Engrid Barnett

Engrid Barnett

Engrid is an award-winning travel writer and cultural geographer who’s long cultivated an obsession with cryptids, vintage tattoos, roadside attractions, and abandoned places. Her public descent into the weird began in 2017 after signing on with Ripley’s Believe It or Not! A longtime fan of Robert Ripley’s cartoons and quirky trivia, she relishes sorting fact from fiction and feeling mind boggled every step of the way. You can also catch her work in Wild West, Rova, Nevada Magazine, American Trails Magazine and more.

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5 Weird Stories From the History of Embalming
Vintage & Historical
Engrid Barnett

5 Weird Stories From the History of Embalming

Cardiotaph's contain human hearts.

Wilbur D. May’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Inside the Wunderkammer
Places
Engrid Barnett

Wilbur D. May’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Inside the Wunderkammer

From Egyptian funerary objects to a shrunken head this Wunderkammer delivers spine-tingling finds…

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Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

Sunday Cartoon! - February 2, 2025

Cartoon of the Day

NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection, just in case we ever find life on other plants.

Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, Kieran Castaño is the eighth artist to continue the legacy of illustrating the world's longest-running syndicated cartoon!

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