Believe it or not! [1929] : $b a modern book of wonders, miracles, freaks, monstrosities and almost-impossibilities
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"Believe it or not! [1929]" by Robert L. Ripley is a collection of illustrated curiosities and odd facts written in the late 1920s. It assembles improbable-sounding truths, travel impressions, historical quirks, records, and paradoxes, all presented as brisk, image-driven vignettes. Expect an entertaining parade of strange-but-true anecdotes rather than a continuous narrative.
The opening of the book sets the tone with a preface explaining that unbelievable truths fuel the author’s cartoons, recounting reader disbelief (like Lindbergh being the sixty-seventh nonstop Atlantic crosser) and the strip’s accidental origins, global fact-hunting, and seemingly inexhaustible supply of oddities. A sprawling contents list teases the range, then “An Odyssey of Oddities” dives into a vivid travelogue of Benares: crowded ghats, sacred yet unsanitary waters, a detailed cremation at the burning ghat, and portraits of ascetics (a blind sun-gazer, men on beds of nails, “ever-standing” devotees, and in
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