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NEW YORK (May 13, 2013) – More than 65 years later, Ted Rosen, receives payment from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for coining his famed nickname “The Indestructible Man.” On Wednesday, May 8, at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square, Michael Hirsch, president and general manager of the New York City Odditorium, presented Rosen [...]

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 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, (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 (March 4, 2013) – While most of us can’t imagine doing a one-armed pushup of any kind, Darryl Learie holds a world record doing them – with all of his weight balanced on a single egg! He stops by this week and explains how he does it without making omelets. Juan Panesso tells us [...]

The 2013 World Sword Swallower’s Day was the largest yet, with more than 40 performers appearing at 18 Believe It or Not! Odditoriums worldwide.  Below is a gallery of high resolution, down-loadable photos. Drag your mouse over the photo for identification and click on it for a larger image.  If used, please credit Ripley’s Believe [...]

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 [...]