Bearcats Smell Like… Buttered Popcorn?
Exploring the strange common ground between movie snacks and mammal urine...
Pop Culture
When Muhammad Ali Tried to Reunite the Beatles
The heavyweight boxer was a confessed Beatles fan!
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Vintage & Historical
The Dance Plague That Struck Strasbourg
In 1518, residents of Strasbourg, France, found themselves twisting their lives away.
Vintage & Historical
The Humble Beginnings of Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber
Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber® was constructed from a 1930s Graflex camera flash tube, complete with glued-on button and circuitry additions.
Places
Mexico’s Cave Of The Crystals Will Astound You
The largest crystals in the world, some weigh in excess of 50 tons!
Art & Fashion
An Anthology Of Ripley's Fashion
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! has collected the best of the bizarre.
Food
The Great Government Free Cheese Movement
It wasn't exactly charcuterie-worthy stuff.
People
Speaking in Reverse With the Backwards Dude
John Austin is a master at speaking backwards and it all started with a record player!
Pop Culture
Ripley’s Acquires Forrest Gump’s Box of Chocolates, Among Other New Memorabilia
The prop, signed by Tom Hanks, was purchased at auction for $25,000 by Ripley's Believe It or Not!
People
The Dark Secret That Forced Walter Rothschild To Sell His Bird Collection
A lifetime of zoological collecting evaporated under the pressures of blackmail.
Animals
Meet Cheddar, the One-in-30-million Orange Lobster
Named after Red Lobster's iconic Cheddar Bay Biscuits®, this unique lobster is an incredibly rare find!
Daily cartoons
Ripley’s daily fun facts cartoon started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. Stories so bizarre it can only be called “Believe It or Not”
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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!