This week, Doug Kirby and Ken Smith of the popular roadside attractions website, www.roadsideamerica.com detail the latest on funky roadside events and attractions, live from the side of the road in Lubbock, Texas; Intern Eric tells us the sad tale of the lightning strike that destroyed the Touchdown Jesus statue in Ohio; Tim quizzes Stayce, [...]
Happy Summer everyone and welcome to an encore performance of Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast. The following episode was originally broadcast during the week of February 1f, 2010. We’ll be back with great new shows starting the first week of September. Hope you can join us.
No two words in the English language epitomize the [...]
Happy Summer everyone and welcome to an encore performance of Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast. The following episode was originally broadcast during the week of February 1, 2010. We’ll be back with great new shows starting the first week of September. Hope you can join us.
Amelia Klem Osterud explains how she came to write [...]
Lee Speigel, one the world’s pre-eminent research journalists and broadcasters in the realm of UFO’s, paranormal activities, and fringe events, provides proof that the government isn’t telling us the truth about alien adventures on and around the earth; AOL’s Buck Wolf tells us about Julia Gnuse, the world’s most tattooed lady who has 95% of [...]
Carl Wiser of songfacts.com shares a few weird and bizarre facts behind the lyrics of several rock songs; Intern Clara tells us about artwork on display at a London Museum – made from human feces; AOL’s Buck Wolf explains what he did when he discovered Adolf Hitler’s toilet in a New Jersey gas station; Marcie [...]
Chris Alexander, Editor-in-Chief of Fangoria magazine explains why people love to be grossed out and scared by horror and how he strives to keep a balance in his publication’s coverage of the macabre. Intern Eric tells us why the burial crypt above Marilyn Monroe remains empty and why past potential buyers have backed out; we [...]
Spell collector Judika Illes, author of “Magic When You Need It: 150 Spells You Can’t Live Without,” reveals a few everyday spells that are both simple to cast AND have been proven to work! Intern Eric tells of a Cardboard Boat Museum in Ohio that features winners of past cardboard boat regattas; Ripley archivist Edward [...]
While most of us are familiar with the more famous cryptids – the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot, this show on Cryptozoology introduces us to a few of the lesser-known, but equally cool Cryptids that are thought to exist – such as skyfish, the Ohio Grassman and the New Jersey Devil. [...]
This Week, we take a look at the weirdness and funkiness along I-95, the busiest interstate in the US this week when we talk with Stan and Sandra Posner, authors of the amazing guidebook, Drive I-95. They have chronicled every dive, diner, motel, and roadside attraction at EVERY exit along the long ribbon of highway. [...]
Baseball – America’s favorite summer pastime is featured this week as we talk with baseball promotion guru Mike Veeck about some of his outrageous stunts – including the day he blew up the field at Chicago’s Comiskey Park as he destroyed disco records between a doubleheader; Dan Schlossberg, author of 35 books on baseball, reveals [...]
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