Author Archives: Syndicated Content
From Pigskin Past To Record-Setting Cheers: Boning Up For Super Bowl LV
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Super Bowl LV goes down this weekend and defending champs Kansas City Chiefs are taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium. This ...
Feb 03, 2021
Ham the Space Chimp: The World’s First Ape in Space
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Three months before Alan Shepard became the first American human in space, the U.S. launched a chimpanzee astronaut. His name was Ham, and he was set into ...
Jan 31, 2021
Why Does A Groundhog Control The Weather?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Punxsutawney Phil is, without a doubt, the most famous groundhog around. This 135-year-old woodland critter is responsible for telling the world whether or...
Jan 29, 2021
Japanese Entrepreneur Wants to Analyze Your B.O.
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! [January 25-January 31, 2021] A monster surprise, Bigfoot legislation, and the disappearance of a beloved mannequin-all round-up in this week’s weird...
Jan 29, 2021
Hetty Green: Witch Of Wall Street Or Feminine Finance Icon?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A woman of both surly demeanor and stock market savvy, Hetty Green rose to the top of the male-dominated world of finance to amass a fortune worth as much ...
Jan 28, 2021
The Lincolns Brought Spiritualism And Seances To The White House
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It was 1862, and the Civil War was raging with no end in sight. A troubled President, Abraham Lincoln, was left to ponder and pace the White House halls in...
Jan 26, 2021
Rare Snowfall Dusts The Sahara Desert
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! [January 18-January 24, 2021] A mysterious art heist, an Oscar-worthy pup, and a pristine dinosaur butthole-all round-up in this week's weird news from Rip...
Jan 22, 2021
The First DMC DeLorean Rolled Off the Assembly Line 40 Years Ago
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The first DMC-12 DeLorean sports car was produced on Jan. 21, 1981. This futuristic automobile is best known for its appearance in the Back to The Future f...
Jan 21, 2021
The Dance Plague That Struck Strasbourg
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The waltz. The tango. The Cha-Cha Slide. There’s a dance for everyone, but what if you couldn’t stop doing it no matter how much you wanted to-...
Jan 20, 2021
Theories Evermore Surrounding Edgar Allan Poe’s Death
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Both sensitive and macabre, literary pioneer Edgar Allan Poe played a very large role in developing the horror, science fiction, and detective story genres...
Jan 19, 2021