The Odd Vanishing of Amelia Earhart

possible radio transmissions from Earhart, all of which coincided with low tide on that island, a time when the plane's radio was perhaps not underwater, and was possibly working. A teenage girl named Betty Klenck claims that over her shortwave radio she heard a female voice saying, quote, "This is Amelia Earhart, help me," end quote, and she also heard the female voice arguing with a disoriented male voice . She also claimed to have heard her, quote: "The water is up to my knees, let me out," end of quote. - Good. - A little on the nose, there. - Yeah. - I mean, I guess if your radio isn't working properly, you might want to get it straight. - You're not going to say: "The story is from 1937. "I landed on an island..." - "Let me tell you a story "that you won't soon forget." - You have one... - "I'm being eaten alive by 'the crabs' right now." - Klenck listened to the voice in fragments for three hours and recorded what he heard in a notebook.

Klenck's father reported his daughter's findings to the The Coast Guard, which did not appear to take the claim seriously, as there were reports of dozens of messages supposedly from Earhart heard around the world in the days following her disappearance. In 1991, Gillespie found a partial rubber shoe sole. on the. island, stamped with the words Cat's Paw Rubber Company, USA. The sole was the same type of shoe seen on Earhart in a photograph taken in Indonesia shortly before her disappearance. However, the sole belongs to. a size nine shoe. They've been too big for Earhart. - What the hell?

Man, come on. - That's just you. - It's stupid. - For a second, I saw you cheer up, too. Riveted aircraft aluminum approximately 19 by 23 inches in Nikumaroro. TIGHAR believes it's Earhart's Electra, specifically a bright patch near her tail. Although Elgen Long, the first aviator to fly around the world over both poles and Earhart researcher/author, says the piece in question is definitely not from Earhart's plane. Other experts, including a Lockheed employee who had worked on Earhart's plane, came to the same conclusion, according to Long. Even more damning to the theory that Earhart was marooned on this island was the fact that Navy planes flew over Nikumaroro Island on July 9, a week after Earhart disappeared, and saw nothing. - Personally, I love the island theory.

I wish it were true because I like the danger of it. I like drama. - I think you like the crabs to eat it. - I love the idea of ​​someone being eaten by crabs. -There he is. - I like how you tried to sugarcoat it. - Yes. - And he went immediately to the core of what he knew you would find interesting. - There is something truly disgusting and frightening about it. - The third theory, advocated by Rollin C. Reineck, a retired US Air Force colonel, is that Earhart was in cahoots with the US government and was in fact a spy.

Reineck posits that Earhart had a plan B: if he couldn't find Howland Island, he would abandon his plane near the Marshall Islands, which are only 800 miles from Howland Island. That way, the United States government could conduct reconnaissance in the Marshall Islands, which at the time were occupied by Japan, under the pretext of searching for Earhart. This idea is corroborated by the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands who for decades have said that they witnessed the crash of Earhart's plane on his island. However, the plan went awry when the Japanese intercepted Earhart and Noonan and captured them, releasing them years later after the war.

Earhart and Noonan then returned to live their lives in the United States under assumed names. Some believe that Amelia Earhart moved to New Jersey and changed her name to Irene Craigmile, although she married and became Irene Bolam. However, this theory seems unlikely, at least if you consider that Earhart is actually Irene Bolam, since Bolam sued the publisher of a book that she shared this speculation. Furthermore, according to TIGHAR, the resemblance is not that strong. Comparing photos of Earhart with photos of Bolam taken four decades apart proved nothing. Anyway, Irene Bolam passed away in 1982. - This is nonsense. - It's pretty stupid. - Can you imagine if someone accused you of being Amelia Earhart? "You are her, I know it!" - Yes, I don't know. - I'll tell the world! - I love the idea of ​​the government saying, "Land in this area so we can do 'a little reconnaissance.'" Another version of this theory is that after being captured in the Marshall Islands, Earhart and Noonan were eventually executed.

An Army sergeant named Thomas E. Devine claimed that in July 1944 he encountered a group of US Marines guarding a hangar containing Earhart's Electra, on the formerly Japanese-occupied island of Saipan, which had been liberated. Recently, soldiers destroyed the plane. A photograph showing Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan obscured on a dock in the Marshall Islands is believed to have been found in the National Archives by a retired government researcher named Les Kinney. successful and distinguished. and he probably knows what he's talking about. That photo looks like shit. So I don't care what he thinks of her. He might as well be looking at it like a Rorschach blot and saying, "That's your mother." I don't care what you think.

The expert is only as good as the material in front of him. - The photo was analyzed by several experts, who were optimistic that it was indeed the missing aviators. Unfortunately, this photo was quickly and apparently debunked when two bloggers found it in a Japanese book published in 1935, two years before Earhart disappeared. - So this photo could well have been taken in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's like, "Hey, here's a lady who looks like Amelia Earhart, in Idaho, "in 1946." - Photo aside, skeptics have pointed out that Earhart, given her fuel situation, wouldn't have made it to the Marshall Islands from anyway.

Among the skeptics are Elgen Long, former pilot, and Fred Patterson, World Airways pilot and Electras expert - So you're wasting everyone's time right now. What I'm saying is that it's not impossible that they overshot the island, sank, and then wherever they landed, even if it wasn't the Marshall Islands, they were picked up by a cargo ship or floated close enough to be picked up by a cargo ship. That doesn't seem crazy to me. - It seems like a fairy tale to me. - Okay, well, I'm just saying that I quite like this theory. - Okay, I'm glad you like it. - Which brings us to our fourth and final one. theory, that Earhart may have come into contact with extraterrestrial life forms, either by accident or knowingly, and in collusion with the United States government. - I don't even want to talk about that. - Because? - Because it's stupid. - Is it completely impossible that that happened? - No, because actually yes, you know, look, aliens are much more likely than ghosts. - It's true that this extraterrestrial theory is a bit of a tinfoil hat.

But a 1995 episode of Star Trek Voyager capitalized on the idea. So that's great. - Well. - I love that every time I ask you you can definitely say no. Which is the answer? Can you say definitely? - We don't need to go into that. - No, you said, answer the question. - They are crabs, they are crabs, they are crabs. - Can you definitely say that aliens had no part in Amelia Earhart's kidnapping? - No I can not. - There you go. In the end, many believe Earhart simply crashed and died on impact. But still, there is no way to know if any of these alternative theories could have occurred.

Until a plane or a body is discovered, Amelia Earhart's case will likely remain unsolved. (creepy music) You know what? I may be with you here. I think the crabs won, the aliens two, the crash three. - I bet the crabs built a little restaurant on the island called Joe's Amelia Shack. They probably ate for weeks. - Do you think they ate it with butter too? - Oh yeah. - Mmm, that's delicious. And then one of them said, "Oh, too human for me." "I don't really like it when it tastes too human." "I like it meatier." And they said, "Shut up, Fred." - She's too daring. - I'm sorry you don't have culture.

Was that morbid? - You know this is all morbid, right? - That's true, whatever. I'm sure a human with butter would taste pretty good. Where are you going? - I don't know. - Go to sleep, okay. - Well, it was aliens.