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ORLANDO (May 20, 2013) – This week on Ripley Radio, the official radio program of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, we laugh along with Flathead Ed of Arizona as he tells us how he landed the largest catfish ever caught in that state, and Mark Ross explains the International tension that has built up around [...]

NEW YORK (May 13, 2013) – More than 65 years later, Ted Rosen, receives payment from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for coining his famed nickname “The Indestructible Man.” On Wednesday, May 8, at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square, Michael Hirsch, president and general manager of the New York City Odditorium, presented Rosen [...]

ORLANDO (May 13, 2013) – We take a different view of Zombies this week as we look at the pop culture side of the walking dead.  We hear from Tony Rossi, the manager of the Georgia Coffee Shop and Café in the Georgia town where the popular Walking Dead TV series is filmed and he [...]

ORLANDO (May 7, 2013) – The first ever complete biography of “Believe It or Not!” creator Robert Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globe-trotting playboy millionaire, who achieved global celebrity by documenting and celebrating the world’s strangest oddities.

ORLANDO (May 6, 2013) – Believe It or Not, during the 20th century, frozen whale carcasses were big draws on the circus and carnival midways!  Historian James Taylor visits this week and talks about frozen whales, live whales and exploding whales.  Mike Oswald wraps up his series on natural oddities and unbelievable sights at US [...]

ORLANDO, (April 29, 2013) – Believe It or Not! there’s a perfume out there that makes you smell like a Zombie. What does a Zombie smell like?  While hard to describe, Mark Crames, president of the company that manufactures it, explains why he created it and compares its smell to something that will make most [...]

ORLANDO (April 22, 2013) – We begin a series of reports this week on the unbelievable, unusual and strange aspects of our US National Parks. Author Mike Oswald kicks the series off by revealing the one park that is many things – below sea level, the hottest, driest AND largest, and is the only place [...]

ORLANDO (April 15, 2013) – Artist Steve Casino has chosen an unusual medium for his art – peanut shells – on which he paints the famous and the infamous. He tells us how he does it and why he began this strange endeavor and what his friends really think of it (and him).  Sideshow historian [...]

ORLANDO (April 1, 2013) – This week on Ripley Radio, we present two unbelievable mysteries. What makes a person hiccup for seven years and is there really such a thing as spontaneous human combustion?  Is there a cure and what is it like to live with continuous hiccups, and is there such a thing as [...]

ORLANDO, (March 18, 2013) – Variety entertainer extraordinaire Todd Robbins drops by this week and tells us that he has eaten more than 5,000 light bulbs during his career as part of his act. It’s a learned skill and one has to be very careful, he notes.