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December 18, 2023
At Germany's annual Jagd und Hund Show, competitors imitate stag sounds using glass bottles, wooden tubes, conch shells and more.
Sunday cartoon! - December 17, 2023
Kortney Olson, a bodybuilder from Las Vegas, Nevada, crushed three watermelons with her thighs in 7.63 seconds!
December 16, 2023
In 1980s England, double-decker bus racing was a competitive sport!
December 15, 2023
In 2021, a first edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein" sold for $1.17 million!
December 14, 2023
Montana is the only U.S. state with rivers that drain into the Gulf of Mexico, Hudson Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
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.
