Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Colorado Man Uses Nose To Push Peanut 12.6 Miles Up Pikes Peak
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! *We recommend playing "Running Up that Hill" for dramatic effect while reading this story.* A 53-year-old Colorado man completed the trek up a 14,115-foot ...
Jul 22, 2022
The Centuries-Old Italian Chapel Built Into A Sheer Cliffside
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Nestled in the cliffs of Italy's Monte Baldo mountain range is an impossibly situated holy site, the Santuario Madonna Della Corona (Sanctuary of the Lady ...
Jul 20, 2022
The Universe’s Heartbeat Detected Light-Years Away
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Astronomers in North America have detected a persistent and inexplicable radio signal emitted from a galaxy many light-years away. Unlike other fast radio ...
Jul 19, 2022
Up Close & Peculiar With Admiral Motti Collectibles
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Up Close & Peculiar More than 100 years ago, the globetrotting Robert Ripley began collecting artifacts from his journeys around the world, which today...
Jul 16, 2022
Florida County Quarantined to Avoid Disease-Spreading Snails
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A new kind of quarantine is in effect in Pasco County, Florida, as the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) acts fast to eradica...
Jul 15, 2022
Obscure American Girl Doll Memes Explained
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! We need an American Girl doll who deep dives into every weird story she comes across on the internet. Oh wait, that’s us! Unless you’ve spent t...
Jul 14, 2022
For 30 Years, Garfield Phones Appeared On French Beaches Without Explanation
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Garfield, the lovable and lazy orange cartoon cat, remains a pop-culture icon known for wise sayings like "I've never met a lasagna I didn't like" and "I h...
Jul 13, 2022
Incredibly Preserved Baby Mammoth Uncovered In Canada
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Thirty-thousand years in the ground wreaks havoc (and oblivion) on most corpses. The best you can generally hope for is fossilization, as in the case of so...
Jul 12, 2022
Meet Cheddar, The One-in-30-Million Orange Lobster
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There was something obviously very different about one of the lobsters shipped to a Red Lobster restaurant in Hollywood, Florida. Employees at the restaura...
Jul 12, 2022
Awaiting The First Color Photos From The James Webb Telescope
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for more than 30 years, and the photos it sent back to Earth have forever changed our understanding of the un...
Jul 11, 2022