Ripley's Believe It or Not has been presenting the incredible and the unusual in illustrated form since Robert Ripley's first "Champs and Chumps" comic published on Dec. 19, 1918. Currently, B.I.O.N. is illustrated by John Graziano, who has been working as an artist and illustrator since 1983, when he received a certificate in illustration from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. He has designed trading card sets and a portrait series based on the 1960s cult TV show "Dark Shadows." John has also created comic strips for "Scream Queens" magazine, designed t-shirts graphics and created storyboards and concept drawings for Hollywood films. Researcher Lucas Stram has worked since 2004 as the voice behind the cartoon, reviewing potential stories, filtering through the hundreds of weekly submissions and putting together the stories for John to bring to life. New submissions are always welcome. Just click here.
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templo SUD said, 5 months ago
Oh, my gosh with that lotto! (Hope the cash prize wasn’t anything like $911.)
Jeo Bascon said, 5 months ago
coinsedence?
capnLaz
said, 5 months ago
Turn on your spell check.
Green 8019 said, 5 months ago
The Church had all the cats killed for they believed they were evil, and the cats used to kill the rats which spread the plague. How come this is never mentioned when half the world died because of bogus religious beliefs?
Cooncat said, 5 months ago
@Green 8019
Not sure if the ‘church’ was behind the killing of cats. Cats were associated with witches as their “familiars” .. what ever that is. I do know that about this time the ‘church’ excommunicated Galileo Galilei for promoting the idea that the earth orbited around the sun (instead of the opposite) .. in other words, the Copernican theory versus the Aristotle theory, which the church supported.
joe piglet said, 5 months ago
Twice a day the time is 9:11 oooo, scary
David Henderson said, 5 months ago
What goes around comes around. They killed the cats and the rats killed them. They got what they deserved by killing all those poor cats.
Michyle Glen said, 5 months ago
Another Tidbit on the Black Death, supposedly Egypt had it first, and the death toll was so great they could not bury all the plague victims,
So they put the dead on ships and towed them out into the Med and cut them loose, the prevaling winds caused the ships to drift to Europe and the Plague found a whole new source of victims.
N7326 Foxtrot said, 5 months ago
Because of their slit pupils, Pope Innocent the somethingth decreed cats evil and the ignorant people killed the cats, the fleas from the rats killed the people. True.
monroe0 said, 5 months ago
Lottery balls don’t duplicate numbers, and never draw just 3. Maybe they drew a 9 and an 11?
Trickle Down said, 5 months ago
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Have you considered therapy?
Fourcrows said, 5 months ago
@monroe0
The state lotteries have a pick 3 drawing daily, with the balls from (0-9) drawn from 3 different containers. I remember everyone thinking the drawing was rigged because of the coincidence. I know quite a few people who still play that number on 9/11 each year. I also remember one year where 111 was drawn on January 11. The payoff for that was a little higher because there is no alternative combination of 3 identical numbers.
SeaFox10 said, 5 months ago
@Trickle Down
Sorry, but gotta agree with Scott!
Trickle Down said, 5 months ago
@SeaFox10
I’m not surprised.
Ghost01 said, 5 months ago
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Yes Scott, seek mental help!