southsider2k5 Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-in...-432628683.html A newly uncovered photograph suggests legendary pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator survived their mysterious 1937 plane disappearance, according to evidence from a History Channel documentary shared with the "Today" show 80 years and three days after they vanished. The image, discovered in a formerly top secret American file, appears to show Earhart and Fred Noonan on a dock in the Marshall Islands, and investigators, including an NBC News analyst, believe her plane can be seen on a barge being towed by a Japanese ship in the background. The Six minute video is worth a watch. I have the History Channel special set to record on my DVR already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 08:27 AM) http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-in...-432628683.html The Six minute video is worth a watch. I have the History Channel special set to record on my DVR already. Very cool. I think we have discussed this before. The theory where the US knew about this but kept silent in order to build goodwill towards Japan as an ally is interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 08:27 AM) http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-in...-432628683.html The Six minute video is worth a watch. I have the History Channel special set to record on my DVR already. How was the special? Forgot about it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavum Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 10, 2017 -> 08:55 PM) How was the special? Forgot about it... It was good. Very interesting subject I didn't know much detail before this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 10, 2017 -> 08:55 PM) How was the special? Forgot about it... I thought it was compelling at the very least. The one thing that bothers me about History Channel anymore is they make those shows so one sided now. I would have liked to have had it compared to an opposing view point. At the very least I thought the evidence was pretty impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavum Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 10, 2017 -> 09:07 PM) I thought it was compelling at the very least. The one thing that bothers me about History Channel anymore is they make those shows so one sided now. I would have liked to have had it compared to an opposing view point. At the very least I thought the evidence was pretty impressive. Agreed about that. I took in all of the evidence they were giving, and it was all plausible, but I kept thinking there are people out there that would dispute everything point by point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxsoxsoxsox Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/ju...isoner-by-japan The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jul 11, 2017 -> 04:04 PM) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/ju...isoner-by-japan The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935. Ugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jul 11, 2017 -> 06:04 PM) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/ju...isoner-by-japan The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935. And that is why I would love to see their programming go back to being more two sided. They wasted two hours on something a random dude smashed in 10 freaking images. Damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 11, 2017 -> 08:14 PM) And that is why I would love to see their programming go back to being more two sided. They wasted two hours on something a random dude smashed in 10 freaking images. Damn. I'm not sure it was ever "two-sided." But it has gone from legitimate, full length documentaries (back when it was basically the WW2/Hitler channel), to what we have now, which is Indiana Jones wannabes taking historical events/questions/myths and talking about nonsensical theories over the course of an hour before ultimately concluding that no one really knows anything. I'll never forget watching this piece of s*** (http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers...son-1/episode-1) 7 years ago. An hour discussing the mystery behind the cornerstone of the Whitehouse and whether it went missing. The conclusion after 50 minutes of theorizing nonsensical Free Mason garbage, including what may have been stored inside the cornerstone? Nothing. It's still there, underground. Case solved! Thanks History Channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 12, 2017 -> 11:21 AM) I'm not sure it was ever "two-sided." But it has gone from legitimate, full length documentaries (back when it was basically the WW2/Hitler channel), to what we have now, which is Indiana Jones wannabes taking historical events/questions/myths and talking about nonsensical theories over the course of an hour before ultimately concluding that no one really knows anything. I'll never forget watching this piece of s*** (http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers...son-1/episode-1) 7 years ago. An hour discussing the mystery behind the cornerstone of the Whitehouse and whether it went missing. The conclusion after 50 minutes of theorizing nonsensical Free Mason garbage, including what may have been stored inside the cornerstone? Nothing. It's still there, underground. Case solved! Thanks History Channel. Yeah, that entire series sucked. I can watch a few shows like that, but ultimately you get sick of them never actually solving anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 12, 2017 -> 02:16 PM) Yeah, that entire series sucked. I can watch a few shows like that, but ultimately you get sick of them never actually solving anything. The one that was good was them getting back the 9/11 flag. That was really pretty awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 So I will delete the Earhart show on my DVR without watching. Anyone see the Jack the Ripper special....I assume it will be bad after reading this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jul 12, 2017 -> 02:48 PM) So I will delete the Earhart show on my DVR without watching. Anyone see the Jack the Ripper special....I assume it will be bad after reading this thread. One episode in, it was at least some interesting history of the early life of HH Holmes. They didn't get into the connections for Jack the Ripper yet. I read the Devil in the White City by Erik Larson years ago, which is what I know about Holmes to a large extent. It was interesting to learn about his childhood and some of what is left in Chicago of the Murder Castle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 (edited) QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jul 12, 2017 -> 02:48 PM) So I will delete the Earhart show on my DVR without watching. Anyone see the Jack the Ripper special....I assume it will be bad after reading this thread. I started it last night but was immediately disappointed and turned it off. It's right up my alley too - historical Chicago. But of course this is History Channel so they've completely f***ed up the delivery here. It starts with an ex-trial lawyer who happens to be Holmes' great great grandson. Ok, so for so good. He decided he wants to find out as much as possible about his long lost relative. And then he's got an oddball hypothesis - maybe Holmes was also Jack the Ripper. Ok, a little out there, so i'm intrigued. After deciding he's done all the research he can, he gets some help from an expert. The "expert" is an ex-CIA officer with a human behavior/psychology specialty. And one of the first thing she says she wants to do is go to ground zero, where Holmes' murders actually occurred (because of course it makes since for a human behavior specialist to physically inspect a home that no longer exists from 150 years ago). So they first end up at the Chicago Culture Museum (I think, something like that), and they're shown plats of Holmes' death factory from back in the day and the plat from today. Turns out there's a Post Office built on the land. EXCEPT that it's not actually on the land where the home was built, the post office only encroached on a small sliver of the land. So the historian at the museum suggests that if they were to perform a dig at the site, they should focus their efforts on a small grassy area that's about a 1/4 of the size of the original home (because the rest is now a concrete parking lot). So the two main people in the show discuss what could possibly be in that grassy area if they started to dig, and one wonders if they could find human remains. BOOM. SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC. CUT TO COMMERCIAL. And that's when I shut that piece of s*** off. What. The. f***. Why on Earth are they even discussing the idea of digging up a small grassy area on a piece of land that covers a small sliver of the land where the house Holmes used stood 150 years ago? Why is that of any interest in the case of Holmes, who was found, tried and executed for the murders? The murders themselves are not even part of the theory they're trying to prove. What relevance does any of this have? The answer is nothing. It's the cornerstone of the White House episode all over again. Edited July 14, 2017 by JenksIsMyHero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxsoxsoxsox Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 11:51 AM) I started it last night but was immediately disappointed and turned it off. Ya I didn't make it long through that either. There were some decent ones. (DB Cooper, and the escapees from Alcatraz which came down to another photo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 04:22 PM) Ya I didn't make it long through that either. There were some decent ones. (DB Cooper, and the escapees from Alcatraz which came down to another photo) Yeah, the Cooper one was one of my favorites besides the 9/11 flag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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