Wielding Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber
Not as clumsy or random as a blaster…
Posts in category Ripley’s Rarities
Ripley’s Rarities takes you up close and personal with some of the most interesting exhibits collected by Ripley’s Believe it or Not! since the days of Robert Ripley himself.
The Lunacy Of Light Medicine: Spectro-Chrome Metry
Green light each day keeps the gangrene away?
When Sonar Wasn’t Enough: The Bathythermograph
Ships could use this device to target ships sight unseen.
Cracking Indiana Jones’s Whip
It belongs in a museum.
The Victorian Skirt Lifter: Lurid Or Liberating?
Badminton, tennis, ice skating, and croquet could now be fully enjoyed.
Pepper-Box Pistols: The 19th-Century Revolver
These multi-barreled firearms predated the revolver, allowing users to fire in quick succession.
Petrified Produce: Fruit Turned To Stone
Details match the original at the microscopic level.
Children Played With Toy Guillotines During The Great Terror
Children would decapitate dolls, even live rats, with their bladed toys.
Coal Recovered From the Sunken Titanic
This coal was recovered from the Titanic’s engine room 82 years after the ship sank.
A Batak Shaman’s Bone Almanac
Batak shamans known as datu looked to the sky on the last moonless night in May.