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Sharon A. Hill @[email protected] · 2026-05-04 · 22:01 UTC

Speculation as spectator sport

A new book is out.
Lost: Amelia Earhart’s Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life
by Rachel Hartigan

I found this review of the Hartigan book fascinating for reasons that apply to Earhart, but also to hundreds of “mystery” topics.

It remarks on the speculation and searches that have been going on for decades that are fueled by the “chatter-driven, nonfactual celebrity culture”. It cites how “social media turned speculation into a participatory sport” – what I call “mass opinionation” because everyone feels obliged to add their uneducated and often puerile comment to the news story, weird image, or video. As with conspiracy ideas, mystery creatures, anomalies, etc., “the myth making process is now instantaneous”. The reasonable realistic explanation is brushed aside, ignored or challenged by people with little grasp of logic or nature. This is why we have absurd tales of Bigfoots in Ohio migrating away from a meteorite, dogman attacks, mass psychogenic illness events, belief in UAPs as extraordinary objects, et cetera, et cetera…

When I was publishing on Doubtful News from 2011 to 2016 or so, stories about finding Amelia Earhart’s plane came around at least once or twice a year. Often by the same group trying to drum up publicity for their dramatic, speculative claims. None of them were much more than press releases from those who were so obsessed with the topic that they were convinced they knew more than anyone else. Even today, news media that used to adequately serve the public fill their dockets with news taken from someone’s Facebook or Instagram post. Copy-pasting weird tales or someone’s fringe ideas isn’t news. Except now it is, which is disappointing and so frustrating.

They never actually found Earhart’s plane. Maybe one day it will be found. (At least we know it ACTUALLY existed in the first place.) But as with other unsolved mysteries that likely have much more direct or simple explanations for which we haven’t yet found the missing pieces, the real story has been swamped by the media money-grab and mystery mongering.

#AmeliaEarhart #massOpinionation #news #socialMedia #speculation https://sharonahill.com/?p=10998

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2026-04-14 · 12:26 UTC

Library of Congress Blog: A (tiny) recording of Amelia Earhart’s 1932 London speech, played for the first time. “When her memoir, ‘The Fun of It,’ came out a few months later, her publisher (who was also her husband and promoter, George Putnam) threw in a nifty promotional gimmick: a tiny 78 rpm record of a snippet of that speech, tucked inside the back cover. A little over nine decades […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/14/library-of-congress-blog-a-tiny-recording-of-amelia-earharts-1932-london-speech-played-for-the-first-time/

#ameliaearhart #audio #datarecovery #libraryofcongress #vintagemedia

WinFuture.de @[email protected] · 2026-03-23 · 07:57 UTC

Ein Pilot will das älteste Mysterium der Luftfahrt gelöst haben - per #GoogleEarth. Das Objekt auf einem Pazifik-Atoll passt exakt zur verschollenen Maschine von #AmeliaEarhart. https://winfuture.de/news,157650.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

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Mathrubhumi English @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 04:19 UTC

A veteran pilot says Google Earth images reveal debris on Nikumaroro that may match Amelia Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/pilot-find-amelia-earhart-plane-using-google-earth-grxivs5d?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmeliaEarhart #LockheedElectra #GoogleEarth #PlaneDebris

#ameliaearhart #lockheedelectra #googleearth #planedebris

Touaregtweet @[email protected] · 2026-03-18 · 18:33 UTC

👩‍✈️ 🛩️ #homoludens #AmeliaEarhart

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Gay Curmudgeon @[email protected] · 2026-02-12 · 12:35 UTC

We just began the penultimate disc of "IN SEARCH OF," a thoughtful and entertaining gift from former roommate J.d. Lewis. #insearchof #documentary #documentaries #superstition #fable #fables #superstitions #leonardnimoy #nimoy #spock #strangetales #strange #ameliaearhart #lostcontinents #magic #science #lostpeople

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Deadline @[email protected] · 2026-02-04 · 15:05 UTC

Oscar Nominees Betsy West, Julie Cohen Piloting Documentary On Amelia Earhart From CNN Films, Imagine Entertainment, Storyville Films
#Documentary #News #AmeliaEarhart #BetsyWest #CNNFilms #ImagineEntertainment #JulieCohen

https://deadline.com/2026/02/amelia-earhart-documentary-betsy-west-julie-cohen-1236708428/

#documentary #news #ameliaearhart #betsywest #cnnfilms #imagineentertainment

Francisco de Zárate @[email protected] · 2025-11-20 · 10:45 UTC

#Cómic sobre las #aviadoras #BessieColeman #BarbaraLondon #AmeliaEarhart que #fercalvi y yo hicimos para la #revista de #aerolineas #Binter, en #Canarias #historietas

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Ken Weber @[email protected] · 2025-11-17 · 18:20 UTC

No, no, no.... his name is spelled "Epstein" not "Earhart". At least you got the first letter right...
#AmeliaEarhart #EpsteinFiles #Trump #WhiteHouse #Politics

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/trump-amelia-earhart-flight-records.html?searchResultPosition=1

#ameliaearhart #epsteinfiles #trump #whitehouse #politics

earthling @[email protected] · 2025-11-17 · 15:41 UTC

"Who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first."

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earthling @[email protected] · 2025-11-17 · 15:41 UTC

Amelia Earhart by Doris L. Rich, 2013

She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record--among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel.

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#women
#aviators
#AmeliaEarhart

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earthling @[email protected] · 2025-11-17 · 15:28 UTC

US National Archives releases Amelia Earhart records

The fate of Earhart and Noonan remains an open question. But researchers from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery have pieced together evidence suggesting the pair died as castaways on the tiny coral atoll of Nikumaroro, in the Kiribati islands of the western Pacific.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-national-archives-releases-amelia-earhart-records-promised-by-trump-2025-11-15/

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2025-11-15 · 11:25 UTC

Scientific American: Amelia Earhart Records Released by U.S. Spy Agency. “The now-released records include reports, maps and communications tracing Earhart’s flight as well as other documents detailing the search after her disappearance. The National Security Agency has also declassified related files and Earhart’s last known communications. The wide-ranging records include a letter from a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/15/scientific-american-amelia-earhart-records-released-by-u-s-spy-agency/

#ameliaearhart #declassifieddocuments #governmentdocuments #mysteries #nara #politics