Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 02-27-2022

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A fire that engulfed a cargo ship floating in the Atlantic for a week straight has subsided, leaving the carcasses of $400 million worth of luxury vehicles...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Much of human history has been marred with places of unthinkable brutality. From Dachau to the torture chamber of the Gravensteen castle, some torturous pl...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Many challenges and considerations go into constructing a "successful" jail. According to Samuels Group, preconceived notions abound regarding what an inca...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Widely considered the father of modern magic, French performer Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) discovered his deep-rooted love for these tricks at a y...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It was a great week for the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, as the apex predator clawed its way back into the headlines - giving hope for resurrection 86 ye...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Crakows, also known as the poulaine, were a popular style of pointed and elongated shoes favored by nobility during the medieval period. The shoes featured...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Before influencers and advertisements, fashion relied on other factors to steer trends - including deadly diseases. One of the oldest diseases in human his...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A mass of fireballs streaked across Puerto Rico's skies in early February 2022 in a dramatic and otherworldly display. Was it America's second Roswell? Or ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! About 6,844 miles away from Beijing, where the U.S. National Team continues to glide their way to the Olympics podium, a rescue dog took to a New York ice-...