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Chasing Earhart Chasing Earhart
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The world's only dedicated Amelia Earhart podcast. Part of the Chasing Earhart project.
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76 Brooks Street: A Conversation with Margie Arnold
One of my very favorite parts of the rebrand for this show has been the flood of new voices that we’ve been able to bring into the ongoing conversation regarding the life, legacy and disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Over the years, a lot of attention has been paid to AE’s upbringing in Atchison, Kansas - and for good reason. Every year, thousands and thousands of visitors flock to the beautiful Earhart home positioned on the Missouri River that served as home base during Amelia’s early years.
If Atchison helped form Amelia, the girl, then 76 Brooks Street in West Medford Massachusetts, helped form Amelia the legend. And that is where tonight’s guest enters the chase.
For over 15 years now, Margie Arnold has been studying the life and legacy of Amelia Earhart with a recent particular interest in the home AE was living in, when her life and aviation history changed forever. Tonight, we shine the spotlight on a period of Amelia’s life that will shape how you’ll see her, in more ways than one.
You’re all about to take part in a master class on the legacy of Amelia Earhart in one of the most passionate debuts this show has ever seen.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Margie Arnold.
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SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
Amelia Earhart & the Denison House @ The Social Welfare History Project
Amelia Earhart got her flying start in Medford @ ItemLive
Amelia Earhart and the mayor of Medford @ Universal Hub
Trophy, City of Medford, Amelia Earhart @ Air & Space
The Amelia Earhart Murial @ Medford Arts Council
Around Quincy, aviator Amelia Earhart was just 'Miss Amelia' @ The State Journal Register -
The Circumnavigator’s Paradox: A Conversation with Liz Smith
“It is interesting to note that because of Earhart and Noonan’s particular course, they did cross local midnight on their flight path causing the local date to move forward one day and, for several hours, the pair was alive on July 3rd – one day after they officially disappeared.”
Over the last few months of recording this show, I’ve started hearing from dozens of people either by email or by phone that have all been asking me to check out a blog that’s flown under the radar of constant Earhart sites I scour on a regular basis. Old school pilots, navigators, HAM radio operators, people with extensive military and government backgrounds have all emailed, called, and praised her work and her approach. Now tonight, she’s finally arrived. Her name is Liz Smith. Remember that name. Because after tonight, you’ll never forget it. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Liz Smith.
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SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
Liz Smith's Date Line Theory Blog
Liz Smith @ LinkedIn
Liz Smith @ Nautilus Live
Marine Robotics Company Hopes It Has Solved Amelia Earhart Mystery @ AirOnline
Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved by Elgen & Marie Long @ Amazon -
Sky Walker: A Conversation with Bram Kleppner
You know, anytime I get the chance to sit down and record another conversation for this show, I consider it an honor. I try to never forget why I’m doing this. The reasons are very important to me.
In all the conversations we’ve had for this show, we’ve only ever had one of Amelia’s family members as a guest - that was back in 2018 when Amy Kleppner - daughter of Muriel Earhart Morrissey and the niece of Amelia Earhart appeared on the show to talk about the incredible lives of both Amelia and her sister Muriel. Tonight, I’m proud to say that another of Amelia’s family has finally arrived.
Bram Kleppner is Amelia Earhart’s great nephew and he’s also become the spokesperson for the Earhart family’s position when it comes to everything from Amelia’s legacy to the many disappearance theories that often crop up in the news - most recently, the potential discovery of the world’s most famous missing aircraft by Tony Romeo and Deep Sea Vision.
One of the most asked questions I get is for me to speculate on how AE’s family might feel about a given story, idea or piece of information.
Well, why hear it from me? I’ve got a better idea. This is Bram Kleppner.
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SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
"Amelia Earhart's relative says new sonar images could be aviator's vanished plane" @ Business Insider
Episode 8: Amelia Earhart Part II: The Lady’s Legacy @ Nat Geo -
The Beginning of the End: A Conversation with Tony Romeo
About 2 years ago, my book Rabbit Hole: The Vanishing of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan was released, and I could only think of one place to launch it - Atchison Kansas, during the Amelia Earhart festival. It remains as one of my very favorite moments of this entire crazy ride. I knew then, that a deep ocean search was about to take place somewhere off the coast of Howland island - a destination that has now become both ground zero for crash and sink, and this investigation as a whole. While we were there, we met tonight’s guest.
Two weeks ago, Deep Sea Vision, and its CEO Tony Romeo produced a sonar image of what appears to be a mysterious object 16,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific - and that image has the entire planet talking.
Tonight, in a conversation that will rattle this story to its core, Tony makes his Chasing Earhart debut to discuss crash and sink, the legacy of Amelia Earhart and a piece of evidence that could spell the beginning of the end for this story and stop the chase, forever.
The wait is over. The time is now. Welcome back to the Chasing Earhart podcast. This is Tony Romeo.
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SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane? @ The Wall Street Journal
Deep Sea Vison's Official Website
Ocean exploration company's possible proof of Amelia Earhart's wrecked plane nearly vanished: report @ Fox News -
Sharpshooter: A Conversation with Jennifer Taylor
Of all the people I’ve met during my experience running the Chasing Earhart project, there is one person that you may be surprised to know has never been on this show, despite how close we’ve become over the years. We’re about to right that wrong, right now.
In 2019, when I reached out to her, she had no iron in this fire, and very little knowledge on just how big this story had become. But she dove head first into it anyway, working alongside me on a project that would become the foundational season for our show, Vanished. Listeners of that show will be very familiar with who’s about to enter the chat. And if you’ve never heard her before, get ready. Because Jennifer Taylor is about to hit you - HARD.
Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Jen Taylor.
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Vanished Facebook Discussion Group
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Chasing Earhart on Twitter
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SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane? @ The Wall Street Journal
Liz Smith’s Dateline Theory Blog
Tantalizing Theories About the Earhart Disappearance @ History
Expedition Amelia @ Disney Plus -
The Truth is How You See It: A Conversation with Chris Hare
Several years ago, during the first season of Vanished, I met a historian and researcher out of the UK that immediately caught my interest. Tonight, you’ll see why. We’ve got a very kindred fascination and love for the Earhart story, and some of the behind the scenes work he’s been quietly doing is the exact representation of what historical research should look like.
Chris Hare is a digger. And tonight, we’re all about to get a lesson on how a modern day researcher investigates a monster of a case. Here’s a little tease. It begins, like all things with, how you see it.
Tonight, we’re across the pond in the UK. And we’re bringing the bombshells. This is Chris Hare.
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SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
Letter from P. V. H. Weems to Amelia Earhart Offering Navigational Instruction @ The Smithsonian
The Chater Report @ TIGHAR's Website
Kelly Johnson @ Linda Hall Library
Professor Dame Sue Black @ St. John's College Oxford
The Cross/Wright Report: The Nikumaroro bones identification controversy: First-hand examination versus evaluation by proxy — Amelia Earhart found or still missing?
The Jantz Report: Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones: A 1941 Analysis versus Modern Quantitative Techniques
Earhart and the French Connection @ Mike Campbell's Blog
Customer Reviews
Gives Snavely a Chance
Great passion and commitment. One of the few researchers willing to give the Buka theory a serious look. Would love to hear more about that theory, especially because everyone else gives up it so little time. Please keep talking about Buka and fleshing out the theory.
“Did You Lose the Keys Here?” “No, But the Light Is Much Better Here”
Great listen, and pretty much ‘solved’ it for me. Guess I’ll have to figure out something else to do in my 70’s.
Most of the theories remind me of the old joke in the title.
Amelia was a bit of a reckless daredevil, and it served her quite well until it didn’t. Don’t overthink it.
Great guests, intelligent conversations
This is not a podcast for conspiracy theorists or amateurs. The host interviews the top researchers in the Earhart-Noonan investigation world and gets clear, detailed answers. I’m so glad I found this podcast. It introduces plausible theories that I wasn’t even aware of and gives them a careful examination.
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