foods of Dead Celebrities & The Art of Eating Light Bulbs
Episode 135 Variety entertainer extraordinaire Todd Robbins drops by this week and tells us that he has eaten more than 5,000 light bulbs during his career as part of his act. It’s a learned skill and one has to be very careful, he notes. Frank DeCaro, a celebrity in his ...
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