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January 22, 2020
New York's Washington Square Park used to be a cemetery - an estimated 20,000 bodies are still interred there!
January 21, 2020
Your funny bone isn't really a bone, but an exposed nerve - ouch!
January 20, 2020
The newly discovered "loxosceles tenochtitlan" spider has venom so toxic it can rot human flesh!
Sunday cartoon! - January 19, 2020
Isaac Johnson of Bloomington, Minnesota, holds the record for largest mouth gape - 3.67 inches!
January 18, 2020
Worcestershire sauce is made from anchovies dissolved in vinegar - including the bones.
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.
