# Your Weekly Amelia Earhart News! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200 "2018-03-07T20:27:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/21 "2018-03-08T22:11:21Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’d watch that show in a New York minute. Wouldn’t do much good. You’d only get the shaft. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/22 "2018-03-08T22:13:21Z")
I would treasure it forever. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/23 "2018-03-08T22:45:20Z")
He who would pun would pick a pocket. -Dr. Samuel Johnson, of dictionary fame. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/24 "2018-03-08T22:55:30Z")
I’ll say one thing, if I recall correctly, that the website of those guys at TIGHAR has lots of evidence that you may read and form your own opinions afterward. At least that’s what I did about a year and a half ago, lots of evidence and good links for more research, enough for me to have a good handle on what I believe are the facts. Tighar and others with their opinion of what happened to Fred and Amelia (that they flew to Nikumaroro) are way off base but they do show lots evidence for what happened that day and what happened at that point in the big attempt by Ms. E for an historic flight. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/25 "2018-03-09T01:08:07Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Well, if you ignore all the original story about the wooden beams every 10 feet, etc. I have no idea if they are true but you do have to throw them out completely. I’m not _quite_ ready to do that. > > Hey, if I had won the big lottery I would definitely build a 100 foot diameter caisson on Oak Island and excavate that entire site down to bedrock. I wouldn’t care about making a cent from it. I just want it ended one way of the other. > > Dennis [Via Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island_mystery): > [@](#): > > Wide-ranging speculation exists about how the pit was formed and what it might contain. According to Joe Nickell, there is no treasure; the pit is a natural phenomenon, probably a sinkhole connected to limestone passages or caverns.[2] Suggestions that the pit is a natural phenomenon (accumulated debris in a sinkhole or geological fault) date to at least 1911.[40][41][42][43] A number of sinkholes and underground caves, to which the “booby traps” are attributed, exist on the mainland near the island. > > Its resemblance to a human-made pit has been suggested as partly due to the texture of natural, accumulated debris in sinkholes: “This filling would be softer than the surrounding ground, and give the impression that it had been dug up before”.[43] The “platforms” of rotten logs have been attributed to trees, damaged by “blowdowns” (derechos) or wildfires, periodically falling (or washing into) the hollow.[44] And: > [@](#): > > At the invitation of Boston-area businessman David Mugar, a two-week survey was conducted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1995 (the only known scientific study conducted on the site). After running dye tests in the bore hole, the institution concluded that the flooding was caused by a natural interaction between the island’s freshwater lens and tidal pressures in the underlying geology (refuting the man-made tunnel theory). Without much better evidence, it would be illogical and irresponsible to conclude it _isn’t_ a sinkhole with naturally-accumulated debris in it: That’s the least hypothesis, and nothing seems to refute it. [Here’s a Skeptical Inquirer article on the subject, which concludes it’s a natural sinkhole and that the legend surrounding it is a Masonic allegory attached to a convenient pseudo-mystery, like any number of “Golden Legends” attached to semi-historical or pseudohistorical saints.](https://www.csicop.org/si/show/secrets_of_oak_island) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/26 "2018-03-09T02:05:15Z")
Rick and Marty tried the dye too. Didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/27 "2018-03-09T02:09:41Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Wouldn’t do much good. You’d only get the shaft. Oh yeah.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/28 "2018-03-09T02:26:41Z")
I think the flood shaft theory is false. There are some good websites out there that explain how they made salt for fishing using the trenches filled with fiber, etc. The one drain they did find, which would have to connect to the money pit to work, only went down 28 feet. But that only reinforces how ingenious they were back then. I doubt many people today could come up with such an intricate system if they did not have some prior knowledge. Line the tidal flats with rocks and coconut husks and produce a never ending supply of concentrated salt solution? Humbug. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/29 "2018-03-10T23:49:27Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Oh yeah, smart guy, where does Roanoke fall on your scale. Huh? > > 🙂 Somebody dug a big ol’ pit, just to screw with people in the future. That’s what I woulda done. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200/30 "2018-03-11T00:07:52Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Somebody dug a big ol’ pit, just to screw with people in the future. That’s what I woulda done. Me, too. 🙂 This forum requires that you wait 60 seconds between posts. Please try again in 2 seconds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weekly-amelia-earhart-news/810200.md?page=1)