Episodes

  • S3 Ep19: Howland Island Landing: A Conversation with Dana Timmer

    S3 Ep19: Howland Island Landing: A Conversation with Dana Timmer
    May 25 2024
    Over 15 years ago now, I sat down to make a list of dream participants for what would become the Chasing Earhart project. I came up with a list of 25 names and on that list was a man who’s been associated with the search for Amelia Earhart since the first deep ocean expedition for her took place in 1999. In fact, he’s the man who led that search almost 25 years ago. In that time, every search that's included the pacific ocean near Howland, has come calling - requesting consultation on their efforts in the potential discovery of the holy grail of aviation. He’s a pilot, navigator, sailor and adventurer. And he’s a giant in the story of the search for two missing aviators, lost to history.

    Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Mission Bay San Diego, this is Dana Timmer.

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    SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
    • This man is asking for $2 million on Kickstarter to Find Amelia Earhart’s Plane @ The Verge
    • An Exploration Team Believes They Found Amelia Earhart’s Missing Plane. Here’s Why @ Amelia Earhart's Official Website
    • Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea @ Amazon
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    26 mins
  • S3 Ep18: Parallels: A Conversation with Amelia Rose Earhart

    S3 Ep18: Parallels: A Conversation with Amelia Rose Earhart
    May 9 2024
    In 2014, as this project was in pre-research, the world was fixated on an around the world flight that dominated the media and much of the aviation related conversation that year. Chief among the many reasons why was the pilot - a woman who shares a namesake with the biggest aviation icon to ever fly the skies.

    On July 11th, 2014 Amelia Rose Earhart completed her world flight without incident and touched down on the same runway in Oakland, Ca where her namesake departed 77 years earlier.

    In many ways, Amelia Mary Earhart got her second chance and returned home that day. It’s been 10 years since that historic world flight, and tonight an absolute force for aviation enters the conversation with a literal one in a million perspective. A woman that shares so many parallels, you’ll swear you’re hearing from a modern day counterpart for the biggest aviation icon of all time.

    Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Amelia Rose Earhart.

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    SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
    • Amelia Rose's Official Website
    • Learn to Love the Turbulence: “Flight lessons” on Becoming the Pilot in Command of Your Own Journey @ Amazon Signed Copies Here
    • 2024 Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award Revealed @ Atchison Globe
    • Amelia Rose Earhart’s Flight Around the World and Into History @ Observer.com
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    39 mins
  • S3 Ep17: 76 Brooks Street: A Conversation with Margie Arnold

    S3 Ep17: 76 Brooks Street: A Conversation with Margie Arnold
    May 4 2024
    One of my very favorite parts of the rebrand for this show has been the flood of new voices that we’ve been able to bring into the ongoing conversation regarding the life, legacy and disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Over the years, a lot of attention has been paid to AE’s upbringing in Atchison, Kansas - and for good reason. Every year, thousands and thousands of visitors flock to the beautiful Earhart home positioned on the Missouri River that served as home base during Amelia’s early years.

    If Atchison helped form Amelia, the girl, then 76 Brooks Street in West Medford Massachusetts, helped form Amelia the legend. And that is where tonight’s guest enters the chase.

    For over 15 years now, Margie Arnold has been studying the life and legacy of Amelia Earhart with a recent particular interest in the home AE was living in, when her life and aviation history changed forever. Tonight, we shine the spotlight on a period of Amelia’s life that will shape how you’ll see her, in more ways than one.

    You’re all about to take part in a master class on the legacy of Amelia Earhart in one of the most passionate debuts this show has ever seen.

    Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Margie Arnold.

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    SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
    • Amelia Earhart & the Denison House @ The Social Welfare History Project
    • Amelia Earhart got her flying start in Medford @ ItemLive
    • Amelia Earhart and the mayor of Medford @ Universal Hub
    • Trophy, City of Medford, Amelia Earhart @ Air & Space
    • The Amelia Earhart Murial @ Medford Arts Council
    • Around Quincy, aviator Amelia Earhart was just 'Miss Amelia' @ The State Journal Register

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    51 mins
  • S3 Ep16: The Circumnavigator’s Paradox: A Conversation with Liz Smith

    S3 Ep16: The Circumnavigator’s Paradox: A Conversation with Liz Smith
    Apr 21 2024
    “It is interesting to note that because of Earhart and Noonan’s particular course, they did cross local midnight on their flight path causing the local date to move forward one day and, for several hours, the pair was alive on July 3rd – one day after they officially disappeared.”

    Over the last few months of recording this show, I’ve started hearing from dozens of people either by email or by phone that have all been asking me to check out a blog that’s flown under the radar of constant Earhart sites I scour on a regular basis. Old school pilots, navigators, HAM radio operators, people with extensive military and government backgrounds have all emailed, called, and praised her work and her approach. Now tonight, she’s finally arrived. Her name is Liz Smith. Remember that name. Because after tonight, you’ll never forget it. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Liz Smith.

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    SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
    • Liz Smith's Date Line Theory Blog
    • Liz Smith @ LinkedIn
    • Liz Smith @ Nautilus Live
    • Marine Robotics Company Hopes It Has Solved Amelia Earhart Mystery @ AirOnline
    • Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved by Elgen & Marie Long @ Amazon
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    51 mins
  • S3 Ep15: Sky Walker: A Conversation with Bram Kleppner

    S3 Ep15: Sky Walker: A Conversation with Bram Kleppner
    Apr 1 2024
    You know, anytime I get the chance to sit down and record another conversation for this show, I consider it an honor. I try to never forget why I’m doing this. The reasons are very important to me.

    In all the conversations we’ve had for this show, we’ve only ever had one of Amelia’s family members as a guest - that was back in 2018 when Amy Kleppner - daughter of Muriel Earhart Morrissey and the niece of Amelia Earhart appeared on the show to talk about the incredible lives of both Amelia and her sister Muriel. Tonight, I’m proud to say that another of Amelia’s family has finally arrived.

    Bram Kleppner is Amelia Earhart’s great nephew and he’s also become the spokesperson for the Earhart family’s position when it comes to everything from Amelia’s legacy to the many disappearance theories that often crop up in the news - most recently, the potential discovery of the world’s most famous missing aircraft by Tony Romeo and Deep Sea Vision.

    One of the most asked questions I get is for me to speculate on how AE’s family might feel about a given story, idea or piece of information.

    Well, why hear it from me? I’ve got a better idea. This is Bram Kleppner.

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    SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
    • "Amelia Earhart's relative says new sonar images could be aviator's vanished plane" @ Business Insider
    • Episode 8: Amelia Earhart Part II: The Lady’s Legacy @ Nat Geo

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    27 mins
  • S3 Ep14: The Beginning of the End: A Conversation with Tony Romeo

    S3 Ep14: The Beginning of the End: A Conversation with Tony Romeo
    Feb 11 2024
    About 2 years ago, my book Rabbit Hole: The Vanishing of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan was released, and I could only think of one place to launch it - Atchison Kansas, during the Amelia Earhart festival. It remains as one of my very favorite moments of this entire crazy ride. I knew then, that a deep ocean search was about to take place somewhere off the coast of Howland island - a destination that has now become both ground zero for crash and sink, and this investigation as a whole. While we were there, we met tonight’s guest. 

    Two weeks ago, Deep Sea Vision, and its CEO Tony Romeo produced a sonar image of what appears to be a mysterious object 16,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific - and that image has the entire planet talking. 

    Tonight, in a conversation that will rattle this story to its core, Tony makes his Chasing Earhart debut to discuss crash and sink, the legacy of Amelia Earhart and a piece of evidence that could spell the beginning of the end for this story and stop the chase, forever. 

    The wait is over. The time is now. Welcome back to the Chasing Earhart podcast. This is Tony Romeo. 

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    • Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane? @ The Wall Street Journal
    • Deep Sea Vison's Official Website
    • Ocean exploration company's possible proof of Amelia Earhart's wrecked plane nearly vanished: report @ Fox News

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    37 mins
  • S3 Ep13: Sharpshooter: A Conversation with Jennifer Taylor

    S3 Ep13: Sharpshooter: A Conversation with Jennifer Taylor
    Feb 10 2024
    Of all the people I’ve met during my experience running the Chasing Earhart project, there is one person that you may be surprised to know has never been on this show, despite how close we’ve become over the years. We’re about to right that wrong, right now.

    In 2019, when I reached out to her, she had no iron in this fire, and very little knowledge on just how big this story had become. But she dove head first into it anyway, working alongside me on a project that would become the foundational season for our show, Vanished. Listeners of that show will be very familiar with who’s about to enter the chat. And if you’ve never heard her before, get ready. Because Jennifer Taylor is about to hit you - HARD.

    Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. This is Jen Taylor.

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    SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
    • Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane? @ The Wall Street Journal
    • Liz Smith’s Dateline Theory Blog
    • Tantalizing Theories About the Earhart Disappearance @ History
    • Expedition Amelia @ Disney Plus
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    36 mins
  • S3 Ep12: The Truth is How You See It: A Conversation with Chris Hare

    S3 Ep12: The Truth is How You See It: A Conversation with Chris Hare
    Feb 1 2024
    Several years ago, during the first season of Vanished, I met a historian and researcher out of the UK that immediately caught my interest. Tonight, you’ll see why. We’ve got a very kindred  fascination and love for the Earhart story, and some of the behind the scenes work he’s been quietly doing is the exact representation of what historical research should look like. 

    Chris Hare is a digger. And tonight, we’re all about to get a lesson on how a modern day researcher investigates a monster of a case. Here’s a little tease. It begins, like all things with, how you see it. 

    Tonight, we’re across the pond in the UK. And we’re bringing the bombshells. This is Chris Hare. 

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    SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING
    • Letter from P. V. H. Weems to Amelia Earhart Offering Navigational Instruction @ The Smithsonian
    • The Chater Report @ TIGHAR's Website 
    • Kelly Johnson @ Linda Hall Library 
    • Professor Dame Sue Black @ St. John's College Oxford 
    • The Cross/Wright Report: The Nikumaroro bones identification controversy: First-hand examination versus evaluation by proxy — Amelia Earhart found or still missing?
    • The Jantz Report: Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones: A 1941 Analysis versus Modern Quantitative Techniques
    • Earhart and the French Connection @ Mike Campbell's Blog 

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    1 hr and 3 mins