Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a curious format, sort of a 'Guiness Book of Records'-like magazine on TV. It has no permanent cast or storyline, just a presenting host in the castle-type LA residence who occasionally shows curiosities from 'Ripley's vault' there, but usually simply introduces the topics shown in the various, rather short film sequences shot all over t... Read all

Genre: Documentary

Cast:Dean Cain , Kelly Packard , Daniel Browning Smith , Larry Gomez , Mari Womack , Edward Flaherty , Katzen , Joanne Gair , Roger Dumas , Danny Gomez , Mehgan Heaney-Grier , Joey Strange , Ken Richmond , Janet Burleson , Allen Falkner , Maria Di Angelis , Wim Hof , Tim Cridland

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1

Wed, Jan 12, 2000

Cannibals; the human lightning rod; Cody, the talking dog; nine-person human mobile; maggot therapy; woman with sacral agenesis; Etch-a-Sketch artist; the human owl; 18th century vampire protection kit.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Episode #1.2

Wed, Jan 19, 2000

A man born without lower legs runs with the aide of Flexfoot; The Lizard Man; Students at Iowa State University Etymology Club prepare various insect recipes; 1950s: From France, Indian Yogis; A pool trick shot artist teaches his dog to shoot pool; A man who has lost an eye to cancer does stunts with his empty eye socket; A woman wants to undergo foot binding; 1948: Mirin Dajo allows himself to be stabbed; A man attempts cut-away bungee jumping; A meteorite from Mars.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Episode #1.3

Wed, Jan 26, 2000

Weapons of the 21st Century; White sharks; microchip implanted in brain; human hair clothing; autism; musical instruments from junk; fireworks suit.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Death Touch

Wed, Feb 2, 2000

Geoff Smith, whose mother stayed buried alive for 101 days, attempts to stay buried for 147 days; A man writes the Lord's Prayer on a grain of rice twice; The World's Fastest Gun; 1934: Tiny Kline hangs by her teeth over TImes Square; A dog is reputed to be able to sniff cancer; The rifle fish spits water to knock bugs into the water; Komodo dragon researcher studies their immune systems; 3D performance artist; 1940: Lavardo, the Voodoo Torture King; A martial artist knocks people out with the "death touch;" Chastity belt.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Episode #1.5

Wed, Feb 9, 2000

A man falls in his parents' flower garden and impales his neck on a spike supporting a plant; The Lightning Stalker; A man searches for the Ark of the Covenant; A woman undergoes numerous surgeries to resemble Nefertiti; 1936: Mr. Skeets gets married at age 90 to a 20-year-old; A tattoo artist makes postage-stamp sized tattoos of classic paintings; A collection of musical instruments made from matchsticks; A woman teaches parrots to identify objects by name; A man attempts to pull two fire trucks; 19th mask from Cameroon made from human skin.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Torture King

Wed, Feb 16, 2000

Snake venom milker; 1939: Sword swallower Edna Price swallows a neon tube; Toast art; Seven-year-old artist; The Torture King lies on a bed of nails with a car on top of him; The world's smartest dog; 18th century poacher trap.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Episode #1.7

Wed, Feb 23, 2000

Body modification artist; Underground city in Australia; Bee venom therapy; A sheep thinks it's a dog; A man rides the world's smallest bicycle; In Nepal, Kumaris are revered until puberty; A man has a cannonball dropped on him and his hit by a wrecking ball; Cafe Noir serves customers in total darkness; A cook at a diner picks up a table with his teeth; Palau islanders eat bats at a restaurant; A restaurant in China that serves rats.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Episode #1.8

Wed, Mar 1, 2000

A martial arts instructor teaches his students to absorb powerful blows; Practioners of Thaipusam endure piercings as a show of faith; A three-year-old can identify cars by make and model; Psychiatric museum; 1957: An Indian man lies on crushed glass under a steam roller; A man makes a bear-proof suit; Blind bowler; A man who has eaten an airplane; Tibetan flute made from a femur.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Episode #1.9

Wed, Mar 8, 2000

The Rollerman of Paris; Sewage diver; Leech therapy; An anthropologist has four-inch toenails; Honoré Fragonard's art; The Big Texan restaurant food challenge: Eat a 4½ pound steak in one hour; 1931: Bertie Tillman walks a tightrope 300 feet above the street; A man attempts to stack 10 bowling balls; A man with a three-story train set; A woman free dives over 100 feet; Fiji Mermaid.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Episode #1.10

Wed, Mar 15, 2000

Corset Women - Odd Couple - Fastest Brain - Baby Signing - Seat King - Induced Heart Attack - Rodeo Bull Survivor - Sleeping With Snakes.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Episode #1.11

Wed, Mar 22, 2000

A man has root canal surgery with only hypnosis as anesthesia; A man who can turn his feet around backwards; Seeing-eye horse; 2000-lb. rubber-band ball; Microscopic sculptures; A blind golfer; A woman pulls six tons; Piranha expert; A Chilean actress lives in a glass house for two weeks; A man rummages through trash to save money; Cave jumping in Mexico; Alferd Packer's head.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Episode #1.12

Wed, Mar 29, 2000

A man swims 150 feet under freezing water; Body farm; Spanish Inquisition spiked torture chair; Rat temple in India; Blind Jack Russell terrier has its own seeing eye dog; An artist carves tiny sheep and leaves them around the world; A performance artist swallows a chair leg; A woman with an incredible memory; A woman videotapes herself being hit by lightning; A Londoner does not use right turns when driving; A man with stretchy skin; Ivory Coast fertility statues.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Episode #1.13

Wed, Apr 5, 2000

A child in a Ugandan village is reputed to have been raised by monkeys; Ice Hotel; A man has open heart surgery by a doctor operating a robotic system; A 1200-foot gum wrapper chain; A skier falls over 800 feet down a mountain; Two women run a crime clean-up service; Sand Hogs worked 800 feet below the street level; A disabled veteran has a dog that helps him around; Volcano explorers; 1920s: A motorcycle is reputed to get 1000 miles on one tank of gas; A Qi-Jong master displays its healing powers; Trepanation device.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Episode #1.14

Wed, Aug 2, 2000

Seven-year-old body builder; a man balances atop two chairs near the edge of a cliff; A counting dog;Phillipino villagers undergo crucifixion as as show of faith; A man marries a Barbie Doll, which he thinks is inhabited by his former fiancée; Frank 'Cannonball' Richards; the edge of a cliff; metal objects stick to a man's body; Bryan Ferguson, master arch; velociraptor skeleton.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Episode #1.15

Wed, Aug 9, 2000

Enigma and Katzen; Blind man drives bicycle using echolocation; free diver dives into a sunken ship; water skier Banana George; remote village in Colombia travels across valley on zip line; participants in a Phuket,Thailand Taoist ritual endure piercings; poison dart frogs; Skydiving tennis; Contortionist couple attempt to squeeze into a 30" x 20" x 31" box; convicted murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan's body is donated to science; couple raise horse in a log cabin; in 1949, Charley Lupica stays on a pole for 117 days, waiting for the Cleveland Indians to get into first place; Buell Frazier's car, who have Lee Harvey Oswald a ride to the School Book Depository

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Episode #1.16

Wed, Aug 16, 2000

An escape artist attempts an escape from a cage dropped from an airplane; The Museum of Mummies in Guanajuato, Mexico; Fire chaser; A Chinese grocer store with coaster carts; A kidney patient finds a donor on the Internet, whom she later marries; A dog rescues abandoned cats; 1958: A hula-hooping dog; A family of stilt-walkers; A woman paints with her breasts; Matt 'The Tube' Crowley; Mongolian torture box.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Episode #1.17

Wed, Aug 23, 2000

A powerboat racer is trapped under water for four minutes; Clothing made from grass; Home on top of a bulldozer; Motorcycle accident; Villagers dine with deceased relatives; Trash can fashion; Pot-bellied pig saves owner suffering heart attack; Teen-aged Top Gun; Kayaking over a waterfall; 1962: The "Amphi," an amphibious car from Germany; An escape artist suspended beneath a crane attempts to escape from two straitjackets with a boa constrictor around his neck;

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Episode #1.18

Wed, Sep 6, 2000

Vanuatu vine jumpers; 1932: Bea Kyle dives into a pool of flaming water; The von Hoffman Brothers have a fireworks duel; Anaconda researchers; World's fastest talker; Extreme unicyclist; Men with very long hair in China; Men who use homing pigeons to carry film to be processed; A Chinese man can throw needles through a class; 1938: The White family of West Virginia have 17 children; A man from the UK who has lost his sight in a car accident drives a race car; A couple attempt to drive up and down 70º hill; A camel bladder used to transport perfume.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Episode #1.19

Wed, Aug 30, 2000

Body Painter; Beetle Mania; Crash Test Dummy; Sky Walker; Sweat Marathon; Snoring Man; Bamboo Ritual; Bullet Artist; Unbelievable Impalements; Fireworks.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Episode #1.20

Wed, Sep 13, 2000

Traditional Samoan tattoos; Hissing cockroaches; 55-seat bicycle; An artificial indoor beach in Japan; A man attempts to limbo dance under a six-inch bar; The 'Invisibles,' panhandlers in India, put curses on people who do not donate; An entomologist analyzes bug splats on windshields; Chip art collector; A Dutchman becomes king of a village in Ghana; 1932: an 82-year-old sharpshooter; A snake charmer puts snakes in his nose and lets them come out his mouth; Phrenology machine.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Episode #1.21

Wed, Sep 20, 2000

Two-legged dog; Civilian builds and launches a rocket 12 miles high; Pill-sized camera; Stainless steel hair; Double great white attack; Once a year, women villagers get to beat their husbands; Art with plastic explosives; North Korean basketball player; World's tallest man; Suitcase car; Robot chauffeur; Self-propelled lawnmower; Hight-tech batting helmet; Bear died by eating garbage

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Episode #1.22

Wed, Sep 27, 2000

A six-year-old golfer shoots holes-in-one; Teenage boys in an Amazon River tribe get bitten by fire ants as a rite of passage; Emperor and desert hairy scorpions; A man who can unscramble long words in his head; Robotic bartender in London; 1936: A letter from 11-year-old Charles Schultz about his dog; A car powered by french fry grease; A man builds a house of cards that supports 1200 pounds; 1951: Australian schoolchildren learn to use a bull whip; Verdun residents continue to find unexploded ordnance; A Vienna, Austria, clothing retailer holds a streaking contest; A suspension artist is carried by helicopter over the Hollywood sign; Peter Kurten's head.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Episode #2.1

Wed, Jan 10, 2001

A man is stabbed in the head with a hunting knife; A crocodile doctor retrieves a monitoring device from monitoring; A 14-year-old who lost both legs in a train accident plays football and basketball; A dog treats cordless phones as though they were her puppies; A motorcyclist attempts a 360º flip; A performance artist eats earthworms during her show; Latex clothing; A slack-liner walks a rope 200 feet above the ground; 1930s mail order home electric shock therapy machine

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Episode #2.2

Wed, Jan 17, 2001

A man allows himself to be covered by 60,000 bees, with another 50 in his mouth; An Australian man preserves his father's tattoos; A swimming instructor uses a crocodile to get his swimmers to swim faster; A two-headed turtle; A man maintains a farm for mutant animals; A cat that lives in a tree has not come down for three years; A man squeezes through a tennis racket; A performance artist swallows a 23-inch sword; A man attempts to hand-walk up the World Trade Center; A man paints clothing on models; Civil War amputation kit.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Hanging Out

Wed, Jan 24, 2001

A man loses his face when his nasal cavity is invaded by a flesh-eating fungus; A woman with some of the world's longest fingernails; A scorpion sculpture made from fingernail clippings; 1964: The Rocket Belt jet pack; A nine-year-old boy survives being shot in the heat with an arrow; The Punkin Chunkin' contest; A man creates a floating island from plastic bottles; A three-wheeled electric car; Maggot cheese; Qi-Gong practitioners in Taiwan attempt to pull a truck with ropes attached to their private parts; Bubble wrap clothing; A man attempts to jump out of one airplane and into another; Mike the Headless Chicken.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Episode #2.4

Wed, Jan 31, 2001

One-wheeled motorcycle; Jailbird rodeo poker at Angola State Prison; A woman uses cremains in her artwork; A man with an extra foot; A man with customized remote control gadgets in his house; A cat with no pelvis has a custom made wheelchair; Underwater cameramen photograph sharks without a shark cage; A woman is covered in broken glass; A man free climbs skyscrapers; A men develops a super bra for women to hide secret weapons; A white buffalo

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Episode #2.5

Wed, Feb 7, 2001

A man kisses cobras on their heads; A five-year-old runs around Lake Montebello; A man born with missing fingers has toes grafted onto his hand; 1960: Automated baby nursery; The world's best jump roper, The Rope Warrior; A man gets into a Plexiglass case with 1000 roaches; 1957: A Dalmatian gives birth to 17 puppies; In 2001, a Great Dane gives birth to 18 puppies; Back-up race car drivers; Sword performance artist; A marksman attempts to hit a target 3000 feet away; Cambodian villagers go to two bulls to be cured of their ailments; A man gets breast implants on a bet; 19th century coffin with a bell in case you woke up.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Episode #2.6

Wed, Feb 14, 2001

A man has a microchip implanted to help use his legs; Blowgun expert; Cow jockey; Museum of Death; A skull supplier uses carrion beetles to clean them; 10-foot mustache; Conjoined twins; A man balances a bowling ball on his face; A man makes clothing out of books; Portable lie detector; Feeding barracudas and moray eels by hand; 19th century dental equipment

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Episode #2.7

Wed, Feb 28, 2001

A man finds he has been carrying a bullet in his skull for 25 years; eight-year-old motorcycle rider jumps over 10 cars; man makes sharks jump out of the water; Detroit Hair Grammies; sports playing dog; man makes scale model of the White House; a man pulls his friend on a skateboard across a bridge with hooks in his eye sockets; 73-year-old female body builder; a man walks atop a ferris wheel; 19th century thumb cuffs.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Episode #2.8

Wed, Apr 4, 2001

A motorcycle stunt biker has to undergo reconstructive facial surgery after a stunt goes wrong; An adult actor with a condition called hypopituitarianism passes for a kid; Body piercings as a demonstration of faith; Camel races in Nevada; 1934: Chicago Snowbirds swim in a frozen river; A car with a stereo that reaches 162 decibels; A 47-year-old woman undergoes trepanation for treatment for chronic fatigue; Trained falcons used to scare away other birds at JFK airport; A skateboarder attempts a stunt after being dropped 40 feet from a helicopter; A musical group from Japan performs hanging by their ankles; A young woman is covered with leopard spot tattoos; Party favors based on a World War I mustard gas rattle.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Episode #2.9

Wed, Apr 11, 2001

A crewman on an aircraft carrier is sucked into the engine of a fighter jet; A mechanical monster, Robosaurus, demolishes cars; A man creates the "Ultimate Taxi"; Suspension Artist creates the "Human Wishbone";A house cat 42 inches tall, weighing 36 pounds; A woman who lost both arms as the result of a childhood accident; Photographs of an armless, legless furniture maker; 1959: Typewriter artist; A man makes an electric suit; An artist creates art by regurgitating on a canvas; Thai villagers ring in the new year with a water fight; A man makes 3D casts of people's bodies; Combat toe rings.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Episode #2.10

Wed, Apr 18, 2001

A man sailing solo across the Atlantic has to operate on his own elbow; A man races a motorcycle backwards; A man water skis on his hands with a woman on his back; A biologist uses bugs, geckos, and frogs to control unwanted pests; Machine shop owner invents motorized in-line skates; Villagers in Northern Japan ride 13-ton logs down a hill; A Parisian restaurant caters to dogs; A man in Detton, Texas, has a 12-ton ball of barbed wire; A man takes a corn kernel into his nose and pops it out his tear duct; Lizard photographer; A road in France plays a tune when the driver goes the speed limit; A man attempts to pull a 32,000-pound truck; A mortician's cooling board.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Episode #2.11

Wed, Apr 25, 2001

A boater's face is rebuilt from a photograph after it had been smashed in a boating accident; Blind goalie; Netherlands peat bog mummies; Coffin furniture; Animal trainer; A cockatoo gets prosthetic legs; Hybrid monster truck; A man allows electricity to pass through his body as it powers appliances; A hula hooper attempts to whirl 82 at once; 1960: A car as one tire removed and is driven from Detroit to Chicago; The Cat Man; Lockjaw openers.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Episode #2.12

Wed, Jul 11, 2001

Homemade Jet; Quad Walker; Scuba Diving Dog; Well Racing; Tumor Woman; Flame-Throwing Car; Clothes Pin Man; Mile High Bungee; Tattoo Lady; 11 O'Clock Nudes.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Episode #2.13

Wed, Jul 18, 2001

Pool table made from ice; Prosthetic lens enables blind man to see; Man makes motorized couches and bathrooms; Dog swallows 15-inch serrated knife; Egg parka jacket; Indonesian tribe keeps mummy of a tribal elder; Blind softball team; Man catches an egg with his mouth; Rocket-powered street luge; Clothing made from chocolate; Man attempts to have 10,000 women sit on his lap; Tramp chair

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Episode #2.14

Wed, Jul 25, 2001

A man who who ingested cleaning fluid has to live without his esophagus; Valentino Scissorhands; In the Ethiopian Mursi village, women stretch their lips; A man eats bugs and worms; Freediver can hold his breath for five minutes; A town in Uruguay is besieged by waves of sea foam; A man sucks milk through his nose, and squirts it out his tear duct; Legless mountain climber; Clothing made from dog hair; A Cuban man has a face full of piercings; Mummified Egyptian cat

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Lightbulb Girl

Wed, Oct 24, 2001

The Electric Gir; Man sits in a pen with 500 scorpions for 45 minutes; Impaled pizza driver; 1960: An inverted house in Fort Lauderdale; Black light tattoos; Law in Pocatello, Idaho: It's illegal to frown; Peruvian scissors dance; Capuccini Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily; Tree-climbing cocker spaniel; Cyclist rides a bicycle on the edge of a hotel five stories high; Bra artist; Kickboxing nuns; Ring with a miniature six-shooter.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Episode #2.16

Wed, Aug 8, 2001

Rattlesnake Wrangler; C-Cell speeder; Anatomic Art; Credit Card Camera; Ice Golf; Lightbulb Changer; Finger Sacrifice; Knife In The Back; Super Dog; Belly Billboards; Tongue twister.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Episode #2.17

Wed, Aug 15, 2001

Car hopping; Parabungee jumping; A dentist performs a root canal on herself; A woman with a collection of 200,000 hubcaps; A restaurant in Beijing that serves live scorpions; Iditasport Extreme race; A man attempts to support half a ton while lying on a bed of barbed wire; A man surfs behind his motorbike while still driving it; A demolition crew demolishes a house using only their hands and feet; The woman with the world's longest legs; Witch catcher tool.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Episode #2.18

Wed, Aug 22, 2001

Skydiving Marathon; Man With Half A Brain; Tree Cafe; Tumor Tribe; Toe Donation; Red Crab Invasion; Tough Guy Race; Bikini Meter Maids; Limbo skater; Jumbo jet emergency landing.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Episode #2.19

Wed, Aug 29, 2001

Ray's Hell; Chimney Sweep; Human Shish-Ka-Bob; Garbage Artist; Ostrich People; Blind Golfer; Floating Fish; Ear Bus; Hot Air Parachute; supermodel.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ The Torture King Revisited

Wed, Nov 28, 2001

A baby has in utero surgery; A house is constructed in three hours, ten minutes; A man lands an airplane on a car; Turkish village uses water snakes to heal their illnesses; A man has a home built in an old railroad water tower; In Raleigh, NC, it is illegal to curse in front of the dead; A blackbird pecks at passersby;A man makes art out of scrap metal; A man born with no arms or legs plays sports; A man walks over 1200º metal plates; 1928 a Cuban man can pop his eyes; A man paints art on teeth; 250-pound flying saucer; A man photographs models underwater; 24-inch high car; Katar dagger

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Episode #2.21

Wed, Sep 12, 2001

A woman attempts to pull a truck attached to hooks in her back; SCAD diving; Jewelry made from human bones; 1947: cellular rubber allows an egg to hit and bounce; A man from the UK drives a motorcycle despite having only one arm and one leg; Playing cards shown with real people's images; A man becomes an artist after a propeller strike hits his head; Indian villagers gulp guppies to treat their asthma; In Singapore, chewing gum is illegal; Human castles in Catalan, Spain; A man breeds one-pound Yorkshire terriers; Golfer on Stilts; Cockroach eater; Special rice wine containing mice used as an elixir.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Episode #2.22

Wed, Sep 19, 2001

A man accidentally shoots a nail into his head; A secret house 30 feet below the Las Vegas Strip; 1963: gyrocopter boat plane; A BASE jumper crashes into a waterfall; World's fastest artist; Bolivian villagers dig up the dead to retrieve skulls to keep them well; Yamakasi run through France; Nepal polo game using elephants instead of horses; The Ice Man attempts to stay in a meat locker for an hour at -35ºF; A man street skis at 60 mph; Condemned prisoner 'El Fusilado' is shot eight times, but survives; A patient receives a bionic arm after losing one to cancer; Clothing made from jewelry; A Southern California town moons an Amtrak train once a year; Necklace from New Guinea made from larvae.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Episode #3.1

Wed, Dec 18, 2002

A woman fires a bow and arrow with her feet while doing a handstand; The world's largest skateboard; A man removes prairie dogs with a suction hose; Men float away using 400 helium balloons; A Burmese Padaung woman removes her neck rings; Chimp martial artist; A man's finger is used for reconstructive surgery after penile cancer; A man swallows snakes, then regurgitates them; Helios Solar Wing propeller-driven aircraft flies at over 96,000 feet; The Cat Man has whiskers implanted; Balloon bikinis; Indians from Ecuador make a shrunken head and torso.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ He'll Eat Anything

Wed, Apr 17, 2002

A man eats fish eyeballs, roosters prides, bull pizzle, and other foods; A stunt driver slides on his belly while being dragged by a rocket car; A veterinarian puts portholes into cattle to examine stomach contents; 1953: A French car has 600 pounds of electronic equipment; A man redesigns his motorcycle into the Rocket Roadster; A Romanian villager licks peoples' eyeballs to remove foreign bodies; A skateboarding dog; A child is born with the heart outside the body; A contortionist folds himself into airplane carry-on luggage; A man attempts to spin 25 basketballs simultaneously; The world's most pierced woman; Self-defense underwear; Cameroon mask made with human skin covering.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Episode #3.3

Wed, Jan 23, 2002

A man allows himself to have a cannon fired at his belly; Hollywood stunt man; A man builds his own submarine; Cow urine; Pet goose; A couple is married while suspended by piercings; A skater is pulled by a helicopter; Mermaid girl; Bee keeper turns bee swarm into a bee bikini; A girl in the UK finds a balloon from a girl with the same name; Mood car; Strip aerobics class; Sword made from a sawfish snout.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Episode #3.4

Wed, Jan 30, 2002

A woman has 750,000 volts go through her body; A man sits in a bathtub full of leeches; A man can not stop hiccuping; 1933: a bike with a bouncing seat to exercise muscles; a man makes a house out of cheese; A sheep with prosthetic back legs; A woman contracts a flesh-eating bacteria; A man pulls nails out of a board with his teeth; World's largest kite; A woman from the Dominican Republic has backwards facing knees; Clothing made from bicycle tires; Fijian armor made from coconut husks and human hair.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Episode #3.5

Wed, Feb 6, 2002

World's strongest man pound-for-pound; A man attempts to hitch a ride on a hammerhead; A man attempts to pop a wheelie at over 80 mph; 1955: Austrian inventor makes a pocket ski lift; Guinea worm infestation; Model of the Hindenburg and warships made from matchsticks; A goose with an injured beak receives a prosthetic; A model's face is rebuilt after a disfiguring car accident; A woman opens beer bottles with her teeth; A golf putter made from a bull's pizzle; A hairdresser cuts hair underwater; Red Rock, Nevada, is invaded by crickets every year; A one-legged hula dancer; A small spy camera from World War II.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Episode #3.6

Wed, Feb 13, 2002

A man pulls an SUV with his throat; Scorpion eater; A man makes a tree house out of his truck; Maine ski slope made from sewage; Clothing made from hair; A reporter who has prosthetic arms and legs; Scuba-diving cat; A man survives being impaled on rebar; A man slices an apple in his wife's mouth; One-man home-made submarine; The Leopard Man of Skye; Jewelry made from beetles; Mummified head from Turkey.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Episode #3.7

Wed, Feb 20, 2002

A man attempts to bend rebar against his neck, a doctor performs liposuction on himself; Recipient of a seeing-eye horse; Two-year-old skateboarder; Bone artwork; Boxer dog has long tongue; A woman missing half her arms and legs attempts to swim across Lake Erie; A villager in India picks up needles with his eyelids; Scuba-diving cat; A man is impaled on rebar; Pole-sitting competition in Hamburg, Germany; 1951 lumberjacks; magnet-powered flashlight; Body art; Cleavage jeans; Fijian tool used by cannibals

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Episode #3.8

Wed, Jun 12, 2002

Globetrotters play against gymnasts wearing jumping shoes; A man loses his face in a bear attack; Coffin car; Man with a collection of 50,000 spiders; Whirling dervishes endure piercings as a show of faith; A town welcomes purple martins; A man is impaled by a pipe; A man lifts weights with strings attached to his eyelids; Mobile, Alabama, has a law against wearing stilettos; 1962 Andy Varipapa demonstrates trick shots; Paintings on human bodies; Fossilized whale vertebra; World's largest earlobes; Jesse James' gun

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Episode #3.9

Wed, Mar 6, 2002

Suspension artists make a human mobile; Blind baseball team; A man makes a portrait of Dean using bubblegum; Hair temple in India; Art made from gum balls; 1946: portable fire escapes in Atlanta; A pet boa constrictor swallows a heating pad; A man loses an arm in a train accident; A pilot attempts an 11-G stunt; A company that sends cremated ashes into space; Sushi served on live models; A pet washing machine; A tree that has grown around a ram's horns.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Episode #3.10

Wed, Mar 20, 2002

A man attempts to smash through 20 concrete slabs with his shoulder; A man attempts a 360º sandboarding backflip; Villagers in Thailand eat rats to reduce the population; Farmers make a six-acre Mona Lisa out of a corn field; A man makes a boat car; A man is impaled by a tree branch in an auto accident; A Gatling gun that shoots rubber bands; A man attempts to ride a bicycle across the United States on one wheel; A couple use only black and white colors; A 400-pound adult bison; Remote controlled surgery; 1950: In Europe, the 'Soccer Tactician' contraption is used for practice; A man who can pop his eyes; A woman who reads clients' behinds; Eye spikes torture device.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Episode #3.11

Wed, Mar 27, 2002

Double backflip bicyclist; Seven-year-old pool prodigy; Man modifies body in tribute to other cultures; Two-legged cat; Man makes his own dentures in his garage; Church in Czech Republic has artwork made from bones; Man extracts bee honey with his bare hands; A man survives for eight days trapped in a car; A man attempts to stuff 18 wieners in his mouth; 1958: Super station wagon features a working stove, boat, and tent house; A child in India is born with a tail; Ice sculpture; Helmet made from porcupine fish.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Episode #3.12

Wed, Apr 3, 2002

A man attempts to snatch an arrow out of the air; A skier attempts a twisting quadruple back flip; World's fastest artist; Surfboarding dog; A Chinese villager has a parasitic twin face on the right side of his head; Knife massage; An Indian man can write with his hands and feet at the same time; A man survives an internal decapitation; 1942: Robert Jones flies to New York in an ice cube; Update on the man without a face; Bikini skiing in Telluride, Colorado; A gun with an eight-foot barrel and two-inch bore for shooting down flocks of ducks.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ The Wolf Boy Gets Married

Wed, Sep 18, 2002

The Wolf Boy's baby; Man with 12 fingers; 1932: four-year-old Billy Crawford flies away in a helium balloon; The Regurgitator; Dodge Viper races an F16; Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes; A cat learns to eat with a fork; A woman catches alligators with her bare hands.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Episode #3.14

Wed, Jul 17, 2002

A man can turn his head 180º; Man builds a roller coaster in his back yard; A man who eats rotten and spoiled food; An Indian holy man buries his head in the sand for hours; A motorcycle rider attempts a 200-foot jump; 1966: nuns use scooters to move around a hospital; A man keeps his grandfather's frozen body; A beagle who walks on her front paws; Playmate Water Challenge; Claude de Lorraine's decomposed arm.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Episode #3.15

Wed, Jul 24, 2002

A man water skis behind a seaplane; The Murthi brothers, who have microcephaly, in an Indian village are revered by the locals; A five-year-old yo-yo expert; 1962: A ten-ton scale model of the German cruise ship Bremen; A two-wheel motor-board; Anvil shooting; A man is so allergic to insect bites that he wears a bee suit when he goes outside; A man's dog dives to the bottom of a pool to retrieve toys; A young girl born without arms competes in martial arts; Indian devotees crawl 50 miles as a show of faith; A mummified falcon from Egypt; Electric clothing.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Episode #3.16

Wed, Jul 31, 2002

A woman hangs by her teeth in the 'Slide for Life;' Archive footage of Tiny Kline; A woman has 16 pet rats; Videos of developing sharks eating the eggs of their siblings; A man crashes in two aircraft in one day; Stilt-walking village in Thailand; Skateboarding chimp; A man loses eight fingers in an industrial accident; Body binding; American flag contact lens; 1962: Germans invent a remote-controlled boat to pull skiers; Suspension artists; A man sculpts with butter; Coke bottle and Lion shaped coffins

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Episode #3.17

Sun, Mar 17, 2002

Record card thrower; Armless cello player; A man makes furniture out of computer boxes; 1952: A man makes a car with a fuselage and propeller; Indian monks pull out their hair one by one; A girl with half a brain; A family lives with 9 pigs; A Nicaraguan man has the world's largest hand; A model is sculpted in chocolate; Harry Houdini's handcuff.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Episode #3.18

Wed, Aug 14, 2002

A man eats food, then suctions back out his stomach contents; ice hotel update; A man makes clothing out of pennies; Indian villagers endure piercings as a show of faith; Family with chips implanted; Cow magnets; Fish dentist; A skydiver loses both legs in a skydiving accident; A man attempts to drive his jeep on water; 1932: Eric Dill plays his hands; A man has the body of his wife preserved in a room he built for her; Miami restaurant B.E.D. offers dinner in bed; Cockfighting spurs.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Episode #3.19

Wed, Aug 21, 2002

A man holds the bungee cords for a jumper; A handicapped man attempts to walk with the aid of a computer; A wheelchair-bound man grabs onto buses to help speed him along; World's largest gnome collection; Villagers in India drink from human skulls to capture the spirits; A man has his arms ripped off in a farming accident; 1964: The Marsh Amphibian is designed to carry 1000 pounds across lakes, bogs, and sloughs; 17th century staff with the head of Pan; Pet rabbit likes to lie in a bucket of water; A man who is allergic to his own tears; Walk-in spray-on tan machine; 1930s Eye Normalizer gadget that was supposed to help correct vision.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Episode #3.20

Stunt bicyclist; A soldier has an unexploded grenade removed from his leg; Chewing gum art work; A Rottweiler undergoes plastic surgery after he is shot in the face; In a Thai village, a drink is made with poisonous centipedes; A man who loses his legs when he is hit by a train becomes a ken-do master; A woman is scalped in a farming accident; 1949: boat jousting in France; Rocket-powered snow skis; A cat has a mouse as a companion; A man can turn his leg 180º after he breaks his leg; Iceland's Blue Lagoon, a lake made from power plant runoff; A scrimshaw human skeleton by James Durham

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Episode #3.21

A 79-year-old man attempts to set a free throw record; A wheelchair-bound man attempts to pull a bus 100 feet; A three-year-old geography prodigy; Catacombs of Paris; Cambodian villagers eat fried tarantulas; A couple lives with 350 birds; An Austrian police officer receives a double hand transplant after having both his hands blown off; 33 Indian soldiers attempt to get on one motorcycle; Camel nose plugs; A kangaroo survives having an arrow in her neck for three weeks; 1948: A California football coach invents the motorized tackle dummy; A woman who makes personalized sculptures; Annie Oakley.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Episode #3.22

Mon, Sep 16, 2002

Buñol, Spain, Tomatina Festival; Shrunken head collector; Vintage diving equipment; Australian man makes a cowboy portrait covering four square kilometers in the Outback; Man races cable car up one of San Francisco's steepest hills; World's largest cigar; World's smallest woman; A collection of 14,000 bunnies; Luray Caverns organ; Man swallows dentures, but doesn't find out until two years later; Cat survives being shot by an arrow; 1948: a seven-month-old girl already knows how to swim; Extasky Airlines; A goat/sheep hybrid with four horns.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Episode #4.1

Wed, Jan 8, 2003

A man attempts to stuff nine Madagascar cockroaches in his mouth; Speed stacking; 1964: A portable helicopter is flown at Eglin Air Force Base; A 15-year-old girl has a three-pound hair ball removed from her stomach; Conjoined twins; Surfing cat; Bikini trading cards; African judgment chair from Ghana.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Episode #4.2

Wed, Jan 15, 2003

A man attempts to break 1500 boards; A man makes a monorail in his back yard; In Greensburg, Indiana, a tree grows out of a church's clock tower; In a Nigerian village, women are fed to become fat before they get married; A woman's skin turns gray after having taken colloidal silver as a child; An alligator dies after having eaten 200 golf balls; The FLIP ship; A motorcycle rider hops onto another motorcycle and back to his while they are still in motion; A gorilla has cataract surgery; 1956: early personal watercraft known as the Skimmer; A man with a large foot from gigantism; A couple makes clothing from bison hair; Underwater models; An elephant foot humidor from the 1930s.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Episode #4.3

Wed, Jan 22, 2003

An escape artist attempts to escape from being tied up by the man with the world's largest biceps; A man attempts to drive his snowmobile over the water; Motorized snowboard; Indian villagers rub themselves with the ashes of the dead after bathing in the Ganges; Two people attempt to climb a 7000-foot peak using stilts; An Indian girl is scalped by a Ferris Wheel; Doggles, goggles for dogs; 1945: Army artists make an 80-foot by 60-foot map of Tokyo; An elephant has part of his tusk removed and replaced with stainless steel crowns; A man builds a flying car; Nude house painter; Robert Wadlow's shoe.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Episode #4.4

Wed, Jan 29, 2003

A man attempts to jump over cars in a motorcycle while driving backwards; Cambodian natives collect land mines; A seven-year-old kid can lift twice his body weight; A horse is fitted with a prosthetic leg; An armless woman sews with her mount; A woman is stretched from 4'7" to 5'; World's smallest book; 1945: British test a floating airstrip;Cat woman returns; A woman poses with snakes; A lock of Marilyn Monroe's hair.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Episode #4.5

Wed, Feb 5, 2003

The Human Cannonball returns after a devastating injury; A woman has her dead pets mounted; A couple build a miniature model of their hometown; A minister transports coffins by motorcycle; An Indian teen is only two feet tall; A man is impaled by a 2x4; A dog identified by microchip is found 1000 miles away from its home; A man with an inflatable forehead; A human-sized dryer; A man paints on dead bats.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Episode #4.6

Wed, Feb 12, 2003

A man attempts eating 1000 worms in one hour; Basketball juggler; A man does artwork with a typewriter; A British man builds an town based on the American Old West; A man has not sat down in three years because of his bad back; A woman in Africa has reconstructive surgery after her face is attacked by Noma; 1951: Itralian fire-fighting team from Rome; Products made from toad leather; A man develops software that keeps his cat out if tries to carry in prey; A woman paints outfits on women's bodies; A skull from a Peruvian tribe, elongated from head binding.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Episode #4.7

Wed, Feb 19, 2003

A man water skis barefoot while simultaneously driving his boat; a woman lies on a bed of only four nails while her assistant stands on her; A man celebrates Christmas every day of the year; Balloon artist make a sculpture using 40,000 balloons; Bird's nest soup; Flame haircut; A woman with hands, but no arms; 1967: telephone workers in Berlin unearth an unexploded two-ton bomb from World War II; A pig farmer wears a pig mask when he feeds; A dog gets braces; A man gets tattoos; Leopard Larry; A makeup artist paints artwork on human bodies; A teapot made from a skull.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Episode #4.8

Wed, Feb 26, 2003

Belly Button Bottle Opener; Frisbee Ashes; Matchstick Apartment; Lingerie Shark Dive; Senior Skier; Bone Furniture; Hardware Store Brace; Plane Crasher; Mini Moo; Fastest Barber; Paintball Catcher; Dog Armor; Showgirls.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Episode #4.9

Wed, Mar 5, 2003

Foilboarding; A blind skier; Underwater bicycle; Villagers in India dig up corpses of ancestors and dine on them; The world's fastest hands; Romans recreate gladiator battles; Medical cupping; 1967: Police demonstrate and anti-mob weapon called the 'Instant Banana Peel," a powder that gets slick when water is added; A man pulls the Ripley's tour bus 30 feet; A tortoise is given a wheel to replace an amputated leg; The checkered man; A woman attempts a parasailing record; Crocodile teeth dentures.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Episode #4.10

Wed, Mar 12, 2003

A man sets up a chain reaction crossbow stunt; A man attempts a 360º in a snowmobile. A man makes artwork out of toast; A dog and her puppies are rescued from a burning house; A woman decorates rooms with garbage; Doctors leave a 13-inch retractor in a patient after abdominal surgery; 1967: Inflatable windshield; A doctor makes a computer that gives artificial sight to the blind; A man invents an inflatable surfboard; A preserved baby pig from the 1930s has a snout like an elephant.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Episode #4.11

Wed, Mar 19, 2003

The world's largest rubber band ball is dropped from an airplane; 300 skydivers make the world's largest formation; A man attempts to climb the CN Tower in a wheelchair; Canal vaulting in The Netherlands; A man walks on 60-foot stilts; Double decker, 21-seat tricycle; Inline skaters skate nude for a photo op in San Francisco;

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Season Premiere!

Wed, Aug 6, 2003

A man attempts to ride down volcano Cerro Negro in Nicaragua; Seven-year-old piano prodigy; 1945: sleds made from torpedo casings pulled by a tank; An Indian man fills his eyes with sand; A man develops a huge sore on his belly after being bitten by a cobra; Board-breaking contest; V10 engine motorcycle; Naked Nuews; Body of a man killed by tuberculosis preserved in arsenic

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Episode #4.13

Wed, Aug 13, 2003

A skateboarder attempts a 360 loop with an 8-foot section of board missing; four-year-old political whiz; Thai villagers harvest buffalo dung to eat the beetles inside; 11-year-old Patrick German receives the Van Ness procedure to deal with his cancerous leg; A man's dog is shot while defending him; A man makes a car mounted with 2000 cameras and light meters; 1967: Russell Winn develops the electric bike; Fossilized dinosaur eggs

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Episode #4.14

Wed, Aug 20, 2003

A pilot attempts to make an airplane stand still vertically; 14-year-old wakeboarder; Man joins the Sour Toe Cocktail Club with his own toe; A boomerang expert attempts to slice an egg off his own head; A Vietnam who has lost his legs to a land mine attempts to run the Los Angeles Marathon; A dog that has been run over by car, and shot by a policeman, miraculously survives; Slam dunk competition; Backpack with airbags for avalanche survival; 1952: Howard Hughes' 14-ton helicopter; Indian pacifist Mahesh Yadav makes images of world leaders using his own blood.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Episode #4.15

Wed, Aug 27, 2003

A mountain boarder attempts a 360 over a pit of alligators; A 15-year-old attempts to sail the Atlantic Ocean alone; Eight-year-old children in Rajastan, Indian, are married; A woman attempts to blow the world's largest bubble gum bubble with her nose; A man has undergone nine surgeries to look like Michael Jackson; A golden retriever that can hold five tennis balls in his mouth; 1967: World's fastest helicopter; Hot dog eating contest; Fossilized whale eardrum.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Car-Launched Airplane

Wed, Sep 3, 2003

Pocket bike speed record attempt; A 16-year-old girl covers herself with bees; Two women compete in a nose tug of war; A man paraglides with his wife dangling beneath him; Girl with Goldenhar Syndrome receives a prosthetic jaw; Frisbee-catching dog; A farm in Robson Valley, British Columbia, is blanketed by spiderwebs covering 60 acres; Pool challenge; 1945: three-wheeled car; A portrait of Osama bin-Laden made from dryer lint.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Episode #4.17

Wed, Sep 24, 2003

Man walks a plank from one balloon to another; Child supermodel; World's largest lasso; women bind their wrists to appease rain gods;8 1/2 month's pregnant woman is impaled;fly-powered airplane; sand castles; twin picture television; skateboarding distance attempt; 18th century Chinese exorcism dagger

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Episode #4.18

Wed, Sep 17, 2003

Two contestants compete to get the most scorpions in their mouths; The Human Crazy Straw; 10-year-old competitive surfer; World's longest origami animal; Indian villagers who give birth in tree platforms to protect themselves against rampaging elephants; A Cuban refugee receives a donor heart that is too small; 1967: Japanese twin picture TV sets show the same program on back-to-back screens; sewing basket made from an armadillo shell; Three-legged black leopard; 19th century cane with a gun.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Episode #4.19

Wed, Sep 10, 2003

A man attempts to spend 24 hours under water; A six-year-old skateboarding prodigy; Man with Proteus Syndrome has large feet; Three-year-old snake handler; 1958: A motorcycle attempts to climb a 70º slope in Modesto, California; A man hangs between two airplanes flying at 5000 feet; Bellview restaurant in Germany has menus painted on wait staffers' bodies; Japanese long-tailed rooster.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Episode #4.20

Wed, Oct 1, 2003

A man attempts a double back flip on his motorcycle; Child baseball prodigy; A man rides a nine-foot unicycle while jumping rope; Peruvian village build on an island made of reeds; A woman with a collection of 6000 tops; A South African woman delivers a baby from an ectopic pregnancy; A woman trains her pet goat to walk a 10-foot-high tightrope; A man develops an inflatable church with inflatable organ, alter, and pews; An escape artist attempts an escape from a straitjacket suspended beneath a balloon; Painstation video game; A dog is treated after swallowing a tennis ball; Restaurant serves 'Buffet in the Buff'; 18th century musket with a battle ax head.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Episode #4.21

Wed, Oct 8, 2003

Two men compete to see who can break the most baseball bats; A man makes a portrait of Dean with 40,000 Lego blocks; A 14-year-old rock climber attempts to scale El Capitan; A 13-year-old boy in India has insects flying out of a sore in his groin; A pony the size of a dog; 1964: boat surfing in San Francicso Bay; An Indian woman has a surgical clamp left in her body for 21 years; A dentist has a collection of over 800 toothpaste tubes; Two brothers make a 2700-pount rubber band ball; Underwater artist; Tibetan drum made from a human skull;

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Episode #4.22

Wed, Oct 15, 2003

Two women compete in an underwater breath-holding competition; A teenager reputed to be eight feet tall; 1950: Louella Gallagher tosses knives around her children; South Pacific Islanders practice head binding; An acupuncturist who does his job with a blowgun; A woman falls out her window and is impaled on a fence; The Disaster Cafe in Spain simulates earthquakes; A man attempts to glide over the English Channel using a specialized suit after being dropped from 30,000 feet; A puppy with no front legs is adopted; A woman who makes artwork out of sonograms; caffeinated soap; A man who has lost his hands in an accident receives the Krukenberg procedure, turning his two forearm bones into pincers; Bikini Meter Maids update; Maori tribes crocodile claw rattle used in tribal ceremonies.