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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 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 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 (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 (Jan. 28, 2013) – This week on Ripley Radio, the official broadcast partner of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, we look at a couple of Legends.  Sideshow historian James Taylor introduces us to Francesco Lentini, a man with three legs who spent his life entertaining the weird and strange-seeking masses.  David Marsh of Marsh’s [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (Jan. 21, 2013) – This week on Ripley Radio – the official broadcast partner of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, we listen to James Papp, an expert on the Mayan culture as he tells us why the world didn’t end in December as predicted by so many. Also we hear from Brent Sicard, [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (Nov. 19, 2012) – Author and a doyenne of death, Gail Ruben visits Ripley Radio this week and tells us about her quest to crash 30 funerals of total strangers in 30 days. Then she blogs about the deceased and her experiences at the funeral. Taking a whimsical approach to death and funerals [...]

ORLANDO (Oct. 1, 2012) – This week on Ripley Radio, we talk with the creator of the toaster that can summon up a great image of Jesus each and every time on any slice of bread! Tom Thumb was not the smallest person to ever walk the earth, but he certainly was the most popular [...]

ORLANDO (July 9, 2012) – A Ripley’s inspired Summer Sideshow, a Bacon Coffin, a Space & Bicycle Museum, a primer on old time Medicine Shows and a psychic pig!  That and more on the July 9 episode of Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast!