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December 23, 2023
Mrs. Claus does not have a definitive first name.
December 22, 2023
Lisa Blair sailed counterclockwise around the entire coast of Australia nonstop and unassisted in 58 days.
December 21, 2023
A gray wolf can devour 20 pounds of meat in one meal!
December 20, 2023
Ironically, the Austrian town of Rottenegg is famous for the quality of its fresh mountain air.
December 19, 2023
In English, the current capital of Japan, Tokyo, is an anagram of its previous capital, Kyoto.
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.
