Stories by Engrid Barnett | Ripley's Believe It or Not!

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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Why Are Painted Cars Sprouting Out of Nevada's Desert Sands?

Art & Fashion

July 26, 2018 Engrid Barnett

Why Are Painted Cars Sprouting Out of Nevada's Desert Sands?

The International Car Forest of the Last Church sits on 40 isolated acres in Southern Nevada.

The Mysterious, Intrepid Aloha Wanderwell

People

June 28, 2018 Engrid Barnett

The Mysterious, Intrepid Aloha Wanderwell

The first woman to circumnavigate the globe by car, Aloha greased the differential on her Model T with crushed bananas…

People

June 12, 2018 Engrid Barnett

5 Weird Americanisms and Their Origins

Where does riding shotgun come from?

Vegas’s Neon Museum: Stray Cat Paradise?

Places

June 4, 2018 Engrid Barnett

Vegas’s Neon Museum: Stray Cat Paradise?

Even cats become famous in Vegas…

5 Weird Stories From the History of Embalming

Vintage & Historical

April 23, 2018 Engrid Barnett

5 Weird Stories From the History of Embalming

Cardiotaph's contain human hearts.

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Every year, about 700 house fires in the U.S. are started in part by pets and wild animals.

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!