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Several years ago, I started hearing about a man making his way through the Amelia Earhart/Fred Noonan disappearance case. What caught my attention wasnât just his researchâit was the way his name kept coming up.
From the moment I became involved in this story, Iâve been drawn to the lesser-known nuances that make up the towering mystery of Amelia Earhart. As I got to know people in the field, one name surfaced repeatedly. No matter the theory, no matter the angle, everyone seemed to be talking about the same guy. Heâs written books, published papers, and contributed to nearly every version of this storyâincluding his appearance on Vanished: Amelia Earhart, where he explored a well-known collection of bones discovered on Nikumaroro. That discovery, made by British colonial officer Gerald Gallagher, remains one of the most hotly debated pieces of evidence in this case. Were those bones the final remains of Amelia and Fred, stranded castaways on a remote Pacific island? Or is the truth something else entirely?
When I looked into his work, I immediately understood why he was so widely respected. He doesnât care about being right. He thinks bigger. His neutrality has allowed him to move freely across this story, collaborating with some of the most prominent figures in the investigationâpeople who sit in opposing camps, defending starkly different theories.
How does someone do that? How do you keep an open mind in a case that seems determined to pull you down an endless rabbit hole? Tonight, we find out. Itâs time to open your ears and your mind. Weâre making stops on Nikumaroro, Orona, and Bukaâby way of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Kenton Spading.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on TwitterSHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGA Lost Sailor or Amelia Earhart? Lost Norwich City Crewmen: Potential Sources of the Human Remains Discovered on Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro Island) in 1940 @ Academia.eduSt. Paul employee part of team searching for Amelia Earhart @ US Army Corps of EngineersNull Hypothesis @ WikipediaAmelia Earhart's Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved? @ AmazonVanished: Amelia Earhart "Left for Dead" (Part Two) @ SpotifyThe Chater Report @ TIGHAR's Official Website -
If youâve ever heard me guest on other podcasts or in media of any kind, youâve heard the story of how this podcast all started for me. But just in case you havenât, here it is. The Chasing Earhart project (which this podcast is a part of) officially launched in 2017. But nine years before that, I started what I often refer to as the pre-research phase - a part of the project that lasted a little bit longer than the time weâve been public. During that time, I made a list of 25 original guests that I felt I needed to convince to come on board and help me tell the most robust version of this story that, at that time, I felt I could. When we decided to go public, I began sending out emails, making cold calls and trying to pull strings as a nobody with no experience and no recognizability in relation to the case.
I contacted everyone on my list with basically the same request. Come on my show, talk to me about your research and give me an opportunity to give you a platform that I felt would end up being unique once we gained some traction. Of all the people I reached out to, perhaps one man stood out more than most when it came to his approach and his notoriety in the case. Heâs a decorated archaeologist with one of the most impressive resumes that Iâve ever seen. And we had a connection through the University of California Riverside, from which he earned his PhD in anthropology in 1976. In his teens, he organized the Society for California Archaeology and heâs the former senior Archaeologist for the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, better known to this audience by its famous acronym TIGHAR.
Heâs authored countless papers, written a pair of books - both fiction and non fiction and is perhaps the most well versed authority on the island of Nikumaroro. He was also the very first guest I ever featured on this podcast, over seven years ago. When I reached out to him initially, I remember telling my wife that weâd likely never hear back. After all, what business did someone like me have, in having a conversation with a man of his stature for a case I was so fascinated by? To my surprise, he said yes and we went on to have what is still the most listened to episode of this entire podcast.
Since then, heâs gone on to guest on the show a couple more times, and he was also the first guest I asked to appear on our Chasing Earhart Discussion panel in Atchison, Kansas in 2018. When I came calling again for Vanished, he was in, and he gave some of the most important testimony that, that series has ever seen. I owe a lot to him. And tonight, after six years away from the show, heâs returned to catch up with me in what Iâm referring to as a career retrospective when it comes to his involvement in the Amelia Earhart/Fred Noonan disappearance case. I didnât know it when I started this rebrand 25 episodes ago, but coming full circle has become a dominating theme throughout. Tonight, in perhaps one of the most special conversations Iâve had on this show, I welcome him back into the fold to discuss his thoughts on castaway, and gain some surprising insight into his feelings on the case to be made for Nikumaroro. Heâs one of the most highly respected people in his industry and his name will forever be synonymous with Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Listen to the following conversation closely - youâre all about to learn something valuable. And I hope you take it to heart. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Silver Spring, Maryland, this is Dr. Tom King.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on TwitterSHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGDr. Tom King's CRM Plug Blog"The Continuing Search for Amelia Earhart: An Interview with Tom King" @ The Archaeology ChannelDr. Thomas King Lecture on Amelia Earhart Recorded November 11, 2009 @ Texas State UniversityAmelia Earhart Unrescued @ Amazon Amelia Earhart's Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved? @ AmazonThirteen Bones @ AmazonAmelia Earhart on Nikumaroro: A Summary of the Evidence @ Academia.orgChasing Earhart: The Discussion Panel @ Chasing Earhart on YouTubeCastaway: A Conversation with Dr. Tom King @ Chasing EarhartNiku IX Recap: A Conversation with Dr. Tom King & Andrew McKenna @ Chasing EarhartAmelia Earhart Unrescued: A Conversation with Dr. Tom King @ Chasing Earhart -
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In 2021, I had a conversation with brothers Mike and Robert Ashmore regarding a highly curious satellite image theyâd discovered in a lagoon on an island thatâs gotten a lot of play in this Earhart investigation over the years. Itâs been some time since that interview and the wheels of this case turn slowlyâŠâŠbut they do turn.
Tonight, in a follow up to that episode, I welcome a man that has been on my radar for years, and over those years, weâve talked off and on about him being a project guest but we wanted to wait until just the right moment for him to make his debut. Fortunately, now is that moment, and we owe it to that conversation with the Ashmore brothers from over 3 years ago. That satellite image they stumbled across? Now has a name and a true blue expedition out to Nikumaroro to investigate it. Itâs called the Taraia object.
Heâs been named dropped for years by multiple guests. Tonight, one of the most decorated archeologists we've ever had on the show makes his Chasing Earhart debut to discuss a brand new expedition out to a very familiar place with an entirely new goal.
This case has a way of bringing things full circle, and boy are we completing one of those tonight.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Eugene Oregon by way of the Archeology Channel, this is Dr. Richard Pettigrew.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on TwitterSHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGThe Taraia Object: Amelia Earhartâs Aircraft? Official Expedition WebsiteThe Archaeology Channel's Official Website"New Expedition Hopes to Find Amelia Earhart's Plane" @ Inside Edition on YouTube"Oregon archaeologist to embark on expedition to find Amelia Earhartâs long-lost plane" @ The NY PostHeritage Broadcasting's Official Website"The Last Flight: Local Organization Searching for Amelia Earhart" @ KLCC"The Continuing Search for Amelia Earhart: An Interview with Tom King" @ The Archaeology Channel"The Road to Amelia: A Conversation with Mike & Robert Ashmore" @ Chasing EarhartRECON Offshore's Official WebsiteAerial Tour of Nikumaroro @ TIGHAR's YouTube ChannelLost & Found - 1938 Nikumaroro New Zealand Images @ TIGHAR's Official Website -
If youâve ever attended the annual Amelia Earhart festival in Atchison Kansas, then you're familiar with an event thatâs been a staple of that weekend every year since its inception. Itâs called Breakfast with the Books. An event that brings Amelia Earhart authors to the town where the legend began to present their stories and discuss AEâs enduring legacy. A couple of years ago, while I was holding my event for Rabbit Hole, my next guest was there as a featured author for Breakfast with the Books in presentation of a story that weâll be discussing tonight.
Sheâs crafted one of the most clever ideas for a work of fiction that Iâve ever read and if youâre an Amelia Earhart fan, youâll be absolutely thrilled at the way itâs presented and the attention sheâs paid to all the little details that have helped make Earhartâs legend grow for almost 90 years.
If youâve ever wondered what it would be like for Amelia Earhart to meet Nancy Drew or Clue, get ready, because this is a mystery within a mystery, and itâs set in one of the most iconic Earhart landmarks in the entire world. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Kristin Gray and The Amelia Six.
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In August of 2017, I helped introduce the world to a man that had been quietly working on an idea that could blow the wheels off the Amelia Earhart/Fred Noonan story. Heâd recently put out a book via the Paragon Agency called Tracking Amelia Earhart: Her Flightpath to the End. I happened to know the publisher of that book, Doug Westfall, who Iâd met just a few months earlier and it was at that meeting that I first learned of tonightâs guest.
Once I got his number, I gave him a call, and then I read that book. There arenât too many moments in this whole thing that I can remember my exact thoughts at an exact point in time. But this one? I know because I wrote it down. A singular question. And here it is. âWhy doesnât everybody know about this?!â
At the end of tonight, youâll know two things. One - we have an aircraft off the coast of Buka, sitting a little over 100 feet down with a remarkable set of similarities to the holy grail of aviation. Thatâs a fact. And itâs inescapable now. And two - weâre gonna go get it. And in doing so, weâre going to mount the most incredible cross theory expedition this case has ever seen. They do say it takes a village.
Youâve heard from everyone around him, some of the key names involved in Buka III, and youâve even heard from some detractors whoâve certainly shared their skepticism on whatâs become a very curious wreck site in an area of the world that nobody had ever looked in, until he started looking over 15 years ago.
We have a plane to catch.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Salisbury, Maryland, this is Bill Snavely.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on TwitterSHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGProject Blue Angel's Official Website (Updating Soon!)Tracking Amelia Earhart: Her Flightpath to the End @ Specialbooks.comLost in Flight: Amelia Earhart Giving Cover as a Decoy for a Spy Plane @ Specialbooks.comTracking Amelia Earhart: Her Flightpath to the End @ Chasing EarhartBuka III: Bill Snavely, Chris Williamson & the Dependable Engines Association @ Chasing EarhartThe BEA Official Website -
Nearly a year ago, the Amelia Earhart story was rocked by a mysterious and compelling sonar image produced by ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision. The suspiciously plane-shaped image taken in an area out in the Pacific near Howland Island, rattled the case to its core, and forced a full investigative stop while the world anxiously awaited a confirmation.
As history was potentially unfolding, I welcomed Deep Sea Visionâs CEO, Tony Romeo to the podcast in his Chasing Earhart debut - and we discussed the possibility of his find being the beginning of the end for the Amelia Earhart/Fred Noonan disappearance case.
Well, you know how that goes.
Tonight, 10 months after that episode was recorded, Tony returns to look back in retrospect on that conversation, and discuss the most recent developments in the deep ocean search for the holy grail of aviation. You know, people say this case is cursed. You think thereâs something to that?
Just when you think the investigation may be over, it throws us yet another curve ball and puts us all right back where we were before.
The plot thickens, indeed. Letâs get to work. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. Fresh back from deep in the Pacific Ocean, this is Tony Romeo.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGIs This Amelia Earhartâs Long-Lost Plane? @ The Wall Street JournalDeep Sea Vison's Official WebsiteOcean exploration company's possible proof of Amelia Earhart's wrecked plane nearly vanished: report @ Fox NewsResearchers Thought They Found Amelia Earhartâs Missing Plane. It Turned Out to Be a Plane-Shaped Pile of Rocks @ Smithsonian MagazineThe Beginning of the End: A Conversation with Tony Romeo @ Chasing Earhart -
Weâve all been on a pretty incredible run lately. This little rebrand idea for the show I had about a year ago, was only supposed to be a couple of new episodes. Never in a million years did I think weâd still be going with more debuts, returning guests and new revelations. The last year has been one of the most tumultuous years in the history of this Earhart game and Iâve learned that in this story, the twists and turns are never over.
There are very few people whom I consider to be giants in this case. And tonightâs guest is certainly no exception. Heâs got dual masterâs degrees in marine science and ocean engineering with a year of his education coming courtesy of Purdue University, interestingly enough and heâs used those degrees to go on to create perhaps the most impressive resume ocean exploration has ever seen.
He worked with Jacque Cousteau on the search for the world famous Calypso, and was the operations manager for Bob Ballardâs historic Titanic discovery. And in 1999, he was also instrumental in the discovery of the Dakar - an Israeli submarine that had been missing without explanation for decades. Incidentally, that was the same year that Dana Timmer led the first deep ocean expedition in an attempt to locate Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonanâs lost Electra which at that time, had been missing for 62 years. When they say it canât be done - when they say itâs impossible, Tom Dettweiler says, âwell, weâll just see about that.â
6 years after his debut on the show, he returns to us now to discuss the status of the white hot deep ocean search for Earhart & Noonan, the state of the case as a whole and to give us all a much needed dose of his legendary eternal optimism. And we could all use some of that right now. Fresh back from the Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, thisâŠ.is Tom Dettweiler.
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SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGTom Dettweiler at the Official Website for the film, DAKARTom Dettweiler on LinkedInNauticos Official Website -
The longer this rebrand goes, the more I continue to be surprised. Years ago, I reached out to a man that was a part of my original 25. Heâs perhaps the most well known name in the entire Earhart case. Some people also consider him to be a bit of a polarizing figure. When I reached out, I was a nobody - I had no contacts, no experience except my own handful of years in pre-research and I had no expectations about receiving a response. To my surprise, he reached right back out and we began a dialogue.
Weâve had our differences over the years, but to his credit, and my surprise, heâs now returned to the show after a 6 year hiatus to discuss the case for the castaway hypothesis, and his new book that is being discussed as his swan song to the Amelia Earhart story. This is a sentence I thought Iâd never utter on this show again.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From TIGHAR HQ in Oxford PA, this is Ric Gillespie.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook GroupSHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGOne More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy @ AmazonFinding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance @ AmazonTIGHAR's Official WebsiteThe Post - Loss Radio Signals @ TIGHAR's Official WebsiteThe Radio Logs of the USCG Itasca @ TIGHAR's Official WebsiteHave We Really Found Amelia Earhart's Bones? @ The GuardianDid Amelia Earhart land on Gardner Island? TIGHAR explains hypothesis in-depth | LiveNOW from FOX @ YouTubeFinding Amelia with Hard Facts and Sound Science - Ric Gillespie at NEAM @ YouTubePost Loss Radio: A Conversation with Ric Gillespie @ Chasing Earhart -
Over 15 years ago now, I sat down to make a list of dream participants for what would become the Chasing Earhart project. I came up with a list of 25 names and on that list was a man whoâs been associated with the search for Amelia Earhart since the first deep ocean expedition for her took place in 1999. In fact, heâs the man who led that search almost 25 years ago. In that time, every search that's included the pacific ocean near Howland, has come calling - requesting consultation on their efforts in the potential discovery of the holy grail of aviation. Heâs a pilot, navigator, sailor and adventurer. And heâs a giant in the story of the search for two missing aviators, lost to history.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Mission Bay San Diego, this is Dana Timmer.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook GroupSHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGThis man is asking for $2 million on Kickstarter to Find Amelia Earhartâs Plane @ The VergeAn Exploration Team Believes They Found Amelia Earhartâs Missing Plane. Hereâs Why @ Amelia Earhart's Official WebsiteShip of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea @ Amazon -
In 2014, as this project was in pre-research, the world was fixated on an around the world flight that dominated the media and much of the aviation related conversation that year. Chief among the many reasons why was the pilot - a woman who shares a namesake with the biggest aviation icon to ever fly the skies.
On July 11th, 2014 Amelia Rose Earhart completed her world flight without incident and touched down on the same runway in Oakland, Ca where her namesake departed 77 years earlier.
In many ways, Amelia Mary Earhart got her second chance and returned home that day. Itâs been 10 years since that historic world flight, and tonight an absolute force for aviation enters the conversation with a literal one in a million perspective. A woman that shares so many parallels, youâll swear youâre hearing from a modern day counterpart for the biggest aviation icon of all time.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Amelia Rose Earhart.
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One of my very favorite parts of the rebrand for this show has been the flood of new voices that weâve been able to bring into the ongoing conversation regarding the life, legacy and disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Over the years, a lot of attention has been paid to AEâs upbringing in Atchison, Kansas - and for good reason. Every year, thousands and thousands of visitors flock to the beautiful Earhart home positioned on the Missouri River that served as home base during Ameliaâs early years.
If Atchison helped form Amelia, the girl, then 76 Brooks Street in West Medford Massachusetts, helped form Amelia the legend. And that is where tonightâs guest enters the chase.
For over 15 years now, Margie Arnold has been studying the life and legacy of Amelia Earhart with a recent particular interest in the home AE was living in, when her life and aviation history changed forever. Tonight, we shine the spotlight on a period of Ameliaâs life that will shape how youâll see her, in more ways than one.
Youâre all about to take part in a master class on the legacy of Amelia Earhart in one of the most passionate debuts this show has ever seen.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Margie Arnold.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook GroupSHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGAmelia Earhart & the Denison House @ The Social Welfare History Project Amelia Earhart got her flying start in Medford @ ItemLiveAmelia Earhart and the mayor of Medford @ Universal HubTrophy, City of Medford, Amelia Earhart @ Air & SpaceThe Amelia Earhart Murial @ Medford Arts CouncilAround Quincy, aviator Amelia Earhart was just 'Miss Amelia' @ The State Journal Register -
âIt is interesting to note that because of Earhart and Noonanâs particular course, they did cross local midnight on their flight path causing the local date to move forward one day and, for several hours, the pair was alive on July 3rd â one day after they officially disappeared.â
Over the last few months of recording this show, Iâve started hearing from dozens of people either by email or by phone that have all been asking me to check out a blog thatâs flown under the radar of constant Earhart sites I scour on a regular basis. Old school pilots, navigators, HAM radio operators, people with extensive military and government backgrounds have all emailed, called, and praised her work and her approach. Now tonight, sheâs finally arrived. Her name is Liz Smith. Remember that name. Because after tonight, youâll never forget it. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Liz Smith.
LINKSOur Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTokVanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion GroupChasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook GroupSHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGLiz Smith's Date Line Theory BlogLiz Smith @ LinkedIn Liz Smith @ Nautilus LiveMarine Robotics Company Hopes It Has Solved Amelia Earhart Mystery @ AirOnlineAmelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved by Elgen & Marie Long @ Amazon -
You know, anytime I get the chance to sit down and record another conversation for this show, I consider it an honor. I try to never forget why Iâm doing this. The reasons are very important to me.
In all the conversations weâve had for this show, weâve only ever had one of Ameliaâs family members as a guest - that was back in 2018 when Amy Kleppner - daughter of Muriel Earhart Morrissey and the niece of Amelia Earhart appeared on the show to talk about the incredible lives of both Amelia and her sister Muriel. Tonight, Iâm proud to say that another of Ameliaâs family has finally arrived.
Bram Kleppner is Amelia Earhartâs great nephew and heâs also become the spokesperson for the Earhart familyâs position when it comes to everything from Ameliaâs legacy to the many disappearance theories that often crop up in the news - most recently, the potential discovery of the worldâs most famous missing aircraft by Tony Romeo and Deep Sea Vision.
One of the most asked questions I get is for me to speculate on how AEâs family might feel about a given story, idea or piece of information.
Well, why hear it from me? Iâve got a better idea. This is Bram Kleppner.
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About 2 years ago, my book Rabbit Hole: The Vanishing of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan was released, and I could only think of one place to launch it - Atchison Kansas, during the Amelia Earhart festival. It remains as one of my very favorite moments of this entire crazy ride. I knew then, that a deep ocean search was about to take place somewhere off the coast of Howland island - a destination that has now become both ground zero for crash and sink, and this investigation as a whole. While we were there, we met tonightâs guest.
Two weeks ago, Deep Sea Vision, and its CEO Tony Romeo produced a sonar image of what appears to be a mysterious object 16,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific - and that image has the entire planet talking.
Tonight, in a conversation that will rattle this story to its core, Tony makes his Chasing Earhart debut to discuss crash and sink, the legacy of Amelia Earhart and a piece of evidence that could spell the beginning of the end for this story and stop the chase, forever.
The wait is over. The time is now. Welcome back to the Chasing Earhart podcast. This is Tony Romeo.
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Of all the people Iâve met during my experience running the Chasing Earhart project, there is one person that you may be surprised to know has never been on this show, despite how close weâve become over the years. Weâre about to right that wrong, right now.
In 2019, when I reached out to her, she had no iron in this fire, and very little knowledge on just how big this story had become. But she dove head first into it anyway, working alongside me on a project that would become the foundational season for our show, Vanished. Listeners of that show will be very familiar with whoâs about to enter the chat. And if youâve never heard her before, get ready. Because Jennifer Taylor is about to hit you - HARD.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Jen Taylor.
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Several years ago, during the first season of Vanished, I met a historian and researcher out of the UK that immediately caught my interest. Tonight, youâll see why. Weâve got a very kindred fascination and love for the Earhart story, and some of the behind the scenes work heâs been quietly doing is the exact representation of what historical research should look like.
Chris Hare is a digger. And tonight, weâre all about to get a lesson on how a modern day researcher investigates a monster of a case. Hereâs a little tease. It begins, like all things with, how you see it.
Tonight, weâre across the pond in the UK. And weâre bringing the bombshells. This is Chris Hare.
LINKS Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook Group
SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGLetter from P. V. H. Weems to Amelia Earhart Offering Navigational Instruction @ The SmithsonianThe Chater Report @ TIGHAR's Website Kelly Johnson @ Linda Hall Library Professor Dame Sue Black @ St. John's College Oxford The Cross/Wright Report: The Nikumaroro bones identification controversy: First-hand examination versus evaluation by proxy â Amelia Earhart found or still missing?The Jantz Report: Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones: A 1941 Analysis versus Modern Quantitative TechniquesEarhart and the French Connection @ Mike Campbell's Blog -
Jill Meyers is a public speaker, mentor, aerospace engineer and so much more. You can learn more about her and tonight's conversation at:
LINKS & SHOW NOTESHer Official WebsiteJill Meyers on LinkedIn Jill Meyers on Instagram SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING'Katharine Wright Trophy Honors Jill Meyers, Aeronautical Engineer and Pilot' @ Flying Magazine's Official Website'AeroTime names latest Aviation Achievement Award recipient as Jill Meyers' @ AeroTime's Official WebsiteProject Blue Angel Trailer @ YouTube Jill's First Appearance on Chasing Earhart from 09/15/18Jill's Appearance on 'Rooted & Unwavering' from 12/08/23Vivaldi: The Four Seasons by Nadja Salerno @ Spotify -
For years, Iâve been discussing a dream expedition that would bring some of this case's brightest minds together in a collaboration that could rewrite history forever.
Sometimes, when youâre investigating a scene like the one unfolding in Buka, you get lucky enough to pull an ace. And boy have we ever got one for you tonight.
Dick Spink is one of my very favorite people in all the Earhart story. Heâs a real life Indiana Jones - a now retired high school teacher that has spent his time out of the classroom, running investigative trips all over the Marshall Islands. Heâs one of the most connected people in this entire story, the face of Historyâs Lost Evidence, among many others, and one of the loudest voices in the room when it comes to the Japanese Capture Hypothesis.
But what you donât know is, since they originally met in 2018, Dick Spink and Bill Snavely have been talking.
Weâve been name dropping his involvement for months. Now, tonight, he makes it Official.
This, is Dick Spink.
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SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGAmelia Earhart Mystery May Have New Clue In Never-Before-Seen Photo @ YouTube -
If you know me, you know how much I adore the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison Kansas. Itâs a place thatâs special to me for many reasons.
Back in 2017, my wife and I brought our production for the Chasing Earhart documentary there, and we were welcomed with open arms. So much so, that we were allowed to shoot over 20 interview segments there over the course of that yearâs Amelia Earhart Festival.
At the time, the museum was in the shadow of its recently retired director and caretaker Lousie Foudary, for whom tonightâs conversation is lovingly dedicated.
Six years later, I have the honor of sitting down with Executive Director for the museum Heather Roesch, who in my opinion, is doing a wonderful job of carrying the legacies of not one woman, but two.
Tonight is a conversation 6 years in the making. This is Heather Roesch of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum.
LINKSThe AEBM Official Website The AEBM on Facebook The AEBM on TikTok The AEBM on Instagram Amelia Earhart Stories Podcast @ Spotify SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READINGCould Earhart be Interred in her Birthplaceâs Cellar? @ Mike Campbell's Blog -
You know whatâs really wild?
You never know when to stop pursuing something. When it seems hopeless - sometimes, you get a hand from a source you never dreamed possible. The following audio is only possible because of the folks over at Pratt & Whitneyâs Dependable Engines Association who were kind enough to invite project guest Bill Snavely to discuss the latest discoveries out at Buka - and a mysterious crash site thatâs become the center of the Amelia Earhart Investigation.
Youâve been asking me for years. Now, in a very special episode of the show, all that was discovered during Buka 2 is finally revealed.
This is myself and Bill Snavely in a conversation with Pratt & Whitneyâs Dependable Engines Association.
LINKSPratt & Whitney's Official Website
SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING Lost In Flight: Amelia Earhart, Giving Cover as a Decoy for a Spy Plane @ Special Books Tracking Amelia Earhart: Her Flightpath to the End @ Special BooksRabbit Hole: The Vanishing of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan @ AmazonChasing Earhart: The Discussion Panel @ YouTube Project Blue Angel Trailer @ YouTube - Montre plus
