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  • S3 Ep35: Lost: A Conversation with Rachel Hartigan

    S3 Ep35: Lost: A Conversation with Rachel Hartigan
    Mar 2 2026
    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.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 has been retold, repackaged, and sometimes misunderstood. We’ll talk about the tension between evidence and imagination. Between scholarship and spectacle. Between closure, and the human need for one.And maybe most importantly, we’ll talk about why this story refuses to settle. Why 88 years later, Amelia Earhart still occupies space in our collective imagination. Why we’re still here - still searching, still asking.Because sometimes the mystery isn’t just about what happened on July 2, 1937. Sometimes the mystery is about us. What we need from her story. What we fear about it. What we hope it says about risk, ambition, and disappearance.This episode isn’t about solving the case. It’s about understanding how the case lives.How it evolves. How it survives. And how, in many ways, Amelia Earhart has had more than one ending.Let’s get Lost. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Washington D.C. by way of National Geographic, This is Rachel Hartigan.LINKS:Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING:Rachel's Official Website Get Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths & One Extraordinary Life @ Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or anywhere you get your books. What Really Happened to Amelia Earhart? @ WBUR Amelia Earhart's Life Is Way More Interesting Than Her Mysterious Death @ National Geographic TIGHAR's Official Website Nauticos' Official Website
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    41 min
  • S3 Ep34: Through Many Miles of Tricks & Trials: A Conversation with Dorothy Cochrane

    S3 Ep34: Through Many Miles of Tricks & Trials: A Conversation with Dorothy Cochrane
    Jan 25 2026
    I think I wanna start tonight by telling you all a quick story. 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.Tonight, we’re sitting down with someone who has spent a lifetime living in the space between myth and material… between the public story and the private record. She’s one of the most trusted voices in American aviation history— a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator whose work has helped preserve and interpret the artifacts that define how the world remembers flight. And when it comes to Amelia Earhart specifically, she’s not approaching this from the outside looking in. She’s spent decades stewarding the very things people argue about—general aviation history, flight materiel, aerial cameras… and the story of women in aviation as a living, breathing timeline—not a highlight reel.In other words…when she speaks, the room gets quieter.Because she’s not here to sell us a theory. She’s here to bring us back to the only thing that has ever deserved the steering wheel in this case: the woman and the record.And that matters—because right now, the Amelia Earhart conversation is loud again.New expeditions - new claims - new “finally solved” declarations are running laps around the internet, right now. But before we sprint toward whatever comes next… we need to do something most people skip: We need to slow down. We need to ask what the evidence can actually carry. We need to separate story from story-telling. And we need somebody who knows the difference.She’s devoted more than forty years to collecting and preserving aviation artifacts—not just to keep them safe, but to make sure the stories behind them are told responsibly… in a way that educates and inspires, instead of misleads and inflames. That kind of work doesn’t make you famous in the way the internet understands fame. It makes you foundational. It makes you the person future historians cite.The person documentaries call when they want to get it right. The person you bring in when the legend gets so big, that the truth struggles to breathe.Oh and, something really cool. You’ve heard me talk about my original 25 - the list I made when I sat down to begin this project so long ago. Not only was she on my original 25 - but she was number 1. How bout that? So…….if you’ve ever wanted to hear what this case sounds like when the noise lowers and the facts step forward— This is your night. And we have one helluva instructor. Welcome back to Chasing Earhart. From Washington, D.C by way of the Smithsonian Air & Space, this is Dorothy Cochrane.LINKS:Our Website Vanished on Twitter Vanished on Instagram Vanished on TikTok Vanished Facebook Discussion Group Chasing Earhart on Facebook Chasing Earhart on Twitter SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING:Dorothy Cochrane @ Smithsonian Air & Space Amelia Earhart Project Recordings @ Smithsonian Air & Space Opinion: Amelia Earhart and the continuing search for her Lockheed Electra @ CNN Amelia Earhart’s Trailblazing Life in Aviation @ Smithsonian Magazine Amelia Earhart...
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    24 min
  • S3 Ep33: What Lies Ahead: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Pettigrew

    S3 Ep33: What Lies Ahead: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Pettigrew
    Jan 19 2026

    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.

    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.

    LINKS:

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    SHOW NOTES & FURTHER READING:
    • 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 @ Purdue.edu
    • Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute to embark on expedition to identify Amelia Earhart’s missing plane @ Purdue Research Foundation
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    24 min
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