Engrid Barnett

Engrid Barnett

Engrid is an award-winning travel writer and cultural geographer who’s long cultivated an obsession with cryptids, vintage tattoos, roadside attractions, and abandoned places. Her public descent into the weird began in 2017 after signing on with Ripley’s Believe It or Not! A longtime fan of Robert Ripley’s cartoons and quirky trivia, she relishes sorting fact from fiction and feeling mind boggled every step of the way. You can also catch her work in Wild West, Rova, Nevada Magazine, American Trails Magazine and more.

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Catch of the Day: A 12,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Vintage & Historical
Engrid Barnett

Catch of the Day: A 12,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tooth

The 7-pound dental discovery proved more than New England scallopers bargained for.

Monster Waves Caught Off the Coast of Portugal
Places
Engrid Barnett

Monster Waves Caught Off the Coast of Portugal

A once sleepy fishing hamlet turned surfer magnet, Nazaré, Portugal, has garnered a reputation for attracting the planet’s most dauntless big wave surfers.

America's Alleged Trial Against Tomatoes, Not Witches, in Salem
Vintage & Historical
Engrid Barnett

America's Alleged Trial Against Tomatoes, Not Witches, in Salem

One man decided to prove once and for all the edibility of tomatoes.

Voluntary Confinement: Regular Folks Line Up To Stay In Swiss Prison
Places
Engrid Barnett

Voluntary Confinement: Regular Folks Line Up To Stay In Swiss Prison

Hundreds of applicants vie to spend time in a Zurich clinker.

Sun Causes 40 SpaceX Starlink Satellites To Rain Down Above Earth
Science & Technology
Engrid Barnett

Sun Causes 40 SpaceX Starlink Satellites To Rain Down Above Earth

They were part of a batch of 49 satellites sent up in early February 2022.

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Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

June 11, 2025

Cartoon of the Day

Saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT costs millions of dollars in electricity.

Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, Kieran Castaño is the eighth artist to continue the legacy of illustrating the world's longest-running syndicated cartoon!

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