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- This armor kept its wearer ready for battle. 🗡️ For nearly 700 years, Japanese samurai served as warriors and protectors. During Japan’s Edo period, some wore tatami gusoku, a type of armor designed to provide protection while allowing greater freedom of movement. Unlike heavier, rigid armor styles, tatami gusoku was designed to sit more flexibly on the body, helping samurai move with greater ease. #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot
- This artist goes ball-istic for balls! ⚽️ 🥎🏐 Benji Williams started making rubber band balls when he was just six years old after seeing his teacher bounce one in class. Eighteen years later, he’s still continuing to make balls out of anything he can find, including a massive rubber band ball weighing a whopping 3,780 pounds! Discover more inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- A new artist is joining a legendary tradition! ✏️ Ripley’s Believe It or Not! World Entertainment is excited to welcome award-winning illustrator Howie Noel as the ninth Cartoonist in the history of the iconic syndicated feature created by Robert Ripley in 1918. With decades of experience in comics, editorial illustration, commercial design, and pop culture art, Howie brings his bold and imaginative style to the strip, helping carry the Ripley’s cartoon tradition into its second century and bringing strange, unbelievable stories to life for a whole new generation. #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveltorNot #BelieveItorNot #Cartoon
- This natural pool is perfectly rectangular! 🌊 Known as the Wormhole, this naturally formed rectangular pool sits near the cliffs of Galway, Ireland. It fills with a mix of underground water and waves crashing over its edges, creating a striking natural formation. Believe It or Not!, the Wormhole has hosted world diving competitions, with expert divers plunging an incredible 92 feet into the water below! Discover more incredible destinations inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- These birds can walk on water! 💦 The American coot can walk on land and water! Each toe has large lobes that help propel the bird through the water, but when it walks on land, those lobes fold back out of the way and make navigating mud, grass, or snow a breeze. Discover more inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This artist turns timber into towering trolls! 🧌 Danish artist Thomas Dambo transforms recycled materials and scrap wood into enormous troll sculptures that look like they’ve wandered straight out of a fairy tale. Some stand up to 40 feet tall, and each sculpture takes about 750 hours to build with help from volunteers. With around 170 trolls installed around the world, Dambo’s larger-than-life creations are turning ordinary materials into extraordinary works of art. Discover more inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! @Thomas Dambo #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This National Pancake Day, we’re flipping the script with Dancakes, the pancake artists who turn breakfast batter into incredible works of art! From celebrities and cartoon characters to custom portraits, Dancakes creates detailed designs using nothing but pancake batter and a griddle. Would you eat these works of art? @Dancakes #ripleys #bion #ripleysbelieveitornot #believeitornot
- Robert Ripley once sparked a golf rivalry that made history. ⛳️ After losing his eyesight in a 1924 tire explosion, Clint Russell began playing blind golf. By 1930, he had shot an impressive 84 over 18 holes. In 1932, Ripley featured Russell as “the world’s only blind golfer.” Six years later, Ripley published a similar story about Dr. Beach Oxenham of London. To settle the score, Ripley sponsored the first Blind Golfers Championship in 1938. Russell defeated Oxenham 5 and 4 at Ridgeview Country Club in Duluth, Minnesota. #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot
- The sky’s the limit on this bridge! 🌁 China’s Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers about 2,050 feet above the Beipan River. Stretching 4,600 feet across the canyon, the massive bridge took nearly four years to complete. Believe It or Not!, before it opened, driving from one side of the canyon to the other took about two hours. Now it takes just two minutes! Discover more inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- Great Scott! We’ve added TWO more hoverboards to our collection! These original Mattel hoverboards were flown through the Courthouse Square by Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II. These two boards bring our collection to three total hoverboards from the iconic movie! @bretta #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot#BelieveItorNot
- This artist is putting her best foot forward. 🩰 Ballet dancer and circus artist Bekah Burke has mastered walking across glass bottles en pointe! Bekah practiced for hundreds of hours to perfect her bottle-balancing skills. She can walk from bottle to bottle, balance on one leg in a classic ballet pose, and even dip down to pick something up while standing on the bottles! Discover more about this incredible act inside the pages of Wired Into Weird! @Bekah Burke #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- Would you be able to fight on stilts? 🤺 For more than 600 years, the Belgian city of Namur has kept the wild tradition of stilt jousting alive. Every September, more than 6,000 spectators gather for the Festival of Wallonia to watch two teams battle it out on towering wooden stilts, with the ultimate winner getting the Golden Stilt. Discover more inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This artist is thinking outside the brush. 🎨 Australian artist Jensen Dean uses unusual objects to paint! The instruments he uses are connected to his subjects to create instantly recognizable portraits. He’s painted boxer Mike Tyson with boxing gloves, chef Gordon Ramsay with a knife, and even Margot Robbie using a Barbie! Discover more unbelievable art inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This colorful geyser was created by accident! Nevada’s Fly Geyser is one of the strangest geological wonders in the desert. In 1964, a company drilled a well looking for hot water, but the well wasn’t properly sealed. Hot water began shooting to the surface, and over time, minerals built up into colorful mounds nearly 6 feet tall. Believe It or Not!, quartz crystals are growing inside the mineral formations, a process that can take thousands of years in natural geysers. Learn about even more wonders of nature inside the pages of Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This highway has a secret shortcut for wildlife. 🐻 When too many animals were being hit by cars on the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park, animal crossings were built to give them a safer way to travel! Six of the crossings are wildlife overpasses covered in trees and plants, creating natural pathways for bears, wolves, elk, and other wildlife to cross the highway safely, resulting in an incredible 80% reduction in wildlife-vehicle collisions. Discover more inside the pages of our newest book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This performer is taking a leap of faith! 🤹♂️ Circus artist Ivan Arestov is a master of the seatless unicycle! Ivan says he took plenty of hits to the shins while learning the trick, but all that hard work paid off! Read more about this incredible trick inside the pages of our newest book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- Happy International Dog Day to Caramel, the pup who looks like he’s melting! 🐶 Caramel was rescued in 2020 after being found wandering the streets of Central Florida. A few years later, his skin began stretching in an unusual way, leading vets to believe it may be linked to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Learn more about this droopy dog in our newest book, Wired Into Weird! @caramel_theflabbydog #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- Our exhibits can come from anywhere... Including people’s bodies! 😳 Sideshow duo Dan Block and Carmen Getsum amaze audiences all over the world with their sword swallowing and balloon animal acts. This week, they visited Ripley’s HQ to donate some of their record-breaking instruments. Have an exhibit you want us to see? Submit your Believe It or Not! on our website! @Dan Block @bretta #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot
- This painter uses 10 brushes at once! 🎨 Serge Feeleenger is a self-taught artist from Belarus who has turned painting into a 10-brush balancing act! Instead of constantly switching brushes, Serge attaches one paintbrush to each finger, allowing him to work with multiple colors at once and create colorful masterpieces faster. Discover more about this incredible painter inside the pages of Wired Into Weird! #ripleys #ripleysbelieveitornot #believeitornot #wiredintoweird
- This dancer is trading in the ballet barre for ballet bottles! 🩰🍾 Bekah Burke walks on bottles en pointe! Inspired by a 1958 photo of ballerina Bianca Passarge walking on bottles, Bekah decided to try it herself. After hundreds of hours of practice, she’s able to make this unbelievable act look effortless. Discover more inside the pages of our latest book, Wired Into Weird! @Bekah Burke #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #BelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This guitar is making some seriously fin-tastic music. 🎸 The “Fish-Caster” has a real piranha inside! Artists Bobby Stirling, Greg Self, and Luis Orozco created the one-of-a-kind guitar using a preserved piranha, an old fishing lure, a piece of oak, and a Telecaster guitar. Believe It or Not!, the piranha was sanded down to fit the guitar, creating one seriously smelly step in the four-month process! Discover more inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This 1920s criminal had an unbelievable second act. 🎪 Gold Tooth Jimmy was a part of the notorious Losteiner gang in the 1920s. Believe It or Not!, after his untimely death, he was mummified and went on tour as a sideshow attraction! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot
- This suit really floats our boat. 🍾 This suit is made using entirely bottle corks! By drilling holes through each cork and stringing them together like beads, Kerry Haulotte spent over 130 hours creating this unbelievable wearable invention. Believe It or Not!, the cork suit weighs about 14 pounds, but thanks to the natural buoyancy of cork, it actually floats! Read more about this sensational suit inside the pages of Wired into Weird! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- The Fiji Mermaid has never looked so cheesy. 🧜♀️ Meet Nick Yatsinko, the Arizona artist who’s turning ordinary pizzas into edible masterpieces. Using food coloring, he paints directly onto the cheese to create incredible portraits of celebrities, cartoon characters, and even the mythical Fiji Mermaid! Discover more inside the pages of our new book, Wired Into Weird! @Nick Yatsinko @allysoneye #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird #pizzaart
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