Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Bearcats Smell Like… Buttered Popcorn?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Animals communicate through innovative, multi-sensory means, including sight, sound, and smell. As the American Scientist points out, we've known since anc...
Mar 16, 2022
Catch of the Day: A 12,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! New England scallop fishing isn't for the faint of heart. Scallopers head out on boats measuring between 70 to 100 feet long in crews of seven, including a...
Mar 15, 2022
Bizarre Bits About Brainiac Albert Einstein
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the German Empire's Kingdom of Wrttemberg, in March 1879. From humble beginnings and a struggle to find work, he began ...
Mar 14, 2022
Palm-Sized Floating Spiders Prepare To Parachute Around East Coast
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Have you ever seen a spider as big as your palm? If you’re living on the East Coast, you may check it off your bucket list soon enough. According to ...
Mar 11, 2022
The Kentucky Meat Shower Of 1876
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Strange rain has long fascinated humanity, and people have written a lot about it over the years. For example, in June 2009, residents of Japan's Ishikawa ...
Mar 10, 2022
The Surprising Legacy Of Sign Language In Martha’s Vineyard
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In the late 1600s, Jonathan Lambert, a native of Kent, England, journeyed to Chilmark, a small town on the west end of Martha's Vineyard. He was Deaf, as w...
Mar 09, 2022
Monster Waves Caught Off The Coast Of Portugal
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! On October 29, 2020, NASA's Landsat 8 satellite snapped a remarkable series of images of gigantic waves breaking along Praia do Norte (North Beach) in Naza...
Mar 08, 2022
Burglarizing Black Bear "Hank The Tank" Spared Thanks To DNA Evidence
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A 500-pound black bear named Hank was partially pardoned after DNA evidence revealed that the furry fugitive did not act alone during a seven-month crime s...
Mar 04, 2022
The Great Nantucket Sea Serpent Hoax
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When photos of massive footprints on a sandy beach started popping up in the papers in the summer of 1937, the people of Nantucket - an isolated crescent-s...
Mar 03, 2022
America’s Alleged Trial Against Tomatoes, Not Witches, In Salem
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! According to The Packer Fresh Trends 2021 survey, 54 percent of Americans consumed more veggies last year than the year before. At the top of their grocery...
Mar 02, 2022