When LeRoy Robert Ripley was growing up in his native Santa Rosa during the turn of the 20th century, he was known as a reserved boy who was often punished for doodling in class. Thanks to the ...

Robert Ripley made a name for himself by asserting truth in the unbelievable. An icon for all things bizarre, Ripley aroused curiosity in American audiences by providing them with strange facts and ...

Robert Ripley’s Believe It or Not Island once housed the legend’s mansion bachelor pad in Mamaroneck. At the end of Taylors Lane in Mamaroneck, an exotic mansion once towered over a small island in ...

LeRoy Robert Ripley, subject of "Ripley: Believe It or Not: American Experience" airing at 8 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 6) on WYES, would've been a candidate for his own olden-days "Believe It or Not!" ...

"The strange, the bizarre, the unexpected. …" Those were the words that opened every episode of the "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" television series which premiered on NBC in 1949, founded by American ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Come one come all, an all-new exhibit is now open at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Starting Friday, have your brain massaged and imagination sparked as you check out ...

That contemporary television is largely a freak show seems a matter of little debate, but the original intersection of human oddity and mass media was Robert Ripley’s Hearst-syndicated “Believe It Or ...

May 27 is the 60th anniversary of the death of Robert Ripley, who founded Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Host Liane Hansen talks Edward Meyer, vice president of exhibits and archives for Ripley ...

Robert ‘Bob’ Ripley December 12, 1927 – October 28, 2020 La Mesa Robert ‘Bob’ Ripley passed away at the age of 92. Born in Methuen MA, he proudly enlisted in the Navy, which brought him to San Diego ...

Dr. H. Robert Ripley April 4, 1921 – June 27, 2015 Resident of Castro Valley, CA Dr. H. Robert Ripley passed away peacefully on June 27, 2015. He was 94 years of age. Robert Ripley was born on April 4 ...

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