The Odd Vanishing of Amelia Earhart
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American aviator Amelia Earhart, c 1930s.
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Every f***ing time that mannequin scares the sh*t out of me
It’s in a new position every episode and it scares me
Same 😂💀
Fr LMFAOOOOOOO
I feel like it can move
Park Chim Chim What if it can 👀
This story makes me sad because she only had 18 hours left on this 40 day trip and we have no clue what happened
Literally 99.98% complete.
She was so close :(
Also it was her birthday few days later
@Niko No, we can't. Was she a Woman? Really? Omg.
The plane hit the ocean. Case closed.
saw a comment that said "the scary thing is that Earhart and Noonan are the only people on the planet who know the truth" but the scariest thing is what if they aren't??
@@waffles9771 if someone did kill or capture them, then they would also know
could be aliens lol but who knows right.....
This give me chills omygod
@@waffles9771 Obviously captured, or even killed. It was in the Pacific during the height of imperialist Japan.
@@kaylanierivera1114 right. especially now thag the government has told the truth about aliens being real, thats a great possibility thats what happened, either that, the spy thing, or the coconut crab thing.
I think theory 2 is what most likely happened. Ameilia was an experienced pilot who knew what to do under pressure. I think she landed on the island and eventually died with Noonan due to a lack of supplies. Then, they were eaten by crabs.
Crabs yes but good pilot no. She crashes often. Lands at wrong place often. Makes bad decisions mostly. Like marrying Putnam. She was right. He ended up killing her by pushing her into a flight without paul Mantz and harry manning. Pilot and radio man.
@@neatstuff8200 you have to remember this was the 1930s? Planes were much less reliable and equipment much less advanced than it is today. In 2015 an entire commercial airliner vanished from the face of the earth, it’s not unlikely that she had a major malfunction over water and couldn’t contact anybody to help her. You can’t tarnish her legacy because of what most likely was a mechanical failure mid flight.
but planes flew over that island a day later after her crash and saw nothing
@@neatstuff8200 Right on. The goal was, and still, to convince the public she was better than Lindbergh. Not even close. JMO
Both Noonan and Earhart didn’t know Morse Code or CW as it’s know and Earhart had poor knowledge of there Radio equipment that is why they disappeared sadly.
Technically Michael Jordan did disappear once and was found in a different dimension where Buggs bunny played basketball
True, however, he disappeared in the middle of a golf game, not basketball.
@@bossmeehan5693 yOiNK
Hahahahahahahahahaha Space Jam reference
I was looking for this comment lol
yup
Coast Guard: We think the plane crashed and Earhart died. Amelia: Quit tellin' everyone I'm dead! Coast Guard: Sometimes we can still hear her voice-
This comment is so under appreciated
Lol
😂😂😂
You have fullfilled the prophecy, of making me laugh.
Ice age reference?
Fun Fact: A man named Dr. Robert Ballard, the same man who founded the wreck of Titanic in 1985, is searching for Earhart’s plane.
There's a difference between a metal behemoth of a ship that they knew what happened to and an extremely light and small plane where they don't where in the world it even is close to.
@@froggytimmy8643 well tbf the titanic was gonna be somewhere in the atlantic ocean and wasn't all that close to where it sank AND split in two, but amelia's plane(if it crashed in the ocean) shouldn't have been all that far from the last place they reported, near the island.
@@alibrooks7495 I'm saying that if that were true, the plane would be so light, it literally wouldn't exist anymore. It would have been pulled to pieces in the ocean, the bodies would have rotted, and any remaining tiny pieces of the plane would be sent around the world by the currents.
@@froggytimmy8643 right like coins aren’t found at the bottom of the ocean daily 😭
@@zhakirfreeman9764 subscribe to Dees Keed on youtube please
'Half the reason that half the cases are unsolved bcoz some people found the evidence and were like, too much work, thrown em' this is sad but so truee
yessss, i listen to true crime all the time and the unfortunate reason why so many of these cases aren’t solved is because they fail to do the most basic things.
Yes it’s infuriating
The guy who tossed the bones was, like, almost criminally incompetent. Even if they weren't Amelia Earhart or Fred Noonan's bones, they were still human remains. Who just casually tosses out unidentified human remains like, "Well, it's not someone famous, so who cares?"
i mean, yeah, he'd never really done bone identifying before and it was very new.
i mean, yeah, he'd never really done bone identifying before and it was very new.
But that action seems to reinforce the spy theory, doesn't it? A malicious cover-up disguised as incompetence
@@skygardener7849 yea but her being a spy doesn’t make sense why would she put herself in the spotlight. If a spy started to get really well known I have a feeling they’d not want her as a spy anymore. Especially if a “spy” mission was a trip that would make world history, and if anything went wrong there would be millions of people alarmed.
My theory is that it was Amelia Earhart and the dude didn’t want people to know for some reason
Ok even if it wasn’t Amelia Earhart’s bones on that island, clearly someone was stranded on there and died there. Who was it? Why did no one look further into it? They were just like if it’s not a famous body we just don’t care.
This ‼️‼️
personally i'd want to get tf out of there too with coconut crabs around
So true
'_'
This was back in the 30s/40s, they really had no way of identifying bodies then. Those bones could have been there for a century for all they knew, they didn't even have carbon dating
“Well Michael Jordan never disappeared on a basketball court forever so-“ Lmao imagine: “And then just like that, Michael went for a layup and suddenly vanished into thin air”
Call him Air Jordan 😉
@@k-popistrash8974 OMG
@@k-popistrash8974 LMAOOO
Lol
"and across the world, knicks fans sighed with relief"
Lmao imagine just being a random lady living your life and then a book comes out saying you’re Amelia Earhart 🤣
That’s probably why she was so mad 🤣
And then your parents start asking if you're Amelia Earhart. "It's ok if you're Amelia sweetheart, your father and I still love you all the same." "Mom! I'm not Amelia Earhart! How can you even ask that?" "Well I just wanted to be sure. You're sure? Because I'll be honest, we lost you at the mall one time and you could have easily been switched out. We wouldn't have noticed." Of course, the irony is we now live in a world where someone can claim to identify as Amelia Earhart, and it's an "-ist" to ask for evidence.
@Vit79 are you an actual Incel
wow school totally f-ed up this story, I thought she got lost in the Bermuda Triangle by herself
We love the school system!
Same
That’s what I heard in school too. They stated as a theory rather than a fact at least.
@@khkayla6575 that's what I was told
Same
“She was eaten by crabs” crab rave starts playin*
Lol
lol
DO DO DO DODODODO DOODOO
😭😂😂😂😂
This needs to have more likes lol
What annoys me about her story is that you KNOW that some douchebags from back then said “see? This is why women shouldn’t fly!” Amelia was such a badass and I’m glad she stayed in the public eye
Does that keep you up at nights?
@@stellarwind1946 wdym
She stayed in the public eye because she vanished off the face of the planet lmao.
She’s only known for disappearing… 😂
@@otgbaby4615 well yeah. But she’s also known for being a damn good pilot. The reason it’s strange she disappeared was because she was so skilled
I feel like he burned the bones so no one could check again and find out whatever he was trying to hide. He sus.
@The Thomas's Daily Report he possibly had a evil plan in mind
He could have worked with people who tinkered with her plane and wanted her to fail
If I die mysteriously can y’all put me on this show please imma be chillin in heaven watching this and being like, nope actually it happened like this
Lol imagine writing KZhead comments from heaven
at me lol imagine replying to youtube comments about heaven in heaven
Billie Eilish is my soulmate that’s sounds fun if I die I’ll definitely keep you guys up to date
J A D Y yes pls
Lol heaven
I love how no one talks about Noonan. Like, he died too! but no one cares. Poor guy.
When they mentioned him I thought the same thing. I never knew about him. 😥
Agreed! Like yeah, Amelia was a famous woman, but she and Noonan both disappeared! What if the shoe was his?
Well she had a vagina,he did not so nobody cared.
Shadow Priest 😂
@@shadowpriest2574 that's an equality in a nutshell
Fun story, maybe nsfw- Some years ago while driving down a very long road on the way to the beach, my bladder was ready to burst and I couldn't hold it in any longer. We passed by an old abandoned church and it was the only place I could pee. I went behind it and did my business. When I looked up I read a sign 'This stone was placed in the memory of Amelia Earheart' and it had an image of a plane and her birth and death. I looked down at my puddle and stared in horror. It was square in the middle of the site. I ran back to the car and we pulled off. I later learned that that church was a historical site. I got home and searched her up and was mortified. Now every time I read her name, I think about that fateful day where desperate times called for desperate measures.
Well try not to beat yourself up you had no way of knowing, plus I know from experience how an extremely full bladder can change the way someone thinks.
I have mixed feelings about this
@@lol-je3kh Me too.
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Haha this made me laugh. I’m sure it’s a simple mistake anyone in your position could’ve been in. At least you acknowledge it & learned the history of Amelia through the memorial; bitter-sweet.
The thing shane referenced, male mechanics' sabotaging womens crafts, actually happened a lot. It was a mess.
I think the most shocking and craziest thing about this video... Is finding out that Ryan is 5'10!!! I was dead sure he was like 5'4 or 5'5 !!!! LOLLLL
ZoeyZoco I'm 5'4
ZoeyZoco I think anyone next to shane would probably give the impression of being 5'4 lol
ZoeyZoco I felt a 5'7-5'8 vibe
So therefore he's over stretching and actually 5'9 and shoes make him 5'10
Krispis dam
Amelia may have worn shoes too big because your feet swell when you fly at high altitudes
Julia Ellis the crap theory
amna omar stfu
Julia Ellis not only that but a size nine shoe is not too big for someone that tall I'm 5'10" and wear a 9 1/2
I Rock I wore a size nine when I was about 5'7 5'8 I'm 5'10 and a female
Julia Ellis yeah that's what confused me too, I'm 5' 8" , female, and I wear 8 1/2 to 9. I get that everyone's feet size is different but I was curious as to how that was ultimately ruled out anyway
I think it's possible that Earhart and Noonan crashed in the ocean and while the plane was sinking that's when those messages the girl found were heard, like they were stuck inside and couldn't get out. Noonan obviously never made it off the plane either dying on impact or after the crash. However, Earhart was able to figure a way off the plane and swam to that nearby island where she built that fire and where the Sekstant was found. The studies of the bones that were discovered later showed that they could have belonged to a taller than average woman and Earhart WAS TALLER THAN AVERAGE, and that makes it definitely possible that the bit of shoe sole was hers as well. I mean, I'm about 5'8 ish and my feet are about 9 1/2 - 10 inches in size. Regardless, she attempted to survive as long as she could, but without a source for food and probably sustaining many injuries, it makes sense that she wouldn't have lasted more than a week if she could find water. If no water was to be found then that would cut it down to a few days. Especially given the brute force the elements would have had on her. In the end, she died of starvation and her body wad eaten by the coconut crabs, explaining why only 12 of the bones remained. It's not unsolved, people just like the air of mystery that hangs about it. It's also extremely easy to fly over your destination, especially back then with less advanced navigation. There are dozens of cases of pilots going missing due to getting caught in jet streams and losing their navigation. Earhart is no different considering the radio message told us that she was way higher than she was supposed to be. In conclusion, the only unsolved bit is what happened to the rest of the plane, and the absence of Noonan's body. Either way. Thanks for listening to my TED talk lol.
Me: *Hears Ryan say "castaway"* Also me: aHoI tHeRe aHoi wE aRe cAsTaWaYs
Stahp 😂😂 I've been listening to this song a lot, haha.
Amelia is up in heaven like, “these a holes can’t get anything right”
Your last name sounds like something i would call a animal i havent ever seen or heard
@@Mortal7 Indian ppl
60th like
Sis, I'm in hell.
@Tahmid Antar He's not insulting. He's saying that Sharma is an Indian name
“Could you imagine doing one thing for a month?” Me in quarantine, “Wellllllll”
lmal same 😂
Playing Animal Crossing everyday.
Ky3217 like we aren’t doing that right 😭about to hit 2 months of quarantines
666 likes
@@kLe174 669 Now. 6 times the nice
Amelia was my childhood icon. I love her story so much and knowing she’s still lost to the world makes me so sad :(
She was also my hero when I was younger! I remember thinking she was super cool because she did something that people said she couldn't, even though she disappeared
She’s a symbol for feminine freedom and women who wanna dream big
@@misslangleysoryuisiconic Yall got freedom now. Yall better not screw it up. Get up and go to work!
@@Henry-sd7vd men have been screwing up freedom since the beginning of civilization 🤣is it okay cuz they're men?
I have a lot of questions for the guy who analyzed the bones then threw them away. Even if they’re not Amelia or Noonan, they’re someone.
"Ya know, that babe of the sky is gonna fly around the globe." "Oh is that so?" *Is that what she thinks she's gonna do?*
lmao
To be fair it's not completely improbable 😂
Lol and "oopsie there goes a screw"
Omg right as I read it Shane says it broo
_Oopsie_ _The sky is for men_
I could’ve lived the rest of my life not knowing about coconut crabs
hee hee same edit, I don’t remember writing that
Lol, coconut crab is actually harmless
Hera Sean I remember hearing that they ate small animals n stuff
I wonder how youd feel about the camel spider or the goliath birdeater spider (yes, it eats birds)
supreme wumbus but humans are not small animals, are they
While I like the idea of the picture of Earhart and Noonan on the island what irks me so much is Hoodless who disposed of the bones. Even if they weren't Amelia's it's obvious someone was on that island and something or someone died there and the bones should have been sent in for diagnostics. Even if the technology wasn't up to snuff they could have kept the evidence preserved. Like I said even if it's not Amelia that's someone's body if not a larger animal
Yeah like no matter who they were or how you found them, don‘t fuckin just yeet HUMAN REMAINS?? Into the bin??? That‘s a PERSON dude fuckin hell
The way these episodes go from creepy mysteries to downright comedy in seconds is why I love them.
Amelia Earhart : I'm out of fuel and plummeting into the water. Goodbye I am about to die. Ryan : Although she said she was about to die and her body was found she may still be alive living in Cuba with a secret lover called Javier
Dominic 1916 And Javier found her because... Wait for it..... he is an alien.
Dominic 1916 Currently in a polyamorous relationship with javier the alien, tupac, and Maura Murray. The alien time loop makes the situation tough, but they work through it.
Dominic 1916 hours
Nope not with me lol
It is i, Javier
the scary thing is that Earhart and Noonan are the only people on the planet who actually knows what happened.
Yep
and the aliens...
@@milomhoek Maybe...
@@milomhoek well they're not people
Paige Fellbaum nah you’re going to hell
I want to thank Ryan and Shane for telling me more about Amelia Earhart than my actual history books. I never knew that she went missing or had a navigator with her when she did, so it also allowed me to understand the Amelia Earhart joke in Night of the Museum.
I hope Ryan and Shane are enjoying their popcorn during this pandemic.
“She had only left 97 gallons of fuel” Me: “thinks of 97 milk jugs”. guys thanks for 5k butttttttttttttt no hate replys please.
I thinker the same lol
Well... Same😅
Lol
ᗰᗰᗰ delicious gasoline. goes great with my cereal in the morning 🤤
I see you are also cultured
The funny thing is, they did find Amelia's remains, but the man who investigated her bones said her skeleton was too sharp and angular to belong to a girl.
Realistically there are a lot of masculine looking women out there so
@@serenitydyer4390 not Amelia
keelafairie IF the spy theory is true, it’s possible the US forced him to get rid of the evidence, although it seems like a stretch, not likely.
They also found a jar of her freckle fade cream on that island.
keelafairie so they didn't...
this story ALWAYS gave me the creeps. i just don’t understand how a freaking plane could just disappear without a trace
bro what. It was a tiny plane with 1930's technology crossing a massive ocean with no communication, with frequent storms. It's not far fetched to say it just got caught in a storm or something malfunctioned, and it sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
The girl heard a female voice arguing with a disoriented male voice Amelia: Noonan pull yourself together! Noonan: *draws a face on a coconut* hello mr. Coconut, you’re our new friend. Oh look you brought a crab friend with you
Planes don't just crash when they run out of fuel, they can glide for miles depending on the height. Depending on the sea conditions it could even have been a soft landing
TheRabbitFear good point
One of her last radio transmissions to the ship indicated she was down to about 1000' of altitude so she didn't glide for miles.
@@clintstephens7287 she may of intentionally descended so she could land
Yes and if Earhart had descended, she'd be found at least. I think her plane exploded in the air and dropped to the ocean already broken up
yeah look at the case of the miracle on the Hudson losing both engines under 2000 feet and gliding for over a minute
i'm just imagining amelia earhart coming back this year just saying "i told u guys to wait yall r impatient--"
🤣🤣🤣 i wish
@@XxUNSNSORFRAKxX i thought ships and planes only go missing in the bermuda triangle
Hmmm
mysanityisz3ro “hold up, you’re not Ethan”
@@Gencturk92 planes and ships can go missing anywhere. The Bermuda Triangle is especially special though.
I think I remember a documentary that I saw at school that made a theory of Amelia Earhart and her copilot being on an island of Japan. They could have been held prisoner there. Experts used a photo of Amelia to compare with a photo taken in Japan with a woman similar looking to Amelia.
2:50 Jokes on him, we've all been siting in a chair eating popcorn for 13 months now
Okay, I'm not sure of Emilias shoe size, but what if she wore shoes that were a size or 2 too big so she could wear multiple pairs of socks. It gets really cold up high and old planes weren't as insulated as modern ones so she would have needed to bundle up
Huh. Interesting.
Huh. Interesting.
Huh . interesting
Huh. Interesting.
Makes sense to me
HAH! Y'all clowns still ain't find me.
L M A O W H A T
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Bro where'd you go!?
Amelia Earhart lmaooooo
Girl you gotta set our ghoul bois straight!
Channels like this really help me! I started a journal and I have these pages where I include a piece of history and this is something I wanted to include and you made this possible!
I'm a bit late but, their plane and bones were found on May 6, 2021. They were found in Nikumaroro Lagoon! It's crazy how Shane and Ryan managed to make this theory come true. Blow this up!
is it confirmed that it's her? do you have a source?
if that was true, it would have been worldwide news...
@@loganbigmo that’s what im thinking. I googled what the guy said and nothing came up
@@bennettr9218 For me, when I searched up "Where was amelia earhart found?" or "Where was amelia earhart plane found?" it said Nikumaroro Lagoon. Also, I don't think it's been confirm yet though. Additionally, if you look at the images, you can see some photos of her bones and airplane.
@@vflstar yeah, that's what I found too, but I'm fairly certain that they were just articles on the theories of her getting marooned on the island, nothing is confirmed. The images of bones are the ones that were mentioned in this video, (which could possibly have been Amelia's but obviously we will never know for sure), and I have no idea where you found photos of her wrecked airplane from. I personally believe that she did in fact get stuck on the island (since she was very skilled at landing planes in dangerous scenarios), but she would've ended up starving to death there. But obviously there is still no definitive proof, just theories, so we will never know for sure.
I secretly want them to move the mannequin towards Shane every episode😂😂
Manasi Khade they should do this and like watch the viewers freak out over why that happens
Manasi Khade me too its creepy
Yes m8!
And then one episode Shane isn't there. And neither is the mannequin.
I literally cannot see the mannequin, where behind Shane is it?
so you're telling me she didn't disappear in the Bermuda Triangle? I thought that for my whole life. it was a lie? I could have sworn.
ME TOO TF
Really? Lmao
Welcome to the school system
Mandela affect?
Same. And I thought everyone thought she got lost in the bermuda triangle as well. I even remember watching documentaries of her crashing somewhere in the Atlantic. It really messes me up I think this is an example of the mandela effect.
It's quite interesting that, after many years, investigators are now looking into the mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan thanks to the discovery of a sunken plane which could be Earhart's; still, authorities have to determine whether or not the plane belonged to Earhart as well as uncover the circumstances surrounding Earhart and Noonan's vanishing.🤔
Recently there was some news that they may have found her plane at the bottom of the ocean!
that's why I'm rewatching 😂❤🙏
Shane was right
“She was about 5’7-5’8” “It was a size 9 which is too big” Me: *is between 5’7 and 5’8 and wears a size 9* Are you sure about that?
Not every one of that height has a size 9 shoe lol. Her shoe size was probably known in the investigation.
i mean i'm 5'8 and have size 5'8 so it's possible.
So because you are that height & are size 9, everyone is?
Donald J Gump Official they didn’t know her shoe size, they said based on her height it was too big, which is correct because it could easily be a 9. I used myself as an example
samuraioj apparently you didn’t understand my comment at all
it's not an unsolved episode without Ryan's wheeze
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An interesting aspect of communications with the flight is that Earhart never acknowledged any of the voice transmissions directed toward her airplane during that fateful flight. Ric Gillespie (TIGHAR) believes this was because the receiving antenna was ripped off of the plane's belly during the high-weight takeoff from Lae. The transmitting antenna atop the airplane was fine, so Earhart's transmissions were heard OK. Radio navigation was essential to ensure Howland could be found, so Earhart asked Itasca to transmit a beacon on 7500 kHz which she could track using the Electra's DF loop antenna atop the cockpit. She reported reception of the 7500 transmission, but the loop gave no null so she could not determine a bearing to Itasca. In fact, the problem was that the DF loop was only designed to be directional below 1500 kHz, and Amelia's misunderstanding of this fact was likely what led to her loss. Interestingly, she had tested the DF loop with HF transmissions at Lae, the test of course failed, but she departed anyway. She may well have thought, I will have many opportunities to test the DF loop during this flight by taking bearings on commercial broadcast stations and aeronautical beacons, and I can always turn back if it doesn't work. But it would have worked, because those stations would have been under the loop's 1500 kHz limit. She did not realize the flaw in her 7500 kHz plan. There was a missed opportunity for success at Howland. Even with the loss of her main receiving antenna, she was able to receive the 7500 beacon when her receiver's antenna selector was in the "loop" position. The Itasca did not have voice transmission capability on 7500, but had Earhart left the antenna switch in the loop position when she switched back to 3105, she would have received Itasca's voice transmission on 3105. The Coast Guard had their own plan, which Amelia knew nothing of, to transmit the homing beacon on 333 kHz. If they had 2-way communication with Earhart, they could have tried this plan and she likely would have landed safely on Howland.
Looking back at when these guys were respected
What if she got stuck in another dimension where she’s either forever flying or repeatedly trying to land on the island she was supposed to but it’s just a loop
Sounds like an episode of the Twilight Zone.
Lmao she got hit with Gold Experience Requiem
that stresses me out.
@shane madej
Ada Sweet like just before she crashes and dies it starts over again
Is it just me or does all the music they add make it 5000000 times creepier 😧😵
Partnered with creepy narrative voice too.
The music that plays during the theories is kinda catchy tbh
Love your name
I didn’t think about that until just now
Me in the dark: oh man I'm really freaked out what if I crash land my plane on an island and get eaten by crabs
Probably one of my favorite cases on the show so far. Regardless of what happened to Amelia & Norman, at least they both died doing what they loved & were experts in their field & recognized for it, to the point Amelia is still considered a household name a near century later.
They just glossed over her “resourcefulness” in repairing her plane mid-flight while flying over the Atlantic. Bruh I wanna hear that story
Please do an episode about the Hash Slinging Slasher. He is so creepy and has commited many murders. He likes to sneak into local restaurants and terrorize the employees. And the scary thing is... He's never been caught. I get the chills just writing this.
I'm Luke Skywalker I'm Here To Rescue You nigga this aint spongebob
I'm Luke Skywalker I'm Here To Rescue You YASS
I'm Luke Skywalker I'm Here To Rescue You What about the seabear?
I got chills just from reading his name😩
Greedo We don't talk about him without a circle.
“the sky belongs to men” SENT ME 💀💀😂
Amelia W aw, that’s nice 😊
Greysen Gagne tampons
No the sky belongs to God and philswift
The rainbow of life 978 But they’re the same person?
@@sleptking1707 lol but God is stronger but phil loves to saw boats. Kn half
I'm from the Marshall Islands, and my Grandpa would tell me about Amelia Earhart and her plane. He was in his teens when he encountered Earhart being held by the Japanese. He didn't know her name then, but the one thing that intrigued him about her was her height. She towered over the Japanese and Marshallese. 'She stood with the men like she was their equal. She didn't slouch one bit. She lacked femininity. If not for her chest, I would have assumed she was a man. I didn't know who she was, but I did know that she must have been something to not be an average woman.' He said, later on, he and a couple of his friends were interviewed extensively in the 70s by an American film crew. Sadly, they were never able to find Earhart or Noonan. That photo of Earhart at the pier was taken in Jaluit Atoll, where my Grandpa is originally from. My Grandpa would brag about being one of the only people who laid eyes on Earhart.
The photo was allegedly taken before she went missing, though. I’m not trying to be rude, but it does seem odd.
7:13 “We just have a battleship and carrier lying around, let’s use it to look for a plane.” -Weird Person
Shane really hits the nail on the head (for once) when he points out how many "unsolved mysteries" are marked by carelessly lost or discarded evidence.
Nick Hentschel not even just evidence just poor work in general one woman got kidnapped after calling the police 3 times and no one was sent they even investigated the crime scene poorly
Nick Hentschel +44 7377 888781 Prank Call me 🤙
True, but I'm making a more specific point: in science (including criminology, or even ufology and cryptozoology), it's a breach of ethics to destroy or omit either your raw data or the evidence you tested. For example, in this case, the bones on Nikumaroro.
@@TheSaneHatter True. However..when you want to cover something up, ethics go out the window. So..who knows.
hit the nose on the head? what?
i love how shane and ryan are like an old married couple who always disagree but still love each other
Lmao,their bromance is so precious.
Yee
Samantha E friend soulmates lol
ahahah
Samantha E i
lol I really understand what Shane said about Ryan's cases, that half of them aren't solved because someone who was at the time supposed to be investigating the crime/mystery was just like, 'too much work, burn it!' seems like there are a lot of holes in gaps in the information half the time and leads not properly followed up.
It's not related to the case, really, but as a child, Ameila Earhart was more than a hero to me. She was so important to me, eerily so tbh. I'd always find myself drawn to her and there were times she'd find me, find my dreams. Always found it so odd but never scary really.. more, oddly, comforting.
My great grandmother always told me stories about the lady who was rescuide by my grandfather. She told me that he was out fishing when an airplane crashed into the ocean. He rowed closer and was able to help a young woman out of the plane. She kept saying "we have to help him" but my grandfather didn't see anyone else on the plane as it sank into the ocean. The lady died 3 days later because of her injuries. My grandmother was of Japanese desendance she lived in the Marshall island so, its possible I don't know.
Panther Gaming wow. I don't know how this isn't upvoted more!
Panther Gaming wow thats cool
Tilly Johnstone because it's probably made up BS.
Dang
Panther Gaming sure sounds interesting 🤔
I find it interesting that Earhart was also particularly involved with women's issues and supporting women's aviation. She fought for changing the draft to include men, women, and elderly, and she promoted birth control. She wrote books about society's gender roles and their stupidity. And then at the height of her fame, she vanished. That's fishier than that combed ocean. ALSO, I would like to point out that Amelia Earhart earned all these achievements and awards without military training like most male aviators had, and because she was a woman, she had a smaller, less expensive plane than male aviators had, and she STILL beat male aviators asses.
beat male aviators asses = crashes into ocean
Niksa Nico It wasn’t proven that she crashed into the ocean, and even if she did it wasn’t her fault lmao. Someone feels threatened it’s possible for a woman to achieve more then men huh 🤔
@@bluet7777 it was a joke lol. If a woman achieves something that men cant, good for her. I dont mind.
Jo Fortenberry what was the book she wrote called?
@@skittles3967 i wanna know too
As somebody who has parents who are both aviators, I hear this story a lot. It's still a sad story to think about though. 😔
why were we taught in school that she disappeared in the bermuda triangle?? we had like a whole history lesson on just this incident. what's even the point of that??? that seems real SUS to me...
I never did. Which country teaches such crap?
@@singularityraptor4022 the us, surprise surprise
@@eMpty_mEtal oof that bad?
When I did a project on this we had a week and did our own research to come up with our own theories, it was dope
Becca Kuenzi Moger: Check out Google maps/ Google Earth......the Bermuda Triangle is approx. 6,500 miles from the area where they disappeared.
As someone who lived in a place with a coconut crabs: they’re very horrifyingly huge but so so good to eat
Random question, but are they fast? Crabs freak me out because they look like spiders. Tasty spiders, but still. I'm now picturing those massive crabs with spider-level speed and.. I'd never go near the beach again.
Imagine if they had wings
Do they taste like typical crab/shellfish or is there something unique about their taste?
I'm now imagining people in these areas going out and hunting giant crabs like how people near forests hunt deers
Freak80MC we do hunt them but not like that. Natives of our island are the only ones who are allowed to hunt and eat them. And there’s a season for us to hunt them (sorry I don’t know the months specifically)
I'm not even subscribed to BuzzFeed anymore, I just come by every once in a while to see if there's any new unsolved mystery videos 😂😂
Buzzfeed Unsolved Every Friday 3 P.M. PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Ocean I have the buzzfeed unsolved playlist saved, so I notice when there another video
Ocean I only watch worth it and this
Just turn on notifications for the playlist. I'm not subscribed to buzzfeed either
Ocean same lmao also!!!!! YOUR PICTURE 2B MY GIRL
Rip my watcher guys. Forever in our hearts
I like how every theory ends with "Well that probably wasn't possible"
New Theory: They crashed underwater and made it to bikini bottom, and they met spongebob, and they never wanted to leave so they stayed there.
XtraordinaryaN she became sandy that’s why she breaths air
XtraordinaryaN true dat
Well the ocean is like 95% undiscovered
Oof underrated comment
They couldn’t get enough of them krabby patties
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE HASH SLINGING SLASHER
PandamoniumPanda ME TOO I LOVE THAT CASE
PandamoniumPanda YESS
PandamoniumPanda omg no that's too scary
The trash flinging...the crash singing....THE HASH SLINGING SLASHER
It's unsolved still! But its so fucking scary lol..
Amelia Earhart's shoe sole was found on an island, a message was heard in parts of the world, a photo shows what they believe a landing gear sticking out of the water, she also said "Gas is running low." Some dude: idk man i think she's a spy
A few years ago I gave a presentation at my community college and before it was my turn, I saw one that had claimed they’d figured out what happened to Amelia and towards the end when they were taking questions, someone from the audience started refuting their analysis and an all out debate broke out in the room. It was wild.
They find a sole of a shoe the same brand she’s been pictured wearing but it’s a size 9 so couldn’t be hers...what size shoe was the male navigator who was with her in the plane? 9?
his existence just disappeared in their minds
@@DTMQ clearly, no one seems to be looking for him...seems like that could easily be his shoe.
It's also perfectly within the realm of possibility that she did actually wear size 9's. I'm within her estimated height range and wear size 9 shoes. If you look at height to shoe size averages for women, it's completely plausible that size 9s would have fit her. Even if her feet were smaller, she could have been wearing larger shoes (as others have pointed out) to wear more layers of socks and insulate herself better.
@@carolinemcguire6224 great point! They didn’t actually say that wasn’t her size, they just assumed it wasn’t. Surely that’s quite easy to check? Her friends/family would probs have vaguely known her shoe size
Im a girl shorter than Amelia, and I have size 9 shoes, I'd say with a few layers of socks or a thick pair of socks it's very possible that the shoe was hers.
Ryan: "But aliens tho?" Shane: "Get out."
W shane
Ryan pronouncing Newfoundland like that made me giggle
The native people of an island: we know exactly what happened and have been saying that for generations Colonizers: guess we'll never know what happend
ur telling me ryan is TALL???? my whole perspective is so thrown off I can’t handle this
So glad I’m not the only one! This whole time I’ve thought he was a bit taller than me (I’m Asian so I’m shorter than most at 5’2.5) at maybe like 5’5-6 but DANG 5’10?! I was baffled to say the least
@@honeybeeloolee5313 His friend is over 6'7". He's a huge twig
I’m pretty sure he’s 5”9 which is average is just that Shane is huge 6”4
Shane is double tall
Im like 4 foot
If y’all didn’t make your funny comments in the intervals of these videos I would not be able to sleep at night.
Same XD
@@thetwilightgamer but I think they should stop making funny comments,it actually kills the seriousness
@@amalj7724 thats the whole point
Honestly Shane's comments always brings it down to a less anxiety-driven level for me
The banter is supposed to be funny?
"I love the thought of someone getting eaten by crabs" Ryan, run 💀
We may finally have some clues about this mystery Exciting ngl
they should move the mannequin closer each episode until its right next to shane
that is horrifying.
Skyla Helbig hopefully they do find this comment cos they might actually do it
Skyla Helbig z agreed!
season finale has the mannequin right behind shane with its hands on his backrest
YESSS
Theory: Just wanted to mention something that has become apparent to me after watching this episode many times. The shoe that was found and deemed not Amelia’s due to the fact that it was a too big for her I believe was overlooked. It’s very common for legs and feet to swell while travelling, especially by plane. I believe it’s very likely it was her shoe, and because of said swelling she may have worn larger shoes.
And thick socks because of the cold. Besides, I wear 1.5 sizes bigger because I’m a waitress and walk a lot.
If she was around 5'8 or 5'9 a size 9 in mens wouldn't be over the top huge. Big, sure, but maybe she had big feet? Add on thick socks, a roomier shoe to make up for having to wear them for long stretches, and the slight swelling factor.
Yes, that's what I was thinking! Also, I don't see how size 9s are that implausible. I'm only 5'6 and I wear size 8 shoes.
What about Noonan? If they were planning on travelling together then they probably bought equipment and stuff together, so from the same brand. Size 9 for a man is much more likely?
@@turtlemart9612 Finally someone said!
i just think it’s strange that everyone involved in the case didn’t help as much as they could’ve/didn’t do their job correctly it makes me think that maybe there were more people involved
These shows are Great.. from the suspense mystery music to the funny comments. Congrats on your Hulu deal too!
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I love how everyone is all "where's Amelia!?" I'd be the person who's like " what about fred? "
I realize that, but no one wonders about the navigator. Just like in the music industry, song writers are always over looked for the artist. My point is that he is just forgotten.
I wondered abt Fred too
Poor Fred :(
Do a video on the Hash Slinging Slasher 🙌🏼😩
Kristina S MASH FLIGING, T-THE SASH RINGING, BACK.. DINGING
Kristina S best comment EVER!
No Soup For You ... dying! Lmao
Kristina S only real ones know who that monster is
I'm right here
Why am I just now, at 22 years old, just now realizing it's spelled Earhart and not Airheart Why did i assume she had some anime style name where she loved being in the air so her name was air-heart
You’re young. All is forgiven.😂😂😂
I once played a game of Hoi4, and I don't remember if I was using any total conversion mods at the time, but I got an event that basically said that Amelia Earhart had flown around the world successfully. So in that timeline, she never vanished, which I thought was cool.
What mod were u on? And what nation?
"Imagine doing the same thing for a month straight like sitting" everyone April 2020
hahaha
unfortunately not everyone
I seriously hope people taking this opportunity to be productive x3
Dinosaur Chicken-Nugget everyone september 2020
Ha i was vibing
I was expecting the Bermuda Triangle theory 😂
Lee Skelton that’s what happened
@@jackson.denzler. the triangle is like in Cuba America not even close to where she was
@@jackson.denzler. she died of a disease on an island after crashing
@@jackson.denzler. who knows theres many surviver in a plane crash or ene they land with very few fuel
The Bermuda triangle is in the Atlantic Ocean, not Pacific.
The dude who threw those human remains out should honestly be arrested. Even if the remains didn’t belong to Amelia Earhart they were STILL a human being!! Who had a family! People are unbelievable sometimes.
when i was young (and i mean six/seven) we did a play on people who played an important role in history, and i played Earhart. because of that, i thought her history was always so interesting.