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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, (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 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 11, 2013) – Lucky is the topic this week as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 2013 on Ripley Radio, the official broadcast station of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!  Stacy Lee Goforth tells us that if you believe strongly enough, you can create your own luck and that virtually anything can be a [...]

ORLANDO  (Feb. 25, 2013) – Detroit’s Deborah Ford retired from the US Post Office in February having never missed a day of work in her 44 years. She visits this week and tells us how she did it. Also this week on Ripley Radio, the official broadcast program of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, we [...]

ORLANDO (Feb. 11, 2013) – On this special Valentine’s episode of Ripley Radio, we take a look at the strange, unusual and non-mainstream ways to celebrate the big holiday dedicated to sweethearts. As more and more people are writing love letters, we hear from David Rees, the world’s only professional pencil sharpener, and Barbara Berg [...]

ORLANDO (Feb. 4, 2013) – Believe It or Not!, several US cities want to steal the “Icebox of the Nation” moniker from International Falls, Minn.. Chad Lewis joins us this week and tells us about the challenge from these upstarts.  A person’s ashes from cremation aren’t just for urns anymore. Angela explains that all sorts [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (Jan. 14, 2013) – It was a big year for the weird and strange and this week on Ripley Radio, the official broadcast partner of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, we take a look at some of the weirdest tales of 2012.  Chad Lewis reveals the top roadside attractions he visited during the [...]