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October 7, 2025
A fisherman in Warsaw hooked a surprising catch: a 700-year-old sword!
October 6, 2025
Betty Crocker is a fictional character.
Sunday cartoon! - October 5, 2025
In Tucson, Arizona, the New Year is marked by dropping a giant Taco Bell taco instead of a ball.
October 4, 2025
Some pepper sprays include a UV-reactive blue dye that can mark an attacker for up to 48 hours!
October 3, 2025
A groundhog's burrow can range from 8 to 66 feet long!
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster" a custom Telecaster with a real preserved piranha sealed in blue 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 13, 2026
In 1980, Minoru Yoshida completed 10,507 nonstop push-ups.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
