Ripley's Believe It or Not
Series · 66
books · 1929-2025
Books in series
#2
Amazing Earth
2009
Collects strange, interesting, and record-breaking trivia about the Earth, including volcanic islands formed overnight, the tallest underwater mountain, and a man struck seven times by lightning.
#5
Body and Mind
2009
Features the extraordinary, sometimes scary, and frequently weird.
#6
Fun and Games
Mind Teasers
1991
What will people do to stand out? Pretty much anything! This series takes readers into the fascinating and bizarre world of Ripley's Believe It or Not.
#8
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Off the Wall
2009
Collects strange, interesting, and record-breaking trivia from around the world, including a house built from soda bottles, microscopic sculpture, and a cowboy-themed golf course.
#10
Totally Obsessed
2009
Collects strange, interesting and record-breaking trivia from around the world, including information about the largest ball of twine, a man with 1,650 Disney tattoos and the world's most pierced woman.
#24
Ripley's Believe It or Not #1
1929
A 48-page anthology of some of the most phantasmagorical oddities in the Robert Ripley collection, written and illustrated by by an equally mind-blowing mix of comic book legends and rising stars. You'll have to see it to believe it! "A Tale As Old As..." (THE REAL STORY OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST), written by Howard Mackie and illustrated by Hakan Aydin "I've Been Working On The Railroad" (PHINEAS GAGE, THE MAN WHO SURVIVED A RAILROAD SPIKE THROUGH HIS HEAD), written by Fox Kavanagh and illustrated by Daniel Maine "The Ride Of His Life" (THE DEAD MAN WHO WON A HORSE RACE), written by Dale Mettam "Mother Nature Blew Her " (THE YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO THAT COULD WIPE US ALL OUT), written by Victoria Rau and illustrated by Pat Broderick "49 Lives" (THE CAT WHO COULD PREDICT DEATH), written by Ben Meares and illustrated by Marcelo Basile And 5 illustrated fun fact pages, featuring more juicy tidbits about the stories within this issue and Robert Ripley himself!
#33
unknown book
2025
#34
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2014
2013
For the legions of dedicated Ripley's fans, and anyone else on the planet who loves the extraordinary but true, this latest annual is a feast of delights. Following hot on the heels of last year's best-selling edition, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2014 offers an entirely new compendium of bizarre facts and features, including a terrifying fire tornado in Australia, the rubber chicken that was launched into space, bees that produce blue honey, and the latest news from the European Beard and Mustache Championships!
As well as the jaw-dropping images and strange but true stories are bite-size facts, fascinating black and white photos from the Ripley archive, submissions from Ripley fans around the world - and the opportunity to explore the amazing world of Ripley in 3D via a free app.
#39
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Totally Bizarre
2008
Excellent Book
#42
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 7th Series
1972
#45
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Odd Places
1991
Inside you will find amazing-but-true stories about:
\*The upside down hotel
\*The Star Trek community in North Carolina
\*The leaning tower of Japan
\*America's Stonehenge
\*The bullet-proof saloon
\*A truck bridge made of paper
\*The tomb of Santa Claus
\*The rainbow lake
\*The singing sands of the desert
\*The noisiest apartment house in the world
\*The crookedest streets in the world, towns without streets, palaces built inside mountains, churches made of glass, driftwood, and human bones, and much, much more!
#50
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 10th Series
1977
#53
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
Completely Awesome (8)
2014
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Completely Awesome is sure to thrill anyone who enjoys learning about the world of the extraordinary. The 384 pages of this book are packed with captivating facts, implausible feats, and far-fetched yet completely true stories. Readers will learn about a man who gargles molten lead, shoes made from elephant dung, a real-life invisibility coat, and the world’s scariest airplane runways.
#55
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Simply Shocking!
2012
Ripley fans the world over will love this utterly crazy book! Packed full of fascinating facts and strange tales about simply unbelievable but totally true stories, this new book celebrates the incredible and the bizarre in our world today. Featuring a wealth of amazing images throughout, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Simply Shocking! is a 384-page extravaganza featuring, among many others, a man who pulled a minibus along with his eyelids, the extreme sportsman who kayaked down a 120-ft waterfall, the office chair racing championships, a dentist with no hands, and a surfing rat!
#62
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Book of Chance
1982
Anecdotes, trivia, and factual accounts—all illustrated—explore chance in money, business, health, the esoteric, science, technology, crime, nature, and show business, prophecies, omens, and coincidences, and routine risks of daily life
#63
Ripley's Believe It or Not 3
1954
Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little known facts about unusual and exotic sites; but what ensured the concept's popularity may have been that Ripley also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small town American trivia, ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by Ripley's drawings.
#64
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 15th Series
1969
SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR & SOME DINGS ON COVERS & SPINE. PUBLISHED BY POCKET BOOKS IN 1969. AGE RELATED TANNING INSIDE COVERS AND ON PAGES.
#65
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Optical Illusions
2002
Can you trust your own eyes? Maybe . . . maybe not!
#66
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2018
2017
Following hot on the heels of last year's Top 10 bestseller, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2018 offers a completely new assortment of strange-but-true facts and amazing stories! From the elephant who can play baseball, to the flowers that bloomed in space, to the weasel found inside the world's biggest computer, Ripley's compendium of hair-raising oddities will delight and fascinate the whole family.
Complete with a mind-blowing 3D-effect cover, and packed with gob-smacking photos and illustrations, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2018 offers another feast of mind-blowing tales of the extraordinary. Prepare yourself for this year's Ripley's bonanza!
#67
Ripley's Believe It or Not 28
1982
Book by Robert Ripley
#68
Ripley's Believe It or Not 24th Series
1977
#69
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Brutal Beasts
2013
Presenting a brand new title in this award-winning series, Brutal Beasts gives a fantastic Ripley’s Believe It or Not! twist on the world of deadly animals.From venomous villains to mega monsters, you'll find killer creatures of every size and from every corner of the animal kingdom in this exciting new Ripley's book. With fun facts, awesome images, and amazing Ripley stories throughout, kids will love reading about the Earth's bizarre and brutal beasts on every page.
#72
Ripley's Believe It Or Not 16
1971
#76
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Book of the Military
1976
Published 1976. Collectible. It has acid yellowing otherwise a new book, never read. Paper clip on few pages.
#77
Ripley's Believe It or Not 23rd Series
1975
#78
Beyond the Grave
2005
You will learn some of the ways people deal with grief and what they do with corpses. You'll read about mummies, shrunken heads, and unusual coffins, tombstones, and epitaphs—as well as ghosts, curses, superstitions, and more.
#79
Ripley's Believe It or Not 18
1977
A collection of more strange and unusual facts and events.
#83
Ripley's Believe It or Not 30th Series
1982
#86
The World of Ripley's Believe it or Not!
2003
It's shocking but irresistible. The fantastic and amazing World of Ripley's Believe It or Not uncovers and relates curiosities from around the globe. Its full-color, oversized format and round trim make it a suitably remarkable package to display the bizarre findings of Robert Ripley, who traveled to 198 countries to research his famous newspaper cartoon strip.
Starting with his first drawing in 1918 and the first Ripley museum in the 1930s, this book is filled with examples of human oddities, exotic artifacts, strange happenings, unusual inventions, marvels of nature, extraordinary achievements and coincidences. Readers will be amazed by the truly macabre world that Ripley captured. Hundreds of photographs show the real people and things that inspired the famous drawings. Exotic objects and human feats stretch the limits of the mind, body and imagination.
Here readers will meet world champion chicken picker Buck Fulford who could catch, kill, cook and eat a chicken in less than two minutes; Alice Penfold who could lift her sister Mary on a stool using only her teeth; "Three Ball Charlie" who could put a tennis ball, golf ball and billiards ball in his mouth and still whistle; and Liu Ch'ung of China who has double pupils in each eye.
#87
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Baseball Oddities & Trivia
2007
Ripley's Believe It or Not Amusement Park Oddities & Trivia is an uncanny journey through the weird, wacky, and absolutely true world of amusement parks, rides and attractions Tired of the traditional ho-hum trivia book? Rejoice, here's one that's unique, enjoyable, accurate AND edgy With a bit of history, a bit of trivia and a lot of totally unbelievable facts, this is a first of its kind book for the amusement industry. With more than 350 Believe It or Nots inside its pages, and 50-plus original illustrations by Ripley's official cartoonist John Graziano, nearly half of the book is dedicated to the bizarre, colorful and entertaining universe of amusement parks, rides and attractions. The other half features chapters on the Walt Disney parks, roller coasters, Ferris wheels, carousels, entertainers and park food Nearly 100 different amusement and theme parks, waterparks, attractions, zoos and aquariums are represented in these colorful pages, not to mention the 14 pages packed with astounding roller coaster Believe It or Nots A comprehensive index permits readers to quickly discover the oddities of their favorite park.
#88
Ripley's Believe It or Not 20th Series
1972
#89
Ripley's Believe It or Not 33
1982
#90
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 4th Series
1969
On the cover: "If the lady drops the paper without warning, will the gentleman be able to catch it? \[See Back Cover\]"
#92
Ripley's Believe It or Not 29th Series
1982
A collection of fantastic factual trivia that covers bizarre historical, natural, and cultural phenomena spanning the entire globe
#93
unknown book
2025
#95
Ripley's Believe it or Not 13
1978
Ripley
#96
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Beyond Belief
2009
Lets you to enter the uniquely strange world of Ripley's Believe It or Not.
#97
Ripleys Believe it or Not 27th series
1977
#99
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Twists Sharks
2014
Presenting a brand new title in this award-winning series, Sharks and Other Scary Sea Creatures gives a fantastic Ripley’s Believe It or Not! twist on a favorite subject.
Meet extraordinary sharks and savage sea creatures in this exciting new Ripley's book. With fun facts, awesome images, and amazing Ripley stories throughout, kids will love reading about the fearsome, freaky and utterly odd ocean-dwellers on every page.
#102
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
In Celebration...
2011
Facsimile of the original 1929 book.
From the original 1929 promotion, Robert Ripley describes the land where rain has fallen for a million years; here he talks with you about the Ever-Standing Men and the Upside-Down Men of Benares. Sport enthusiasts will prick up their ears at the queer tales told by the man who it is said can answer more questions on sports than any other living man. All these stores, all these marvelous adventuring into the countries of the fantastically true are lavishly illustrated with a multitude of those vivid cartoons which are followed eagerly every night in the New York Evening Post and more than 100 other newspapers. You will find your old favorites-and some new puzzlers which Mr. Ripley has uncorked now for the first time. Believe It Or Not this volume contains a thousand new things under the sun!
#103
Ripley's Believe It or Not 34
1982
#104
Ripley's Believe it or Not! 2016
2015
The Ripley's Believe It or Not! annual has now firmly established itself as a Christmas must-have, with an ever-growing army of loyal fans. Following hot on the heels of last year's Top 10 bestseller, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2016 offers a completely new compendium of strange but true facts and amazing stories, ranging from the woman who married a Ferris wheel to exploding cow farts, and from the girl who cries stone tears to the pizzeria that deliver its customers' orders by drone.
Packed with amazing photographs and jaw-dropping facts, and with an out-of-this-world 3D-effect cover, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2016 offers a feast of information and entertainment. Prepare yourself for this year's collection of eye-popping oddities!
#106
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 14th series
1968
#107
Ripley's Believe It or Not 22
1974
#108
Ripley's Believe It or Not 32
1982
#109
Ripley's Believe It or Not 31
1982
Dozens of oddities from the Ripley archives—graphically illustrated and all startlingly true.
#111
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Special Edition 2013
2012
Overview-
Another year's worth of wild and wacky information from Ripley's Believe It or Not!
144 pages of awesomely weird information such as rainbow clouds in the Himalayas, a Chinese building in shape of teapot, a woman who's worn and lived in pink clothes for 25 years, a kidney stone the size of a coconut, bed sheets that cost $150,000, running a marathon underwater, and MORE!
#112
Ripley's Believe it or Not 2009
Prepare to be Shocked!
2008
#113
Ripley's Believe It or Not 14
1968
A collection of more strange and unusual facts and events.
#114
Ripley's Believe It or Not, 11th
1965
#116
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Remarkable Revealed
2007
Packed with even more all-new words and images than ever before, this fourth Ripley’s Believe It or Not! annual book is the biggest and best yet. It is full of incredible bizarre facts, stories, interviews, and features, all proudly displayed in a stunning bright new design.
#117
Ripley's Believe it or Not! 2017
2016
The Ripley's Believe It or Not! annual has now firmly established itself as a Christmas must-have, with an ever-growing army of loyal fans. Following hot on the heels of last year's Top 10 bestseller, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2017 offers a completely new compendium of strange but true facts and amazing stories, ranging from the Polar Bear robot, to the edible human skull, to the woman who still suffers from sea-sickness three years after her last boat trip, to the Swiss daredevil who soars over famous landmarks in his custom-made jet pack.
Packed with amazing photographs and jaw-dropping facts, and with an out-of-this-world 3D-effect cover, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2017 offers a feast of information and entertainment. Prepare yourself for this year's collection of eye-popping oddities!
#118
Ripley's Believe It or Not 12
1974
#119
A Catholic's Ripley's Believe It or Not!
2025
#122
Ripley's Believe It or Not
Perfectly Peculiar! (11)
2017
The latest title in Ripley’s Curioddities series, Perfectly Peculiar! is sure to delight anyone who enjoys learning about the world of the weird! Featuring incredible stories, jaw-dropping facts, and amazing pictures, this new title is sure to provide a thrill for audiences of all ages. Readers will discover a skateboarding mouse, an underwater park, eyeball shaving, and a man who’s visited all 201 nations of the world!
Perfectly Peculiar is the brand new volume in Ripley’s Believe It or Not Curioddities series, and certainly lives up to its name! Featuring incredible stories, jaw-dropping facts, and amazing pictures, this new title is sure to provide a thrill for audiences of all ages. Readers will discover a skateboarding mouse, an underwater park, eyeball shaving, and a man who’s visited all 201 nations of the world! With pages filled with facts and images similar to these and more, this title is perfect for reluctant readers and fans of the unbelievable.
#123
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing Is Believing!
2009
Offers a collection of brief reports of unusual and noteworthy developments, organized into such categories as incredible feats, crazy creatures, and amazing science...Title: .Ripley's Believe It or Not!..Author: .Tibballs, Geoff/ Barratt, Judy (EDT)/ McFall, Sally (EDT)..Publisher: .Ripley Entertainment Inc..Publication Date: .2009/08/04..Number of Pages: .254..Binding Type: .HARDCOVER..Library of Congress: .2009008764
#124
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Reptiles, Lizards, and Prehistoric Beasts
1992
Inside you will find amazing-but-true stories about:
\- The frog that's a ventriloquist
\- Snakes that hear with their tongues
\- Mokele-Mbembe, the living dinosaur
\- Giant crocodiles the size of a car
\- And crocs that honk when ready to hatch
\- The lizard that walks on water
\- The largest amphibian in nature, the flying dragon, the strange reptile with three eyes, and much, much more.
#126
Ripley's Believe it or Not! Human Oddities
1977
#128
Ripley's Giant Believe It Or Not
1976
Curioddities, packed full of eye-popping tales. Prepare to be shocked! This breathtaking book will astound and amaze you.
#130
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Twists Wild Animals
2014
A uniquely fun Ripley’s Believe It or Not! way of looking at traditional subject matter with a Ripley's twist!
From the clever camouflage of the leaf insect to the bizarre bathing habits of macaque monkeys, and much, much more! Astonishing facts and incredible photographs on every page…all with a lion-sized helping of the weird and wonderful from Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
#131
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Twists Human Body
2014
A uniquely fun Ripley’s Believe It or Not! way of looking at traditional subject matter with a Ripley's twist!
The human body is an amazing creation. A collection of bones, blood, and other vital bits, your body is just incredible. There's so much going on inside your head and under your skin—things you know about like doing your homework and eating your meals, and things you don't even have to think about, like breathing, bending, and going to the toilet.
This book will take you on a guided tour of the things that make you tick. Get to grips with how your muscles work, take a look inside an eyeball, and think about your brain and everything it does on a daily basis.
Each page will open your eyes to the fantastic things going on in the human body, with special Ripley's fascinating facts and amazing "Believe It or Not!" stories from around the world. What are you waiting for? Get stuck in!
#133
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! 100 Years
2018
Ripley's Believe It or Not! is globally renowned as the authority on the weird, the eccentric, and the amazing. Ripley's Believe It or Not! provides entertaining books for children of all ages which educates and informs them in a humorous style. The Ripley brand is known around the world as a trend-setting source of family-friendly fun and excitement! Every day the researchers at Ripley's are busy digging up the craziest true stories and the most unbelievable facts.
From its inception in 1918 and the days of Robert Ripley’s travels and broadcasts to the creation of the first BION and the company’s proud publishing history through the years after Ripley’s death to the incredible collections and the expansion into a world-class attractions company, fans and friends of the brand will be inspired, awed, and amazed. This book is a spectacular artifact of an American icon that people will want to make a part of their own collection and enjoy again and again.
#134
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
Absolutely Absurd (10)
2016
Are you ready for something Absolutely Absurd? The tenth book in Ripley’s wildly successful Curioddities series offers more than 1,200 incredible stories of the hard to believe, the hard to swallow, and the hard to miss! From Romeo, a Bengal cat who rides a skateboard, to musician Oz Bayldon’s super-cool gig at the 21,825-foot summit of Mera Peak in the Himalayas, you won’t believe the jaw-dropping facts, stories, and photos contained in every one of this book’s 384 full-color pages. From cover to cover, Absolutely Absurd! is filled to the brim with Ripley’s fun for all ages.
Welcome to Ripley’s world of the Absolutely Absurd! This brand-new installment in the bestselling Curioddities series features even more of the amazing stories, astounding full-color photos, and incredible facts Ripley’s is famous for. Is pop culture your thing? Discover Lord of the Rings fan Jeremy Telford’s very own Hobbit Hole—which he built out of 2,600 balloons! Love animals? Meet Buddy, the five legged and five-pawed dog! From food to sports and everything in between, you’ll find something to amaze and astound you on every one of this book’s 384 pages. A must-have for Ripley fans and perfect for reluctant readers of all ages, you won’t believe what you’ll find in Absolutely Absurd!
#135
Ripley's Believe It or Not! ODDphabet (2)
2017
The BRAND NEW Ripley’s Believe It or Not! ODDphabet board book makes learning letters uniquely entertaining for the youngest Ripley’s fan.
B is for blobfish, and Z is for zorse.
These are all real animals, of course
The ODDphabet board book features colorful, original illustrations of animal characters based on real “believe it or not” stories and facts. Amusing rhymes make learning your ABC’s so much fun for everyone! Weird, wonderful, and all true… Believe It or Not!
It’s great to be different and one of a kind.
These animals are the best that you will ever find!
Wonder what in the world you just met
As you turn the pages of this ODDphabet!
#136
Ripley Twists
Space: Fun, Facts, and Star Gazing...
2009
A uniquely fun Ripley’s Believe It or Not! way of looking at traditional subject matter with a Ripley's twist!
Space is fascinating, and huge, and complicated. It's full of thing you can see, like stars, and satellites, and the Sun. It's even more full of things you can't see, like black holes, and wormholes, and dark energy. Scientists have spent lifetimes trying to make sense of what's out there. How big is the Universe? How did it all begin? Where will it all end? This book shows you some of space's best bits: shuttles and space stations, planets and probes, meteorites and moons, asteroids and astronauts. Every page is packed with out-of-this world info, with special Ripley's fascinating facts and amazing "Believe It or Not!" stories. Are you ready to read on? 5-4-3-2-1... Ripley Twists is a new high impact series which offers an enticing alternative to run-of-the mill junior reference books.
#140
Ripley's Believe It or Not
Undoubtedly Odd (12)
2018
Giant beetle robots, a man who paints with his tongue, a tightrope-walking dog, and a tornado made of fire are just a few of the things readers will find within the pages of the newest book in the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Curioddities series!
Undoubtedly Odd! is the newest title in Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Curioddities series, featuring hundreds of pages filled with astonishing stories, interesting people, and stunning photos. Scattered throughout are fun lists, interviews, and reader submissions. This new title is sure to provide a thrill for audiences of all ages and is perfect for reluctant readers.
Authors
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Author · 199 books
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Lowell Thomas
Author · 9 books
Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence. He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system.
Ripley Entertainment Inc.
Author · 56 books
The Official Goodreads page of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!—where seeing is believing and it’s rude not to stare!
