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ORLANDO, Fla. (April 2, 2012) – Since its beginning, the Girl to Gorilla illusion has been a hit on circus and carnival midways around the world.

ORLANDO, Fla. (April 1, 2012) – The legendary Robert Ripley, among the first to bring the strange and unusual to the masses with his odditoriums and his cartoon panel “Believe It or Not!,” has been nominated for Coney Island’s prestigious Sideshow Hall of Fame.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (March 26, 2012) – Ripley’s “Trashy Fashion Show” on Saturday, March 24,  produced three winners and three new exhibits that will go on display at Ripley’s museum in St Augustine, Florida. 

ORLANDO, Fla. (March 26, 2012) – A nun who gives messages and pigs who serve as ball boys are just a few of the weird and wonderful promotions that baseball club owner and promoter Mike Veeck has propagated over the years. The King of Baseball Promotion drops by Ripley Radio this week and tells us [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (March 19, 2012) – Bello Nock is perhaps the most recognizable circus performer ever. In creating his own performance niche as a comic daredevil, he shows as much skill as a daredevil as he does as a clown.

ORLANDO, Fla. (March 12, 2012) – David Schuler likes good pizza, so he drives nearly 1,500 miles across 16 states, from Mississippi to Massachusetts, to get the perfect pizza pie. And he stocks up once he gets there. Last time, he went home with 150 of those tomato-soaked ovals of greatness in his backseat.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (March 8, 2012) – Join Ripley’s Believe It or Not!  in St Augustine for a fashion show that promises to be quite trashy. 

New York, NY (March 7, 2012) – Today DietBet.com, an online social dieting game that gives players the opportunity to compete to lose weight, announced several members of All Pro Eating will pull a dietary 180 and participate in a dietbet.

ORLANDO, Fla. (March 5, 2012) – This year contains the most Friday the 13th occurrences possible in one calendar year – three. And to make things even more daunting for those with Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) is that they are exactly 13 weeks apart!  This week on the Ripley Radio Worldwide Oddcast, we [...]

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. ( Feb.  29, 2012 ) – The St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce will honor Ripley’s Red Sightseeing Trains  for nearly four decades of support.