HOME |
RSS | 
We all know about Jimmy Hoffa, who “vanished so quickly and so thoroughly that his vanishing would eventually become something of a punch line,” and Amelia Earhart, whose remains were maybe found, but there’s a longish list of famous people who have disappeared in a snap. LIFE has a great round up, from master Baroque painter Carravaggio to the crew of the USS Cyclops. Link
Photo by Getty Images
Comments Off
Theories (some as kooky as being abducted by aliens or assuming another identity) have been swirling for years about the fates of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, who disappeared during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.
And now, researchers may have found the final resting place for the missing aviators:
Legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart mostly likely died on an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, according to researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR).
Tall, slender, blonde and brave, Earhart disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator. Her final resting place has long been a mystery.
For years, Richard Gillespie, TIGHAR’s executive director and author of the book "Finding Amelia," and his crew have been searching the Nikumaroro island for evidence of Earhart. A tiny coral atoll, Nikumaroro was some 300 miles southeast of Earhart’s target destination, Howland Island.
A number of artifacts recovered by TIGHAR would suggest that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, made a forced landing on the island’s smooth, flat coral reef.
Just in time for the Hilary Swank’s new movie "Amelia". Coincidence? I don’t think so!
Link | Nikumaroro Island on Wikipedia
