Case file · High strangeness
The Jaluit 'Earhart photo'
In July 2017 a History Channel documentary presented a photograph of a dock on Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands, as showing Earhart and Noonan in Japanese custody.
2017 CE · 5.92, 169.64 · status: hoax
The account
The programme argued that the pair had crashed in the Marshalls and been taken to Saipan, a theory with local witness stories behind it.
The sceptical view
Within days a Japanese military-history blogger found the same photo in a travelogue published in 1935, two years before Earhart vanished.