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- 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
- This artist made every penny count. 🪙 Inspired by the time her daughters offered to help pay for purchases using the coins from their piggy bank, artist Wander Martich spent three months, working up to 10 hours a day, creating an incredible 8-foot-wide replica of a U.S. penny using 84,000 real pennies. Learn even more about this work of art inside the pages of our newest book, Wired Into Weird! @bretta #ripleys #bion #ripleysbelieveitornot #wiredintoweird
- This U.S. Capitol Building is made from 300,000 toothpicks. 🇺🇸 Artist Linh Vuong and his family spent seven months transforming 300,000 bamboo toothpicks and laser-cut bamboo pieces into this 1/100-scale replica of the U.S. Capitol Building. Measuring 4 feet tall and 9 feet long, every detail was carefully crafted entirely by hand. #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot
- Before salons, there was the laundry room. 💇♀️ Believe It or Not!, before modern flat irons, some women straightened their hair using heated clothing irons. After warming the iron on a stove, they would carefully press sections of hair to achieve the sleek, smooth styles that were popular at the time. While the method required patience and plenty of caution, it paved the way for the hair styling tools we know today. Thankfully, modern flat irons have made the process much faster, safer, and far less likely to leave you with a bad hair day. @KC #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot
- Nature called… and Ripley’s answered. 🦏 This mechanical rhino is from the truly unforgettable movie, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Measuring more than 10 feet long, the rhino still features its original working interior, complete with a chair, dashboard, and fan used during filming. It’s best known for starring in the unforgettable scene where Jim Carrey’s character makes a very unexpected exit, leaving stunned safari tourists (and audiences) in hysterics. You can preview this one-of-a-kind exhibit TODAY at Fanboy Expo in Knoxville, Tennessee before it makes its way back to one of our Ripley’s Believe It or Not! locations across the world! #ripleys #bion #ripleysbelieveitornot #aceventura
- Get ready to plug into the peculiar and discover a world of unbelievable stories that are 100% real! 🔌 In a world where AI-generated content has everyone second-guessing what’s real, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Wired Into Weird proves that truth is still stranger than fiction. Packed with all-new, all-true stories from around the globe, this latest edition is bursting with incredible people, quirky animals, astonishing feats, remarkable places, amazing rarities, and strange-but-true facts. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Wired Into Weird is available September 8, 2026! Be among the first to plug into the peculiar, and pre-order your copy today. Featured Artists: @ivan.arestov @nickyatspizza @bekahburke @jensendean @caramel_theflabbydog @sk8_a_l_i_s_a @byefrisbie @kwiin.ava @nailedbyhazel @preservedsnowflakeco @sogni_di_sapone @onehousebakery #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- This “mermaid” fooled the world for decades. 🧜♀️ In 1842, P.T. Barnum captivated audiences with the Fiji Mermaid, one of history’s most famous sideshow hoaxes. Nearly a century later, Robert Ripley helped expose the truth behind the myth while still celebrating the object’s strange appeal. Though it wasn’t a real sea creature, the bizarre curiosity became a worldwide sensation and left people debating its authenticity for decades. See this curious creature for yourself at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! locations around the world! @Jordan #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot
- This is a star-spangled masterpiece. 🇺🇸 Artist @sunscribes visited @Ripley’s St. Augustine for America’s 250th to recreate the Declaration of Independence using nothing but concentrated sunlight. Through a technique called heliography, he carefully focused the Sun’s rays with magnifying glasses to burn every intricate detail directly into wood. No paint, ink, or electricity required! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #america250
- This presidential keepsake is music to our ears. 🎷 Before becoming the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton was well known for his love of the saxophone, and he didn’t leave that passion behind when he entered the White House. This saxophone was played by President Bill Clinton on stage with the E Street Band during the 1993 Inaugural Ball, celebrating the beginning of a new presidential administration. @bretta #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #america250
- Would you own a lock of a president’s hair? ✂️ Believe It or Not!, collecting hair was one a popular way to preserve the memory of loved ones! During the Victorian era especially, locks of hair were often exchanged as keepsakes, and even U.S. presidents weren’t exempt from the trend. @allysoneye #ripleys #bion #ripleysbelieveitornot #america250
- Think you know Voodoo? The real story may surprise you! Often misunderstood in popular culture, Voodoo traces its roots to West and Central Africa and was brought to Haiti and other parts of the Americas beginning in the 15th century. Despite how it’s often portrayed in movies, traditional Voodoo is centered on community, spirituality, and honoring ancestors. Many Voodoo priests and practitioners reject the harmful stereotypes associated with the religion, emphasizing instead its focus on celebrating life. You can see this statue for yourself at @Ripley’s Ocean City! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #oceancity
- Happy World Juggling Day! 🤹 Believe It or Not!, juggling has been amazing audiences for more than 4,000 years. Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings dating back to 1994 BC depict people tossing objects in the air, making juggling one of the oldest performing arts in human history. From the courts of ancient China and Greece to traveling circuses and modern-day street performers, jugglers have spent centuries pushing the limits of skill, coordination, and creativity. Today, the art form continues to evolve with everything from classic ball juggling to incredible feats involving clubs, rings, and even bicycle wheels! Learn more about featured artist @Ivan Arestov in our newest book, Wired Into Weird! #ripleys #bion #ripleysbelieveitornot #wiredintoweird #juggling
- Get ready to reboot your curiosity this September with Wired Into Weird! 🔌 In a world where AI-generated content has everyone second-guessing what’s real, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Wired Into Weird proves that truth is still stranger than fiction. Pre-order your copy now before it hits shelves September 8th. @Auzzyblood @Nick Yatsinko @Bekah Burke @Jensen Dean @Ivan Arestov #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #wiredintoweird
- Could this statue hold the secret to fertility? Depicting a queen holding a loaf of bread, this statue is said to help women conceive. Believe It or Not!, a similar fertility statue in @Ripley’s Orlando has been credited by visitors with helping thousands of women become pregnant over the years! Test the legend of the statue for yourself at @Ripley’s Ocean City! #Ripleys #BION #RipleysBelieveItorNot #fertilitystatue
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