Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 24, 2012
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Transcript:
Living bling! In Mexico- living beetles are encrusted with jewels and worn as jewelry! Death By Storage Korea's Crown Prince Sado (1735-1762) was locked in a rice chest and left to die on the orders of his own father! It took him a week to die. 16-year-old Misaki Murakami's soccer ball was swept out to sea when a tsunami struck his hometown of Rikuzen-Takata, Japan, in March 2011, but it was returned more than a year later when David Baxter of Middleton Island, Alaska, found it on a beach!
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Lady Nicole over 12 years ago
I was just studying the Joseon dynasty a month ago.
Prince Sado was thought to be mentally ill and reports of him doing horrible things like killing, be immoral, and erratic made his father, King Yeongjo (with his mom, Royal Consort Lee, also in agreement) decide to end his son’s life. He died of suffocation in 8 days.
Prince Sado’s son became king once King Yeongjo died less than a decade later.
But people today still wonder if he was framed.
Fan o’ Lio. over 12 years ago
More strange was a Harley bike that washed up in .. Alaska?
Casey Southards over 12 years ago
Rulers were paranoid, that beetle thing is nasty and the soccer ball thing was way cool.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
It’s good to be the king?Not always
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
The soccer ball became a beach ball.
ramon.williamson.ii over 12 years ago
I had a science teacher in junior high that had a bejeweled beetle. It was a scarab beetle and was actually pretty friendly.
Marvin3 over 12 years ago
Today. No comment.
iced tea over 12 years ago
I heard the Mayans used live flies as jewlery. Ugh!