Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982)
Season 3
Based on the travels and discoveries of oddity-hunter Ripley, this show looked at the people, places and events that made up the stranger side of human history. Subjects have included Nikola Tesla, The Bermuda Triangle, The Elephant Man, and Mad King Ludwig.
Where to Watch Season 3
21 Episodes
- Season 3 Episode 1E1
Season 3 Episode 1Segments in the third-season opener include a horned toad that survived 31 years in a time capsule; training procedures at the Los Angeles Police Academy; advances in medical technology providing new treatments for kidney stones and tumors; recordings attached to the Voyager space vehicles; mushrooms. - Season 3 Episode 2E2
Season 3 Episode 2- Go deep into ancient catacombs to meet some of the world's best-dressed mummies - Peel away the glitter of Las Vegas to see how hidden cameras keep an eye on the action - Take a close look at an Australian lizard that inspired a dance craze in Japan - Attend a class where future morticians learn to recreate the faces of the dead - Find out how experts make sure gamblers get a fair shot at a winning roll - Share the inspiration of a young boy who ignores the loss of his arms - Get as close as you dare to a frog that can kill with a single touch - Watch carefully as a professional dealer reveals the secrets of card cheats - Examine the remains of a Chinese holy man preserved under a thin layer of gold - Season 3 Episode 3E3
Season 3 Episode 3- Explore new techniques that may one day permit the blind to see - Handle deadly cobras in India to honor the great god Shiva - Examine the specimens in one of the world's most unusual collections - Share one woman's devotion to the care and protection of turtles - Blast off with a jet engine to crate a new form of modern art - Share a meal with feathered friends in a unique Hong Kong restaurant - Go on a painful pilgrimage in Guatemala to honor an ancient statue - Learn how dogs guide the deaf through a silent world - Go inside a factory where original art is mass produced - Probe the mysterious processes of the human brain at work - Shatter ancient rocks to reveal masterpieces billions of years old - October 21, 1984E4
October 21, 1984Judge Roy Bean; Roman food tasters, Snake fang tester and venom collector, Belgium bomb disposal squad, English Steeplejack, Fred Dibnah;, Japanese pullulan food sheets, Dabbawala in Bombaby, India, Jumiles in Taxco, Mexico, CZimmer's Game and Seafood in Lockport, Ill; potato powered clock; blue whales; curious dolphins in Monkey Mia; Killer whales; Imperial Easter Egg of 1893; Fabergé eggs; diamond jubilee March 1946; Gem mining in Columbia; oyster farming; and Imperial Crown duplicate; PT Barnum's egress sign. - Season 3 Episode 5E5
Season 3 Episode 5- Chip away with Chinese artists to build ice palaces worthy of an emperor - Peer inside a complex bionic arm that gives amputees a new hold on life - Scoop up a small fortune in coins at a laundry that washes money - Witness the breakup of a frozen river in Alaska that's worth over $100,000 - Watch as scientists demonstrate new weapons in a war against cockroaches - Bang away with a Texan determined to cover his home with empty beer cans - Fire explosives into an Austrian mountainside to start a thundering avalanche - Push, pull, hoist, and hammer in a hectic race to build an instant house - Season 3 Episode 6E6
Season 3 Episode 6Included: a paperclip trick; whale artist John Perry;[11] fishing with a kite; a house of jigsaw puzzles; torture tests for household appliances (UL (safety organization)); military experts setting off a large conventional explosion (Trinity (nuclear test)); hunting for spider webs; Fillmore fish hatchery; salmon struggling to reach their spawning ground; the top-secret preparations for the D-day invasion; books made of wood pulp. - November 18, 1984E7
November 18, 1984Typhoid Mary; Explosives Marcelo Ramos; Controlled Demolition, Inc.; Double Dutch (jump rope) at Lincoln Center; thoroughbreds; cheetah w/ tiger stripes; Walking catfish; Dougal Dixon; Johann Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered Petra; the Anasazi; a vacuum & cork trick. - November 25, 1984E8
November 25, 1984Balloon puncture trick; U.S. Navy survival training; British Royal Tournament; baseball for blind National Beep Baseball Association; handicapped man competes in Paralympic Games; Stephen Hawking; soil samples from Mars; a volcanic eruption on a moon of Jupiter; the Moon landing; astronauts training for zero gravity; Space Flight Operations Facility; a rooftop garden in New York City; a machine that picks apples; using corn smut in Mexico; how a grammatical error cost $2 million. - December 2, 1984E9
December 2, 1984Included: D.H. Lawrence's final resting place; a painless way to gather wool from sheep in Australia; Jerusalem's sacred Western Wall; milking cows by computer in Holland; how to make fertilizer; a valuable garbage dump; how to make a bulletproof window; luring rats to their deaths. - December 9, 1984E10
December 9, 1984 Included: how America was named; a fire that burned for eight months; a high-stakes poker game pitting a man against a computer; an artist who paints with cobwebs; how Leonardo kept his ideas secret; why $500 million is gathering dust in storage; a tower built as a home for bats; triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13.. - December 16, 1984E11
December 16, 1984Included: the friendship of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison; the Fourth of July; how the New Year is celebrated in Japan; 10 days in history that have been lost forever; art of camouflage; how skiers keep in shape during the summer; sky divers performing at 14,000 feet. - Season 3 Episode 12E12
Season 3 Episode 12Segments include crime-prevention techniques; reconstructing faces from skulls; how a slave won freedom with a snake bite; controlling the weather; how to make sea water drinkable; a customized Mercedes-Benz with a TV and fireplace; milk-carton boats; water that can cut through steel. - Season 3 Episode 15E15
Season 3 Episode 15Segments on sleep research; Einstein's brain; a wedding performed in a tub; how visual brain waves can assist the handicapped; a Japanese ritual battle to ensure a bountiful harvest; a mountain village where people dress up as wild bears; a fish that lives in the desert. - February 10, 1985E16
February 10, 1985Pulling a dollar bill between two bottles trick; Segments on sacred sites and rituals in Jerusalem; Absalom's tomb, water baptism in the river Jordan, 7 martyrs church of Saint Saba, via dolorosa; ruins of Herod's second temple; words pronunciation; Missouri auction school; a Japanese rite dedicated to the sound of laughter; Vivian Fisher, a man who can imitate the sounds of musical instruments; devices for seeing in the dark (Infra red vision and Night vision); wildlife in darkness (Flashlight Fish, Fireflies, Foxes, and Bats); AMKUS pump; how firefighters rescue victims trapped in car wrecks; Pascal's calculator. - February 17, 1985E17
February 17, 1985Water optical trick; E.E. Cummings 1922 French Poem "CHANSONS INNOCENTES"; A transcontinental humming exercise w/ Bonnie Barnett;[11] Fastest speaker Tom Adams; Sound poets Charles Stein and George Quasha; Knot's Berry Farm Haunted Shack; University of Edinburgh motion research; hypnotism w/ psychiatrist Martin Orne; Dice; Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong); Tribal Bingo in (Cherokee, NC); Corning Museum of Glass; Yuichiro Miura Skied down Mount Everest; Edwin Boring and the ambiguous drawing My Wife and My Mother-in-Law. - Season 3 Episode 18E18
Season 3 Episode 18- Start a chain reaction involving over a quarter of a million dominoes - Join an expedition in Japan to study the habits of giant killer wasps - Descend into a human throat to see vocal cords at work - See how surgeons in China transform toes into a new hand for an accident victim - Go on a picnic in a Miami zoo with a man who put himself on public display - Play ball in Italy where rough-and-tumble action is part of the game - Find out how surgeons use precision procedures to reconstruct a human arm - Learn how an artist transforms ordinary paper bags into an extraordinary variety of unusual hats - March 3, 1985E19
March 3, 1985John Sutter and the origin of Sacramento, California; Douglas DC-3 plane; The city that inspired the mythical kingdom of Shangri-La, Lhasa; the Dalai Lama's route to exile through the Himalayas; San Diego Zoo nursery and (orangutans, tigers, pygmy hippo, spotted leopard, and tapir); Vancouver Aquarium and beluga whale giving birth; Serengeti National Park; Moses Coates apple peeler; Henry Ford museum; an early computerized photo alteration program; an eye typing program; MIT artificial intelligence; Henry J. Wooldridge gravesite monuments; Hong Kong burials; Fol-Sang dong chung; (place of little heaven) Qilakitsoq, Greenland; voices in relation to air. - March 10, 1985E20
March 10, 1985The Dead Sea; Bonsai trees; mangled money; professional venom collectors; Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar, Ca; car customizer Dean Jeffries; low-rider competition; junkyard artist Jim Gary; National Severe Storms Forecast Center predicts violent weather; Elis Stenman's Paper house in Rockport, Mass; Ant Lovack French Riviera house; Empress Dowager Cixi's Marble Boat; origin of the Statue of Liberty and it's French duplicate; Sea Cucumber in Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco. - March 31, 1985E21
March 31, 1985Cellist Anton Fils ate spiders regularly; Protective glass, Nuclear safety canisters; crash testing; chemo luminescent glow stick; crossword puzzles and the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament; Diaper Derby; the Lake Biwa Birdman Rally hang-gliding contest; Brahma pyramid (a.k.a. Tower of Hanoi); a deep-sea dive to retrieve the HMS Edinburgh (16) Gold treasure; laser-beam technology; ice-cube, salt, and thread trick.