Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 02, 2020

The dogs keep listening, but they haven’t been able to figure out that walrus business either.

The rat bomb didn’t work in Guns of Navarone, either. Scared a German soldier into soiling himself, though.

“kyaraben”: a portmanteau of “kyarakutā” (loanword for “character”) and “bentō” (“boxed lunch”)

Okay. I believe that humans cannot hear that frequency referred to in the song. But I don’t believe that dogs are the only animals that can hear it.

MP3 (and other digital audio formats) limit the recording to the audible range. So most music players today won’t include the extra frequencies in A Day In The Life.

Kommandant. Our shipment of dead rats has arrived.

I guess I’ll have to put a provision in my will to not dance with my corpse after I’m dead.

The Nazi cat patrols were very effective in WW2. They spotted poisoned milk shipments, too.

Kyaraben sounds so cool! Do you have to be a kid to eat it?

What’d ya know. Explosive dead harbingers of the plague, eh?

Maybe they should have put the bombs in Malagasy ancestors instead.

Except for the one rat used in “The Guns of Navarone”.

Sir! We inspected him, and found he has dead rats. Dead rats?! Why would anyone be carrying dead rats? We’d better take a closer look.

And it was such a popular Beatles song they could have played the complete song in that frequency.

Many young folks (under 20, with normal hearing) can hear the 15 kHz tone on the CD and UK release vinyl pressing. It’s in the run-out groove after the song finishes.

OK, I’ll say it. The Madagascar story is totally made up nonsense to see how many people will fall for it.

When the corpse gets really old, they call it break dancing.

General: You say they found the explosives; Rats!

Might have mentioned that Etoni Mama primarily uses fried eggs for her creations (as in the Winnie the Pooh example.) They are fantastic! Check them out! https://www.demilked.com/adorable-fried-egg-meals-etoni-mama/

According to Wikipedia the high pitched tone was at 15-kilohertz. It also states that, “US copies of the album lacked the high-pitched tone and the studio babble.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life

Some humans can hear frequencies above 15-kilohertz.

I thought everyone knew about the song " A Day In The Life".

The Malagasy people of Madagascar appear here to be Asian when in fact they are actually African in appearance, bion.

That story about the high pitched frequency on “A Day In The Life” is a fallacy. Recording equipment and home stereos of that time couldn’t record or replay a pitch that high.

Whoa, Mama!

I think I found the photo the artist used for the famadihana drawing. It is from Indonesia where they also have a similar ritual with the dead. It’s called Ma’nene in Indonesia.

https://www.sickchirpse.com/manene-dressing-up-100-year-old-corpses/

The dead rats were probably a little like drug “mules”; used as hiding places for contraband.

And with that new info I’m pretty sure someone will claim that it is teaching satanic verses to the dogs…

There is a specific group that practices Famadihana (I just looked it up). They believe that a spirit doesn’t move on to join their ancestors until the body is fully decomposed. They do this ceremony about every 7 years. The family removes the body, changes the shroud, and write the person’s name on the shroud so the spirit knows s/he won’t be forgotten. They celebrate the person’s life, and then they hold up the corpse up (the body is held horizontally over their heads, or on their shoulders) and dance it back to the crypt. After 7 years in that climate I don’t believe the body has a smell. Famadihana is simply a way to honor and remember their loved one.