Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Are Venus Flytraps Indiscriminate Killers?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The 1986 movie Little Shop of Horrors features a geeky florist shop worker who discovers his Venus flytrap, Audrey II, can talk. Before the end of the movi...
Jul 23, 2020
10 Doomsday Scenarios That Never Happened
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! As the great alt-rock band R.E.M. sang, "It's the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine." Turns out, there have been many times in the past when...
Jul 22, 2020
The Surprising Story Of Pirate Captain Kidd’s Buried Booty On Liberty Island
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The likes of Peter Pan and Robert Louis Stephenson's Treasure Island have really warped our view of pirates in popular culture. The exploits of roguish ant...
Jul 21, 2020
Your Memory Is No Match For Griffin, The Ivy-League Parrot
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [July 13-July 19, 2020] Griffin the Harvard parrot, corpse plants, screams to-go, and the rest of the week's weird news from Ripley's Believe It ...
Jul 20, 2020
The Strangest Conspiracy Theories The Interwebs Has To Offer
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It's a sign of the times. While the world has been battling a pandemic and social issues, we have also been battling the spread of misinformation. Conspira...
Jul 17, 2020
Who Really Invented The Bagpipes?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Each year, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo puts on a spectacular performance of bagpipers and drummers in Scotland. The event draws crowds of 220,000. ...
Jul 16, 2020
The Ark Of Williamstown, Kentucky
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! EDITORS NOTE: This article is a point-of-view story written by Ripley's contributor and Believe It or Notcast host, Ryan Clark. From vampires in New Orlean...
Jul 15, 2020
One Ring To Curse Them All
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In 2013, an enigmatic gold ring associated with an ancient Roman curse resurfaced in Great Britain, going on exhibition to the pleasure of diehard J.R.R. T...
Jul 14, 2020
Watch An Entire Living Room Paraglide Through The Sky
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [July 6-July 12, 2020] A living room in the sky, fantasy flight, elephant that will give you hair envy, and the rest of the week's weird news fro...
Jul 10, 2020
Hip-Hop Music Makes Cheese Taste Better And More Weird True Facts!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Science frequently teeters on the edge of the unbelievable, often leaving people-even scientists-thinking, "What the…?" Weird True Facts by Ripley's ...
Jul 10, 2020