Amelia's SOS

About this episode

The episode explores the mysterious distress calls allegedly made by Amelia Earhart after her disappearance in 1937.

Get 15% off OneSkin with the code TRUEWEIRDSTUFF at  https://www.oneskin.co/trueweirdstuff   #oneskinpod #sponsored   Today's True Weird Stuff - Amelia's SOS   In 1937, the world was told that Amelia Earhart simply vanished — swallowed whole by the Pacific, leaving nothing behind but silence. But what if there wasn’t silence? What if, in the days after her disappearance, faint and frantic distress calls crackled through the static? Amateur radio operators claimed they heard her pleading for help. A warship reported similar transmissions. And yet, history brushed them aside as hoaxes.

Topics covered

• disappearance
• distress calls
• Amelia Earhart
• radio transmissions
• history
• mystery

Keywords

• Amelia Earhart
• distress calls
• radio operators
• Pacific
• history
• mystery
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