Chasing Earhart

Mar 02 2025 110 ep. 44 mins 1.3k

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The world's only dedicated Amelia Earhart podcast. Part of the Chasing Earhart project.

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S3 Ep26: Let A Million Flowers Bloom: A Conversation with Dr. Tom King

Mar 02 2025 24 mins

If you’ve ever heard me guest on other podcasts or in media of any kind, you’ve heard the story of how this podcast all started for me. But just in case you haven’t, here it is. The Chasing Earhart project (which this podcast is a part of) officially launched in 2017. But nine years before that, I started what I often refer to as the pre-research phase - a part of the project

S3 Ep25: The Taraia Object: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Pettigrew

Feb 26 2025 40 mins

In 2021, I had a conversation with brothers Mike and Robert Ashmore regarding a highly curious satellite image they’d discovered in a lagoon on an island that’s gotten a lot of play in this Earhart investigation over the years. It’s been some time since that interview and the wheels of this case turn slowly……but they do turn. Tonight, in a follow up to that episode, I w

S3 Ep24: The Amelia Six: A Conversation with Kristin L. Gray

Jan 12 2025 23 mins

If you’ve ever attended the annual Amelia Earhart festival in Atchison Kansas, then you're familiar with an event that’s been a staple of that weekend every year since its inception. It’s called Breakfast with the Books. An event that brings Amelia Earhart authors to the town where the legend began to present their stories and discuss AE’s enduring legacy. A couple of years

S3 Ep23: Recovery: A Conversation with Bill Snavely

Jan 04 2025 52 mins

In August of 2017, I helped introduce the world to a man that had been quietly working on an idea that could blow the wheels off the Amelia Earhart/Fred Noonan story. He’d recently put out a book via the Paragon Agency called Tracking Amelia Earhart: Her Flightpath to the End. I happened to know the publisher of that book, Doug Westfall, who I’d met just a few months earlier an

S3 Ep22: The Plot Thickens: A Conversation with Tony Romeo

Dec 13 2024 32 mins

Nearly a year ago, the Amelia Earhart story was rocked by a mysterious and compelling sonar image produced by ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision. The suspiciously plane-shaped image taken in an area out in the Pacific near Howland Island, rattled the case to its core, and forced a full investigative stop while the world anxiously awaited a confirmation. As history was pote

S3 Ep21: Turning Point: A Conversation with Tom Dettweiler

Nov 17 2024 40 mins

We’ve all been on a pretty incredible run lately. This little rebrand idea for the show I had about a year ago, was only supposed to be a couple of new episodes. Never in a million years did I think we’d still be going with more debuts, returning guests and new revelations. The last year has been one of the most tumultuous years in the history of this Earhart game and I’ve le

S3 Ep20: One More Good Flight: A Conversation with Ric Gillespie

Nov 09 2024 54 mins

The longer this rebrand goes, the more I continue to be surprised. Years ago, I reached out to a man that was a part of my original 25. He’s perhaps the most well known name in the entire Earhart case. Some people also consider him to be a bit of a polarizing figure. When I reached out, I was a nobody - I had no contacts, no experience except my own handful of years in pre-resear

S3 Ep19: Howland Island Landing: A Conversation with Dana Timmer

May 25 2024 26 mins

Over 15 years ago now, I sat down to make a list of dream participants for what would become the Chasing Earhart project. I came up with a list of 25 names and on that list was a man who’s been associated with the search for Amelia Earhart since the first deep ocean expedition for her took place in 1999. In fact, he’s the man who led that search almost 25 years ago. In that tim

S3 Ep18: Parallels: A Conversation with Amelia Rose Earhart

May 08 2024 38 mins

In 2014, as this project was in pre-research, the world was fixated on an around the world flight that dominated the media and much of the aviation related conversation that year. Chief among the many reasons why was the pilot - a woman who shares a namesake with the biggest aviation icon to ever fly the skies. On July 11th, 2014 Amelia Rose Earhart completed her world flight wit

S3 Ep17: 76 Brooks Street: A Conversation with Margie Arnold

May 04 2024 50 mins

One of my very favorite parts of the rebrand for this show has been the flood of new voices that we’ve been able to bring into the ongoing conversation regarding the life, legacy and disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Over the years, a lot of attention has been paid to AE’s upbringing in Atchison, Kansas - and for good reason. Every year, thousands and thousands of visitors flock