Chasing Earhart

For years, I’ve been discussing a dream expedition that would bring some of this case's brightest minds together in a collaboration that could rewrite history forever. 

Sometimes, when you’re investigating a scene like the one unfolding in Buka, you get lucky enough to pull an ace. And boy have we ever got one for you tonight. 

Dick Spink is one of my very favorite people in all the Earhart story. He’s a real life Indiana Jones - a now retired high school teacher that has spent his time out of the classroom, running investigative trips all over the Marshall Islands. He’s one of the most connected people in this entire story, the face of History’s Lost Evidence, among many others, and one of the loudest voices in the room when it comes to the Japanese Capture Hypothesis. 

But what you don’t know is, since they originally met in 2018, Dick Spink and Bill Snavely have been talking. 

We’ve been name dropping his involvement for months. Now, tonight, he makes it Official.

This, is Dick Spink.

LINKS 

Amelia Earhart Mystery May Have New Clue In Never-Before-Seen Photo @ YouTube

If you know me, you know how much I adore the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison Kansas. It’s a place that’s special to me for many reasons.

Back in 2017, my wife and I brought our production for the Chasing Earhart documentary there, and we were welcomed with open arms. So much so, that we were allowed to shoot over 20 interview segments there over the course of that year’s Amelia Earhart Festival.

At the time, the museum was in the shadow of its recently retired director and caretaker Lousie Foudary, for whom tonight’s conversation is lovingly dedicated.

Six years later, I have the honor of sitting down with Executive Director for the museum Heather Roesch, who in my opinion, is doing a wonderful job of carrying the legacies of not one woman, but two. 

Tonight is a conversation 6 years in the making. This is Heather Roesch of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum. 

LINKS

Could Earhart be Interred in her Birthplace’s Cellar? @ Mike Campbell's Blog 

You know what’s really wild? 

You never know when to stop pursuing something. When it seems hopeless - sometimes, you get a hand from a source you never dreamed possible. The following audio is only possible because of the folks over at Pratt & Whitney’s Dependable Engines Association who were kind enough to invite project guest Bill Snavely to discuss the latest discoveries out at Buka - and a mysterious crash site that’s become the center of the Amelia Earhart Investigation. 

You’ve been asking me for years. Now, in a very special episode of the show, all that was discovered during Buka 2 is finally revealed. 

This is myself and Bill Snavely in a conversation with Pratt & Whitney’s Dependable Engines Association.

LINKS

Lost In Flight: Amelia Earhart, Giving Cover as a Decoy for a Spy Plane @ Special Books 

Tracking Amelia Earhart: Her Flightpath to the End @ Special Books

Rabbit Hole: The Vanishing of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan @ Amazon

For over 100 episodes of this show, I’ve sat behind my microphone and asked some of the biggest names in the Earhart world for answers to the questions that have been burning in my mind all my life. 

Never in a million years did I ever think the show could flip the format and pull off what we’re about to do. Tonight, in a very different approach to our show, my good friends Sean Keatts and Bri Kupfer turn the tables and interview me.

I said nothing was off limits.

What you’re about to hear is something I never imagined would happen on this show. This is me - uncensored. For the most part. Enjoy. 

About five years ago, we visited Atchison, Kansas to film segments of our documentary during the Amelia Earhart festival. While we were there, we met two women that would become an integral part of Chasing Earhart project, working with us on events and helping us gain a sense of credibility in the Earhart historical record. 

While they both prefer to be behind the camera, current events have now pushed them out in front of everyone as the faces for Amelia’s legacy in Atchison and in aviation. On the eve of the grand opening for the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison, they finally sit down with me in a conversation that for this show, is over five years in the making.

This is Karen Seaberg and Jacque Pregont.

LINKS

Chasing Earhart on Facebook

Chasing Earhart on Twitter 

Chasing Earhart on Instagram

City commission looks ahead to Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum Grand Opening @ Atchison Globe

Inside the new Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Kansas @ Runway Girl 

One of the reasons I wanted to record these new conversations for the show, is because I’d finally have the chance to speak to some guests that I’d always been a very big fan of. And tonight is certainly no exception.

Mike Harris has been investigating the Amelia Earhart case for decades, and his research has laid the foundation for others to further their own. For that reason alone, I’m a big fan and you should be too.

After years of doing the show, finally, one of the most celebrated and iconic researchers in the entirety of this case sits down with me to discuss his lifelong desire to prove that Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan, were indeed captured by the Japanese. This is Mike Harris. 


LINKS

Chasing Earhart on Facebook

Chasing Earhart on Twitter 

Chasing Earhart on Instagram

Amelia Earhart: The Lost Star @ Amazon 

Amelia Earhart's Final Flight @ Bookshop 

Brennan’s “Earhart blindfold”: Real or imaginary? @ Mike Campbell's Blog

Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart @ Amazon

A couple of years ago, before we ended this show’s original run, I sat down with Guy Noffsinger, Jim Janicki, and Jeff Riegel of the Lost Clipper Team. The story they told me then, and the one that continues tonight, is utterly amazing. It’s a story that the world may not be ready to accept or believe.

Was the crew of the lost Clipper really sent to retrieve Amelia Earhart in exchange for a 3 million dollar ransom? 

Tonight, Guy and Jim return to the show to tell us what they’ve been up to in the years since, and they’ve brought along a couple more members of their team. Two men whose voices you might never expect to hear on an Amelia Earhart podcast. 

This is Guy Noffsinger, Jim Janicki, Steve Murphy, and Javier Pena.

LINKS

Chasing Earhart on Facebook

Chasing Earhart on Twitter 

Chasing Earhart on Instagram 

The Lost Clipper Official Website 

The Lost Clipper on Facebook

The Lost Clipper on Twitter 

The Lost Clipper on YouTube 

The Lost Clipper on Instagram

SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING 

The Mystery of the Lost Clipper @ Smithsonian Magazine 

The Hawaii Clipper @ Wikipedia 

Several months ago, we returned to the Amelia Earhart festival in Atchison Kansas to celebrate the release of my first book Rabbit Hole: The Vanishing of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan. While I was there, I discovered that Mandy Horvath was also there receiving the Amelia Earhart Pioneer achievement award.

We didn’t get to cross paths then; but we have since as part of the rebranding for this show.  Lucky for all of you listening, we were able to record it.

Get a box of tissues ready. Because what you’re about to hear, is one of the most powerful stories you’ll ever experience. This…..is Mandy Horvath. 

Show Notes

Chasing Earhart on Facebook

Chasing Earhart on Twitter 

Chasing Earhart on Instagram 

Mandy Horvath on TikTok

Mandy Horvath on Facebook 

Mandy Horvath on Instagram

Mandy Horvath's Official Website (Under Construction) 

Mandy Horvath on Wikipedia 

Hey folks - I bet you never thought you’d hear this show again. 

It’s been a while since the podcast ended, but in the last few months, I’ve quietly been working on what I consider to be the next chapter in the evolution of this show. Earlier this year, I began hearing from people that wanted the podcast to continue. At first, I really didn’t feel it. I had walked away and moved onto covering other cases for Vanished alongside my cohost for that show, Jennifer Taylor.
But something strange started happening.
The itch started to return.
At the same time, I started researching new theories in this now 85 year old case…and I soon discovered that if we were going to do this, now would be the perfect time.
The podcast has returned in a limited series to once again take up the chase with new theories, new guests and shocking revelations. We’ve also taken the legacy of Amelia Earhart to a whole new level.
Tonight, it all begins again.
Welcome back to the world’s only dedicated podcast on the life, legacy and disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

Show Notes

Chasing Earhart on Facebook

Chasing Earhart on Twitter 

Chasing Earhart on Instagram 

Amelia Earhart Betrayed by Robert Wheeler & Harold Nicely 

A little over a year ago we stepped away from the Amelia Earhart/Fred Noonan disappearance case forever; having nothing further to add to a project that spanned almost 15 years at the time. But it turns out, we couldn’t stay away for long. Just like you’ll hear time and time again in this case, we got pulled back in as new developments in multiple theories have come to the surface and are ready to be discussed. Tonight, we’re back in a limited engagement with a first for us at Chasing Earhart as our returning show brings us brothers Mike & Robert Ashmore to discuss an alternate version of one of the cornerstone hypotheses’ in this ever-changing case. We’ve been away for a while now, but now we’re back as promised with new developments and interesting turns.