Find a Location
Stories
All Stories
Our Story
Cartoons
Select Date
June 30, 2022
In December 2021, at least 30 manhole covers were stolen from the streets of Chatham County, Georgia.
June 29, 2022
The caps on the end of shoelaces are called "aglets."
June 28, 2022
Bermuda has no freshwater springs, rivers or lakes, and residents have traditionally collected rainfall using stepped rooftops.
June 27, 2022
Cicada wings have microscopic spikes that defend against invading bacteria!
Sunday cartoon! - June 26, 2022
Han Solo was frozen in "The Empire Strikes Back" because it was unknown at the time if Harrison Ford would return to the series!
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.
