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Sunday cartoon! - September 8, 2024
Some police motorcycles in the 1920s had a jail sidecar.
September 7, 2024
In 1958, Bruce Lee became the Crown Colony Cha-Cha Dancing Champion of Hong Kong.
September 6, 2024
Kanya Sesser, a 31-year-old California woman born without legs, skateboarded in the handstand position for 19.65 seconds.
September 5, 2024
Elephants sometimes lie down to get the deep REM sleep they need to stay healthy.
September 4, 2024
As surfers competed in the 2024 Olympic competition in Tahiti, a breaching whale photobombed the event.
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster," a custom Telecaster with a real, preserved piranha sealed in resin!
Food
A hungover stockbroker, a lust-fighting minister, and a maître d' whose cook went missing—meet the real people hiding on your menu.
People
A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
August 14, 2026
Venice was built on wooden piles driven deep into the mud, acting like stilts to support the city.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
