Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 28, 2016

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    meowlin  about 8 years ago

    Google Earth gives “I can see your house from here” a whole new meaning…

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    oldpine52  about 8 years ago

    David Kirke must really want a Darwin award.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 8 years ago

    Bet the pizza became ice cold by the time it reached Kilimanjaro’s summit.

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    Bilan  about 8 years ago

    We can assume the pizza didn’t make it in 30 minutes or less.

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    Bill The Nuke  about 8 years ago

    Snopes throws a lot of doubt on the teenager’s claim to finding a Mayan city. Check it out at http://www.snopes.com/canadian-teen-satellite-maps/

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    James Wolfenstein  about 8 years ago

    Who ordered the pizza? What kind of delivery is it if nobody is there waiting for it… I bet the pizza was stone cold… well… it was a pizza delivery after all…

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    James Wolfenstein  about 8 years ago

    Who ordered the pizza? What kind of delivery is it if nobody is there waiting for it… I bet the pizza was stone cold… well… it was a pizza delivery after all…

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    aimlesscruzr  about 8 years ago

    I totally understand the dangerous sports and adrenaline rush. Years ago, I would try a trebuchet ride in a heart beat!

    Here’s a video of them in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzunKZr3Eg

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    SD1 Patrol  about 8 years ago

    that pizza was for me

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    Durak Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Alas, the Mayan city, Gadoury story is bunk. I believe it not, Ripley.

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member about 8 years ago

    That Mayan city story was proven to be incorrect, last I heard.

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member about 8 years ago

    For the article citing the Mayan city discovery as bunk go to this URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/20160511-Maya-Lost-City-Canadian-Teen-Discover-Constellations-Archaeology-Satellite-Stars-Gadoury/

    Since the comments section doesn’t allow hyperlinks, you’ll need to copy the URL and paste in your browser. Sorry!

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    prince valiant Premium Member about 8 years ago

    As to the trebuchat,,,shades of Cul de Sac and Dill’s brothers!

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    SeaFox10  about 8 years ago

    Isn’t that David Kirke the guy who launched his girlfriend on that thing to test it, and it broke her pelvis?!?

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    SeaFox10  about 8 years ago

    Wait a minute!! If there was no one there to “deliver” to, then all they did was carry food, like every other climber!

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    3pibgorn9  about 8 years ago

    Was the pizza hot and how did the guy catapulted land?

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  about 8 years ago

    Trebuchets weren’t designed to throw people at all.

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    IQTech61  about 8 years ago

    A Wired news article indicates that the lost city is neither lost nor a city.

    Google Search “That Long-Lost Mayan city a Teen Found Isn’t Lost … or a City”

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    IQTech61  about 8 years ago

    From Wired:UPDATE 5/11/16 5:40 PM ET: Geoffrey Braswell, a mesoamerican archaeologist at UC San Diego, and his graduate students have, by coincidence, actually been working in this area, and they immediately recognized the features in the satellite photos. The first image, Braswell says, is of the Laguna El Civalón, and the two rectangular features next to it are fields, probably either weed-filled fallow fields or marijuana fields based on the amount of vegetation.

    The feature in the second image is a dried-up swamp, though an interesting archaeological site lies just to the south. “San Felipe was an important stop on the Spanish camino real linking Campeche (Mexico) to Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala),” writes Braswell in a statement. The Mexican archaeologist Teri Arias Ortiz may have found a church while excavating the area.

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    Max Starman Jones  about 8 years ago

    William would never have found the city if it had not been for Street View.

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    Eugeno  about 8 years ago

    Trebuchets have been used to ‘fling’ a variety of things, such as – a cow, a piano, and … a Buick. The power it generates is astonishing.

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    RustyGreenbrier  about 8 years ago

    That William Gadoury story has been thoroughly debunked months ago.

    No. He did NOT find an ancient Mayan city using GoogleEarth, and besides that the ancient Mayan city he didn’t find was in Campeche, Mexico, not Belize. So no, do NOT “believe it”…

    Keeping this hoax alive, just prolongs the kid’s embarrassment.

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