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 after 18 hours in the air 10,000 cheer

 the end of the epical flight as the lady

 Lindy slides into a perfect Landing

 first woman to fly the Pacific and the

 first person to fly it solo roses to

 Amelia and the prodcts of the world to a

 veteran of flights that have shown the

 way for Aviation progress It's her most

 brilliant chapter in a 16-year Aviation

 [Music]

 career only a short time ago Amil aart

 checked over every detail of her $80,000

 flying laboratory this was to have her

 greatest achievement a sky dash of

 28,000 Mi to awaiting world came news of

 disaster as the plane failed to reach

 tiny Howland Island in mid Pacific a

 British freighter the Coast Guard and

 the Navy sped to the search with 3,000

 men and 72 planes aboard races into the

 distant Pacific to join the greatest

 searching party in the history of

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 Aviation Joe Jervis is an exair Force

 Major who not only thinks Amelia flew a

 spy mission but that she survived it as

 well and I looked at her straight in the

 face and I knew who it was just like

 that a fantastic story which makes me

 out to be some kind of a mystery woman

 who is undoubtedly a media airart is

 utter nonsense

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 the great fathoms of our past have many

 Unexplained Mysteries that leave

 Scholars the public and everybody in

 between

 confused possibly one of the most recent

 examples and greatest examples of this

 is the harrowing Vanishing of Amelia

 airheart the woman who owned the

 skies 22,000 miles done and only 7,000

 wasn't to go before she could hold the

 title of the first female pilot to

 conquer the feat of circumnavigating

 Mother Earth she was so close that

 victory was

 palpable however somewhere in that 7,000

 M stretch between the islands off of

 Japan and the USA something happened and

 that something would mean the untimely

 end to ahart's Historic Journey many

 propose answers to to the question of

 aarts whereabouts yet none of these

 provide closure heay isn't fact as it

 seems did airheart crash land and get

 consumed by crabs on a remote island of

 the Pacific did her plane get shot down

 by the Japanese and the evidence was

 covered up did she land safe and sound

 and take a new name and assume a new

 identity to live out her older years

 outside of the Limelight did she get

 abducted by aliens did she ever actually

 take flight was she used as some sort of

 Pawn by the USA as a way to infiltrate

 the Marshall Islands of Japan so many

 questions and a stark lack of

 answers in this video I will be

 examining the historic life of Amelia

 arhart with a focus on her Infamous

 final voyage around the globe I will

 dive head first into the theories the

 conspiracies and most importantly the

 Des discrepancies regarding her

 Vanishing and I'll present it all to you

 in a way where you can draw your own

 conclusions because until evidence is

 found to support any one of these

 theories the Amelia airheart discrepancy

 will haunt aviators citizens and the

 histories for as long as we can continue

 to remember them so sit back grab some

 reesei species grab a cold Dr Pepper and

 get that tinf foil hat out of the closet

 you're going to need it in the end of

 the video and without further further

 Ado let's get into

 this Amelia Mary aart was born on July

 24th

 1897 to a loving family in Atcheson

 Kansas now I will not be going into her

 life story extensively her raising and

 all of that but I will be summarizing

 and glossing over the high points that

 lead up to this Grand circumnavigation

 of the world however I will link a

 fantastic documentary about ahart's

 Legacy and life in the description below

 and if you want all the details of her

 upbringing her family and everything

 about her career I recommend checking

 that video out but if you want the

 cliffnotes version of it and then a deep

 dive into the theories and the mysteries

 of her Vanishing this video is for

 you as a child aart was passionate about

 Adventure she took a Fierce and

 determined personality late into her

 teens and early 20s this eventually

 manifested in an interest in flying

 aircrafts before any of that though she

 entered the war effort in World War I

 and became a Red Cross nurses aid in

 Toronto Canada she started to spend her

 downtime watching the pilots of the

 royal flying Corps Train nearby her tth

 where she was a nurse she was

 immediately intrigued in January 1921

 she began flying lessons with a female

 instructor by the name of Nita

 snook after a few of these lessons

 Amelia aart was hooked she saved up

 money by working at a telephone company

 and eventually purchased her first

 airplane a Kenner airster $80,000 later

 in a few months passing by in 1921

 passed her flying test and received her

 National Aeronautics license and just

 like that a legend was in the making in

 1928 she would board a plane and become

 the first ever female passenger to cross

 the Atlantic Ocean by aircraft the years

 after that she was a passenger in that

 flight across the ocean she was

 determined to take the helm and fly

 herself into that achievement so in 1932

 aart became the first ever woman in

 history to make a nonstop solo

 transatlantic flight at this time her

 Fame was Rising quickly she was a

 household name and she was awarded the

 US distinguished flying cross

 essentially crowning her as the queen of

 the Skies aart was an icon and an

 inspiration for everybody everywhere but

 specifically the women everywhere she

 was a member of the National Women's

 party and she was a huge figurehead for

 equal rights she was an advisor on the

 Aeronautical Engineering platform at

 Purdue University an associate professor

 and a pilot herself she could do it all

 and if you were alive in the 20s and 30s

 you knew who Amelia aart was she also

 became very close friends with the first

 lady Eleanor Roosevelt as well as if her

 Fame couldn't be more

 widespread but all this Fame all this

 Limelight and prestige on the ground was

 just a byproduct of her actual

 overarching goal she loved what she was

 doing yes but just just like Billy Joel

 said don't you know that only fools are

 satisfied Emelia aarts wanted to fly

 where no one else had flown before a

 flight that would take her all the way

 around the globe circumnavigating the

 entire expanse of it this was the most

 impressive aeronautical feat possible

 and she knew that she could do

 it the first attempt

 some people might not know but aart and

 two crew members her Navigator and the

 radio operator Captain Harry Manning and

 the second Navigator Fred Nunan

 attempted circumnavigation before her

 famous disappearance on March 17th 1937

 air Harden crew set off from Oakland

 California to begin this flight around

 the world the first leg was flying from

 Oakland to Honolulu Hawaii and on the

 the flight there some technical

 difficulties and mechanical problems

 with the aircraft began to cause issues

 with the flight eventually leading

 airheart to touchdown on Luke's field in

 Pearl Harbor Hawaii what was wrong with

 aircraft was the propeller hubs they had

 seemingly come into some sort of issue

 and that's why they had touched down

 early 3 days later and after all those

 issues had been fixed the crew was set

 to take off and aim for a small island

 in the Pacific called Howland Island

 except this time aart never left the

 runway during the takeoff the forward

 section of landing gear collapsed

 causing the plane to essentially face

 plant on the runway both propellers

 smacking into the ground and dulling

 themselves the real cause of this crash

 is still not known as an absolute

 certainty many people actually debate if

 the landing gear even ever had a

 malfunction as some people believe the

 issue was piloting error others also

 believe the aircraft was sabotaged but

 whatever the case is the aircraft was

 severely damaged and the attempt to fly

 around the globe was called off air

 heart's craft was shipped to looh and

 Burbank for very extensive repairs and

 during the time for these repairs aart

 didn't just sit idly by she and her

 husband went on to secure the additional

 funds in preparation for a second

 attempt at circumnavigating the world

 and they were hopeful that this time

 they can make it more than 1th of the

 way through in an attempt to increase

 their odds seemingly the route was

 changed for this path this time they

 would be flying eastbound leaving from

 Miami which is the opposite side of the

 country from

 Oakland after nailing down this new

 flight pattern the previous skilled

 radio operator Captain Harry Manning

 refused to participate in this second

 attempt of circumnavigating the world

 due to all the issu isues that they

 faced on the first attempt this choice

 to sit this one out unknowingly saved

 his life and it also marks the first of

 many blunders made upon this journey but

 despite the loss of a great asset like

 Captain Harry Manning the flight would

 go on as scheduled and Amelia aart Fred

 Nan and the plane the Electra would take

 flight from Miami and attempt to go as

 far east as East

 goes the second and famous

 attempt on the fateful day of June 1st

 1937 aart left Miami Florida to begin

 the circumnavigation for a second time

 the first half of this excursion was

 very routine nothing went aai and the

 plane made numerous scheduled stops in

 other countries and continents South

 America Africa India southeast Asia and

 other places as well and from an outside

 perspective the flight was going good

 there was no news of new mechanical

 errors that was being reported and all

 the fuel stops were normal Airhart made

 it all the way to around the New Guinea

 area on June 29th 1937 she was just

 around 22,000 mil into this trip and had

 less than 7,000 left these last miles

 would take place over the most empty

 part of the earth though the dark watery

 expanse of the Pacific Ocean

 after a refueling period in New Guinea

 on July 2nd at 10: in the morning aart

 took to the sky with the intention of

 landing on Howland Island now if you

 remember the first attempt at

 circumnavigation saw air hard and crew

 fly West to Honolulu and then attempt

 this flight to Howen Island the second

 trip was the exact opposite way and had

 them flying East to Howland Island this

 is an important distinction to make

 because flying from New Guinea to

 Howland was longer than flying from

 Hawaii to Howland Howland Island itself

 is nothing remarkable by any stretch of

 the imagination the entire island is

 just 6,500 ft long and 1600 ft wide with

 nothing on it but a very very small

 airst Strip This is the largest problem

 that would arise on the last leg of the

 trip because it's very hard to spot

 these small little Islands from the sky

 where aart would be and if there was any

 fog CL clouds or storms it would make it

 that much more difficult these flying

 days over the Pacific Ocean were the

 most grueling parts of this trip with

 nothing underneath aart but blue abyss

 for Miles the distance from New Guinea

 to Howland was almost Max Capacity of

 her fuel tanks so she was pushing it to

 say the least essentially she had to

 land on Howland to refuel or she

 couldn't make it you couple that fact

 with the fact that they were looking for

 this extremely small piece of land in

 the middle of the ocean with little to

 no indicator lights on it or life to

 speak of and you get a recipe for

 disaster The

 Vanishing now aart was not fully alone

 in her voyage across No Man's Land

 because in preparation for her arrival

 to Howland Island the US Coast Guard

 sent the cutter named the USC GC itasa

 over to Howland Island to kind of act as

 a visual queue and a communication hub

 for aart and Nunan this way aart could

 bounce information to and from the

 vessel and kind of triangulate where

 Howland Island might be it's a good plan

 in theory right the cutter would talk to

 aart over the radio and transmit a radio

 homing signal from the ship that way she

 could locate the island now aboard the

 Electra that airart was flying there was

 an experimental piece of tech that could

 have helped her find where she was going

 it was essentially a frequency direction

 finder now this piece of tech was still

 in its testing phase but in theory it

 would use the radio waves from the ship

 on Howland Island that would ping

 towards it and it would ping them back

 to get a direction of where the airwaves

 came from except there were two problems

 one was that the tech is new and airart

 really didn't know how to use it well

 and two if you remember Captain Harry

 Manning the guy that left the crew after

 the first failed attempt he was the

 expert in operating this communication

 finder thing and since he wasn't on the

 crew anymore they didn't have the person

 that would use it in a most efficient

 way and so the confusion

 begins at around 300 p.m. Lae time aart

 reported to the cutter that her altitude

 was about 10,000 ft but since there was

 a thick block of clouds rolling in she

 was going to reduce her altitude to get

 better visuals on the island and the

 below 2 hours later at 5:00 p.m. she

 reported being 7,000 ft up and flying at

 150 knots at this point Nan and a

 heart's Transmissions to the ship by

 Howland Island were clear and nearly

 every word could be heard pretty easily

 however the responses from the ship to

 the plane were not clear aart allegedly

 was unable to hear voice Transmissions

 from the ship which implies that the

 aircraft's direction finding technology

 and communication technology just was

 not working correctly before these

 failed connections the communication was

 successful although some were broken by

 Static but in the evening when the ship

 couldn't get their voices across to

 airheart panic began to set in she was

 approaching Howland Island but they

 could not talk to her a radio man on the

 ship near Howland was famously quoted as

 saying he was quote sitting there

 sweating blood because I couldn't do a

 darn thing about it end quote more calls

 were coming in from aarts as the night

 turned into day and at 6:45 a.m. a

 location and bearing request was sent

 and aart estimated they were around 100

 miles out they did this through Morse

 code an hour later at 7:30 a.m. a radio

 log on the ship states that airart only

 had half an hour of fuel left and

 following up that log Another Log states

 that aart believed she was near the ship

 but she could not see it with her own

 eyes and if she was near the ship that

 she would have been near Howland Island

 in that same log she claimed that she

 was flying at just 1,000 ft for

 reference that is very low to fly and

 you would pretty easily be able to

 locate things with a naked eye from that

 distance aart and Nunan were searching

 desperately for the tiny island of

 Howland yet probably all she could see

 was

 ocean with all the other options failing

 airart sent a transmission at 7 758

 saying once again that she could not

 hear the ship and she asked for them to

 keep sending voice signals that way she

 could try to use their transmission

 finder and maybe locate where their

 direction is now this transmission at

 7:58 in the morning is reported to be

 the loudest and most clear transmission

 they got from aart indicating herself

 and Nunan were near and in the

 surrounding area somewhere since it was

 so clear and since Communications back

 to aart were troubled she asked again

 for morse code to be sent through using

 Morse code aart acknowledged that she

 was receiving the Transmissions from the

 ship but that she could not hear the

 ship themselves at this point airheart

 was losing fuel she was losing altitude

 and she was running out of time the very

 last Voice transmission received from

 aart indicated that herself and Nunan

 were flying along a line of position

 that ran north to south on 157 to

 337° this voice transmission would go

 down in infamy as the last official

 words ever spoken by Amelia aart on July

 2nd

 1937 after all contact ceased from aart

 and Howland Island many more attempts

 were made to try to contact the plane

 using Mor's code using voice

 Transmissions none of it was successful

 and thus the queen of the sky was lost

 and the Race Against Time to locate her

 had just

 begun the 87-year search effort

 the exact cause of the flight's failure

 and the malfunction of the equipment on

 board is not 100% known to this day no

 exact reason could ever be deduced until

 wreckage is found however I will be

 getting into many different thoughts and

 ideas and theories later in the last

 portion of the video so you want to

 stick around for that immediately after

 communication was lost between Howland

 Island and aart the US government

 investigated and began searching for

 aart and Nunan and the plane and

 everything at first rescue teams were

 pretty hopeful that they would simply

 find the plane floating in water with

 aart and Nan on the wings waiting for

 rescue after all most planes will float

 if landed properly with any skill or

 luck and aart was a skilled pilot but

 almost as soon as the search began just

 a few hours after Communications were

 lost nature Fury struck a Pacific Ocean

 storm began to ravage the area around

 Howland Island with high winds and rain

 and choppy sea all rolled into one

 making that immediate search effort

 halted around the time the storm was

 happening stray radio waves signaling

 SOS were picked up as far inland in the

 US as Wyoming several people writing

 down transcriptions of what they thought

 was Amelia Airhart begging and pleading

 for help hearing things like she was

 stuck in a coral reef or the Nan might

 have been injured these voice messages

 were heard by hundreds of people but

 most of them were thought to be fake

 it's unknown if these SOS signals were

 indeed a joke or if they were a heart's

 last plea before sinking under the waves

 despite the storms coming in

 approximately only 1 hour after Art's

 last recorded message the cutter that

 was near Howland Island began searching

 north and west of the island for

 wreckage combing miles and miles of

 waves in the process this immediate

 search was of course fruitless as

 nothing was located now the reason the

 North and the Western areas around the

 island were specifically targeted was

 because that is the general area where a

 heart's last Transmissions were thought

 to come from but even then no one could

 know for sure the US Navy began to send

 reinforcements to bolster the search and

 over the next 3 days ships and planes

 combed all around the islands and all

 around the airspace finding

 nothing the official search lasted until

 July 19th 1937 over $4 million was spent

 funding these searches which means that

 at the time it was the most expensive

 and intensive search effort in US

 military history a search this bigon

 never happened and despite all of that

 no physical evidence of aart or Nan or

 the plane could be found not a single

 shred of proof that she even went into

 the water July the 2nd was the day that

 aart allegedly crashed into the sea with

 Nan herself in the plane and for the

 next 17 full days is when that search I

 just talked about ensued nothing was

 found and the ocean had swallowed

 everything after this search was ended

 by the government and the military

 another search by Art's husband began

 immediately after this

 one putam who is erhart's husband

 financed a private search through these

 local Island authorities nearby who

 might have known the area better however

 nothing was found years later in 2003 a

 man named David Jordan used his own

 company nauticos to search a 1200 square

 mile radius north and west of Howland

 with a deep sea sonar device sending

 this device out and operating this

 device costed over $4.5 million

 and again no wreckage and no evidence

 was found and very recently this year in

 2024 a company out of South Carolina

 called Deep Sea Vision set out another

 search trying to find airheart or

 anything that could relate to The

 Disappearance deep sea vision is a

 company that controls these unmanned

 underwater vehicles to search for marine

 life and wreckage using Sonar they

 actually ended up finding what they

 claim to be the remains of an airplane

 on the ocean floor near Howland Island

 the object they found on Sonar is shaped

 like aarts playing the Electra and it

 was detected at 16,000 ft underwater the

 exact coordinates and location of this

 alleged wreckage is not been given to

 the public for obvious reasons because

 they're still looking into these

 findings before all information goes out

 but what the company has released is

 that the wreckage is within 100 miles of

 Howland Island more info was currently

 being attained by Deep Sea Vision to see

 if they actually had found the Electra

 which means that we might be very close

 to a

 breakthrough or

 not since that evidence is not concrete

 much speculation has been done and now I

 will dive into that speculation and the

 theories and conspiracies and

 discrepancies on what happened to aart

 and where she's

 at theories on where aart

 is as you might imagine the leading

 theory among the public as well as the

 experts surrounding the case is that

 Amelia airharts and crew crashed into

 the Pacific Ocean and sank to the bottom

 the theory states that the plane

 wreckage should be somewhere around

 Howland Island and this is supported by

 her last radio transmission coming to

 the Navy being the clearest it ever was

 as well as her estimated distance out

 from the island St she was close to the

 island this theory is really cut and

 clean and dry but it's also not without

 its Loose Ends if she did indeed crash

 near Howland why wasn't any evidence of

 her plane found in the very extensive

 search that happened just hours after

 they lost contact no oil slick no gear

 no metal no bodies nothing and for the

 next 80 years there was also nothing and

 when erhart's husband funded a

 expedition to find wreckage around the

 island nothing was found either even if

 this crew in 2024 from Deep Sea Vision

 did end up locating the wreckage 87

 years later how did it not happen

 sooner this was the biggest search done

 by the US military ever and I didn't

 find anything because of these flaws in

 this leading theory several conspiracies

 have been brought forward that might

 explain what happened I want to touch on

 all of them now in order of least

 outlandish to most outlandish and I want

 you in the comment section to tell me

 which one you believe happened the most

 popular conspiracy is called The

 Gardener Island hypothesis this Theory

 assumes that arhart and Nunan were

 unable to find Howland Island since it's

 so small so they flew South to look for

 other places to land on one of the other

 smaller Islands eventually finding

 Gardener Island which is now known as

 nikumaroro many people think that they

 might have crashed near here or on this

 island and swam ashore and there's

 actually minor bits of evidence to

 support this Theory as well many reports

 you find say that there was no evidence

 found on any searches of gardener Island

 that might lead to airart or newon being

 here at all but that's false because

 searches of the island have shown

 otherwise a week after Art's Vanishing

 the Navy flew over the island and cited

 that there was signs of recent

 habitation but there was no downplay no

 smokes no oil slick or anything like

 that and because of this the island was

 not searched but years later searches of

 the island turned up some interesting

 clues in 1940 around 3 years after air

 heart's Vanishing British Searchers were

 exploring the island of Garder and they

 ended up finding 13 pieces of skeletal

 remains they also found a piece of

 plexiglass that could have been from the

 Electra's window they also found a

 woman's shoe that dates to the 1930s as

 well as several improvised tools and a

 women's Cosmetics jar from the 30s as

 well the bones of course were the most

 interesting find and to be sure they

 might have been air Hearts they were

 shipped to Fiji for analysis and they

 were subsequently lost and I say lost in

 a loose sense of course because they

 very well might have actually been the

 remains of aart or Nunan and someone

 didn't want the public knowing about it

 but we truly never know as many of you

 know or have heard this Theory often has

 another darker more grotesque part to it

 you see nikaro is home to a species of

 giant coconut crab now these are land

 dwelling crabs that have been known to

 hunt and to kill large birds for food

 pretty regularly Charles Darwin himself

 declared these coconut crabs as

 monstrous they can regularly be longer

 than 3 ft which is massive

 they get the name coconut crab from

 their ability to rip open coconuts with

 their claws but as stated they do also

 eat birds as well as rats or mice

 anyways this Theory as it pertains to

 aart states that aart or Nan or both

 made it to the island after crashing

 nearby but they were too weak or too

 injured to move around too much or to do

 anything else to help themselves out so

 in their weakened State the coconut

 crabs slowly but surely began to Feast

 on them alive or not every inch of Flesh

 would have been picked clean by the

 ravenous crabs these things are

 everywhere on the island so it's not

 like it's just a freak accident and

 they're known to eat flesh all the time

 so it's not too

 outlandish of course this would leave

 the question where are the rest of the

 bones since only 13 were found and

 humans have way more than that the

 answer might lie in how coconut crabs

 actually strip carcasses for food you

 see they rip their prey into bits and

 chunks and then they take that piece

 back to their hole to Feast on they

 don't just do it in the open they take

 it all the way back to their layer these

 holes of course are underground and

 effectively act like Graves so if 10 or

 11 crabs tore different pieces of air

 heart off and took them back to their

 own respective holes in the ground to

 eat her later on over the next few weeks

 the bones of aart would have been

 underground and not visible to Searchers

 it would be as if the crabs dug the

 grave and then buried

 her in 2018 sniff dogs that were trained

 to find human bones and remains were

 sent to the island to search around for

 more than those 13 bones since the

 original bones were lost people were

 eager to see if there could be any more

 findings some people on that expedition

 claimed that the dogs did indeed sniff

 out possible bone locations but National

 I ographic has since refuted that claim

 in recent years because no physical

 evidence was found nevertheless the

 Gardner Island hypothesis has its merits

 whether it's the crabs whether it's not

 whether they just got marooned there and

 got kidnapped or whatever it would be a

 horrible way to go out another theory is

 the Japanese capture Theory and this

 assumes that aart and Nunan were

 captured by the Japanese forces because

 they flew into Japanese airspace or they

 could have crashed and were picked up by

 Japanese ships first interestingly

 enough a large number of aarts relatives

 actually believe that this is the case

 they think that the Japanese were

 involved because there were eyewitness

 encounters that arose from Japanese

 troops they claimed to see airh hard in

 custody those claims are unverifiable

 though and the leading problem with this

 theory is that the plane really didn't

 have enough fuel to make it into

 Japanese territory it would have needed

 hundreds more miles plus if they crashed

 Japanese found them first the Japanese

 would have had motivation to rescue them

 because aart was really famous and her

 journey was worldwide news and if she

 was rescued by the Japanese it would

 have branded them as Heroes to the world

 so that theory is slightly less likely

 in my opinion lastly and most bizarrely

 is the theory that the plane never went

 down but in fact erhart survived got

 back to the USA and took on an entire

 different identity

 in November of 2006 the National

 Geographic Channel aired an episode of

 undiscovered history that claimed that

 aart circumnavigated the world

 successfully but upon Landing changed

 her name remarried and assumed the

 identity of an Irene craigmile bolum

 this claim originates from a book called

 Amelia aart lives which is based on

 Research by Major Joseph Jas more on him

 in a second Irene Bolam was a woman born

 in 1904 and she was an investment banker

 that lived in New

 Jersey and in

 1965 Joseph Jus the author of the airart

 lives book was invited to speak at a

 retired Pilots Gathering since he

 himself was a major in the United States

 Air Force at this Gathering one of airh

 heart's friends was there named

 Viola Viola then introduced Jus to Mrs

 Irene Bolam upon glancing at her for one

 second Jas instantly felt that he

 recognized her in some way and then it

 clicked in his head that she looked like

 an older version of Amelia

 aart now 1965 was 30 years after aart

 went missing but to Jas this was an

 uncanny resemblance dvas claims that

 upon having a conversation with Bolam

 she said that she was a member of the

 99s and the zanta International Group

 which both were co-founded by arheart

 but after this event when Jas checked

 the rosters of these groups neither the

 99s or the Zant International Group

 showed an Irene Bolam as a

 member was this woman lying was she

 Amelia aart or did she just

 misspeak according to Jus this Irene

 bolum was also wearing pageantry that

 only only Amelia aart had and not

 herself the entire situation seemed off

 to him these strange happenings plus

 balm similarities physically to aart

 prompted Jas to dive into what might be

 going on here jvas would then dive

 deeply into research which would

 eventually promote to the book Amilia

 aart lives after this book was written

 and after all these things were

 researched Bolam took legal action and

 actually denied the claim publicly that

 she was Amelia aart but several

 discrepancies still loomed

 overhead if you take a picture of aart

 and you digitally age her up the 35ish

 years that would have passed between the

 wreckage and this meeting she looks

 remarkably similar to bolum now this

 study of age progression was done by

 Mike Streed the Orange County police

 department in Southern California Streed

 began with a photograph of when aart was

 37 and then merged features from older

 women and her own family to show what

 she might have looked like with an age

 Progressive photo at around 75 years old

 this image and a current image of bolum

 side by side are very uncanny and

 strange looking to say the least they

 share similar features like forehead

 ridges eyebrow ridges teeth gaps and

 overall facial structure all of this

 information was in jv's research and in

 the book aart lives and that is what

 caused Bolam to press charges against

 him in the book

 however these charges were thrown out

 when Bolam was asked to provide

 fingerprints in front of a judge to

 prove that she was not airheart to which

 she denied she refused to do these

 fingerprints which definitely leads to

 speculation why would she not simply

 provide fingerprints if she knew that

 she was not Amelia arhart it would be a

 very easy way to discredit all the

 claims that she was and even more

 mysteriously when Bolam died in 19 8 2

 she donated her body to science but left

 strict instructions that she was not to

 be fingerprinted or otherwise identified

 she was then cremated and her ashes were

 put in a common unmarked grave and on

 her death certificate her parents were

 listed as

 unknown and if you think that's crazy

 the theory doesn't even stop there

 because further investigation from

 javias and others turned up a secret

 meeting that occurred with aart and two

 of President FDR's principal advisers

 before she circumnavigated the

 globe this meeting was off the books

 completely secret completely private and

 it happened at the March Army Corp field

 in April of 1937 the two advisers were

 Bernard Baruch and chief Oscar Westover

 these two in airheart did this meeting

 at the Air Force Base and this meeting

 took place about 1 month after aart

 failed the first circumnavigating

 attempt now whatever happened happened

 in this meeting seemed to have big

 changes on a heart's plans you see

 because it was shortly after this

 meeting after April that Airhart decided

 to change her flight pattern and instead

 of going again the original West method

 flying from Oakland to Hawaii she would

 now Fly East from Miami the exact

 opposite directions this changed in

 flight path made the last leg of the

 journey much more difficult because that

 overwater flight to Howland Island would

 now be 2 556 mi from New Guinea and not

 the original 1900 miles that it was from

 Hawaii so why would she make this choice

 if it made the already hardest part of

 the flight even harder now jvas then

 Dove head first into this Theory and

 states that the US government was using

 aart to get access to the Marshall

 Islands that were being controlled by

 Japanese forces now as outlandish as

 this sounds and is there were two decent

 Plans theorized by jvas when this

 meeting was uncovered on what air har

 might have actually been

 doing one was that aart would leave

 Howland Island on a secret fly to nahu

 Island which is a private island off of

 Hawaii this would take her near the

 Marshall Islands while here she would

 then falsely claim that she was having

 engine trouble and that she was going to

 try to make it to one of the Marshall

 Islands to land then while approaching

 the islands she would go radio silent

 and not answer any Communications with

 anyone at this point she would be

 declared missing and this would give the

 US government an excuse to poke and to

 prod into the Marshall Islands to look

 for her and to establish a presence

 there that sounds like something the US

 government would do since we had no

 presence in those islands at that time

 but the other theory is kind of more

 similar to what actually happened this

 theory states that aart would fail quote

 unquote to find Howland Island and that

 she would go radio silent and stop

 answering any Communications with

 anybody and head directly for the

 Marshal Islands after doing this she

 would land somewhere and wait for the

 Navy to come and find her and take her

 back except the plan might have went ay

 and she crashed or the Japanese found

 her or the crabs ate her or something

 like that both of these proposed plans

 would give the USA a reason and an

 excuse to insinuate themselves in the

 Marshall Islands and do reconnaissance

 and establish a presence there since we

 didn't have any information on it or any

 knowledge about it at the time

 who knows if this theory is true or if

 Javas is crazy but it's definitely

 plausible and it definitely piques my

 interest to think about but if that

 theory isn't true and Amelia did come

 back to the US and just assumed the new

 identity of Irene even more support for

 that comes from a stranger

 Place Rin C rck who is the author of the

 book airheart survived picked up the

 search again in 1991 when he got a lead

 that took him to New Jersey to interview

 a man named James Francis Kelly an

 89-year-old retired psychologist who

 affirmed heavily that he had been

 commissioned by the then Archbishop

 Francis Joseph Spelman to bring Amelia

 aart home after her circumnavigation to

 the US and give her a new identity as

 well as James Francis Kelly stating this

 two of his inner circle friends also

 claimed to know that Bolam was actually

 Amelia aart Helen Barber one of his two

 friends said that quote she was adamant

 that she no longer wanted to be

 identified as Amelia Airhart Kelly gave

 no reason for her inflexibility in this

 regard but said only that this was her

 very strong demand end quote so pretty

 much this psychologist stated that he

 was commissioned by the Archbishop

 Francis Joseph spelet to kind of make a

 new life and a new identity for aelia

 aart once she got home and once the US

 government and military's Ambitions in

 the islands were quenched James Francis

 Kelly died in

 1996 and upon his death a few noteworthy

 items were actually located in his

 possession one was a folder with Irene

 bolum written on one side and Amelia art

 written on the other side there was also

 a note nearby that read quote it's too

 bad that her mother never knew she'd

 survived end quote why would Kelly write

 any of this if there was no truth in it

 was he insane was he crazy did he have

 false leads we don't know but between

 the theories by Rand rck Joe jvas and

 James Francis Kelly it is a possibility

 that she survived and hid from the outer

 world for the rest of her

 days but even with all of this even with

 all this information together the

 question Still Remains as to why she had

 never shied away from the public eye

 before she was a figurehead for women's

 rights was famous and was a role model

 for the entire country and the world why

 would she not want to come back and why

 would she want to hide from this huge

 success of circumnavigating the world so

 many questions and no concrete

 answers perhaps the government forced

 her to do something she didn't want to

 do and when she got back she could not

 be in the public eye after what she did

 that would make sense if dv's theory of

 the government using her as a pond to

 get into the Marshal Islands was true

 but then again we still don't know

 in conclusion Amelia aart is truly the

 embodiment of an American Legend

 fighting for equality being just a

 general badass pilot and showing the

 world what the indomitable human spirit

 is capable of it's a really shameful

 thought that her achievements and her

 victories are often overlooked due to

 the controversy of her crash and the

 conspiracies surrounding it now if this

 recent search that happened in 2024

 actually turns up that the plane that

 she flew is just right there by Howland

 Island then we can put all these

 conspiracies to bed however until that

 day comes there is no one true answer to

 the Amelia airheart discrepancy where

 did she go why was no wreckage found

 where is nunan's body where is Art's

 Body where is the Electra was the

 government in on this did they just want

 to use her as a pond to get to the

 Marshall Islands for reconnaissance and

 was she so ashamed for doing this that

 she came back to the country and assumed

 the identity of Irene bolum these are

 the discrepancies that make this

 conspiracy crumble and to this day there

 is no concrete information that swings

 either way it seems that every single

 aspect every single conspiracy has its

 own merits and also has its own holes

 the likelihood that she crashed into the

 Pacific is equally as likely as any of

 these conspiracy theories we can only

 hope that one day concrete answers will

 be provided to us as the public but I

 honestly doubt that they ever will the

 queen of the sky will truly live on

 forever even if her current whereabouts

 are

 uncertain may she find peace wherever

 she is and may God Rest her

 soul thank you all for watching this

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 see you in the next video peace and loveShort Summary for [The Amelia Earhart Discrepancy… | An 87 Year Long Mystery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc) by [Merlin](https://merlin.foyer.work/)

Video Title: Amelia Earhart's Mysterious Disappearance: Unanswered Questions of Aviation History | Spoogli Channel

[00:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=24) Amelia Earhart's mysterious disappearance on her historic journey

[03:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=193) Amelia Earhart's disappearance remains a mystery

[08:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=498) Amelia Earhart attempted circumnavigation before her famous disappearance.

[10:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=645) Captain Harry Manning's refusal saved his life

[15:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=936) Amelia Earhart encounters communication and direction finding technology issues during her flight.

[17:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1066) Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's final transmissions indicated their struggle to locate Howland Island and their subsequent loss of contact.

[21:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1318) Extensive and expensive search efforts yielded no physical evidence of Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

[24:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1454) The location of alleged wreckage near Howland Island

[28:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1700) A dark theory suggests Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were eaten by giant coconut crabs on Nikumaroro Island

[30:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1822) Theories about Amelia Earhart's disappearance

[34:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=2084) Discrepancies in Amelia Earhart's identity remain despite legal action.

[36:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=2204) Secret meeting influences Amelia Earhart's flight path change.

[40:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=2443) Amelia Earhart may have assumed a new identity after her return to the US.

[42:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=2567) Amelia Earhart is an American Legend and her achievements are often overlooked

[00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=0) The mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance continues to intrigue people.

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Detailed Summary for [The Amelia Earhart Discrepancy… | An 87 Year Long Mystery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc) by [Merlin](https://merlin.foyer.work/)

Video Title: Amelia Earhart's Mysterious Disappearance: Unanswered Questions of Aviation History | Spoogli Channel

[00:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=24) Amelia Earhart's mysterious disappearance on her historic journey

- After 18 hours in the air, she made a perfect landing, becoming the first woman to fly the Pacific solo.

- The search for her after the plane failed to reach Howland Island sparked theories and mysteries about her disappearance.

[03:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=193) Amelia Earhart's disappearance remains a mystery

- Various theories exist about what happened to her, including being consumed by crabs, getting shot down by the Japanese, or assuming a new identity

- Her passion for adventure and flying drove her to attempt a historic circumnavigation of the world

[08:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=498) Amelia Earhart attempted circumnavigation before her famous disappearance.

- She faced technical difficulties and mechanical problems during the first leg of the flight.

- The real cause of the crash is still debated, with theories including piloting error and sabotage.

[10:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=645) Captain Harry Manning's refusal saved his life

- Despite Manning's refusal, the flight continued as scheduled with Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, and the Electra taking flight from Miami for a second attempt

- The journey took them through numerous scheduled stops in South America, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and other places before reaching the New Guinea area

[15:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=936) Amelia Earhart encounters communication and direction finding technology issues during her flight.

- Amelia Earhart faced challenges with communication, especially with unclear responses from the ship near Howland Island.

- Earhart had difficulty in receiving voice transmissions, leading to panic as she approached Howland Island without being able to communicate effectively.

[17:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1066) Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's final transmissions indicated their struggle to locate Howland Island and their subsequent loss of contact.

- Despite multiple attempts, their transmissions were troubled, and they were unable to hear the ship's signals clearly.

- The exact cause of the flight's failure and the subsequent 87-year search effort to locate the wreckage remains a mystery.

[21:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1318) Extensive and expensive search efforts yielded no physical evidence of Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

- A government-funded search costing over $4 million was the most intensive in US military history but turned up no proof of Earhart, her plane, or her navigator.

- Private searches initiated by Earhart's husband and later by other companies also failed to find any wreckage or evidence related to Earhart's disappearance.

[24:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1454) The location of alleged wreckage near Howland Island

- The exact coordinates of the wreckage have not been disclosed to the public

- Speculation and theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart

[28:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1700) A dark theory suggests Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were eaten by giant coconut crabs on Nikumaroro Island

- Nikumaroro Island is home to a species of giant coconut crabs known to hunt and kill large birds for food.

- The theory speculates that Earhart and Noonan, after crashing, were too weak or injured to move, becoming prey for the crabs.

- The crabs rip their prey into bits and chunks, taking it back to their holes to feed, which might explain the incomplete skeletal remains found on the island.

[30:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=1822) Theories about Amelia Earhart's disappearance

- Possible explanation of crabs burying her remains on the island, which has been refuted by National Geographic

- The Japanese capture theory, with doubts due to lack of evidence and fuel constraints

[34:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=2084) Discrepancies in Amelia Earhart's identity remain despite legal action.

- The study of age progression by Mike Streed showed striking similarities between a digitally aged Amelia Earhart and Irene Bolam.

- Bolam's refusal to provide fingerprints and mysterious actions surrounding her death raise questions about her true identity.

[36:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=2204) Secret meeting influences Amelia Earhart's flight path change.

- Meeting with Aart, FDR's advisers sparks change from West to East flight direction.

- The theory suggests US government may have used Earhart to access Marshall Islands.

[40:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=2443) Amelia Earhart may have assumed a new identity after her return to the US.

- She may have been given a new identity by James Francis Kelly, supported by friends' claims of her adamant desire to not be identified as Amelia Earhart.

- Upon Kelly's death, items found in his possession suggested a connection between Irene Bolam and Amelia Earhart, raising questions about the possibility of her survival and concealment.

[42:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=2567) Amelia Earhart is an American Legend and her achievements are often overlooked

- She fought for equality, was a fearless pilot, and represented the indomitable human spirit.

- The mysteries and controversies surrounding her disappearance continue to fuel conspiracy theories with no concrete answers.

[00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdhLFWUvSc&t=0) The mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance continues to intrigue people.

- There are multiple theories about what happened to Amelia Earhart, with some suggesting she crashed and others proposing she was captured by the Japanese.

- New evidence has recently come to light, including a photograph that some believe shows Earhart and her navigator after their apparent crash.

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