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This week marks the 100th episode of Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast and during the show we hear from Ripley’s President Jim Pattison Jr. on how the show is helping keep Robert Ripley’s legacy alive and current, and we also hear from many of our guests who we featured during the first 100 shows! […] The post Ripley Radio – Tattooed Mayor, US Stonehenges & Ripley’s President appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Believe It or Not! creator Robert Ripley has been inducted into the Sideshow Hall of Fame, at Coney Island USA! Ninety-four years after he drew his first Believe It or Not! cartoon and 79 years after he opened his first Odditorium at the Chicago World’s Fair, Ripley officially joins the esteemed lineup of history’s greatest […] The post Ripley Radio – Area 51, The Hair Hangers of Ringling & Ripley Joins Hall of Fame appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Ripley Radio’s tribute to Easter this week features Ripley-style advice on how one should eat a chocolate bunny and author Anne Perciado Rich visits to explain how bunnies and colored eggs became a part of the most important holiday in the Christian religion. Have you ever been in a noisy restaurant or a loud rock […] The post Ripley Radio – How to Eat Chocolate Bunnies & Tattoos That Vibrate appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Since its beginning, the Girl to Gorilla illusion has been a hit on circus and carnival midways around the world. Using mirrors, it appears the beautiful girl is slowly turning into a big hairy ape and as she does, the mesmerized crowds stood there silently until something happens that sends them all screaming out of […] The post Ripley Radio – Girls Turning into Gorillas & Tax Problems of the Rich and Famous appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

A nun who gives messages and pigs who serve as ball boys are just a few of the weird and wonderful promotions that baseball club owner and promoter Mike Veeck has propagated over the years. The King of Baseball Promotion drops by Ripley Radio this week and tells us what unusual activities he has planned […] The post Ripley Radio – The Boogeyman of New Jersey & The Tennessee Giant appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Bello Nock is perhaps the most recognizable circus performer ever. In creating his own performance niche as a comic daredevil, he shows as much skill as a daredevil as he does as a clown. His foot tall orange hair helps identify him in either role. Tim caught up with Nock for a quick interview prior […] The post Ripley Radio – Orange Haired Daredevil & Homer Simpson’s Favorite Beer appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

David Schuler likes good pizza, so he drives nearly 1,500 miles and across 16 states, from Mississippi to Massachusetts, to get the perfect pizza pie. And he stocks up once he gets there. Last time, he went home with 150 of those tomato-soaked ovals of greatness in his backseat. He visits with us this week […] The post Ripley Radio – Pizza Cravings, Getting Lucky, & Life on the Moon appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This year contains the most Friday the 13th occurrences possible in one calendar year – three. And to make things even more daunting for those with Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) is that they are exactly 13 weeks apart! This week on the Ripley Radio Worldwide Oddcast, we examine the number and give everyone […] The post Ripley Radio – Boxing Chimps, Flying Squirrels & the New Jersey Devil appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

It’s a new year and that means there are new Doomsdays predicted that we all must prepare for. Tim Ralston is our guest on Ripley Radio Oddcast this week. He’s a Prepper, one who prepares extensively for Doomsday by stocking up on food, water, batteries, and maybe most important – knowledge. As part of the […] The post Ripley Radio – Doomsday TV & A Man with Two Mouths appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

It’s President’s Week here at Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast, as we present two amazing and unusual stories you won’t find anywhere else. We hear that President Andrew Jackson may be the biggest party animal the White House has ever seen! Author and presidential historian Jacopo della Quercia visits and explains what Jackson’s big […] The post Ripley Radio – Cheese and Children in the White House appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Believe It or Not! David and Lauren Blair of Nashville, Tenn., have married each other 101 times! The couple joins Ripley Radio this week to discuss their love for each other and share some of the weirder vow exchanges the two have made: ranging from several at Hard Rock Cafes to the time Elvis married […] The post Ripley Radio – Sword Swallowing, Ripley’s Historic Cartoon & 101 Marriages appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Does the famed New Jersey Devil really have a bathing pool deep inside the state’s Pine Barrens? Author Fran Capo’s new book, Myths and Mysteries of New Jersey, has a chapter on the Devil’s Bathtub and she drops by this week to tell us about her weird experience when she visited the mysterious body of […] The post Ripley Radio – Fish Odor, Jersey Devil & Building Your Own Casket appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Ethan Trex of the popular web site and magazine, Mental Floss, stops by Ripley Radio this week to discuss the weird topics his publication carries, how they research the bizarre, and how it compares with Ripley’s Believe It or Not! A pitiful little pooch was found in the ditches in Houma, La., near death and […] The post Ripley Radio – Mental Floss, Starbuck Surprises & a Dog Named Ripley appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Was Don, a celebrated German pooch from the early 20th century, really able to talk as so many stories and legends proclaim? Huffington Post correspondent Marc Hartzman looked into the popular tale and talks with us this week on Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast. Do you think all big box retailers carry virtually everything? […] The post Ripley Radio – A Talking Dog and What’s Banned from Wal-Mart appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Nik Wallenda, the 7th generation high-wire walker in the world-famous Wallenda Family, is attempting to get official permission from the Canadian Government to walk across Niagara Falls in June 2012. Meanwhile, the New York State government has already given him the go ahead for that side of the Falls. Nik talks with Ripley Radio this […] The post Ripley Radio – Bizarre Economic Indexes & Walking Over Niagara Falls appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 chapter in her new book, Myths […] The post Ripley Radio – Typhoid Mary & A Tree in Disneyland appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, Jim Morrison & The Doors created their own recording studio in a worn-down area of Santa Monica Boulevard. Today, that location is a Mexican Restaurant and the sound booth in which Morrison recorded is the men’s bathroom. Pop culture historian Chris Epting tells us all about it on this […] The post Ripley Radio – Hard Core Jousting, Sunken Ships & The Doors appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This week on the Dec. 26 episode of Ripley Radio, we learn that Aliens do exist. Jim Moroney tells us of the night he was abducted by Aliens and how it changed his life. Jerry Chubbuck, owner of the funky roadside attraction, Wonder Tower, in Genoa, Colorado, takes us on a fun tour of this […] The post Ripley Radio – Aliens, Dwarf Basketball & a Funky Tower appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Christmas expert Robin Mains tells Ripley Radio that although she is a Christian, she and her family stopped celebrating the holiday a decade ago and speaks of the deviant and strange side of the holiday. The world’s top couch surfer, Ori Bengal explains how easy it is to get an invitation to sleep on stranger’s […] The post Ripley Radio – Christmas Weirdness and Couch Surfing appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 tells us which ones worked. In this […] The post Ripley Radio – Witch Doctors, Alien Hands & 7 Billion People appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.