Ripley's Believe It or Not! (2000)

Episode 110 (1x10)

: 15, 2000

Corset Woman Move over Scarlett O'Hara! Extreme corseting has made its way back into fashion. We'll meet a young woman with a 15 inch waist and a man whose waist is only 18 inches! Odd Couple New Yorkers Fred Kahl and his wife Kiva Kahl are truly an odd couple with a mission - proving that ancient art forms like sword swallowing and fire eating aren'tillusions or magic tricks. Fred will swallow an endoscopic camera with a small light source and then he'll swallow live cockroaches! Next, he'll stand in front of a flouroscopic machine, which is a moving x-ray and swallow a sword! Fastest Brain Bob Gray, a.k.a. ""Backwards Bob,"" can write backwards and upside with both hands simultaneously on 4 quadrants. He is also the only person who can speak backwards phonetically. Check out Bob's website at www.memoryedge.com. Baby Signing There is a doctor teaching babies as young as 3 months old to use sign language to communicate everything from ""I'm hungry"" to ""I want to go outside.