Find a Location
Stories
All Stories
Our Story
Cartoons
Select Date
April 7, 2021
Nepenthes attenboroughii - a type of pitcher plant found in the Philippines - can digest still-living rats whole!
April 6, 2021
Penicillin does not kill bacteria - it prevents it from reproducing!
April 5, 2021
The Mars rover Opportunity is older than the average American car!
Sunday cartoon! - April 4, 2021
Silly string is used to detect tripwires during military operations!
April 3, 2021
All giant pandas in captivity are officially owned by China.
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.
