Listen up, fans of mystery and aviation! The Associated Press has breaking Amelia Earhart news: “A $2.2 million expedition that hoped to find wreckage from famed aviator Amelia Earhart’s final flight is on its way back to Hawaii without the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping to attain.” Despite initial clues that suggested Earhart might have landed and lived on a coral reef—such as blurry photos of landing gear on said reef—no concrete evidence was found.
For further information on the missing landing gear and possible Hawaiian-reef timeshare, we walked down to Little West 12th Street, in New York’s West Village to have a word with Earhart.
Amelia Earhart:Hi! Hi, hi, hi! I bought this old meat-packing warehouse in 1961 for $10,000 on Washington Street and you’ll never guess how much I sold it for!
That’s amazing! How much!
All of this is now so worth it.
I’m so glad you feel that way. So, speaking of “all of this,” did you leave something on a coral reef in Hawaii like 75 years ago?
Um, maybe? Why did you find something?
Maybe. Did you leave anything?
Did you find anything, though?
Why does it matter what we found if you didn’t leave anything?
If you say what it is you found maybe I’ll remember having left it.
O.K. Uh, I guess people are looking for some landing gear. . .
So, no rock made into a new friend with seaweed for hair and shells for eyes?
No. Did you lose something like that?
No. No, no, no.