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

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! With the Super Bowl days away, Ripley's Aquariums MVP - most valuable penguin - Fleury, has made her prediction. The four-year-old African penguin has plac...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It may be the biggest sporting event of the year, but there's so much more to this grand spectacle that draws in millions and millions of viewers. Every Fe...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When one thinks of Russia's favorite drink, vodka comes to mind. But what if another, softer drink captivated the hearts of the Soviet Union? In one of the...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! What comes to mind when you hear the term "headshrinker?" Perhaps psychologists and psychiatrists? Or maybe you think about groups like the Jivaro of north...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Tourists flocking to Florida in search of a reprieve from last weekend’s bombogenesis storm in the Northeast (and regular old winter in the Midwest) ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The pineapple is in the running for the quirkiest-looking fruit around, and it can certainly be tricky to prepare. It's worth the effort of penetrating tha...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A first impression of Yakei, a nine-year-old Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) living at the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden, generally proves disar...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Ripley’s Collection features quite an assortment of unusual art - cheese sculptures, portraits made of human hair, pictures crafted using cigaret...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Unprecedented. Isolation. Uncertainty. All words nobody ever wanted to hear again, yet here we are. No, we’re not having a flashback to 2020 or sound...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! During the Great Depression, a hippopotamus in South Africa decided she wanted to see more than her microcosmic watering hole. She began what would become ...