1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,720 Welcome back to the Cryptid Cocktail Party, a show where we share a few drinks, have a 2 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,000 few laughs and take a dive into the unknown. 3 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,880 The show is running a little late because Dave had a maple syrup emergency he had to 4 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,400 attend to in Canada. 5 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:49,040 And never fear, I'm still here unless you don't like me, in which case we'll see you 6 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,360 guys next week. 7 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:58,240 But don't leave just yet because I simply cannot do this show alone, so we have invited 8 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,560 our friend Cam from the Narragansett Brewery. 9 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,880 Now before you say we have sold out, how very dare you. 10 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,440 I have a lot of integrity and actually hang out with Cam. 11 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,480 We've been, I've been down to the brewery a couple of times now and it has been an amazing 12 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,240 time. 13 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:20,480 So Cam, you got anything to say to the people's? 14 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:21,480 What's up people's? 15 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:22,480 Thanks for having me buddy. 16 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:23,880 I'm very excited to be on. 17 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,440 I've been a fan for a while now and I'm psyched that this is actually happening. 18 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,320 I'm happy to have you on. 19 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,200 We've had many conversations about weird things. 20 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:40,720 We've also done karaoke together so I feel like there's a brotherhood there. 21 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:49,320 And so I should probably ask you, how do you feel about crabs? 22 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,480 Well I guess it really all depends on which kind of crabs you're talking about, but I 23 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:57,880 used to be a bit of a marine enthusiast so if we're going that route, big fan. 24 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,480 The other way, you know, we won't talk about that. 25 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,120 College is weird. 26 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,400 Excellent. 27 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,800 That was exactly what I was hoping for. 28 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:13,640 I am going to clip that and post it everywhere I can go. 29 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:18,120 Well of course you're familiar with them because you're from New England and nothing says New 30 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:27,800 England like walking down a desolate granite encrusted beach that is wildly inhospitable 31 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:32,920 to human life yet we still swim at it in the summertime and finding many dead horseshoe 32 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:38,920 crabs which is, you know, they're fun for the whole family. 33 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:42,120 You pick it up by its pointy little tail, you throw it back into the water. 34 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,040 Apparently they use them for some kind of medical stuff. 35 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:47,040 Something with their blood. 36 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,440 Yeah, we have blue blood. 37 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,080 It's fucking creepy as shit. 38 00:02:53,080 --> 00:03:00,040 Well you might be surprised to know this but these angry clawed water spiders that want 39 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:05,400 to hurt us, they've been turning into crabs for 350 million years. 40 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,600 Or if you're a young earth creationist, God is punishing us by putting armor on aquatic 41 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:15,360 spiders because you touch yourself at night. 42 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,320 Every freaking time. 43 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:23,960 There are currently 7,000 species of true crabs. 44 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:29,160 These include members such as snow crab, blue crab, and spider crab. 45 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:34,560 Now you might be asking yourself what the hell do you mean true crab? 46 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:39,640 Well there's a weird phenomenon where shit just keeps turning into crabs which kind of 47 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,200 began around the Jurassic era. 48 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:47,440 So what was happening is that there were these crustaceans that had long tails and they would 49 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,800 evolve into crab-like beings. 50 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,120 And they did this for a number of reasons. 51 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,080 The first reason is it made it a little bit easier for them to travel around on legs. 52 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,320 They could go on land. 53 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,240 But also the tail was just kind of like a flappy appendage that just gave their predators 54 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,280 another thing that they could grab onto. 55 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:15,120 So there's about 3,000 species of what they call false crabs. 56 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,480 Fucking liars as we say in the biz. 57 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:25,640 But they contain three of the most popular kinds of crab which is really fucked up. 58 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:31,240 So you have the king crab is a false crab, the hermit crab, and the horseshoe crab. 59 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,240 All false crabs. 60 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,240 Even the hermit crab? 61 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:35,240 Yeah. 62 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:36,240 Yeah. 63 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,240 Even the hermit crab. 64 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,240 I know. 65 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:39,840 It's the crab everybody thinks about. 66 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:41,840 Well, at least if you throw it up here it is. 67 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:42,840 The one you drop your children with. 68 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:43,840 Yeah. 69 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:46,520 I mean you go to the beach, you can grab them and they've got those shells. 70 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:51,520 Or you can go to like a store near the beach, like a general store, and they've got hermit 71 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,440 crabs and these big things and you can buy like 12 of them and put them in a little thing 72 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,360 and take them home and they just, you know, they die eventually. 73 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,280 They die within like 12 minutes. 74 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:03,520 They do smell really bad, especially right after they die. 75 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,080 You got to put like live, not live, but you got to put like real sea sponge in there with 76 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,040 water on it so they don't fucking die on you. 77 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,520 But they die anyway. 78 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,840 And their food smells terrible too. 79 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:18,120 New England is full of terrible things. 80 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,720 I'm realizing as I say this out loud. 81 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,960 We are not good at anything. 82 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:33,040 But it is believed that, so evolutionarily it's better to be a crab apparently. 83 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,640 So now that I've told you that they're so, sorry. 84 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:43,120 Now that I've talked about true crabs and false crabs together, about 10,000 species. 85 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:48,300 What have I told you that there are reports of a monster crab? 86 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:49,560 I wouldn't be surprised. 87 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,240 Yeah, me neither. 88 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,720 Because they're horrifying creatures. 89 00:05:54,720 --> 00:06:00,760 Dating back to the voyages of Sir Francis Drake in the 1580s, there were reports of 90 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:08,760 a giant three foot spider tank that has a claw strength that is reportedly actually 91 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,560 stronger than a lion's jaw. 92 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,720 Some say this beast is brown and red, while others claim it is more of a brown and light 93 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:19,640 blue or turquoise. 94 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:26,520 These creatures apparently climb trees, hunt by scent and even steal from the homes of 95 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,920 the people around them in the dead of night. 96 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:36,400 How the giant tank stealing from people's homes? 97 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,400 I don't know. 98 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:38,400 I don't know. 99 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:39,400 It's fucking wild. 100 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,400 Very sneaky. 101 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:45,920 So the thing that's even more unbelievable as this crab sounds is that it's actually 102 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:46,920 very real. 103 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,300 It's a real live crab. 104 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:50,280 It actually exists. 105 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:52,560 And it's called the coconut crab. 106 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:58,400 It was first described in detail by none other than the fundamentalist Christian's perennial 107 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,720 boogeyman Charles Darwin. 108 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:07,680 He called the coconut crab monstrous and was blown away by its ability to quite literally 109 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,640 crack open a coconut with its claws. 110 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:18,640 I have to say when you said crab tank, I immediately thought of that episode of Futurama where 111 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:26,480 a Zoidberg's race has the giant, the giant walking embassy and it's got a bunch. 112 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,120 I wasn't thinking something on the smaller scale, but still coconut crab. 113 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:35,040 I can see that being a tank, but I went right to Zoidberg, which I frequently. 114 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,000 I mean, Zoidberg is a kind of an amazing character. 115 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,400 He is by far my favorite Matt Cronin character of all time. 116 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:43,520 Oh, hands down. 117 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,820 Him and Bender together are the best. 118 00:07:46,820 --> 00:07:49,360 So coconut crab, they're actually gigantic. 119 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:53,080 And if you Google an image of coconut crab, you'll likely see one trying to climb up a 120 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,040 trash barrel. 121 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,000 They can be up to three feet in diameter. 122 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,480 She's Christ. 123 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,400 Yeah, they're insane. 124 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:11,360 Weirdly enough, they are most closely related to the aforementioned hermit crab. 125 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,580 Like the hermit crab, coconut crabs cannot actually swim, but still release their eggs 126 00:08:15,580 --> 00:08:19,080 into the ocean during high tide. 127 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:26,000 Those that survive being cast into the ocean where they literally cannot survive, if they 128 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,080 do make it, they can live up to 60 fucking years. 129 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,960 60 years. 130 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,680 That makes absolutely no sense. 131 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:46,400 The shampoo they give you gets rid of it in like, you know, two to three weeks. 132 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,160 Spoken like a man with true experience. 133 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,380 So on top of the show, I said, take a dive into the unknown. 134 00:08:53,380 --> 00:08:58,200 So far, this topic is pretty, you know, known. 135 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:03,000 But we're not talking about crabs. 136 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,920 But you know, let me ask you, what the fuck are we doing here, Cam? 137 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:08,920 That's a really good question. 138 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:10,160 I've got a lot going on. 139 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:16,560 Still kind of getting over my acceptance of crabs being dirty, whore-ish liars. 140 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:22,760 Well, while we know a lot about the coconut crab, there are most recent parts of a mystery 141 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,520 lasting almost 90 years that we don't know. 142 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:31,520 And that mystery is, of course, what the fuck happened to Amelia Earhart? 143 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,800 Are you about to tell me that she was delicious? 144 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:34,800 Yeah. 145 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,400 Yeah, I'm about to tell you that. 146 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:38,400 That's good to know. 147 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,960 Now, we don't know for sure, but for those of you who don't know who Amelia Earhart is, 148 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,000 Jesus fucking Christ, read a book. 149 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,000 I'm just kidding. 150 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 I'm just kidding. 151 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 That was 90 years ago. 152 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,480 Well, almost 90 years ago. 153 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:54,840 Amelia was an aviation pioneer. 154 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,900 She was also she was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, earning the 155 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:05,960 Distinguished Flying Cross, which is actually she she was the first woman to win that. 156 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:13,160 It was something that had only been created, I want to say, about 10 years before she actually 157 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:14,360 won it. 158 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,040 So actually less than 10 years because it was created in 1926. 159 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,120 And I believe she flew across the Atlantic in the early 1930s. 160 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,820 I want to say pre 1935. 161 00:10:24,820 --> 00:10:31,160 From the years 1930 to 1935, she set seven airspeed records. 162 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,080 She was also known for activism. 163 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,640 She was a member of the National Woman's Party advocating for equal rights for women. 164 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:42,400 And before her piloting days, she even trained to be a nurse's aide to treat World War One 165 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:43,560 wounded soldiers. 166 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:47,480 And later, she actually treated victims of Spanish flu. 167 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:48,480 Jesus. 168 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:49,800 Get ready. 169 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,640 I'm about to blow your mind. 170 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,360 She also lived in Medford, Massachusetts for a couple of years. 171 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,960 I was there last week for a comedy show. 172 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:58,960 Right. 173 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:00,280 Well, so she lived. 174 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,520 She had kind of traveled around the country. 175 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,640 She had a sister in Canada, so she would often go up to visit her. 176 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,360 That's actually where she became a nurse's aide. 177 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,800 She spent time, a lot of time in California. 178 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,800 She was from Burbank. 179 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,680 She was from Arkansas. 180 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:21,640 Spent some time in Minnesota, Canada, as I mentioned, went out to California and then 181 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,560 her parents got divorced. 182 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:28,980 Now Amelia had some medical issues and she kept going getting surgery done and they could 183 00:11:28,980 --> 00:11:30,560 never really solve the problem. 184 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:32,680 And she was getting a lot of headaches. 185 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:38,000 Eventually, she traveled across the entire United States. 186 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,520 And when she arrived in Boston, they did the surgery again for like probably the fourth 187 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:43,520 or fifth time. 188 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,360 And it actually kind of helped her. 189 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,480 So she stayed in Boston. 190 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,200 She became a social worker for a little while. 191 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:57,120 She also became a teacher before becoming a sales rep for an airplane company and doing 192 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:03,600 flights for herself, just kind of training and, you know, perfecting her craft at an 193 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,200 airport in my hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts. 194 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,120 In fact, growing up, there was a bar right near where this airport used to be called 195 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,240 Amelia's and I never knew why it was like I knew why it was called that. 196 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,760 But I was like, why is it called that here? 197 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,880 Like just some enthusiasts wanted to get people drunk with history. 198 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:22,880 Yeah, yeah. 199 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,980 So unfortunately, the airport no longer exists. 200 00:12:25,980 --> 00:12:27,920 But there's a number of articles about it. 201 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,480 Apparently around Quincy, they used to just call her Miss Amelia. 202 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:38,020 So Amelia's next big accomplishment after all the other things she did in her life that 203 00:12:38,020 --> 00:12:43,140 make me feel like a piece of shit for not doing it myself, except for being the first 204 00:12:43,140 --> 00:12:45,080 woman to fly across the Atlantic. 205 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,960 That ship has sailed for me. 206 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,120 She wanted to fly around the world. 207 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:54,160 She wanted to be the first woman to circumnavigate the world in the plane. 208 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:58,560 She would stop in a number of countries to complete this journey, which would end with 209 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:04,520 her flying for about 7000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, only stopping to refuel the 210 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,320 plane before she got back up. 211 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:13,160 And the plan was to land on Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean, which is from what I 212 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:18,920 understand somewhat near Australia, if I understand correctly. 213 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,420 Now she wasn't going to do this flying completely blind. 214 00:13:21,420 --> 00:13:24,360 She had a navigator named Fred Noonan. 215 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:29,480 Fred was picked because of his ability to do celestial navigation. 216 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:37,200 He used to be used to work on boats before he worked as a flight navigator. 217 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:43,880 She also had another navigator and they tried to fly and the plane, the landing gear in 218 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,700 the plane broke and so they couldn't get off the ground. 219 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:52,000 This other navigator, he fucked off, which is fine because by all reports he was just 220 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,200 kind of an average navigator. 221 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:00,200 There was a story where he got them within 20 miles of where they were supposed to be 222 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,000 and that's not great when you need to land on a tiny Pacific Island, right? 223 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 That's not what you want. 224 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,280 No, it's not what you want. 225 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:11,640 So he was going to navigate the easy parts over land and Fred Noonan was going to navigate 226 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:12,640 over water. 227 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:21,320 After the setback, he left the project and Amelia and Fred Noonan raised the funds and 228 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,320 started again. 229 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:24,760 They were pretty successful. 230 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,760 They made it pretty far across the world. 231 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:35,040 They had done 35,000 miles and they only had seven miles remaining in this journey. 232 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:40,340 But again, it's 7,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, which as many people know is an extremely 233 00:14:40,340 --> 00:14:47,120 dangerous place to either take a boat or fly because it's just water. 234 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,320 There's not a lot of land. 235 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:53,080 So if you have an emergency, you really got to hope there's an island nearby. 236 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:58,080 Radio contact, however, would be maintained with a Coast Guard cutter. 237 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:04,600 Unfortunately, due to a number of misunderstandings, some problems with the radio frequency that 238 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:10,400 she was using not being compatible with the Coast Guard cutter, there was a lot of communication 239 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:11,400 that got cut off. 240 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,400 Then they started using Morse code. 241 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:19,920 And eventually, right after Amelia had told them that she was running low on fuel, they 242 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,120 lost contacts. 243 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:31,080 So in 1937, on July 2nd, Amelia Earhart would disappear. 244 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:32,960 She was not the world of silent treatment. 245 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,480 I know, right? 246 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,200 She's playing hide and seek for real. 247 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:37,200 Rude. 248 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,200 She wins. 249 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:39,200 She wins. 250 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,400 Her and Bigfoot. 251 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:47,440 Though she went missing on July 2nd, 1937, she wasn't declared dead until January 5th, 252 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:48,440 1935. 253 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:54,720 Now, there are a number of theories of what might have happened to her. 254 00:15:54,720 --> 00:16:00,920 Some believe she crashed or she landed on an island called Gardner Island. 255 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,840 Now it's called Nikumororo. 256 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:05,840 Nikumororo. 257 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,120 If I said that wrong, I apologize. 258 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:14,040 But it's your own fault for putting so many Rs in there. 259 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:18,080 So Nikumororo Island wasn't too far from where she needed to land. 260 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,160 And it had a shallow reef sticking up out of the water. 261 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,960 So the theory is that she landed on Nikumororo. 262 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:32,760 Her co-pilot, Fred Noonan, was severely injured and Amelia was just kind of slightly injured. 263 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,760 We'll get into why people think that in a minute. 264 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:43,520 Others believe that she was actually blown off course and captured by the Japanese and 265 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:49,640 executed a full four years before they declared war on the United States. 266 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:54,620 So they were just like taking her out for funsies. 267 00:16:54,620 --> 00:16:58,960 The theory suggests that she was actually spying in the Pacific for FDR. 268 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,440 And that's why the Japanese killed her. 269 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,240 But I mean, honestly, it really doesn't make a lot of sense. 270 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:11,520 What was the project that the Japanese did? 271 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:12,520 It was a project. 272 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:13,520 Oh, no. 273 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:14,520 Unit. 274 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,520 Oh, yeah. 275 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:16,520 Unit 421? 276 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:21,960 Yeah, it was like unit 427 or I don't know. 277 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,880 That horrible unit where they basically tortured people. 278 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,440 Just getting captured by the Japanese. 279 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,000 My mind immediately goes. 280 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,000 No thanks. 281 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,000 No thanks. 282 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,840 They actually, so there's some witnesses that say they actually saw her being executed on 283 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:36,840 the island of Saipan. 284 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:41,960 I don't know if I believe that either. 285 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:51,000 Some even claim that Amelia vanished on purpose to assume a new identity, which doesn't make 286 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:57,160 a lot of sense because she was like the most famous woman in the world at the time. 287 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,840 Yeah, but it's fun to think about. 288 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:01,400 Like who did she become? 289 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:06,040 Yeah, I mean, to me it's like, why bother? 290 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,400 You know, I'm fairly certain that she is Nick Cage, but that's just a new theory I've just 291 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:11,400 begun working on. 292 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,840 Even if the topic doesn't line up, I don't know. 293 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,520 I'm not good with math. 294 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,800 Just like the same as the theory of Ted Cruz being the Zodiac killer. 295 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,480 Oh yeah, but I mean, it makes too much sense not to be true. 296 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:29,480 He is a serial killer. 297 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:34,080 I just don't know if he's a Zodiac. 298 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:41,400 However, those are all some interesting theories, but they're not the most interesting. 299 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:46,540 The most interesting theory introduces our friend the coconut crab. 300 00:18:46,540 --> 00:18:47,540 That's right. 301 00:18:47,540 --> 00:18:50,040 It's a fact at the beginning. 302 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:59,220 The thought is that Amelia Earhart did land on Neku Mororo Island. 303 00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:06,840 Her plane had landed on a shallow reef and Fred Noonan was severely injured in the crash. 304 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:14,280 The reason that people think that Fred was injured in the crash is because, hang on, 305 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:15,280 waiting for my notes. 306 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,360 Let me find it. 307 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:24,000 There were some radio transmissions that were picked up by a woman in West Texas that she 308 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,120 believes were sent by Earhart, who claimed to have crashed and that she was injured, 309 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:35,080 but not as bad as her navigator, Mr. Noonan. 310 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:36,080 Why is that in quotes? 311 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,960 Well, that's what she called him, Mr. Noonan. 312 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:39,960 Oh, okay. 313 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,880 I was like, that's suspicious. 314 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,200 I think that is your real name. 315 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,720 The thing that's weird about this for me is that the Coast Guard ship right underneath 316 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,880 her couldn't pick these transmissions up, but a lady in West Texas had no problem 7,000 317 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,620 miles away. 318 00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:04,720 But what gets weirder is a woman in Florida also claims to have heard a transmission from 319 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,400 Earhart at the same time. 320 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:12,440 This time she said that New York City was mentioned. 321 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:18,740 What's interesting about Nuku Mororo Island is that there was a shipwreck there, a pretty 322 00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:20,920 well-known shipwreck at the time. 323 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:28,080 The ship crashed in 1926, and it was called the Norfolk City, I think it is, or Newark 324 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,020 City, Norwich City. 325 00:20:30,020 --> 00:20:32,100 It was called the Norwich City. 326 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:37,600 People have been trying to figure out if maybe instead of New York City, she was saying Norwich 327 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:38,600 City. 328 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:39,600 Oh. 329 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:46,440 Now, her parents also kind of believe that it's possible, I'm sorry, not her parents, 330 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:52,480 her family believes it's also kind of possible that she crashed on Gardiner Island because 331 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,360 she wouldn't have spent time looking around for another place to land. 332 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:01,120 She would have just landed if she was that low on fuel and then used the radio to get 333 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:02,680 in touch with people. 334 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:03,680 Right. 335 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,920 So it's kind of an interesting theory. 336 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:13,720 And in 1940, the theory gained a little traction for a brief period of time because the British 337 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:24,000 had set up a scientific expedition to this island and they found bones. 338 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:30,120 They also found a bottle, a shoe, and a sextant box. 339 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:35,000 Now, if you don't know what a sextant box is, don't Google it because you might spell 340 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,320 it wrong and get something you don't want to see. 341 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,960 How about you don't tell me how to live my life? 342 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:41,960 Fine. 343 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:42,960 Fine. 344 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:43,960 You know what? 345 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:44,960 Google it. 346 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:45,960 Go ahead. 347 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,960 Turn off safe search. 348 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,560 I've got a freaking VPN. 349 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:49,560 All right. 350 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,480 Whatever blows your hair back. 351 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:58,560 So a sextant is a tool they use to navigate by the stars. 352 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:04,560 Now Fred Noonan, as I mentioned, was somebody who was very adept at navigation by the stars. 353 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,560 However, there was also a shipwreck not far from the island. 354 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,600 So it's possible that it could have just washed up on the island, the sextant box washing 355 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,560 up on the island. 356 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:22,760 However, they use the bones. 357 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,160 They will not use them. 358 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:30,820 They started studying the bones and they determined that the bones were from a man and then threw 359 00:22:30,820 --> 00:22:31,820 them out. 360 00:22:31,820 --> 00:22:36,080 Well, yeah, they're not looking for men's bones. 361 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:37,640 They're looking for her bones. 362 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:38,640 Yeah. 363 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:39,640 And that's kind of what I thought. 364 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,960 I was like, oh, OK, so they weren't from an important person. 365 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,040 So you threw them away. 366 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,040 What? 367 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,040 That guy. 368 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,040 Yeah. 369 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,040 Fuck that guy. 370 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,160 You died on the island like a stupid dickhead. 371 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,200 Go be a ghost, you loser. 372 00:22:53,200 --> 00:23:01,160 However, later on, they used some software to analyze the measurements from the bone 373 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,960 back when we got out of the dark ages. 374 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,440 And they actually suggested the bones were female. 375 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,320 Oh, but wait, hadn't they thrown them out? 376 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,320 Yeah, they're gone. 377 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,320 Bones are gone. 378 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:13,320 But you had the measurements. 379 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,800 Oh, OK, I got you. 380 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,180 I got you. 381 00:23:16,180 --> 00:23:21,480 So the next time you find some bones, it could be someone important. 382 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:26,840 And you should throw them out because that's what scientists do. 383 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,320 We did die, you dumb schmuck. 384 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,600 We're married. 385 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:38,040 So the reason that people think that they didn't find more from Amelia Earhart, like 386 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:45,160 a hut or some kind of settlement that she might have built to protect herself, is because 387 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:51,160 they believe the coconut crabs on the island, of which there are many, ate her. 388 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,280 Now at the time, this island was completely uninhabited, so only coconut crabs lived 389 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:56,280 there. 390 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,240 Oh, OK. 391 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,560 So they believe that the coconut crabs ate her. 392 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:07,920 And this is not completely without the realm of possibility, because coconut crabs are 393 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,200 not just eating coconuts. 394 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:15,440 They also literally climb fucking trees and eat birds. 395 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,160 Jesus Christ, that is ambitious. 396 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:25,780 You can find pictures and videos of a coconut crab eating like a big seagull sized bird. 397 00:24:25,780 --> 00:24:27,480 So they're like they're like pigs. 398 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,280 Yeah, you can just float over by. 399 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:30,280 They'll just fucking eat anything. 400 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,280 Yeah, they'll eat anything. 401 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,600 And it's funny that you say pigs because. 402 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,120 Some scientists wanted to test this theory out. 403 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:45,720 So with the understanding that finding someone we all know is definitely dead is a super 404 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,840 important and reasonable use of valuable resources. 405 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:53,520 Some people expended those valuable resources. 406 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:58,580 To feed numerous dead pigs to coconut crabs. 407 00:24:58,580 --> 00:25:01,200 To see where the crabs put the bones. 408 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,360 For science. 409 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:09,800 Like I just want to remind everyone listening right now that there's people starving around 410 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,680 the world. 411 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,520 And they grabbed bones. 412 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:21,280 I mean, they grabbed a dead pig and fed it to coconut crabs who were fully capable of 413 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,200 climbing trees and eating birds. 414 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,440 These aren't like starving crabs. 415 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,440 Just a reminder. 416 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,480 Those poor people don't like pork. 417 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,480 Yeah. 418 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,840 To find out what happened to a dead lady. 419 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:40,920 Anyway, there was no conclusive evidence because the coconut crabs just fucking ate 420 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,040 the pig and then walked away. 421 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,320 They didn't like they didn't like make necklaces out of the bones. 422 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:52,720 It was you know there wasn't a coconut crab with like a necklace made of teeth. 423 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:57,440 What were they expecting to happen? 424 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,960 So they didn't find out if the crabs were the who that done it. 425 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,200 Some people said what about the airplane? 426 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:07,200 How is there no airplane? 427 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,120 And that's a little bit easier to talk about because they believe that the airplane landed 428 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:17,600 on the reef and the tide could have just knocked the plane into the ocean and it could have 429 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,600 gotten carried away. 430 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,720 I mean airplanes compared to ships are fairly light. 431 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,760 You know obviously because they have to fly. 432 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:30,080 So a tide could very easily take the airplane that they were flying in and scatter it and 433 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,080 you know sink it. 434 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:35,160 Are we sure that they didn't just eat the airplane? 435 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,960 Coconut crabs could have eaten the airplane. 436 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:37,960 Let me pitch this. 437 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,640 Let's buy a bunch of airplanes and feed them to coconut crabs. 438 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:43,640 Fuck the poor people. 439 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:44,760 They don't need airplanes. 440 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:45,760 You know what we do? 441 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,460 We start the engine and we throw coconut crabs at the propellers to see if they can break 442 00:26:50,460 --> 00:26:51,960 through the propellers. 443 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,240 I can get on board with this. 444 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:54,760 This would be a lot of fun. 445 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:55,960 It's science. 446 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,400 It's definitely science. 447 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,040 Somebody will intern and get college credit. 448 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,560 It'll be fucking wonderful. 449 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:01,560 Exactly. 450 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:07,520 Also just a reminder a coconut crab's claw strength is stronger than that of a lion. 451 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,000 It's 3000 Newtons. 452 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,400 A lobster is 150 Newtons. 453 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,320 Pussy lobsters. 454 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,720 Yeah goddamn wimps. 455 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,240 So that's where it stands today. 456 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,400 They threw away the bones. 457 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:28,760 The plane's probably washed away and apparently pig bones fed to coconut crabs is not a great 458 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:34,440 analog for what happened to a woman 87 fucking years ago. 459 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:42,880 However, if true, I want to make it abundantly clear that it would definitely not be the 460 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:49,000 first time a person who spent some time in Quincy, Massachusetts had an unfortunate run 461 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,960 in with some very aggressive crabs. 462 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:56,720 Cam, how do you feel? 463 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,600 I learned a lot. 464 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,520 I'm a little terrified of the crabs now. 465 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,320 I thought I had it all under control. 466 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:10,120 I thought I had my crabs all in a row if you will. 467 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:14,320 I certainly do not and that's a whole new nightmare character I can add to my arsenal 468 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,320 of dream teeth. 469 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,320 These things are insane. 470 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,160 They're just insane. 471 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,560 Is it something that I could get as a pet? 472 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,480 I don't think you'd want it. 473 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,600 I wouldn't but I also imagine. 474 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:32,440 Imagine we've all we've all like anybody who's had a pet has accidentally stepped on on their 475 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,720 pet at some point in their life. 476 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,960 It's going to take you off at the angle right there. 477 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:46,280 Yeah imagine stepping on a coconut crab and you come back with three less toes at least. 478 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,440 No thank you. 479 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,720 You've got people with tortoises in their backyards. 480 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,720 That's like cute and sweet. 481 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,840 You get a coconut crab out there and now you can't go in the backyard anymore. 482 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,520 I mean sometimes you got to get rid of a neighbor. 483 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,240 Pigs attract a lot of attention. 484 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,160 What are you going to do? 485 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,480 Anyway horrible nightmare fuel but I could not resist the story. 486 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:15,040 A because they're related to hermit crabs which live here in New England but also B 487 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:23,000 because poor Amelia Earhart the woman cannot get any rest and she spent time in New England 488 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,400 which makes her she's one of us. 489 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,400 We claim her. 490 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,160 I can tell you can't have her. 491 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,640 Take a step back. 492 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:38,240 Yeah she came here willingly so you have no claim to her because we we let women choose 493 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,240 here. 494 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,240 You're goddamn right. 495 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:45,120 All right so that's all I got. 496 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,360 Kim do you have anything you want to share with the people? 497 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:55,520 No I've been drinking Narragansett or Narragansett Pilsner Bohemian Pilsner here. 498 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:56,880 He's got the Del Shandy over there. 499 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,920 I mean that's my whole claim to fame. 500 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:04,800 I love drinking beers and I love selling these beers so thanks for letting us be your sponsor. 501 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,320 Is in the movie Jaws so watch Jaws. 502 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,320 You will see Narragansett. 503 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,120 This actually was in another movie recently whose name I have forgotten. 504 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:18,480 We were actually we just had a like a 30 second spot in the most recent episode of I believe 505 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,280 it was Law and Order. 506 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,160 Really unpaid it just freaking happened. 507 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,400 They just grabbed the can of Narragansett and. 508 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,880 Dude the guy from True Blood Andy from True Blood just walks out carrying a 30 pack and 509 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,640 I got like seven different people. 510 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:38,040 Well actually it was all old people that watch TV like not on streaming services. 511 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,240 They all texted me and were like I just saw it on the law and order and I was like oh 512 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,480 shit really it was my mom and my dad and they're like hey you work for that company. 513 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,200 So that's so awesome. 514 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:55,040 I mean I'm so relieved that Narragansett went back to its old recipe and got popular 515 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,880 in New England again because Narragansett just has the coolest fucking logo. 516 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,480 They've been a part of the Red Sox culture for God knows how long. 517 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,520 They were local beer and they don't do annoying commercials like the Sam Adams ones that make 518 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,800 me want to put my head through a wall. 519 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,080 So I hate to break it to you man. 520 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,880 I just hired Dave and he's going to be our cousin from Rhode Island so I don't know what 521 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:21,920 we're going to do about that. 522 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:27,240 But yeah so drink Narragansett if you have it near you and if you don't order it online 523 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:28,480 and have it shipped to your home. 524 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,000 I'm sure that's legal in most places. 525 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,040 I don't have anything else so may the blessing blessings. 526 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,200 May the blessings of Mothman be upon you and I love you. 527 00:31:39,200 --> 00:32:06,200 Thank you for listening.