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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 [...]

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (March 30, 2010) – Cynthia Morrison may look normal, but her actions say otherwise.  Known professionally as The Great Cindini, she will celebrate her appearance in yet another Ripley’s Believe It or Not! cartoon by lowering herself into a real coffin and blowing herself up with 10,000 firecrackers-Believe It or Not!

Featured in this Episode Are:  The world’s fastest female talker, Fran Capo, entertains us with her high speed humor, talking skills and New York accent; The Great Cindini talks about her edgy life as a strongwoman, stuntwoman and tells us how she turned, most recently, into a  Human Firecracker; we learn of one lady’s amazing dedication to [...]