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| ...blended into Irene-Amelia photo. |
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| Another Gervais-Irene photo... |
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| ...blended into Irene-Amelia. |
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"The Forensic studies are very convincing. She
[Gervais-Irene] was not an ordinary housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew many well placed people and was well
traveled." John Bolam discusses his late sister-in-law, Irene Craigmile Bolam (the Gervais-Irene) while referring to
the Beyond 37' Forensic Analysis progress in a 2002 Associated Press article by Ron Staton. Mr. Bolam,
an American citizen was the survived brother of Irene's British husband, Guy Bolam. Mr. Bolam described
his older brother, Guy (shown below-right in 1965) as a past owner of Radio Luxembourg who was 'linked
to England's MI6 program.'
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| Earhart Covers Delivered, Purdue University, 1963 |
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| Viola Gentry greeted by Jilly McCormick, Helen Schlemen, and Dr. D. R. Mallet. |
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| New York Mid-Week Pictorial, 1932 |
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| Amelia Earhart, Elinor Smith, Viola Gentry; Amelia's U. S. return after her solo Atlantic crossing. |
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| Viola Gentry and Guy Bolam on August 9, 1965 |
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| The Gervais-Irene took this photo at the Seaspray Inn, Long Island, NY. |
| As seen in the 1970 book Amelia Earhart Lives: |
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| Guy and the Gervais-Irene Bolam, August 8, 1965 (Photo taken by Joe Gervais.) |
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| 1965 Joe Gervais photo... |
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| The Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam. She was identified nowhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. |
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| Amelia Earhart, 1933 |
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| Gervais-Irene superimposed with 1933 Amelia Earhart photo. |
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Above & Below: From the
Forensic Analysis; a head-to-toe comparison of Amelia Earhart shown
with Viola Gentry, the famous pilot who was also good friends with the
Gervais-Irene in later life. It's a remarkable coincidence, if anything, that Viola Gentry could have been friends with two individuals who shared
a head-to-toe physical congruence and the same
character traits, to include handwriting. Of course, after it was learned more
than one person had employed the same Irene Craigmile identity, that itself
practically confirmed how the Gervais-Irene used to be known as Viola's
1930s friend, Amelia Earhart--even while contending with a lack of acknowledgement
from the families of the original Irene Craigmile and Amelia Earhart, and official history.
| New York Mid-Week Pictorial, 1932 |
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| Amelia Earhart, Elinor Smith, Viola Gentry; Amelia's U. S. return after her solo Atlantic crossing. |
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| The Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam in 1965... |
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| ...shown standing on a bridge in Paris, France; added to the photo, . |
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| Viola's later life friend, the Gervais-Irene matched Amelia. |
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Note: To many it has
grown to become obvious, official silence notwithstanding,
that Amelia Earhart survived her 1937 world flight ordeal and changed her name to 'Irene Craigmile,' making her one of three different individuals who used the
same 'Irene Craigmile' identity. Below: A Gervais-Irene/Amelia Earhart handwriting
comparison, with the Gervais-Irene veritably admitting she was 'known' as both Irene and Amelia. Referencing two
individuals, famous pilot Viola Gentry and Early Birds of Aviation President, Elmo Pickerill she wrote "because they
each knew us both well as Amelia Earhart and Irene Craigmile."
| A Gervais-Irene Craigmile handwriting sample: |
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| From a 1967 Gervais-Irene letter, with Amelia's high school "Amelia M Earhart" signature added. |
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| ...1945 Gervais-Irene look before post-1937 augmentations. |
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| Eyes from 1945 Gervais-Irene... |
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| Below: 1928 Amelia photo starts blending... |
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| ...with 1978 Gervais-Irene photo. |
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| Gervais-Irene, 1978 |
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| Gervais-Irene & Amelia |
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| Two photos in an equal blend. |
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| Amelia, from a 1923 'into the mirror' taken self photo-portrait. |
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| Gervais-Irene, Yugoslavia-1976... |
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| Below: 1976, Gervais-Irene in Detroit... |
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[Note: In 2006 The National Geographic Channel
omitted the new gained reality of 'three different women' having used the same 'Irene' identity. It also did not mention how
the Gervais-Irene who matched Amelia from head to toe, only appeared identified as 'Irene' from the mid-1940s to 1982. The
Irene Craigmile seen directly below was the original Irene, a past friend of Amelia's who was the actual person to have ended
up 'missing' all those years ago. The former Amelia re-applied her gone friend's identity to herself during the WWII era for
the sake of her future anonymity in the United States. As her long time friend Monsignor James Francis Kelley described after
she died in 1982, she "didn't want to be Amelia Earhart anymore" due to all she had been through. What became of
the original Irene Craigmile remains a mystery unto itself. As well, 'official silence' notwithstanding, there is no doubt
anymore how in the 1930s and prior to, the Gervais-Irene had been world famously known as 'Amelia Earhart.']
| The original Irene Craigmile Bolam, 1930. |
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| Amelia's friend, with her husband Charles and her father, Joe. She was seen no more after 1934. |
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1945 photo: Joe Gervais met and photographed the Irene Craigmile
below in 1965. (Her surname became 'Bolam' by marriage in 1958.)
| The 1945-1982 ID'd Gervais-Irene. |
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| AKA 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' after her 1958 marriage to Guy Bolam of England.) |
| Notice the new 'noble nose' above. |
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| Less post-disappearance augmentations & nose alteration, the former AE. |
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3. 1947
Note: Even though in 2006 Irene Craigmile's 1934 born son identified the
woman below as his childhood 'mother,' National Geographic refused to show her image on TV.
| The 'third' Irene Craigmile Bolam in the 1940s. |
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| AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene.' By 1945 she'd left, leaving only the Gervais-Irene as Irene Craigmile. |
Below: 1982
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| ...here's an older version of the Non Gervais-Irene, age 58, 1982. |
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Below: The Non Gervais-Irene. She grew up with the
O'Crowleys, no one is 'forensically' sure who she really was; some suspect she was the 1924 out of wedlock born daughter of
Lloyd Royer and Amelia Earhart.
| The Non Gervais-Irene.... |
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| An O'Crowley family secret? |
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| Non Gervais-Irene's true identity remains unknown, |
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| Her real estimated age was 'fifity-eight years' in 1982... |
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| As seen in the 1970 book Amelia Earhart Lives: |
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| Guy and Irene Bolam, August 8, 1965 (Photo taken by Joe Gervais.) |
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| Also seen in AE Lives, 1933 Hyde Park photo. |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia, Jim and Amy Mollison, President Franklin Roosevelt |
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Above Left: As it appeared in the 1970 McGraw-Hill
book Amelia Earhart Lives by Joe Klaas; the Guy and Irene Bolam picture taken by Joe Gervais outside the Seaspray Inn on August
8, 1965. Above Right: Another photo from AE Lives; Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt bookend Amelia who is shown standing with
Jim and Amy Mollison in 1933. See enlarged comparison below:
| 1965 Joe Gervais photo... |
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| The Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam. She was identified nowhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. |
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| Amelia Earhart, 1933 |
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| Gervais-Irene superimposed with 1933 Amelia photo, looks like this. |
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The nose difference evidenced itself as a common
'deviated septum rhinoplasty' procedure. So much slightly flattened it to widen the passages. The upper nose bridge appeared
thinned by skin tucking, so from straight on her brow ridge looked a bit more furrowed. Human I.D. forensic qualifiers such
as DNA, dental records, and fingerprints solve cases where 'missing-person' body evidence is deemed plausible. But the Irene-Amelia
case was very unusual. The enormous amount of forensic research data supporting the Gervais claim, (to later include the Irene
'shared identity' discovery) made it all but impossible, or irresponsible to simply ignore the controversy. Many self-proclaimed
'Amelia Earhart research authorities' tried their best to deride the Gervais equation, (and still do) mostly because they
found it hard to believe Amelia would opt out of her public life.
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By now it is fair to calculate how the former Amelia
Earhart had been working with the family of the original Irene Craigmile, and how she had confided in, and worked with some
of her past friends to include her own Sister Muriel in an effort to successfully change her identity. She did it to any more
avoid the attention her world fame always attracted. She also, evidently, worked with the Catholic Church and the ZONTA organization
in order to get it done right. Meanwhile post-WWII United States, Japan, and England official history divisions took a "let's
close a blind eye to it" approach, in order for the former Amelia Earhart to achieve the future non-famous person status
she desired.
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Again, this was all done to secure the former
Amelia Earhart's further desired non-public person status. The final equation revealed Amelia Earhart to have been a good
friend and ZONTA sister of the original Irene Craigmile's Aunt, a well known lawyer by the name of Irene Rutherford O'Crowley.
The O'Crowley's were a prominent Irish Catholic family. Yet the original Irene Craigmile, although close to Amelia in age
was never well known, and she had endured a troubled life as an only child after losing her Mother at young age. Her father, Joe O'Crowley allegedly became an alcoholic after the original Irene's mother
died, leaving the original Irene to be taken in and further raised by her Aunt (Amelia's ZONTA sister and contract advisor, attorny Irene Rutherford O'Crowley) and her paternal grandmother
Sarah Rutherford O'Crowley, all of the Newark, New Jersey area. (continued below)
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| Amelia Earhart, age twenty-six. |
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| 1923 into a mirror self-photo portrait. She would become famous in 1928. |
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| Amelia, 1928, after the Friendship flight. |
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| Orville Wright & Amelia Earhart |
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| Amelia's friend, the original Irene Craigmile-1930 |
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| With husband Charles who died 1931, and her father, Joe O'Crowley. She was seen no more after 1934. |
After she gave birth to her son in 1934 the original Irene Craigmile no longer appeared. Records
of her past existence were seemingly obfuscated to disable future public referencing, and the short
marriage she endured with her son's father, Al Heller was legally annulled by
1940. Meanwhile Amelia Earhart had turned up 'missing' in 1937. Notably, if the original Irene Craigmile died at some point
(for instance as a result of post-childbirth complications) there appears to have been no record of
it. However, apparently it was the case that the original person known as Irene Craigmile in the 1930s
who Amelia had known, was a person who actually did disappear at some point after she gave birth to her son in 1934, and she
was never seen again. It is certain the former Amelia Earhart, during the time adjacent to the World War Two era, assumed
the original Irene Craigmile's still extant ID value for her own future use in order to live further in anonymity. This, while
she also continued with helping to raise of the original Irene Craigmile's son, and her own Canadian
born daughter from 1924 no one knew of who had also been taken in by the O'Crowley family after Amelia suddenly became famous
in 1928. Research suggests it may be the younger (mid-twenties)
and then older version (age fifty-eight in 1982) of Amelia's non-recognized birth daughter featured directly
below. It also suggests that Lloyd Royer, one of two men besides George Putnam to have proposed
to Amelia, was the possible father. A highly controversial assessment to be sure,
still, it remains to be disproved. The bottom line is, the true identity of the woman featured on the
cover of Irene Bolam's 1982 Memorial Dinner program has never been conclusively revealed,
either by still living O'Crowley or Earhart family relatives, or by some other entity whom does know who she really was, or
still is. In 2006, Larry Heller, the 1934 born son of the original Irene Craigmile identified the woman below as his 'childhood
mother.' The problem: She was not the Gervais-Irene who had employed
the same identity, and her image did not align with that of the original Irene Craigmile's
image either. * * *
| The Non Gervais-Irene.... |
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| An O'Crowley family secret? |
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| Left and right photos... |
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| ...displays same person in younger-older versions. |
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| Non Gervais-Irene's true identity remains unknown, |
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| Guy and Irene Craigmile Bolam, 1965. |
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| Photo taken by Joe Gervais who found them to be 'a curiously important couple.' |
About the
reality of the Irene-Amelia equation....?
"Of course it's reality. But the whole idea was to sidestep reality, or to help
'invent' a solid mystery following the lead of official silence. And they
succeded in doing it. The Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society dismiss the Irene-Amelia truth. They've even campaigned
against it. All official institutions dismiss all Earhart mystery solving claims,
not just the 'she survived and changed her name' final verdict. Notice how anything seen on television about Earhart always
ends with, 'but it's most likely Earhart and Noonan crashed and sank.' The simple reason, the Smithsonian realized no choice
but to support the mystery always, as opposed to supporting a conclusion. Even though
all of the data shows it to be obvious Amelia lived on to use the name of a past friend ...who was the real person
to have disappeared long ago, the Smithsonian especially, paid for and run by Uncle Sam, knows everyone from the news media
to college professors will always follow its 'official word' lead. About the
Irene connection, it has swayed the public into believing 'maybe it's not so obvious,
maybe it's all a big coincidence.' It's really about gullibility too. No one wants to doubt that kind of authority.
You risk sticking yourself out like a sore thumb, or you know, embarrassment. At the same time those sporting real courage
always stand by the truth." Joe Gervais, 2001
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37's book, documentary, & feature projects. One can also e-mail EarhartTruth@Irene-Amelia.com
NOTE: To contact Beyond
37' e-mail EarhartTruth@Irene-Amelia.com. The Beyond 37' film, book, and website projects are dedicated to the
late USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais (1924-2005) and the late USAF Col. Rollin C. Reineck (1920-2007). Both were World War Two
heroes who learned the basic Irene-Amelia truth decades ago. Major Gervais, who was considered by many to have been the most
knowledgeable Amelia Earhart researcher to ever pursue the mystery since he first began in the late 1950s, discovered
the Irene-Amelia reality in 1965. The controversial 1970 McGraw-Hill book by Joe Klaas, Amelia Earhart Lives expounded
on the enormous amount of Joe Gervais' investigative research, and displayed the first nationally published photo of
Irene Bolam, AKA the Gervais-Irene. Notwithstanding the fallout the Amelia
Earhart Lives book caused, Colonel Reineck spent the last decades of his life trying to advance the Gervais claim of
Earhart's name-changed survival to authenticity after his own thorough analysis of the evidence that supported it. Colonel
Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived was published in late 2003, and was greatly inspired by the Irene-Amelia
forensic studies of Beyond 37'. Several portions of the analysis appeared in the Reineck book, although more samples are better
displayed in this website. Beyond 37' and Irene-Amelia.com are both owned and managed by Tod Swindell and Aether Pictures
based in Pasadena, California.
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