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February 16, 2022
On December 29, 2021, residents of Texarkana, Texas, experienced fish falling from the sky during an animal rain shower.
February 15, 2022
Napoleon Bonaparte traveled with a personal library filled with dozens of miniaturized books.
February 14, 2022
Using mirrors and magnifying glasses, Colorado artist Michael Papadakis uses the power of the sun to burn drawings onto wooden canvases.
Sunday cartoon! - February 13, 2022
At the Arosa ski resort in Switzerland in 2017, Swiss freestyle skier Elias Ambuhl reached 81.5 mph while skiing down a mountain - backward!
February 12, 2022
A manuscript containing handwritten notes by Albert Einstein that form the foundations of his Theory of Relativity sold at auction in November 2021 for $13 million.
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.
Sunday Cartoon! - August 16, 2026
In 2025, a Texas pickleball team called The Pickle Breakers played pickleball nonstop for 36 hours.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
