welcome fellow travelers today on exit
thru the gift shop we are at the
here's the orator from New Guinea the
human unicorn photographed by Robert
Ripley in China 1931 was a man with a
13-inch horn growing out of his head
women in Burma stretched their necks
with rings to show wealth and power and
these could reach up to 16 inches long
fakirs in India have laid on beds and
nails to show their devotion to the gods
okay I'm going to test my
strength by walking across this bed of
hot coals oh my goodness oh no oh oh no
oh well good thing I was wearing shoes
this is the balloon chair flown by Kent
Coach in 2008 for a distance of 235 miles
Here's a collection of teeny tiny
artwork this is a portrait of the
Beatles drawn on a cigarette John Lennon
drawn on a chicken bone and if you can
see it here's a picture of Elvis made
out of a human hair and here's a
cockroach portrait of Sammy Davis jr.
Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra some other
unique works of art this candle wax Katy
Perry portrait and this Michael Jackson
made out of nail polish here's an
authentic shrunken head made in the
jungles of Ecuador
this is an interesting exhibit it talks
about a gatehouse in Belgium that was
blown up when lightning hit gunpowder
and it created a vacuum that sealed the
room that these five card players were in
in the exact position that they
stayed in when they died still playing a
card game with one spectator standing
behind and here's the recreation of the
bodies and from and here's a recreation
of the bodies from Pompeii that were
mummified by a volcanic explosion
and of course here's a Fiji mermaid
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Siamese twins Sheng and Eng these inseperable
siblings were bitter rivals and for
years they refused to even speak to each
a star attraction of circuses
worldwide was Flora Jackson tipping the
scales at nearly 900 pounds maybe Flo
never took no for an answer
any woman a beard might worry about
spinsterhood but not this
female the Austrian bear lady watch turn
down any marriage proposals in a single day
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Zoltar here remember, it is a great deal better to do all the things you think you should
than to to spend the rest of your life wishing you had
do not be leaving this place with regrets my friend
start by giving Zoltar more money for more widsom, no?
uh... no
in the Titanic exhibit you can check out how cold the water was
the night that the Titanic sank expected
survival time only between 15 and 45
minutes let's see how this is ooh
yep that's definitely pretty chilly
kinda refreshing though so the Newport
ripley's is actually closing down in
September 2019 for a complete remodeling
they actually gave us a coupon so we can
come back next summer and check out the
new exhibit check out our interactive
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