A man shot in the face, not only lived, but spit the bullet out. A teenager survived being impaled by a large bamboo spike. A dying man was saved by a pizza delivery guy. (Was it thin or thick crust!). These are some of the stories Edward Meyer, VP of Exhibits & Archives from Ripley's Believe It or Not, will share this afternoon (Thanksgiving-Thursday) when he comes on the Puffman Show at 4:35
Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio anchored the evening news together for WVII in Bangor, Maine.
On Tuesday, they resigned their positions together right before signing off for the final time.
That's what I used to call them. I was a big time wrestling fan back in the 70's & early 80's & besides seeing some great matches back in the Pittsburgh area, I got to meet some of these "living legends". I had the good fortune to spend an entire day with the late Captain Lou Albano, who I found out wasn't really a "Captain" at all...
Remember that time you got super drunk, duct taped couch cushions to your body and smashed into things around the house like a human pinball? You don't? Well you were super drunk so that doesn't shock us.
We've been mourning the sad loss of 'Calvin and Hobbes' ever since cartoonist Bill Watterson stopped producing the beloved comic strip in 1995. But apparently the strip hasn't gone completely forgotten, since a piece of original 'Calvin and Hobbes' artwork recently broke a record at auction by selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What bibliophile hasn't dreamed of just putting money into a vending machine and out comes a book that you can read to your heart's content? Sounds great, but not very likely, right? Well, that's where you're wrong. The Monkey's Paw, a used bookstore in Toronto, Canada has created such a machine.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, my friends at Ripley's Believe It or Not(!) have some amazing "Thankful" stories from their new Ripley's book, "Download The Weird" & next Thursday afternoon, Thanksgiving day, you'll have a chance to win this beautiful hardcover coffee table book presentation from Ripley's...
It is often said that a good deed is its own reward. However, John Turner got quite a bit more than that when he went to New Jersey to help with Hurricane Sandy clean up.
When you're in your twenties and a bartender, bouncer or waitresses doesn't ask for your ID you feel sort of good -- like you're getting away with something.
By this point, it should be fairly obvious that getting distracted by a cell phone can be extremely hazardous to your health. And yet, a teen girl in California actually fell into a pit of rattlesnakes while searching for a signal in the desert. Need further proof? We didn't think so.
Puffman here inviting you to join me this afternoon (Monday) on "Puffman Musical Trivia" at 4:30. Today I'm giving away "Christmas in Tinseltown-Celebrity Recipes & Hollywood Memories from 6 Feet Under the Mistletoe". It's from Frantic Frank Decaro & it's a presentation of "The Dead Celebrity Cookbook". No dou...