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Post #1 Assignment 2: Amelia Earhart Disappearance

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Post #1 Assignment 2: Amelia Earhart Disappearance

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Made by Andrea Gilpin, working individually

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Description: This video is about bones that were found on Gardner Island in 1940 just 400 miles away from where Amelia was planning on making a stop over. Dr. David Winn said that based on photos the skeleton found met the dimensions of Amelia.

Connection: This relates to appeal to authority because they seem to believe these bones are Amelia's even though no scientific method was applied to prove this. They think that because a prominent doctor said they are definitely a match to Earhart's then they must be hers. No DNA testing or proven scientific testing was done to prove the match, they were simply just compared to photos of Earhart. Critical thinking would help uncover biases and identify alternatives before deciding what happened to Amelia. This also relates to simplicity because the video asks "who else would have been travelling in that area?" and "who else would also just happen to have bones that appeared to be hers?" They are thinking of the simple answer instead of evaluating all the different possibilities. The video also connects to the pseudoscience watchlist, deliberately creates mystery by mentioning another popular theory and asking what theories everyone else believes.

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The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart May Have Just Been Solved

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Description: This video is an interview of a man who claims to have found a piece of Amelia Earhart's plane. He is an Earhart enthusiast and investigator. He believes the theory that Earhart landed in the Marshall Islands and was kidnapped by the Japanese.

Connection: This relates to the reason for belief, emotional connection because Dick has invested a lot of time researching the Amelia Earhart disappearance and has a strong emotional investment in his search. He is more likely to believe in the theory mentioned in the video because he feels connected to the search and has found what he believes to be a crucial piece of evidence. Critical thinking should be applied when deciding whether the piece of metal he found was a part of Earhart's plane or not. The metal could have been from another plane especially since there were many other planes very similar to Earhart's running at that time. A fault in this video is that the photo used as evidence, also mentioned in post #8, was later debunked as being taken long before Earhart's journey.

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Burlington man helps uncover Amelia Earhart mystery

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Description: This video is from a Discovery Channel documentary that explains that the radio distress calls from Earhart before her disappearance proves she didn't crash at sea.

Connection: This relates to the reason for belief of perception and observation. In the video a woman named Betty claims to have heard a distress call from Amelia Earhart saying that she needed help and was going to emergency land on an Island that had a ship wreck. The distress call was two hours long and even though Betty was taking notes she could have perceived the called incorrectly. She mentioned in the video that she couldn't fully understand some of what was being said but she thinks she may have been repeating New York City. This was interpreted as Amelia actually saying Norwich City, which was then later used to attempt to connect this distress call with Nikumaroro Island. This also relates to confirmation bias as the distress call was unclear but theorists found a way to relate it back to and support their theory that Amelia crashed on Nikumaroro. Betty could have heard these things on the broken and fuzzy radio call due to patternicity because we have a tendency to find patterns in meaningless noise.

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Description: This website describes the disappearance of Amelia Earhart being an alien abduction. The webpage is an interview between a professor and a 'higher being'/'entity'. The website encourages you to share the information with friends and covers topics such as, mysteries, spiritual concepts, messages of light, and secrets of history.

Connection: This website connects to agenticity because it claims that extraterrestrials forcefully abducted Amelia Earhart, took her to another world and cryogenically froze her. It also connects to the red flag of mystical energy because the writer of this post believes they are communicating with all knowing entities of light. This also relates back to agenticity because the writer has assigned meaning to these entities of light as views them as a higher being. Critical thinking and skepticism would be highly beneficial when viewing information on this website to uncover other reasons for Amelia's disappearance. Through critical thinking we can find that this website also correlates with the pseudoscience watchlist, convinces by faith and belief. The person who conducted this interview doesn't ask for any evidence to back up this theory and instead believes this theory to be true because he believes in this entity of light and thinks it is all knowing. A limitation of this website is that it is a blog and anybody can write whatever they want and most blogs are based on opinion.

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Ruanel: She was abducted by extraterrestrials and taken to another planet which is located thousands of light years using a technique that consists on going through the space by a tunnel that the terrestrial scientists call worm holes , and she was left there in suspended animation.

This entry was posted at Saturday, April 25, 2009 and is filed under Missing Persons . You can follow any responses to this entry through the .

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Ruanel: She was abducted by extraterrestrials and taken to another planet which is located thousands of light years using a technique that consists on going through the space by a tunnel that the terrestrial scientists call worm holes , and she was left there in suspended animation.

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Description: In 2019, Scott Waring claimed to have found Earhart's plane on Google Maps. The website is a blog post about how Waring found Earhart's plane and what he believes happened to her.

Connection: This website connects to the unexplained because it explains where Amelia's plane is, what may have happened to her, and claims that the case is 100% solved. We still can't fully explain what happened to Earhart due to a lack of information and technology, which can cause create their own conclusions. It would be useful to apply critical thinking while evaluating the theory that Amelia crash landed on the island of Palmyra. Going through this process may help to identify the red flag, confusion of causation and correlation. Waring believes that the CIA was making Amelia photograph military activity over some islands and about 5 years after her disappearance they built a runway and a U.S. base on Palmyra Island; therefore this must be where Amelia crashed and he really did find her plane. A fault in this theory is that the website is blog making it an opinion piece with no scientific evidence to back it up. The Google Maps photo also cannot be proven to be accurate and there were many differences between the plane Waring claimed to have found and Amelia's plane, such as three bladed propellers vs. two bladed propellers.

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ET Data Base, UFO Sighting News By Scott C. Waring

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Date of discovery: Sept 13, 2019
Location of discovery: Palmyra Island, mid pacific
Source: Self found.
Hey everyone. I was having trouble sleeping and work up at 3AM and decided to search for Amelia Earhart using Google Earth map. Two hours later I found her plane...the legendary Lockheed Model 10-E Electra. I found the plane on the island of Palmyra, considered part of Hawaii, but not part of the US. There was a runway built by the US military during WWII. The plane went missing July 2, 1937...just one year before WWII began in Germany. The island is just a few hundred miles away from where she was last seen.
Amelia Earhart actually crashed landed without landing gear a few months before her big trip on Ford Island in Hawaii...that plane crash and this one both appear to be the same craft. So this crash is actually her second...and this plane in Palmyra appears to have no landing gear down...same problem as at Ford island I imagine. They say the CIA was having Amelia photograph some military activity over some islands...Palmyra island may be the one the CIA was concerned with...because about 5 years later they built the runway and a US base there.

This plane on Palmyra is missing its tail or perhaps its buried in the bushes behind it. However its two engines are still visible as well as its in tack three blade propellers and cockpit. However the plane was last seen with two bladed propellers, but she may have changed them on the trip or her last stop in New Guinnea. Three bladed propellers may have caused a crash is she was not use to them. I see there are some Lockheed Electras with three blades on each propeller.
All point to this being The Lockheed Electra she was flying. The front part of the nose cone of the crashed plane is missing, but most of it is still intact.
This is 100% proof that Amelia Earhart Landed her plane on Palmyra island...but was she forced to land and taken prisoner by the Japanese Navy which was reported in that region? Also there is a report on the island of someone finding a old can with a woman skull in it and a woman's watch in it...which just might be Amelias.
Scott C. Waring

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i found amelia earharts plane using google map! ufo sighting news.

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ufo sighting news by scott c. waring: hey

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ET Data Base, UFO Sighting News By Scott C. Waring: Hey, I found Amelia Earharts Plane Using Google Map! UFO Sighting News.

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Date of discovery: Sept 13, 2019 Location of discovery: Palmyra Island, mid pacific Source: Self found. Hey everyone. I was having trouble sleeping and work up at 3AM and decided to search for Amelia Earhart using Google Earth map. Two hours later I found her plane...the legendary Lockheed Model 10-E Electra.

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Description: This website describes the Irene Bolam and Amelia Earhart theory. There are many pages full of 'evidence' as to why Irene Bolam was actually Amelia Earhart. It appears to be written by one person and is entirely based on information collected by writer and investigative journalist, Tod Swindell.

Connection: This website connects to the unexplained because it explains that Earhart never disappeared and she actually lived on as Irene Bolam. Applying the critical thinking process and skepticism to the information listed on the website, especially recognizing assumptions, emotions and  biases would be very useful. Applying critical thinking would help uncover other reasons for belief including, agenticity.  For example the author of this website believes that the government helped Amelia escape from the Japanese and change her identity. A flaw of this website is that it appears to be written by one person with one opinion and little to no solid evidence. This also relates to the red flag confirmation bias because both the author of the website and others coming to the website for information are only looking for evidence that supports the theory that Earhart and Bolam are the same person.

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Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was a Twentieth Century person who had known Amelia Earhart. The individual shown above in 1977, was only identified as Irene O'Crowley Craigmile from the 1940s on because she was not the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile.

esearch confirmed that the person above did not appear anywhere as "Irene" prior to the 1940s.

As well, the results issued by a forensic comparison analysis have now made the former identity of the post-1940 only Irene displayed above, easy to recognize:

In 1965, it was first suspected that the distinguished looking person who was known as Irene O'Crowley Craigmile from the 1940s on, had previously gone by the name ofAmelia Earhart.

In 1970, she was publicly accused of being the former Amelia Earhart, yet she denied it within the context of a national news story and people were quick to believe her.

At the time, few bothered to evaluate the full basis of the accusation, nor did it register to anyone that the question that asked if the post-1940 only Irene was or wasn't the once world famous pilot going by a different name, somehow missed being forensically addressed.

Keep going to learn more about the relentless foundation of this story, that was endlessly scorned by pseudo historians , whom in turn influenced American pop-culture to not take the Amelia became known as Irene truth seriously for half a century.

It is now 2021, and for the past several years the results of a research and comparison study that I orchestrated to test a decades-old, never disproved assertion about Amelia Earhart, managed to consume my interest.

Colonel Rollin Reineck, was a person I befriended along the way. He had studied Amelia Earhart's disappearance for many years and already attested that she survived and went on to become known as Irene. In 2003, Rollin was impressed by some of the initial study results I had achieved with help and guidance from Dr. Walter S. Birkby, a noted forensic anthropologist. So much so, it inspired him to write his book,Amelia Earhart Survived. Rollin credited my study in his book for, "making it plane for the world to see" that Ameliadid become known as Irene. Myself and Dr. Birkby tried to talk Rollin out of going forward with his book, though, because the study had a ways to go before it would be finalized for public review. No matter, Rollin was a World War Two flying hero who was getting old, and he wanted to make sure that he left behind his version of Amelia Earhart's disappearance and her later incognito return to the United States. (Colonel Reineck died in 2007.) W. C. Jameson, on the other hand, derided my efforts. Although he agreed that Amelia became known as Irene, he wrote of my study, that I had just submitted for copyright when his book came out in 2016, that it did nothing to influence his opinion. I believe that wasn't true. The Associated Press had written about my work, some of it was displayed on the National Geographic Channel in 2006, and elements of it had been viewable over the internet for several years before his book came out. I'll add that until I embarked on the study, the oldAmelia became known as Irene assertion had been dormant for decades.

Through author Randall Brink, I did meet and become good friends with another World War Two flying hero, one Joseph A. Gervais, during the last decade of his life. Joe's ten year investigation in the 1960s known as "Operation Earhart" had inspired the 1970 book, Amelia Earhart Lives by Joe Klaas. Joe Gervais was the original person to meet and (somewhat candidly) photograph the former Amelia Earhart, at a 1965 gathering of retired pilots in New York. It was there, to his own astonishment, that he instantly recognized who she used to be through her post-1940 Ireneveil. She rebuffed him, though, after she cited factual errata in the book,Amelia Earhart Lives, that had attempted to out her. Joseph A. Gervais became a subject of ridicule after that, but he never stopped insisting that she was theformer Amelia Earhart, all the way to his dying day in 2005. Now, thanks to a lot of hard work done by myself and others, a lot more about the Amelia-to-Irene truth is known.

By the way, all of those other stories you've heard about Amelia; that her bones were found on a desert island; that she was captured by Japan and executed for spying on its military installations; or that with hours of fuel remaining she aimlessly flew on until her tanks ran dry -- thus causing her to spiral down into the sea; they were all false claims issued by people who saw a way to financially capitalize on the so-called "mystery" of Amelia's disappearance.

The wikipedia page that states the Amelia became known as Irene assertion was debunked in 2006, is also false there, not to mention misleading in other ways.

The path of truth you're on here, however, continues below.

From the 'digital comparisons' section of a forensic research analysis that deeply examined the life stories of three 1930s' flying pals, Amelia Earhart, Viola Gentry, and Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, the post-1940only Irene's image and Amelia's image are shown together here in another digital composite:

The comprehensive Amelia Earhart andIrene O'Crowley Craigmile forensic research study and comparison analysis not only surfaced the reality of more than one Twentieth Century person having been attributed to the same,Irene O'Crowley Craigmile identity; it also left no doubt that the post-1940only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was previously known as, Amelia Earhart. Keep going to learn more about this recently affirmed, and now wholesomely presented finality.

The forensic study learned that she appeared nowhere identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s.

When she was challenged about her past in 1970, the post-1940 only Irene declined to admit who she used to be, choosing instead to adhere to her later-lifeassumed identity. Her following newspaper quotes from that year verified her denial:

In November of 1970, a new book titled, Amelia Earhart Lives caused quite a stir when it asserted that [the post-1940 only]Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam, was actually the still-living Amelia Earhart, sporting a different identity. The press had a field day with it. Below are a few comments made by the flustered Mrs. Bolam to some reporters the day before she held a news conference -- to deny the book's allegation that suggested she was theformer Amelia Earhart -- even though Amelia Earhart indeed was who she used to be.

After Amelia Earhart Lives was published, as noted above, Mrs. Irene Bolam told the press that her maiden name had been Irene O'Crowley, but when she earned her pilot's license in 1933, she was known as, Irene Craigmile.

Amelia Earhart's sister, Muriel Earhart Morrissey, acknowledged in 1970 that she had "known" Mrs. Bolam for many years, but insisted she was not her sister, Amelia, adding how Mrs. Bolam demonstrated, "practically no physical resemblance" to Amelia. [The recent study results revealed that Muriel, who died in 1998, was obviously incorrect with her "no physical resemblance" comment. It is certain anymore that Muriel was instrumental in helping to obscure the truth of her sister's ongoingincognito existence as Irene.]

Below, a newspaper article quoted Muriel's negative reaction to the claim about her friend, Irene, that surfaced in the 1970 book, Amelia Earhart Lives.

Not long before Muriel died in 1998, a contingency of Earhart researchers became aware of the fact that the 'Amelia became known as Irene' claim was never really officially settled. In response to their rekindled pursuit of the controversy, Muriel once again decried the effort. Here she is quoted again:

Note: The "women's club" that Muriel mentioned she and Mrs. Bolam had both belonged to was the International Zonta Club of professional career women. As shown in the clipping below that referred to the post-1940only Irene, it was not until after World War Two that the post-1940only Irene joined the Zontas. (Muriel as well, did not become a Zonta member until after World War Two.) When she was Amelia, however, she joined the Zonta's right after she became famous in 1928, and her Zonta membership was still active when she went missing in 1937. Theoriginal Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, ( who further down is shown and written about) wasn't a career woman and was never a Zonta member. She also did not become a member of any flying clubs in the 1930s, per the brevity of her days as a pilot. The following clipping, however, describes a few impressive exploits of the post-1940 only Irene that exclusively took place after World War Two:

Few people recall that Amelia Earhart was an extremely intelligent person with good business acumen, and that she also spoke several languages. This left her well suited to become a Zonta International Relations chairperson in her later-life years when she was known as Irene. Of note, that same 'International Relations' position was previously filled by theoriginal Irene O'Crowley Craigmile's aunt, a well known New York and New Jersey attorney by the name of,Irene Rutherford O'Crowley. Attorney Irene was a Zonta charter member who Amelia met and looked up to after she herself joined Zonta. It was Irene Rutherford O'Crowley who introduced her niece, theoriginal Irene, to Amelia. The linchpin of Attorney Irene Rutherford O'Crowley having brought her niece's desire to become a pilot to Amelia's attention in 1932, also surfaced in the research portion of the analysis.

Below, throughout her adult life, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile's aunt, Attorney Irene Rutherford O'Crowley, was often featured in newspaper stories that covered her various attainments. The story on the left ran in 1928, the year she met Amelia Earhart. The story on the right ran in 1963.Note: Attorney Irene Rutherford O'Crowley played a pivotal role in keeping her niece's identity 'alive' for Amelia to use from the 1940s on. Attorney Irene and her mother, Sarah, had raised theoriginal Irene from age twelve on.

It's of little surprise, really, that when the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, AKA the former Amelia Earhart, faced the press in 1970, Attorney Irene Rutherford O'Crowley was still very much alive at the time, but she was not sought for comment and she issued no statement.

The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, who Amelia Earhart knew and had flown with in the early 1930s, looked nothing like Amelia:

between her husband, Charles James Craigmile (left) and her father, Richard Joseph O'Crowley.

Strangely, approximate to when Amelia Earhart went 'missing' in the late 1930s, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile as well, was no longer evident. In time, clear photo evidence of the original Irene also been removed from circulation.

Whatever became of the original Irene is not publicly known, but it is certain anymore that Amelia Earhart had continued to live-on after she was declaredmissing during the pre-dawn era of World War Two, and in due-time she was able to assume theoriginal Irene's leftover identity for herself to use... for the remainder of her days.

Any further, this reality of what became of Amelia Earhart after she went missing in 1937, exists as an obvious truth to behold. The accumulated over time forensic research evidence that supports it is non-contestable.

"The forensic studies are very convincing. She was not an ordinary housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew many well placed people and was well traveled." From an Associated Press article by Ron Staton, refers to early results from the 21st Century Amelia-to-Irene forensic comparison analysis orchestrated by Tod Swindell. John Bolam was the generation younger brother of the post-1940 only Irene's British husband, Guy Bolam He died in 2008, not long after making the above statement.

The 1970 book, Amelia Earhart Lives, by Joe Klaas, focused on the results of 'Operation Earhart', a ten-year investigation of Amelia's 1937 disappearance -- that concluded by boldly asserting the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (later, 'Bolam'), shown above next to the book, had previously been known as,

The post-1940 only Irene was blindsided byAmelia Earhart Lives, and she was quick to denounced it. People ended up making fun of Operation Earhart's assertion about her as well, after she deliberately convinced the curious it was outlandish to even suggest that her long ago friend, Amelia Earhart, somehow survived her 1937 disappearance and went on to be known by another name.

I have studied this issue for a long time and I am here to inform all that anymore, mocking the simple notion of Amelia Earhart continuing to live-on after she was declaredmissing, and later opting to change her name, is no longer judicious. To be sure,it never was judicious. The idea of Amelia Earhart changing her name, especially after experiencing whatever she endured during her war-time period of absence, was never as far-fetched as some individuals made it out to be, nor was it an outlandish suggestion, especially given all that was left unknown about her world flight outcome.

Hindsight now shows that Amelia's survival and name change to Irene was not only true, but it was the product of a well thought out endeavor, the end result of which,that of Amelia Earhart veritably replacing the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, was a reality that wasnever supposed to be known by the general public, and nobody knew that better than theformer Amelia Earhart herself.

In 1970, the book Amelia Earhart Lives apparently did catch the living,former Amelia Earhart off guard. When it did, she saw no other choice but to deny her true past in order to preserve her privacy, and no doubt as well, to avoid causing much confusion and conflict, that admitting who she used to be surely would have done. Anymore it is completely evident, though, that beyond a variety of reckless suppositions the book,Amelia Earhart Lives presented, that enabled the former Amelia to pick it apart, it was still correct where it asserted that Amelia Earhart survived her disappearance, and lived to become known as, 'Irene.'Tod Swindell

Above: The former Amelia Earhart faces the press in 1970. She denounced the contents of the book,Amelia Earhart Lives, denied her true past, and people believed her. Amazingly, however, no one back then thought to compare her to Amelia. Decades later, researcher Tod Swindell's study of Amelia's life story became the first such effort to include anAmelia to Irene, forensic comparison analysis.

Above, the cover of Shirley Dobson Gilroy's classic 1985,

"artistic tribute to Amelia Earhart" book, Amelia / Pilot In Pearls

If you cannot fathom the truth about what became of Amelia Earhart by way of the analysis results displayed here, it is most likely because your care worn Earhart soul won't permit you to. Your chance to recognize the truth about Amelia, though, is by being considerate to what my in-depth analysis discovered about her, as opposed to dismissing it all out of hand. The people who have been Earhart educated in misleading directions will likely influence you in a 'don't believe what you see here' kind of way, as will stodgy historians that will tell you to disregardthe now plain to observe reality that shows what became of Amelia Earhart after she went missing.

Notwithstanding the number of false Earhart platitudesout there-- that conflicts a person's ability to maintain a sense of proportion about Amelia Earhart -- it is your right, if you wish to keep learning about the truth, to continue on here.Tod Swindell, 2021

Throughout her famous career, Amelia Earhart demonstrated a variety of looks. Below left is the same photo of her taken during her 1937 world flight, just before she went missing. Yet, w hen compared to the 1932 photograph in the center and the 1928 far right photos, it's not so easy to recognize that they all display the same person . [Food for thought when comparing individuals and their different looks.]

Few recall the contentious, never resolved story from 1970, about an assertion that stated Amelia Earhart continued to survive after she was declaredmissing in 1937, and how she was later discovered in the U.S. living under an assumed identity:

The University of Texas at Dallas, that houses a special collection of U.S. aviation historical research, recently cited that Amelia's survival in the described manner above was plausible given the amount of credible evidence that supported it. Keep going to find out why, and what more results from the new, comprehensive analysis learned about theshared Twentieth Century identity of, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam).

Note: Wikipedia's "Irene Craigmile Bolam" page presents a falsified brief about the never resolved'Amelia became Irene' assertion, where it suggests the Irene identity controversy was settled using known facts about her life, and by way of a forensic detective hired by the National Geographic Society in 2006. The study learned that the National Geographic Society never hired a forensic detective that delivered a final conclusion about Irene's life-long identity, and facts about theoriginal Irene, who had known Amelia in the 1930s, are easy for anyone to trace.

It is important to point out that there is no record of any forensically drawn conclusion that stated Amelia Earhart did not live to become known as, 'Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam)' in her later life years. So wikipedia's page is misleading where it implies such a thing.

In the meantime, an overwhelming preponderance of both forensic and circumstantial evidence accumulated in decades gone by indicates that Amelia did live on after she went missing, and at some point, for reasons only she and very few others understood, she assumed the leftover identity of a person she used to know, whose name wasIrene O'Crowley Craigmile.

According to the forensic analysis results, at some point the post-1940 only Irene assumed the original Irene's leftover identity. As well, also according to the analysis results, there were a total of three different women attributed to the same Irene O'Crowley Craigmile identity, as displayed below.

Note: Clear photo records of the original Irene were removed from circulation long ago. J. Edgar Hoover made sure of it.

Thanks to the analysis results, it is now fairly easy for one to recognize with a naked eye, that the above younger to older images are those of the three different people who were attributed to the same Twentieth Century identity of Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. Individually they were: 1.) The original Irene. 2.) The surrogate mother Irene, and 3.) Thepost-1940 only Irene.

As we enter 2021 after a most trying year, anymore it seems that people are bored with the subject of Amelia Earhart's odd 1937 disappearance. In recent decades, to regenerate public curiosity, a variety of organizations and theorists, (a few shown below; the oldest being TIGHAR and the newest being the 2017 upstart, Chasing Earhart) took to promoting myriad theories to the news media, within their attempts to offer a solution to the 'mystery' cloud that continued to hover over the legendary pilot's fate. Of little surprise, it turned out that none of their varied conclusions were correct.

However, another accredited researcher, Tod Swindell, who deftly avoided media adulation, quietly approached Amelia Earhart's disappearance and missing person case forensically. The results of his work are detailed beneath the following once promoted but now discarded theories.

After decades of intense study, what does Tod Swindell profess to know about Amelia Earhart's old missing person case -- and a forgotten controversy in relationship to it?

Enough to where the differing conclusions offered by past Amelia Earhart theorists were deemed anachronistic with one long ago, prematurely dismissed exception.

A forensic analysis he orchestrated with human identity experts, proved instrumental in discovering never before known realities about an infamous assertion from the 1970s, that stated Amelia Earhart privately lived on for years under an assumed identity after she was declared "missing" in 1937, and "dead in absentia" in 1939.

To begin with, until the analysis took place, it was not known that a formidable woman known as, Mrs. Irene Bolam, who in the 1970s had been called-out as theformer Amelia Earhart, had a physicality about her that proved to be congruent to Amelia Earhart's physicality. It wasn't known becauseMrs. Bolam was never actually compared to Amelia Earhart before the analysis took place. After the analysis did take place, when the results were combined with the additional corroborating information that had previously surfaced, (such as the accounts given by Monsignor Kelley, previewed directly below) it becameforensically clear that Amelia did survive and in time became known as Irene.

Anecdotal information about the post-1940 Irene and her 1970s' friendship with LPGA promoter, Peter Busatti:

Above left is the post-1940 Irene O'Crowley Craigmile;above center is the post-1940 Irene and Amelia digitally combined; above right is a rare profile photo of Amelia Earhart, taken just before she went missing.

"Peter Busatti said he accompanied Mrs. Bolam to the Wings Club in New York City on one occasion. He said a full length portrait of Amelia Earhart hangs in the room dedicated in her honor. ""It was a dead ringer for Irene,"" he said. ""Sometimes I thought she was [the former Amelia] and sometimes I thought she wasn't. Once when I asked her directly she replied, "When I die you'll find out,"" Busatti said. At a Wings Club event in Washington, Busatti mentioned how, ""All the admirals and generals seemed to know her."" Excerpted from a 1982 New Jersey Tribune article. When interviewed, Peter Busatti openly commented about his suspicion that his friend, the post-1940 Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-Bolam, used to be known as Amelia Earhart.

T Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-famous golfer, Kathy Whitworth. Especially in the 1970s, after taking over to manage her company's accounts, to include for her main client, Radio Luxembourg, theformer Amelia Earhart was simply known as 'Irene Bolam' to friends and associates of hers. In the meantime she had also grown to be respected and admired by important people not only in the United States-- but internationally as well. Those who were aware of who she used to be, of course, never talked much about her, such as her friend, Senator Barry Goldwater, who in her later life years she shared her ongoing love of photography with. Senator Goldwater himself was a great pilot who distinguished himself that way in World War Two. Bolam [FKA 'Amelia'] accompanied by

Anymore, reality states that the woman above was not the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. Rather, she was known as 'Amelia Earhart' for the first half of her life, and then as 'Irene' for the last half of her life. To not recognize this is to not recognize the truth when it comes to what became of Amelia Earhart after she wentmissing in 1937.

For clarification, I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be a certified forensic expert, but to learn and better understand forensic comparison applications, I educated myself by reading about them, meeting and consulting with forensic detectives, with forensic anthropologists, with physicians, with a voice comparison specialist, and with a document examiner. Ultimately, by the time I finished my forensic endeavoring, twenty-years of a learning process had transpired as I applied various comparison techniques I became familiarized with to the dated, yet never settled,did Amelia become known as Irene question. I began my 'forensic comparison journey' in 1997. I first registered portions of my research at the Writers Guild of America in 1998, then again under the MSS title of Protecting Earhart in 2004, 2008, 2012, & 2016, revising it along the way. I copyrighted my MSS in 2014, and then again in 2017, with the forensic visual elements added to it. I am now in the process of launching a new website platform while producing a trailer for my upcoming documentary, and am preparing my Hocus-pocus has never characterized my work, or "hokum", as it was once accused of being by one of Amelia's living relatives. I was never prone to trickery or fraud, or chicanery or frame. I just let the chips fall. In recent years I have been unfavorably written about in newer Amelia Earhart books. As well, various media outlets, starting with the National Geographic Channel in 2006, took to downplaying my forensic accomplishments. That never bothered me much, really, because it wasn't until 2020, the horrid year of the Covid 19 outbreak, that I finally started to feel I was ready to go public with my epic, Amelia-to-Irene forensic journey... and the full results it achieved. This included its discovery of the unrealizedfact that three Twentieth Century women were attributed to the same 'Irene' identity, with the post-1940only Irene being the one who matched Amelia. I suppose that amid the fog of 2020, I decided it might provide a good, and possiblyenlightening public distraction to come forward with this new information. I attest that my efforts handily display a forensic reality about Amelia Earhart, pertaining to a truth about her that has been ignored ever since it first surfaced five decades ago. That's right. In 1970, our national news media alerted our country of this very same truth about Amelia's post-loss survival as Irene, only to see it be categorically shouted-down without being disproved. [Note: A self proclaimed Earhart fanatic, Dr. Alex Mandel of Ukraine, outright fabricated in his 2007 posted, "Irene Craigmile Bolam" wikipedia page, where he wrote that the Irene in question's 'life history' was, "thoroughly documented, eliminating any possibility she was Earhart," and that a Nat Geo forensic detective "concluded" that the'Amelia became known as Irene' postulation was false. Trust knowing, Dr. Mandel marshaled some loose information that he twisted into lies there.] If you cannot fathom the truth about what became of Amelia Earhart by way of my work, again it is most likely because your care worn Earhart soul disallows you to. Your best chance to recognize it, though, is by giving serious consideration to my analysis results instead of dismissing them all out of hand, as less Earhart-educated individuals will influence you to, or people who simply wish to leave the now observable reality about Amelia, alone. It's up to you. Otherwise, my own reward of truth came by way of the incredible journey I traveled to get to it. For what it's worth, I am thankful for choosing the path less chosen when I came to my Amelia Earhart fork in the road, for it did makeall the difference. Tod Swindell - 2021 MSS for final publication.

Caught off guard, but w ielding a strong and certain voice, Mrs. Bolam stood alone while reading a statement prepared by her attorney. She admonished the assertion that said she was really Amelia Earhart, then held her ground while briefly answering a few questions. She concluded by strongly denouncing the book, Amelia Earhart Lives, and left the room. Except, the story about her true past was far from over.

It turned out that the fairly enigmatic, Mrs. Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam, was a jet-setting international businesswoman who in 1958, married Guy Bolam of England, the person who originally founded the business she ran.

Beyond facing the press to challenge the McGraw-Hill Company, Amelia Earhart Lives author, Joe Klaas, and Joseph A. Gervais, whose ten year investigation had inspired Klaas to write about it, Mrs. Bolam followed-up with a defamation lawsuit against them.

The Irene Bolam versus McGraw-Hill defamation case that lasted from 1971 to 1976, was more complex than people realized. Mrs. Bolam had claimed to be an ordinary New Jersey housewife, although in actuality, she was a world traveler who presided over 'Guy Bolam Associates' that sported major global clients, to include Radio Luxembourg.

Although Mrs. Bolam rejected the book's implication about her, the press conference she held and her subsequent lawsuit did not put an end to her 'real identity' controversy. True, i that followed, strangely enough even the New York State legal system (see below) was not able to determine if she was or wasn't the former Amelia Earhart. In fact, few people realized that the controversy over Mrs. Irene Bolam's life-long identity never came close to being settled in aforensic kind of way.

"Lou [Foudray calls the investigative research of Gervais and Swindell, ""Just the tip of the Iceberg."" "All the evidence all put together, I feel like sheAmelia] did survive.I think she survived and came back to the United States, but that she wanted her privacy." Lou Foudray, Amelia Earhart Historian and former proprietor of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison, Kansas, is quoted from interviews conducted by Lara Moritz of KMBC TV, Kansas City, and by The Topeka Kansas Capital-Journal's, Jan Biles. Mrs. Foudray believed that the combined research of Joseph A. Gervais and the in-progress forensic analysis orchestrated by Tod Swindell, had already provided enough proof to conclude that Amelia Earhart had survived after she went missing, and that in time she became known as,Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (and later, 'Bolam'.) She also correctly projected that there was much to the story that remained unknown, by way of her, "tip of the iceberg" anology.

Some reporters kept tracking the curious, unresolved case of who Irene Bolam really was, or used to be. The reason the controversy over her identity was never fully settled was found in the forensic analysis that ended up displaying howmore than one Twentieth Century woman had been attributed to thesame, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam identity. It also revealed that theIrene who faced the press in 1970, appeared nowhere identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. In short, she was not theoriginal Irene, who is shown again here:

Above, the former Amelia Earhart, AKA, the post-1940only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-Bolam, press in 1970 to defend her honor and dignity, and her right to keep on living the private life she had grown accustomed to. That's easy enough to understand and accept. The bottom line, however, is that she was the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, and she was well aware of that.

In the decades that followed 1970, Joseph A. Gervais (above) continued to be interviewed on television, all the while insisting, no matter what anyone else said or believed, that the 'Irene Bolam' who he met and photographed in 1965, most definitely was the former Amelia Earhart. He died in 2005, having never disavowed his certainty about it, and in the end, Tod Swindell's forensic research and comparison analysis proved him correct.

Note: After Charles James Craigmile died of a sudden illness in 1931, as noted his widow, theoriginal Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, who through her attorney aunt had met Amelia Earhart before, was swept under the wings of Amelia and Amelia's well-known pilot friend, Viola Gentry, in pursuit of her new dream of learning to fly airplanes:

As an unexpected twist of fate had it, just after the original Irene earned her pilot's license in mid-1933, she became pregnant out of wedlock, an issue that naturally interrupted her new life as a pilot. She went on to deliver a baby boy in early 1934, yet by the late 1930s, her son, (whose father was estranged) was being raised by a 'nanny' mother figure whom he grew up believing to be his biological mother. The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile's pilot license was not renewed beyond 1937, and to this day her ultimate fate remains unclear. All that is known in a forensic way is that by the late 1930s, when her son was 3 to 5 years old, the original Irene was no longer evident. Her leftover identity, however, helped Amelia Earhart to become the non-public person that she had missed being during her fame years.

Jackie Cochran went on to receive the Harmon Trophy as the top female aviator the following year, (1938) and she served gallantly as the head of World War Two's, Women's Air Service Pilots division. Not to omit, she would later become the first woman to break the sound barrier, and as a good friend of Chuck Yeager's, she once aspired to become the first female astronaut. Of Amelia, Jackie later wrote in her autobiography, "God, the world hounded that woman after she became famous," and before Amelia left on her world flight, Jackie wrote, "I was closer to Amelia than anybody."

Some considered it was no accident that Jackie Cochran became the first American woman to set foot in Japan after VJ Day. One of them was Amelia Earhart researcher and author, Rollin C. Reineck, who recorded an interview he conducted with Monsignor James Francis Kelley, in 1991, that included the following exchange:

REINECK: "We believe Jackie Cochran was sent to Japan to help bring Amelia home. Are you aware of that?"

In the early 1980s, to one Donald Dekoster, a trusted acquaintance of Monsignor Kelley's, Mr. Dekoster quoted the Monsignor having mentioned to him about Amelia, "After all she'd been through she didn't want to be the famous Amelia Earhart anymore." He also reaffirmed later that Monsignor Kelley had described to him how he had received Amelia after the war and counseled her, and that he helped with her identity change to 'Irene.'

: It seems clear enough that it did become known by U.S. military intelligence at some point during the war years, that Amelia was still alive overseas, although it seems equally clear that Amelia had grown tired of the attention she constantly received before she left on her world flight, and that she was intent on seeking peace for herself after she completed it, and apparently, she never let go of that vision. To gain some insight toward the way Amelia regarded the world fame that she achieved during her flying career, consider the following quote from one of her biographers, Doris Rich:

"Over the nine years spanning her first and last transoceanic flights, Amelia Earhart became one of the most famous women in the world. The private Amelia disliked that fame intensely." From author-historian, Doris Rich's 1989 biography of Amelia Earhart.

The analysis discovered that the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam) was not identifiable anywhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. When combined with its other realizations, hindsight revealed that the post-1940 only Irene's past identity question emerged in 1970 as a valid controversy -- that became obfuscated by endless deliberating -- thus enabling the former Amelia Earhart to continue on living the post-World War Two era 'private life' she'd grown accustomed to, and so obviously preferrednot to abandon.

Above: Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart in 1933.

The two became friends after they met. Below is a digital

composite of Amelia's above image and a 1965 taken photo

To this day no explanation has been given to account for the above recorded words, but it is now certain that Amelia Earhart continued to live-on well past July 2, 1937, the date she went missing. Here, one can understand why the secrecy that concerned what really happened to Amelia in July of 1937, and what became of her afterward, managed to remain in tact.

Issued in 1987 by the Republic of the Marshall Islands:

Below is a 50th Anniversary commemorative stamp depicting Japan's Imperial

Navy rescuing Earhart and Noonan, and recovering Amelia's plane. This occurred

at the same time the second Sino-Japanese War was commencing, that served as a

precursor to World War Two. Whatever went wrong with the duo's flight plan, it put

the White House in a tough spot since the U.S. was against Japan's invasion of China.

of Amelia Earhart's world flight ending from the time it was first evidenced to a variety of

United States soldiers who had been sent to serve in World War Two's Pacific theater.

Below, this Associated Press article lead-in appeared in 2002. Ever since the World War Two era, different, 'Amelia ended up in the Marshalls' accounts akin to this one kept surfacing. Sadly, i n the United States, few seem to care much about this reality based version of Amelia Earhart's world flight ending:

Especially in recent decades, people have been cajoled (or misled) into looking for Amelia's plane above all else, even though the sad reality is, her plane will never be found by privately organized and funded expeditions. ~~~

"While I do believe that Amelia Earhart ended her world flight quest in the lower Marshall Islands, I do not believe that she was a spy when she was 'picked up' there by Japan, the Marshall's governing authority when her world flight took place. I do consider, though, where James Donahue's (The move backfired when Amelia learned the other plane had been shot down and the pilots did not survive, and she also realized she was viewed by Japan's military as a diversion 'accomplice' to the other plane's illicit activities, thus prompting her detainment, and eventually leading to the British Connection research from the 1980s comes into play, and statements made by Lockheed employees that referenced how an additional plane similar to Amelia's had been readied to also participate in her world flight plan, that there possibly was another man and woman flight team in some other plane, that while doing reconnaissance over the Marshalls adjacent to Amelia's "civilian" flight plan, had encountered trouble and went down there. Where the White House transcript cited that Amelia original Irene was a competent pilot who had known disregarded all orders, this may have been relative to Amelia unexpectedly rerouting her flight and heading to the Marshall's in an effort to help the downed fliers, one of whom official silence that would always be maintained toward the matter by the governments of the United States and Japan." Tod Swindell may have been the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. Amelia, and Amelia was not shy and spoke some Japanese.) Unfortunately, the

"Numerous investigations foundered on official silence in Washington and Tokyo, leaving the true fate of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan an everlasting mystery." 1982, aviation historians, Marylin Bender and Selig Altschul on the 1937 disappearance and subsequent missing person cases of Amelia Earhart, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, quoted from their book, The Chosen Instrument.

Above is Amelia Earhart in 1928, the year she instantly became famous years later, in 1937, she purportedly disappeared without a trace, and according to history she was never seen again.

Many documented World War Two 'Pacific Theater' servicemen from the U.S. and Japan, along with South Sea Islands' government officials and residents, disagreed with history there. They commonly stated, based on the eyewitness accounts of people who saw Amelia alive overseas after she was declaredmissing, and on other corroborating testimonials, that Amelia Earhart lived-on well after the date of her so called, disappearance.

Again, above is Amelia Earhart (left) and Viola Gentry, two

good pilot friends in the 1930s, who both knew and helped

By the late 1930s, however, the original Irene was gone, and

to this day it remains unclear what her ultimate fate was.

Reusing a few photos, the box below has more on this trio:

The above 1932 Akron, Ohio newspaper photo featured Amelia Earhart (outlined in white), Viola Gentry (outlined next to the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, (outlined in black.) Reprinted from today's available newspaper archive, when enlarged, theoriginal Irene's facial image is the only one in the group with no discernible features:

Viola Gentry, who maintained Amelia was still alive after she went missing in 1937, was among the individuals who continued to know Amelia -- after Amelia assumed the leftover identity. The same goes for Amelia's sister, Muriel. However, they n ever publicly acknowledged who their later-life friend, 'Irene' used to be. Instead, both strongly contested the suggestion whenever they were asked about it.

There may have been more to the McGraw-Hill publishingcontroversies that took place in 1971, and their relationship to Amelia Earhart's old 'missing person' case than was realized at the time, and once again, where so, Viola Gentry may have figured in. one of the most reputable publishing houses in the world would issue consecutive books that dialed in on the life of Howard Hughes, and then quickly withdraw them both, is somewhat odd in itself. The first book was Amelia Earhart Lives, that threaded a theorized level of involvement that Howard Hughes possibly had in covering for Amelia after she went missing. (Read about the'Irene Bolam versus McGraw-Hill's Amelia Earhart Lives book lawsuit' further down.) Hughes, a great pilot himself, was a known 1930s acquaintance of Amelia's, but he was never consulted by Joe Klaas, the author ofAmelia Earhart Lives, and the book was withdrawn by McGraw-Hill in early 1971, shortly after it was published. Next, throughout 1971, Clifford Irving wrote a supposedlyauthorized by Howard Hughes 'autobiography' that was set to be published by McGraw-Hill at the end of the year. Once again, however, Clifford Irving did not consult with Hughes, and he was charged with perpetrating a hoax after Hughes objected to his book and claimed he'd never met Irving. This led to pressed copies of the book being burned by McGraw-Hill before they made it into circulation, and to some jail time for Irving as well. Interestingly enough, Joe Klaas was never challenged by Howard Hughes at all, nor was he fined or convicted of any crime, and neither was Joseph A. Gervais, whose ten year investigationAmelia Earhart Lives was largely about.

The Amelia Earhart medal displayed above, was presented to Howard Hughes by Viola Gentry two years before the former Amelia Earhart was first publicly recognized for who she used to be. Perhaps not so ironically, it was Viola Gentry who introduced the post-1940only Irene to the gentleman who recognized her as theformer Amelia Earhart, (Joseph A. Gervais) the day before this photograph was taken:

Above is Viola Gentry and Guy Bolam, on August 9, 1965, outside of the Sea Spray Inn of East Hampton, Long Island. The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was long gone by then. Viola had known her, just as she knew the new post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, who had married Guy Bolam in 1958, and who had previously been known as her famous flying friend, Amelia Earhart. (Above photo taken by the former Amelia Earhart, AKA, Mrs. Guy Bolam.)

Below is an excerpt from Jennifer Bean Bower's 2015 biography of Viola Gentry, The Flying Cashier, where a 1941 interview Viola gave to Maybelle Manning was recalled. While reading these words, know that Viola maintained that her missing friend, Amelia, was still alive throughout the war years, yet after the war ended she stopped talking about her:

Knowing how close Viola Gentry had been to both Amelia Earhart and the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, it is incomprehensible to even entertain the idea that after 1940, Viola's friend, theoriginal Irene, could have suddenly morphed into an older-version, carbon copy twin of Viola's famous friend, Amelia Earhart, who had gone missing years before, never to be seen again. It turned out theoriginal Irene was gone by the end of the 1930s, and basically, Amelia, who had continued to live-on, took her name in the 1940s to further use for herself.

"It's sad, in a way, how the profound greatness of Amelia Earhart's person became lost in the so-called mystery of her disappearance. Here, for a brief moment let's again look back at the outcome of Amelia's loss through words generated by the White House nine months after she was declaredmissing:

As mentioned, the White House never did reveal what it knew about Amelia Earhart's world flight outcome, and by now it is certain that the general public was dissuaded from being able to realize what really happened to Amelia.

Today, people seem to have forgotten that Amelia's 1937 disappearance was an international controversy, because it ended up being systemically swept under the rug of official history by the U.S. federal government. This exercise was already in the works when Germany invaded Poland.

The facts of Amelia Earhart's loss continued to be obfuscated throughout the war years as well, and then even more exponentially after the war was over. Indeed, the effort to muddle the truth about what became of Amelia Earhart, actually continued on into the 1950s, until finally, it was determined that people in general had been conditioned enough to accept that Amelia simply crashed and sank at unknown ocean coordinates prior to completing her world flight, even though that was a far cry from what had actually happened.

Heeding to the false dictates of Amelia's living family members, institutions overseen by the U.S. federal government, and its offshoot cottage industries that managed to keep the the curious stupefied, this is all the public continues to know at this present space in time. And that's a shame. Basically, for decades gone by the citizenry of the United States has been spoon fednon-truths about Amelia Earhart's world flight outcome, by individuals that felt they were doing it for the better good of the body public. Anymore, though, it is obvious that Amelia managed to live-on and become known as one of three Twentieth Century women attributed to the sameIrene O'Crowley Craigmile identity." Tod Swindell

Above is Amelia Earhart and the post-1940 only Irene in a digital composite. Over the years people were conditioned to not pay attention to the never fully settled,Irene Bolam Versus McGraw-Hill lawsuit. Now, in 2021, the forensic analysis arranged by Tod Swindell, that concluded Amelia Earhart and the post-1940 only Irene were the same human being, has proved itself to be an incontestable equation. To better ascertain this for yourself, keep going to learn more about this new, fortified reality.

"In the late 1990s, I couldn't believe it when I came to know Joseph A. Gervais, the Air Force officer whose ten year investigation had inspired the 1970 McGraw-Hill book, and he mentioned that no one had seriously compared Irene Bolam to Amelia Earhart before. It seemed odd, because after decades he was still insisting that she was the former Amelia Earhart." Tod Swindell

"Many theories have been given by many different people; some bordering on the absurd, some plausible. Gervais' theory as to what happened to Amelia Earhart is one of the plausible ones. Gervais and his colleagues were seasoned Air Force pilots, and thus, understood the problems in flying long distances over water as well as the technical aspects of flying aircraft. Their experience and some of the documents and leads uncovered in their research led them to believe that Amelia Earhart did indeed survive." Paul A. Oelkrug, C. A., University of Texas at Dallas, 2006.

Above is how the post-1940 only Irene Bolam looked in 1965. Hardly a soul felt that she resembled Amelia Earhart all that much, and while looking at this photograph that Joseph A. Gervais took of her that year, it seems understandable. Most people assumed Gervais' assertion that suggested she was theformer Amelia Earhart, was debunked at some point, but it never was, and to people's astonishment, the Twenty First Century forensic analysis displayed her to have been congruent to Amelia Earhart. This included by way of Digital Face Recognition, that was much improved and became more available in the Twenty First Century:

Tod Swindell's human comparison study revealed that more than one person had been attributed to the same Irene Bolam identity, and the one above shown compared to Amelia, was not identifiable as "Irene" prior to the 1940s. The study also determined that not only facially, but the post-1940 Irene's entire physical being was congruent to Amelia Earhart's physical being, as were her character traits. These 'forensic realities' were not known before the study took place. Why? Once again, simply put, no one had ever seriously compared Irene Bolam to Amelia Earhart before.

Dr. Walter S. Birkby
Dr. Walter S. Birkby, a noted Forensic Anthropologist who advised on key portions of Tod Swindell's analysis, challenged himself with a, 'if this, then that' argument when it came to the assertion of Amelia living-on and becoming known asIrene. Based on the different Irene Bolam's that Dr. Birkby acknowledged the study displayed, with the Irene that proved herself to be congruent to Amelia Earhart appearing nowhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s, it was prudent of Dr. Birkby to offer his expert opinion in said manner.
In Rollin Reineck's book, Amelia Earhart Survived, Dr. Birkby commented on the difficulty he had in nullifying the post-1940 Irene as theformer Amelia Earhart. (Dr. Birkby was originally engaged by Tod Swindell to nullify her if he could. He couldn't.)
Dr. Birkby acknowledged that the cranium, hairline, facial features, and neck-to-torso of the post-1940 Irene were the same as Amelia's. He was also impressed with the post-1940 Irene's eyes, calling them, "a perfect match spacing wise and tear-duct to tear-duct" to Amelia's eyes. Beyond aging and some obvious post-1940 changes that included hairstyles, fashion, and makeup, there may have been some nasal work endured by the post-1940 Irene as well, but nothing (according to Dr. Birkby) that would have been unexplainable in medical terms. Dr. Birkby also pointed out that while it varies, a person's ears and nose will continue to grow as he or she gets older. Thus his, "if this, then that" approach surely would apply where the idea was for the 'Irene Bolam' in question not to be recognized for who she used to be. So the "if this, then that" example would be: If at some point, Amelia Earhart optioned for a non-public life going forward after she was declared "missing" in 1937, and "dead in absentia" in 1939,then her overall objective that involved changing her name and altering her appearance some, would have included her not wanting to be recognized for who she used to be.
It stands to reason: The plural Irene's realization coupled with the digital composites that revealed the post-1940 only Irene's full head-to-toe congruence to Amelia Earhart, when further combined with the overwhelming preponderance of circumstantial evidence, and the eyewitnesses that pointed to Amelia's continued existence after the date of her so-calleddisappearance, never amounted to,just a coincidence.

A key indicator of the post-1940 only Irene was the large flower pendant that she often wore. (See it outlined in the boxes below.) Joseph A. Gervais believed it to be emblematic of her former identity of 'AE' for people in the know.

"In the Twenty First Century, clarity was delivered to the suppressed fact that Amelia Earhart did not go missing somewhere in the equatorial South Sea Islands. From the World War Two era on, in a contiguous manner, the people who saw her alive there and knew who she was shared the non-promoted reality of it with others. They commonly stressed that Amelia went down on a remote, civilized land-mass in the lower Marshall Islands, where she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were rescued within a matter of days by Japan's Naval Authority, just as Japan was beginning to engage China in the second Sino-Japanese War.

This first-ever 'human comparison analysis' managed to surface non-contestable body evidence that displayed Amelia Earhart alive as 'Irene Bolam' long after she went missing. Therefore, coupled with the reality that Amelia had continued to privately live-on that way, it appears certain anymore that all along, the event of her rescue in the lower Marshall's and her subsequent detainment was nothing less than straight-forward information delivered by honest speaking people." Tod Swindell

Below once again, this Associated Press article lead-in appeared in 2002. Ever since the World War Two era, different accounts akin to this one kept surfacing. In the United States, to this very day few seem to care about this reality based version of Amelia Earhart's world flight ending:

Below, a 'Winter of 2015' article by Larry Clark, featured in an issue of Washington State University magazine, described some recent Marshall Islands travel-adventures of school teacher and WSU alumni, Dick Spink. Well studied on Amelia Earhart, Mr. Spink first visited the Marshalls in 2006, and was amazed that the history of Amelia Earhart having been there was common knowledge:

Below, again the 1987 "50th anniversary" commemorative stamp issued by the Marshall Islands, depicts the rescue of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, and the recovery of Amelia's plane.

"While Amelia's rescue and detainment in the Marshall's is generally accepted to have been true by astute researchers of Amelia Earhart's missing person case, the account went awry in the 1960s, when people started pushing sensationalized conjecture that touted Amelia as a 'spy' who was captured,imprisoned, and executed. The fact is, however, nobody ever knew that to be true. In the meantime, the later introduced notion that said Amelia continued to live-on after she was rescued and detained -- that she continued to survive -- and that at some point she changed her name, seemed to go over the vast majority of people's heads. Yet it is obvious anymore, that did happen."Tod Swindell

Before Tod Swindell embarked on his study , previous investigations of Amelia Earhart's disappearance and missing person case had not bothered to compare Irene Bolam to Amelia Earhart .

Wikipedia's "Irene Craigmile Bolam" page posted in 2007, is misleading. Where it states, "Bolam's personal life history has since been thoroughly documented, eliminating any possibility she was Earhart", it is now known that statement is untrue. It turned out here was an Although clear photo evidence of the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile who Amelia had known in the 1930s, and that was not the person who faced the press in 1970, who later demonstrated an overall congruence to Amelia Earhart. original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile is all but non-extant today, below is how her image appeared in a newspaper photo taken in 1930. Once again, she was not the same Irene who faced the press in 1970:

The wikipedia page also incorrectly mentions that a National Geographic forensic detective "concluded" that Amelia did not become hired known as Irene Bolam. This was and remains a fabrication issued by the person who launched the page, Dr. Alex Mandel, of Ukraine. Dr. Mandel posted the page in 2007, after learning about the comparison study Tod Swindell had embarked on. Dr. Mandel, favored a claim stating Japan had captured and imprisoned Amelia in 1937, and that she died in its custody. Japan, of course, maintains to this day that it never harmed Amelia Earhart.

In recent decades there has been an aligned contingency of individuals that have influenced news media outlets (and therefore the general public) in different directions about Amelia Earhart's 1937 world flight outcome. This has prevented the reality of Amelia's post-1940 'private life' existence from being openly embraced. While the Smithsonian and National Geographic Society have always ridden the fence about Amelia's final fate, their one exception has been to traditionally downplay the 'Amelia became Irene' conveyance.

The "forensic detective" who briefly appeared on a Nat Geo special in 2006, Kevin Richlin, had little foreknowledge of the Amelia-to-Irene postulation, and merely looked at a few photo samples given to him by Nat Geo's producers. After doing so, he suggested if the material they gave him was 'all there was' to support the assertion of Amelia becoming known as Irene, then he would advise the proponents of it to'move on to something else.' Detective Richlin never deeply evaluated the postulation himself, nor did he come close to "concluding" that Amelia having changed her name to Irene was forensically untrue. Given all that was learned about it dating back to the late 1960s, it would have taken a much more serious evaluation on his part to make a forensic determination. Thus the adage, "Don't believe everything you read in wikipedia."

Although history tried to impress upon people that the two Irene Bolam images below represented one in the same person, the analysis revealed them to have been entirely different human beings:

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Description: This photo started circulating a few years ago that claimed to depict Earhart and Noonan on a dock on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This photo perpetuated the theory that Amelia landed somewhere in the Marshall Islands, which was controlled by Japan, and she and Noonan were captured and executed.

Connection: This photo connects to the Red Flag confirmation bias because people used the photo to support their own theory about Amelia Earhart's disappearance. Theorists tried to find every possible reason as to why the photo was in fact of Amelia and linking it to their reasoning for her disappearance. It would have been useful to apply critical thinking and skepticism when the photo first emerged instead of immediately jumping to conclusions since the photo was later found to have been taken in Palau and was from a Japanese travel guide from 1935. Therefore the photo predated Amelia Earhart's final flight.

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Description: The Japanese capture theory turned into another theory that Earhart was captured by the Japanese but not executed - instead she was returned to the U.S. under an alias. It's believed that she assumed the identity of Irene Bolam, who many think bore a strong physical resemblance to Amelia Earhart.

Connection: This photo connects to the reason for belief, Agenticity because this theory has gone as far as becoming a conspiracy theory. Some people believe that Amelia's identity change was done in secret and that President Franklin Roosevelt helped her do it. This also relates to the red flag Suppression by Authorities because there have been many claims that the government knew what had happened to Amelia and they refused to disclose this information to the public. There are many flaws in this theory, the most prominent being the overwhelming amount of evidence that they are not the same person including, Irene's pilot license, marriage certificates, and the clear differences in appearance.

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Description: A photo taken three months after Amelia's disappearance of Nikumaroro Island. Something poking out of the water on the edge of the photo, known as The Bevington Object, is believed by some to be the landing gear of Earhart’s plane. People believe that Amelia lived out the rest of her life on Nikumaroro Island.

Connection: Although many things have turned up on Nikumaroro Island that suggest someone was living there, such as buttons and a mirror, this picture relates to the pseudoscience watchlist of results can't be reproduced or verified. An independent review of the photo by intelligence analysts at the Pentagon had suggested that the object looked like plane landing gear however there was no way to know for sure or prove if that's actually what was in the photo. There was also no way to know if the landing gear even belonged to Earhart's plane.

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1. What did you learn about the topic that most surprised you?

While researching the disappearance of Amelia Earhart I was most surprised to find out just how many different theories there are and how easily one theory can spawn into another. For example, the Irene Bolam conspiracy theory came into existence because so many people believed that Earhart had been kidnapped by the Japanese. The theory so quickly jumped from a plausible idea to an extreme version of the theory.

2. Provide a real-life example of how this topic is relevant or interesting for you.

I chose this topic because Amelia was so much more than just a disappearance theory. She was a pioneer in the aviation industry, an author and an inspiration to many women. I was interested to learn more about the theories behind her disappearance to get a better understanding of why people are mostly interested in finding out what happened to her instead of focusing on the extraordinary things she accomplished in life.

3. Which research did you find most interesting?  Why?

The research that I found most interesting was the findings on Nikumaroro Island. Many artifacts were found on the island that were made in America and could have belonged to Earhart. The most compelling artifact found was a jar of anti-freckle cream that Earhart was known to use. Although there could have been other reasons as to why those things were found on the Island, the theory that she crash landed and was a castaway on Nikumaroro Island appears to be the most likely of theories that are currently out there.

4. What are you most likely to remember from this research?

I am most likely to remember from this research how damaging conspiracy theories can be and just how out of control they can get. Irene Bolam's life became entirely consumed by the theory that she was Earhart and her privacy was invaded for years following. Most people after her death continue to believe that she was Earhart almost erasing the person she actually was.

5. Having completed all the course content, which pseudoscience belief do you think is most harmful?  Which is least harmful?

Having completed all the course content, I believe that the pseudoscience belief relating ideologies is the most harmful. I think its dangerous that some people won't go see a doctor when they are ill because it's against their beliefs can be very dangerous especially when they have a very young child who is sick. In cases like this you cannot just pray away an illness. This belief can also put others at risk. For example, people who don't believe in vaccinations are not only putting their own children at risk they are also putting others at risk.

The pseudoscience belief that I think is the least harmful is mystical energy. I think there is little harm in people using crystals or "energy" healing to make themselves feel better. Your health is also greatly related to your mental state so if people believe mystical energy is helping them heal, then in a way it is, because they are more likely to have a positive mindset that is beneficial to their overall health. On the flip side, if mystical energy isn't doing anything at all then it still isn't harming anyone (unless they're trying to use it for serious health issues but in most cases people don't).

6. If you could pass on your knowledge to a family member or friend, what do you think is the most important thing to pass on?

The most important thing to pass on from this course is how to apply the critical thinking process. Critical thinking applies to so many things in life not just pseudoscience. It's especially useful now with the state of the world and the differing opinions on how to manage the virus and whether or not you should get the vaccine. I've already heard so many rumors about the vaccine and if some people just applied critical thinking I believe there would be so much less confusion and false information spreading around.