BELIEVE it or NOT

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The Ripley Experience

A real life "Indiana Jones" Robert Ripley travelled all over the world, tracking down amazing facts, oddities and curiosities. A collector of just about anything and everything. Robert Ripley was never more delighted than when he happened to come across something really bizarre on one of his excursions. He was especially pleased if he could take it home with him. Shrunken heads, bone necklaces and bowls, medieval torture devices- these were the kind of keepsakes he liked best, and they all eventually found places of honor in his home.
       In keeping with Robert Ripley's fascination with the bizarre, it's not surprising that he was partial to those BELIEVE it or NOT! cartoons that dealt with the unexplainable. Robert Ripley loved a good story if it happened to be about something ghoulish- such as the dying sculptor who carved a statue of himself, then transferred his own eyebrows, eyelashes, nails and teeth to it- he liked it even better.
       The Ripley archives (believe or not) are filled with tales of people suddenly waking up in morgues or sitting up in their coffins after they have been declared "dead. Whenever Robert and heard stories like these, if he could verify them, he filed them away for use in future BELIEVE it or NOT! Cartoons. Stories about ghosts and witches were also high up on the list of his favorite subjects.
       
  Most of us accept as truth only those things we can see, hear, touch, smell or feel. Anything else must be science fiction.  But if that's so...

     Guesswork?
In the early 1930s, Hubert Pearce guessed every card in the ESP test given given by Dr. Joseph Rhine at Duke University. In fact, Pearce did just as well whether he was separated from the tester by only a screen or was in a separate building.


Question of the week
The ability to accurately predict what will happen in the future is called...
a. Precognition.
b. X-ray vision.
c. Good luck.
d. Uncommon good sense.

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