amelia earhart mystery 'solved' ?

in 2000, an elderly woman, who, because of her fragile heart condition, requested that she be known only as 'betty', finally was able to get her story to the media.

when 15 year old betty was channel surfing her family's radio one night, she suddenly heard the unbelievable : "This is Amelia Earhart. This is Amelia Earhart." an avid airplane fan, betty immedietly turned up the volume and listened. after a moment she pulled out her notebook and began jotting things down.

earhart would talk for several minutes - occasionally interupted by her navigator, who, betty thinks had a head injury and was delirious. he tried to wrestle his way out of the plane, then would stop and try to get the microphone. between his interuptions, there were more interuptions. occasionally the line would go blank, or 'fuzzy'. but when betty could hear, earhart referred to rising water and begged for help. one of the two most important things earhart said was "George" followed by "Get my suitcase in the closet. California." meaning not their previous home in, (i forget), but their new one in california. the second thing was a string of numbers betty initially thought was a longitude and latitude - but one that made no sense.

unless you changed the nine to a five - numbers that were easily confused, the reason why today we say 'niner niner' to make sure of clarity. and if you changed those numbers, we found the exact location of a ship that was to show amelia's way to a small island.

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and thats the end of my story. thanks a lot, media, that made things so much clearer. of course my overactive imagination keeps going. what could have really happened?

i've been looking for a subject to write about for awhile and you probably won't get another article like post for a while. so enjoy it.