The Amelia Earhart Mystery (Update)

In this classic episode, former hosts Candace and Katie explore the events surrounding Amelia Earhart's mysterious disappearance in 1937, and possible theories as to what could have happened. We also cover new developments in this 75-year-old mystery.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class from housetof
works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast Time
to Blame a Chalk Reboarding. And some big stories from
history just never really seemed to go away, And the
story of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her mysterious disappearances

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truly one of those stories about studies or research regarding
her disappearance just seemed to pop up all the time,
some seventy five years now after she navigator fred Noon
and vanished over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate
the globe along the equator. And I actually wrote a
blog to this effect about a year ago, when it

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seemed that several new possible clues or potential leads in
this mystery emerged around the same time. It was really crazy.
It was like four new stories came out within a
couple of weeks. I remember that, And at the time,
none of the clues really seemed to offer any real
resolution to the mystery. Of course, and this year seems
to be just as busy though on the Amelia it
really yeah, it really does. And in March, for example,

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of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery announced that
they'd be launching an expedition this very summer, a renewed
effort to find air Hearts plane. And this expedition, which
is privately funded, was very big news, you know, going
out there finally trying to find this plane, and it's
been backed by Hillary Clinton, advised by uh the Titanic

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discoverer Bob Ballard, and filmed as a documentary by the
Discovery Channel too. So in light of the excitement surrounding
this new expedition and the fact that we've been covering
female aviators this year anyway, we thought it might be
a great time to take another look at an episode
that Candice and Katie did in two thousand nine. This
episode gives some great insight into Earhart's life and also

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presents some interesting theories about her disappearance. So take a
listen right now to that episode. We don't want to
give it all away before they get a chance to
tell you what it's all about. And then we'll share
some of the new clues that have emerged in just
the past few weeks. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.
I'm editor Candice Keener, joined by fellow editor Katie Lambert. Hello,

(02:15):
Candice side there, Katie. I conducted some very surprising research
this week. Was it on Lady Lyndy, Queen of the Air.
It was Amelia Earhart, who I think most of us
hold in our minds as an iconic figure in American
history and world history. Really of um of a very

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strong and determined and capable woman, the sixteenth woman in
the entire world. We granted her pilot's license in fact,
and I learned that there are some factors which may
explain her disappearance that color her in a slightly different light.
And that's not to say that we're not going to
celebrate Amlia air Heart, because we certainly are. I think

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you'll learn a thing or two just like I did.
So maybe we'll start at her beginnings, which are rather humble. Um.
She was a Kansas girl born in Her father was
a lawyer for the railroad. Um. She ended up being
a nurse's aid and a military hospital in Toronto, and
she was actually premed for a while at Columbia, which
surprised me because who knew, But she was only there

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for a semester when she was just ten years old.
She was at a state fair when she really had
her interest kindled in flying, watching the planes swooping overhead
and rushing past her and staring up the wind. She
realized that she wanted to do that too, and that
ambition was cemented in her mind in December of nineteen
twenty when the pilot Frank Hawks invited her on his

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plane for a flight, and she thought that this is
what I'm going to do. So she bought her first
plane in nineteen It was yellow and she named it Canary,
and she had flying lessons from Nita's Snook, who was
also one of the foremost female eight years of the day,
because there weren't many, and a critic has said that

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here was a turning point for the Amelia Hurt story
for me at least, was that SnO didn't think that
Amelia was necessarily skilled enough to become a pilot. Perhaps
her ambitions and enthusiasm outweighed her skill. And in some
cases that certainly compensates, and it makes up for something
you're not entirely good at. But for an activity as

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precisest flying, of course, you need to have all of
your little ducks in a row. So Snooke maybe thought
she had the drive, but not the talent exactly, but
that didn't stop her from trying now. And her first lesson,
I like this fact was twenty minutes long in snooks
World War one canuck um, and she charged her sins
per minute snocks connect. He really couldn't make this gunnuck yet.

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Early in her career she established her prowess in the
sky by setting records for speed and altitude, and she
became very slowly but really a huge celebrity in the
aviation world. She was the first female passenger on the
Fokker Friendship. They flew from Newfoundland to Wales, and it

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was a big deal because a publicist named George Putnam
was the one who set her up for this, and
originally he had been looking for someone else, but that
woman ended up not being able to take her place,
and Amelia was totally gung ho to go for this trip.
And also in nine it was a big year for her.
She was the first woman to make a solo return
transcontinental flight and as far as her position on the

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Friendship flights with Wilmer Stultz and Slim Gordon. For them,
it was old hats this type of transatlantic voyage. But
Putnam was a publicist as much as a publisher, and
he was trying to put a new spin on it.
It was the first time that a woman was on board,
and she was given the title commander to lend her
a sense of prestige. But Amelia was always very clear

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and very adamant about the fact that she didn't do
anything on this flight. She was merely there for company,
and one could guess too that she was watching and
observing and learning what exactly people do to conduct themselves
on these long flights. And later when she would do
solo trips, she would remark that the company she kept
for the celestial bodies in the sky, it was some

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of the most beautiful things she'd ever seen when I
think she also felt a little bit guilty about getting
so famous for something where she wasn't really doing anything,
and that gave her the urge to prove herself exactly.
And not only the urge, it also gave her a
bunch of endorsement deals because she needed money to continue
on with her flight career Lucky Strikes cigarettes for one

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for one. Uh. She went on to add another impressive
feat to her resume, and that was helping to organize
the Woman's Air Derby and becoming a founding member and
president of the ninety nine. And the ninety nine was
a woman's aviation group, and this was sort of a
post suffrage effort to get women to organize and explore

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their other interests. And as women were gaining ground in
the aviation industry, they found they didn't have a lot
of support from their male cohorts. It was seen as
it was seen as a men's world, and they wanted
in and so by offering each other support and sharing
industry news, they could better gain ground, get a better foothold.
And one of my favorite things that the ninety nine did,

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and I should mention too, that the name ninety nine
was Amelia's idea because when they put out a call
for interested parties, women answered anyway. They campaign to overturn
the government proposal that would ban women from flying when
they were men's struating. Fair enough, yes, And I'm just
gonna leave it at that, just a fine historical fact

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for everyone. They're still around for the record, I think
more than five thousand members today and they note on
their website that most women who have achieved great things
in aviation have been a member of the ninety nine.
So during this time with her involvement with the ninety
nines and her speaking engagements, she was also writing for
Cosmopolitan magazine and for other publications, and she was actually

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the aviation editor or aviation writer for Cosmo. And I'm
I don't think we have that, No, I don't think so.
I think it was a much different uh iteration of
the magazine back in that day. But in Nive she
was appointed to a consulting position at Purdue University. More
women were starting to have careers of their own, and

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she became an advisor to them, which I think is
really significant. And it's interesting to note that despite her
own ambitions, Amelia Earhardt was also and approachable and disarming
enough woman that other young woman would feel comfortable seeking
her counsel. I think that speaks a lot about her character,
and at this point, I think too she was also

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a bit of a style icon. And I know we
always like fashion throughout history, but she had the leather
jackets and close cropped hair, um silk ties and scarves,
and people thought she was she was sassy. She was.
You can stay pictures on the official Amelia air Heart
Museum website and plenty of other famed websites out there

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of her wearing her her tight fitting pants and her
boots and the scarf tied around her neck. She was really,
really classic. I think she even had a clothing line.
I know she had a luggage line. Wow, I did
not know that. But in the meantime, even before perdue,
in nineteen thirty two, she was the first woman to
fly solo across the Atlantic. She landed in Ireland, and
I think that's when she finally felt like, yeah, she'd

(09:34):
really done something. And she also got the Distinguished Flying
Cross that year, and she was also recognized by President
Herbert Hoover with the National Geographic Society Gold Medal. So
attention and awards and praise is being showered upon her,
and she's nearing her fortieth birthday. And at this time

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she's actually married to George Putnam. She rejected him six
times used for the record before they ever got married.
We should know too that he was actually married when
they began touring together and helping to endorse her career together,
but he was granted divorce in so by thirty one
he and Amelia were an item and he read her

(10:16):
a very interest. She wrote him excuse me a very
interesting letter where she said, I shall not hold you
to any medieval code of faithfulness um to me, nor
shall I consider myself bound to you similarly, and then
went on to say that if she thought they were honest,
they could avoid any difficulties if one or the other
of them became to attract it to someone else. So
she knew what she was getting into. She did, and

(10:36):
she called the marriage a partnership with dual control and
kept her own name. She did, and George recognized that
for her to keep her celebrity index high, she needed
another big flying stunt, and nearing her fourtie birthday, she
was ready to become the first woman to fly solo

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or around the world. And flying solo around the world
had already been accomplished by Charles Lindbergh, but she wanted
to show that a woman could do it too, And
as a matter of fact, she chose a course that
wrapped as tightly around the equator as possible, which extended
the journey just a bit and also took it through
some more difficult to rain the Pacific Islands, in particular,

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as we'll soon learn, we're quite challenging navigate. So she
started in nineteen seven on this trip and flew from
California to Hawaii, but a tire blue when they landed
in Hawaii, which sort of put their plans on hold
for a little bit. The plane had to be shipped
back to California to be fixed, and she had been

(11:42):
flying in the Lockheed Vega, but switched to the Lockheed Electra,
which is better suited for long distance flying. They had
to restart her journey in Miami. They decided instead they
just go the totally other way this time, since they
had already publicized it well, and plus the winds were
more favorable in the opposite direction. But they didn't want
anyone to know that they were actually having to fly

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there repaired plane from California to Miami, so they just
didn't make any announcements on that, right, And looking back
now with the historian's I you know, you could say
it was it was a prophetic bad start, and that
you know, this maybe was one clue, because there are
some sources that say that it was her handling of
the plane that caused it to scrape its belly across

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the runway into crash. And even though there wasn't a fire,
it was very badly damaged. Perhaps it was nerves, I
don't know. But she also had on board a man who,
again some critics say was not the best navigation advisor.
This was Frederick Noonan, and he had formerly worked with
Pacific Flight Navigation, but had reportedly been let go from

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his previous job for being a little bit too drunk
at work. Sometimes. Again, some of this is based on
historical hearsay, but a lot of historical sources do say
that his method of navigation, which was to your celestial positioning,
couldn't be relied upon entirely for around the world flight.
Imagine using just the heavens and the sky to guide you. Well,

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what do you do when it's cloudy? Exactly? And I
sh'll see that was a big downfall, and so pictures
were back in Miami. We've got we should be feeling
a little bit nervous at this point with that background,
and we've already had an accident on the trip. We've
got fred Noonan, who were not entirely sure about and
they take off and eventually end up in New Guinea
on June nine. And we should note that despite these

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omnus factors they've been doing swingly, I mean absolutely great.
This was a trip that was going to be about
twenty nine thousand miles and they only had seven thousand
left to go. They knocked out a substantial amount of
the mileage. I mean we're talking about crossing over South
America and Africa and India and Asia Australia, and it
was very carefully tarted us to where they would stop

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and refuel. And their next stop was Howland Island, Holland Island,
which is more than I think miles away from where
they were, and how An Island is more of a
toll than An Islands teeny tiny uh it's about a
mile and a half long, a half mile across, and

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she wasn't even going to be able to uh get
the island exactly without the help of the U. S.
Coast Guard. So she had plans to meet this US
Coastguard cutter in the Ataska nearby who would help give
her exact coordinates and refuel her and allow her to
rest for a while. So they take off on July
two for the Hollan Island and that's when things start

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to go terribly horribly wrong. The last positive sighting of
them was over the New Kumanu Islands by the Atasca,
and the Atasca was attempting to communicate with Amelia and
Frederick with a two way radio. Amelia didn't know Morse code,
she wasn't comfortable using it, and furthermore, she didn't necessarily

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have all the equipment that she did need. She had
an antenna, and she had radio equipment that operated on
a certain frequency, but the frequency she was using wasn't
the same one necessarily that the coast Guard was using,
and even when they did get on the right frequency,
they didn't seem to be getting each other's messages. She
couldn't hear them, and her last message to them, I

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think um or what's usually recorded as the last message,
said we must be on you, but cannot see you,
but gas is running low. Have been unable to reach
you by radio. We're flying at a thousand feet and
the coast Guard couldn't get her to switch to Morse code,
which they preferred to communicate. It was much more exact because,

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like you said, she didn't have the capability to get
the messages, she didn't have the right equipment. So essentially
the two parties are in Communicato. At this point, conditions
are incredibly overcast, so noon In isn't able to help
guide them. And then nothing, absolutely nothing. We're not quite

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sure what happened, but of course, you know, the United
States went into a bit of a panic because here
was their aviation Darling gone, either drowned at sea or
washed up on some remote beach. And there was a
very very extensive rescue attempt undertaken, the biggest one yet. Yeah,
four million dollars, and it covered about two thousand square

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miles in ocean, and it was called off in July
ninety seven. And here's the real kicker for me. This
is so interesting because Amelia Earhart was officially declared dead
on January five, nineteen thirty nine, and Noonon was declared
dead in June. Of night. We didn't want to give up, hope.
They didn't, right, They really didn't want to let her go.

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And she was the golden girl, right and Putnam too,
I mean, that was his wife out there, and she
had written to him before she even on this monumental voyage.
Please know, I am quite aware of the hazards. I
want to do it. Because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge

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to others. So that brings us to what exactly did
happen to Amelia Earhart? And there are several theories out there,
and some of them are are much more conspiracy theory
like than based in some sort of evidentiary fact. And
we're going to cover as many as we can and
as many as we were able to happen upon no

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coromintended there. One of the most famous is probably that
she was captured by the Japanese and that she was
taken to Sarpan and put to death, and that she
was actually a spy for the Japanese. Actually, that was
quite a common rumor at the time, because you have
to remember to put it in context that this is
when there's very much a policy of isolationism and people

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not wanting the United States to get involved in World
War Two. There was a lot of controversy over that
and the idea that she was flying halfway across the world,
well maybe she was by and some have even gone
as far as to say that she was captured by
the Japanese and she became Tokyo Rose isn't that interesting?
And her husband George, listened to recordings of Tokyo Rose

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and said that the voice was not Amelia's. And one
of the other theories, um was that she survived the crash,
she and Noon and both and just went to live
on one of the islands until they starved to death,
which it's very sad to think about, but it was
likely more possible than becoming Tokyo Rose. Right precisely. Other

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reports say that she was living in a disguised type
of retirement after all of these supposed admissions for the
government or else, trying to find out a graceful way
to back out of this very celebrated career. And she
was either in Chicago or she was in New York
under the pseudonym Irene Bolom. And this name is significant.

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It was spposed to represent, I believe, the latitude and
longitude where she was supposed of the name of a
beach where she was supposed to have landed. I don't
even quite understand how that works. But um, poorin Balm,
she swore up and down, no I am not Amelia
Earhart and sued them eventually. Right, they were publishers who

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put together a book based on this theory, and Bolm
was having no part of it, and a lot of
people thought in general that it was a staged accident,
that that was her point all along, and it was,
you know, her way out of that way of life, right,
And so her sister actually stated, uh, this is Muriel
Earhart Morrissey. That she inquired directly to the Japanese government,

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do you have my sister? And the answer was a
very strong no, we don't. And she held the belief
that the plane just simply ran out of fuel and
it crashed unto the bottom of the ocean. And that's
the most accepted theory now, the crash and sink theory,
I believe, I call it, which is pretty self explanatory, right.
And it is believable to think that her plane crashed

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and that a four million dollar search effort at the
time could not recover the wreckage, because in order to
find the wreckage, they would have had to have searched
about seventeen thousand feet deep in the ocean. And keep
in mind, if she's around the Pacific Islands, there would
have been debris from other ships from World War Two,
So in order to identify Amelia Earhart's plane. Not only

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would wreckage have to be located, but search crews would
have had to have found the exact serial number that
matched her playing and search and rescue efforts at the
time were very They weren't based on as much science
as we have now. I mean, you'd have to be
thinking about stuff like currents and the weather conditions at
the time. And to be fair, they weren't even entirely

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sure where she was going. They think she got knocked
off course by a few by several miles actually, but
who knows. They just have that last radio transmission, so
there were several hours between then and probably when she crashed.
There are two interesting academic theories that I wanted to
discuss because both of them come with a lot of

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evidentiary support, and they're pretty interesting, and they suggest that
the plane went down in different locations. And the first
is from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, who
thinks that after she couldn't get in touch with the ATASCA,
she turned her plane southeast and flew toward Gardner Island.
And this is a considerably larger tract of land, right,

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and it's pretty topographically distinct there's a large lagoon in
the middle and an interesting landmark too erect freighter, so
she could have seen this island and thought maybe that
was the Atasca. Well, there you go, and there was
plenty of room to land, so she could have brought
her plane safely down on the beach. And if the

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plane went down on the beach and she and Noonan
walked inland just a little bit, it would explain some
strange radio messages that were picked up that came at
hours intervals of each other, and it was a voice
that sounded similar to Amelia's, trying to help give some
geographical bearings and trying to give some direction as to

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where she could be found. And if they came hours apart,
that might be because as the tide came in on
Gardner Island, the plane would get covered by water, and
in order to power the radio from the plane's right engine,
she had to wait for the tide to go out,
which makes perfect sense, I think, and it's a really
interesting theory it does. And a search of the island

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turned up airplane debris, a skeleton and a woman's shoe,
and the skeleton was examined and at first I was
identified as an older Polynesian man, no, not Amelia, and
then another inquiry said that it was probably a European man,
and then the skeleton was lost, but an examination of

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the notes said that it was actually a tallish woman
of European descent, somewhere between about five ft five five
ft nine that actually could have been Amelia. And then
other searches turned out cigarette lighters which Noonan smoked so
it could have been his, a man's shoe, and plexiglass

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debris that matched era hearts planes windows. You have to
wonder what happened to that skeleton. I know, I know well,
and this information seems pretty convincing. So I was pretty
much sold on Gardner Island, and then I read about
until I read about this other theory, which is that
in Australian soldiers on the island of New Britain were

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tracing through the jungle and they found wreckage of a
plane and it was practically overgrown by all the foliage.
It was so done so they could barely get to it,
but they managed to get a piece of the plane
and a map that they found near it, which had
some numbers written on it. Six hp as three H
one C n ten fifty five, and these numbers actually

(24:03):
correspond to the construction horsepower and number of engines on
air Hearts plane. So I don't know. I don't want
to make a judgment. I'm not here to analyze. I'm
here to offer the facts because we don't know the answer.
And that's the cool thing. They're all these fascinating loose
ends that may never actually be solved for us historical

(24:24):
mystery for sure, but also it's it's nice to remember
Amelia not just for her disappearance, which is certainly spawned
a number of salacious conspiracy theories, but for the fact
that she was a very important figure in early feminist movements.
Her beliefs about women being capable of great feats and

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being able to try and accomplish and even do better
things that men had done first these are still relevant concerns,
and one of my favorite quotes from her it's pretty simple,
but to me, it pretty much sums up Amelia Earhart
that flying may not be all plane sailing, but the
fun of it is worth the price. And she was
never walking into any of these flights thinking that it

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wouldn't all be fine, you know, she she knew it
was dangerous when she undertook that last flight. She knew
it was dangerous when she took her other flights. She'd
even crashed a plane before, I believe with Nita Snook.
But she wanted to do in any ways because it
was worth it to her exactly. And I think that's
important advice to live by for sure. All Right. So

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those were some interesting theories presented by Katie and Candice,
some more likely than others. Perhaps there was the Japanese
spy theory. The Tokyo Rose thing, how ameliaire Heart might
have faked her own death was another one, and then
the crash and sink theory of course. But the new
clues that have emerged this year have mostly to do

(25:47):
with one of the two theories that they mentioned at
the very end, ones that seemed to have more evidence
behind them, the one proposed by the International Group for
Historic Aircraft Recovery, the group that's doing the tradition to
find air hearts Lockheed Electra Plane this summer um. That's
the one that we're going to focus on in particular,
And as we just learned, the researchers with this group,

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the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery believed that air
Heart and Noonan came down on the uninhabited island of Nukamororro,
which was formerly Gardner Island in the Southwestern Pacific, and
they lived as castaways on this island until they died.
That's what this group believes. Yeah, And they recently this
came out around the time of the expedition announcement, turned

(26:30):
up an enhanced photo of that island shoreline taken by
a British soldier in October nine that really does show
what looks like part of a plane sticking out of
the water just off the shore. And the group has
also done nine archaeological excavations on the island over the
past few years, and some of the thus far inconclusive

(26:51):
evidence that they've turned up include bone fragments and fecal
matter too. I talk a little bit about that and
on that blog that I mentioned from last year. More recently,
this June, they announced that they discovered a small jar
that's almost identical to jars that were once used for
Dr Berry's freckle ointment, which was a product that was
available and popular in the nineteen thirties. And the executive

(27:15):
director of this group of Gillespie has pointed out that
Earhart had freckles and was really self conscious about them,
so this could be a potential clue in the mystery.
Although isn't it sad to think that Amelia Earhart, this
amazing woman, was self conscious about her freckles. They seemed
so much a part of her. Yeah, well, we're all human,
like Katie and Caniser saying she was in the public

(27:35):
spote a lot. So they had also found pieces of
a compact a zipper that was manufactured in the nineteen thirties,
and a bottle of hand lotion that was analyzed chemically
and matches Compona Italian bomb, which was also popular in
the nineteen thirties. So some clues the point to a
woman of air Hearts era having been in the vicinity. Yeah,

(27:58):
or so they think, Yeah, it certainly seems that way.
And they often found a bone handled pocket knife that's
pretty similar to one air Heart had been known to
carry through a really personal clue to not something that's
just mass manufactured. So those are some of the recent
finds that have come to life. And the other new
piece of information that's come out regarding air Heart's death

(28:18):
has to do with those radio signals. Katie and Candace
discussed them a little bit, that we're floating around right
after air hearts last confirmed in flight radio transmission. Yeah,
there were actually dozens of radio transmissions detected in the
hours after that last in flight message, and people knew
about them at the time. I mean, they were in
the news, they were in the headlines. But according to

(28:40):
Discovery News, when the official search for air Heart noon
and failed uh mid July of that year, around July eighth,
I think these transmissions were basically dismissed as being focus
and there were about a hundred and twenty of those
signals total that were alleged to have been from air Heart. Now, though,
a news study released by the International Group for Historic

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Aircraft Recovery suggests that fifty seven out of those signals
are actually credible transmissions from ear Heart, and they determined
this by analyzing the reports of the signals using technology
that wasn't available at the time, like digitized information management
systems and ten of modeling software and radio wave propagation

(29:21):
analysis programs. So this fine is pretty significant, not just
because it shows that air Heart was trying to communicate
for some time after a plane went down. But if
it's accurate, it also proves that her plane had to
be on land and on its wheels were at least
a few days after she disappeared, because that's the only
way she would have been able to safely send these signals,

(29:43):
so no immediate crash and sync. Yeah. But the reason
we should explain a little bit why they know that
she would have had to be on dry land because
she would have needed to run the engine to recharge
the batteries to send those multiple transmissions. So that's how
they know that. But the possibilities with this particular theory
just seem to be getting stronger and stronger, don't you think.

(30:05):
I mean, they've come up with a lot of clues
with these nine excavations, the scientific analysis sort of things,
and um, it sounds like a whole picture is emerging.
So it'll be interesting to see what this expedition comes
up with this year, and maybe they'll actually solve the
mystery once and for all. Maybe we'll have a little scenario. Yeah,
maybe it was going to be like our our Lizzie

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to create a whole entirely new episode if we find
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