Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 10, 2023

I had to look it up. The most recent crime was someone stealing 2000 pounds from a hotel. The previous crime was someone stealing a bicycle. Maybe it’s a serial thief who only steals once every 20 years.

So, does that mean Pocahontas had 11 other great grandsons before Ed, or that Ed is her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson? (How many of you counted my “greats”?) ;-D

Is Norton a member of the First Families of Virginia? Many of their members can trace their ancestry to Pocahontas.

“Hyuck hyuck, they ain’t caught the rest of us.. HAR!” ~ Nonny Moose, Gigha Crime Boss

May the moored be with you as they are with Tweedle-De-Dee. And gesundheit.

I remember seeing the episode of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS when Norton was told of his connection to Pocahontas. A good show I never try to miss and makes me envious of the deep research ability of the staff that makes these discoveries.

Hotel paddocks next to the buildings?

I have always admired the reasonable and pertinent laws of Canada!

Really? In what part of Ontario?

Gigha crime…https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/a23124363/gigha-island-scotland-first-crime-20-years/

But what if I don’t have a horse?

Does that mean that Eddie can open his own casino?

Way to go with Edward Norton and his ancestress!! Now that’s true American heritage!!

For this to be true, Pocahontas would have had to have had children.And she died young during an epidemic.

She ditched John Smith to marry another white settler,John Rolfe—-but children??

Deadbeats of the world,unite….you have nothing to lose but your thoroughbreds!!

DNA tests will show your general heritage, but nothing so specific as tracing you to one individual

a bike was stolen, if anyone wondered…since only 163 people should have been easy to find the bike, right?

Don’t pay your hotel bill, your horse is sold to pay for it. Hmmm. In the USA, in some places, if you owe parking tickets, the city can tow your car, sell it for scrap if you don’t pay up, and settle things that way.

I once heard that around 5% of Americans can trace their ancestry all the way back to Pocahontas (although I’m not sure as to how true that is).