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Amelia Earhart's Finger Bone Recovered? I think it would be pretty cool if they have indeed found evidence that will prove where Earhart went down. TIGHAR has lots of info on their site and they make a pretty compelling case that they are correct and have identified where she and Noonan went down.
I didn't look through that TIGHAR site, but after reading the other article on the “finger bone”, I thought to myself how the theory that she was on the island sounds like they're grasping for straws.
The evidence they have is scanty but what they do have is pretty compelling. I think the fact that they found anything at all on that postage stamp of an island is pretty amazing in the first place. the island is a coral atoll that is only something like 2×3 km.
From what I read of the evidence, they found a skull back in 1940. They concluded that it was more likely female than male, white rather than Polynesian, and yet they “lost” the skull sometime since then. I don't know…I would be curious as to who made those assertions about the skull in the first place, lest it be a case more of wishful thinking rather than scientific inquiry.
Did you know that some people in France stated that Lindbergh was only the first to complete the crossing and survive, with two French pilots (Nungesser and Coli) believed to have reached the coast of Canada ten days before Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis touched down in Paris in May 1927 ?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329178/French-claim-Charles-Lindbergh-NOT-fly-Atlantic.html#ixzz186efUDaR
Did you know that some people in France stated that Lindbergh was only the first to complete the crossing and survive, with two French pilots (Nungesser and Coli) believed to have reached the coast of Canada ten days before Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis touched down in Paris in May 1927 ?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329178/French-claim-Charles-Lindbergh-NOT-fly-Atlantic.html#ixzz186efUDaR
Interesting, but isn't reaching the other side and surviving part of the implicit idea of a cross-Atlantic flight?
I had heard of the attempt but have to agree Phid that survival is implicit in it being considered a success.
BTW, you talk about a finger bone ... but from which finger exactly ? 8)
I dont know. probably the middle one. What my mom called the "dirty finger". 😀
Here is an update on what TGHAR has found. They now claim to have discovered what might be clumps of human feces. DNA testing is inconclusive though. Human DNA was discovered but not enough for an identification. Amelia Earhart Clue Found in Clumps
Here is an update on what TGHAR has found. They now claim to have discovered what might be clumps of human feces. DNA testing is inconclusive though. Human DNA was discovered but not enough for an identification. Amelia Earhart Clue Found in Clumps
I realize it could be helpful, but also - sounds like a "lovely" find for an archaeologist.
Here is an update on what TGHAR has found. They now claim to have discovered what might be clumps of human feces. DNA testing is inconclusive though. Human DNA was discovered but not enough for an identification. Amelia Earhart Clue Found in Clumps
I guess if naysayers are wrong and it is indeed her they can no longer say it's a load of crap. 😀
I think it is kind of cool that they are so diligent and may actually end up definitively solving the mystery of her disappearance.
There is another possible break in the Earhart disappearance. Apparently TIGHAR has discovered a sonar anomaly just off the coast of the island where they believe Earhart crashed. The anomaly supposedly is the right size and in the right location to what they think the crash site is to actually be the remains of er aircraft. They don;t know right now for sure and won't know until they go back and have the chance to dive on the site. I find it interesting to track their efforts though.
