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May 9, 2023
Only one member of the original Beach Boys could actually surf, drummer Dennis Wilson!
May 8, 2023
By eating insects, bats provide pest-control services that save the U.S. agriculture industry over $1 billion per year!
Sunday cartoon! - May 7, 2023
Babies born on a plane flying over the United States can claim U.S. citizenship!
May 6, 2023
Maria Paraskeva of Cyprus had a 22,843-foot-long wedding veil - longer than 63 football fields!
May 5, 2023
The original Apple mouse prototype used a ball from a bottle of roll-on deodorant!
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.
