What Really Happened to Amelia Earhart?

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  • @laITAebella
    @laITAebella Před 2 lety +5846

    My father recently decided to move and we’re going through old pictures and there was a picture of my great grandmother and great grandfather sitting at a table and opposite them was Amelia Earhart who is staring right at the camera deep into the lens. It was only a few months before she set off on our final journey and it’s so fascinating. I know no one cares but I thought it was cool.

  • @seanjoseph8637
    @seanjoseph8637 Před 2 lety +3693

    I'm not scared of flying, I'm scared of hitting the ground at high velocity.

    • @brummagefs
      @brummagefs Před 2 lety +93

      Fun fact: landing is the easy part. Takeoff and flying is the hardest part.

    • @jasonwilde197
      @jasonwilde197 Před 2 lety +153

      Don't be scared. It's an instant death. I'm scared of being stuck in Nutty Putty Cave.

    • @benmcclarnon9174
      @benmcclarnon9174 Před 2 lety +76

      to be fair if your plane broke apart at 30,000ft you would pass out long before hitting the ground

    • @DereliqueMahBAWLS
      @DereliqueMahBAWLS Před 2 lety +21

      @@benmcclarnon9174 why do people always say that? What about sky divers?

    • @chloe_gospinny
      @chloe_gospinny Před 2 lety +52

      @@DereliqueMahBAWLS They have oxygen gear.

  • @afsces
    @afsces Před 2 lety +358

    What's sad is that her disappearance is the biggest reason she is remembered. Had she made the journey successfully she would still be known but not nearly as well as she is now. Like many people who died in their prime, it's the loss of a tremendous character that keeps her in our memories, as opposed to fading into obscurity.

    • @Swearengen1980
      @Swearengen1980 Před rokem +20

      I disagree. Not knowing what happened to her is what keeps it alive. If she just crashed somewhere, died, and we found her the next week....she'd have faded into obscurity the same as if she'd landed. The mystery is what keeps her memory alive.

    • @gratefulkyle1
      @gratefulkyle1 Před rokem +9

      This is incorrect on so many levels. She was the most famous person of her time. And she would have gotten even bigger after breaking many records.

    • @Swearengen1980
      @Swearengen1980 Před rokem +7

      @@gratefulkyle1 That's overkill. The "most famous person" would be known world wide of all ages. You're also assuming she'd have gone on to break more records on pure guesswork, not facts. None of that is known. I'm guessing there were political figures more "famous" than her. Hitler was pretty well known and he started WWII just a couple years later. She wasn't more famous than FDR. Sorry man, but WWII would have completely overshadowed her regardless if she finished or not.

    • @warrioroflight758
      @warrioroflight758 Před rokem +2

      @@gratefulkyle1 Charles Lindbergh was the most famous aviator at the time, then Emilia and my personal favorite...Howard hughes

    • @yazzieyaz740
      @yazzieyaz740 Před rokem +1

      She’ll never be old but young timelessly

  • @robertlane6431
    @robertlane6431 Před 2 lety +336

    While I love to fly whenever I get the chance I can actually understand why some people are terrified of it.
    I don't think people are actually afraid of dying in a plane crash but are rather afraid of the plummet towards the ground and the chaos involved! In a car crash it usually happens very fast and is more or less over very quickly whereas a plane crash is alot longer in nature usually and involves a long period of time to be afraid and take in all the terror involved.

    • @Sp33dyBeanz
      @Sp33dyBeanz Před 2 lety +5

      exactly lol. the last thing i want before i die is a huge panic of people screaming and a prolonged moment of intense fear and stress before i inevitably die. falling out of the sky is one of the worst deaths imo. you better pray to god that you do pass out lmao. same as burning to death or anything that takes time to die. let it be instant haha

    • @Maatkara1000
      @Maatkara1000 Před 2 lety +10

      Joke's on you, I have anxiety - what terrifies me is the "what if", not the fact that it's happening, so I start taking in the terror as soon as I set foot in the plane

    • @MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis
      @MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis Před 2 lety +20

      I think it’s that combined with a common fear of heights. Falling to death in a large metal tube. Most people would choose to die on the ground than die falling to death.

    • @ClickClack_Bam
      @ClickClack_Bam Před 2 lety

      Chances are you'll survive a car crash.
      Chances are you're dead from an airplane.
      So with me you're wrong, I don't like placing myself into a one way situation where I'm dead if a variable goes wrong.

    • @robert17282
      @robert17282 Před rokem +5

      I wouldn't be afraid if they just let me fly it

  • @squiddle5193
    @squiddle5193 Před 2 lety +527

    This story just feels so hopeless...
    In the middle of the Pacific, with no proper orientation, no way of communication and with ever dwindling fuel supplies...
    Truly horrifying.

    • @markpayne1748
      @markpayne1748 Před 2 lety +13

      There is a part of me that thinks that as our bodies surrender to the environment and its situation, our consciousness goes elsewhere, to party with angels. And then we look down at our loved ones mourning over our barely-breathing bodies, and we think, "I wish I could help them understand that I'm not dead. In fact, I'm now more alive than I've felt in years."

    • @SoSaReaper
      @SoSaReaper Před 2 lety +58

      @@markpayne1748 go outside

    • @Kaelus41
      @Kaelus41 Před 2 lety +2

      @@SoSaReaper assuming you've never done any consciousness work

    • @Kaelus41
      @Kaelus41 Před 2 lety +4

      @@markpayne1748 shake off the angel talk, and you're onto something

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 Před 2 lety +3

      i would be like "RAMMING SPEEEDD"

  • @thabomaofane3400
    @thabomaofane3400 Před 2 lety +523

    "I can't help myself when it comes to useless facts "😂😂😂
    Love it

    • @winnifredforbes1114
      @winnifredforbes1114 Před 2 lety +6

      Never mind! It makes you sound knowledgeable when hanging with your friends at the pub. My problem is, I get the stories mixed up, and no one believes me! 😹😱

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 Před 2 lety +2

      @@winnifredforbes1114 He also can't help covering topics dozens of other CZcams channels have covered. He used to be good at providing unusual content... These days he just recycles other people's content - some of the info on the Pacific here is recycled from the Real Life Lore channel for example.

    • @maulikbishwokarma6034
      @maulikbishwokarma6034 Před 2 lety +1

      Then u like school,not an insult but yea,well he made it interesting unlike school which is boring

    • @d0nKsTaH
      @d0nKsTaH Před 2 lety

      Fives moons people! Five Moons!!

  • @ThatGuyNick369
    @ThatGuyNick369 Před 2 lety +76

    Enjoyed the video and Amelia Earhart's disappearance has always captivated me. I did notice one slight error in that Alcock was not solo in his flight across the Atlantic. He and Arthur Brown were the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic in 1919, but it wasn't done by a solo pilot until Charles Lindburgh completed the flight in 1927.

    • @afan4840
      @afan4840 Před rokem

      Give that man a cigar

    • @treposey4107
      @treposey4107 Před rokem

      Charles Lindbergh is from a town near my hometown in Minnesota 😁

    • @MeanBeanComedy
      @MeanBeanComedy Před rokem

      @@treposey4107 Bet you're proud of that! 😉👍🏻

    • @treposey4107
      @treposey4107 Před rokem +2

      @@MeanBeanComedy I actually kinda am. In some small, unimportant way 🤣

    • @JamminClemmons
      @JamminClemmons Před 11 měsíci

      @@afan4840 - You dum-dum Americans!
      Da Earth is Flat!!!!

  • @bubbercakes528
    @bubbercakes528 Před 2 lety +23

    This is the first time I have ever heard about the radio screw up. Amazing that something so simple happened.

    • @mickeysmiths
      @mickeysmiths Před 7 měsíci

      Many things could have been done better. We are always wiser in hindsight 🤓

  • @ludoviajante
    @ludoviajante Před 2 lety +2093

    This guy can make any subject interesting, it's amazing. Much love from Brazil!

    • @7ete799
      @7ete799 Před 2 lety +9

      Nunca pensei em ver você aqui, ótimo conteúdo

    • @andrewg6031
      @andrewg6031 Před 2 lety +7

      facts

    • @teasgrey4142
      @teasgrey4142 Před 2 lety +3

      Indeed

    • @ThirstysURL
      @ThirstysURL Před 2 lety +4

      Even an heroic hotty is interesting when he talks about it

    • @ziplague
      @ziplague Před 2 lety +6

      five moons dude! 5 moons!

  • @lordronin
    @lordronin Před 2 lety +2787

    Thoughty2 needs a Netflix series

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 Před 2 lety +40

      He needs to get fresher topics. I'm seeing him retreading topics which a lot of other channels have covered on here.

    • @daproboi7247
      @daproboi7247 Před 2 lety +12

      I agree with thruso

    • @sicfxmusic
      @sicfxmusic Před 2 lety +38

      I prefer him to stay on CZcams because it's free for me 😅

    • @insightful_fairy8743
      @insightful_fairy8743 Před 2 lety +16

      I prefer CZcams…. Netflix sometimes doesn’t work with slow internet speed!

    • @MarkWTK
      @MarkWTK Před 2 lety +3

      @@thursoberwick1948 I guess he'll run out of topics. or someone has to cover it first , but unfortunately or fortunately it wasn't thoughty2.

  • @Iammrspickley
    @Iammrspickley Před rokem +10

    Greatly enjoying your channel and work Sir...very entertaining, informative, witty and funny......wonderful...!

  • @captainhindsight6994
    @captainhindsight6994 Před 2 lety +3

    Holy crap dude, I remember first hearing about your channel with less than 300k subs. Randomly recommend this and you've got over 4mil. Well done, keep working hard

  • @Jess4theMusic
    @Jess4theMusic Před 2 lety +1264

    Although I'm pretty sure they sunk in the depths, I like to imagine they landed somewhere with no way to tell anyone; found a tribe of indeginous people, made friends, figured they might as well stay as they have no way of going home and just chilled out on an island until they died of old age.

    • @kingkai5821
      @kingkai5821 Před 2 lety +157

      Or be eaten alive by the indigenous people.

    • @anitareasontobelieve378
      @anitareasontobelieve378 Před 2 lety +123

      Since we are indulging fairy tales, let's pretend they married locals and each other and left progeny, and passed away in painless bliss. Maybe somebody should go do some DNA work on those Islands!

    • @Kaelus41
      @Kaelus41 Před 2 lety +112

      Maybe instead they crafted Mad Max style armor and weapons from the plane wreckage, and they actually ate the indigenous people

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 Před 2 lety +64

      There is some good evidence she landed near a small island and starved to death there. Someone found old pictures of what looked like her plane in a lagoon near one.

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 Před 2 lety +36

      @@kingkai5821 I find it hilarious that we refer to indigenous people in this context... My ancestors lived in this part of Europe before that part of the Pacific was even inhabited by anyone, but apparently we're not indigenous.

  • @ImABigStoner
    @ImABigStoner Před 2 lety +414

    you didnt mention they also found a glass jar of freckle cream that emilia was known to use on gardner island, also the remains that were found were scattered around not in one place suggesting the coconut crab theory is more likely.

    • @michaelg4074
      @michaelg4074 Před 2 lety +30

      You saw that on MrBallen?

    • @helenbunnehmummeh5154
      @helenbunnehmummeh5154 Před 2 lety +95

      @@michaelg4074 Nothing beats the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format.

    • @dizcret
      @dizcret Před 2 lety +40

      Yes...he didn't do his research! ;) but, that Freckle cream..I mean..I find that to be Highly Compelling.

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 Před 2 lety +27

      "Craaab people....Craaab people..." (Something for the South Park fans)

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 Před 2 lety +1

      @Gianni Schettino This will explain everything. Maybe the Crab People took Amelia: czcams.com/video/o5RYGNwSOpY/video.html

  • @DoggosAndJiuJitsu
    @DoggosAndJiuJitsu Před rokem +12

    What everyone misses about the "fear" of flying is it's an absolute death sentence if something completely out of your control goes wrong.

  • @therainbowwings6852
    @therainbowwings6852 Před 2 lety +10

    I usually find British accent a bit hard to understand but somehow you sound so easy to understand and the way you present the information is so smooth and pleasant as well as easy to understand.

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays Před rokem +2

      He has a clean British accent. I’m Canadian and being a Commonwealth country I can understand a Brit as easily as I can understand an American.
      If you want hard, try understanding a Scot, Irishman, or Welshman, especially if they’re piss drunk. I can but it takes a bit of concentration and a few pints first. Even Northerners near the Scottish border can be tricky at first. Australians and New Zealanders are fairly easy but I still can’t tell them apart. I always ask where they are from before assuming because they get really pissy if you call an Aussie a Kiwi or call a Kiwi an Aussie even though they sound the exact same.
      Being as I’m from Canada, I have a much harder time understanding Newfies and Quebeckers. Newfies talk way too fast and Quebeckers speak French and I don’t know French.

  • @ComicalRealm
    @ComicalRealm Před 2 lety +302

    The last time we ever saw Amelia Earhart was in *Night At The Museum 2*

  • @matiassu5604
    @matiassu5604 Před 2 lety +1002

    13:30 "concluded that the remains were of a man and not of interest"
    Noonan: "Am I a joke to you?"

    • @bakedchowdah5708
      @bakedchowdah5708 Před 2 lety +50

      seriously though!

    • @PurpleLover101
      @PurpleLover101 Před 2 lety +54

      If noonan was injured enough he could of been buried there and Amelia somehow left the island

    • @jonathanemptage1593
      @jonathanemptage1593 Před 2 lety +72

      @@PurpleLover101 or she died in a crash Noonan survived for a bit on the island and he buried or cremated her body.

    • @sweatyeti
      @sweatyeti Před 2 lety +68

      I learned this from MrBallen's channel:
      The remains on Gardner island were scattered in a manner as if displaced by animals, and that island happens to be inhabited by large, aggressive, carnivorous crabs that have a keen sense of smell for blood and hunt at night... It's possible this unfortunate castaway was eaten alive by a swarm of coconut crabs.

    • @iurhviusdfavhi
      @iurhviusdfavhi Před 2 lety +52

      Imagine they find your bones and mark you as "not of interest"...good lord, I mean I know that's the out of context bit but it doesn't sound good lol.

  • @05weasel
    @05weasel Před 2 lety +48

    I think for a lot of people who have a fear of flying and think that driving is safer it comes down to control and perceived probability. If you’re flying in a plane and it starts to go down there’s basically nothing you as a passenger can do to stop it and you’re almost certainly going to die. Whereas if you’re driving in a car and are about to get in a wreck there’s defensive maneuvers you can take to avoid or lessen the impact. And people survive car crashes all the time.

    • @MrASM78
      @MrASM78 Před rokem +1

      Exactly.

    • @dap4699
      @dap4699 Před rokem

      Not all the time...

    • @needlesandsonics5819
      @needlesandsonics5819 Před 10 měsíci

      That’s my fear of flying. Not afraid of heights, just that I can’t do anything to mitigate the inevitable.
      I also fear being a passenger in a car, but myself love to drive.

    • @alanmcneill2407
      @alanmcneill2407 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I would add to that, comparisons of air travel vs. car travel have been done on the basis of accidents per MILES traveled. Since the plane travels at 10 times the speed of a car, its not a fair comparison. It should be comparing the amount of TIME spent traveling in each, which in the last item I read, makes air travel more dangerous, like about 3 per cent, which isn't much, granted, but its not correct to say air travel is much safer than car travel. I fly when I must, only in daytime and not in winter. I have experienced two near mid air collisions. I won't tempt a third time lightly.

  • @neilsammy3538
    @neilsammy3538 Před 2 lety +323

    So...Fred doesn't matter? Couldn't the male skeleton have been him? I have known about this incident for a long time, minus Fred, of course.😥

    • @sambeck2510
      @sambeck2510 Před 2 lety +110

      Yeah, that's what I thought too. Maybe they got stranded there, she died first and he buried her. When he died, there wouldn't be anyone to bury him.

    • @imslippykid8834
      @imslippykid8834 Před 2 lety +7

      Fred was male

    • @bobcat227
      @bobcat227 Před 2 lety +62

      @@imslippykid8834 yes, that's what they are talking about

    • @tnerbtnerb5136
      @tnerbtnerb5136 Před 2 lety +53

      Furthermore, the plane being gone isn't a dealbreaker either. They could have made a controlled crash close to the island, bailed with a life raft and the emergency comms radio (which explains transmissions after the fact), and the plane got tossed god knows where by the storm due to its modified light weight before finally breaking up and sinking.

    • @athenathechesscub7162
      @athenathechesscub7162 Před 2 lety +4

      @@tnerbtnerb5136 i don't believe they actually had any emergency rafts on the plane, but yeah

  • @Austeja608
    @Austeja608 Před 2 lety +403

    Island : has recend Signs of recent habitability
    Pilots: let's not say that

    • @Lucius1958
      @Lucius1958 Před 2 lety +47

      "Habitation", not "habitability". An island with no fresh water, and limited food resources, cannot exactly be called 'habitable".
      The physical evidence found on Nikumaroru, imho, tends to support the "castaway" theory. The skeleton may have been Noonan''s; the woman's shoe could certainly have been Earhart's. The plane may have been washed into the sea by a storm, leaving little trace.
      Unless (or until) a future expedition finds the wreckage of the Electra somewhere else, I'm staying with this theory.

    • @paganphil100
      @paganphil100 Před 2 lety +33

      @@Lucius1958 : They also found a jar of "freckle cream".....something which A.E. was known to use regularly. I can't think of any other way it could have got there unless it was hers.

    • @BTSmith-lp5pe
      @BTSmith-lp5pe Před 2 lety +31

      @@paganphil100 so they find a island that had signs of recent habitation but not very habitable... They have found a aluminum plate the plane that they were using would have used, plus a heeled boot in a style AE wore plus freckle cream she also used. Later a body was found and was considered a male (though they may have been female) And concluded they weren't there? Nah that's the island. They just may have left it on a poorly made raft and drowned else where... or time and others have contaminated the island.

    • @nathanbrooks2581
      @nathanbrooks2581 Před 2 lety +6

      Everybody missed what he said. They didn't know at the time the island was uninhabited. When they didn't find signal fires or the plane they passed by. Had they realized it was uninhabited then it would have been different. But they should have checked anyway. And I have never heard the freckle cream thing anywhere before. And I did a report on Earhart in high school. So I'm very curious where you got that info or if your joking.

    • @BTSmith-lp5pe
      @BTSmith-lp5pe Před 2 lety +5

      @@nathanbrooks2581 He said the island had not been inhabited for decades by that point. So people inhabiting the area (retaliative to that part of the ocean) would know. The pilots wouldn't have to know this but they radio out their findings. Someone would have or should have said something.

  • @tylertalsma7794
    @tylertalsma7794 Před rokem +1

    I've always loved your random facts that you would add here and there.

  • @orlandox5665
    @orlandox5665 Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent video bro! Thank you.

  • @L2H5
    @L2H5 Před 2 lety +88

    1:45 John Alcock wasn't the first to fly solo nonstop over the Atlantic. He flew with his Navigator nonstop as the first over the Atlantic. The first to fly solo nonstop was Charles Lindbergh.

    • @bonerici
      @bonerici Před 2 lety +9

      Yeah but it's nice to see the name alcock nobody remembers him they remember Lindberg so I can forgive the mistake

    • @L2H5
      @L2H5 Před 2 lety +6

      @@bonerici yea its a shame that society forgot his name

    • @thecreamyone3606
      @thecreamyone3606 Před 2 lety +2

      Lindbergh was the 28th

    • @L2H5
      @L2H5 Před 2 lety +8

      @@thecreamyone3606 I dont know what you mean. Was he the 28th to fly ower the atlantic nonstop?
      But what I know is that Lindbergh was the first to fly solo nonstop over the Atlantic.
      Solo means alone that means he had no navigator on board or sommeone else.

    • @willnenni7798
      @willnenni7798 Před 2 lety +6

      I was looking for this comment

  • @chibicthulhu4382
    @chibicthulhu4382 Před 2 lety +298

    I literally was never taught in school that Amelia wasn’t alone on that flight…

    • @BabishForIdiots
      @BabishForIdiots Před 2 lety +73

      Because it is feminist propaganda

    • @athenathechesscub7162
      @athenathechesscub7162 Před 2 lety +39

      yeah, i believe it's mostly becayse she is most famous for flying over the atlantic ocean SOLO, but that doesn't change that when she died she was with another person

    • @gabrielsfilms2086
      @gabrielsfilms2086 Před 2 lety +5

      @@BabishForIdiots no dude as athenathechess cub said its bc she was famouse for flying over the Atlantic solo

    • @chibicthulhu4382
      @chibicthulhu4382 Před 2 lety +5

      @@athenathechesscub7162 yeah that’s probably where the confusion comes from

    • @TheBlackAxe1
      @TheBlackAxe1 Před 2 lety +12

      She was THE pilot and Noonan was the navigator. So technically, yes, she flew solo as they did not trade off on the controls.

  • @joelburnham4564
    @joelburnham4564 Před 2 lety +7

    I have also heard that she crashed in Papua New Guinea, and survived. The reason why no one knew about this is because Papua New Guinea is a dense, remote jungle and the natives who only spoke Melanesian Pidgin and other various languages, (since there are 800+) they wouldn't have known about Amelia's Trip, and likely Amelia and Noonan died in the jungle while living with the Papua New Guinean natives. A lot of this stuff I know because I have lived in Papua New Guinea and have heard these things multiple times over. (Just a thought)

  • @Unwelcomedpolitics
    @Unwelcomedpolitics Před 2 lety +2

    This is by far my favorite CZcams channel. It goes over intriguing and interesting parts of history whilst making you laugh.

  • @fullthrottlewrx
    @fullthrottlewrx Před 2 lety +83

    Arran you have a spectacular way of presenting your videos - just when i think the story is finished, I realize the video is only halfway through! EVERY video is like this and its absolutely amazing! you wrap up the stories in such a way that i come back for every new video. i hope you continue to grow your channel and enjoy the well deserved success.

    • @erossinema8797
      @erossinema8797 Před rokem

      He's got that IT factor. Good storyteller, despite the snooty accent

  • @jenniferholden9397
    @jenniferholden9397 Před 2 lety +44

    Well done for mentioning poor old Fred Noonan, the forgotten man.

    • @TheDarkSkorpion
      @TheDarkSkorpion Před 9 měsíci +3

      Yep. So forgotten that when they found the body of a man, they were just like " Nope, not Amelia!" and tossed it to the side.
      Edit - Oops, 2 year old comment. Oh well, I stand by it.

    • @luksusbeistet
      @luksusbeistet Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@TheDarkSkorpion I think they ruled out Noonan pretty fast, since he was over 6 feet tall. The bones found was somewhat shorter and couldn't have been his.

  • @norrona5923
    @norrona5923 Před 11 měsíci +8

    Earhart was one of my childhood heroes. I wasn't that interested in her death until I grew up, and thinking about it just made me sad, so she left my thoughts. When I see content relating to her, I feel some nostalgia. I hope she is found and brought home.

  • @godzilla2832
    @godzilla2832 Před 2 lety +2

    Every thoughty2 video feels like an entertaining documentary

  • @vampireslayer3821
    @vampireslayer3821 Před 2 lety +101

    "Skeleton found was most likely male". Did we forget about Noonan already? Why couldn't it have been Noonan?

    • @mcmacshalfilya
      @mcmacshalfilya Před 2 lety +6

      That would be a crucial point. For SURE

    • @TTFerdinand
      @TTFerdinand Před 2 lety +11

      The bones found didn't match Noonan's height.
      In a 1998 report to the American Anthropological Association, researchers, including a forensic anthropologist and an archaeologist, concluded, "What we can be certain of is that bones were found on the island in 1939-40, associated with what were observed to be women's shoes and a navigator's sextant box, and that the morphology of the recovered bones, insofar as we can tell by applying contemporary forensic methods to measurements taken at the time, appears consistent with a female of Earhart's height and ethnic origin. (Wikipedia)

  • @kylesunderman6489
    @kylesunderman6489 Před 2 lety +131

    I've been listening to this guy for years... would have sworn his name was Fourty Two...

    • @tandyssection1239
      @tandyssection1239 Před 2 lety +29

      that's the pun, since 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. It's meant to sound the same

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 Před 2 lety +13

      Not this again.

    • @jamespierce1209
      @jamespierce1209 Před 2 lety +4

      Mandela effect? Ooohhhh

  • @timvanvoorhis5732
    @timvanvoorhis5732 Před 2 lety

    Great stuff man , best story of the night 🌙

  • @baschoen23
    @baschoen23 Před rokem +1

    That was thorough! Totally satisfied my need for Amelia Earhart information for the morning.

  • @marsupius
    @marsupius Před 2 lety +52

    I already knew this story. But I wanted to hear Thoughty2 tell it.

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 Před 2 lety +242

    Fair presentation of the available evidence. However, I disagree and think Gardener Island is Amelia Earheart's final destination for a simple reason: some cosmetic that Amelia used to conceal her freckles was found on Gardener Island. Sure, discount the boot, discount the metals, discount the SOS triangulation. But the exact brand of freckle cream she was famous for using?

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 Před 2 lety +15

      You'd really need to recover it for DNA and fingerprinting... However, I suspect it was a) rusty and b) covered in other people's fingerprints when recovered.

    • @alexanderordinary2110
      @alexanderordinary2110 Před 2 lety +6

      ya, I remember that, was thinking the same, most likely at gardner

    • @daniell1483
      @daniell1483 Před 2 lety +35

      @@thursoberwick1948 You are probably right and I doubt the freckle cream was spared the ravages of time in such a wet place, surrounded by the ocean. It isn't conclusive proof, but after so many years, I think anything conclusive (regardless of the location) has probably been destroyed.

    • @PK-Radio
      @PK-Radio Před 2 lety +4

      Maybe the crabs got her

    • @connordougherty9860
      @connordougherty9860 Před 2 lety +2

      @@PK-Radio that’s what I heard !

  • @amexicanandaredneckfathert365

    Super thankful for CZcams channels like this channel.

  • @brandonsmith1968
    @brandonsmith1968 Před 2 lety

    Great stuff

  • @HellNoMoreBiden
    @HellNoMoreBiden Před 2 lety +123

    It doesn't look like we'll ever find the wreck until they decide to map the ocean floor.

    • @strodey123
      @strodey123 Před 2 lety +15

      They still can't find MH370 even while mapping alot of the ocean floor

    • @jeromyw8075
      @jeromyw8075 Před 2 lety +8

      @@strodey123 We've only mapped about 5% of the ocean floor. That's not a lot.

    • @kingartison
      @kingartison Před 2 lety +3

      @@jeromyw8075 you believe that?

    • @jeromyw8075
      @jeromyw8075 Před 2 lety +10

      @@kingartison Do you realize how vast the ocean is? Yes, I believe that out of the 1.3 Billion cubic km of ocean on Earth that we've only mapped 5% of it. Which still is 65 million kubic meters.

    • @kingartison
      @kingartison Před 2 lety +5

      @@jeromyw8075 if you stand by it I’m forced to respect it

  • @doylela7891
    @doylela7891 Před 2 lety +65

    Thoughty2 can literally make a 1 hour video about salt and i’ll watch it all the way through, thats just how good he is at making anything interesting

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays Před rokem +2

      Salt is pretty important and interesting actually. It’s literally everywhere and in food we eat. And we add it to our food. I’m a salt fiend myself.

  • @aclown311
    @aclown311 Před 2 lety

    Great video!

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Před 2 lety

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

  • @StrLab
    @StrLab Před 2 lety +58

    Electra was a person in the Greek mythology, she killed her mother to avenge the murder of her father!
    A tragic fate for both Electras...

    • @dwlopez57
      @dwlopez57 Před 2 lety +2

      Actually, the Lockheed Electra as well as the Buick Electra were named after a relative of famed Texas cattleman WT Waggoner.

    • @theoneeyedartist3253
      @theoneeyedartist3253 Před 2 lety

      Never name your vessel after a greek myth. The Medusa, The Titanic, The Electra...

  • @courage7638
    @courage7638 Před 2 lety +141

    The quality of this channels content is growing with every upload.

    • @tba113
      @tba113 Před 2 lety +10

      As does the quality of his moustache.

    • @Daseinn
      @Daseinn Před 2 lety +4

      Eh, it's been the exact same for years (which is good, because it fits so well)

    • @anunentitledmotivatedmille7731
      @anunentitledmotivatedmille7731 Před 2 lety +1

      I remember this channel from way back in 2005

    • @inyrui
      @inyrui Před 2 lety +7

      @@Daseinn i think the editing is a little better than it used to be, seems more visually engaging

    • @riomouris4767
      @riomouris4767 Před 2 lety +3

      Have a look at his very first video, besides the lack of as many visuals, the quality of his videos were really good even then!

  • @mariusanton143
    @mariusanton143 Před 2 lety

    Your voice is so soothing, it gives the video a magical feeling.

  • @mollydugan6144
    @mollydugan6144 Před 2 lety +101

    I love how Thoughty2 can’t help himself when it comes to useless facts

    • @tommywinehouse1742
      @tommywinehouse1742 Před 2 lety +11

      We all love it. Because we all love useless facts but we're lazy as fuck. And he condenses and makes them the best and entertains us during 👍

  • @GemBonhamHorton
    @GemBonhamHorton Před 2 lety +64

    I love how excited you get over odd facts the 5 moons was cool

  • @user-hu9fr2ib3d
    @user-hu9fr2ib3d Před 25 dny

    Love your videos, second one have watched! Going to watch all the other videos you have. Thank you!

  • @jeremycunningham7897
    @jeremycunningham7897 Před 2 lety

    This was brilliant- thanks!

  • @shotboom3479
    @shotboom3479 Před 2 lety +2

    15:33 could be fish pressing the buttons

  • @ComradeMeow
    @ComradeMeow Před 2 lety +227

    "You, like me, are a citizen of Earth"
    Who else is watching this from Mars in 2091?

  • @GibbHuckley
    @GibbHuckley Před 2 lety +75

    This mystery is so thick that for now, I prefer to imagine her in the Delta quadrant, circa 2371. If we ever learn what really happened, this will destroy one of the best Voyager episode ever, The 37's.

    • @adalmartinez2340
      @adalmartinez2340 Před 2 lety +1

      I Loved that episode too

    • @leonstanic3960
      @leonstanic3960 Před 2 lety

      🖖

    • @mariakelly1059
      @mariakelly1059 Před 2 lety

      @@adalmartinez2340 When Captain Janeway tells Amelia that it's common knowledge (in Janeway's time) that Amelia and Fred were spying for the U.S., Amelia gets very upset and says "that was supposed to be a secret!"

  • @justathought958
    @justathought958 Před 2 lety +27

    My Own Take On The Amelia Earhart Story
    I base my own "theory" on aviation fuel consumption. When the U.S.S. Itasca, the Coast Guard cutter assigned to assist Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan, heard them on the radio, searching for Howland Island, the signal was so strong it could only mean they were very close. The signals also indicated that Earhart was flying too low for any view of Howland Island, the tiny speck of land on which they were to refuel for the jump to Hawaii. Why so low? Turns out that while the skies were reported totally CLEAR, there WERE large groups of cloud cover to the northwest. This suggests they were flying low to get under the cloud cover.
    The truth about matters was, they were about right where they were supposed to be and, given the fuel consumption of Earhart's Electra 10A aircraft, they had more than sufficient fuel to search for Howland and the Itasca for OVER four additional hours. They could calculate all this quite well aboard the ship, and thus when Amelia went silent, they PRESUMED she still had those FOUR hours left. While transmissions ended around 8 am, the official search involving both a battleship and an aircraft carrier and it's planes, did not BEGIN until noon. They waited those four hours.
    But wait..........DID she really have four more hours of fuel? Clearly NOT! So what did she do with the other four hours worth, totaling some 520 additional miles?
    It has been "alleged", "speculated", etc., that she and Fred were shot down and captured, maybe tortured, doubtlessly killed, by the Japanese, who DID control all those islands our forces had to deal with a few years later. The concept is that they were caught spying! No one EVER suggests that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan WERE successful in obtaining photos of the island bases located either around Tarawa (which they nearly flew right over on the planned route they INDICATED they would be flying) or ONLY 400 miles to the NORTH of her route, in the Marshall islands?
    She could have carried just a bit more fuel or even with what she had to spare, could have angled up towards the Marshalls and then back down again. Only on the way back, looking desperately for Howland, they now realized they'd cut it TOO fine.
    (There IS another unsubstantiated claim out there that they "may" have been shorted or chose to short themselves a bit of fuel. This rumour kind of DOES fit with the rest of my silly old theory.)
    Anyway, that's what I think. I can't get my head around why a battleship AND an aircraft carrier would both be so "available" over a supposed private enterprise such as Earhart's flight, no matter who was involved or who knew who. Yet there they were, on station. Nor can I get my head around the notion that they arrived so very close to the Itasca, just over the horizon perhaps, in storm clouds but with FOUR HOURS OF FUEL TO BURN. Make no mistake. The fuel calculations, available online, are clear and no one has ever challenged these. Yet, few "theorists" seem to explain it away. In fact not one that I'm aware of has even attempted to do so. Until now. Note that the person is Daniel Bartlow Hart. Meeeeeeeeee!
    I think they ran short of fuel after COMPLETING their reconnaissance mission and ended up crashing, the film unrecoverable. That's what I think happened to Amelia and Fred and if I'm right, then under MY theory, we can honor them for a lot more than what otherwise can only be labeled a very bad idea executed by incompetents. I prefer my view, but who knows or ever will unless and until the Electra rises from the sea covered in weed.
    Gosh that would be scary!

    • @edward9643
      @edward9643 Před 2 lety

      Read my reply if you want the skinny

    • @edward9643
      @edward9643 Před 2 lety +1

      U are correct about the claim of spying - from what I know she was asked, as part of her patriotic duty to do what she could for the war effort

    • @mariakelly1059
      @mariakelly1059 Před 2 lety +1

      Very interesting post!

  • @luccaventurini1011
    @luccaventurini1011 Před 2 lety +2

    I only heard about that in Friends

  • @junfangaiden
    @junfangaiden Před 2 lety +53

    I love how well You've developed acting skills throughout your videos, only makes it more immersive.

  • @patrickbanks3087
    @patrickbanks3087 Před 2 lety +11

    Thank you so much for the stories and all the research you do to tell them, awesome detail. Keep up the good work!!

  • @YourPeepingTom
    @YourPeepingTom Před 2 lety

    i'ma recently acquired viewer, I like your stuff so far mate! keep up the good work \o/

  • @HeyItzZedd
    @HeyItzZedd Před 2 lety +8

    i was just watching thoughty2's hand movements and i gotta say i feel like he could try out to be the next Doctor Who.

  • @buckaroobanzai2551
    @buckaroobanzai2551 Před 2 lety +51

    Dude you've been covering all of my favorite "mysteries" recently. Love it and your content!

    • @hylianhero2074
      @hylianhero2074 Před 2 lety

      Did he cover db cooper?

    • @TheBlackAxe1
      @TheBlackAxe1 Před 2 lety +1

      @@hylianhero2074 Yes he did.

    • @mariakelly1059
      @mariakelly1059 Před 2 lety

      Buckaroo, how are you? I love your movie!

    • @buckaroobanzai2551
      @buckaroobanzai2551 Před 2 lety

      @Maria Kelly Just taking a break from driving through mountains and playing sweet concerts to watch some CZcams.

  • @thejuhlerofdk
    @thejuhlerofdk Před 2 lety +9

    Thank you for making these videos, Arran - They are always entertaining.

  • @TheChampy2012
    @TheChampy2012 Před 2 lety

    I am a new sub. 😊 The Earhart mystery has always fascinated me greatly. I love her! I enjoyed this video very much and am looking forward to many more. 🤗

  • @27Zangle
    @27Zangle Před 2 lety +3

    I remember a few years back talk about a local population on some island who had stated there was an aircraft stuck in the reef for a couple decades or some number of years before it finally slid off the reef and into the depths.
    I've always thought the plane was able to crash into the waters and likely floated for a few days before finally going under, perhaps off the coast of a small island where they made a final stand for survival.

    • @cursedkomodo
      @cursedkomodo Před rokem

      That's genuinely so interesting, I always wonder how people don't know about little things like that despite searching so hard.

  • @walcodebruyn2135
    @walcodebruyn2135 Před 2 lety +23

    Hey Thoughty2 i missed you just what i needed after a crappy day thanks for this!

    • @flvnn.mp4
      @flvnn.mp4 Před 2 lety +2

      I hope you're having a better day...

  • @matthewcarroll6640
    @matthewcarroll6640 Před 2 lety +8

    Hell yeah!!! You did it!! Thanks Thoughty2! Keep em coming and as always. Love the Moustache!!

  • @eabutler6861
    @eabutler6861 Před rokem +3

    love your shows.... very interesting and well presented. No woo woo conspiracy nonsense, even though you mention them out of fairness. I love this channel.

  • @katelynmartinez6217
    @katelynmartinez6217 Před 2 lety

    I got sick so I watched this because my history teacher is teaching this so thank you cuz now I know and I’m not missing out

  • @Chalky.
    @Chalky. Před 2 lety +52

    A few hundred more years and I'm sure Captain Janeway will find her.

    • @SomeAustrianPainter
      @SomeAustrianPainter Před 2 lety +5

      I’m so drunk I thought you said Caitlyn Jenner

    • @TheKaffeekatze
      @TheKaffeekatze Před 2 lety +6

      I'd say "what a weird episode" but which part of Voyager wasn't

    • @TwistedSoul2002
      @TwistedSoul2002 Před 2 lety +5

      @@TheKaffeekatze Voyager >>>> Picard >>>> Discovery

    • @jgobroho
      @jgobroho Před 2 lety +8

      @@TheKaffeekatze hey at least this episode didn't involve Paris and Janeway turning into giant salamanders and mating on some world lol. That episode still pisses me off at how dumb it was lol.

    • @mrpddnos
      @mrpddnos Před 2 lety

      The stupidest thing about this whole episode is that anyone finding someone in stasis who is armed, would check the other bodies for arms too. At least, that would be an understandable reaction. 🙄

  • @eddiecharles6457
    @eddiecharles6457 Před 2 lety +25

    01:52 - Alcock was flying solo? I can't find any reference of Arthur Brown being thrown out of the aircraft! I'm quite sure the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic was Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

    • @nofrackingzone7479
      @nofrackingzone7479 Před 2 lety +3

      It’s the Mandela effect. You thought Lindbergh was the first…. czcams.com/video/mbyOFKmFORM/video.html

    • @danielbradley5255
      @danielbradley5255 Před 2 lety +2

      I was just thinking about what a big deal Lindbergh and his flight between north America and Europe was cause of how it was we supposed to be the first?

    • @cdeford
      @cdeford Před 2 lety

      I've always been bothered by the distinction. Alcock did all the flying. Brown was navigator but the weather was bad and he only managed one sextant reading. Lindbergh's flight 8 years later in a custom-built plane was a great achievement but was not, to my mind, a greater one.

    • @theenquiringone7353
      @theenquiringone7353 Před 2 lety

      @@cdeford Does the fact that Lindbergh didn't have a windshield of any kind, and navigated by looking out of a telescope on the port side of his aircraft impress you at all?

    • @cdeford
      @cdeford Před 2 lety +1

      @@theenquiringone7353 I didn't say I wasn't impressed, I said I don't rate his achivement as MORE impressive than Alcock and Brown's.

  • @arisdelfino9955
    @arisdelfino9955 Před 2 lety

    Really reminds me of the song "Someday well know"..🙌🙏

  • @andrewharvey3282
    @andrewharvey3282 Před 2 lety

    42 bringing the gravitas at the end there, I dig.

  • @TudorOwen50s
    @TudorOwen50s Před 2 lety +8

    We done!!!!! Good summaries of the theories!... and the soft music at the end provided a mood of hopeful resolution to this mystery! "Fish swimming through the cockpit..." nice touch! :-)

  • @jrmoore3692
    @jrmoore3692 Před 2 lety +3

    Thoughts 2, you’re the man, I love these vids, keep up the good work homie

  • @kingjames7904
    @kingjames7904 Před 2 lety

    How am I not subscribed??? I’ve been subbed to thoughty2 for like 4+ years

  • @ProNinjaHax
    @ProNinjaHax Před 2 lety

    I literally looked around my house when that beeping started LOL

  • @BeeDub57
    @BeeDub57 Před 2 lety +50

    No, she ended up on an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

    • @krisfellows7663
      @krisfellows7663 Před 2 lety +5

      Ha ha. I remember watching that

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred Před 2 lety +7

      She's a 37!

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations Před 2 lety +5

      Very true!

    • @Silvaria928
      @Silvaria928 Před 2 lety +4

      Thank you, I was about to say this but I wanted to see if anyone else had already. Well played.

    • @rockstarluvv
      @rockstarluvv Před 2 lety

      Well duh obviously there are no other explanations

  • @koretechx1
    @koretechx1 Před 2 lety +164

    What about the jar of skin cream that Amelia was known to use being found on that island? Near an old campfire? And the pieces of scattered human bones that were collected side from the skeleton?

    • @josephsedqy8168
      @josephsedqy8168 Před 2 lety +6

      Nah she just crashed and died. Nothing cool

    • @hbbheartbreakrecords6897
      @hbbheartbreakrecords6897 Před 2 lety +7

      @@foolonthrn not gonna lie i actual would
      organise it for me

    • @chadhumphries1445
      @chadhumphries1445 Před 2 lety +19

      @@foolonthrn coconut crabs are like all other crabs. They don't randomly attack people.

    • @kryptopb8656
      @kryptopb8656 Před 2 lety +12

      @@chadhumphries1445 yeah but once you die they’ll come and eat your body either way

    • @theskiller2217
      @theskiller2217 Před 2 lety

      @@kryptopb8656 yummy

  • @cleodiebleu8793
    @cleodiebleu8793 Před rokem

    Thank you so much

  • @yup8865
    @yup8865 Před 2 lety +1

    She had family that had a house right next to my childhood home. Some of her family is buried across from the street where I use to live. When I was little these old folks lived there and told us a few stories about it. Really small old cold mining town.

  • @danechristmas6570
    @danechristmas6570 Před 2 lety +7

    I always thought the Japanese capture theory was the most plausible, then came Thoughty2 and dated the infamous photo..lol!

  • @donm5354
    @donm5354 Před 2 lety +7

    3:42 WOW! I didnt realize their heads were so huge and stuck out the top of the plane !

  • @The_Bermuda_Nonagon
    @The_Bermuda_Nonagon Před 2 lety +7

    There's a somewhat hard to find book called EARHART'S FLIGHT INTO YESTERDAY worth reading but the story behind it is interesting. It was written by Laurance Safford. He was one of the top American codebreakers in the Pacific during WW2. So this book is written by a man with extensive experience with 1930's radio technology and radio direction finding. He passed away before it was published and the manuscript was literally saved from a garbage can at his house. I wondered if Robert Ballard had read it before his expedition to locate her airplane.

  • @reggiesoundbox4923
    @reggiesoundbox4923 Před 2 lety

    So much information in just 1 video.

  • @aadamtx
    @aadamtx Před 2 lety +62

    George Carlin said he never wanted to be on a nonstop flight - when he got to his destination, the flight should stop.
    You should look into doing a video on Bessie Coleman, the first African-American and Native American aviatrix.

    • @rhark25
      @rhark25 Před 2 lety +7

      He also said that he didn't want to get on the plane. He wanted to get IN the plane!

    • @mellie4174
      @mellie4174 Před 2 lety

      Yes!

  • @Polcar1
    @Polcar1 Před 2 lety +7

    Of course we know we're more likely to be in a car accident but a car accident doesn't involve dropping from the sky while you scream in terror, utterly helpless, with a load of strangers waiting to die in a big explosion.

  • @barryervin8536
    @barryervin8536 Před rokem

    Back in the mid 60s I attended the Ogontz campus of Penn State University, which originally was The Ogontz School For Girls. Most of the buildings were new but the original building was still in use and I had some classes there. The classrooms was like a 19th century time capsule, still with the old fashioned wooden desks. Most of the desks were covered with old names scratched into the wood, many of them names that nobody names their kids any more. I used to try to sit at a different desk every time and spend my time during the incredibly boring classes looking for Amelia's name and wondering if I was sitting in her old seat. Just a trivial old memory.

  • @danlerch8680
    @danlerch8680 Před 2 lety +1

    My kid got an Amelia Earhart Lego set for Christmas. Thank you for giving me an amazing bedtime story to go with it. Well done as always, sir.

  • @atrejadevoid
    @atrejadevoid Před 2 lety +271

    Three things I'll definitely remember from this video:
    1. Amelia Earhart kinda sounds like "air-heart" which represents her passion about flying very lovely. 💜
    2. FIVE MOONS! 🖐️🌝
    3. It's just kinda "sus" that Lockheed is involved in such a tragedy... again. 🛸

  • @12Ger13
    @12Ger13 Před 2 lety +22

    "Did I mention the Pacific is big?" Yes you did bro, 5 MOONS!!!!!

  • @maximusplayz4760
    @maximusplayz4760 Před 2 lety

    Gotta love CZcams recommendations

  • @jimmyfiddlesticks337
    @jimmyfiddlesticks337 Před 2 lety +4

    When planes crash into bodies of water, they usually break like a bullet and glass with the bullet being the ocean and the glass being the plane. I would not be surprised if that sheet of metal and heel of a boot were from the the crash. If you wanted to find other pieces follow the currents from around their last rough location scouring the seabed for any pieces of plane, clothing or possibly body.

  • @TheEpicBeastyGamerPlays
    @TheEpicBeastyGamerPlays Před 2 lety +5

    Thoughty2 you are a storytelling legend man - great laughs as always too. 😁👍👌

  • @nick11jl
    @nick11jl Před 2 lety +4

    14:10 oh yeah cos it's common to find bits of shoes and and aluminium around a *uninhabited* island

  • @martinjohnston4320
    @martinjohnston4320 Před 2 lety

    How can people dislike a video like this. Information and knowledge is what makes the internet valuable. Learn about things people

  • @KassieR329
    @KassieR329 Před 2 lety

    I live in Atchison where she was born and there are so many theories that go around. but either way, she's a staple for our small town, giving life to a festival every August called the Amelia Earhart Festival.

  • @sideeffectzrundberg323
    @sideeffectzrundberg323 Před 2 lety +11

    Jesus mate. The alarm sound at 7:22 when the fuel tank goes low really got me. Thought my fire alarm started

  • @david.e.miller
    @david.e.miller Před 2 lety +11

    I'm reminded of the last flight of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. They did finally find part of his airplane in the Mediterranean. But what exactly caused the crash remains a mystery.

  • @aboutface7961
    @aboutface7961 Před 2 lety +1

    almost everyday I walk past the former WW1 hospital where Amelia worked in 1918 as a nurse (in Toronto). She also caught the 'Spanish flu' here that year. And returned in the 1930's to attend a dinner and do a speech.

  • @Dravianpn02
    @Dravianpn02 Před 2 lety +1

    You also left out the freckle cream tin, the same type amelia used, was found on gardner island.

  • @thememeestfilmbuff
    @thememeestfilmbuff Před 2 lety +43

    This is where she’s being having her *island vacation* I see.