Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"Another year's worth of wild and wacky information from Ripley's Believe It or Not! This new special edition features 144 pages of awesomely weird information and photos, behind a cover with eye-catching special effects! From a life-size gingerbread house in Texas to a real underwater city in China, or a dolphin with an artificial tail to an ex-soldier with a bionic arm--you really won't believe it until you see it!"--Amazon.com.

Features crazy facts, new discoveries, and weird wonders of the world, including a house covered with millions of sea shells, a new invention for grinding insects for cooking, and a secret amusement park.

A collection of bizarre facts, stories, and photographs featuring strange creatures, people, places, and adventures from around the world.

The fascinating files of Robert Ripley prove there's nothing stranger than the truth. This bestselling annual edition is back and contains more creepy facts and crazy feats than ever before.

A collection of bizarre facts, stories, and photographs featuring strange creatures, people, places, and adventures from around the world.

A compendium of incredible and bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features. Includes a dramatic eight-page gatefold section presenting Ripley's first ever odditorium; a selection of choice memorabilia; informative boxes giving the scientific explanation behind some of the most incredible tales in the book; a section on the Olympic games, past and present; black and white Ripley archive photographs; and miscellaneous lists.

"From how it all began to the cusp of our future ventures, travel through 100 years of our fascinating history...believe it or not!"

Photographs and brief articles tell about extraordinary animals, including a snake with two heads, a chameleon whose tongue can extend one and a half times its body length, and a woman who lived in a glass box with 3,400 scorpions.

"These people really know how to push the boundaries. Read about the man who locked himself inside a washing machine, the girl who had 25 snails on her face, and the skydivers who formed a diamond shape in the sky the size of a football field."