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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 ...
Typhoid Mary & A Tree in Disneyland
Monday, January 9, 2012 · 1 Comment
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 ...
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.
Witch Doctors, Alien Hands & 7 Billion People
Monday, December 12, 2011 · 3 Comments
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.
Another’s Treasure
Jaclyn Goldsborough of Fort Wayne.com had a chat with our archivist, Edward Meyer, and Sayaka Ganz, a fellow resident of Ft. Wayne, Texas. Looking above your head at the sculpture “Plunge,” you see six penguins suspended from the ceiling, diving into the air with such fluid motion you would think ...
Overnight America
Thursday, December 8, 2011 · 1 Comment
Jon Grayson, host of Overnight America (via CBS’s St. Louis affiliate) had a chat with Edward as well. One of the first subjects Jon brings up is shrunken heads, just like the one above, and mummies, which have a feature in Strikingly True. You can tell he was pretty excited ...
Radio Free Edward
Edward Meyer, our archivist and curator, had a chat with Dr. Alvin Jones, the host of The Business of Wisdom radio show on WHFS-AM, the CBS Radio affiliate in Washington D.C. He took the time to discuss our new book, as well as the general world of Ripley’s. Listen to ...
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!
Halloween Stories and Witches: When to Love Them; When to Fear Them
EPISODE 77 Ripley Radio celebrates Halloween by reaching out to three different witches and warlocks and asking them to explain what this witch thing is all about. What we got in return is an entertaining and enlightening program dedicated to the unbelievable world they live in.
Vampire Tours, Hulk Hogan & The World’s Largest Plow
EPISODE 75 Stephenie Meyer chose Forks, Washington as the setting for her Twilight series for a reason. It’s rainy, cloudy and rather sun-less for much of the year. The perfect environment for a vampire! Debbie Bennett, a resident of Forks runs Twilight Tours in which she and her team drives ...
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