Chasing Earhart

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1. S3 Ep40: Project Blackwater - A Chasing Earhart Update

   13 oktober 2026 · 16 min

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   An update on the Earhart/Noonan case from Chris Williamson.

2. S3 Ep39: Future Days: A Conversation with David Jourdan

   12 juli 2026 · 46 min

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   Nauticos' Official Website

   About David Jourdan @ Nauticos LLC

   Nauticos Expedition Portal

   How To Find Amelia Earhart Podcast YouTube

   Amelia Rose Earhart YouTube

   Nauticos Reveals Breakthrough Data and Announces New Expedition to Locate Amelia Earhart's Plane @ PR Newswire

   Deep-sea explorers to launch new search for Amelia Earhart @ UPI

3. S3 Ep38: Hey, Amelia

   3 juli 2026 · 9 min

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

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4. S3 Ep37: She Was Never Lost: A Conversation With Rich Martini

   21 juni 2026 · 1 uur 2 min

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   She Was Never Lost: The Amelia Earhart Saga @ Amazon

   Rich Martini's Blog: Earhart on Saipan

   Rich Martini's Youtube Channel: Hacking the Afterlife

   Bob Wallack & Julious Nabers Testimony

   Amelia Earhart's Airplane Found on June 19th 1944

5. S3 Ep36: All of a Piece: A Conversation with Susan Butler

   2 mei 2026 · 35 min

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   “I don’t think there is any closure. I think every generation if going to investigate her again.” Lees meer

   There are names in the Amelia Earhart story that echo. Explorers. Historians. Theorists. Voices that rise, fall, and fade as the decades pass.

   And then… there are the ones that don’t. The ones that stay. The ones that shape the conversation. The ones that—whether you agree with them or not—you have to reckon with.

   My guest tonight……. is one of those names.

   She didn’t just step into the Earhart case. She dug in.Through archives, through personal correspondence, through the kind of painstaking research that most people wouldn’t have the patience—or frankly—the stomach to see through.The book she released in 1993, didn’t just tell Amelia Earhart’s story…It reframed it. It stripped away the myth.The headlines. The almost cartoon-like legend that’s been built up over nearly a century……and replaced it with something far more complicated. Far more human. And for a lot of people? Far more uncomfortable.

   Because she doesn’t deal in easy answers. She doesn’t deal in tidy narratives. And she’s never been afraid to challenge the status quo—even when it means pushing back against the loudest voices in the room… or the most popular theories in the field. Including some that you—and I—know very well. And that’s what makes this conversation… different. Because today isn’t just about revisiting Amelia Earhart.
   It’s about interrogating the story. It’s about asking what we think we know… and whether it actually holds up under pressure. It’s about legacy. Memory. Myth-making.
   And the fine line between history… and storytelling. So whether you’ve read her work cover to cover…Or whether you’ve disagreed with her for years…There’s one thing that’s undeniable: When she speaks on Amelia Earhart—People listen. And tonight…
   We’re going there.

   The Final Boss Has Arrived. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Lake Whales, Florida this…is Susan Butler.

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6. S3 Ep35: Lost: A Conversation with Rachel Hartigan

   3 maart 2026 · 41 min

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   There’s something strange that happens when a person disappears. First, there are facts. Timelines, coordinates and in this case, fuel calculations. But as years past, facts begin to loosen and memory steps in. Speculation fills the gaps. And slowly — almost invisibly — a life turns into a legend. Lees meer

   Amelia Earhart didn’t just vanish in 1937. She multiplied. She became a castaway,
   a spy, a prisoner, a martyr, a survivor living under an assumed name. A symbol pulled in every direction history could stretch her. And somewhere inside all of that, there was still a real woman. A pilot, a daughter a partner. A public figure navigating a world that both celebrated and constrained her.

   Tonight, I’m joined by someone who’s spent years examining not just what happened to Amelia Earhart…But what happened to her story. Her new book, does something bold. It doesn’t just chase a single ending. It explores the multiple “deaths” Amelia’s experienced — culturally, narratively, and symbolically.

   Because in truth…Amelia has been lost more than once. Lost in the Pacific, in wartime rumor, in conspiracy, and sometimes, lost beneath her own myth.

   In an era where newly released files are reigniting debates - where social media theories can spread faster than peer-reviewed research - where every satellite image becomes potential proof, it feels important — maybe now more than ever — to pause. To ask, "how did we get here?"

   How did Amelia Earhart become a canvas onto which generations project their anxieties, hopes, and suspicions? And what does it mean to reclaim the woman from the noise?

   Tonight’s guest doesn’t approach this story with sensationalism. She approaches it with cultural curiosity. With narrative awareness. With a recognition that mystery doesn’t just live in oceans - it lives in memory. In the stories we tell. In the way each era reshapes history to fit its own reflection.

   Tonight, we’re going to talk about those reflections. We’re going to examine how Amelia’s story ha…

7. S3 Ep34: Through Many Miles of Tricks & Trials: A Conversation with Dorothy Cochrane

   25 januari 2026 · 24 min

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   I think I wanna start tonight by telling you all a quick story. Lees meer

   In 1932, Amelia Earhart completed the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman and became only the second person to make the flight period. She did it in NR7952 her beautiful Lockheed Vega.

   Now, I love all of Earhart’s famous planes and even though it may not be the most famous one, it’s my personal favorite and has been since I was a kid. During our visit to the Smithsonian a few years ago, I remember standing under it while my wife snapped a picture. “Now look at me and smile!” she said - as she snapped a picture that continues to hang in my office to this day.

   We stood under it together after the picture and just enjoyed being in the same space as something Amelia loved so much. It was real, we could touch it. “Can you believe we made it here?” she asked? I couldn’t. We were never supposed to make it past the first few episodes of the show and now we were standing in Air & Space in Washington D.C. and we’d already shot several guests for the documentary across the country before that point. I looked up, standing under that wing thinking that it was the most beautiful piece of winged machinery I’d ever laid eyes on.

   For nearly a century, Amelia Earhart’s name has lived in two worlds at once.

   One is made of headlines and legend…the kind of stuff that turns a woman into a symbol, then turns that symbol into a battleground. The other world is quieter. Heavier. More honest. It lives in archives. In carefully preserved artifacts. In labels written by steady hands. In collections protected not for what we want to believe—but for what we can actually prove. Because if there’s one thing this case has taught me… it’s that the mystery doesn’t survive on a lack of answers.

   It survives on noise. On certainty sold too quickly. On the comforting illusion that the truth must be simple… or cinematic… or just one big discovery away.

   But Amelia wasn’t simple. And the story she left behind isn’t either.

   Tonig…

8. S3 Ep33: What Lies Ahead: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Pettigrew

   19 januari 2026 · 24 min

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   For nearly a century, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart has lived in the space between history and legend — a story told and retold, debated and dissected, yet never fully resolved. But every so often, the mystery shifts. Not because of rumor. Not because of speculation. But because of evidence. Lees meer

   Tonight’s conversation centers on the physical remnants left behind — fragments of a story buried in coral, sand, and time. Artifacts recovered from the remote island of Nikumaroro have forced us to ask an uncomfortable question:

   What if we really have been looking in the right place all along?

   Tonight we hear an update from a man that’s very much been at the center of the Earhart/Noonan search as of late — an archaeologist whose work has focused on the scientific analysis of this material evidence. His research doesn’t promise answers wrapped in certainty, but it does something far more important: it challenges assumptions, tests long-held beliefs, and brings the conversation back to what the evidence actually shows and why it matters.

   Just a few months ago, the highly publicized trip out to Nikumaroro was postponed. Now, it’s time to find out why. It’s time to slow the story down, examine what’s been discovered, how it’s been studied, and why these discoveries continue to reshape one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.

   This isn’t about closing the case. It’s about following the evidence — wherever it leads.

   Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Eugene Oregon, this is the return of Dr. Richard Pettigrew.

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   The Taraia Object @ The Archeology Channel

   Taraia Object Deciphered @ TIGHAR Boards

   Expedition to locate Amelia Earhart's plane delayed by permit approval process, weather @ CBS News

   1 month out: Countdown to the search for Amelia Earhart’s plane begins @ Pu…

9. S3 Ep32: Revolution: A Conversation with Susan Ware

   11 januari 2026 · 38 min

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   For more than nine decades, Amelia Earhart’s name has been spoken with reverence and wonder—a flight path etched deep into the world’s imagination, and a disappearance that keeps us chasing echoes of her last sunrise over the Pacific. Lees meer

   When I first started out on this journey so long ago, I was filled with optimism. Early in the project, I reached out to a woman who wrote one of my favorite Earhart books ever written. I never thought she’d say yes. But I was surprised a lot in those early days. She’s an award-winning historian whose work has helped broaden our understanding of women’s history, power, and the stories we tell about those who defy gravity—literal and figurative.

   But what happens when we step off the edge of the known and begin to look at the woman behind the myth? Not just the aviator who vanished, but the human being whose choices, context, and legacy ripple through gender, memory, and cultural terrain that often resists simplification?

   In her writing, tonight’s guest doesn’t just recount events. She situates them in the emotional landscape of their time, inviting us to confront not only what we remember, but why we remember it at all.

   In December of 2017, she made her Chasing Earhart debut. Nine years later, she’s back to discuss the latest developments in the Amelia Earhart case, for which there are many, and to remind us all what this story has always been about. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Hoptiken, New Hampshire, this, is Susan Ware

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   Susan Ware's Official Website

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   Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism @ Amazon

   Amelia Earhart: Pioneering Feminist @ The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum's YouTube

   Records Relating to Amelia Earhart @ The National Archives

10. S3 Ep31: July 2, 1937 – 8:43 A.M. - A Conversation with Jeff Morris & Rod Blocksome

    11 oktober 2025 · 54 min

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    It’s been 86 days since we last released an episode for this show. Lees meer

    I thought I could take some time off. You'd think I’d know by now.

    Back in May of this year, Amelia Rose Earhart made her Chasing Earhart debut as part of this reboot and we covered a lot of ground. What I didn’t know then, but am privy to know now, is that Amelia Rose, had a trick up her sleeve. At the time of our recording, she was being courted by several groups in the case, asking for her assistance in spring-boarding their searches, and the chase for her participation was very, very real. Since that episode, the search for Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan has, let’s just say, taken a turn and we’re now in the middle of a race to the answer for a mystery that is now as white hot as it’s ever been.

    Amelia Rose has made her decision since that time, and it’s indeed given a boost to a team that’s been conducting one of the longest investigations this case has ever seen.

    Toward the end of August, it was announced that Amelia would join deep ocean exploration company Nauticos in its forthcoming trip out to the Pacific to pick up the search and bring Amelia Mary Earhart home. For good.

    But…..theirs isn’t the only search going on at the moment. Perhaps Amelia’s strongest professional connection at the time of her disappearance, Purdue University, has now also thrown their hat into the ring by pledging their support to Dr. Rick Pettigrew, and the Archeology Channels’ investigation in the lagoon of Nikumaroro Island - a locale that anyone listening will be very familiar with. I couldn’t write this if I tried.

    Oh, and one more thing. In the middle of all of this, our sitting president just called for the United States Government to immediately release the Earhart files.

    Tonight, I’m joined by two men that are making their Chasing Earhart podcast debuts. One is part of my original 25. And the other is at the center of everything Nauticos is doing for their next trip. We couldn’t ask for a better duo to …

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