CLASSIC: What really happened to Amelia Earhart?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Amelia Earhart was a living legend -- this high-flying aviation pioneer garnered international acclaim and accolades for her daring flights across the planet. On July 2nd, 1937, midway through a flight around the world, Earhart's plane disappeared. Although she was declared legally dead on January 5th, 1939, theories about the true story of her disappearance linger in the public consciousness today. So what really happened to Amelia Earhart? Why do some people believe she didn't actually die on that fateful flight?
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| 0:00.0 | Fellow conspiracy realist, this classic is for all our fellow aviation nerds out there. |
| 0:07.2 | It's a little bit ridiculous history. It's a little bit unsolved mystery. It's definitely |
| 0:13.1 | one that caught us in 2019. And even when we started exploring this, the mystery was decades and decades old. |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, this is a story that we've heard about for a long time. It's talked about in almost |
| 0:28.5 | every unsolved mystery series that's ever been on television, right? Because it's one of the |
| 0:33.0 | most enduring ones. A human being that was lauded, talked about all the time, a huge deal, and then just |
| 0:41.4 | gone. |
| 0:43.1 | Poof. |
| 0:45.0 | Or did they actually disappear? |
| 0:48.2 | This is the story of Amelia Earhart. |
| 0:50.8 | And I got to tell you guys, with the benefit of retrospect giant crabs you're to hear first folks |
| 0:57.4 | well i just found out that my dad lived a secret life as a hit man for the chicago mafia for all these |
| 1:09.0 | years it doesn't make any sense he was a firefighter paramedic how the hell can he be a hitman for the Chicago Mafia for all these years. It doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:12.0 | He was a firefighter, paramedic. |
| 1:13.9 | How the hell can he be a hitman? |
| 1:16.1 | I need answers, so I am currently on a plane back to Chicago |
| 1:20.8 | to interview everybody. |
| 1:23.5 | Anybody that knows anything about this. |
| 1:26.3 | I'm in shock. |
| 1:27.3 | This is absolutely insane. I'm in shock. This is absolutely insane. |
| 1:32.6 | I just don't understand. |
| 1:36.1 | I need to figure this out. |
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