Ripley's Believe It or Not - Newport, Oregon

10/28/2026

Before becoming an actor, Terry Crews played professional football. 🏈

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HCNoel's Rogues' Gallery

10/28/2026

Where Science-Fiction becomes a reality 🤖🪱

The concept of nanobot or swarm intelligence isn't new, but translating that into future applications is a lot more complicated. Scientists are studying how large masses of worms communicate and survive as a way to better program robots. With this data, a series of robotic models were able to mirror the worms' behavior and act out more complex instruction with ease.

Who knows what we'll be able to adapt next? 👉

By studying the natural world, scientists will soon be able to design robots that seem to be plucked straight from science fiction!

10/27/2026

A quick update- we are Closed while we clean up smoke damage. We hope to be back open Friday, Oct 30th. Please call for updates 541-265-2206 We appreciate your patience.

10/26/2026

We will be closed today and tomorrow as we assess damage from the fire at Pacific Seafood yesterday and will update once we know more. We are incredibly grateful to be a part of this community and Newport's Bayfront, we have certainly felt the love and care that comes with that. We are a collection of shops, restaurants, tours and an active fishing community and it's pretty special to see how connected we all are. A BIG thank you to all of the first responders who worked tirelessly to get the fire under control and keeping it contained to limit the spread sparing more businesses and no injuries. Our thoughts are with our neighbors at Pacific Seafood as they recover and rebuild. We appreciate everyone's patience as things get back up and running.

10/25/2026

Wanna meet a palm-sized spider? If you're in the East Coast, now's your chance! 🕷️

Accidentally brought over in shipping containers the Joro spider is an invasive species but is originally native to East Asia. Unlike other crawling creatures, these arachnids are harmless to humans, cats, dogs and can even help with our agriculture.

If spiders give you the creeps, know that Joro spiders are here to help! And more importantly here to stay 👉

Researchers at the University of Georgia predict an explosion of hand-sized Juro spiders floating as far north as Delaware this spring.

10/25/2026

Due to a fire at the fish plant across from our building we will be closed today and tomorrow. Our building did not catch fire, but we will have to access if there is any smoke damage.

10/23/2026

You've heard of Witches, but have you heard of Wiccans? 🌙

Wicca may have officially began in 1953 but, a supposed British Warlock named Gerald Gardener got the whole thing started. Drawing from is experiences in South Asia, he returned home to begin his own coven of spiritually aligned individuals in a stone tower he owned.

Did you know him and witches even claimed to have undermined Adolf Hi**er to weaken the N**i party? Uncover the truth here 👉

The Ripley's collection contains numerous artifacts and books from the founder of the pagan witchcraft religion of Wicca, Gerald Gardner.

10/21/2026

One of our Ripley's Rarities 💀

This cultural artifact hails all the way from Papa New Guinea and displays a preserved midwife skull with a pregnant woman engraved on the forehead. Also known as, waneng aiyem ser, these women were important members of native tribes. Taking on both male and female rituals, decision-making, rites of purification, making medicine, and more.

Find out how this important role gets chosen and how it's often considered a "third gender" 👉

This rare ancestral skull from Papua New Guinea belonged to the tribe's waneng aiyem ser. The midwife skull was used to bless the tribe's children.

10/21/2026

Turtles sometimes cause delays at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport when they cross runways to lay their eggs! 🐢

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HCNoel's Rogues' Gallery

10/20/2026

The Vampire of Düsseldorf— Peter Kürten 🧛

He grew up with an extremely violent father in Germany; priming him for his eventual killings. With an ingrained pension for causing harms to others, Kürten would soon go on to murder animals and even his friends. As an adult, he started a killing spree and was found, by police, to be drinking the blood of his victims.

Executed in 1931, discover who turned him over to the authorities. The answer might just shock you 👉

We're taking a look inside the head of Peter Kurten, one of the most notorius sereal killers in history.