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BELIEVE it or NOT

published by Elina 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 i...