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May 5, 2025
In 2025, Maine firefighters halted train traffic to rescue a horse stranded on a railroad bridge.
Sunday cartoon! - May 4, 2025
Before auto-tune, the 1925 yodel meter measured a singer's pitch.
May 3, 2025
20th Century Fox thought "Star Wars" was going to flop!
May 2, 2025
Mr. Clean has a first name: Veritably.
May 1, 2025
Snow leopards can't roar like most big cats, but their calls travel long distances to find mates and mark territory.
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.
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.
