Disneyphile Chad Emerson has compiled a book of essays from Disney aficionados around the world to celebrate the four decades of Florida’s Walt Disney World. This week on Ripley Radio – An On-Demand Oddcast, the official radio station of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, Chad shares with us some of the more unusual and amazing and unbelievable stories from his book.
Additional Weird, Wacky and Wonderful Items Discussed this Week:
• Intern Abby reports on a Knife Throwing Breast Surgeon.
• Sideshow impresario Ward Hall tells Tim O’Brien that there is still validity in exhibiting freaks for entertainment.
• Author Dan Schlossberg covers some of the strange things we’re likely to experience during the 2011 Major League Baseball Season.
• Huffington Post’s Buck Wolf reveals what a lot of families are doing with the ashes of their dearly departed.
• We hear strange stories from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! book on Baseball Oddities.
• Edward Meyer tells us that fruitcakes play an important part in British family customs.
• AND B. Bumble and the Stingers provide our musical egress this week with “Baby Mash.”