Believe It or Not!
Self Operation
Monday, February 27, 2012 · 1 Comment
Here’s a story you’ll find inside Strikingly True, page 226. While on a 1961 expedition in the frozen Antarctic, 27-year-old Soviet doctor Leonid Rogozov saved his own life by performing an operation on himself to remove his dangerously inflamed appendix. Suffering from fever and a pain in his right lower ...
ANTastic!
Inside Strikingly True, page 58. Artist Chris Trueman of Claremont, California, came up with an unusual way to make this portrait of his younger brother dressed up as a cowboy look like an old, yellowed photograph—he used 200,000 dead ants. At rst Chris tried to catch the harvester ants ...
Scaly Shots
Part Man, Part Lizard, All Entertainer Erik “The Lizardman” Sprague visited our museum in London last year to promote our latest annual, Strikingly True. We put up some video from the event, but never did anything with the photos. I figured I’d toss a few of them up now. Of ...
Stone-Faced
Inside Strikingly True, page 173. One of Ripley’s most valuable acquisitions is a jade burial suit—the head of which is seen here—from Han Dynasty China, dating back to 200BC. These were incredibly expensive to manufacture, and only a handful remain today. This suit is made from 2,000 pieces of “mottled ...
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 ...
Daily Dose of Bug Bits
Over the holidays, Kimberley Davis of the Davis Daily Dose got a copy of Strikingly True for a giveaway and was fascinated by what she saw. It is filled with stories of the weird, wild, and crazy. Stories like that of Jonathon Trappe who traveled across the English Channel attached ...
Leap of Faith
Inside Strikingly True, page 154. Now available as an iBook. Escape artist and evangelist Anthony Martin performed a daring skydive from an airplane flying at 13,500 ft (4,115 m) over Illinois—wearing handcuffs that were locked to a chain around his neck and linked to leather cuffs fastened above each elbow. ...
The Palm Beach Gardens Lifestyle Review!
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Strikingly True You are a smart kid. With math, you fear no fraction, you’re a geometry genius, and you’re awesome at algebra. You’re a walking dictionary, a map on two legs, and the bomb at Bees. You do science experiments for fun. Yep, you’re one ...
Have a Strikingly True Christmas!
Strikingly True is now available in the Apple store! Download the perfect gift for your new electronic device! The all-new 8th title in the successful Ripley’s Believe It or Not! annual series. A compendium of incredible bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features, this year’s book also offers a unique section ...
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 ...
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