Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 25, 2016

Well, New Mexico became a state in 1912 which means has had {pausing to count} about 2½ inches since then.

Charlie Dog: I’m 50% boxer (hits Porky Pig), 50% pointer (‘There it is! There it is!’), 50% watchdog (stares with bug-eyes), 50% Spitz (spits), 50% Setter, 50% pincher (pinches Porky), but mostly I’m all Labrador Retriever.Porky Pig: Oh, you are not a Labrador Retriever!Charlie: I am so a Labrador Retriever! Get me a Labrador and I’ll retrieve it for you!

There must be a lot of natural magnetism in that Romanian forest.

The trees? Landslide, avalanche, or very heavy flooding when that forest was young.

The Rio Grande River is a major fault line and id due for a 1 in 10000 year earthquake. I loved every minute of the 3 years i spent living on the edge of the gorge in Taos, the views were spectacular, and the hot springs were awesome, and every sunset was a beautiful painting thanks to all the pollution in California.

Help! New Mexico’s crowding the rest of us out! Must be all the Tex-Mex.

Well, “Ripley’s” blew it again! They continue to fail to hire a fact-checker. While there IS a “Hoia Baciu” forest in Romania — where odd things have allegedly happened — the pictured phenomena of weirdly curved trees is something that exists instead in POLAND, as is well-explained on the following page: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-could-have-caused-polands-crooked-forest (COME ON, RIPLEY’S! GET WITH IT!)