Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Scientists Are Waking ‘Zombie Viruses’ From Their Permafrost Slumber
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It's the stuff of nightmares. As climate change accelerates, scientists are beginning to uncover ‘zombie viruses’ in the melting permafrost. Al...
Aug 02, 2023
Ashburn, GA, Resurrects Big Peanut Roadside Attraction After Hurricane
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Whether we're talking Margate, New Jersey's Lucy the Elephant, California's Cabazon Dinosaurs, or Gold Hill's Oregon Vortex, roadside attractions have deco...
Aug 01, 2023
Up Close & Peculiar: Diving Into All Things Dinosaur
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Up Close & Peculiar More than 100 years ago, the globetrotting Robert Ripley began collecting artifacts from his journeys around the world, which today...
Jul 28, 2023
Astronomers Discovered a Skyscraper-Sized Asteroid Zoomed Past Earth
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Earlier this month, astronomers discovered that an asteroid the size of a skyscraper flew quite close to Earth-but they did not know about it until two day...
Jul 28, 2023
Fordlandia: The Failure Of Henry Ford’s Utopian City In The Amazon
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Once upon a time, deep in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, a transplanted slice of the American dream sprung to life. This is the almost forgotten story...
Jul 27, 2023
How Zebra Sharks Are Helping Two Aquariums Save the Species
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When you hear the word "shark," what comes to mind? For many, movies like Jaws, The Meg, or The Shallows feature front and center. Over the years, these bl...
Jul 26, 2023
Dino-Eating Mammals? This Fossil’s Rewriting the Prehistoric Food Chain
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It's been widely accepted for generations that dinosaurs once ruled the Earth. Movies like the Jurassic Park franchise have bolstered these claims by prese...
Jul 25, 2023
Up Close & Peculiar: Is Bigfoot More Than A Myth?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Up Close & Peculiar More than 100 years ago, the globetrotting Robert Ripley began collecting artifacts from his journeys around the world, which today...
Jul 24, 2023
9 Weird Facts To Know Before Seeing Oppenheimer And Barbie
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Two movies, one release date. Greta Gerwig's pink and playful Barbie features the iconic doll grappling with the real world. Meanwhile, Christopher Nolan's...
Jul 21, 2023
Before Oppenheimer: Ripley’s Buys Part of First Nuclear Reactor
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Christopher Nolan's $100-million epic, Oppenheimer, releases in theaters on Friday, July 21. The movie is expected to offer an electrifying portrayal of J....
Jul 20, 2023