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ORLANDO, Fla. (Jan. 30, 2012) – Ethan Trex of the popular web site and magazine, Mental Floss, stops by Ripley Radio this week to discuss the weird topics his publication carries, how they research the bizarre, and how it compares with Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

ORLANDO, Fla. (Jan. 23, 2012) – Was Don, the celebrated German pooch from the early 20th century, really able to talk as so many stories and legends proclaim?  Huffington Post correspondent Marc Hartzman looked into the popular tale and talks with us this week on Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Jan. 16, 2012) – Nik Wallenda, the 7th generation high-wire walker of the world-famous Wallenda Family, is attempting to get official permission from the Canadian Government to walk across Niagara Falls in June 2012.

ORLANDO, Fla.  (Jan. 9, 2012) – In the early 1900s, Typhoid Mary cooked for people and they soon became very ill or died. It was that simple, but was she a typhoid carrier?  Fran Capo joins us this week to discuss Mary Malone, better known as Typhoid Mary, from the research she did for a [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 12, 2011) – TV adventurer, author, actor and world traveler Piers Gibbon stops by Ripley Radio this week and tells us about his latest National Geographic Channel show, The Witch Doctor Will See You Now! He shares the various “cures” he was shown by the Witch Doctors in Peru.  AND he [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (Nov. 7, 2011) – Kooky UFO Phil visits Ripley Radio again and outlines his plans to build a pyramid on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay that will serve both as a hydrogen power plant and a landing site for alien space craft. We also feature UFO Phil’s latest song, Bad Aliens.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Oct. 31, 2011) – Ripley Radio celebrates Halloween by reaching out to three different witches and warlocks and asking them to explain what this witch thing is all about.  What we got in return is an entertaining and enlightening program dedicated to the unbelievable world they live in.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Oct. 24, 2011) – Birdsville Australia is so far from anything and everything that it is lovingly referred to as the Front Door to Nowhere!  Travel writer Cynthia Clampitt joins us this week and tells us all about her experiences in this unbelievable part of Down Under.

In this week’s edition of Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast: Stephenie Meyer chose Forks, Washington as the setting for her Twilight series for a reason. It’s rainy, cloudy and rather sun-less for much of the year. The perfect environment for a vampire!

(Oct. 10, 2011) – Would you eat Schweddy Balls? Actor Alec Baldwin made his Schweddy Balls famous in a “Saturday Night Live” skit years ago. Now, the lovable folks at Ben & Jerry’s have named their newest flavor, Schweddy Balls Ice Cream. We talk about the strange addition to the Ben & Jerry line-up this [...]