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May 21, 2022
A rare 1998 Pikachu "Illustrator" holographic promo card sold at auction in February 20222 for $900,000!
May 20, 2022
Since 1950, the U.S. has lost and never recovered a total of six nuclear weapons.
May 19, 2022
Venus fly-traps are native only to North and South Carolina.
May 18, 2022
West Indian and West African manatees have fingernails at the tips of their flippers.
May 17, 2022
Elephants can't jump.
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.
