Just Reopened! Gatlinburg Ripley's Believe it or Not!

[Music] pay off carpetbagger here coming to you live from the South where specifically Gatlinburg Tennessee and this is something I have been waiting quite some time for for months and months and months Ripley's Believe It or Not has been closed undergoing remodeling and apparently they're putting more money into this ripley's than any other Ripley's before it and now it's finally open behold Gatlinburg Ripley's Believe It or Not looks like they've kind of embraced the local forest theme we've got it looks to be a fox playing a banjo up there there's a fair drinking moonshine yes it's definitely the Gatlinburg themed attraction I've got a tent over there with some feet sticking out you never turn the big ball that you can move with your hands but I'm most excited about this the ripley's pots over ripley got this fell in 1922 and i guess you can you can wish if you can make a wish ring a bell I wish everyone that watches these videos has a wonderful day that was okay that was a nice ring I think there are some very small traces of the old deeming the earthquake theme so some cracks down here under the awning poor bear here was murdered by this woman who killed it with one strike of her mighty frying pan check this out this is pretty awesome all these different pieces to the beating heart right there and look at this it's gonna come together humanity restored that is pretty cool there's one of their trademark inflated taxidermy cow heads there it is the two shrunked elephant legitimate taxidermy - trunk elephant along with his buddy the elf I know giraffe there's an actual bird flying around in there Jim Jennifer Lawrence made of peanuts I hope you don't have an allergy where's the lint last supper a little elevator ride through here nothing more fun than a shrunken head photo-op there's our boy they're holding the shrunken head [Music] I could do anything a normal person can do and more here we have the famed wild wolf girl Kamala the trophy ball here there's a very rare shrunken torso don't remember this window being opened to overlook but see this he left from there twirling twirling twirling head here comes comes another one they've definitely upped their shrunken head game here there he is the man himself Robert Ripley nothing fazes him not even the fact that he's holding a vicious constrictor case you're looking for place to put your umbrella there is an elephant foot umbrella stand here's one of the all-time classic exhibits here and Griff leads in Gatlinburg the amazing mr. Ito it's a man who made an exact replica of himself using mirrors they even used his own hair to create this facsimile of himself there's Buddha made out of a million dollars just like Buddha would want wonder why they call her the lock nose woman oh yeah makes sense there's our buddy Wang the human unicorn one of the all-stars here at rips okay it's making a weird hat appear off my huh oh there we go have a mohawk and Google eyes that's kind of interesting Wang over here it's got some weird masks on now wings got Google eyes and I've got I'm a Chinese dragon and apparently all right this is whatever this is pretty pretty interesting oh now what am i that's that's crazy Edward Agner the world's thinnest man and because he is in Gatlinburg he is juggling jugs of moonshine juggling jugs in our normal rogues gallery of Ripley's favorites the lighthouse man was a candle in his skull and the croc tooth man was horrifying teeth whatever a Ripley's dating match we're gonna put your hand and it matches you with a specific Ripley's figure let's put our hands here see what we get who's gonna be their batch oh it's it's grace McDaniel T the world's ugliest woman so known as the mule-faced woman well I guess we have to get married now here's a new one I haven't seen him before shortly dangerously insane no legged skateboarder king of freaks himself my favorite Johnny like I just shrunk significantly before our eyes and Alpheus the prince engaged in a birdcage this is interesting this was a horn man skull he was a circus performer that claimed that he had real horns growing out of his skull but an autopsy revealed you know orange he just glued them to his skull and I can see the marks in his skull you know what's one impressive of growing naturals horns are installing them yourself here is the Mexican vampire woman she better be careful because right over here it's a vampire killing if they just keep this right here if she gets out of control yes yes yes mr. Wadlow so glad to have you back so Willy camper whose hand is that big he could hold a dozen eggs in his hand see how many we can hold I think I could get a lead Kutub for where you can see how been - you are of course tour at your own risk yeah [Music] cheers to you mr. Tom Thumb I'm sorry General Tom Thumb there's a Wadlow shoe right there I guess that's a normal people chew just to give you some perspective here we have Lucia sriracha you can see her feet aren't there she only comes up to about there for some ridiculous miniatures the smallest mousetrap what you get is used to catch flies the smallest raiser what's I guess it's used to shave flies there's the smallest Telegraph ever delivered by Western Union and the world's smallest business card not not a good business strategy to have a card so small this is easy to get lost and the watson made of spices oh she's so spicy some television props there's a jacket a mask used in the walking dead that's to normal we have Rick Grimes painted and barbecue sauce create did you know that moon Bibles were a thing well they got two of them here is an Apollo moon Bible stored and a Faberge over here we have a another move I guess it's like stored in code there's a crazy rope bridge kind of walking a tightrope here it's a little freaky we're good I don't lots of people down there that's under that floor yet I'm not sure this is Hey master controlls fellow space glove their start transmission electric okay space gloves not the easiest thing he is that's and the electrical on there like I gotta use this key this key this key forget it no space man no I don't normally do the souvenir crushed pennies but how can I say no when Robert Ripley himself and his awesome pith helmet is gonna smash the pace for me there it is today's two-headed calf flattened penny derivative miniature art look at these microscopes to see it see if we can catch a glimpse there we go over embarked on a pinhead it's old our kids are fighting over who gets to sit in the giant stair taking me this guy but this is not the world's tallest rocking chair I've been underneath the world's largest rocking chair just being a holder Merlin it doesn't take dollars this man right here the way in cats he had his tattoo on his arm and he rubbed it and salt and pickled it and removed it gross but kind of Awesome it's a parachute dummy used some D days in trooper he's very small very very tiny Charles Manson there there's his fingerprints Annie Oakley's gun got this like digital screen in front of their their to electric doctor in a box all those glass tubes are designed to be stuck in different orifices this is pretty awesome this is a robotic Megalodon submarine I guess inside there's evil robots operating things some ripley's have a whole quarter section and then keep things nice and simple with a nice torture box here got your basic torture on them that's nothing too extreme never been one to live by rules I've always followed my own code terrified they have it just a good old solid creepy mummy for more fun with mummies you got a mummified Falcon and a mummified hand can you forget can you get wishes off of a mummy hand Vince ability belt apparently that gives its wearers invincibility whatever if I ever do a heist in this place this is the first thing I'm taking oh there's the Cuban Popeye coming out of the moonshine still now a lot of Ripley's will have matchstick sculptures this is the biggest one I've seen this is Hogwarts made out of match [Music] little thing on some fake items it's a Fiji mermaid I'm so glad they kept him I was worried they'd get rid of him Gatlinburg cheese and bourbon first they say he's not real but but he's real to me is a real three legged pigeon coffin sales and miniatures little tunnel caskets that he can bring in a suitcase and show you what you can still look like here's the Derner making his famous face but apparently now he's a massive Tennessee sports fan two genuine Brushy Mountain prison cell they had this as an old exhibit but now you can actually go inside of it yes these are crimes you can commit here at Ripley's failure to believe acting like a total weirdo possession of a shrunken head and unauthorized use of a two trunk elephants I'm not entirely sure why the cuban popeye is locked up here at Brushy Mountain this room has some really random things in it look they're just like a random chastity belt hang in there on the wall all right this is strange you've got these little people made out of nuts and you hit the button down here and look what happens hey a taxidermied squirrel jumps up and scares them in and that's it whoa what is going on it's like a house of cards vibrating violently everything does not make sense pop it like it's those pop corn sculptures and play this there's bugs I guess it's like a washbasin guitar trippy fun this way and the kaleidoscope room [Music] I guess there we go here that was a tense Clint Eastwood made of shotgun shells get off my law Marcia these weapons are sharp well not all sharp this one's not sharp it's just used for feeding here we have a beaded horse right next to it big old gun gun gun gun gun gun gun gun gun John Washington's hair let's clone it John Ferraro skulls twice as thick as the normal person so it uses it to smash things and bend metal against good on you there's a hammer he used to a bend over his skull and I guess he pounded these nails into this board and metal with this skull face cowboy yes nikola tesla the space cowboy Tesla coil shamone II he would apparently the decide to act where you would climb in an oven with a leg of lamb and he'd come out and he'd be fine but the leg of lamb would be cooked sounds dangerous I really like a lot of these new characters I've not seen before another Ripley's such as acroprint apparently she does a handstand and then fires a bow and arrow with her feet currently she is fighting this dragon this is the one artifact they've not moved or altered thee big chunk of the Berlin Wall they did however add the one-armed wallpaper hanger over here on this side I guess he's hanging some wallpaper on the Berlin wall here's my wheelhouse the weasel tennis match oh it looks like it's gonna ride this weasel has become very angry and I guess he had hit the referee in the crotch with his tennis racket Haho he's John McEnroe the squirrel was actually captured in Sherwood Forest and so they turned him into Robin Hood and it's lated guinea pig head nothing wrong with that this is an interesting piece artwork here this is actually medium I've not heard of before it is vomit art it's created by adding and in food coloring just soy milk and the painter she sheets it off with gobbles it down and then just goes to town barfing all over the painting they even have some graphic videos of her sticking her fingers chattered we're open till much oh my goodness dog hair vests don't wear it out in the rain again I don't want to be that guy but they say this is that ma flam plus wouldn't these horns indicate maybe this is a a tram here we have our normal Ripley's photo man turned into a hyper local hiker here in the Smoky Mountains and there's his ever-present girlfriend actually someone comment on one of my videos that they knew the model for this the teenage girl that modeled and now she is in every release all right now we're going into some circadian reach inside what's inside oh she's a turtle what's the danger at all why does a secret door have the word secret tour and on it Oh hold on I'm sorry all right let's reach inside again a beaver tail feels rubbery this is amazing you don't design your own prank of nature see what we're going to start with our face animal we got in the Sheep a turtle to go with a kitty Oh extra leg actually like in the back next your leg in the front this what you need - tails - heads antlers and weights very nice let's just choose a pattern I guess we go with zebra Peter choose a color blue zebra stripes and next Oh chiz eyes see three eyes on a collar let's go with this nice little swanky caller here a background that looks like an animal that would hang out in the snow there we go success that's one weird fad email your image too is a deer that had a wasp nest stuck in his antlers and maybe not surprisingly he died of bee stings y'all need a bear hug the real crapshoot tusks these mysterious hunks of question mark that's an iron meteorite oh that's that's poop I'm touching booth look at this horse you walked on his hind legs that's crazy looks almost thing reminds me of the Jersey Devil I won't you had a calf down there as well and all sorts of freaks in here three-legged chicken Siamese piglets defected to the back as an eight-legged Pig right there Dorval five-legged Lam I'm sure this deer is really wondering how he got himself in this situation I do like to focus on the local exhibit the synchronous fireflies dip here in the Elkmont campground the only place in the world besides a Japan and getting tickets to see them is harder than getting tickets to see the beetles it's a six-legged deer although these legs are awfully tiny there's a Siamese half [Music] people walking over us top of us that bridge there's the famous English hump box he's very very dapper looking shot in the back a buffalo bone actually has a genuine arrowhead stuck in its spinal column not sure this is I guess you got a scoop away the sand to make more room for water for these lizards wait they're sort of buried there what is it what is it covered by water there you have it brand-new Ripley's Believe It or Not here in Gatlinburg Tennessee now a lot of times people ask me what's your favorite Ripley's I've been to all but three I'm gonna say this probably probably at this point I haven't seen another three this is probably my favorite so far I think you know they did they have done a lot of new stuff interactive stuff stuff for the kids but I think they've preserved enough the old stuff to kind of leave something for everyone I'm thinkin this Gatlinburg is the best Ripley's that being said I will very soon be checking out the other three Ripley's and coming out with a final verdict I appreciate you guys watching please check down in the description below to check out the other Ripley's Believe It or Not said I have been to as well as the other fun attractions also you'd like to contribute to this channel there's a t-shirt shop down there as well as my patreon page and if you'd like to donate three dollars a month I will happily send you postcards while I'm out and about on my road trips but for now this one's in the bag

Channel: The Carpetbagger

Views: 280,213

Rating: 4.8907528 out of 5

Keywords: the, carpetbagger, gatlinburg, tn, tennessee, weird, strange, odd, unusual, ripley's, believe it or not, mannequin, wax, figures, interactive, fun, happy, joy

Id: mnl6vQXq4sU

Length: 25min 45sec (1545 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 17 2018