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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!

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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Witch Doctors, Alien Hands & 7 Billion People

Witch Doctors, Alien Hands & 7 Billion People

EPISODE 83   TV adventurer, author, actor and world traveler Piers Gibbon stops by Ripley Radio this week and tells us about his latest National Geographic Channel show, The Witch Doctor Will See You Now!  He shares the various “cures” he was shown by the Witch Doctors in Peru. 
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Roadkill Nourishment & Money-Eating Mongrel

Roadkill Nourishment & Money-Eating Mongrel

Episode 82   This week on Ripley Radio we talk with a Florida woman who left $1,000 in cash on the kitchen counter only to be eaten by her dog! How she got it back may surprise you!
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Side Show Money, Weird Winter Sports & Messages in a Bottle

Side Show Money, Weird Winter Sports & Messages in a Bottle

EPISODE 81 Inside money is an important part of any carnival or circus sideshow, we hear from sideshow historian James Taylor. “You pay a buck to get in and $50 to get out,” he jokes.  He explains the “inside money” concept this week on Ripley Radio and tells a few ...
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Funerals, Sea Turtles & Percilla the Monkey Girl

Funerals, Sea Turtles & Percilla the Monkey Girl

EPISODE 80 Author and a doyenne of death, Gail Ruben visits Ripley Radio this week and tells us about her quest to crash 30 funerals of total strangers in 30 days. Then she blogs about the deceased and her experiences at the funeral. Taking a whimsical approach to death and ...
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Weird Medical Maladies, Proof of Reincarnation & Miss Artichoke 1948

Weird Medical Maladies, Proof of Reincarnation & Miss Artichoke 1948

EPISODE 79 Psychic Marie Gates, author of Are We Our Past Lives?, visits Ripley Radio this week and discusses her journey from being an atheist and not believing in re-incarnation to one who believes in both God and re-incarnation. She relates a compelling story that she feels proves that re-incarnation ...
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