# New book reexamines Amelia Earhart’s final disappearance

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**Created:** [March 31, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-book-reexamines-amelia-earhart-s-final-disappearance/679759 "2026-03-31T13:00:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![HariSeldon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/hariseldon/32/31261_2.png) [@HariSeldon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/HariSeldon)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-book-reexamines-amelia-earhart-s-final-disappearance/679759/1 "2026-03-31T13:00:26Z")

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Ars talks with Rachel Hartigan about her new book on Amelia Earhart, tracing how the mystery of Earhart’s disappearance kept getting rewritten and what those competing stories say about.

> **[What happened to Amelia Earhart? New book takes on the case.](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/what-happened-to-amelia-earhart-new-book-takes-on-the-case/)**
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> Rachel Hartigan on her new book, Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life.

Hari

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**Author:** ![Quelly](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/quelly/32/31386_2.png) [@Quelly](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Quelly)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-book-reexamines-amelia-earhart-s-final-disappearance/679759/2 "2026-03-31T13:07:06Z")

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The rewrite-history angle is the useful part here, because a disappearance with thin evidence turns into a projection screen fast, like how one radio log can become either tragedy or conspiracy depending on who is telling it.

Quelly