Ripley's Believe It or Not! » Unbelievable Stories For Guys http://www.ripleys.com/weird Fine Purveyors of All Things Odd, Weird & Unbelievable Fri, 24 May 2013 15:06:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Death By Black Magic http://www.ripleys.com/weird/inside-ripleys-world/death-by-black-magic/ http://www.ripleys.com/weird/inside-ripleys-world/death-by-black-magic/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:25:45 +0000 Luke http://www.ripleys.com/weird/?p=5707 An all new book for Ripley’s, Unbelievable Stories For Guys is coming out in time for Father’s Day.

Here’s a spread from Chapter 11: The Arts

In addition to Sanal_Edamaruku’s encounter with a guru on television, more recently he has found himself in legal trouble for debunking a miracle.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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Here’s a spread from Chapter 9: Mysteries

The Bloop, one of the deep sea’s many mysteries, is a fun one because by coincidence it happens to come from a place pretty close to R’lyeh, the home of Cthulhu.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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Jon Gnarr, Reyjkavik’s punk rock mayor, has been pretty popular since his election and he’s had plenty of fun with his new position.

Quick question. John Frum-ism. Good religion or best religion?

Cargo Cults, like John Frum, are pretty fascinating. They’re definitely an example of Arthur C. Clarke’s law that, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Things like planes and preserved food were so mind blowing to many Pacific Islanders that they had no way to understand what they were seeing.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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Here’s another spread from Chapter 10: Digital & Electronic

If you’re interested in seeing what Nintendo’s logo looked like back when they first started, here are all of their old logos.

Blue Peacock, the nuclear chicken bomb, is definitely a product of its era. Around that time, the US military created the Davy Crockett, a nuclear bomb so tiny that two soldiers could fire one off from the back of a jeep. Of course the Davy Crockett was a lot more successful, as the US Army actually created and deployed a couple thousand of them.

If you’re feeling particularly morbid and want to watch Franz Reichelt’s first and last Eiffel Tower jump, here you go.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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This spread comes from Chapter 10: Digital & Electronic

The vomit beam creates that sense of motion sickness with radio frequency electromagnetic waves. The weapon is able to work through walls because radio waves pass right through walls… so long as they aren’t exceptionally thick or made out of metal. Here’s the patent for it, in case you’re looking for a jumping-off point for creating your own puke blaster.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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]]> http://www.ripleys.com/weird/inside-ripleys-world/beam/feed/ 0 Tsunami Bombs and Bear Blasting http://www.ripleys.com/weird/inside-ripleys-world/tsunami-bombs-and-bear-blasting/ http://www.ripleys.com/weird/inside-ripleys-world/tsunami-bombs-and-bear-blasting/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:10:33 +0000 Luke http://www.ripleys.com/weird/?p=5577 An all new book for Ripley’s, Unbelievable Stories For Guys is coming out in time for Father’s Day.

This spread comes from Chapter 7: Natural World

Now, I know what you’re thinking. How does a bear’s tappen smell? Sure, that’s what everybody’s thinking. Right? Anyway, it apparently carries a “light odor that is not unpleasant.”

The non-existence of the Brontosaurus isn’t a new thing. That’s a scientific battle that goes back decades. And just because the velociraptor was a tiny little chicken…

Doesn’t mean all “raptors” were tiny. Deinonychus and Utahraptor pulled off the “roughly man-sized dinosaur” thing quite well.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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Here are some more pages from USFG’s chapter on SPORTS.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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Here are a couple pages from Chapter 3: Sports.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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They say crime doesn’t pay, but through a combination of luck, skill and totally evil ruthlesness, come people come out ahead…at least for a while. Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman is the 10th richest man in Mexico, after all. Mogilevich is so successful and wide-reaching that he has even made his way onto the most wanted list of the United States’ FBI despite being a Ukranian/Russian mob boss.

Of course, you also might end up like Peter Kürten.

 

These pages come right out of Unbelievable Stories For Guys, available May 1!

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious “Believe It or Not!” stories, trivia and lists—perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift.

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