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July 28, 2023
In 2023, Nigerian chef Hilda Effiong Bassey cooked for a record-breaking 93 hours and 11 minutes!
July 27, 2023
"Death by GPS" happens when following GPS directions leads to disaster.
July 26, 2023
There is a hotel in Sweden called Treehotel that has all its rooms up in the trees.
July 25, 2023
Stegosaurus is the official state fossil of Colorado.
July 24, 2023
Scientists have successively grown and harvested crops in simulated Mars soil!
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 15, 2026
Passengers at a Lithuanian train station are greeted by a 15-foot-tall statue of Tony Soprano.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.