Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Find Hot Moons in Your Area: The Search for Planet Nine
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially demoted Pluto from the beloved ninth planet to one of five dwarf planets; the universe hasn'...
Feb 21, 2023
Ripley’s Round Trip: Seriously Weird Travel Destinations
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! We have an island run by cats, an eerie network of tombs underneath Paris and the world's deadliest hiking trail. On the first episode of Ripley's Round Tr...
Feb 17, 2023
Hazy Skies In Impressionist Artwork Illustrated… Air Pollution?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The hazy landscapes favored by impressionist artists in the mid-18th to 20th centuries were not just dreamy depictions of nature-they were a reflection of ...
Feb 17, 2023
The Secret to Ancient Sloths’ Aquatic Lives Found
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Between 25 and 4 million years ago, aquatic sloths nearly the size of elephants lived in what is now known as Chile and Peru. These sloths were skilled swi...
Feb 16, 2023
The Tragic Collapse of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! On May 9, 1980, 35 people traveling southbound across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge died after plunging into Tampa Bay, unaware that the structure had partial...
Feb 15, 2023
The 350-Pound Penguin That Once Roamed Planet Earth
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Fifty million years ago, during the Eocene Epoch, the Earth was an unrecognizable wilderness of verdant forests and expansive valleys where tapirs, rhinoce...
Feb 15, 2023
Ripley’s Acquires Forrest Gump’s Box of Chocolates, Among Other New Memorabilia
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Conversation hearts and boxes of chocolates are synonymous with Valentine's Day, but no ordinary candy for Ripley's sweethearts will do. Ripley's Believe I...
Feb 13, 2023
Bones in Viking Burial Grounds Suggest They Loved their Pets
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! More than 1,000 years ago, Vikings sailed west toward England with their pets onboard their ships, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS O...
Feb 10, 2023
Spy Radio Stations that Still Broadcast Today
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Imagine you're an amateur radio operator in the 70s for a moment. You've just purchased a high-tech gadget that lets you talk with people vast distances aw...
Feb 10, 2023
“America’s Unknown Child” Mystery Finally Solved 65 Years Later
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! On a chilly February morning in 1957, a man checking his muskrat traps in Philadelphia came across a cardboard box with the naked body of a young boy insid...
Feb 09, 2023