New evidence suggests Amelia Earhart died as a castaway on remote Pacific island

NY Daily News ^ | 1 Nov 2016 | Meg Wagner

[Beagle8U]

“Basically they found a skeleton with arms a bit longer then average. How many of them are around?”

NBA pick up the black courtesy phone...

[Charles Martel]

I think Gary Larson got that idea from the "Gilligan" episode where the NASA orbital flight passed over the island:

[Chainmail]

We’ll see.

[midnightcat]

Yes, I have followed their work and it makes a lot of sense. I feel sorry for her and Fred Noonan. To die as a castaway on a remote island....must have been just horrible. The emotions she must have gone through and despair, not to mention the extreme heat on that island. Awful.

[oh8eleven]

To die as a castaway on a remote island....must have been just horrible.
I wonder who died first and if the lone survivor resolved their starvation dilemma?
Like you said, horrible.

[The Louiswu]

Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)
The 37's (1995)
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Voyager answers an ancient SOS distress and finds 8 humans - including Amelia Earhart - in cryo-stasis on a nearby planet. There are thousands more Humans living in cities nearby, descendants of Humans abducted from Earth in 1937 by a race seeking to use them as slaves. Both sides are happy to find some answers and new friends. When Voyager's crew is invited to stay and live on the "new" Earth, Janeway is worried so many will accept she may find herself the only one who truly wants to get home.

[Portcall24]

Below is my post to a couple of FR comrades from less than a month ago. This mystery was solved at the highest level of government over 50 years ago but kept under wraps. I would be shocked if she isn’t buried in an unmarked grave at Arlington. The book, “In Search of Amelia Earhart” was done in a journalist fashion not seen for several recent decades.

Based upon your post I ordered Fred Groener’s book. Just finished it. Wow! My opinion of Amelia has sure changed. What a phenomenal lady and a true American hero. Clearly she was spying for the U.S. Navy when she crash landed in the Marshall Islands and the two of them were taken prisoner by the Japanese. They, and the airplane, were taken to Saipan where they were held, and interrogated for an extended period of time. They both died there either from torture or physical neglect. The senior US leadership was so embarrassed about the way this went down that numerous agencies covered it up including U.S. Navy, Dept of Interior, State Department and the President of the United States. One of the USMC officers (Wallace T. Greene) on Saipan led a detail that dug up an area outside a grave yard that had two skulls and bone parts. He went on to be Commandant of USMC and when interviewed couldn’t remember a thing about this happening.

[kalee]

Bttt

[N. Theknow]

If the S.S. Minnow was only supposed to be a 3 hour tour...why did the Howells take along all those clothes?

[outpostinmass2]

During World War II, US Coast Guard LORAN Unit 92, a radio navigation station built in the summer and fall of 1944, and operational from mid-November 1944 until mid-May 1945, was located on Gardner Island’s southeast end. Dozens of U.S. Coast Guard personnel were involved in its construction and operation, but were mostly forbidden from leaving the small base or having contact with the Gilbertese colonists then on the island, and found no artifacts known to relate to Earhart

[JimRed]

Wasn’t there a Gilligan’s Island episode where she showed up?

I think that was "Wrong Way" Corrigan...or something similar!

[DannyTN]

And a trunk of money?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I feel a bit sorrier for Fred Noonan. He likely met the same fate (starvation, dehydration, disease) but doesn’t get one billionth the mention.

[sheana]

So if I can just make sure I get water brought in it’s mine? Been looking for my own island. Lol

[wardaddy]

Not buying it

She was heard on radio trying to find a place to land at sea

It’s a damn big ocean

[oh8eleven]

finds 8 humans - including Amelia Earhart - in cryo-stasis on a nearby planet.
I knew it!

[oh8eleven]

This mystery was solved at the highest level of government over 50 years ago but kept under wraps.
But why not reveal the truth now? I guess we'll have to add this to President Trump's To-Do list.

[Jeff Chandler]

Ginger, Mary Ann, or Amelia?

[PLMerite]

"I think they'll be successful and the mystery will finally be over."

Unless the plane has a bunch of 7.7mm bullet holes in it...

[oh8eleven]

Unless the plane has a bunch of 7.7mm bullet holes in it..
Given the savagery of the Japanese, I wouldn't be surprised.