Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 23, 2020

I have heard that if you use a Ouija board to try to communicate with dead the ghost of Isabel Sanford will appear.

Oh, no. My mistake. That’s a Weezie board.

I’ve fallen out of bed because of a dipping mattress at least a couple times; and if it had killed me, I obviously couldn’t have made this comment.

Schrick Reck It wasn’t a Ouija board in this joke because I don’t believe in toying with those, but one time I built a board that was 3,169 feet.

Take care and may God bless.

Where did Rick find an approximate 3,200-square-foot plot of land in Salem?

What does “IT MEASURE 3168 FT” mean?

“Arrête, c’est ici l’empire de la mort!”

That’s the inscription at the entrance to the mile-long section of the Catacombs of Paris that is open to tourists. “Stop! This is the empire of death!”

Washington Square Park may sit above old grave sites containing 20,000 bodies, but over four miles of abandoned limestone quarries under the streets of Paris contain the remains of over six million people. So the WSP site is just a town of the dead as compared to a major city of the dead.

The city of Paris engaged in a project to relocate the corpses/bones from vast cemeteries to the catacombs from c. 1786 to c. 1860. This became necessary because the cemetaries were literally filled to overflowing. Strong rains would send floods of human remains from the graveyards into the streets of business and residential neighborhoods. As you might guess, there was a year-round odor of decay in those neighborhoods.

It’s cold in the Catacombs, so dress warmly if you visit. The temperature stays below 60F all year. Tickets about $11.00.

Oui? Yes.

Ja? Yes.

Ouija? Yes, yes!

A home-made Ouija oracle was used to evoke what is probably the second-place contender for The Great American Epic Poem.

First place belongs to “Leaves of Grass.”

But “The Changing Light at Sandover,” sourced from several years of Ouija readings channeled/transcribed by James Merril (and David Jackson) is a uniquely American spiritual monument all its own.

Some shocking facts today.

Well, at least Schreck isn’t wasting his life.

1 in 2 million; unless you play golf or love walking on the beach.

The size mentioned here is way off. Google him and quija board and you’ll see it’s fits in his backyard

Oh great! Now I have the Ghostbusters theme running through my head. ♪"There’s something strange in your neighbourhood. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!"♪♫

When I was a child, I fell out of bed more than once – I question that statistic.

I wonder if that 20,000 includes what the mob has added since its become a park …

Rick Shrek has too much time on his hands. What a ridiculous waste of time and resources.

I have heard of more people — many more people — getting hit by lightning than dying from falling out of bed. And that’s just within the state where I live. I’d like to know where Ripley’s got their statistic.

And how many people does it take to move the planchette?

Washington Square is now a garden due to all of the bodies rolling over…

Believe it or not, dying while falling out of bed is about 22 times more probable than dying from a lightning strike…

Dying while falling out of bed, as of June 30, 2017 — “About 450 people die annually by falling out of bed, usually from head and neck injuries.”

“In 2018 there were 20 direct lightning fatalities, up from 16 in 2017 which was lowest since record-keeping began in 1941. From 2009 to 2018 on average 27 people died each year from lightning strikes in the United States, according to the National Weather Service.”

I am not that devoted to my master, Satan.

What are the odds of being struck by lightning WHILE falling out of bed?

Now if you get struck by lightning while falling out of bed, you KNOW you p.o.’d the wrong guy…

1 in 2 million? How do they know that?