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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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?

The Man With Two Sets of DNA Fighting for Dominance
Science & Technology
Engrid Barnett

The Man With Two Sets of DNA Fighting for Dominance

What happens when your DNA “says” you're somebody else?

The Stranger-Than-Fiction History of “Ye”
Vintage & Historical
Engrid Barnett

The Stranger-Than-Fiction History of “Ye”

Ye olde spelling mayhem...

We’ve Been Sleeping on the Facts Behind Bear Hibernation
Animals
Engrid Barnett

We’ve Been Sleeping on the Facts Behind Bear Hibernation

The bear-y strange truth about torpor…

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Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

November 11, 2026

Cartoon of the Day

Tire machèt is a Haitian fencing sport in which competitors wield machetes.

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 daily cartoon. Howie Noel is the ninth artist in over a century to take up the pen as lead Cartoonist.

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