Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Obscure American Girl Doll Memes Explained
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! We need an American Girl doll who deep dives into every weird story she comes across on the internet. Oh wait, that’s us! Unless you’ve spent t...
Jul 14, 2022

For 30 Years, Garfield Phones Appeared On French Beaches Without Explanation
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Garfield, the lovable and lazy orange cartoon cat, remains a pop-culture icon known for wise sayings like "I've never met a lasagna I didn't like" and "I h...
Jul 13, 2022

Incredibly Preserved Baby Mammoth Uncovered In Canada
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Thirty-thousand years in the ground wreaks havoc (and oblivion) on most corpses. The best you can generally hope for is fossilization, as in the case of so...
Jul 12, 2022

Meet Cheddar, The One-in-30-Million Orange Lobster
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There was something obviously very different about one of the lobsters shipped to a Red Lobster restaurant in Hollywood, Florida. Employees at the restaura...
Jul 12, 2022

Awaiting The First Color Photos From The James Webb Telescope
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for more than 30 years, and the photos it sent back to Earth have forever changed our understanding of the un...
Jul 11, 2022

Spice Up Your Life! Interview With A Spice Girls Doll Collector
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Here at Ripley's, we take pride in honoring the unbelievable. So when Adam Weatherly came to our attention, we felt compelled to speak with him and honor h...
Jul 11, 2022

The Quiz Show Rigging Scandal
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It wasn't long after the invention of the television that game show and quizzing programs began making their big on-screen debut. While we all enjoy a cozy...
Jul 08, 2022

The 19th-Century Entrepreneur Who Pioneered Modern Ice Cream
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Without the talented mind of girl boss, Agnes B. Marshall, ice cream would simply not be what it is today. Now, we have ice cream shops where people line t...
Jul 07, 2022

How Did People Book Flights Before The Internet?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In today's day and age, you can secure a seat on a flight simply with the click of a few buttons. In a matter of minutes, your confirmation will come throu...
Jul 06, 2022

Shark-Liver-Eating Serial Killer Whales Lock Down South Africa’s Coast
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Perhaps the most iconic line from 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs" comes from Dr. Hannibal Lecter (played by Anthony Hopkins): "I ate his liver with some ...
Jul 05, 2022