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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 [...]

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 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 8, 2013) – Actor J Larose, star of several popular horror films, joins us this week to talk about the genre and why it is so appealing to the public and world-renown FX artist Barry Anderson describes his new adventure – Ghoul School where he teaches the precise and often macabre art of [...]

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 25, 2013) – One of the oldest cartoon characters in the world is Popeye the Sailor Man and this week we learn from Chad Lewis that Chester, Ill. lays claim as the hometown of the character and each year holds an off-beat picnic in his honor. Getting into the big leagues is tough [...]

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.