"Earharts Anti-Freckle Cream Jar Possibly Found"

[Rowdyboy]

http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-freckle-creme-jar-120530.html

"A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.

Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago.

When reassembled,‭ the glass fragments ‬make up a nearly complete jar identical in shape to the ones used by Dr.‭ ‬C.‭ ‬H Berry's Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early‭ ‬20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles fade.

"It's well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them," Joe Cerniglia, the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News. "

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I love a mystery!

[PatSeg]

2. There have been so many Earhart conspiracy stories over the years

but this one is very interesting. Of course, we have technology today that wasn't available before, so it adds more pieces to the puzzle.

[bluedigger]

3. They are beginning to gather some good circumstantial evidence.

Enough to keep looking in the area at least.

[Rmack]

4. Status of the Ointment

Was there any ointment residue left? It could be important.

[Skinner]

7. Welcome to DU, Rmack.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. Here's a product label

I hope this means they're going to find Earhart's airplane and remains so she and her navigator can finally be put to rest.

[tclambert]

6. If she crashed in the ocean, odd bits may have floated to shore on islands here and there.

Sorry to be a downer.

[Berlin Expat]

8. When I was a child, about eight years old,

I'd seen an episode of "In Search Of......" regarding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

My father told me, "Ahhh....... she was way off course and a lot of the old Navy guys figured she likely went down right near Gardner Island, Nikumaroro. If she survived the crash and made it to shore, she died there, 'cause no one lives there and there sure as hell ain't much on that island you can survive on. One of these days they'll find her there." That was 34 years ago.

My father was a WW2 US Navy vet, and when he joined the Navy, back in 1940, the old Navy hands he talked to were of this opinion as well, which is where he got the idea from, as he told me.

Perhaps my dad (and the old Navy vets) were right all along.