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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win said, 4 months ago
I dated Stephanie once, just once.
Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago
White house wasn’t finished … must have been government contractors.
AshburnStadium said, 4 months ago
@Bruno Zeigerts
The Freemasons! ;-)
Tom said, 4 months ago
Adams was elected in 1796, and defeated for reelection in 1800 by Thomas Jefferson.
Gator007 said, 4 months ago
@AshburnStadium
If you know what I know about “Freemasons” you won’t be making light of them.
gmartin997
said, 4 months ago
I suppose the girls that perform that same stunt in Vegas at Circus Circus were wearing harnesses.
gmartin997
said, 4 months ago
@Gator007
Ashburn doesn’t know many of the Presidents of the United States were Freemasons, including George Washington. and Harry Truman, both of whom were Grand Masters. This is not a fact that is generally known, nor revealed. Nor is it generally known that Freemasonry traces its roots back to the time of the pharoahs, and its written work is on file at the Library of Congress. .
gmartin997
said, 4 months ago
Yes, Tom, but he served from 1797 until 1801. Presidents don’t take office until the year following the election; and that wasn’t until March 4th at the time.
tom_wright said, 4 months ago
200 year old fish! Now I wonder how the whey the establish the age of a fish? Maybe they served one at Red Lobster?
SeaFox10 said, 4 months ago
@Gator007
I’m one! Don’t worry about it!
goweeder
said, 4 months ago
What’s so unbelievable about hanging by your teeth? (CircusCircus is not a real circus.) I was with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey for a few years as a trapeze performer. I guarantee you that every girl on the show could hang by her teeth. No big deal.
Captain Colorado said, 4 months ago
And how do they know this about the fish? Does he carry ID?
The Mom said, 4 months ago
From the History Channel: "
On November 1, 1800, President John Adams, in the last year of his only term as president, moved into the newly constructed President’s House, the original name for what is known today as the White House.
Adams had been living in temporary digs at Tunnicliffe’s City Hotel near the half-finished Capitol building since June 1800, when the federal government was moved from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington, D.C. In his biography of Adams, historian David McCullough recorded that when Adams first arrived in Washington, he wrote to his wife Abigail, at their home in Quincy, Massachusetts, that he was pleased with the new site for the federal government and had explored the soon-to-be President’s House with satisfaction.
Although workmen had rushed to finish plastering and painting walls before Adams returned to D.C. from a visit to Quincy in late October, construction remained unfinished when Adams rolled up in his carriage on November 1. However, the Adams’ furniture from their Philadelphia home was in place and a portrait of George Washington was already hanging in one room. The next day, Adams sent a note to Abigail, who would arrive in Washington later that month, saying that he hoped “none but honest and wise men [shall] ever rule under this roof.”
Although Adams was initially enthusiastic about the presidential mansion, he and Abigail soon found it to be cold and damp during the winter. Abigail, in a letter to a friend, wrote that the building was tolerable only so long as fires were lit in every room. She also noted that she had to hang their washing in an empty “audience room” (the current East Room).
John and Abigail Adams lived in what she called “the great castle” for only five months. Shortly after they moved in, Thomas Jefferson defeated Adams in his bid for re-election. Abigail was happy to leave Washington and departed in February 1801 for Quincy. As Jefferson was being sworn in on March 4, 1801, John Adams was already on his way back to Massachusetts, where he and Abigail lived out the rest of their days at their family farm."
Ripley’s, you should have checked Richard Gibson’s “facts” before using this one.
Professor Lindenbrook said, 4 months ago
@The Mom
Madame, I’m sure long-time submitter Richard Gibson appreciates your vast knowledge of history BUT the fact does not say that he NEVER lived in the White House at all during his term. It states that when he first took office the White House was not yet finished and he had to stay in a hotel. What’s your problem ???
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 4 months ago
@Gator007
Gotcha, bro.