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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Explosive Nostalgia: Florida Woman’s WWII Land Mine Find
Places
Engrid Barnett

Explosive Nostalgia: Florida Woman’s WWII Land Mine Find

Beachcombers Beware! More than sunken treasure washes up on the shores of Vero Beach, Florida.

Nightmare Down Under: New Huntsman Spider Colonies Discovered
Animals
Engrid Barnett

Nightmare Down Under: New Huntsman Spider Colonies Discovered

These communal, cannibalistic spiders are redefining “creepy-crawly.”

The Confabulation of “Elementary, My Dear Watson”
Vintage & Historical
Engrid Barnett

The Confabulation of “Elementary, My Dear Watson”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote Sherlock’s most famous line.

The Parasitic, Mind-Controlling Wasp is the Stuff of Nightmares
Animals
Engrid Barnett

The Parasitic, Mind-Controlling Wasp is the Stuff of Nightmares

Crypt-keeper wasps combine the horror of Alien with a cerebral twist!

Why 98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Means You’re Hot Stuff
Science & Technology
Engrid Barnett

Why 98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Means You’re Hot Stuff

Human temperatures are getting progressively cooler, but why?

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Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

May 8, 2026

Cartoon of the Day

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.

Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.

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