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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dozens-heard-amelia-earhart%e2%80%99s-final-chilling-pleas-for-help-researchers-say/ar-BBL24de?li=BBnb7Kz
Amelia Earhart waded into the Pacific Ocean and climbed into her downed and
disabled Lockheed Electra.
She started the engine, turned on the two-way radio and sent out a plea for
help, one more desperate than previous messages.
The high tide was getting higher, she had realized. Soon it would suck the plane
rescue.
Across the world, a 15-year-old girl listening to the radio in St. Petersburg,
That harrowing scene, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery
group put forth the theory in a paper that analyzes radio distress calls heard
in the days after Earhart disappeared.
In the summer of 1937, she had sought to become the first woman to
on a desert island, radioing for help.
Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, could only call for help when the tide
pleas for help to a few hours each night.
the pair died as castaways.
shortly after crashing into the Pacific Ocean.
July 5 and starts being worried about water and then is consistently worried
others looking for Earhart, Gillespie said. Others caught the attention of
people who just happened to be listening to their radios when they stumbled
across random pleas for help.
Almost all of those messages were discounted by the U.S. Navy, which concluded
seabed.
Gillespie has been trying to debunk that finding for three decades. He believes
that Earhart spent her final days on then-uninhabited Gardner Island, a tiny dot
in the Pacific, nearly 2,600 miles north of New Zealand. She may have been
with a radio and a trained ear to listen in to the frequencies she had been
using on her trip, 3105 and 6210 kilohertz.
within a few hundred miles. The Pacific Ocean is much bigger.
indicated that someone was speaking, but most heard nothing more than that.
Others heard what they interpreted to be a crude attempt at Morse code.
But thanks to the scientific principle of harmonics, TIGHAR says, others heard
listening to their radios at the right time.
Scattered across North America and unknown to each other, each listener was
astonished to suddenly hear Amelia Earhart pleading for help. They alerted
family members, local authorities or local newspapers. Some were investigated by
government authorities and found to be believable. Others were dismissed at the
time and only recognized many years later. Although few in number, the harmonic
receptions provide an important glimpse into the desperate scene that played out
on the reef at Gardner Island.
The tide probably forced Earhart and Noonan to hold to a schedule. Seek shelter,
shade and food during the sweltering day, then venture out to the craft at low
tide, to try the radio again.
Back in the United States, people heard things, tidbits that pointed at trouble.
On July 3, for example, Nina Paxton, an Ashland, Ky., woman, said she heard
What happened to Earhart after that has vexed the world for nearly 81 years, and
TIGHAR is not the only group to try to explain the mystery.
Gillespie is just one member of competing researchers who have dedicated their
Marshall Islands by the Japanese, who thought they were American spies, and died
in Japanese custody after being tortured.
wrote a book saying her plane crashed into the Pacific and sank.
Gillespie said he believes that evidence supporting his Gardner Island theory is
adding up. He believes that the messages sent out over those six days were by
Earhart and, occasionally, Noonan. He believes that bones found on Gardner
Island in 1940 belonged to Earhart, but were misidentified and discarded. He
believes that Amelia Earhart died marooned on an island after her plane was
sucked into the Pacific Ocean.
But he realizes that the public needs more than his tide tables and
extrapolations from data that predates World War II.
very much aware that we live in a time of rampant science denial. Nobody does
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