Amelia Earhart Part I: The Lady Vanishes

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ever since Amelia Earhart made her last radio transmission somewhere over the Pacific, theories about her disappearance have proliferated; more than 80 years later, the constant retelling of her story shows no signs of slowing. Although the search to find a “smoking gun” has yielded little evidence, there are many who believe they know how Amelia’s story ended. Whether they’re right or wrong, one thing remains true: Their stories have little to do with Amelia herself. For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard. Want more? Check out the maps of Amelia Earhart’s flight plan as well as archival photos, and take a peek inside Bob Ballard’s search vessel in a National Geographic story about Ballard’s expedition. You can also watch the documentary Expedition Amelia on Disney+. See the final radio log between Earhart and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca on the morning she disappeared. Also explore: Learn about how cadaver dogs are used around the world to help uncover what humans can’t detect. There’s a reason humans are such good storytellers—it’s to our evolutionary advantage. Learn about why we crave the ending to a story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.9	That voice could only belong to one person, Amelia Earhart. It's so confident, so self-assured.
1:14.3	It was recorded at the height of her fame. A world famous career that was to be topped
1:18.4	off by a circumnavigation of the earth. It was a journey she would never complete. The
1:23.6	name Amelia Earhart conjures up all kinds of things for me. A daring adventure that
1:28.5	becomes an unsolved mystery, a story without an ending.
1:32.7	And I think there's one more folder here. There's something called the Amelia Earhart
1:39.8	Foundation. You know, it talks about unsolved mysteries.
1:46.5	Archivist Kathy Hunter is showing me a stack of memorabilia from deep inside Nachios archives.
1:52.1	What's the purpose of the foundation, does it say?
1:55.9	Let's see. It says to conduct an expedition to clear up the mystery surrounding the disappearance
2:02.2	of Amelia Earhart, the lost ABA tricks in Captain Frederick J. Nune and her navigator, and
2:08.9	to attempt to determine beyond doubt whether or not they're still alive.
2:13.8	Oh my goodness. When's this from? Does it, is there a date?
2:17.9	But here's what most of us know. Amelia Earhart was a pilot. Amelia Earhart was a celebrity.
2:23.1	Amelia Earhart disappeared.
2:24.9	Let's see. 23rd day of December, 1937.
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