| Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
is definitely something that we do not like to miss in Genting
Highland.
At the entrance of Ripley’s in
Genting are model statues of the tallest man in the world, the heaviest
and the smallest. The world’s heaviest man is from Conga and he
weighs in at 636kg! These three form the welcome bandwagon, inviting
you to enter their extraordinary world.
There is a water tap flowing
without support…Xing took a long time to examine how this huge
size stand in the air with no support yet more puzzle to us was
where does the continuous flow of water came from ?
RM18 for adult and RM15 for
children below 12. The entrance ticket fee included two section :
The Haunted House and Reply
Before entering the Repley Museum
one first walk through the gates of the Haunted Adventure where the
"Hundred Year Old Coffin of Terror" and other spooky nature await
you. This part is not for the faint-hearted!
Almost all visitors are young
unmarried teenage. Several girls keep screaming. The
several 'ghost' are actually armature 'actors' paid to provide
the trill entertainment. These 'ghost' are rather 'ham sap' in
a sense that they particularly interested in disturbing young girls
entered the haunted house.
A one point in the almost complete
darkness, we dimly saw a door open slow in front of us and some one
dress in dark was slowing moving out. I put my light bar toward and
saw a clearer view of the face of this ghost. But the ghost
suppose to do some trill to the visitor to create excitement did not
do any thing. Surely, he saw that the two of us just one
old man and one big boy, there is no fun to create. But situation
will be completely different if I am a sexy lady with a pretty girl
inside this haunted house.
The Believe It or Not franchise
started in 1918 as a newspaper cartoon panel featuring unusual and
startling facts from around the world.
Conceived and drawn by Robert Ripley, the panel proved popular and
was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including radio,
television, a chain of museums and a book series.
Here we find the unbelievable,
the incredible and unforgettable.
These are 500 exhibits at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum at the
First World Plaza, one of 27 such museums in the world.
The museums showcase the lifetime work of Robert Ripley, born in
1893, who first gained fame in 1918 as a newspaper panel cartoonist
featuring unusual and startling facts from around the world. Part of
these collections of oddities, spectaculars and the unimaginable are
originals but most are replicas constructed and shipped from
Orlando, the headquarters in Florida.
We saw the diamond in the
box…whereby we try to get hold of it but can’t. All these 500 over
exhibits are displayed in Mr. Ripley Gallery, Animal Gallery,
World's Record, Oddities Gallery etc.
Rub For Fertility is one of the exhibits from Africa’s Ivory Coast.
This Fertility Statues reputed to help married couples conceive.
Aspiring parents have diligently rubbed these statues which are said
to have brought good luck and success to 935 couples in its first
year of traveling outside the Ripley HQ.
Prisons, torture chambers and incarceration have always been a
fascination for many people. Is it the sadistic side of all of us?
Tiny windowless isolation cells vividly portray the mental torture
of total lack of human contact. Then there are iron balls and
chains, roasting and stretching platforms, spiked collars and other
ingenious ways to inflict the greatest pain.
We took our time to stroll through these rooms, examining and
reading about each fascinating subject and wax model. Hundreds of
mind-boggling exhibits can keep you occupied for hours.
The other galleries include special ones for animals, history, art,
costumes, transport, oddities, primitive, restrooms (this one you
must see for its humor aspect), tilt room and peeping hole.
I left a frozen shadow behind on that black wall but the frozen
shadow did not frozen for ever. The shadow melt several seconds
later.
Xing do enjoy with all the
mysteries and unbelievable stuff being shown in the Ripley’s
showroom.
It was well passed midnight and we
were the last visitors of the day to leave the museum. Preparing to
close the museum for the day, the staff also switch off unnecessary
lighting and equipment at the time we were leaving the museum.
We had a last look at the mystery floating water tap that had
continuous flow of water from unknown source, and we found the
answer. With the water pump switch off, the water stopped flowing
and the secrete of how this water tap float in the air revealed
before our eyes.
Our visit to Ripley’s Believe It or
Not! museum has a turn in full cycle.
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a brave slave girl speaks out against the cruelty of her captors and
she is chased across the desert. She is saved by a Magician and his
traveling band of companions, acrobats, a crossbow act, dancers and
two beautiful tigers ................ She soon falls in love with
the Magician, only to be rejected. Heartbroken, she runs
away................
