Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 30, 2023

I bet that hurt, Katie!

I find all three disgusting. I am glad I never saw the “Kindlifresserbrunnen” on my visits in Bern.

Kindlifresser, or “Child Eater.” … Yikes, the back story is even worse… >

I’m from New Bern NC and this is the first time I’ve heard of that fountain. Unsettling.

So who tanned poor Katie’s hide?

No one knows why!? Because they are delicious, that’s why!

Babies are good source of protein.

She used it to cover her copy of the Necronomicon!

Sounds like Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”

How much cholesterol is in the average baby?

The Child Eater of Bern must’ve been Fat Bästard’s ancestor. “I want my baby back, baby back”

Literally, Katie tanned her own hide.

I like kids, but I’m pretty sure I couldn’t eat a whole one. A little garlic powder might help.

It’s the Baby-Eating-Bishop of Bathen Wells

Now I know what inspired Goya to paint Saturn devouring his children. Luckily, Jupiter survived

Is the Good of Death the behemoth?

Katie Taylor would have gotten a pretty penny if she sold that to a Horror Convention!

And he doesn’t keep his eyes in his hands.

I have a somewhat elaborate tattoo on my right shoulder—showing the enneagram centered, on one side of it a devil, the other an angel and the words “To know, to understand, to be”. And I wanted to arrange that after my death it be removed, skin and all, the skin turned to leather as the front cover of a one of a kind book that would contain selected excerpts of my writings. But my wife said no way, nohow, not going to happen buster

I was thinking the “child eater of Bern” was probably a variant of Krampus, who punishes bad behavior of children, and the satchel makes me think so, but while Wikipedia admits no one knows what it means for sure (they mention the Krampus possibility), someone does point this out: “Another theory is the eight children depict the eight cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy and the Ogre is an enemy (possibly Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy) trying to gobble the cantons up. This would match with the fountain’s base which shows a frieze of armed bears going to war, including a piper and a drummer.”

good grief… hasn’t anyone heard of Moloch? and Baal? and then there is Hillary Clinton who has been seen eating the brains of a baby. most of them in congress and in hollywood are extremely evil as they torture children for their adrenochrome! wake up, people!

Keep the whale at the center of the Earth. Of all statues, definitely one to eradicate. As for the other, no to it, too. Interesting that the mountain Hawaii is taller than Mt. Everest; scary.

even for Halloween, that’s a bit sic

And GC at the urging of John Shirley 1 thought our jokes were in bad taste. Nothing worse than joking about cannibalizing baby humans, if you ask me. You ought to all be banned for life.

I guess she wanted to own a valise with stretch marks…

is he supposed to be “the Plague”?

That sculpture would have been taken down years ago, if it was in America.