Amelia Earhart photo theory drama: Throwdown Thursday

Last week, documentarians from the History channel went on a world tour promoting their theory that they’d solved Amelia Earhart’s famous disappearance. This week, others are debunking that claim. This is your Throwdown Thursday.

Last week the world was buzzing about a shocking claim the History channel was making that famous aviator Amelia Earhart had actually been taken captive back in 1937, and they had a photo to prove it. The picture seemed to show a woman the researchers were claiming was Earhart with short hair on a dock in the Marshall Islands. Cue the morning show circuit, the social media storm, the ratings spike for Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, the accompanying documentary on the channel about the discovery. Historic mystery solved!

But this week other experts are calling the History channel’s bluff. It was fun while it lasted, everybody. A Japanese blogger published a post Tuesday refuting the photo story on the grounds that the photo at the center of the discovery was actually published in 1935. That’s two years before Earhart went missing for those of you trying to do the math. Uh oh.

Now the History channel says it’s investigating the new developments and will be “transparent in [its] findings.”

The theory that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan had been captured by the Japanese military and died in captivity have been floated previously, though the U.S. government officially concluded the plane must have crashed somewhere in the Pacific on its famous flight around the globe. Earhart was declared dead in 1939.

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Looks like this aviation mystery is still up in the air.