Ripley's Believe It or Not! - Season 1

While scuba diving around an old shipwreck, Rip and Samantha have their yacht hijacked on the high seas above them by modern-day Pirates. After a harrowing time in a liferaft, they make landfall in Papua New Guinea - and are captured by mountain Pygmies. Locked in a pig cage, they’re fattened up - and Samantha remembers why. The pygmies are the world’s only “practicing” cannibals. Seconds before they are barbecued, Cyril crash lands in an ultra-lite, fulfilling the prophesy of Zona the ghost wind god. Cyril, the new god, must lead the pygmies, armed only with their warrior masks, on the recapture of Rip’s yacht.

When Rip and the BION team travel to Central Africa to collect tribal artifacts, they discover the Game Reserve has been losing elephants at an alarming rate! An elephant researcher, Scheider, says Nasilele, a tribal idol that is a lie detector, blinked its eyes, implicating a local boy. When the BION team are attacked by a rogue elephant, they discover a tracking device, planted by Scheider, is causing it to become enraged. When the idol blinks at Rip, he’s accused of poaching too! Sam discovers Scheider is controlling the idol with a remote control, it is up to Cyril, and his new found friend, the elephant to save the day! When the idol Nasilele indicates Scheider’s guilt, he escapes to the river. Rip gives chase, only to end up with Sam and Cyril, in the Jumpjet, saving them both from going over Victoria Falls. In the end, Rip discovers the batteries are missing from Scheider’s remote control. Did the Lie Detector really know Scheider was guilty? Believe it or Not!

Rip, Cyril and Sam travel to Cairo, Egypt to investigate the case of a woman put in a coma by the Curse of King Tut, after trying to buy contraband artifacts from the dead Pharaoh’s tomb. When Cyril finds a piece of a Tutankhamen fan, he has a friend analyze it. Meanwhile, a mysterious phone call leads Rip and Sam to the Valley of the Kings, where they are trapped in a tomb! Framed by the man in charge of Cairo antiquities, Mohammed Mahdi, Rip and Sam escape by posing as mummies! When Cyril’s friend is stricken with the same “curse”, Cyril discovers that an ancient mold is causing the coma symptoms. Tracing Mahdi’s cellphone signal, the BION team uncover a cache of stolen artifacts inside a pyramid. When Mahdi tries to escape in the desert, a sudden sandstorm stops his jeep, allowing Rip, Cyril and Sam to catch up on camels, arresting the thief. A check of the weather forecast reveals clear skies predicted. Was the sudden storm a freak of nature, or the Curse of the Pharaoh’s tomb? Believe it or Not!

When a young woman collapses in the town square of the Transylvanian town of Poenari, it is discovered she has a vampire bite on her neck! With everyone leaving town, the BION discover that a long lost relative of Vlad Dracula has recently taken up residence in the old Count’s castle. When Rip ends up bit and in a coma, and Cyril sprouts fangs, it is up to Sam, with the Vampire Killing Kit in hand, to deal with the new Count in the old castle. Long after the “Count” has been exposed as a fraud looking to scam some cheap real estate out of the frightened townspeople, Sam still can’t figure out why the butler didn’t appear on her video tape? Was he a real vampire? Believe it Or Not!

When Sam’s Uncle Paul, a caretaker at The Winchester Mystery House in San Diego, starts seeing ghosts, she must defend his sanity to save his job. At the greatest ghost house on the continent, the BION team discovers dozens of staircases that lead nowhere, and hundreds of rooms with no doors, all built by Sarah Winchester who believed she was haunted by the victims of her father’s famous rifles. When no ghosts are found, the trustees of the estate want Sam to force her uncle to retire. But Sam discovers a plot to turn the Mystery House site into a huge condominium development, and the trustees are unmasked for the frauds they are. Their escape attempt is thwarted by the ghostly appearance of an Indian that only Sam and her Uncle sees. Was it a real ghost, protecting Sarah’s home? Believe it or Not!