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April 1, 2014
PEG MAN: Record Breaker Kelvin Mercado Clips HUNDREDS of Peg to His Face!
His name is Kelvin Mercado is one of our featured record holders at Ripley’s Believe it or Not! for pinning the most clothes pins to his face!
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We’re such big fans that he is THE COVER of our newest book fresh off the press: Completely Awesome!
Peg Man’s Exclusive Photo Shoot
We like Kelvin so much we flew him to Orlando, Florida to Ripley’s headquarters to have a full day photo shoot with him. And now we have some fantastic photos and time lapses of Kelvin’s process of clipping the pins on his face! It was here where he set his pervios record of 161 pins.
He broke the record again soon after, pushing the number to 163 pins at an exclusive Ripley’s Books event!
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Particularly elastic skin
Kelvin’s skin is slight more elastic than average which makes it easier for him to stick so many pegs on it at one. The pins cover his face so completely that he uses the same pattern because he can’t see once the pins start to cover most of his face!
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Don’t think it hurts enough already?
It hurts, but Kelvin now seeks not only be known for the most amount of pegs pinned to his face but to be the first to pin THOUSANDS of these clothes pegs on his entire body!
And you can see the video itself using our Oddscan APP when if you have our latest book Dare To Look!
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See the whole process and the behind the scenes as he puts three different types of clothes pins on his face in his successful attempt to break the record!
Bring home the awesome today!
Ripley Publishing, is an arm of Ripley Entertainment Inc., the owner of the internationally famous trademark Ripley’s Believe It or Not! as world authority on all that is unbelievable. The company offers up its vast archives of the strange and unusual through books, ebooks, apps, television shows, tourist attractions, motion pictures, merchandise and the worldwide syndication of its daily newspaper cartoon. Ripley researchers across the globe are busy each day digging deep into the world of the odd and bizarre to compile enough fresh an exciting material to fill the Believe It or Not! series of books published each year.
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March 14, 2014
Millie Brown: Vomit Artist
Lady Gaga was purposefully vomited on during her concert at South by Southwest.
It was part of an overall show that started with Gaga being “roasted” on a spit as if she were a pig while her dancers basted her with BBQ sauce.
Soon after she was let down from the spit, Gaga invited Millie Brown on stage.
Millie Brown is a “Vomit Artist” and Ripley’s has known how awesome Millie is for awhile now!
We featured Millie in our 2012 annual, Download the Weird for turning “Vomit Painting” into a fine art.
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Millie’s Process
Does not eat for two days prior to performing
Mixes soy milk with food dye to achieve her desired look
Has to drink the soy milk very slowly
Makes herself sick by sticking her fingers down her throat
Vomits without making a sound onto a canvas
The results are colorful abstract paintings that sell for over $2,000 a pop.
March 7, 2014
Completely Awesome!
Our latest in the Curiosities Series, Completely Awesome, gives you the weirdest, coolest, and of course most awesome stories from around the world
With Thousands of stories to read!
More than just a picture book, with thousands of stories, it’ll be hard to stop reading!
Exclusives that you won’t see anywhere else!
Featuring a man who gargles molten lead, shoes made from elephant dung, a pig that walks on two legs, and a real life invisibility cloak, Completely Awesome, will keep you turning the page!
Odd adventures on and off the water!
So much fun, this book is the perfect gift for kids and adults alike!
The oddest art projects!
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February 27, 2014
The Turkey Creek Bridge Fire!
The fire started when a wheel bearing overheated and started to melt causing molten metal to fall onto the railroad tracks!
Smoke on Car #57
The train which left from Denver and was on route to Chicago was stopped as soon as smoke was noticed but the wooden bridge had already caught fire.
$2 Million
$2 Million worth of damages were incurred by the accident but thanks to the quick unhooking and separating of the rest of the train by the vigilant crew, much more was saved than lost!
280,000-lb (127,000-kg)
Six train cars totalling 280,000 pounds crashed into the creek below as a result of the bridge collapsing
Do you Dare to Look!?
Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!
November 22, 2013
Ripley’s & the Assassination of JFK
November 22, 1963, 50 years ago today… The world lost one of our greatest heroesJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was only 46-years-old when he was tragically shot while traveling in a presidential motorcade.
This year, to memorialize the great President, we featured him in a two page spread in our annual, Dare to Look!
The Ripley’s Collection
Ripley’s has long been fascinated the Kennedy assassination. Throughout the years we’ve picked up a few interesting items.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s morgue toe tag
We acquired the mortician’s toe tag of Lee Harvey Oswald directly from the Oswald family via Herman Darvick Auctions of New York in 1994.
Shown here is the actual identification toe tag signed by the doctor, nurse, and mortician. A lock of Oswald’s hair clipped by the attending nurse is also affixed to the tag. The tag is currently on display at our San Antonio Odditorium.
Oswald’s bed
We have eight pieces of furniture and five framed papers from the room where Lee Harvey Oswald planned President Kennedy’s assassination.
Mattress and box spring (pictured above)
Wood slat chair
Small end table
Dresser with mirror
Wire mesh trash can
Oil lamp
Bed with head and foot boards
Blanket with two pillows
Vanity dresser
Car that drove Oswald to assassination site
Buell Wesley Frazier was Lee Harvey Oswald’s neighbor and close friend. Oswald did not have a driver’s license and regularly had Frazier drive him to work.
On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, Frazier drove Oswald to the Texas School Book Depository. In the back seat of this car wrapped in papers was the $12 rifle that Oswald used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Frazier thought the package contained curtain rods.
Stricken with grief and haunted by the memory, Frazier sold the car years later for a mere $10. This car is also on display at the San Antonio Odditorium.
These are the medical instruments used in the embalming of Lee Harvey Oswald.
The largest piece shown here is the embalming machine. We also have a Letter of Authenticity for each item by the Funeral Director, Allen Baumgardner, who assisted on Oswald’s embalming.
Oswald’s police booking fingerprints
Signed by policeman M. Nick McDonald, the officer who arrested Oswald on November 22, 1963, this is the Dallas P.D. fingerprint card containing all of Oswald’s fingerprints.
Bullet from the gun that shot Oswald
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby took the law into his own hands and shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Shown above is a bullet from Ruby’s gun, along with one of the most famous photos of the 20th century.
The Shot Heard Around the World
Was Oswald working alone? What is all a government cover-up? Was it the Russians, Cubans, or even the C.I.A.?November 22nd will be forever remembered as one of the great tragedies for the American people. The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald was shocking and conspiracy theories circle this event.
Ripley’s has collected these theories, and other unbelievable facts, figures, and statistics, in our annual, Dare To Look!
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