Chasing Earhart

“I don’t think there is any closure. I think every generation if going to investigate her again.”There are names in the Amelia Earhart story that echo. Explorers. Historians. Theorists. Voices that rise, fall, and fade as the decades pass.And then… there are the ones that don’t. The ones that stay. The ones that shape the conversation. The ones that—whether you agree with them or not—you have to reckon with.My guest tonight……. is one of those names.She didn’t just step into the Earhart case. She dug in.Through archives, through personal correspondence, through the kind of painstaking research that most people wouldn’t have the patience—or frankly—the stomach to see through.The book she released in 1993, didn’t just tell Amelia Earhart’s story…It reframed it. It stripped away the myth.The headlines. The almost cartoon-like legend that’s been built up over nearly a century……and replaced it with something far more complicated. Far more human. And for a lot of people? Far more uncomfortable. Because she doesn’t deal in easy answers. She doesn’t deal in tidy narratives. And she’s never been afraid to challenge the status quo—even when it means pushing back against the loudest voices in the room… or the most popular theories in the field. Including some that you—and I—know very well. And that’s what makes this conversation… different. Because today isn’t just about revisiting Amelia Earhart.It’s about interrogating the story. It’s about asking what we think we know… and whether it actually holds up under pressure. It’s about legacy. Memory. Myth-making.And the fine line between history… and storytelling. So whether you’ve read her work cover to cover…Or whether you’ve disagreed with her for years…There’s one thing that’s undeniable: When she speaks on Amelia Earhart—People listen. And tonight…We’re going there.The Final Boss Has Arrived. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Lake Whales, Florida this…is Susan Butler.LINKS: Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING: East to the Dawn at Amazon Susan's Blog

I think I wanna start tonight by telling you all a quick story. In 1932, Amelia Earhart completed the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman and became only the second person to make the flight period. She did it in NR7952 her beautiful Lockheed Vega.Now, I love all of Earhart’s famous planes and even though it may not be the most famous one, it’s my personal favorite and has been since I was a kid. During our visit to the Smithsonian a few years ago, I remember standing under it while my wife snapped a picture. “Now look at me and smile!” she said - as she snapped a picture that continues to hang in my office to this day. We stood under it together after the picture and just enjoyed being in the same space as something Amelia loved so much. It was real, we could touch it. “Can you believe we made it here?” she asked? I couldn’t. We were never supposed to make it past the first few episodes of the show and now we were standing in Air & Space in Washington D.C. and we’d already shot several guests for the documentary across the country before that point. I looked up, standing under that wing thinking that it was the most beautiful piece of winged machinery I’d ever laid eyes on. For nearly a century, Amelia Earhart’s name has lived in two worlds at once.One is made of headlines and legend…the kind of stuff that turns a woman into a symbol, then turns that symbol into a battleground. The other world is quieter. Heavier. More honest. It lives in archives. In carefully preserved artifacts. In labels written by steady hands. In collections protected not for what we want to believe—but for what we can actually prove. Because if there’s one thing this case has taught me… it’s that the mystery doesn’t survive on a lack of answers.It survives on noise. On certainty sold too quickly. On the comforting illusion that the truth must be simple… or cinematic… or just one big discovery away.But Amelia wasn’t simple. And the story she left behind isn’t either.Tonight, we’re sitting down with someone who has spent a lifetime living in the space between myth and material… between the public story and the private record. She’s one of the most trusted voices in American aviation history— a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator whose work has helped preserve and interpret the artifacts that define how the world remembers flight. And when it comes to Amelia Earhart specifically, she’s not approaching this from the outside looking in. She’s spent decades stewarding the very things people argue about—general aviation history, flight materiel, aerial cameras… and the story of women in aviation as a living, breathing timeline—not a highlight reel.In other words…when she speaks, the room gets quieter.Because she’s not here to sell us a theory. She’s here to bring us back to the only thing that has ever deserved the steering wheel in this case: the woman and the record.And that matters—because right now, the Amelia Earhart conversation is loud again.New expeditions - new claims - new “finally solved” declarations are running laps around the internet, right now. But before we sprint toward whatever comes next… we need to do something most people skip: We need to slow down. We need to ask what the evidence can actually carry. We need to separate story from story-telling. And we need somebody who knows the difference.She’s devoted more than forty years to collecting and preserving aviation artifacts—not just to keep them safe, but to make sure the stories behind them are told responsibly… in a way that educates and inspires, instead of misleads and inflames. That kind of work doesn’t make you famous in the way the internet understands fame. It makes you foundational. It makes you the person future historians cite.The person documentaries call when they want to get it right. The person you bring in when the legend gets so big, that the truth struggles to breathe.Oh and, something really cool. You’ve heard me talk about my original 25 - the list I made when I sat down to begin this project so long ago. Not only was she on my original 25 - but she was number 1. How bout that? So…….if you’ve ever wanted to hear what this case sounds like when the noise lowers and the facts step forward— This is your night. And we have one helluva instructor. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Washington, D.C by way of the Smithsonian Air & Space, this is Dorothy Cochrane.LINKS: Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING: Dorothy Cochrane @ Smithsonian Air & Space Amelia Earhart Project Recordings @ Smithsonian Air & Space Opinion: Amelia Earhart and the continuing search for her Lockheed Electra @ CNN Amelia Earhart’s Trailblazing Life in Aviation @ Smithsonian Magazine Amelia Earhart Pioneer of Flight: A Conversation with Dorothy Cochrane & Tom Crouch @ Chasing Earhart Aviation Expert Reexamines Amelia Earhart’s disappearance with Bold Claim @ Fox News

For more than nine decades, Amelia Earhart’s name has been spoken with reverence and wonder—a flight path etched deep into the world’s imagination, and a disappearance that keeps us chasing echoes of her last sunrise over the Pacific.When I first started out on this journey so long ago, I was filled with optimism. Early in the project, I reached out to a woman who wrote one of my favorite Earhart books ever written. I never thought she’d say yes. But I was surprised a lot in those early days. She’s an award-winning historian whose work has helped broaden our understanding of women’s history, power, and the stories we tell about those who defy gravity—literal and figurative. But what happens when we step off the edge of the known and begin to look at the woman behind the myth? Not just the aviator who vanished, but the human being whose choices, context, and legacy ripple through gender, memory, and cultural terrain that often resists simplification?In her writing, tonight’s guest doesn’t just recount events. She situates them in the emotional landscape of their time, inviting us to confront not only what we remember, but why we remember it at all.In December of 2017, she made her Chasing Earhart debut. Nine years later, she’s back to discuss the latest developments in the Amelia Earhart case, for which there are many, and to remind us all what this story has always been about. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Hoptiken, New Hampshire, this, is Susan WareLINKS: Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING: Susan Ware's Official Website Susan Ware @ Wikipedia Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism @ Amazon Amelia Earhart: Pioneering Feminist @ The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum's YouTube Records Relating to Amelia Earhart @ The National Archives

So much of Amelia Earhart’s story lives in the spaces between facts—the hours unaccounted for, the voices never heard again, the enigmatic whispers of survival. Those unanswered questions keep us chasing, keep us listening for what might still be found.Over this rebrand, we’ve traced radio logs, scoured sonar scans off remote atolls, sat with the families who watched the world collectively hold its breath in July of 1937. We’ve pushed beyond accepted timelines, challenged the orthodox accounts. Each step has carried us further from the airport in Oakland and closer to the moment when time itself seemed to slip through her fingers.Today, we shift our focus—not to new sonar anomalies or grid searches—but to the power of storytelling itself, and the women who champion it. We welcome a guest whose entire career has orbited around truth-telling.She’s a journalist, writer, and documentarian - someone who has long been fascinated by how stories shape us—and how we shape them in turn. Her work spans genres, subjects, decades. Whether she’s exploring women's inner lives or investigating hidden histories, her lens is always clear, and always curious.In her new book, she turns her attention to reckoning with the unknown—not in search of wreckage or coordinates, but to dig into the emotional fallout, the cultural aftershocks that reverberate long after an airplane ever disappears. She’s been asking questions like, "How do we grieve someone we never knew?" "How does a myth persist when facts remain elusive?"Over the last season, we’ve heard from explorers, navigators, and forensic experts all alike. We’ve tracked timelines, re‑evaluated eyewitness accounts, and examined cryptic newspaper clippings reeking of both desperation and hope. All the while, we’ve felt the pull of Earhart’s silhouette—her strength, her ambition, her solitude, and the void she left behind.Tonight, we step back. We step into the stories left untold: letters never sent home, journals never written, and the echo of words like ‘we’re running low’ drifting in static. We’ll talk about mortality, myth-making, and memory. About how the flight of one aviatrix became a collective heartbeat for generations. Tonight's guest journey into that runway of remembrance might just teach us more about our own need to chase—to connect, to understand, to grieve.It’s part reflection, part excavation. But we’re not chasing debris this time. We’re chasing meaning.So, whether you’ve been with us since the very first broadcast, or this is your first descent into Earhart’s world, stay with me. Because these are the stories that don’t end in a disappearance. They begin to live anew—in the telling.Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From New York City, this is Laurie Gwen Shapiro. LINKS: Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING: Laurie's Official Website The Aviator & the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon @ Amazon Laurie on Instagram Laurie on Twitter Laurie on Facebook 'Amelia Earhart’s Complicated Legacy and Horrible Husband' @ The NY TImes ‘The Aviator and the Showman’ Review: A Marriage in the Clouds' @ WSJ

We’re 27 episodes into my little experiment with this rebrand now - I never thought we’d still be going. It continues to baffle me. One of the things I really wanted to do when I decided to bring the show back was to make sure I brought new voices into the ongoing conversation that we’ve been having for decades. If you follow the pattern closely though, these last 27 episodes tell a bigger story. And if you’re really keen, you might notice that I like to do my best to manifest guests on this show. My manifesting must have been working overtime, because tonight’s guest has been a long time coming. You might have heard of his blog - It’s called the Ghost of Gardner Island. And there are an awful lot of people that will tell you that the work that’s featured there is nothing short of a master-class in research. Tonight, we run through the details of an investigation that began with little more than a follow up question and ended with a reversal in direction for one of Castaway's marquee artifacts - one thought to have belonged to navigator Fred Noonan. Some might call him a disrupter of sorts - a man whose own work has rattled the cages of one of this case's biggest summations. Others refer to him as one of the brightest Earhart researchers to come along in decades. And I tend to side with those guys. If we’ve done our best to showcase why castaway makes sense for the ultimate explanation of Earhart and Noonan’s demise, consider tonight a rebuttal of sorts and then, you tell me. Say his name, and he shall appear. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From New York City, this is John Kada. LINKS Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING John's The Ghost of Gardner Island Blog The 1940's Sextant Box Identified? @ Tom King's Blog Bushnell Sextant Box @ TIGHAR's Official Website Luke Field Inventory @ TIGAHR's Official Website BVARC Dec 2020 Tom NY0V An HF Systems Engineering Approach in the Search for Amelia Earhart’s L10E @ YouTube Richard Blackburn Black, USNR @ USAS1939 Amelia Didn’t Know Radio by Captain Almon A. Gray, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired) @ The U.S. Naval Institute's Official Website

If you’ve ever heard me guest on other podcasts or in media of any kind, you’ve heard the story of how this podcast all started for me. But just in case you haven’t, 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 we’ve 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. He’s a decorated archaeologist with one of the most impressive resumes that I’ve 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 he’s the former senior Archaeologist for the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, better known to this audience by its famous acronym TIGHAR. He’s 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 we’d 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, he’s 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, he’s returned to catch up with me in what I’m referring to as a career retrospective when it comes to his involvement in the Amelia Earhart/Fred Noonan disappearance case. I didn’t 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 I’ve 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. He’s 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 - you’re 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. LINKS Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING Dr. Tom King's CRM Plug Blog "The Continuing Search for Amelia Earhart: An Interview with Tom King" @ The Archaeology Channel Dr. Thomas King Lecture on Amelia Earhart Recorded November 11, 2009 @ Texas State University Amelia Earhart Unrescued @ Amazon Amelia Earhart's Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved? @ Amazon Thirteen Bones @ Amazon Amelia Earhart on Nikumaroro: A Summary of the Evidence @ Academia.org Chasing Earhart: The Discussion Panel @ Chasing Earhart on YouTube Castaway: A Conversation with Dr. Tom King @ Chasing Earhart Niku IX Recap: A Conversation with Dr. Tom King & Andrew McKenna @ Chasing Earhart Amelia Earhart Unrescued: A Conversation with Dr. Tom King @ Chasing Earhart

If you’ve ever attended the annual Amelia Earhart festival in Atchison Kansas, then you're familiar with an event that’s been a staple of that weekend every year since its inception. It’s 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 AE’s 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 we’ll be discussing tonight. She’s crafted one of the most clever ideas for a work of fiction that I’ve ever read and if you’re an Amelia Earhart fan, you’ll be absolutely thrilled at the way it’s presented and the attention she’s paid to all the little details that have helped make Earhart’s legend grow for almost 90 years. If you’ve 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 it’s 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.LINKS Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING Kristin Gray's Official Website The Amelia Six @ Amazon The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum's Official Website Discover Amelia Earhart's Goggles @ Google Arts & Culture Kristin on Facebook Kristin on X Kristin on Instagram Kristin on Goodreads

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 Vision’s 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 there’s 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. Let’s get to work. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. Fresh back from deep in the Pacific Ocean, this is Tony Romeo. LINKS Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane? @ The Wall Street Journal Deep Sea Vison's Official Website Ocean exploration company's possible proof of Amelia Earhart's wrecked plane nearly vanished: report @ Fox News Researchers Thought They Found Amelia Earhart’s Missing Plane. It Turned Out to Be a Plane-Shaped Pile of Rocks @ Smithsonian Magazine The Beginning of the End: A Conversation with Tony Romeo @ Chasing Earhart

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. He’s 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. We’ve had our differences over the years, but to his credit, and my surprise, he’s 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 I’d never utter on this show again. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From TIGHAR HQ in Oxford PA, this is Ric Gillespie.LINKS Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook Group SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy @ Amazon Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance @ Amazon TIGHAR's Official Website The Post - Loss Radio Signals @ TIGHAR's Official Website The Radio Logs of the USCG Itasca @ TIGHAR's Official Website Have We Really Found Amelia Earhart's Bones? @ The Guardian Did Amelia Earhart land on Gardner Island? TIGHAR explains hypothesis in-depth | LiveNOW from FOX @ YouTube Finding Amelia with Hard Facts and Sound Science - Ric Gillespie at NEAM @ YouTube Post Loss Radio: A Conversation with Ric Gillespie @ Chasing Earhart

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. It’s 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, you’ll swear you’re hearing from a modern day counterpart for the biggest aviation icon of all time.Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Amelia Rose Earhart. LINKS Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook Group SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING Amelia Rose's Official Website Learn to Love the Turbulence: “Flight lessons” on Becoming the Pilot in Command of Your Own Journey @ Amazon Signed Copies Here 2024 Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award Revealed @ Atchison Globe Amelia Rose Earhart’s Flight Around the World and Into History @ Observer.com

“It is interesting to note that because of Earhart and Noonan’s 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 – one day after they officially disappeared.”Over the last few months of recording this show, I’ve started hearing from dozens of people either by email or by phone that have all been asking me to check out a blog that’s 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, she’s finally arrived. Her name is Liz Smith. Remember that name. Because after tonight, you’ll never forget it. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Liz Smith.LINKS Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook Group SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING Liz Smith's Date Line Theory Blog Liz Smith @ LinkedIn Liz Smith @ Nautilus Live Marine Robotics Company Hopes It Has Solved Amelia Earhart Mystery @ AirOnline Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved by Elgen & Marie Long @ Amazon

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 tonight’s 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. LINKS Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished on Facebook Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook Group SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane? @ The Wall Street Journal Deep Sea Vison's Official Website Ocean exploration company's possible proof of Amelia Earhart's wrecked plane nearly vanished: report @ Fox News

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, you’ll see why. We’ve got a very kindred fascination and love for the Earhart story, and some of the behind the scenes work he’s been quietly doing is the exact representation of what historical research should look like. Chris Hare is a digger. And tonight, we’re all about to get a lesson on how a modern day researcher investigates a monster of a case. Here’s a little tease. It begins, like all things with, how you see it. Tonight, we’re across the pond in the UK. And we’re bringing the bombshells. This is Chris Hare. LINKS Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter Vanished Facebook Group SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING Letter from P. V. H. Weems to Amelia Earhart Offering Navigational Instruction @ The Smithsonian The 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 — Amelia Earhart found or still missing? The Jantz Report: Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones: A 1941 Analysis versus Modern Quantitative Techniques Earhart and the French Connection @ Mike Campbell's Blog