How Seven Victorian Sisters Made Millions With Their Long Hair
The Sutherland Sisters were great performers, but all anyone seemed to care about was their hair.
People
Ripley’s Acquires More Than Six Feet of Hair From World Record Holder!
Nilanshi Patel's dedication to growing her locks has earned a place in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Vintage & Historical
Taking a Bite Out of a 1,500-Year-Old Roman Burger
Let’s recreate one of the Romans' tastiest contributions to humanity: the minced meat and caul fat "burger."
Places
The Poison Garden of Alnwick Castle
Visitors have passed out from sniffing the plants.
Vintage & Historical
The Time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pranked Houdini With Dinosaurs
While it may be known that they were acquaintances, how they came to be is an interesting story.
Sports
Baseball’s Notoriously Superstitious, Strange, and Screwball Sluggers
There’s no shortage of peculiar players in the game of baseball's hallowed history!
Vintage & Historical
Check Out This 2,000-Year-Old Peruvian Femur!
Dating back to 114 B.C., this femur suffered a full-blown compound fracture.
Vintage & Historical
Achieving Sleight of Hand With the Kepplinger-Style Holdout Device
Concealed on the card shark's person, this Kepplinger-style device was used to secretly add or remove cards from the operator's hand.
Vintage & Historical
Beauty and Brawn: How Female Circus Performers Rewrote the Rules
From sharpshooters to human cannonballs, check out these gender-role-defying entertainers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Animals
When Unicorns Walked the Earth
Will the unicorns rise again? Perhaps.
Sunday Cartoon! - February 2, 2025
Cartoon of the Day
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, Kieran Castaño is the eighth artist to continue the legacy of illustrating the world's longest-running syndicated cartoon!