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Featured in this Episode:  Two guests on our first show of 2010, Bob Thiel and Jayson Rand, both authors and experts on the 2012 phenomenon will discuss events leading up to and following Dec. 21, 2012. They’ll tell us if we should expect to live through the event; we take a drive along a VERY [...]

Background
In 1993 Ripley Entertainment acquired two African fertility statues, little knowing that they would become the all-time most popular Ripley museum exhibit. Initially they stood like sentinels in the Orlando world headquarters, an interesting conversation piece for sure, but nothing more. Then, unexplainably there seemed to be a population explosion going on in the Ripley [...]

During the first year of the Fertility Statue Tour in 2008-2009, several women who wanted to touch the statues were unable to travel to a Ripley’s Believe It or Not! to personally touch them. Instead, they made copies of their hand prints on a copy machine and then rubbed the copy with their hands again, [...]

The statues are exhibited in the lobbies of the Believe It or Not! Museums and are always available for viewing and touching free of charge during business hours.  Please double check with a location prior to making plans to visit, as this schedule is subject to change at the last minute.  For specific information on [...]

 
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