Ripley's Haunted Castle Investigation

02/12/2026

This Valentine’s week, make memories that are anything but ordinary! 💌

From February 9–15, enjoy 15% off Single Attraction and Combo Tickets at Ripley’s St. Augustine with code LOVE26. Explore Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, hop aboard the Red Train Tour, face the ghosts at Ripley’s Haunted Castle Investigation, and tee off at Bayfront Mini-Golf.

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02/09/2026

This Valentine’s Week, Fall for Something Unbelievable! 💕

From February 9–15, enjoy 15% off Single Attraction and Combo Tickets at Ripley’s St. Augustine. Explore Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, hop aboard the Red Train Tour, face the ghosts at Ripley’s Haunted Castle Investigation, and tee off at Bayfront Mini-Golf. Celebrate the season of love with something a little strange, for less.

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10/17/2025

Sleeping with the spirits on your Halloween bucket list? (Not that you’ll need that bucket list - but you never know). Come spend the night in Ripley’s Haunted castle! Learn how to be a paranormal investigator utilizing hi-tech equipment before you take off on your own to perform an investigation just like the pros! Or, you can sleep if you dare. We provide the equipment, training, the creepy dark building, a team to assist you, and refreshments. You provide any sleeping gear you feel you might need and bold sense of adventure. We are limiting this to under 20 people so spots will fill up fast! For reservations, please call 904-824-1606 and speak to a representative. Participants must be over 18!

05/31/2025

Banksy once dodged Time magazine’s request for a portrait by submitting a photo of himself with a paper bag over his head—and still made their Top 100 Most Influential People list. From stenciled protests on city walls to million-dollar masterpieces that self-destruct at auction, the anonymous artist has built a career blending satire, secrecy, and social critique. But who is Banksy? That’s still the greatest mystery in modern art.

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Despite refusing to self-identify, Banksy’s art has skyrocketed in popularity over the years. Banksy continues to meld activism with art in brilliant ways.

05/29/2025

Believe It or Not!, the U.S. government once had so much excess cheese that officials joked about dumping it in the ocean. By the early 1980s, more than 500 million pounds of processed cheese were stockpiled in warehouses—so they started giving it away. Whether you loved it or loathed it, “government cheese” became an unforgettable staple of hard times, grilled cheese sandwiches, and childhood nostalgia.

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When the U.S. had an excess amount of cheese, the government stepped in and began sharing it with people in need. But it wasn't exactly charcuterie-worthy.

05/27/2025

Believe It or Not!, the very first published drawing of Snoopy appeared not in a Peanuts strip—but in *Ripley’s Believe It or Not!* In 1937, a 14-year-old Charles Schulz submitted a sketch of his real-life dog, Spike, and it was featured in one of Ripley’s legendary cartoon panels. That spunky pup would later become the inspiration for one of the most beloved cartoon characters in history.

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As a kid, Charles Schulz looked up to famed illustrator Robert Ripley and sent him a drawing of his own, only for it to be featured in Ripley’s cartoon!

05/25/2025

Colgate once tried to sell frozen dinners—including a now-infamous beef lasagna, or so the legend goes. But did a toothpaste company really think we’d want minty-fresh microwave meals? The truth is messier than you’d think—and might just involve crab meat.

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The brand hoped to entice people into eating their frozen meals and then brushing their teeth with the company’s toothpaste.

05/23/2025

Think quicksand will suck you under like in the movies? Not quite. While escaping can take serious effort, science shows you'll never sink past your waist—and the real danger isn’t the sand, but what’s around it.

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From Indiana Jones to Jumanji, we've seen our favorite characters slowly slip into panic and spring to heroic acts to save themselves from quicksand.

05/21/2025

Can you roll your tongue? You might’ve been told it’s all in your genes—but science says otherwise. Despite what your middle school biology teacher claimed, tongue rolling may have more to do with practice than DNA! 👅

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Tongue rolling has been long used an example of a genetic trait in textbooks and science classes, but this convenient example is nothing more than fiction.

05/20/2025

You too can be a Paranormal Investi-gator! These cool Florida themed tees are only available for sale to people who have participated in our Haunted Castle Paranormal Investigation! Be the coolest gator on your block by booking your investigation now at www.ripleys.com/staugustine!

05/20/2025

The cockeyed squid has a large eye that points upward.

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05/19/2025

Is your shuffle button lying to you? 🎶 What we think of as “random” might just be carefully curated chaos—Spotify once had a truly random shuffle, but it freaked people out with too many coincidences. So they rigged the randomness... just enough to make it feel random.

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Many wonder if shuffle is random, but app developers have determined that true random just isn't random enough.