Amelia Earhart’s old letters hold clue to her disappearance

The Amelia Earhart disappearing has n’t really been a enigma so much as a jumping - off point for as many grotesque theories as potential . Earhart had often been credit as a better self - promoter and daredevil than a pilot . Her last stunt , in 1937 , was an attempt to make the phonograph recording books as the first woman to circumnavigate the Earth in an aeroplane . During the final branch of her journey she , her navigator , and her planing machine all vanished .

Some people think she was captured , tried , and executed as a spy by the Japanese . Some people thought she actually was a undercover agent and go away into concealment after return from her last military mission . There are in all probability some foreign abduction hypothesis floating around .

Most reasonable theories defy that she crashed . These theories seem to be tolerate by the discovery of a woman ’s corpse on an island in 1940 . The three class time lapse did not do the consistency good . Much of it was impart off by wildlife , but the basic description matched Earhart , and some debris find oneself near the body indicate that it might be her . Unfortunately , in 1940 there was a lot lead on in the Pacific , and all but an incomplete os was fall back .

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That the bone is hers is unconvincing . For a body that could be anywhere in the Pacific Ocean to rinse up on an island , and for only the famous Earhart ( but not her relatively unknown navigator ) to be found , and for anything that might shew the body belonged to someone else to subsequently be lose , is pretty fishy . And hoi polloi have been burn when it come to ‘ genuine ’ Earhart memorabilia in past tense . A lock of her hair belong to the International Woman ’s Air and Space Museum turned out to be ribbon .

scientist have come up with a Modern way to check the desoxyribonucleic acid of the off-white against known Earhart DNA . Amelia Earhart corresponded with a lot of people . This was before envelope with adhesives that do n’t demand leak , and she would have licked the envelopes . Since she was famous during her time – thanks to that gift for promotion – the great unwashed keep her letters . What ’s more , many of them opened the letters by slitting the side with a letter opener or else of tearing start the whole affair like modern barbarians . The saliva on the letter , held by adhesive material for three - quarters of a century , may be extractable . If it is , then it can be checked against the bones , and end the confederacy theories altogether .

ViaNational Geographic .

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