In 2019, worldwide news broke about the ‘lost’ Apollo 11 moonwalk reels selling at auction for $1.82 million — officially deemed “erased and reused” by NASA in 2006. The buyer remained anonymous until the tapes proudly went on display at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Orlando, in the attraction’s Out of This World gallery with other notable pieces such as Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber® and Han Solo’s Blaster!
May 8, 2026
The town of Kyle in Saskatchewan, Canada, faced a hiccup in the run-up to its November 2024 municipal election: no one ran for mayor.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.