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The Subsurface History Of Amelia Earhart Few Knew About, Until Recently
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"You're onto something that will stagger your imagination." Spoken in 1962 by U. S. Navy Commander John Pillsbury (Ret.) to CBS Radio Journalist, Fred Goerner who was investigating the 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Less recalled anymore, is how seventy years before before Hilary Swank took on Amelia, 'official silence' began building the foundation used to form an impenetrable 'public domain' mystery of Amelia Earhart.
Below: A rare photo of the original Irene Craigmile (later 'Bolam.') What was the connection between Amelia Earhart and the original Irene Craigmile? Beyond 37's recent forensic study revealed how the original Irene Craigmile was seen no more in the photo history of her person after the 1930s, although her identity was attributed to two other women from the 1940s until 1982. One of them, who the forensic study referred to as the 'Gervais-Irene' (seen above) most certainly aligned with Amelia Earhart in an alarming head to toe congruence. No surprise, the original Irene Craigmile knew Amelia Earhart as did her prominent Attorney Aunt, Irene Rutherford O'Crowley who was a good friend and 'Zonta' sister of Amelia's. Yet, what became of the original Irene Craigmile? Amelia Earhart no doubt knew and never told anyone. As well, how did a new Irene Craigmile in the 1940s, suddenly start looking like a carbon copy of Amelia Earhart... who had 'vanished' in 1937?
| The original Irene Craigmile (Bolam), circa 1930 |
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| Husband Charles Craigmile (left), and her father Joe O'Crowley (Right). |
[Click on either of the next two photos
down to go to the 'Forensic
Comparison Samples'
link. Recently the National Geographic Channel downplayed the decades
old Irene-Amelia controversy. Observe in this website the many years
worth of important investigative research data it omitted.]
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Above: The 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam's image aligned with Amelia Earhart's image, reprinted from the seven-year Beyond 37' Forensic Analysis. No surprise to the learned, this Irene (one of three different women who had used the same 'Irene' identity) is not seen among the photos identifying Irene Craigmile (Bolam) prior to the 1940s. In other words, in the 1940s she seemingly appeared from nowhere to assume the original Irene Craigmile's identity. In 1991 the now late Monsignor James Francis Kelley, a former President of Seton Hall University described in a taped interview how the woman above, who he had been close friends with from the World War Two era on (until she died in 1982,) had in reality been the former Amelia Earhart. Some called the famously liked and highly respected Monsignor 'crazy' for having said such a thing. He wasn't. The comprehensive forensic analysis displayed the true physical and character trait congruence shared by this Irene and Amelia Earhart. (See more comparisons below.)
"Numerous investigations foundered on official silence in Tokyo and
Washington, leaving the fate of Amelia Earhart an everlasting mystery." From Marylin Bender & Selig Altschull's Pan Am Aviation
History book The Chosen
Instrument, 1982, Simon & Schuster.
"She stated
she was turning north and they continued to hear her at intervals, her
signals becoming fainter each time received."
Colonel
H. H. C. Richards, Air Liaison Australia, U. S. O2 Intelligence Memo,
11/1/38. This 1980 declassified document differed greatly from the final
Earhart transmission report released by White House Cabinet member,
Henry Morgenthau Jr. a year after Amelia vanished. Evidently, after
realizing no choice but to offer something about Earhart's final
moments, what he released differed from the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca's
initial version of Earhart's final words. Instead of "turning north,"
the public version of Amelia's final words became "We are running north
and south," thus eliminating the last specified direction she was flying
in.
Another example from the study, this time Amelia transitions into the 'Gervais-Irene'...
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Above: In the 1960s WWII hero Joe Gervais met the 1945-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile Bolam in New York at a gathering of well known retired pilots. He found her importance and familiarity suspect. She told him how she had known Amelia Earhart and she had even flown with her. Here, Amelia's image morphs into the 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene. Note: The three different women who were identified as one in the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' are all displayed in Irene-Amelia.com, yet only the Gervais-Irene (displayed here and elsewhere in the site) matched Amelia in an amazing head to toe congruence. Again, the Forensic Analysis revealed how the Gervais-Irene appeared nowhere in photos identifying her as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s, and again, left unrealized, was how the 'Irene' seen here appeared to have emerged from nowhere in the 1940s to become a new 'Irene Craigmile.'
Before the forensic analysis
took place it was never ascertained how three different women had been
attributed to the same Irene Craigmile Bolam identity.
It's hard to
accept, but anymore it looks like Joe Gervais was onto something quite
real with his long ago assertion of Amelia Earhart's survival as a
reidentified person. [Note: As in Beyond 37's study, wherever the label
'the Gervais-Irene' is applied it denotes the 'Irene' who Joe Gervais met
and photographed in 1965.] After thoroughly investigating her, Joe Gervais
lived the remainder of his life (he died in 2005) attesting to her having
been the 'former' Amelia Earhart. Most people automatically discredited
him, the families of Irene and Amelia dismissed his assertion as well, but
nary a soul ever proved him wrong, which is why a major curiosity about
this woman's true past always remained.
" I hope I've just got to never make it public."
1938 quote from FDR White House Cabinet member, Henry Morgenthau Jr.
on the known yet withheld
circumstances of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance.
Part of an official transcript, the U. S. Executive Branch never
allowed what it knew about Amelia Earhart's disappearance to become
public information. Two months after Morgenthau sent the above quote
about Amelia's loss to Eleanor Roosevelt, he released the doctored
version of Earhart's final words. Add to this the odd quote from U. S.
Navy Commander John Pillsbury, who described how the post loss reality
would "stagger" a person's imagination,
and the
1965 Admiral Chester Nimitz mention of how years ago it was quietly
"known and documented in Washington; Amelia Earhart and her navigator
went down in the Marshall Islands and were picked up by Japan." (As
opposed to 'captured' or 'imprisoned.') Admiral Nimitz also intimated
what became of the flying duo was 'unclear' to him after they were
rescued. In 1987 the Republic of the Marshall Islands actually issued
a commemorative stamp series depicting such a rescue of Earhart and
Fred Noonan, something common to their own history even today. Still,
U. S. Executive Branch 'Official
Silence'
about Earhart has remained ever since she and Noonan were said to have
'vanished without a trace.'
News wise, Earhart's 'mystery' was likened to a quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; "When legend becomes fact, print the legend." As described above, reliable sources kept information from the press on what happened. They appeared aware of a different world-flight ending for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, one left unspoken to the public.
Fox-Searchlight's new movie 'Amelia' has renewed interest in the decades
old and perpetually debated Irene-Amelia controversy. More than ever it
appears Amelia somehow did survive amid some anomalous circumstances. Of
the three main 'media touted' theories that have long tried to account for
Amelia's 1937 disappearance, it is now plainly evident Amelia did not
'crash and sink'--after she stopped transmitting while still safely
airborne with at least four to five hours of fuel remaining; nor were she
and Fred Noonan imprisoned and subsequently executed by Japan; and the
Nikumororo Island 'bones rumor' was recently shown to be a false lead
after the admission of no bones at all being found on the island in recent
years, and the realization of many other visitors having happened on the
island (FKA 'Gardner Island') before and after Amelia's disappearance.
Otherwise, one can see and learn here about what is now deemed 'the new
Amelia Earhart reality paradigm' by virtue of Beyond 37's recently
completed forensic
argument analysis, while observing
how the 'former' Amelia Earhart used to appear in public until her passing
in 1982.
Wikipedia succumbed to 'false
truths' about it, and even the National Geographic Channel shied away from
the reality of this incredible story. Hilary Swank and Mira Nair were also
advised to 'stay away' from it, and they did, leaving them to put out a
fairly limited if not 'politically correct' or 'milk-toast' rendition of
Amelia Earhart's nine years of world fame. Those who devoted years of
serious investigative research to finding the 'real' Amelia Earhart,
learned about a few major truths never endorsed to the public, to include
the high level 'official silence' regard towards the
confusing-to-the-public issue of Amelia Earhart's long ago disappearance.
With the recent additions to the controversy, the National Geographic Channel's coverage of this enigmatic individual was admittedly 'not up to date' when it was presented in an 'Unsolved History' special about Amelia Earhart. In the wake of Hilary Swank's portrayal of Amelia, the 'shared identity' discovery of Irene Craigmile Bolam has gestated some serious concerns among a variety of Amelia Earhart research scholars.
"She certainly knew
flying. She knew everything there was to know about Japan." 1982
press quote from Irene's friend, John Malloy of Rumson, New Jersey. Mr.
Malloy expressed his opinion three months after Irene's passing. He and
other survived friends of the 1945-1982 identiied Irene Craigmile Bolam
viewed the issue of her true past identity as suspect.
The photos directly below feature two different women. It
was recently revealed how both were historically identified as one in the
same Irene Craigmile Bolam.
Question: Which one of the two
women shown below was the 'original' Irene Craigmile (Bolam)?
Answer:
Neither. The original (maiden name 'Irene Madaline O'Crowley') who was a
1930s 'friend' of Amelia Earhart's, stopped appearing in photos after the
1930s.
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Where both women shown above were historically identified as the same Irene Craigmile Bolam, see the "Closer Comparison of Eyes and Faces" link for their distinct separation. Also see the "Will The Real Irene Craigmile Bolam Please Stand Up" link, upper left, for info on the 'original'' Irene Craigmile (Bolam). To view the 1982 newspaper 'forged photo history' of Irene Craigmile Bolam, see the "1982 New Jersey Tribune" link.
Again, it is now
known; the original Irene Craigmile appears nowhere in the photo history
of her person after the 1930s.
"After
watching some [of his] video and looking at the self-published book by
researcher, Tod Swindell, who employed the methods and expertise of
forensic anthropologists to compare AE and IB physically, I think Joe
Gervais was right." News Journalist Rosalea
Barker of New Zealand
"Foudray also thinks Gervais' and
Swindell's research is 'just the tip of the iceberg.'" "All the
evidence all put together, I feel like she (Amelia) did survive." "I think
she survived and came back to the United States."
Excerpts from two interviews with Lou Foudray of the Amelia Earhart
Birthplace Museum on the investigative research of Joe Gervais and Tod
Swindell; from a Topeka Capital Journal article by Jan Biles and a 2009
interview conducted by Lara Moritz of KMBC TV Kansas City. [See Press
Notices link for more.]
| 'Look familiar? Amelia always had sinus trouble. |
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| Info on her post-loss 'deviated septum rhinoplasty' and dental work is included in this website. |
What happened to Amelia
Earhart?
"The recent Forensic Analysis displaying more
than one person identified as Irene Craigmile Bolam has placed a new twist
on the decades old Joe Gervais assertion, of the Irene Craigmile Bolam who
he met and photographed in 1965 in reality having been the 'former' Amelia
Earhart. Notably, the survived families of both Irene and Amelia along
with the Smithsonian Institute, historically avoided having to address or
acknowledge such a 'plural Irenes' realization. It is true how an
'interested' National Geographic Channel agreed to display the new 'shared
identity' controversy before it curiously backed out in the ninth hour. As
well, the decades old tri-pact convention of media touted 'Earhart
theorists' also steered clear of drawing attention to it. In recent times
however, said 'big three' entities influenced Hilary Swank's 'Amelia'
movie into becoming a politically correct biopic, as opposed to a
noteworthy achievement of historical verisimilitude." Beyond 37'
Official
United States historians have avoided dealing with the Irene-Amelia
controversy by intention, even though the Gervais-Irene (Irene-Amelia) has
remained implicated as the former Amelia Earhart since the 1960s.
Some researchers regard it as an obvious revelation the public has been
steered away from addressing, mostly due to the large amount of
'misinformation' conveyed about it. Still, the Gervais-Irene's past proved
incomplete in a personal and photo-history way. Although the original
Irene Craigmile and Amelia Earhart were friends in the 1930s, again the
survived families of both have dismissed inquiries into the odd outcome of
their past acquaintance, where by the mid-1940s a different Irene suddenly
resembled Amelia Earhart... who had turned up missing just years earlier.
The odd congruence between Amelia and the Gervais-Irene truly is haunting
in physical, character trait, and even past association ways. Also recall
how no official investigation into Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance was
ever conducted.
(See more comparisons below.)
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"The National
Geographic Channel is well aware of Mr. Swindell's recent
forensic discovery of more than one person having used the same
Irene Craigmile Bolam identity. They were to display it in their
new TV special about Amelia Earhart. I believe they decided
against it to avoid the controversy it would have caused.
Earhart survived, there's no doubt about this anymore." National Geographic on-camera Amelia Earhart
history scholar, USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.)
(National Geo also ignored the medical, aging, facial posturing,
and lighting explanations that accounted for the few differences
it pointed out. As well, the channel offered no in depth
personal history of Irene, no MD testimonials, no head to toe
comparisons or handwriting trait samples, and it also avoided
mentioning Irene's and Amelia's family opinions of the matter.
Basically it did its best to skate by the true nature of the
Irene-Amelia controversy.)
From The Associated Press (Also on
CNN)
"We were inclined to think Irene probably was not
Amelia. However the Forensic studies are very convincing. She was
not an ordinary housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew
many well placed people and was well traveled."
The now late John Bolam, referring to the Swindell/Beyond
37' Forensic Analysis from an Associated Press
article by Ron Staton. John Bolam was the 'much younger' survived
Brother of Irene's British husband, Guy who she wed in 1958. He
believed Guy (who died in 1970) was British MI6.
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Below: Another
example, the Gervais-Irene's image morphs into Amelia's image. Amazingly,
Joe Gervais went from the late 1960s to the late 1990s so certain about
the true identity of the Irene he encountered and photographed, he never
felt a need to conduct a comparative forensic analysis. Beyond 37's was
ultimately arranged to compare physical beings and character traits. The
end results were astounding, to say the least, although not to Joe Gervais.
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Of A True Historical Concern
Following the recent years 'learned revelation' of more
than one woman having employed the same 'Irene' identity, coupled with
nearly four previous decades worth of some influenced 'public neglect' to
be achieved regarding the Irene-Amelia matter, (dating back to the harsh
treatment of WWII hero Joe Gervais after his initial realization in the
late 1960s) (see the "Joe Gervais" paragraph below) ...people are finally
beginning to wake up and smell the coffee of this, at long last, most
detectable reality. The whole point of individuals exercising a personal
option to transfer into some new 'anonymity' status, is because they wish
to no longer be recognized for who they once were, for reasons, perhaps,
only known to them and a very few others. In the case of Earhart, a once
world famous public figure whose tragic end was all but conveyed without
definition in 1937 through both national and world media sources, such a
thing would have seemed unheard of, if not impossible to accept, let alone
recognize later. Yet anymore there is no denying what has been learned
over the years about the personal history of Irene Craigmile Bolam, nor is
there any denying what has been achieved forensic comparison wise when it
comes to the physical and character trait congruence observed between the
1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam and Amelia Earhart. As well,
their similar 'social status' realities became impossible to overlook,
especially where they were both prominent Zonta members, and into the
1970s openly maintained key alliance friendships with Muriel Morrissey,
(Amelia's Sister) famous 1930s pilot Viola Gentry, and a slew of
international officials, figureheards, and politicians, (such as Barry
Goldwater) who always seemed more than willing to advise people not to
suspect her person to have been formerly known as Amelia Earhart, to the
extent of aligning the mere suggestion of it with notions of past unknown
negativisms. Yet the Irene-Amelia conveyance, however talked down was
still never officially disproved. Meanwhile, as distinguished and proud
and worldly as she always was, more people everyday are accepting this
plainly recognizable truth to represent the new paradigm 'true-blue' final
fate, of the legendary pilot hero, Amelia Earhart.
Joe Gervais,
1924-2005
Was WWII hero Joe Gervais right after all? From the late
1960s until his passing in 2005 Major Gervais, who researched and
investigated Amelia Earhart's life story as thoroughly as anyone,
described how Amelia actually survived her controversial disappearance
in 1937 with the public and national media never being 'officially'
clued in. Is this why the
governments of the United States and Japan always maintained 'official
silence' when it came to the subject matter of Amelia Earhart's loss?
In the faces of many naysayers Gervais unwaveringly maintained the
assertion of Earhart's survival as correct, and how it became the former Amelia Earhart's
own preference after WWII to live on as a non-public, all-be-her 'still
prominent' person in the U. S. who continued to travel internationally,
until she passed away in 1982. Joe Gervais concluded how Amelia had
acquiesced the identity of a friend of hers from the 1930s by the name
of 'Irene Craigmile.' (The original 'Irene Craigmile' whose image
appears nowhere in photos after the 1930s, was a person whose past
existence and family history Joe Gervais had also investigated.) He also
agreed with the determination of how the former Amelia had altered her
familiar look a bit, to include a medically necessary
'deviated septum rhinoplasty' procedure she endured. Although the
National Geographic Channel recently downplayed the decades-old Joe
Gervais claim with disinformation, and the Smithsonian has always
managed to steer clear of seriously addressing it, after his passing the
University of Texas at Dallas archived the four decades accumulation of
Joe Gervais investigative research on Amelia Earhart's life and
disappearance, and it currently attests how the Gervais theory
represents the 'most plausible' one. Of note, to date the Gervais
Irene-Amelia claim has never been 'officially' disproved. At the
same time, ostensibly in the interest of maintaining the status quo
regard of Amelia's heroic legacy and the sanctity of the 'mystery' of
her disappearance, the survived family members of both Amelia and Irene
only encourage people to look beyond the years of intense investigative
efforts of former retired USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais, a bonafide WWII
pilot-hero himself, who logged almost twenty-thousand hours of military
flight time after combining time also served in Korea and Vietnam. Few
recall anymore, in 1960 while touring among the former Imperial Islands
of Japan, after then Captain Gervais along with his 'Operation Earhart'
partner, Captain Bob Dinger had gathered over seventy sworn affidavits
of local residents and officials recalling Amelia Earhart's continued
survival there after she turned up missing in 1937, U. S. military brass
stationed at the Fuchu Air Base in Japan confiscated such material and
more learned and gathered by the two Captains during their early
investigation time period.
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It Is Important To
Realize...
Within the past two
years, (from 2007 to 2009) several individuals have posted false and/or
misleading information over the internet about the Irene-Amelia
conveyance. Where the recent forensic analysis clearly displays how only
the 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam matched Amelia Earhart
physically and character trait wise in a haunting congruence, those who
detract from this newfound reality do so while ignoring the truth of the
multiple Irenes equation. Hence, claims such as "they don't really look
alike," or "they were different heights," or "it was proven false, Irene
and Amelia were not the same" are made without a forensic foundation. Even
Wikipedia features a 2007 non-relative supplied biography of Irene
Craigmile Bolam featuring a statement suggesting how one Kevin Richlin, a
Forensic Detective from Riverside, California finally 'proved' the age old
Gervais 'Irene-Amelia' claim wrong via his recent years appearance on the
National Geographic Channel. Yet, contact Mr. Richlin himself and he'll
say he did no such thing. Incidentally, the Wikipedia biography of Irene
features a photo of the 1945-1982 identified Irene only, who now appears
to have been the former Amelia Earhart regardless of all dismissals and
rebuttals.
The entire
Irene-Amelia episode now looks to have amounted to some kind of historical
sham the public is just now catching up to, while a Freemason Society pact
from the past may have had a hand in it. (Recall FDR, Winston Churchill,
J. Edgar Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur, General Jimmy Doolittle, and
even President Harry Truman are all listed as past Freemason Society
members.) Where so, it would have first come to be during the pre-World
War Two years, then continued on while U. S. official historians remained
silent, or steered the topic in a different direction whenever they were
asked if Amelia Earhart survived, and/or especially... if she ever changed
her name to 'Irene.'
< For more on the curious life history of Amelia Earhart,
her friendship to the original Irene Craigmile, her uncanny alignment to
one of the post 1930s Irenes, a review and synopsis of the new Hilary
Swank movie 'Amelia,' and some old rumors and still currently misconstrued
'facts' about Irene-Amelia correlation... check out the various click-on
page links shown upper left.
Will the
real Irene Madaline O'Crowley Craigmile Heller Bolam please stand up(?)
(The 'shared identity' math seems a
bit complicated at first, but it really isn't)
| Who is/was this person? |
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| Shown in the 1940s, she is/was not the original Irene Craigmile nor the former Amelia Earhart. |
The woman in the photograph directly above was not the
1945-1982 identified Irene, nor was she the original Irene. Still, the
only identity publicly attributed to her after the 1930s was that of
"Irene Craigmile Bolam." It is apparent, intentionally to the public the
two 'non-original' Irenes were identified as one in the same in the
interest of obfuscating and protecting their real identities. As well, the
mystery of what became of the original Irene Craigmile grew to loom as a
heavy one. Meanwhile directly below, see another example of the 1945-1982
identified Irene compared to Amelia.
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Rollin
Reineck: We believe Jackie Cochran was sent to Japan to help
bring Amelia home. Are you aware of that?
Monsignor Kelley: Yes, I was involved with that.
The above exchange is excerpted from a 1991 taped
conversation between former Seton Hall University President Monsignor
James Francis Kelley and Earhart research scholar/author Rollin C. Reineck.
The below photo of Monsignor Kelley and the 1945-1982 identified Irene
Craigmile Bolam is a click-on link to more information about them. After
the Irene displayed here died in 1982, Monsignor Kelley was asked by the
press about the possibility of his 'good friend' Irene's past dual
identity(?) Kelley's reply appeared in an October edition of the 1982 New
Jersey News Tribune this way: "I could not state my feelings. Doing so
would violate everything I learned in the confessional." As noted, if one
compares the Irene shown here to Amelia Earhart, he or she will observe
how their images perfectly align.
| Monsignor Kelley & Irene Craigmile Bolam, 1980 |
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| Monsignor James Francis Kelley was President of Seton Hall University from 1939 to 1949 |
"We don't discuss that around here."
President Richard Nixon, 1970, responding to the then national news story
about the just released McGraw-Hill book, Amelia
Earhart Lives. The book
implied Irene to be the 'former' Amelia Earhart. Irene held a press
conference at the Time-Life building in New York, (alone) damned the book
as "a pack of lies" and "a fantastic story," and strongly stated "I am not
a mystery woman and I am not Amelia Earhart." She then stormed out after
fielding no questions. Joe Gervais remarked,"She handled the press like a
pro." Years later her good friend, Monsignor James Francis Kelley
indicated she saw no choice but to react as she did. He also pointed out
by 1970 she had 'not been' Amelia Earhart for many years so her denial in
the present tense, especially to her, was not necessarily a non-truthful
statement. In 1979 Kelley also told his friend, Donald Dekoster how by the
1960s she "barley recognized herself anymore for who she used to be."
Irene sued McGraw-Hill but after five years refused to submit her
fingerprints as 'proof positive' of her identity, so in early 1976 a ten
dollar consideration was paid by her to Gervais and the book's author, Joe
Klaas, who in turn paid her the same amount to end a separate suit she
levied against them. McGraw-Hill did pay a mid five-figure settlement to
her for 'damaging her reputation' by way of a few specified false
allegations, to include the suggestion she was never legally married to
her British husband, Guy Bolam who she had wed in New York in 1958.
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After initially agreeing to do so, observe here what independent filmmaker Noel Dockstader did not discuss or show in his self-produced film 'Where's Amelia Earhart' occasionally seen on the National Geographic Channel. Mr. Dockstater declined to address the recent discovery of more than one person having used the same Irene Craigmile Bolam identity. According to the history of Irene Craigmile Bolam she was born in 1904 and died in 1982. Yet the Irene Craigmile Bolam who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965, then spent several years investigating the background of, only appeared in the photograph history of Irene Craigmile Bolam from 1945 to 1982. Again, just recently this became newly recognized forensic reality information.
Shown directly below, the woman featured on the cover of Irene Bolam's 1982 Memorial Dinner program was not the Irene Craigmile Bolam who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 at a Long Island, New York gathering of well know retired pilots.
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Below: The younger and older images of two different people historically identified as one in the same Irene Craigmile Bolam. (Neither marks the image of the original person born into said identity; nee "Irene Madaline O'Crowley.")
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...before dental work and cosmetic adjustments, one can easily
recognize a familiar image
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It is certain only the 1945-1982 Irene died in July of 1982, so where the other 'non-original' Irene's estimated birth year was 1924 by family friend Lucy McDannel, said 'Irene' would have turned eighty years old in 2004 making her continued existence at that time a possibility. Again, neither woman shown above was the original Irene Craigmile Bolam who bore a Son in 1934. Still, both women shown above repeatedly appeared in newsprint photos and in an obituary sense while identified as one in the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.'
A Preface
of Additional Information Presented in this Website:
Note: Among
the photos and info displayed farther down, read more about the 'different
Irenes' who employed the same identity. Also be sure to check out the
various page links shown in the left column to include the 'Forensic
Comparison' links, the 'Press
Notices' link, and 'The
History of Amelia Earhart Research' link. [One may also scroll
halfway down for the more formal Home Page foreword and introduction.]
"In the past five
years great strides were made to help the Earhart-curious better
understand the controversy of Amelia Earhart's disappearance and its
future correlation to the identity of Irene Craigmile Bolam. Most
important was the realization of more than one person having shared the
identity of Irene Craigmile Bolam, with the 1945-1982 identified Irene
matching Amelia Earhart physically and character trait wise. Said Irene
was internationally familiar, she socialized with Amelia's Sister, and she
was part of organizations Amelia used to belong to." Tod
Swindell, 2007
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The National News
Media 'Big Three' Earhart Investigators
It is essential
to realize: Although they represent completely different
theories, one Elgen Long
of the Nauticos Group, one Bill
Prymak who heads the
Amelia Earhart Society, and Richard Gillespie who
maintains the TIGHAR
organization, (all fairly wealthy and influential private citizens) have
dominated public perception of Amelia Earhart's 'mystery' through the
news media for the past three decades. Recently their influence guided
the National Geographic Channel's latest profile of Earhart's 1937
'disappearance.' Mr. Long, a past good friend of Amelia's late Sister
Muriel has always touted the 'crashed and sank' version of Earhart's
fate. (After the 1960s Muriel and United States history quietly seemed
to favor this ending as well.) Bill Prymak suggested Earhart and her
navigator, Fred Noonan were possibly spies who ended up in the Japanese
mandates and somehow perished there. And Richard Gillespie offered how
the duo ended up at Nikumororo of the Phoenix Islands where they radioed
for help for three days before the tide pulled their plane out to sea to
sink, leaving them to die of hunger and dehydration. Curious, no
authenticated evidence ever substantiated any of their claims, and few
academic historians have ever taken any Earhart theory seriously. Elgen
Long used to lecture to audiences with Muriel sitting beside him, and
recently he was signed as an advisor for the new Hilary
Swank/Fox-Searchlight movie, 'Amelia.' Contrarily, over time Bill Prymak
became to main media go-to person when it came to the age old 'spy'
theory, and since 1990 Mr. Gillespie has held many TIGHAR press
conferences about his Nikumororo claim. [Recently Mr. Gillespie held one
announcing how Earhart's DNA evidence was possibly retrieved from
Nikumororo, mentionioning it will take "a year" for a Canadian lab to
test some items he found there. Experts regard it as a sensational
suggestion lacking true merit and creating false hopes. For one thing,
the items he referred to were attributed to previous ships known to have
moored there or run aground, and at least one brief attempt made at
habitation. For another, the last 'official' radio message from Earhart
was received while she was still safely airborne. True, after she stated
one final line of position her radio fell silent while her plane was
estimated by experts to still have 'four or five hours of fuel left.' No
"we're in trouble" nor were any SOS signals ever authentically accounted
for, and thus bore the basic mystery of Amelia Earhart.] The 'Earhart
spy theory' was introduced in the 1960s although to date it too has
never been authenticated or ever accepted. Meanwhile, as if time washed
them away, there were many conveyed reports of Amelia Earhart's
continued existence under the auspice of Japan among its Imperial
Islands after she turned up missing in 1937. As mentioned in the Joe
Gervais paragraph shown above, the first collection numbering greater
than seventy in individual affidavits,* was confiscated by top U. S.
military officials in Japan in 1960 at the Fuchu U. S. Air base. [*From The Search For Amelia Earhart
by Fred Goerner, Doubleday, 1966.] Many more surfaced since then as
"official silence in Tokyo and Washington" always prevailed.
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| 1945-1982 Irene + Amelia = Irene-Amelia |
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
TRY NOT TO FEAR THE IRENE-AMELIA TRUTH, OR TO READILY
ACCEPT THE FULMINATIONS OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WHO LOUDLY DECRY IT, AS
THEY DIVERT PUBLIC OPINION OF AMELIA EARHART IN OTHER DIRECTIONS THROUGH
NATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS. INSTEAD, RECOGNIZE THE SILENT REGARD TOWARDS
AMELIA EARHART THAT HAS LONG BEEN EXHIBITED BY THE FAMILIES OF AMELIA AND
IRENE, AND OF COURSE BY JAPAN, ENGLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES. FOR SO MUCH
IS AKIN TO OFFICIAL SILENCE,' WHERE TRUTH ALONE ALWAYS TRIUMPHS.
Since 1970 the person of Irene Craigmile Bolam has remained a less reported on yet, 'heated' subject of debate among Earhart research scholars. Most ended up trying to dismiss it out of hand, but it still refused to go away. See and learn here, how in recent years and regardless of the way official U. S. historical dictum record keepers try to avoid dealing with the topic, it is plain as day anymore how Amelia Earhart, at some point during the World War Two era, surely did become one of three individuals who employed the same identity of 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.'
*The
Formal Home Page*
Foreword:
As official silence remained in effect, in 1987 few Americans took notice
of the five-part Republic of the Marshall Islands 50th anniversary postal
stamp series, (1937-1987) commemorating the Japanese Naval Authority's
rescue of Earhart and Noonan at Mili Atoll of the southern Marshalls. Nor
did they later notice, the 2002 Associated Press article featuring the
Marshall Islands U. N. Ambassador, Alfred Cappelle's statements about
Amelia; how she "definitely" ended up in the Marshalls and so much had
always been viewed as "common knowledge" in his own country. Famous Amelia
Earhart researcher, Joe Gervais would later pontificate on how the
inability of the American public to accept such a truth, was due not only
to 'official silence' and 'misinformation' on the matter; but also to
American pride and prejudice, or, the reluctance of United States citizens
to accept being enlightened about their own history by people from a
foreign land.
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Note: Please See
The Forensic Comparison
Samples Link, And The Wikipedia
Explanatory Link.
In Washington DC at the Smithsonian Institute,
there's a large elephant by the name of "Irene" squatting in the
middle of the Amelia Earhart controversy. The Smithsonian Institute
placed a lampshade on its head and tells the curious, 'It's nothing... It's just an old
lamp.... Don't pay any attention to it.'
* * *
On truth distortion and alternative truths, where only
one truth exists yet so many possibilities are offered: "The
entertainment of the alternative in its highest development, becomes
the entertainment of the ideal." A. N. Whitehead, 1937
In a way, over time Amelia Earhart's truth was bowled
over by quite a variety of shined and polished theories. None of them
ever came close to resembling the real truth though, and so much left
the public to accept the 'ideal' of Amelia Earhart's fate existing as
'an everlasting mystery.'
One of Whitehead's 1937 concepts of 'History' reads: "History
is the record of the expression of feelings peculiar to humanity."
Considering how famous fliers Amelia Earhart and Viola
Gentry were once good friends, in 1965 Joe Gervais found it peculiar
if not a bit odd, how Viola Gentry had another good friend named
'Irene' who looked like a carbon copy of an 'older' Amelia Earhart,
and was held in such high esteem by other famous fliers and even NASA
astronauts. It would not be until the 'multiple Irenes discovery' was
made over three decades later; World War Two hero Joe Gervais would
finally be vindicated for what he had come to believe in, and long
stressed to the public he clearly recognized, right up until his death
in 2005.
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The
Hypothetical 1937 Amelia Earhart Flight-End 'Quiz-Challenge':
Where was Amelia Earhart the last time she laid eyes on
her Lockheed Electra airplane?
A. On or near to land… (an island or atoll, etc.) B. Still airborne…
C. Sinking
beneath the ocean surface with it after ditching on the water…
D. Adrift
in a raft watching it sink...
E. Watching it ablaze after a fiery wreck… F. Watching it get hoisted onto a Japanese hauling ship...
G.
Watching it fade away from aboard a Japanese fishing boat...
H.
Looking back at it while hiking down from a mountain jungle...
I. At a Japanese
Naval Authority base in the pacific…
J. On a Japanese Imperial Mandate Island, or in Japan… K. In the United States… L. Somewhere else… All of these theorized 'Earhart flight endings' have been seriosuly discussed and/or existed in the realm of possibilities over time. Of course, unless one automatically accepts “C” as the answer (the crashed and sank theory) it's noticeable how Amelia’s final disposition would otherwise remain 'unknown.' The rogue idea introduced by Joe Gervais in the 1960s basically went like this: ‘Joe Gervais did not know how it got there, all he knew was with certainty he believed he recognized the survived body of Amelia Earhart in 1965, in the name-changed form of the Irene Craigmile Bolam he met at a gathering of well known ‘senior citizen’ retired pilots. Viola Gentry, one of Amelia’s past New York pilot-friends was also good friends with the same Irene Bolam and her British husband, Guy Bolam. When Joe Gervais met Irene and Guy, indeed it was Viola Gentry who introduced them to each other. On the surface, after the modern forensic analysis began in 1997 it finally did begin to appear odd how Viola Gentry, a charter Ninety-Nines’s women’s flying club member with Amelia Earhart, (Amelia served as the Ninety-Nine’s first president starting in 1929) yes it seemed odd how Viola had two friends who matched so well in different eras of photographs.
If anything it appeared as a remarkable coincidence how
Viola’s 1960s friend, Mrs. Irene Craigmile Bolam aligned head to toe
in photographs with Viola‘s long gone friend, Amelia Earhart. At
least, until 2002 anyway, when it was discovered and revealed how more
than one person had been identifiied as the same Irene Craigmile Bolam.
By 2006 it was also certain, after verification was received from the
original Irene's 1934 born Son Larry Heller, no photos displaying the
Irene Craigmile Bolam who Joe Gervais greeted and photographed in 1965
showed her identified as Irene prior to the mid-1940s. In other
words, the person named ’Irene Craigmile Bolam’ who Joe Gervais
encountered, seemed to have emerged from nowhere into existence
sometime in the 1940s identified as Irene Craigmile, according to the
photographic record of Irene Craigmile Bolam's person. In the meantime
two other women, the original Irene Craigmile and a woman who still
remains forensically non-identified to this day, appear in the early
photo history record of Irene Craigmile Bolam.
Incidently as well, Irene's complete name on record
after the three marriages attributed to her person (1927, 1933, 1958)
ended as Irene Madaline O'Crowley Craigmile Heller Bolam. Of note,
O'Crowley was her maiden name, and after a thick paper trail that
evidenced a 1940 annulment of her second marriage to Alvin Victor
Heller, (who would go on to become a Sr. VP of the Miami Aviation
Association) the name of 'Heller' was formally dropped from her person
and reverted back to 'Craigmile,' until her marriage to (family
described British MI6 operative) Guy Bolam in 1958.
This later realization signaled a remarkable discovery
made in the long held Gervais claim-dispute. Plus, it finally backed
former Seton Hall University President, Monsignor James Francis
Kelley’s 1991 admission (after he refused to admit it for many years)
of his long time good friend ‘Irene’ having formerly been known as
Amelia Earhart. Otherwise on paper, if one ignores the multiple Irenes
discovery, everything else appears fairly linear as far as Irene's
life story goes. Yet such had been the arrangement, evidently.
It also appeared there were various individuals who over time, wished not to clue the the public in on such a forensic truth about Earhart's real personal history. After all, history had declared Amelia 'dead' two years after she turned up missing. Apparently she was always to remain so. Naturally Earhart’s survived Sister Muriel, who knew her as Irene in later life, along with the original Irene’s still living Son were included among those who were against exploiting the truth, and apparently the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society, the Amelia Earhart Society, TIGHAR, Nauticos, and ostensibly the forever silent about it U. S. Government all but surreptitiously coerced the national media circuit over time, to pay attention to other ideas about Amelia Earhart’s ending. Thus, for years they all collectively steered the public away from what has now grown to become a rather obvious forensic truth to behold. And as evidenced by Noel Dockstater's recent National Geographic profile on the matter, he as well had been hopelessly bullied into submission on the matter.
It is also a shame how media stories focused on the
negatives of Earhart’s survival only; via the perverbial catchall 'Earhart
may have survived for a while, but she sure must have died over there
somehow’ routine.
It was hardly
ever asked: What if she survived and didn’t die?
It’s true, Amelia Earhart and/or Fred Noonan survival
stories all sell their final demises (or 'deaths') in some sure way.
The Nikumororo story offered by TIGHAR ends with Earhart and Noonan’s
death by starvation and/or dehydration. The Amelia Earhart Society as
well might imply how Amelia Earhart’s death took place in the Marshall
Islands or on Saipan, although philosophically it rejects all theories
at the same time, as confusing as that sounds. Four decades ago, in
1966 the media first exploited the negative offerings of CBS radio
journalist, Fred Goerner and continued to do so through Buddy
Brennan‘s offering from the late 1980s, where both described Amelia
Earhart having been on some kind of spy mission before being caught
and either executed by Japanese soldiers, or dying of some kind of
sickness while in Japan’s custody. The idea of Amelia Earhart
remaining basically ‘ok’ the entire time after she turned up missing,
coupled with some hard to explain experiences she endured during the
war era that left her to change her name for future anonymity rather
than explain it all when she returned to the U. S., was never even remotely welcomed
into the realm of possibilities by ANYONE, except for Major Joe
Gervais and those who became devoted to his years of investigating the
matter. Contrarily, the most consistent media support over the years
since the late 1970s was afforded to Earhart family friend, Elgen Long
who always insisted Earhart, Noonan, and their plane made it to the
deep bottom of the Pacific Ocean, somewhere northwest of Howland
Island. Hence, in most people's steered perception of the matter,
Amelia Earhart ended up there, and the elderly Elgen Long himself
would even be hired to advise the makers of the new 2009 Hilary Swank
film, for nothing more really, than the sake of political history
correctness.
* * *
It is evident how official U. S. historians were
conditioned over time to steer both the media and the public away from
seriously investigating the Irene-Amelia story. Until the late 1990s
they most often succeeded in doing just that, and they still would be
succeeding had it not been realized by a select few scholars, how
Earhart's 'survival' was at long
last a recognizable forensic true-hood.
So many letters had repeatedly been written to the
White House, to the Smithsonian Institute, and even to the National
Geographic Society about the Earhart case over the years, yet they
were all systematically answered with polite and non-informative 'sorry,
can't help you there' replies. Once again, as Bender and
Altschull wrote in their 1982 Pan Am Airways history book, The Chosen Instrument;
"Numerous investigations foundered on official silence in
Tokyo and Washington, leaving the fate of Amelia Earhart an
everlasting mystery."
Of course, one could always turn to the 1965 words of
Admiral Chester Nimitz, who stated it was long "known and documented
in Washington" as non-public information, how Amelia Earhart and Fred
Noonan were actually picked up by Japan after they were said to have
'vanished' in 1937, and they had continued to exist henceforth under
Japan's auspice.
No matter. In the
Conclusion link the reader will perhaps consider, how even high-end
Masonic members have influenced the public's perception of U. S.
history over the years, through such notable organizations as the
Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic Society. So where
the History Channel conveys how nine past United States Presidents
were Freemasons,
the following list of WWII era Freemason members is also very
impressive if one ponders the true Amelia Earhart saga, and is
justifiably deemed worthy of at least some consideration. Such a WWII
era list of Freemason members
(often referred to as 'a secret society of upper echelon, highly
intelligent, and highly influential individuals')
included General Douglas MacArthur, President Harry Truman, General
Jimmy Doolittle, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin
Roosevelt, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, WWII national radio reporter
Lowell Thomas, WWII Philippines imprisoned General Jonathan
Wainwright, cowboy entertainer Will Rogers (a friend of Amelia's who
died in a 1935 plane crash,) and even a post-WWII friend of
Irene-Amelia's, Senator Barry Goldwater... yes, all were past Freemason Society members.
Once strongly
challenged by the Papacy (Catholicism) dating back hundreds of years
ago, Freemasonry still exists today. Masonic societies are always
applauded for their benevolent doings, and they are still quietly
influential towards the way history should go down and be recorded. Interestingly
enough, when the late 1990s to early 2000s forensic and investigative
research advancements in the Irene-Amelia case became known, a 'back
away and observe' attitude was identifiable. But such a control factor
still seemed to ominously dominate from within. The various 'private
citizens' who have long steered the United States national media sway
over the Amelia Earhart controversy, if not Masonic themselves could
have been unknowingly subjugated by such an influence. In the specific
example cited above, four years after the 2002 'shared identity
discovery' was made, right after it was affirmed by the Son of the
original Irene Craigmile in April of 2006, within a few months of it
becoming known information, filmmaker Noel Dockstader via the National
Geographic Channel, set out to take control of such a revelation
through the national media eyes of the public. After the original
Irene's Son, Mr. Larry Heller identified the entirely different 'Irene
Craigmile' individuals prevalently shown in this website to have been
his one in the same Mother figure,
with the 1945-1982 identified one [Irene-Amelia] matching the profile
of Amelia Earhart in a haunting congruence, within a short while Mr.
Dockstader had molded his self produced 'Undercover History' National
Geographic Channel episode around the Irene-Amelia topic. With equal
measure, to be sure, he carefully took the Irene-Amelia controversy
and mixed it in with the outdated yet more traditionally publicized
Amelia Earhart disappearance theories, avoiding the new dilemma caused
by the original Irene's Son by not even bringing it up. Basically,
Dockstader simply revisited the old 'Irene Bolam' story without truly updating it, and
he hired a forensic detective who he clearly left dumbed down on the
matter to shore up his expressed opinion. Not to forget, the National
Geographic Channel's original show title at the time, 'Unsolved
History' was a true indicator of NG's locked-in approach to the
topic. Even Noel Dockstader admitted he 'knew' NG was not about to
enlighten a national TV audience in any truth-conversion way. No doubt
the long debated Earhart disappearance subject matter is too
controversial of a historical topic, and too concretely set in the
American public mindset as 'a
mystery' for National Geographic and/or the Smithsonian
Institute, to suddenly start admitting how a different Amelia Earhart
disappearance story version was known all along by some of its past,
and perhaps even present to an extent, big brother-like 'influential'
coffers.
Yet there is
always hope. Perhaps President Barack Obama with his 'new winds for
change' and 'truthful to the people' updates will instigate a
permissive outcropping that allows for some responsible clueing-in of
American citizens, as pertains to some of its own true history value.
Amelia Earhart was always a wonderful person, even after she changed
her name to Irene during the World War Two era. No one knows why she
did such a thing, but her reasons must have been good ones. The hidden
historical fact remains, she did to it, and so much is all that is
wholesomely known thus far in a true forensic sense. Of course the
Smithsonian Institute and National Geographic Society are still trying
to get people to avoid seriously considering such a truth, and no
doubt they always will, until the United States Executive Branch
orders them not to, anymore.
NOTE: To contact Beyond 37' e-mail EarhartTruth@Irene-Amelia.com.
The Beyond 37' film, book, and website projects are dedicated to the
late USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais (1924-2005) and the late USAF Col.
Rollin C. Reineck (1920-2007). Both were World War Two heroes who
learned the basic Irene-Amelia truth decades ago. Major Gervais, who
was considered by many to have been the most devoted Amelia Earhart
researcher ever having pursued the mystery since 1960, discovered the
Irene-Amelia reality in 1965. The controversial 1970 McGraw-Hill book
by Joe Klaas, Amelia Earhart Lives expounded on the enormous
amount of Joe Gervais' investigative research, and displayed the first
nationally published photo of Irene-Amelia. Myriad fallout the Amelia Earhart Lives
book caused notwithstanding, and still lacking official authoritative
guidance, Colonel Reineck spent the last several years of his life
trying to advance the Gervais claim of Earhart's name-changed survival
to authenticity. Colonel Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived,
published in late 2003, was largely inspired by the Irene-Amelia
forensic studies of Beyond 37's Tod Swindell. Several portions of the
analysis appeared in the Reineck book, and more samples are better
displayed in this website. [Beyond 37' was formed in 2001 by the Tod
Evan Company in Los Angeles. It is run by Investigative
Researcher/Filmmaker Tod Swindell, who also serves as Chief Editor of
Irene-Amelia.Com]
Irene-Amelia.com totals to date since being posted last
year: 512,217 world-wide hits; 171,405 downloads. Canada, Germany,
Great Britain, and Japan lead for most foreign country views. The most
viewed pages and/or links are: 'The History of Amelia Earhart Mystery
Research' page, the 'Odd Rumors' page, the 'Hilary Swank Amelia movie'
page, the 'Amelia at the Microphone' photo link shown on the home
page, the 'Why The Fear' page, the various 'Physical Comparison'
pages, and the 'Forensic Conclusion' page.
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