hi guys tonight we're in niagara falls ontario checking out ripley's believe it
or not i've been to a couple other ripley's attractions there was one that we went to in
oregon and i've been to one in new york in times square as well this is the third
ripley's attraction i've been to they're always good for a laugh let's go and explore
hey starting us off here is a life-size fighting
made in thailand from hundreds of recycled car tires look at that
hanging from the ceiling an animatronic junk fish
very cool it's like a steampunk piranha
wait a minute who's hanging out out front it's the i recognize you it's the cuban eye popper
a genuine car parts robot built from hundreds of used car parts
i think this is how they make new transformers and heading into the auditorium
atop the empire state building the tallest building in the world student robert quadlock
to this day the tallest man in modern history believe it or not it says he's seven feet
sitting down i wonder if this is true to life those are those hands are gigantic
look at that
here's a camel bone carving containing over 5 000 individually carved and glued pieces of bone
it says this piece took 40 carvers over six months to complete
luckily no camels were harmed in the making of this piece
over here's the lighthouse man from china this happy fellow board a hole
in his head wore a lighted candle in it and provided guided tours of his town at night
here's a jade rickshaw made of over 2 000 pounds of jade this carved rickshaw
is a replica of a 20th century ancient chinese emperor's personal transport
some other bone-based artifacts a tibetan human bone rosary
that's pretty creepy dinosaur bones and skin down there
fossilized fern a fossilized gallimimus dinosaur arm and a plesiosaurus vertebrae
the mona lisa made out of nail polish of course i think that's actually quite a bit bigger than
the actual mona lisa when i was in france i went to see it and it's much much smaller in person
than you would think this is probably much larger than the real mona lisa
and also made out of nail polish got some temple masks up there down here a tibetan bone outfit
and a giant buddha head made out of nuts and washers
some more tibetan artifacts this is a tibetan mahakala skull mask
and over here a tibetan trumpet purchased by robert ripley himself and used by monks in tibet
and down here uh tibetan nomads bronze mug
some other gruesome artifacts a vampire killing kit down there
an exorcism kid over there
and over here i don't like this widow's finger chopper when the spouse died widows
and primitive tribes in new guinea would chop off a finger from each hand some shadow art
you can see we've got some elephants on that side and then light shining from a different angle
makes i'm not sure what here's a monologue asaurus that lived in asia about 170 million years ago
more skeletons an african elephant skull
and a woolly mammoth skull and jaw right there
i don't like this a collection of belly button lint we are some of the humans
i bet you are wondering what happened to me do you want to ask don't you
well i wasn't always too small but i've always been this good-looking
asia legend has it that my ancestors first wrapped their necks and arms with metal coils in order to
deter abandoned pencils but as time went on they became an integral part of our culture
women can stretch their legs up to 15 inches my hair is amazing in a way too you may have
noticed a unique creature growing from it i was just a farmer in a remote chinese village
when i met this russian bunker he took a picture of me and sent it to raghav who turned this
into a famous cartoon the horn is actually called an after yama and scientists are still unsure what
causes this rare condition you know ripley made a cartoon about me too he once called me the most
remarkable man in the world even though i was born without legs i could do anything a normal person
can do and more in my sideshow i was well-known by one-armed handstands some people still ask me
do i wish i had lights or why would i then i'd have to press my pants get it press my pants
down here is the figure of general tom thumb who performed for pt barnum
he only stood three feet four inches tall
here's a sideshow freak the lizard man who spent over 700 hours getting his body tattooed
he also got his tongue bifurcated pretty creepy and this is a three-legged man from sicily
who unsurprisingly happened to be a soccer star
the third leg was the couple of inches shorter than the other two the long nosed man thomas
wetters from england had a nose that was seven and a half inches long also performed in the sideshow
here's one of wadlow's shoes this is a custom leather shoe 37 double a
this is from 1936 to 1940 wadlow toured eastern u.s endorsing peter's shoes
through the door we've got some animal oddities
here's a sawfish beak it's a member of the ray family and has this saw like snoot
oh down here a little two-headed kitten
and then a three-legged chick
a rather disgustingly large cow hair ball
and why not a two-headed calf okay let's play a game over here it says which of these creatures
are real only two of these creatures are real the other are imposters so let's see there's a fish up
there says there's a fur bearing trout looks legit we have some sort of salmon there that looks okay
some sort of fiji mermaid type of creature obviously legit down here
albino beaver why not and bigfoot all right let's see if we're right well obviously bigfoot what
oh no no actually i'm going to say the albino beaver bang
and fur bearing trout no sparkly salmon no i'm gonna say regular
salmon right there yeah that's it i know my creatures but i love a fiji mermaid
some more curiosities obviously some anthropomorphic squirrels
this little guy's riding a boat down here
a unicorn deer skull i guess it's an actual deer that has a single horn growing out of its head
although we've got a two-headed lamb here
and a cyclops pig
in here goat bagpipes
i think that's enough said ripley's cabinet of curiosities we got the echidna
also known as the spiky eater
i like how these they have these screen overlays that's kind of cool
here's a cyclops lamb skull
there's a birth defect with a normal two-eyed animal was born with only one single eye
philippine island trophy skull says these trophy heads won the head taker the respective fellows
looks like he's got a human skull on top of that skull
nail art it's kind of unique using all different types of nails
make the pattern different size heads on those nails
cool these wood faces are kind of hilarious
more tribal artifacts
there's a headhunter's carved skull down there
a human skin mask covered in actual skin
of course it wouldn't be ripley's without a collection of shrunken heads
ripley's museums have over a hundred genuine human shrunken heads and there's one of them
more unbelievable robert ripley oddities famous since 1918.
got a mummified falcon god here egyptian mummified temple cat that's up there
of course an egyptian mummified head an ushabti figure looks like we're exploring the ripley's
warehouse here most of these things are hidden but let's see if we can take a sneak peek
leg shackles and a medieval spiked crown you never know what you're gonna get
how about down here oh there i am hi
two-headed calf skeleton this is like a little surprise it's a fun game
up here i can kind of see this one but it's a got some nut and bolt sculptures
arabian jambia dagger i guess this is probably a cool way for them to change some of the
exhibits around without having to re-theme the whole area uh here's a image magic fire doll
this old doll from the founder of modern wiccan was set on fire and belief that
the victim she represented would suffer burning pain got your typical tin can truck
coal statues bronze paperweights and let's see last one
a medieval torture glove a wrist bone crusher and some medieval spiked wrist shackles
hey here's a niagara themed little artifact it says this is charles blowden's bike
who rode it on a tight rope over niagara falls is a dress made of the pages of a book
was that one that lady gaga wore
no i think she had this one this is the toilet paper dress this is actually a
cool historical artifact a little out of place but it's a section of the berlin wall
i'm confused it says enter but it also says it's a restricted area let's go for it
oh i don't like creepy crawlies live animals ah some compressed air in there
what's that scorpion let's see over here scrap metal motorcycle
it's kind of fun i like this area
this area is a little bit uh interactive of sorts they've got
things that you can press and i don't like this danger keep it oh
well that's nice you fooled me once with the compressed air
and totally redeemed yourself with a nice popsicle wagon
got somebody else pecan minnie mouse
okay titanic coal from the engine room let's see press there
i guess that's from the titanic's engine room love titanic artifacts and also nautical
a matchstick spanish galleon this section is kind of cool since we're in niagara falls
this talks about the niagara falls daredevils
over here is william kendall the first person to swim across the whirlpool rapids at niagara falls
charles blondon crossed the niagara falls on a tightrope while pushing a man in a wheelbarrow
so charles got all the credit but i want to know who was the other guy that got
volunteered to be pushed across the falls in a wheelbarrow here's a candy art e.t
that's what happened to all my twizzlers
a bottle cap amelia earhart
scrabble tiles
in the shape of frankenstein's monster
a lego robert ripley is there any kind of lego sets they don't make these days
here's a shark made out of popcan poles
this is awesome this is just perfect a vincent price
shrunken head craft kit what kid wouldn't love that
vortex tunnel ahead
there we go whoa
whoa
made it thanks for checking out ripley's niagara falls with us
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