Amelia Earhart disappearance SOLVED?!
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- The 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of the longest-standing mysteries in aviation... but the truth is, it might have actually been solved just three years after Earheart went missing.
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I remember a documentary years ago where they found a jar in pieces that the team matched to a specific freckle cream she used. Same island, same group. The cream was 11% mecury. Hard to believe the jar and a liqueur she was also said to enjoy, to be found on the same island, being a coincidence. I suppose stranger things have happened...
Not coincidence, all the evidence is obvious...but then WW2 sucked all the attention away from her disappearance and America 'forgot'. The recent books and continuing 'expeditions' want to disregard/hide/reject this evidence BECAUSE IT'LL STOP THE MONEY.
Yeah I've seen that documentary there's a TH-cam channel dedicated on trying to solve what happened to Amelia they also found a panel they believe came from her plane a fisherman was using it as a washboard there was also black and white aerial photos that look to show a part of a planes weel sticking out the water but is now long gone.
11% mecury? What’s that
@ChrisDavis333 the cream contained 11%mercury by volume... sorry, I should have been clearer.
@@Iamthelolrus oh I thought mercury was deadly to humans lol
I appreciate that this was not a 20 minute video... well done sir !!
Its youtubes fault they set parameters for the creators where they have to have longer videos so they can gain ad revenues from it.
Yeah, we wouldn't want an informative video. Just give us the TLDR version because our TikTok attention spans won't allow us to focus for more than several minutes.
Amen
Ditto
@@Jeff_11B agreed, "shorts" are the worst. youtube shorts are fucking aids, always disappointing when i see a notification for a channel's upload and it's that shit
Earhart: "Oh, at least there's crabs here, I'll eat well until I'm rescued."
Crabs: "We're not stuck on this island with you. You're stuck here with us."
In Cobem Poccnr, you don't eat crabs, ... oh wait, wrong place XD
"Oh, a couple of humans just landed hear! We'll eat well until we're rescued."
That's as horrifying as it is funny.
Crabs that can get up to 3 feet wide and will scavenge meat. The bones showed signs of this person being torn apart.... Yikes.
What a shame that the bones were not retained. Thanks for the video!
Makes you want to just slap someone for that. Even if it wasn't her, that's still someone's bones. Disrespectful.
Yeah definitely should have been buried properly with respect for whoever it was
@@mill2712 I have been researching Amelia since a teacher told us about her when I was 12. I'm 80 now and this is the only video I've ever watched out of about 20 or more that Cavalierly state--The bones were "thrown" away. NOBODY ALIVE knows what happened to the bones, After this "Quack" Hoodless looked and measured them he may well have put them on a shelf in his basement or buried them. Amelia was never on Nikumaroro Island. TIGHER looking for her there is the same as me losing my keys in the deep ocean but I look for them on land because that is far cheaper/easier.😀😀
I've watched many videos on this topic and this is the first I've heard that the bones were "thrown away." Geez, what a dunce if that's indeed what happened. DNA profiling has advanced to the point where an identity could have been deduced.
@@papabear562 The bones that were found were "MOST LIKELY" one of the 11 crewmen that died when the SS Norwich City, that beached there in a storm in 1929. We have no proof but we do have what courts of law call "preponderance of evidence". Amelia was "never on Nikumaroro Island". She did not have the fuel to get there. PERIOD!! Not one "concrete" piece of evidence was ever located there of the plane nor Noonan, nor her. The items they found on Nikumaroro, including the bones most likely belonged to other people/visitors/settlers on that Island. You are correct, I too wish they had the bones today to put that "BALONY" to rest once and for all. The bones, by "preponderance of evidence" belong to one of the 11 crewman from that ship.😀😀😀😀
What gets me is that a company decided to name a brand of luggage after her. Well being lost in flight is appropriate though…
That was likely one of the many brand deals Earheart did to fund the trip.
😂👍😂🤣👍🤣
Think his name is Harlan comedian. does a long skit on airports and "terminal" lol i thought were good
George Carlin..... well i was close
I still have one of her branded luggage I got in the 1980s. Good stuff.
"We found these bones alongside all of Amelia's personal belongings and luggage with her name labeled on them."
Some doctor:"Nah."
Always that one guy…😡
His remains must be exhumed and shamed before the medical community. LoL!
Pro vax dr.
Yes and wasn't her height well known at that time?? Maybe he was paid off to say it wasn't her??
Yeah, He ruined it for everyone my dad is a forensic doctor like him and he said you can identify women by their lelvis/hip bones and collar bones etc but the thing is Men and women skeletons are more alike than we think so that Man is stupid AF, to just disregard the bones as her/hers saying it's not her/hers, if he wasn't sure he could have given it to somone else who is a better expert than him, instead of burning the only real key evidence left lol, So either he's Dumb AF or he did this on purpose cause he found something out and didn't wanna get into trouble or was in on it, on her dissapearance, He should be dug up from his grave & hanged up in the worst place possible on earth or somewhere then named & shamed on or around his skeleton with some labels, & with a paper stuck on him saying, "I'm an idiot & fraud" written on his skeleton frl OMG lol, What a disgrace he is to the whole medical field frl tho ngl tbh lol OMFG SMH lol, OMG lol!?~😱😟😒😅🤦♀️🤦💀☠
My mother knew Amelia. Mom was one of the first stewardess' on the West Coast so hung out at the Oakland Airport. Long, long ago now. Mom is long gone too but at least the Coconut Crabs did not get her.
Or did they? Dun dun duuuuun!
@@v13r3r lmao😂
cap
@@v13r3r...😂 noice!
She caught crabs then died.... Think about it!
I heard of this find *decades* ago, and always found it to be the most reasonable explanation I've ever heard. -Thank you for reminding me of the details...I think this is the closest we'll ever get to solving this case !
(And a woman's shoe, too. 😮 I didn't remember that part).
Other women had inhabited Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) prior to finding the shoe. At least 200 people had been on that island prior to finding the shoe. Claiming the shoe is Earhart’s while disregarding other possibilities is unscientific and quackery.
This island has been the focus of more than just the bones. In fact at about 1:28 on the left of the screen, you can see an object sticking out of the water. This has been studied by some experts who claimed it was the upper part of one of the landing gear struts from her plane, stuck in the reef. It is no longer there and the steep topography and strong currents off the island means any potential remains of the aircraft are very deep and have made it difficult for even the most well funded expeditions to brave. Paul Allen spent some time with his team looking in this location and lost a lot of expensive equipment in the attempt at locating any traces of the aircraft on the seamount. There is a documentary that detailed a search of the island, the lore of the bones found there and several of the theories, including the crabs. The picture painted by the quick disposal of a pig carcass by them does not bode well for anyone stuck there with thousands of hungry coconut crab.
So did she die upon impact or did she die later and was eaten by crabs?
@@randallkohn6089 Its believed (Speculation in the documentary on the expedition) that she landed on the reef, it is actually kind of a rough looking flat plateau at the top of the seamount so they think she went in wheels down thinking it was flatter then it actually was. At any rate, they think the plane survived mostly intact, probably because the water softened the impact on the gear until it came to a stop and settled. But the landing would have still been hard. Her navigator (Fred Noonan) was either seriously injured or killed in the landing as his location in the cramped plane, towards the back, was not the best for that type of landing. The plane was likely getting beaten up by the tide, so she must have made her way onshore and buried him there eventually. She likely failed to survive more than a few days at most herself without any fresh water and the crabs harassing her all the time. Under those conditions a few crab bites and the dehydration and stress would have allowed for sepsis or any number of things to do her in.
It is really the failure of the US Navy to find her that baffles me. When you look at how close it was to the line she said she was flying on. It was in the direct path in the direction. They would have had to of known she would try to ditch near any land she could find. Why they didn't check it I will never know.
Of course this is assuming all of these assumptions about the clues based on missing evidence and only images and notes from almost 90 years ago...that she did in fact land there. Until someone finds an actual identifiable piece of the plane on the bottom of the ocean we will never know for sure.
Is Robert Ballard still active with exploration and stuff? Because he has quite a successful track record of finding wrecks, maybe he and his team would be able to find remains of the plane?
I'm sure that of all people, he would be the most likely to succeed
@@VaultPieter I am not sure but I don't think so. The real issue is funding.
Paul Allen had quite a bit of interest in this sort of historical underwater exploration and had his own research vessel, the Petrel. He spent a lot of time and money on this as well as locating other lost vessels like the Indianapolis.
His sister Jody, who was running his actual company as the CEO of Vulcan when he was alive, and is now in full control of his estate and has no such interests. She has sold off all of his super yachts along with the RV Petrel that just recently sold to a company in Houston that does underwater exploration for oil companies.
Even his massive Explorer Yacht has been sold.
Sadly Paul Allen was the only person I knew of with an interest in doing this sort of exploration that also had the means to do it.
@@socket_error1000 okay, that's a shame...
I hope some day we will know for certain
So long as her disappearance is unresolved, it remains an enticing open door rather than some simple beacon. Which then gets people to start looking at her life in general. It should go without saying, she is well worth learning about.
Yes, kinda the Britney Spears of her day. Created by a wealthy entity. Pushed into fame. Autotuned beyond her skill. Not that really anyone was completely safe flying in those days, but certainly lots of people did fly these kinds of stunts and handle their problems. For a real "Aviatrix", check out Pancho Barnes. Actual good pilot, but no one was going to try to make her famous in the popular media.
@@johnpublic6582 planes still go mid today - MH370
@@nancymilawski1048 They do, but planes went missing every month in the 1930s. Not really comparable. The media circus aspect is an important factor here.
@@nancymilawski1048mh370 was on purpose, look into it. They found simulations on the captains home pc that suggest he was planning it. Earhart was simply overly arrogant, and underskilled for the task. She came into Africa 200 miles off course because she ignored her navigator.
Coconut crabs are no joke. If you're unlucky enough to be a coconut or even a steel trashcan, they'll peel ya like a banana.
I read that in Joe Rogans voice for some reason.
Claw! Claw! Claw, claw!
In Eastern Indonesia it is a delicacy.
Oh please, the starship voyager found her in the delta quadrant in cryostasis after being abducted by aliens
Lol I was thinking about that exact episode 😂👍
Definitely faked, that girl in voyager was good looking.
@Christian Buczko faked??? Vwhat is wrong with you?? Those where clearly historical records
Legit.
I know, duh! Sheesh. Where have these people been?
To be completely honest. She wasn't ready to pull the round trip off. Not only she couldn't use Morse code but failed to identify radio failure that lead to her getting lost to begin with during pre-flight checks. There is a reason her previous navigator quit before the attempt.
I know her fellow female aviators at the time didn't rate her as a pilot.
she was a horrible pilot so I never understand why she was treated as some kind of hero ?
@@oliverbrown2750
It was probably personality...
-Also, her husband (such as he was) never siezed to promote her!
@@karlbark Yes she was considered attractive and the media hype was powerful. I think this meant she was doing promotional stunts when she should have been practicing her flying. Trying to arrive at Howland Island with the instrumentation of the day was extremely difficult in a perfect scenario of experienced pilot and navigator, But this was far from perfect.
Huh - I’ve watched many documentaries and updates from the TIGHAR project - but have never heard this, or what these other replies are saying. Interesting…
Tom D. Crouch, senior curator of the National Air and Space Museum, has said the Electra is "18,000 ft. down" and compares its archaeological significance to the Titanic, saying, "the mystery is part of what keeps us interested. In part, we remember her because she's our favorite missing person."
When I first pondered the idea of Earhart and Noonan being eaten by huge Coconut crabs *before* they died, I thought, “Nonsense! They could just climb a tree!” Fun fact: Coconut crabs can also climb trees.
They tend to stay clear of humans ..
Rip to those old time heroes.
Thank you very-very much!
(On behalf of Amelia.)
Eaten by Coconut Crabs? BEFORE or after, shed died?!! How can you leave us hanging, Alex? Why/how would she have been eaten by the crabs BEFORE her death? Does anyone know what is thought to have happened while they were on the island? The events leading to her demise? God rest their souls.
Ever seen one? Those things are massive, and if there were a lot of them and hungry enough, you're probably in a lot of trouble, especially if you're already exhausted or starving yourself.
Coconut Crabs, often thought of as strictly scavengers were recently documented on video killing living prey. They're very big, and while slow-moving if a few got ahold of you (let's say... surprised you while sleeping or after you've been starving on an island for a couple weeks) you're in for a bad time.
I’ve seen footage of them climbing up trees and getting living seagulls.
Coconut crabs are the pitbulls of crabs. Big, very mean and fearless. There's almost certainly videos of them.
@@codypanek If a coconut crab pinched you, it would hurt like hell, but you could easily kill it. Even a severely weakened human is by far the biggest and strongest animal on that island, and they even had things they could use as weapons to make killing crabs VERY easy. Nor would a crab try to attack something that big unless it hadn’t moved in days. They were 110% scavenged after they died.
Oh, that last part about being eaten alive by coconut crabs really changed my perception of the situation
A real life monster movie. Crash land on an island with crabs up to a meter in diameter and surrounding you as you try to beat them back with sticks or a touch, also possibly wounded from the crash landing. I couldn't imagine the nightmare she she went through.
I would think anything the size of a human that could still fight enough to try to "beat them back" would be left alone until they/it weakened enough to be eaten without much danger to the crabs. Still horrific concept though, you ever think of writing a horror movie script?
It would be a most terrifying book/movie.
Makes no sense that they would just throw them away. They are still human bones you would think they would bury them.
I was thinking the exact same thing! They were still HUMAN bones and deserved to be treated with respect. They weren’t the leftover chicken bones from last night’s KFC!
they most probably buried them. NO ONE THROWS AWAY HUMAN BONES
@@tonyebiere551 unless your a murderer
I've been captivated by Amelia Earhart and the pioneers of aviation since I could read. It is awesome to have this mystery solved.
It's not solved (doh). Have you seen the testimony of the US servicemen who liberated Saipan and swear they literally found Earhart's plane - and her personal papers - on Saipan? Dozens and dozens of residents on Saipan swear she was captured and held in a prison on Saipan. There's nothing in it - zero - for these islanders, nor these former US service people, to invent some crazy story. The island where these bones were found was periodically inhabited. There's nor reason to believe they found Earhart's bones. You saw one video on TH-cam so now you know (???). Watch "Earhart's Electra" and then tell me she crashed on this island. It's malarkey.
Stop smoking the weed
Good video. I like the short ones but not as much as the longer and more detailed productions. Keep both please.
This theory of finding Earhart's remains there always seemed the most probable. The flight data has always matched up with that area of that island she set the Lockheed down on, the camp that had been set, and the bones.
The group TIGHAR had 2 expeditions there and found many articles that suggested it was Earhart & Noonan's final stop. The evidence from the data base accessed by the group at TU almost surely closed the case on it.
The remains of that aircraft must be somewhere in that water or down a chasm away from the reef.
This is a great concise video that would come to the same conclusion had it been presented in a court of law. Thanks for the information!
Doctor: "All women have tiny petite bones!" Completely ignores her pictures. LOL!
In those days men were very stupid, but things haven't changed much, especially in Republican states like Texas.
She looks a dude I worked with in a stone quarry. Ol Frank didn't need any Jackhammer to break those stones.
So very, very tragic. I can only imagine the two of them hoping for a rescue that would never come.
It should have been quite clear where they were even in the first hours. The Navy did a single flyby of the island and missed everything. I mean her last reported radio position and course literally passed within a couple miles of that island.
@@johnpublic6582
My thought, exactly !
How very strange !
(Or at least a very lousy job)...
@johnpublic6582 hasn't that always been one of the big reasons conspiracy theorists like the story? Either she wasn't found due to incompetence, or deliberately left to die.
I've been intrigued by the story four years! Since I was a child I've Loved learning about Amelia Earhart! What a scary way to go.
Had a customer who was involved with the US Navy search for Earnhardt while a seaman, later became a PT captain in JFK's squadron & other wild tales of duty. Once of which involved capturing a Japanese officer at sea,with knowledge of Amelia's disappearance and location, showing us a commemorative card of being involved with original search team for Her & Mr Noonan.
I agree this is where they must have ended up. There’s a hotel I was at once in Spokane WA where Emilia frequented with a lot of pictures of her there. Google Davenport hotel and you’ll see
We could look at this poor judgement in identifying the bones as another travesty in Earhart's tragic story, but the fact that we are _still_ just as fascinated with her fate as we were in the days following her disappearance has kept her historical acheivements all the more legendary.
Sounds still unsure never will be
Travesty? Tragic? I hope that shit is hyperbole. She was unskilled, arrogant, and was pushing too hard to be the first female. She frequently ignored her navigator and it killed them. I see her not as a romantic hero, but as a killer.
@@throbbinwoodofcoxley6830 While I definitely wasn't around back then to know enough about her personality to call her arrogant, I'd say many others would take issue and challenge your assessment of her as being "unskilled." Overconfident, perhaps, but "unskilled?"
Her disappearance has been solved twice a year for the past 30 years.
Anytime someone uses a question as the title, you know that the answer to the question they're asking is a HUGE NO!
Alex your reporting is so succinct. Love it. RIP Amelia. True legend of aviation.
She's not a legend. She's a typical example of CIS white privilege.
This is one of the more concise and compelling accounts I've seen.
Well done. Great reporting.
99% is good enough for me. This is the content we need.
"eaten by coconut crabs", I probably should have waited till after lunch to watch this one.
Just one of the few mysteries in the world that remained and possibly might remain unsolved.
Nicely done!
Thanks for the update
Wow. I have read stories about her. Someone very special in thoses days.
Just Emilia's bones? Nothing of her navigator? No remains of the plane? Something is not right.
@@shemnetto4128 No, I'm sorry, the answer to his question was Grant's Tomb.
Seriously? They just "dumped" her bones? WHO does that?! They couldn't have given her a decent burial?
Thanks for a shorter version!
Great concise video. Thanks
She just reaffirms the saying:
There are old pilots
There are bold pilots
BUT
There are no old bold pilots.
Sadly, few even know that Noonan went missing with Earhart; especially since he should be reknown for charting most of PanAm's Pacific routes.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Noonan wasn't a pretty young woman so he gets ignored by the media both at the time and especially today. Just an average white guy.
You convinced me thank you for a great video
At the beginning of the clip showing Earhart's plane taking off, one can see a flash of smoke under the tail. On a Lockheed Electra aircraft that's the location of the receiving antenna for the radio. The conclusion is that Earhart's antenna broke or snapped off on takeoff, rendering the aircraft incapable of receiving replies to their outgoing transmissions.
There's also an account of a woman who, as a teenager in Florida, transcribed what could have been Earhart's last transmissions. The reason she could be in Florida and hear a transmission from the South Pacific could be due to some of the radio waves "ricocheting" off the uppermost layers of the atmosphere, thereby slingshotting them halfway across the planet. This is a phenomenon called "harmonics." There have been accounts of transmitters in Antarctica picking up music from Russia, due to the same phenomenon.
Or turn an AM radio on at night and listen to Montana stations while you live in California
Thank you. This is why I read the comments!
@@plantfeeder6677 exactly.
We do not know the exact function of the belly antenna. So it is not known whether or not it was a recieving antenna. The best guess is that it was simply used as a sense antenna for radio direction finding purposes.
Sorry Charlie, you haven’t solved anything. It’s pure speculation, as are a lot of other accounts of her being seen on other islands in the Pacific.
I was actually on the two thousand and two expedition on the Davidson and we found nothing but I’m still interested in this story and to all my crew mates all the best SCOTTY
Those coconut crabs are huge ! When I was in Guam for 3 years, I remember those big claws on the beaches. The locals would catch them and feed them sweet Coconut's and fresh water than eat them after the crabs systems were purged of bugs, etc. They eat all kinds of stuff.
I have eaten them- they are absolutely delicious!
Excellent video
Honestly, i think i prefer the mystery to "eaten by coconut crabs" on some remote island.
There is so many theories spying on the Japanese to running off with her married navigator the list goes on
WTF? Discard the items and bones after the diagnosis? Seems kinda 'sus to me.
How can a doctor be in charge of the remains regardless of whether they felt it was or wasn't her?!
Maybe I should look online and see what officially was thought to happen to those remains and why.
This story reeks of a lesson, like don't just assume whatever you are told and keep trying to find the best answer for you based on logic, science AND time
AND DO NOT TOSS EVIDENCE 😆
There's a channel dedicated to try a find out what happened to her really good channel
@@sicknote1558 What is the channel name?
@@nomore-constipation TIGHARchannel
Great vid
Mystery?! What mystery? Flying across the Pacific, navigating with a sextant and an ADF,
the only runway in the middle of thousands of square miles of ocean on a tiny speck of an island? And they couldn't find it? What's the mysterious part?
The bones were "discarded"? Even if not Amelia, they were still remains of a human being.
THEY WERE BURIED, NOT DISCARDED
So coconut crabs are not scared of fire? Or did they allow the campfire to go out? We need one of the survival guys to do an episode on this island!
Quick check shows they keep there distance from humans...
I have two 16mm film clips taken of Amelia Earhart, in 1931, at Dallas, Love Field. She was flying the first "auto-gyro," across country and stopped to stay the night in Dallas. From her landing on a dirt runway and taxing in a mud field, to closeups of her talking to reporters. The films were taken by my great uncle; William B.Kendall Jr. (Kendall, co-invented fracking in Chickasha, Oklahoma, in 1927!!!)
Excellent summary, except Hoodless didn't _discard_ the bones, the Fiji government archived them and they disappeared in WWII.
99% ?? I doubt that. I have studied forensic anthropology and published papers. Even sexing an intact skeleton is never 99%, max 90%. Humans are variable. If the remains have been scattered, damaged, dried out and possibly commingled it will be much more uncertain.
A complete skeleton? You cant tell a female pelvis from a male?
Really.
He doesn't explain it very well tbh. The results concluded that the bones found on that island were more similar to Earharts known bone measurements than more than 99% of other people from a large reference sample they used.
This has been reported for the last decade. “Probably solved” is nothing new.
This is literally the first I’ve heard of this so it was very interesting for me.
True, but there is so much more media money to be had by playing up the mystery, so this is chronically under reported.
Solved _again?_ Wow. That must be like a thousand times, now.
Now we have to see if we can solve Charles Kingsford Smith disappearance
This would be great if we found Ms. Eckhart's (sorry I am not sure if I spelled Amelia's last name right), I have read about Ms. Amelia to some degree, and I find her to be a rather interesting person, who deserves more coverage and be learned about, as a guy with an impediment, I looked up to Ms. Amelia Eckhart a lot for all the endeavors she chased and accomplished. Thank you Sir for covering this topic
All that and you can't spell her last name?! How do you even hear an 'Eck' in her last name anyways?
@@plantfeeder6677 probably "fixed" by her spell check. Mine does that all the time. I spell something correctly and it changes it. (Spell check seems to be getting worse not better.)
Lone wolf, if you dug deeper on her, you’d find she was no heroic figure, but basically the founder of the I can do anything a man can modern wahmen bs. She wasn’t a skilled pilot, wasn’t ready or trained enough to even try a flight across the pacific, much less around the globe. Ask yourself why she had her navigator quit before the attempt, or why she was known for ignoring her navigators, which is why she came into Saint-Louis Senegal instead of Dakar. That’s 200 miles in the wrong direction.
I‘m looking forward to all the Russian bot comments not realizing this video has nothing to do with it lol
Amelia was an Ukranian attack pilot and was shot down by S400 before she could bomb innocent Ruzzian child. I'm not a very good Ruzzian bot, but I think that sounds about like what they would say.
Refreshing change..
Short and to the point
Does this take into account the makeup case, KNOWN, to have been her brand and carried by her on the same island? Along with clumps of aluminum also known to be of the same aluminum used at the same cast from planes in her era? There are, along with her now recognized, bones and as you've listed more than enough evidence to put her to rest. My ❤️ aches whenever this comes up for the Beacon of, not only Aviation, but Woman in Flight as a whole. I wasn't born in her era, but regardless, I have always had a Great Love of her and her Contributions to the field and the History, and of Women in Aviation. Thanks Alex much appreciated.
Don't forget that any British Expedition landing In 1940 would have been in or right before the Pacific campaign of WW2. Even if it took place before Pearl Harbor, the resources to examine the findings would soon need to be used for higher priority tasks. Which is to say even if there was any doubt or controversy in the initial report, there probably would not have been any additional follow-up done.
He was actually wrong to call it an expedition. It wasnt really that. But rather the British arrived there with gilbertese natives to establish a colony. The colonists lived there until 1963 when the island was abandoned due to a drought. But your absolutely right in thinking that the war played a part. Whilst the discarding of the bones was simply Hoodless' ignorance, the operation itself was kept very secret. Only about half a dozen people (not including the natives on the island) knew about their discovery. And it would take until decades later for it to come to light when the original document was found in an archive
@@ChimozuFuthank you for that info❣️
That is probably the truth, but they really need to find that plane to make it official! There's got to be something left near that Island.
When I revived my Ancestry DnA test back it stated I was related to her by dna even though we never knew we had a connection to her. Crazy.
I believe the government is actually well aware of what ultimately happened to her. Most all the documents are not available for the public, there's a reason for that.
She was spying
She’s always been one of my heroes.
Coconut crabs are huge! And I read somewhere they are toxic so no hunting the hunter. Wouldn't want to be eaten by those things.
Pretty sure you can eat them.... I never heard that they're toxic. They're also really slow, so it's not like you can't get away from them. Unless there's like a zombie hoard....
I ate a lot of coconut crabs while in the peace corps in Micronesia. Definitely not toxic. They are not exactly huge (maybe 3 pounds of so) or toxic. But if there is dead meat of any kind, they will scavenge it.
@@alkers372 The question I have is really the only question that matters, and we all need to know: DO COCONUT CRABS TASTE LIKE COCONUT??? If so, box me up and ship me to whatever island she died on.
@@johnsmithe4656 Basically they taste similar to Lobster. Looking back at the ones I saw in Micronesia, I guess some can get considerably larger than 3-4 pounds.
@@johnsmithe4656 They *are* like a zombie horde. How many times getting pinched in the sleep before jungle rot sets in? It would have been horrible.
Good video. Thanks. I avoided clicking on it earlier because the headline just screams "clickbait!"
"Amelia Earhart disappearance -- solved a long time ago!" would have much more readily drawn me in.
It’s probably my favourite warm weather daytime ‘violet vibe’ fragrance. It’s super long lasting and quite a refreshing scent.
"Eaten before or after she died"...??? Holy, crap! I hope it was after.☺
Well nobody will ever know that's a fact
yeah, I was enjoying the video until it dropped the whole "eaten by coconut crabs, either before or after she died" Nightmare fuel being eaten alive by crabs. 🔥😱🔥
"Holy crab!" _~famous last words_
If she wasn't dead when the crabs started eating her, I'd guess she probably was when they finished.
again? it's getting like 'fusion breakthrough!?' or 'we finally know what sank the hood!' :)
seriously tho: while not conclusive, the route, the island locations and the bottle put it in a top hat for me even before univ. of tennessee's research.
Like amateur “experts” who have “found” MH370 so many times.
As far as what sank the Hood, check out Drachinifel’s video on the subject. It’s by far the most plausible theory to date.
I thought she was abducted by aliens.
Thank you very much for that important update. Great shame that mistake took place. But understandable, under the circumstances. Michael
Spoilers: there was no amelia earhart, it was coconut crabs flying the plane the entire time
LOL, a dozen crabs in a flight suit. hillarious
Craaaab people craaab people.
Taste like crab look like people...
[Crab Rave intensifies]
Where do Dolphin and Whale fit in?
😂😂
The best evidence of where she crashed would be finding one of the two engines from her plane. They would not have deteriorated so much and the deeply-etched serial numbers and other identifying marks would likely still be readable. However, if her airplane went to bottom, the engines are probably buried deep in the silt by now. Still, a good magnetometer could find them, if someone knew where to look.
This would be similar to the possible discovery of Glenn Miller's crashed "Norseman" aircraft, parts of which, including the engine, were dragged up by a fisherman in the English Channel.
There may have been a small chance of finding the wreckage of her airplane, etc. shorty after she disappeared,, but now after almost 86 years, no likely chance.
This bones thing is interesting, but I know that Amelia's disappearance has not been solved. How do I know this? Because if and when it is truly solved it will be headlines all over the world, and, well, that hasn't happened - yet.
So writing in the English language has been totally abandoned by you lol you should check your own grammer before criticizing anyone and making a fool of yourself
Wish we could learn more information.
Wow. Never thought about coconuts having crabs before watching this video.
But then again I've never thought about clowns having sex before.
I really, really hope the coconut crabs ate her AFTER she died, instead of before.
They're slow, so probably. I've heard that the coconut crabs are a bit overblown. They're big and strong, yes, but they're not predators. Scavengers, yes, predators not really.
My guess is that she died of injuries and dehydration / exposure. THEN the crabs came.
Other than the occasional seagull they’re not really vicious predators. A person who is alive and mobile would not be bothered by them. But someone who died in a plane crash would be a crab buffet.
Teeth like a horse, bones like a man? So what?
Very good presentation and well to the point. There have been a lot of conclusions speculated, but his one seems to have the most documented evidence presented (though lost). I recall reading about one fairly recent expedition finding a wreck near some island, possibly that one, resembling an Electra but hard to tell as the money always seems to run out right on the verge of a major discovery. Of course with other early aviation activity around that time plus WWII, it’s hard to tell without raising a wreck to confirm. So crashed on an island with a bottle of liquor and a dwindling fire surrounded by hostiles…..
Will someone please give Amelia a rest after all these DECADES.💕💕💕
I would think she would want to be found, but you rest now 💞
it's not been solved,fail
To think, the mystery was solved decades ago, but we never found out because some man couldn't think outside of the narrow box he was raised in.
That is pretty common today too, for men and women.
She is a hero to transwomen everywhere. I hope Disney makes a movie about her.
Maybe, or maybe it was due to the fact that the science used to identify her was still in its infancy.
I remember seeing this all this information on a documentary several years ago. Makes sense. Amazing that the bones were lost over time or simply tossed out by the doctor.
I would expect such remains to be properly buried. What happened to Fred Noonan's remains?
She was rather manly in common with most of the barrier breakers.
She is a hero to transwomen everywhere. I hope Disney makes a movie about her.
This is obviously a cover up. Amelia was abducted by aliens and kept in suspended animation as proved by the crew of the starship Voyager.
There is almost no fresh water on that island apart from what falls out of the sky. They probably died of thirst.
This story has been re-hashed so many times I just laugh. She's been found numerous times since the 1990's.
When I think of a "stunning a d brave" woman, this is a name that comes to mind. Not some cross dressing grifter selling bud light...
She is a hero to transwomen everywhere. I hope Disney makes a movie about her.
I concur with the video, and how ghastly it must have been to be too weak to do anything about those big crabs munching on her and Noonan. Incidentally, my research shows I am something like her fifth cousin a couple of times removed, so says a genealogy web site which prides itself in being accurate. I’m from Kansas and she is, too. Or was. She is to be celebrated for pushing the envelope regarding being a pilot. Having said that, I have read that she was, at best, not the most skilled of pilots, only average or slightly above. And why the hell would she not have learned to send and receive five words a minute of Morse Code, a little wire for an antenna, and have a little hand operated generator. Guess we cannot think of everything. She probably lost a key antenna on the bottom of the Electra when they took off from New Guinea, a puff of dust was noted on a video taken just as they lifted off on a bumpy airfield. This played hob with locating that Coast Guard cutter offering a directional signal. Amelia was a bit too optimistic in her decisions and did not think far enough out of the box.
I seriously doubt any crabs would have tried to scavenge anyone still alive. Coconut crabs have strong claws, but even a very weak human could just pick them up, smash them, or even rip off their claws.
Thought I saw a video awhile back, that showed her plane was in a port village somewhere along the route ?
At the 1 minute mark, you will see a cloud of smoke at the tail wheel as her belly antennae snaps.
Leave it up to the man to discard evidence cause of old fashioned thinking 🤦🏻♂️
She is a hero to transwomen everywhere. I hope Disney makes a movie about her.