Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Surviving The Apocalypse In Style: The 15-Story Underground Shelter
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Nuclear war, societal collapse, biological warfare, zombies? There are many ways the world could end - and the super-rich are already preparing for it. Bil...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 31, 2023

Rare Video Footage Suggests Octopuses May Experience Nightmares
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Recent observations made at The Rockefeller University in New York show an octopus potentially experiencing a nightmare. Costello, an Octopus insularis, wa...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 26, 2023

The Real Reason Why People Wore Powdered Wigs
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! If you ever look closely at paintings featuring our founding fathers, you'll notice the fashion at the time included some unique items - white woolen or si...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 25, 2023

The World’s First 3D Printed Rocket Actually Takes Off
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Did you know that the 3D printing concept dates back to 1945? Of course, it took a couple of decades for this concept to become a reality. The first forays...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 24, 2023

Ripley’s Round Trip: The World’s Most Bizarre Natural Phenomena
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Today we're taking a Ripley's Round Trip to check out the most bizarre natural phenomena around the world including a few that Robert Ripley himself witnes...
Emily Harriss May 19, 2023

Is The Tasmanian Tiger Still Alive? Some Researchers Think So
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Tasmanian tiger, long believed to have gone extinct in 1930s, may have survived for several more decades and may even still exist in the Australian wil...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 19, 2023

The Secrets And Drama Behind The World’s Richest Dog
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It's the stuff that dreams are made of. Bikini-clad companions, gold-flake-covered steaks, a mansion with a private pool, a Netflix series, and millions up...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 18, 2023

That One Time Napoleon Was Attacked By Rabbits
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! After the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte became the commander of the First French Republic army, the first Emperor of France, and was one of the wor...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 17, 2023

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Bizarre “Martian Book” Pic
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Young Astronomer (1831), an astronomy textbook, included a curious comparison: "To the people who live on Mars, this earth probably appears larger than...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 16, 2023
Up Close & Peculiar: Contraptions Used For Casino Cheating
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...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 12, 2023