wypipo's obsession with Amelia Earhart

[George's Dilemma]

I'd like to know the psychology behind the obsession with dead famous people in general at times. It's weird to me how folks damn near worship dead icons and I guess it is a type of idolatry. Amelia Earhart, the Founding Fathers, Hitler, etc.. Even with us at times for example Pac and "what really happened" to him. For some reason folks just can't accept the simple answers on tragedies. The truth is often very simple but there's money in promoting the unknown or conspiracy.

 

[klutch2381]

That Lindbergh one sad

Yeah. I believe Hauptmann did that shyt, though.

Amelia ran out of gas because of the increased consumption of flying into a 25 mph headwind, and flying well above her intended altitude to avoid a storm off the coast of PNG. She crashed somewhere in the pacific before she could get to the Howland Islands.

 

[get these nets]

10/04/25

Expedition Mounted to Follow New Lead on Amelia Earhart's Crash Site

Researchers at Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) are set to head out to a remote island in the South Pacific for a new...

maritime-executive.com

 

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Some think she might've gotten ate up by coconut crabs