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March 12, 2020
In Mexico City, street vendors offer passersby a game of "toques," where you pay to receive an electric shock!
March 11, 2020
In the 1950s and 1960s, automakers sold dashboard record players for cars.
March 10, 2020
On his WWI draft card, Harry Houdini listed his middle name as "Handcuff"!
March 9, 2020
In the 17th century, Catholics circumvented not eating meat during Lent by claiming the semi-aquatic beaver was a fish!
Sunday cartoon! - March 8, 2020
Celebrated annually in Hong Kong, competitors at the Cheung Chau Bun Festival scale 60-foot towers of stacked plastic sweet buns!
People
One photo from 1958 sent Bekah Burke up onto a row of champagne bottles!
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.
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 17, 2026
The University of Applied Arts Vienna allowed an AI named “Flynn” to enroll as a full-time digital art student.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
