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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.  (Dec. 30, 2009) – Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum in St. Augustine is hosting the return of the world-famous Ripley’s Fertility Statues – and they’re now available for public viewing.

 Please Don’t Touch – Unless You Want a Baby!

More than 2,000 women have reported that they became pregnant shortly after touching the [...]

 VERACRUZ, Mexico, (Dec. 30, 2009) – Shrunken heads, matchstick art and freak animals invade the city as Mexico’s third Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium opened on Sunday, Dec. 20, in the city’s Plaza Acuario.
The 10,000 square foot museum is the most interactive exhibit of the weird in the country and offers a one-of-a-kind rope [...]

Niagara Falls, ON– (December 22, 2009) –Hundreds of visitors to the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls have discovered a fun, new holiday tradition – enjoying  a holiday meal while seated in a life-sized gingerbread house! Sure, some people are content to build a small gingerbread house but few have had the opportunity to walk [...]

NEW YORK CITY, (Dec. 19, 2009) – Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Times Square, where visitors go on the Ultimate Adventure, will be offering free sideshow performances in front of the Odditorium throughout the holiday season. 
From fire eating to sword swallowing to the classic Human Blockhead, performers will be performing their incredible skills daily from [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. – (Dec. 17, 2009) – He may have lost out on the Heisman Trophy, but Florida QB Tim Tebow can claim a new honor that few others can – an image of him in action will grace the walls of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum in Orlando.
Gainesville artist creates Gator QB [...]

Featured this week on Ripley Radio are:  Christmas expert Robin Mains explains that although she is a Christian, she and her family stopped celebrating the holiday a decade ago and speaks of the deviant and strange side of the holiday; the world’s top couch surfer, Ori Bengal, explains how easy it is to get an [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 14, 2009) – Ninety-one years ago this month, a young Robert Ripley pondered how to fill the space assigned to him as an illustrator for the New York Globe. Little did he know, the choice he was about to make would be the start of an amazing adventure that lives on today.

A [...]

Featured in this Episode Are:  Author and researcher Robert Damon Schneck amazes us with his tales of pygmy cannibals from Wyoming and vampires in the White House; Dr. Robert Thiel reveals that many of the 2012 prophecies have already started happening, many during the later months of 2009; we learn why a town clock has [...]

 ORLANDO, Fla. – (Dec. 4, 2009) – Vampires are making a killing off people these days – from New Moon to Twilight to The Vampire Diaries to True Blood. But it wasn’t long ago that people were out to kill vampires – and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! has the world’s largest collection of authentic [...]