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? Scans of Gunung Padang in Indonesia show hidden chambers deep inside the hill, and one team dated its oldest layers to 25,000 years ago. The study was retracted in 2024. The chambers have never been opened. Natural hill, or the oldest pyramid on Earth?
What do you think about this? Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 trance readings, all written down and still on file. He said proof of Atlantis would rise near Bimini in 1968. That year divers found a half mile road of giant stone blocks there. True seer, or lucky guess?
What do you think about this? Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky built a 500 foot tunnel just to move its dead out of sight of the living. It closed in 1961. Visitors still report a boy rolling a ball across empty floors. Restless spirits, or a dark building playing tricks on the mind?
What do you think about this? In 1891, a poor French priest named Bérenger Saunière began tearing up his church floor, then spent the next two decades funding lavish buildings on a stipend that should not have covered it. Real treasure, or a secret about how he ran his church?
What do you think about this? Puma Punku’s H-shaped stone blocks, cut from andesite by a culture dating to roughly 600 CE, are flat to within a couple millimeters, with no known metal tools hard enough to do it. Lost technique, or something we haven’t caught up to yet?
What do you think about this? The Georgia Guidestones were commissioned anonymously in 1979 by a man calling himself R.C. Christian, and no one ever learned his real name before the monument was bombed on July 6, 2022. Message, or a monument that did not deserve to stand?
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