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[Latest News] – Icepop: Did the Man Who Discovered Titanic Finally Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart?

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Did the Man Who Discovered Titanic Finally Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart?

Sunday 01 September 2019 03:31 AM UTC-05 | Tags: amelia-earhart discovery expedition fred-noonan innovation island kiribati missing-plane mysteries mystery nikamuroro plane-crash robert-ballard south-pacific titanic

The Fateful Smudge

It happened purely by chance. In 2012, an expert in forensic analysis of photographs took a better look at a photograph of a remote South Pacific island, nearly 80 years old. What others had previously seen as a smudge on the photograph and ignored, he suddenly concluded was something far different.

Getty Images/Bettmann

He ran with his theory to his boss — and news of the stir he had caused raced all the way to the Pentagon. It was a piece of landing gear, sticking out of the waves. What it could indicate reignited international fascination with solving one of the greatest mysteries of the modern world: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

Vanishing Into Legend

The disappearance of famous aviator and flight pioneer Amelia Earhart shocked and horrified the world in her time. Now, more than three-quarters of a century later, it remains notoriously, glaringly unsolved. For the achievements that Amelia made in her short lifetime, she had already made a name for herself in the chronicles of history.

Getty Images/Bettmann

The mysterious circumstances surrounding her alleged demise catapulted her into legend status, and set a fire in the imaginations of generations of researchers, scientists, explorers, and conspiracy theorists. Just what exactly happened to Amelia and her plane on that hot summer night more than eight decades ago?

Going Against The Grain

From her childhood in the small city of Atchison, Kansas, Amelia was destined to be different from other girls. Despite the way society greatly restricted how a woman could act, dress, and work, Amelia’s mother encouraged her daughter to march to the beat of her own drum.

Wikimedia Commons

She did things girls just didn’t do back then, like shooting rats, sledding, and collecting bugs and reptiles. As a young woman visiting her sister in Toronto, she saw a World War I flying ace at an exhibition. He dove his plane towards her, probably to try and scare her — and it backfired, big time.

Entering The Pages Of History

Curious about planes, in 1920, she and her father went to an airfield in California, where another World War I pilot gave her a ride — and changed the course of history. Through her own determination, Amelia learned how to become a pilot. Inspired by Charles Lindbergh flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean, she decided she could do exactly the same thing — and succeeded.

Getty Images/Bettmann

On May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart crossed from Newfoundland, Canada to Northern Ireland in 14 hours and 56 minutes, and became the first woman in history to fly alone across the Atlantic. But almost a decade later, she would enter the history books again, for all the wrong reasons.

Amelia’s Final Feat

After nearly a decade of incredible celebrity status, competing in contests and breaking records for women across the globe, Amelia Earhart decided she would undertake her greatest feat yet: flying around the entire planet in her plane, a Lockheed Electra 10E that had been designed especially for her.

STAFF/AFP/Getty Images

In March 1937, she set off from Hawaii, but the plane crash-landed during takeoff. Unfortunately, Amelia was blamed for the error by some, and her radio operator quit the mission. That left Amelia with her navigator, Fred Noonan. After two months of repairs, they took off from Oakland, California — never to return.

Circumnavigating The Globe

After taking off from Oakland on May 20, 1937, Amelia and Fred crossed the breadth of the continental United States. They headed south for the Caribbean and Brazil, then crossed the Atlantic for Africa. In the course of their journey, they nailed yet another record, completing the first nonstop flight in history from Africa to British India.

Getty Images/Keystone/Hulton Archives

Next, the pair traveled through Southeast Asia, and across the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia. At last, they were set to begin the most difficult part of their journey: crossing the Pacific. They were supposed to return to California and complete their goal. Neither could have imagined what was about to happen.

Last Leg

It was midnight, July 2, 1937. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan took the Electra plane and flew off from Lae Airfield, Australian New Guinea. The pair were headed far away to Howland Island. They had been having radio problems, and neither Amelia nor Fred were skilled radio technicians.

STAFF/AFP/Getty Images

The US Coast Guard Ship had dispatched USCGC Itasca to Howland Island, waiting for Amelia to arrive, and helping them navigate. The problem was, Amelia and Fred couldn’t find an accurate radio signal: her plane, the Electra and the Itasca were working at the wrong frequencies. Throughout the night, Amelia managed to get through several static-filled messages about overcast weather. It was what happened next that caused a radioman on the Itasca, in his words, to “sweat blood”.

Nearing Howland Island

At first, Amelia Earhart could hear the transmissions the USCGC Itasca was sending her, but by early morning, that stopped. The success of the last leg of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s journey was now jeopardized because of constant technical issues. The Itasca couldn’t properly tune in to the frequency of the Electra.

SDASM Archives/Flickr

The plane drew closer and closer. At 6:14 AM, Amelia and Fred reported that they were less than 200 miles away from their destination at Howland Island. Clearly, they were quickly approaching, as at 6:45 AM, Amelia said they were likely 100 miles away. But they had a huge problem: voice notes weren’t getting through.

Running On Line

The Itasca sent Morse code transmissions, which Amelia received, but couldn’t use them to figure out where she was. Between 7:30 and 8:00 AM, Amelia got several messages through, saying she couldn’t hear anything, and was running low on gas. Then, at 8:43, Amelia said, “We are running on line north and south.”

SDASM Archives/Flickr

That meant they thought they had reached Howland Island. They were wrong. The Itasca sent up boiler smoke to try and indicate their position. Nothing happened, and it’s possible that because of the cloud cover Amelia had reported, the smoke couldn’t be distinguished. The crew didn’t know it at the moment, but they had just received the last trace of Amelia Earhart’s existence.

The Search Begins

The radio silence was terrifying. An hour after losing touch with Amelia Earhart, the Itasca went into full emergency mode. The crew began searching for Amelia’s plane, to no avail. Hours became days, and the United States Navy joined the mission. No trace was found, no sign of a crash in the Phoenix Islands chain, near Howland Island.

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An American battleship, the USS Colorado, was sent from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a last attempt to find Amelia and Fred. A plane launched from the Colorado found something intriguing on Gardner Island: signs of human habitation. There was just one glaring problem.

A Fruitless Search

By July 1937, Gardner Island, the suspected site of Amelia Earhart’s plane crash, had not been inhabited by humans for more than 40 years. As the American reconnaissance plane circled and zoomed low overhead, encouraged by the signs of human dwelling, they could not see anybody.

SDASM Archives/Flickr

Nobody waved for help, and the plane returned to the USS Colorado, empty-handed — but they estimated that the island could have been the perfect size for a landing. Millions of dollars were poured into the search effort, which lasted for months. On January 5, 1939, for all intents and purposes, Amelia Earhart was declared dead. Or was she?

Popular Beliefs

When it comes to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, and their Electra plane, absolutely nothing is for certain. That being said, most experts and historians agree on one scenario. It is most widely believed that the cloud cover, low gas, and transmission problems all contributed to the plane’s demise.

New York Times Co./Getty Images

The widely-held consensus is that the plane crashed not far from their destination in Howland Island, and the two were either killed on impact or died shortly thereafter. Though this seems the most plausible explanation, as the mystery grew, new theories emerged — and some of them are absolutely mindboggling.

Theories Run Amok

Beyond the conventionally accepted theories, some of the ideas surrounding Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s disappearance into thin air run the gamut from possible to bizarre. World War II was just a few years away, and some believe Amelia was actually a spy secretly dispatched to gather information on Japanese positions in the Pacific.

Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

In that same vein, others believe they crashed on a different island, were captured by the Japanese, and taken to a prisoner camp, where they perished. Most ludicrous of all, among the wildest theories out there, some posit that cannibals found them, or that Amelia survived and returned to the US, living in secret as a housewife in New Jersey! But the scant few facts indicate something sharply different.

Nikumaroro

Most experts believe that Gardner Island, now known as Nikumaroro, was indeed the site of Amelia Earhart’s crash. This island, located in the present-day nation of Kiribati, is the place that the plane launched from the USS Colorado had circled back in July 1937.

Library of Congress/Getty Images

The island is frequented by coconut crabs, the largest crab species able to go on land, with claws that are strong enough to break open coconuts. Because of them, scientists have a diabolical theory: they think that if Amelia and Fred landed and died on Nikumaroro, the crabs ate them, leaving no trace. But something strange surfaced on the island.

Unidentified Bones

In 1940, a monumental discovery was made on present-day Nikumaroro: human bones. They were sent to a scientist based in Fiji, Dr. David Hoodless. As principal of Fiji’s Central Medical School. he analyzed the remains, concluding that they were 13 human bones, belonging to a male.

Getty Images/Topical Press Agency

The problem was, his forensics techniques were primitive and extremely outdated even for his own time. To make matters worse, the bones were then lost. From the few photographs that remain of them, modern experts are nearly certain that they belong to a female, of Caucasian descent, taller than average: Amelia Earhart. But believe it or not, it was not these bones that would be the most important clue yet.

Bevington’s Snapshot

To understand the context of what could possibly be the biggest clue in locating Amelia Earhart’s wreckage requires going back to when her disappearance was still fresh. In October 1937, just a few months after the Electra plane vanished, the search for her was still in full swing.

Facebook/TIGHAR

A British colonial officer called Eric Bevington arrived back on Gardner Island (today’s Nikumaroro), where the USS Colorado’s plane had found traces of human settlement. There, he saw the ruins not of a plane, but of an old British freighter that had floundered there years before. He snapped a picture — and unknowingly captured what could be the final clue needed to solve the 20th century’s greatest mystery.

A New Lead

Nearly 80 years after Dr. Hoodless in Fiji analyzed — and lost — the human bones from Nikumaroro, and Mr. Bevington took his picture on the same island, a forensic expert for The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) spotted and digitally enhanced a smudge in the water in Bevington’s picture.

Instagram/imrie90

It was only a mere millimeter in the picture’s corner, but under further inspection, it was concluded that this smudge could in fact be a plane’s landing gear, belonging to a Lockheed Electra 10-E: the plane belonging to none other than Amelia Earhart. The team at TIGHAR had just one man in mind to get on the case.

Introducing Robert Ballard

Former US Navy officer Robert Ballard is one of the world’s foremost modern explorers. He has led missions that successfully found the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1985, the remains of the Nazi WWII battleship Bismarck, and dozens of other wrecks.

Underwood Archives/Getty Images(Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

As the president of the Ocean Exploration Trust, few can question his authority on the subject of finding wrecks undersea. Now, he would be picking up where TIGHAR had left off. Their team had even returned to Nikumaroro to look for Amelia Earhart’s plane once again, just before reaching out to Robert Ballard — but they ran into a huge issue.

A Clue In Aluminum

TIGHAR had led multiple searches on Nikumaroro Island over the years, convinced that they had pinpointed the location of Amelia Earhart’s crash site. In 1991, they had found an aluminum shred, 19 inches by 23 inches, which they think was wrenched from Amelia Earhart’s craft.

Facebook/TIGHAR

As proof, they point to a Miami Herald photograph of Amelia’s plane leaving for Puerto Rico on June 1, 1937, showing a shiny aluminum patch on the plane that had replaced a window. But despite all hopes, a 2012 voyage back to Nikumaroro proved fruitless. But this time, they had something truly exciting that they could count on.

Well-Stocked Mission

As one of the foremost names in shipwreck recovery, Robert Ballard has something the TIGHAR team had not used in their searches in the past: a far more vast array of technology at his disposal. In TIGHAR’s past missions around Nikumaroro Island, they admittedly did not have nearly the same budget that Ballard is working with.

The Print Collector via Getty Images

Ballard can use remotely-operated underwater vehicles and a series of cameras to gain a 3D map of the ocean floor near Nikumaroro. Having him on board is the best chance they’ve had yet to finally solving the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance. So what does Ballard himself think?

Assessing The Terrain

Nikumaroro is a coral atoll, and at the edge of the island, the dropoff into the ocean is very steep, with incredibly deep trenches typical of the Pacific. It is roughly 10,000 feet down to the ocean floor. As there are no remnants of the plane on land on the island, Robert Ballard believes that if Amelia Earhart’s plane crashed here, it not only fell into the ocean.

Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

It probably also slid down into an abyss. If the plane had landed on Nikumaroro itself, potentially on the coral reef during low tide, then it would have been submerged by the incoming tide and carried away. So they launched a search.

Ballard In Nikumaroro

Ballard’s team searched Nikumaroro Island in August 2019. To carry out their mission, they split up into two squads: land and sea. The land crew looked around the sands and forest of the island, hoping to find any trace of habitation that could point to survival attempts from Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.

H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

Whatever they would find, they would have to discern between actual original artifacts — especially bones — and the remnants of the failed British settlement on the western end of the island. The aquatic team scoured the waters. There is, however, one enormous problem that may have doomed their mission from the get-go.

Shattered

Though Robert Ballard is renowned for finding the Titanic, the circumstances of its sinking were markedly different from whatever theoretically happened to Amelia Earhart’s plane. The force of the Titanic striking the iceberg, while it sank the ship and tore it into pieces, would not have been the same as the impact of the Electra plane slamming into the coral reef, which would have utterly shattered it.

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Because of the amount of time that has passed since Earhart’s disappearance, it is believed that the plane may not be all together at all. The ocean may have completely dispersed and scattered the debris. And the surrounding geography poses one giant challenge.

Beating The Odds

While Richard E. Gillespie, the head of TIGHAT, feels encouraged that his team finally have the impressive technology of Robert Ballard at their disposal, his position on the odds is decidedly less than optimistic. According to him, he believes that their likelihood of finding any trace of the Electra plane stands below 20 percent.

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The geography of Nikamuroro Island is their foe: the coral reef stands at the top of a steep underwater mountain filled with caves and cliffs where it could have subsided. The area is known for landslides. The plane may have been not only scattered, but permanently covered. So what gives them hope?

Island Hopping

National Geographic filmed Robert Ballard’s expedition to Nikamuroro, scheduled to air as a two-hour special on October 20, 2019. Robert Ballard sent his ship to circle the island five times, mapping it with sonar. In a National Geographic interview, Ballard says that in the primary search site (where that smudge on the 1937 photograph had been), he could not find evidence of Amelia Earhart’s plane.

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According to him, if the plane had been there, its fragments would be slowly sliding down the slope of the coral reef. But the search is not over: next, he’s taking his team to map the waters off Howland Island — where Amelia was supposed to land, before vanishing.

Sources: National Geographic, Daily Mail

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[Latest News] – Icepop: Did the Man Who Discovered Titanic Finally Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart?

[Latest News] – Icepop: Did the Man Who Discovered Titanic Finally Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart? – Icepop Did the Man Who Discovered Titanic Finally Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart? Sunday 01 September 2019 03:31 AM UTC-05 | Tags: amelia-earhart discovery expedition fred-noonan innovation island kiribati missing-plane mysteries mystery nikamuroro plane-crash robert-ballard south-pacific titanic The Fateful Smudge It happened purely by chance. In 2012, an expert in forensic analysis of photographs took a better look at a photograph of a remote South Pacific island, nearly 80 years old. What others had previously seen as a smudge on the photograph and ignored, he suddenly concluded was something far different. Getty Images/Bettmann He ran with his theory to his boss — and news of the stir he had caused raced all the way to the Pentagon. It was a piece of landing gear, sticking out of the waves. What it could indicate reignited international fascination with solving one of the greatest mysteries of the modern world: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Vanishing Into Legend The disappearance of famous aviator and flight pioneer Amelia Earhart shocked and horrified the world in her time. Now, more than three-quarters of a century later, it remains notoriously, glaringly unsolved. For the achievements that Amelia made in her short lifetime, she had already made a name for herself in the chronicles of history. Getty Images/Bettmann The mysterious circumstances surrounding her alleged demise catapulted her into legend status, and set a fire in the imaginations of generations of researchers, scientists, explorers, and conspiracy theorists. Just what exactly happened to Amelia and her plane on that hot summer night more than eight decades ago? Going Against The Grain From her childhood in the small city of Atchison, Kansas, Amelia was destined to be different from other girls. Despite the way society greatly restricted how a woman could act, dress, and work, Amelia’s mother encouraged her daughter to march to the beat of her own drum. Wikimedia Commons She did things girls just didn’t do back then, like shooting rats, sledding, and collecting bugs and reptiles. As a young woman visiting her sister in Toronto, she saw a World War I flying ace at an exhibition. He dove his plane towards her, probably to try and scare her — and it backfired, big time. Entering The Pages Of History Curious about planes, in 1920, she and her father went to an airfield in California, where another World War I pilot gave her a ride — and changed the course of history. Through her own determination, Amelia learned how to become a pilot. Inspired by Charles Lindbergh flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean, she decided she could do exactly the same thing — and succeeded. Getty Images/Bettmann On May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart crossed from Newfoundland, Canada to Northern Ireland in 14 hours and 56 minutes, and became the first woman in history to fly alone across the Atlantic. But almost a decade later, she would enter the history books again, for all the wrong reasons. Amelia’s Final Feat After nearly a decade of incredible celebrity status, competing in contests and breaking records for women across the globe, Amelia Earhart decided she would undertake her greatest feat yet: flying around the entire planet in her plane, a Lockheed Electra 10E that had been designed especially for her. STAFF/AFP/Getty Images In March 1937, she set off from Hawaii, but the plane crash-landed during takeoff. Unfortunately, Amelia was blamed for the error by some, and her radio operator quit the mission. That left Amelia with her navigator, Fred Noonan. After two months of repairs, they took off from Oakland, California — never to return. Circumnavigating The Globe After taking off from Oakland on May 20, 1937, Amelia and Fred crossed the breadth of the continental United States. They headed south for the Caribbean and Brazil, then crossed the Atlantic for Africa. In the course of their journey, they nailed yet another record, completing the first nonstop flight in history from Africa to British India. Getty Images/Keystone/Hulton Archives Next, the pair traveled through Southeast Asia, and across the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia. At last, they were set to begin the most difficult part of their journey: crossing the Pacific. They were supposed to return to California and complete their goal. Neither could have imagined what was about to happen. Last Leg It was midnight, July 2, 1937. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan took the Electra plane and flew off from Lae Airfield, Australian New Guinea. The pair were headed far away to Howland Island. They had been having radio problems, and neither Amelia nor Fred were skilled radio technicians. STAFF/AFP/Getty Images The US Coast Guard Ship had dispatched USCGC Itasca to Howland Island, waiting for Amelia to arrive, and helping them navigate. The problem was, Amelia and Fred couldn’t find an accurate radio signal: her plane, the Electra and the Itasca were working at the wrong frequencies. Throughout the night, Amelia managed to get through several static-filled messages about overcast weather. It was what happened next that caused a radioman on the Itasca, in his words, to “sweat blood”. Nearing Howland Island At first, Amelia Earhart could hear the transmissions the USCGC Itasca was sending her, but by early morning, that stopped. The success of the last leg of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s journey was now jeopardized because of constant technical issues. The Itasca couldn’t properly tune in to the frequency of the Electra. SDASM Archives/Flickr The plane drew closer and closer. At 6:14 AM, Amelia and Fred reported that they were less than 200 miles away from their destination at Howland Island. Clearly, they were quickly approaching, as at 6:45 AM, Amelia said they were likely 100 miles away. But they had a huge problem: voice notes weren’t getting through. Running On Line The Itasca sent Morse code transmissions, which Amelia received, but couldn’t use them to figure out where she was. Between 7:30 and 8:00 AM, Amelia got several messages through, saying she couldn’t hear anything, and was running low on gas. Then, at 8:43, Amelia said, “We are running on line north and south.” SDASM Archives/Flickr That meant they thought they had reached Howland Island. They were wrong. The Itasca sent up boiler smoke to try and indicate their position. Nothing happened, and it’s possible that because of the cloud cover Amelia had reported, the smoke couldn’t be distinguished. The crew didn’t know it at the moment, but they had just received the last trace of Amelia Earhart’s existence. The Search Begins The radio silence was terrifying. An hour after losing touch with Amelia Earhart, the Itasca went into full emergency mode. The crew began searching for Amelia’s plane, to no avail. Hours became days, and the United States Navy joined the mission. No trace was found, no sign of a crash in the Phoenix Islands chain, near Howland Island. Wikimedia Commons An American battleship, the USS Colorado, was sent from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a last attempt to find Amelia and Fred. A plane launched from the Colorado found something intriguing on Gardner Island: signs of human habitation. There was just one glaring problem. A Fruitless Search By July 1937, Gardner Island, the suspected site of Amelia Earhart’s plane crash, had not been inhabited by humans for more than 40 years. As the American reconnaissance plane circled and zoomed low overhead, encouraged by the signs of human dwelling, they could not see anybody. SDASM Archives/Flickr Nobody waved for help, and the plane returned to the USS Colorado, empty-handed — but they estimated that the island could have been the perfect size for a landing. Millions of dollars were poured into the search effort, which lasted for months. On January 5, 1939, for all intents and purposes, Amelia Earhart was declared dead. Or was she? Popular Beliefs When it comes to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, and their Electra plane, absolutely nothing is for certain. That being said, most experts and historians agree on one scenario. It is most widely believed that the cloud cover, low gas, and transmission problems all contributed to the plane’s demise. New York Times Co./Getty Images The widely-held consensus is that the plane crashed not far from their destination in Howland Island, and the two were either killed on impact or died shortly thereafter. Though this seems the most plausible explanation, as the mystery grew, new theories emerged — and some of them are absolutely mindboggling. Theories Run Amok Beyond the conventionally accepted theories, some of the ideas surrounding Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s disappearance into thin air run the gamut from possible to bizarre. World War II was just a few years away, and some believe Amelia was actually a spy secretly dispatched to gather information on Japanese positions in the Pacific. Topical Press Agency/Getty Images In that same vein, others believe they crashed on a different island, were captured by the Japanese, and taken to a prisoner camp, where they perished. Most ludicrous of all, among the wildest theories out there, some posit that cannibals found them, or that Amelia survived and returned to the US, living in secret as a housewife in New Jersey! But the scant few facts indicate something sharply different. Nikumaroro Most experts believe that Gardner Island, now known as Nikumaroro, was indeed the site of Amelia Earhart’s crash. This island, located in the present-day nation of Kiribati, is the place that the plane launched from the USS Colorado had circled back in July 1937. Library of Congress/Getty Images The island is frequented by coconut crabs, the largest crab species able to go on land, with claws that are strong enough to break open coconuts. Because of them, scientists have a diabolical theory: they think that if Amelia and Fred landed and died on Nikumaroro, the crabs ate them, leaving no trace. But something strange surfaced on the island. Unidentified Bones In 1940, a monumental discovery was made on present-day Nikumaroro: human bones. They were sent to a scientist based in Fiji, Dr. David Hoodless. As principal of Fiji’s Central Medical School. he analyzed the remains, concluding that they were 13 human bones, belonging to a male. Getty Images/Topical Press Agency The problem was, his forensics techniques were primitive and extremely outdated even for his own time. To make matters worse, the bones were then lost. From the few photographs that remain of them, modern experts are nearly certain that they belong to a female, of Caucasian descent, taller than average: Amelia Earhart. But believe it or not, it was not these bones that would be the most important clue yet. Bevington’s Snapshot To understand the context of what could possibly be the biggest clue in locating Amelia Earhart’s wreckage requires going back to when her disappearance was still fresh. In October 1937, just a few months after the Electra plane vanished, the search for her was still in full swing. Facebook/TIGHAR A British colonial officer called Eric Bevington arrived back on Gardner Island (today’s Nikumaroro), where the USS Colorado’s plane had found traces of human settlement. There, he saw the ruins not of a plane, but of an old British freighter that had floundered there years before. He snapped a picture — and unknowingly captured what could be the final clue needed to solve the 20th century’s greatest mystery. A New Lead Nearly 80 years after Dr. Hoodless in Fiji analyzed — and lost — the human bones from Nikumaroro, and Mr. Bevington took his picture on the same island, a forensic expert for The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) spotted and digitally enhanced a smudge in the water in Bevington’s picture. Instagram/imrie90 It was only a mere millimeter in the picture’s corner, but under further inspection, it was concluded that this smudge could in fact be a plane’s landing gear, belonging to a Lockheed Electra 10-E: the plane belonging to none other than Amelia Earhart. The team at TIGHAR had just one man in mind to get on the case. Introducing Robert Ballard Former US Navy officer Robert Ballard is one of the world’s foremost modern explorers. He has led missions that successfully found the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1985, the remains of the Nazi WWII battleship Bismarck, and dozens of other wrecks. Underwood Archives/Getty Images(Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images) As the president of the Ocean Exploration Trust, few can question his authority on the subject of finding wrecks undersea. Now, he would be picking up where TIGHAR had left off. Their team had even returned to Nikumaroro to look for Amelia Earhart’s plane once again, just before reaching out to Robert Ballard — but they ran into a huge issue. A Clue In Aluminum TIGHAR had led multiple searches on Nikumaroro Island over the years, convinced that they had pinpointed the location of Amelia Earhart’s crash site. In 1991, they had found an aluminum shred, 19 inches by 23 inches, which they think was wrenched from Amelia Earhart’s craft. Facebook/TIGHAR As proof, they point to a Miami Herald photograph of Amelia’s plane leaving for Puerto Rico on June 1, 1937, showing a shiny aluminum patch on the plane that had replaced a window. But despite all hopes, a 2012 voyage back to Nikumaroro proved fruitless. But this time, they had something truly exciting that they could count on. Well-Stocked Mission As one of the foremost names in shipwreck recovery, Robert Ballard has something the TIGHAR team had not used in their searches in the past: a far more vast array of technology at his disposal. In TIGHAR’s past missions around Nikumaroro Island, they admittedly did not have nearly the same budget that Ballard is working with. The Print Collector via Getty Images Ballard can use remotely-operated underwater vehicles and a series of cameras to gain a 3D map of the ocean floor near Nikumaroro. Having him on board is the best chance they’ve had yet to finally solving the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance. So what does Ballard himself think? Assessing The Terrain Nikumaroro is a coral atoll, and at the edge of the island, the dropoff into the ocean is very steep, with incredibly deep trenches typical of the Pacific. It is roughly 10,000 feet down to the ocean floor. As there are no remnants of the plane on land on the island, Robert Ballard believes that if Amelia Earhart’s plane crashed here, it not only fell into the ocean. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images It probably also slid down into an abyss. If the plane had landed on Nikumaroro itself, potentially on the coral reef during low tide, then it would have been submerged by the incoming tide and carried away. So they launched a search. Ballard In Nikumaroro Ballard’s team searched Nikumaroro Island in August 2019. To carry out their mission, they split up into two squads: land and sea. The land crew looked around the sands and forest of the island, hoping to find any trace of habitation that could point to survival attempts from Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images Whatever they would find, they would have to discern between actual original artifacts — especially bones — and the remnants of the failed British settlement on the western end of the island. The aquatic team scoured the waters. There is, however, one enormous problem that may have doomed their mission from the get-go. Shattered Though Robert Ballard is renowned for finding the Titanic, the circumstances of its sinking were markedly different from whatever theoretically happened to Amelia Earhart’s plane. The force of the Titanic striking the iceberg, while it sank the ship and tore it into pieces, would not have been the same as the impact of the Electra plane slamming into the coral reef, which would have utterly shattered it. Wikimedia Commons Because of the amount of time that has passed since Earhart’s disappearance, it is believed that the plane may not be all together at all. The ocean may have completely dispersed and scattered the debris. And the surrounding geography poses one giant challenge. Beating The Odds While Richard E. Gillespie, the head of TIGHAT, feels encouraged that his team finally have the impressive technology of Robert Ballard at their disposal, his position on the odds is decidedly less than optimistic. According to him, he believes that their likelihood of finding any trace of the Electra plane stands below 20 percent. Wikimedia Commons The geography of Nikamuroro Island is their foe: the coral reef stands at the top of a steep underwater mountain filled with caves and cliffs where it could have subsided. The area is known for landslides. The plane may have been not only scattered, but permanently covered. So what gives them hope? Island Hopping National Geographic filmed Robert Ballard’s expedition to Nikamuroro, scheduled to air as a two-hour special on October 20, 2019. Robert Ballard sent his ship to circle the island five times, mapping it with sonar. In a National Geographic interview, Ballard says that in the primary search site (where that smudge on the 1937 photograph had been), he could not find evidence of Amelia Earhart’s plane. Wikimedia Commons According to him, if the plane had been there, its fragments would be slowly sliding down the slope of the coral reef. But the search is not over: next, he’s taking his team to map the waters off Howland Island — where Amelia was supposed to land, before vanishing. Sources: National Geographic, Daily Mail Tags: amelia-earhart discovery expedition fred-noonan innovation island kiribati missing-plane mysteries mystery nikamuroro plane-crash robert-ballard south-pacific titanic from [Latest News] – Icepop: Did the Man Who Discovered Titanic Finally Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart? via [Latest News] – Icepop: Did the Man Who Discovered Titanic Finally Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart? 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Vanishing Into Legend

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Entering The Pages Of History

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Amelia’s Final Feat

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The unsolved mysteries of the world illustrated through stamps and coins: part 1

Unknown, unheard and unsolved, the mysteries of the world are one most fascinating enigmas for mankind. These events do not have any scientific explanations and are a wide string of mysterious webs with complex and untraceable origins since aeons. People who have witnessed these phenomena believed in it, but for the rest of the world, these are just fancy stories told to entertain local tourists. We can only experience these events, a mere explanation won’t justify them. Many countries across the world have acknowledged these mysteries of the world in their own fancy curious ways. They have illustrated these mysteries on stamps and coins to allure the interest of the people towards these unexplained happenings.

These marvels series is divided into a set of sixteen classified events across the different countries. It is divided into two parts, part one covers the Scottish mystery, fate of Amazon, lost island, etc.

So, without fail, let us embark on the adventure of the unknown through the help of philately and numismatics. Where you all will come across many questions! Yet, it will tease our explorative and curious nature and leave us wanting to know more about it.

The Scottish Mystery: Nessi

A freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands is lazily welcoming the first ray of light, suddenly there is the sound of splashing water and you can see a big shadow like animal swimming in the lake. This shadow is non-other than the endearing resident monster of Loch Ness, the adorable Nessie!

The lore of this Scottish creature is one of the most entertaining stories of the modern era. Nessie appeared on the souvenir sheet (image a) of Maldives Island, they issued this stamp in 1993. This sheet represented Nessie in a plesiosaur form, an ocean reptile during the age of the dinosaur.

This lovable creature of Loch Ness is so famous that royal mint has also illustrated it on a nickel plated steel 10 pence coin (image c). This coin was issued in 2018 and featured Nessie on its reverse side. This coin is the part of 26 designs featuring and celebrating British life.

This beautiful silver coin seen in image b depicts Nessie in a very ferocious form. This stunning 1000 franc Burkina Faso was issued in 2017. It was the third coin released in the mythical creature series.

The lore of the resident monster of Loch Ness became famous in 1933 when a couple passing by the lake saw a creature playing along with the shore. Many searching parties explored the area around the lake, but the evidence of such a creature’s existence was never found. Till date, it’s a mystery if such a creature exists in Loch Ness or it was just an illusion, we will never know.

The second story of this adventure is The Ghosts in old castles:

The stories of Ghost are quite common among the different societies and cultures across the globe. These stories are told to entertain people during a cold night in the front of the bonfire with an added benefit of roasted marshmallows.

Amongst all these tattle tales and the rumours of the ghost of London tower, the story of Anne Boleyn’s ghost is the most enduring. It’s also the most travelled ghost in the history of ghost lore’s, due to its supposed appearance in various old castles across the United Kingdom.

The mysteries of the world series of Maldives post issued a souvenir sheet (image d) illustrating the lady of London tower in 1993. The London tower is the place where Anne Boleyn, the Second wife of King Henry VII of England was executed for treason. It is rumoured that she is seen in many places with different attires like a blue dress or wearing loin cloths and staring down from a window, and sometimes strolling in a garden and so on.

The stamp in image e that Canada Post issued in 2014 brings alive the Ghost bride of the Banff Spring Hotel. This stamp depicts the unnerving image of women staring straight at you, it is said that this bride Ghost died on her wedding day. The Canada Post has issued a series of the stamp depicting various haunting lore from the different place in Canada. This country is a fan of haunting stories and mysteries; it’s like a popular culture there.

The next mysteries of this grand journey are;

The lost island and the great triangle:

It’s a captivating thought, that is Atlantis real or it is an imagination of Plato, there are so many questions about Atlantis without any answers. This lost Island of Atlantis is the most debated and interesting subject discussed between the historian and history fanatics. The existence of Atlantis is one of the biggest mysteries of the world.

This island is beautifully depicted in the gold 5 dollars (image A) of Fiji in 2006. This coin was the part of Famous landscape formation series. The obverse of this coin depicts legend ‘Atlantis lost Island’ with a broken temple in the centre.

The souvenir sheet (image b) of Maldives depicts this lost Island of Atlantis with a stamp depicting the bust of Plato.

The image c depicts yet another great unsolved mystery of the Ocean, the Bermuda triangle! This stamp was issued by the Maldives Post. It is the part of the Mysteries of Universe series issued in 1993. This famous region is suited in the Atlantic Ocean and is famous for the loss of many ships and planes in this area.

The accidents that occur here are unexplained and no one knows about the fate of the lost planes and ships. In 1998, Cooks Island issued a triangle shaped sterling silver three dollar coin (image d), and in 1996 a gold 60 dollar triangle shape coins that depicted the Bermuda mystery.

The end of this long analysis is coming and with it comes the second last mysteries of this fabulous journey;

The disaster of Hindenburg and Ghost ship Marie Celeste:

On May 6, 1937, the German Zeppelin Hindenburg exploded into flames and crashed while approaching its mooring tower in Lakehurst, New Jersey. There are many plausible causes of these disasters, but the real reason for this tragedy is still unknown. This tragedy took many lives and remains as one of the mysterious disasters till today.

The Maldives Post issued a souvenir sheet (image a) in 1992 depicting this tragedy also known as the explosion of the Hindenburg. The second stamp (image b) depicted by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2000 depicted the flames of the airship. This airship was depicted on the airmail stamps of Germany, the gold foil stamp of Chad in 1983 and also of Greece, Finland, Italy, etc. The tragedy of this airship is quite known and unanswered till today.

The second mysteries of the World in this image is of Ghost Ship called Marie Celeste also known as Amazon, it is depicted on the sheet stamp of Maldives (image c). This ship was found adrift in the Atlantis Ocean without its crew.

This ship was also depicted on the gold coin (Image d) issued by Canada mint in 2016. It was the most famous wooden sailing ship, one of the first vessels built at Spencer Island. Yet, it is known as the Mary Celeste the inexplicable mysteries of the high sea. When this ship was found lonely in the wide sea without any crew member on board, the circumstance in which all it’s happened in unknown. None of the crew members was reported or found again, their fate remained is unknown to the world until today.

At the end of this adventurous journey, the last mysteries are;

The being in the Himalayan Mountains and the unknown spaceships:

One of the greatest mysteries of the Himalayan Mountains is the hairy white hominid inhabitant called Yeti. It is claimed by many mountaineers and trekkers that they have seen Yeti. Many stories around the world talk about a long-haired being roaming in the forest hiding for the modern men, adds more spice to its mystery.

Maldives post has issued a souvenir stamp (image a) depicting the footprint of a Yeti on snow. This stamp is a part of the mysteries of the universe series. The second triangular stamp (image b) was issued by the Bhutan Post issued in 1966.

There are many songs of yeti describing it as a lonely figure hiding from the modern world. This song also warns Yeti to hide and run and be a mystery. It good that this song tells yeti to hide because let’s face it, what will this world be without mysteries like the Yeti’s!

The last mystery is the greatest of all, one which is a dicey argument. The sighting of the UFO across the globe, the mystery of UFO is like Ghost stories hard to believe, but fascinating to hear.

UFO’s have appeared on many countries stamps like the souvenir sheet (image c) of the Maldives, issued in 1993. This stamp is based on the story of Kenneth Arnold; he saw nine discs shaped aircraft moving at tremendous speed in 1947 over Washington State. The second stamp (image d) was issued by Tanzania Post in 1999 based on the same story. Maldives Post also issued a sheet in 1992 based on the report of four army officers flying near Columbus, Ohio who collided with Unknown Vehicle.

Different countries in the world have issued stamps depicting UFO-like Turkmenistan, Germany, Equatorial Guinea, etc.

The mysteries of the world are one of the fascinating subjects for study, debate and research. These are the never-ending topics with many possibilities. We never knew where we will reach and what waits for us there. These incidences are famous because they are not seen by many and do not have any proof of its existence. Some of these incidents have taken place without any proper explanation.

These mysteries are like the games of assumptions. It’s like a game of dice we never know what new facts or theory we will read about these different mysterious occurrences. These mysteries are lore do not have morals at the end because there is no end to this stories. Maybe these stories are not yet complete there more things to discover, we may never know.

In this part only eight mysteries of the world are discussed, more will be coming to engage you all in this exciting exploits. Stay in touch and wait for the next great adventures with the mysteries of the world.

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Since the world began, we have been surrounded by mysteries. Some are solved by science, but others remain unexplained and might stay unsolved forever. Some are as ancient as humanity, but our fascination with them keeps them timeless. Here are ten such historical unsolved mysteries, to both entertain you and make you wonder.

#1 The Fate of Hitler’s Stolen Wealth This is supposedly the greatest and biggest cache ever: an unimaginable hoard of looted gold bars, jewelry, and foreign currency, with an estimated value of $4 billion. These stolen riches disappeared in the blink of an eye from the vaults of the German Reichsbank. In the decades after World War II, troves of looted valuables were found in Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, Spain, and Sweden, but they hardly compare in value to Hitler’s supposed hoard. Groups all over the world are still hunting for his treasure, but even after all these years, the question remains: Where is the gold of Hitler? The only sure thing is that the mystery of the treasure remains unsolved, with all its rumors, speculations, and myths still entwined around it. One of the most popular beliefs is that Hitler himself buried it in a secret location somewhere in Deutschneudorf, Germany. Some treasure hunters believe that the plunder is lying at the bottom of Lake Toplitz in Austria, while others suggest that it’s stashed in banks around the world. The only certain thing is that, when there’s nothing but speculation about the location of a $4 billion treasure, it grows into a legend.

#2 The Disappearance of the USS Cyclops The Bermuda Triangle is famous for mysterious disappearances that have taken place there over the years. Even though scientists are nowadays able to provide logical explanations for most of the disappearances in that area, some have never been explained, including the unsolved disappearance of the USS Cyclops, a Proteus-class collier of the US Navy. During the First World War, the USS Cyclops was sent to Brazil to fuel British ships in the South Atlantic. Returning from Rio de Janeiro, she made a brief stop at the island of Barbados, then departed for Baltimore on the 4th of March, 1918. From that time forward, no one saw or heard anything about the Cyclops ever again. The crew and all 306 passengers vanished once and for all, and no trace of them or the ship has ever been found. It remains the single largest non-combat loss of life in U.S. Naval history. Even though American Naval authorities have tried for years to give a logical explanation, the disappearance remains an absolute mystery with many unanswered questions.

#3 Locating the Remains of Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus is probably the most famous explorer of all time, and we know pretty much everything about his life — except for one mystery: After his death in 1509, his remains continued to travel, and we don’t know where they ended up. Originally buried in the Spanish city of Vigiadolid, in 1537 his bones were transferred to the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean, in accordance with his wishes. But when the Spanish lost the region to the French in 1795, his remains were transferred to Cuba, where they stayed until the Spanish-American war. They were eventually returned to Seville, Spain, in 1898. The Dominican Republic’s official version, however, claims that the remains of Columbus never left Hispaniola. In 1877, in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo, a box was discovered bearing an inscription stating that the remains inside were those of the “glorious and eminent Cristobal Colon.” A DNA analysis conducted on the bones in Seville, and on those of Columbus’s brother Diego (who is buried in the same city) showed that the two samples matched perfectly. When researchers announced these findings in 2006, the controversy surrounding Columbus’s earthly remains should have come to a definitive end. However, the Dominican Republic openly challenges the results of the DNA testing, and for years has demanded a DNA analysis of the bones in Hispaniola, leaving open a window of doubt.

#4 Secrets of the Phaistos Disc The Minoan Civilization is considered by most historians to be the first organized Western civilization, and it has been named “the first link in the European chain.” The Phaistos Disc, which was discovered in 1908 by Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in the ancient city of Phaistos, gave hope to even the least optimistic among us that it would help us understand the Minoan civilization in more detail. But the Phaistos Disc is a global conundrum that has kept its secrets hidden for thousands of years. Suggestions about what its inscription means include a hymn, a prayer, a geometric theorem for the calendar, and the narrative of a story. However, the global scientific community has not been able to confirm any of these. After decades of research, a diverse team of scientists intensively studying the Minoan language and the text of the Phaistos Disc may have come close to solving one of the biggest mysteries of archaeology, but so far the Disc remains an absolutely unsolved mystery.

#5 The “Wow!” Signal It lasted for 37 seconds, and it came from outer space — but what exactly was it? On August 15, 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman, working on a SETI project at Ohio Wesleyan University’s Perkins Observatory, glanced as usual at the prints generated by the radio telescope known as the “Big Ear,” but what he saw this time made him write “Wow!” on the printout. But what did he see exactly that caused such a reaction? According to him, it was the strongest, clearest, and most significant signal ever recorded, and a unsolved mystery that astronomers have been debating for decades. That was thirty-six years ago, and still no one knows what caused the signal or where it came from exactly. The scientific world is unable to provide a clear explanation, strengthening the myth surrounding this case. Even skeptics now wonder if the signal could have been the first human contact with extraterrestrial life.

#6 Genghis Khan’s Final Resting Place In 1206, Genghis Khan united the warring tribes of his region, becoming the leader of the Mongols and creating an empire that reached from China to Hungary. But the location of the tomb of the famous warrior has been a mystery since his death in 1227. According to legend, a group of his loyal followers buried him and then killed all the witnesses. All the soldiers and slaves who were present at the funeral were murdered, and horses trampled the burial site to destroy any traces of it. His loyal subjects are even said to have diverted a river to roll over his grave so it could never be detected. However, the most likely scenario is that Khan was buried near his birthplace in the Khentii Aimag province of Mongolia. Over the years, a number of attempts to locate the tomb were barred by the authorities to prevent disturbing the locals or disrespecting the history of the area, but in 2004 a team of archaeologists discovered the palace of Genghis Khan. It is now speculated that the tomb lies nearby, but after nearly ten years of exploration and search, nothing has been found.

#7 Pinpointing the Star of Bethlehem For Christians, the appearance of the Star of Bethlehem is a faith-based event, and no further explanation is required. But for scientists and non-Christians, many questions remain. For nearly 2000 years, the bright star has been a mystery. Was it a miracle as the Christian religion teaches, a natural phenomenon, or maybe an alien spacecraft? St. John Chrysostom even suggested that it was not a star, but some unseen force that took this form. The phenomenon has been the object of intense study for researchers, astronomers, historians, and archaeologists since antiquity. Modern scholars sometimes suggest that it was an unidentified flying object because, according to Scripture, it was visible constantly day and night and did not follow a course from east to west like other stars do. Some British researchers propose that the star of Bethlehem was a bright nova, like the one described by the Chinese in the spring of 5 BC. The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler argued that it was the conjunction of two planets forming a temporary “new star,” and Origen of antiquity (185-254 AD) claimed that it was a bright comet, as did the astronomer A. Stentzel in 1913. But no satisfactory scientific account has been provided to this day, and the mysterious star remains unexplained.

#8 The Gods of Olympus Could Have Been Aliens Is it possible that intelligent life forms visited Earth thousands of years ago, bringing with them technology that drastically affected the course of history and human evolution? If so, would people regard them as Gods? According to a few heretic and alternative historians and scientists, this is exactly what happened. “We modern humans, according to Hesiod, belong to the fifth faction created by Zeus, the iron race, a mixture of good and evil,” says Swiss author Erich Von Daniken. According to his book Odyssey of the Gods, the ancient Greek gods were in fact extraterrestrial beings with superior intelligence who visited Earth, bringing with them their advanced technology. They were not mythological creatures, but actual space aliens. Of course, none of these theories can be proven historically accurate, but as Von Daniken points out to his doubters, neither can Jesus’s divinity.

#9 The Truth Behind Bimini Road In 1968, under the seabed off the coast of Bimini Island in the Bahamas, divers discovered dozens of huge flat limestone blocks forming a perfectly straight highway one kilometer long – a formation unlikely to be created naturally. Many claim that the blocks are the ruins of an ancient civilization, while others are convinced that this is a unique natural phenomenon. But none of these explanations can account for a prophecy made in the early decades of the 20th century. A famous prophet and healer of that time, Edgar Cayce, made a prediction in 1938: “Part of the ruins of Lost Atlantis will be discovered in the sea around the islands of Bimini … This will be done in 1968 or 1969.” Cayce’s prediction was indeed oddly – and creepily – accurate.

#10 The Identity of the Babushka Lady In the films and photos recording the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, an unknown woman can be seen in the crowd standing near the Kennedy limousine. She is seen wearing a brown coat and a scarf on her head, which gave her the nickname “the Babushka Lady.” In certain moments of the film, this woman seems to be holding a camera up to her eyes. After the shooting, while most people dispersed, the Babushka Lady remained there calmly recording the events. Shortly afterwards, she vanished in the crowds walking up Elm Street. What makes the case even more bizarre is that although the FBI, through the press, asked this woman to produce her film, she never appeared. In 1970, a woman named Beverly Oliver claimed to be the Babushka Lady, but her story had many gaps and inaccuracies, and she is largely considered to be a con artist. Nobody knows who the woman with the babushka scarf was, or why she never delivered what she had recorded with her camera. Got any unsolved mysteries you feel we should have mentioned? Let us know in the comments below.

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