What do you think about this?
On July 2, 1937, the most famous woman in the world flew into a clear blue sky and was never seen again. Amelia Earhart, with her navigator Fred Noonan, was near the end of a twenty five thousand mile flight around the globe. All that remained was to find Howland Island, a flat speck of land in the vast Pacific barely two miles long, and refuel.
She never reached it. A Coast Guard ship waiting offshore picked up her voice on the radio, growing more anxious as the hours passed. We must be on you, she said, but cannot see you, and our fuel is running low. Then the transmissions stopped, and the largest sea and air search in American history up to that point found nothing at all.
For almost ninety years people have refused to let the ocean keep her. The Navy concluded she ran out of fuel and went down at sea. But others believe she turned for a tiny uninhabited atoll called Nikumaroro, landed on its reef, and survived for a time as a castaway. Search teams have returned again and again, recovering a woman’s shoe heel, a piece of aircraft aluminum, fragments that tantalize but never quite close the case.
Is it possible that the answer to one of the last century’s greatest mysteries is sitting on a reef in the middle of the Pacific, waiting for the right tide?
Lost at sea, stranded on an island, or something else entirely? What do you think happened to Amelia Earhart?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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