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The Gervais-Irene
| 1945-1982 ID'd 'Gervais-Irene' shown in 1965. |
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| AKA "Irene Craigmile" AKA "Irene Bolam" after her 1958 marriage. |
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The Gervais-Irene
| 'Gervais-Irene' (Craigmile Bolam) 1963. |
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| News photo, taken in Japan. The Irenes to the right were different women... |
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The Non Gervais-Irene
| Different Irene (Craigmile Bolam) c. 1947 |
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| Young 'Non Gervais-Irene' identified by the original Irene Craigmile's son in 2006. |
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The Non Gervais-Irene
| 1982 New Jersey News Tribune photo. |
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| Older version of the 'Non Gervais-Irene' also ID'd as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' |
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The Original Irene
| The orginal Irene Craigmile, 1930... |
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| ...no longer seen after the 1930s, she and Amelia were past friends. |
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| 1985, Amelia's sister Muriel & Grace McGuire. |
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| Both Muriel and Grace knew the Gervais-Irene well. |
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Foreword: As official
silence remained in effect, in 1987 few Americans took notice of the five-part Republic of the Marshall Islands 50th anniversary
postal stamp series, (1937-1987) commemorating the Japanese Naval Authority's rescue of Earhart and Noonan at Mili Atoll of
the southern Marshalls. Nor did they later notice the 2002 Associated Press article featuring the Marshall Islands U. N. Ambassador,
Alfred Capelle's statements about Amelia; how she "definitely" ended up in the Marshalls and so much had always
been viewed as "common knowledge" in his own country. Famous Amelia Earhart researcher, Joe Gervais would later
pontificate on how the inability of the American public to accept such a truth, was due not only to 'official silence' and
'misinformation' presented on the matter; but also to American pride and prejudice, or, the reluctance of United States citzens
to accept being enlightened about their own history by people from a foreign land.
| In the 1987 Stamp series a Japan naval officer... |
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| ...stands with Noonan (knee bandaged) and Earhart. "A rescue, not a capture." |
Familiarity:
Beyond 37', AKA 'The World War Two Veterans Coalition of Researchers; The Earhart-Craigmile Chapter'
was formed in 2001. The goal of Beyond 37' has always been to enlighten those truly curious about Amelia Earhart. Within the
context of this site, Amelia's less-recalled involvement with the original Irene Craigmile's prominent O'Crowley family
of New Jersey is thoroughly examined. Who was Irene Craigmile? She was once a fledgling pilot and friend of Amelia Earhart's
in the 1930s, although somehow by the 1940s she appeared to no longer exist. This website sheds new light on the controversial
subject matter of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance, and how in 1970 a different woman known as "Irene Craigmile Bolam"
made national news headlines when McGraw-Hill published the book, Amelia Earhart Lives. The new Irene's denial and impressive
support afforded her by important individuals, led news editors to determine the book was likely a hoax-inspired account,
so they declined to have their news reporters more seriously investigate Irene's past. Was there a real controversy? No doubt.
McGraw-Hill never would have wasted its time publishing the book had there not been. True, the implicated Irene called the
book "a fantastic story" and "utter nonsense," and to her enough of it seemed to be. No matter, the chapter
about how Joe Gervais came to meet her in 1965, and its inclusion of the photograph he took of her the day he did marked an
important hidden part of American history. Journey into what you never knew about this incredible story. There's a lot to
consider here so take your time. Beyond the Forensic Comparison Samples and other links, be sure to check out the Amelia at
the microphone photo link. Plus recall how Amelia was a pacifist, and even though as Irene she tried to downplay herself as
a mere "New Jersey housewife" in 1970 after she was found out, she was actually the farthest thing from that. In
the 1960s and 70s she constantly traveled the world and had many friends in high places. She was also the corporation President
of Radio Luxembourg in Europe in the 1970s. Legally, as Irene Craigmile Bolam, the former Amelia Earhart died in 1982.
From Websters:
forensic 1. of, characteristics
of, or suitable for a law court, public debate, or formal argumentation. science 1. the state or fact of knowing; knowledge. 2. systematized knowledge
derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied.
| Amelia: Often outspoken, always very private. |
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| What history recalls about her you don't. (Click on Photo) |
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Note: See the original Irene Craigmile's step by step biography in the lower portion of the 1982 New Jersey Tribune link. The plural Irenes 'forensic discovery' was
initialized on 11/12/02. The entire physical congruence realization of the 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile
Bolam in comparison to Amelia Earhart, actually commenced back in 1997.
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After calling it 'solid science' and initially agreeing to, the National Geographic
Channel refused to display or address the plural Irenes discovery in the 2006 Amelia Earhart special
it still airs now and then.
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The 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune 'investigative news article series' that
examined the question of Amelia Earhart's survival as Irene Craigmile Bolam, (three months after Irene died) featured
photo forgeries used to meld plural individuals into one. The series is now regarded as a past yellow-journalism
attempt, meant to steer people away from the truth of AE's post-1930s existence as another person.
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The families of past friends Amelia and Irene, would not openly endorse nor positively address the Irene-Amelia
conveyance after it was first learned of in 1965. Still, the controversy proved itself worthy of serious consideration then,
and in recent years it has even more-so. Not to mention from the 1950s on Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Irene-Amelia were Zonta
Sister friends.
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| Did the world public really know this beautiful person? Not completely. |
Indifference was the displayed regard towards various World War Two veterans who researched
the Amelia Earhart story. Some had investigated Earhart's disappearance since the early 1960s. So much was especially doled
out to a few regaled war heroes after they tried to reveal a learned 'incontrovertible truth' about the Amelia Earhart
controversy, and how Amelia's past acquaintance, Irene Craigmile and Irene's extended family fit into it. The veterans basically
figured it out, yet they remained all but officially ignored when they raised their collective voices, and were summarily
dismissed history-wise by protective, and even at times somewhat divisive individuals. Their opponents held fast, and the
so called 'mystery' of Amelia Earhart continued to exist the way it was designed to.
The Amelia Earhart Mystery
Exists Because It's Supposed To Exist, Not Because It Really Does Exist. The Amelia Earhart Society's Bill Prymak, The TIGHAR
Organization's Richard Gillespie, And Nauticos' Elgen Long Are The Three 'Media-Touted' Theorists Who Keep The American Public
Dumbed Down On The Matter, Instead Of Steering It Towards Amelia's Available True-Story Facts. This Website Is Just The Start
Of The Forensic Truth Reveal Pertaining To The Last Years Of Amelia's Life As Amelia Earhart. It Also Examines The Hidden
Support Mechanism That Remained Legion With Amelia After She Became Someone Else. Said Mechanism Is Why The Historical Dictum
Influences Of Three Countries; The United States, England, And Japan (To Go Along With The Catholic Church) Dating Back To
The World War Two Era, Came To Agree How The Name "Amelia Earhart " Would Only Be Associated With A Years Ago World-Famous
Person Who Tragically Died In 1937, According To Their Evermore Commonly Expressed Viewpoints.
| Learn more about Amelia, shown here. |
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| Forensics revealed three different 'Irenes' employed the same identity. |
To
know the the full story of Irene Madaline O'Crowley Craigmile Heller Bolam, is to realize a truth from American history
that remains untold. Some have long been aware of it ...while below is a morph of two photos taken over four decades
apart from each other. To look beyond the Irene Craigmile Bolam seen here, check out opposite page 119 in Amelia's 1932
published book, The Fun Of It.
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| Click on photo to go to the 'A Closer Comparison of Eyes and Faces' page. |
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Below Are A Few October of 1982 Sample
Newspaper Quotes About Irene Craigmile Bolam, Who Had Passed Away Just A Few Months Earlier:
"Some of Irene Bolam's closest friends equivocate
to this day about the possibility that she may have been Amelia Earhart."
"Peter Busatti, a sports promoter who had known Mrs.
Bolam for many years, said he often teased her about the persistent rumor that she was Miss Earhart." "At a Wings
Club event in Washington, Busatti mentioned how Admirals and Generals seemed to know her." "Once when Busatti asked
Mrs. Bolam directly, [if she was the former Amelia Earhart] she replied ""When I die, you'll find out.""
He also mentioned, ""She had a lot of Japanese artifacts in her home. I'd kid her about that.""
"John Malloy of Rumson said he
met Mrs. Bolam at a golf tournament. ""I've been back and forth,"" he admits in discussing conjecture
that she was really Amelia Earhart, ""One minute I think yes, and the next no. She certainly knew flying. She knew
everything there was to know about Japan,"" he said."
NOTE: The above quotes were excerpted from the 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey
News Tribune 'investigative series.' The series addressed the question of Irene's real identity three months after
her passing. Her true past had remained a highly debated subject matter since 1970, even after she offered her present tense
denial of "I am not Amelia Earhart." Yet, she stopped being her former self after she changed her name to 'Irene'
during the WWII era. Therefore, technically she did not lie to the public. (See the Miscellaneous link for more
quotes pulled from the series.) After two weeks of teasing its readers with said 'identity' question, the 82' series employed
forgeries to steer the public into falsely concluding only one Irene Craigmile Bolam ever existed... when in fact there had
been three... with one of them ascertainable as the former Amelia Earhart. Here, recall the character of 'Winston' from George
Orwell's 1984 who worked for his government's Ministry of Truth. His job was to adjust past newspaper stories to make them
align with 'Big Brother's' preferred viewpoint. George Orwell proved himself prophetic. For in 1982 a U. S. newspaper was
engaged to alter facts to adjust public thinking, into accepting the preferred U. S. history viewpoint of the Irene-Amelia
topic. But the Irene-Amelia truth refused to go away. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and into the 2000's the subject of Irene's
true past identity continued to be debated by Earhart investigators and scholars. As mentioned the most recent attempt to
put it to rest came via the recently airing National Geographic Amelia Earhart special. Although it was aware of such controversial
story advances, the National Geographic Channel chose not to address both the discovery of the 1982 fraud-lined
Tribune series, and the 2002 forensic realization of more than one Irene Craigmile having shared the same identity. Instead,
it engaged the case-uninformed opinion of a police forensic detective, who shied away from favoring the haunting similarity
displayed by the 1945-1982 identified Irene when compared to Amelia. This is a good example of the way national media outlets
are sometimes made to serve a favored U. S. historical viewpoint, even if it isn't the truth. Notice too, how no national
news outlet has ever seriously addressed the Irene-Amelia controversy. They occasionally mention it off-hand, but that's about
it.
| The Gervais-Irene |
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| Older version (1978 photo) of 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam |
| Non Gervais-Irene, 1982 New Jersey Tribune photo. |
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| Older version of the 'family identified' Irene Craigmile Bolam |
| The original Irene Craigmile, 1930. |
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| A past friend of Amelia's shown with her husband and father, she was seen no more after the 1930s. |
| 1963 Irene in Japan newspaper photo... |
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| ...blended with 1928 Amelia photo = Irene-Amelia |
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- The Irene-Amelia
controversy began in 1965. The forensic argument still supporting it today stems from forty years of in depth research
and a recent 'comprehensive' forensic analysis.
- In 2006 the National Geographic Channel contacted
those who support the Irene-Amelia claim, only to unjustifiably decry their effort of revealing the truth about Amelia Earhart
and Irene Craigmile. As of 2011 the story was still being re-run on the National Geographic Channel.
- Where the 1945 to 1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam (again, more than one used that same identity) displayed
such a haunting head to toe physical congruence to Amelia Earhart, she is referred to as 'Irene-Amelia' in morphed photos
with Amelia.
- The controversy still exists today because it has never been authoritatively
disproved. People have (sometimes strongly) claimed it isn't true, but outright disproving it has never been done. This is
why it has remained a controversy for over forty years.
- John Burk, former Publisher of
the now defunct Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune was a good friend of Irene-Amelia's. Burk is considered
to have been instrumental in the contrivance of the October of 1982 "Was She or Wasn't She Amelia Earhart(?)"
investigative newspaper series that followed Irene-Amelia's Summer of 1982 passing.
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| 1945 Zonta photo. (Earliest of the Gervais-Irene) |
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| From 1945 to 1982 she was publicly identified as "Irene" after nose and dental work. |
| Prior to her rhinoplasty and brow skin tucking... |
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| ...without the dental work and cosmetic adjustments, see an image from the past. |
| Larry Heller's estimated date: 'Early 1940s' |
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| 2006 family identified "Irene Craigmile (Bolam)" [Photo likely taken, circa 1947] |
It's true, since 2003 those who influence national news outlets on all Earhart mystery
updates, have closed a blind eye to the forensic analysis that recognized both the
1945-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile and the 'family ID'd' Irene Craigmile
as two different individuals. As well, the
tear ducts and eye-rims, the face print, and the head to toe body of the 1945-1982 ID'd 'Irene Craigmile' match Amelia's,
and the 'family identified' Irene Craigmile's do not. Not to mention handwriting
and voice comparisons aligned as well. It was also easy to determine how the Family
Identified Irene and the '1945-1982' Irene shown here were not the
same person. Their brow ridges, noses, face dimples, hair lines, and especially their tear duct and eye-rim comparisons did
prove impossible to align. And the 'Family Identified' Irene also looked noticeably younger than the '1945- 1982' Irene. [Again,
observe in the Forensic Comparison links how the 1945-1982 Irene Craigmile's
features align with congruence to Amelia's.] Close examination also reveals the engagement of certain augmentations to help
obscure her recognizable visage of the 1930s. (These changes were researched and are addressed further in the site.) National
Geographic did film the 'Family Identified' Irene... and called the science 'solid' that had separated the two. Yet to avoid
controversy, they ultimately chose not to address or display images of the 'Family Identified Irene' in its recent TV special.
One might also notice what appears to be a slight familial looking similarity found in the two 'age generation separated'
Irenes. Read on to learn why.
| 1933 enlarged photo of Amelia... |
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| ...taken at FDR's Hyde Park estate. |
| 1965 Gervais photo of 1945-1982 ID'd Irene. |
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| Gervais met her through Amelia's friend Viola Gentry at an Early Birds of Aviation gathering. |
| 1933 Amelia photo blended with... |
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| ...1965 Gervais photo = Irene-Amelia. |
Of the two different Irene Craigmiles
shown above, neither one was the original. The original Irene's maiden name was Irene O'Crowley. Her first husband, Charles
Craigmile died tragically in 1931. In October of 1932 her 'pals,' the two well known pilots Viola Gentry and Amelia Earhart...
helped introduce their recently widowed friend, Irene to flying planes on Long Island. In mid-1933 Irene fell for one of her
pilot instructors, Alvin Heller and by early 1934 they were married with a child. But the trail of the original Irene Craigmile
(Heller, later annulled) grows cold after that point. There is no doubt it was the original Irene Craigmile who somehow vanished
forever long ago, and the former Amelia Earhart went on to later use her identity, and also serve as a Mother figure to the
original Irene's survived Son. In 2006 when he was shown the 1945 Zonta photo of Irene Craigmile, her Son said he'd never
seen it before. He also could offer no photos showing his Mother pre-dating 1945, although he guesstimated the younger version
of the 'family identified' Irene Craigmile shown him to be from the early 1940s, when he was a young boy of six to eight years
old. He surely knew her as he appeared to have been left in her charge a lot as he grew up. Yet neither Irene shown here was
his true birth Mother, and by the mid-1940s he'd been sent to a boarding school. The earliest photo he holds of his 'mother'
from his junior high graduation in the late 1940s shows him standing between Irene-Amelia and his Father, Al Heller who he'd
spent very little time with as a young boy. Be it known, between the 'family identified' Irene photo, and the appearance of
the older photo version of her in the 1982 Tribune, no other photos of that specific Irene appear. Rather, from 1945 to 1982
only photos of Irene-Amelia appear in the photo history of Irene's person during said time frame. Her Son (a very private
man, and a former Pan Am Pilot) was debriefed on the newly learned information in 2006, and he appeared reticent after siding
with the history of his Mother as one person. Historically until 2006, apparently he never felt so compelled to deal with
the controversial issue of his 'Mother's' life story in public, maybe with one exception; he and his wife's participation
in the 1982 New Jersey News Tribune investigative series, that once again 'reviewed' the Irene-Amelia controversy. Consider
the following 1982 news article excerpt about Irene's Son's viewpoint: "Mrs. Bolam's only child, Clarence 'Larry' Heller
of Huntington Bay, L.I., has said he doesn't want to pursue the fingerprints or identity question any further." "Heller
wrote to the Rutgers Medical School [where Irene had donated her body] shortly after Mrs. Bolam's death requesting her fingerprints.
The school turned him down. Mr. Heller told the News Tribune that he has decided to let the matter rest. "I'm not interested
in digging around," he said. "I would just as soon let it hang as a mystery ...let it remain an unsolved mystery,"
he said."' A bit curious here, how through such words Irene's Son seemed to prefer leaving the issue of his Mother's
true identity, 'a mystery.'
Note:
Please See The Forensic Comparison Samples Link, And The Wikipedia Explanatory Link.
In Washington DC at the Smithsonian Institute, there's a large elephant by the
name of "Irene" squatting in the middle of the Amelia Earhart controversy. The Smithsonian Institute placed a lampshade
on its head and tells the curious, 'It's nothing... It's just an old
lamp.... Don't pay any attention to it.' * * * On truth distortion and alternative
truths, where only one truth exists yet so many possibilities are offered: "The
entertainment of the alternative in its highest development, becomes the entertainment of the ideal." A. N. Whitehead,
1937 In a way, over time Amelia Earhart's truth was bowled over by quite a variety of shined and polished
theories. None of them ever came close to resembling the real truth though, and so much left the public to accept the 'ideal'
of Amelia Earhart's fate existing as 'an everlasting mystery.' One of Whitehead's 1937 concepts
of 'History' reads: "History is the record of the expression of feelings peculiar
to humanity." Considering how famous fliers Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry were once good
friends, in 1965 Joe Gervais found it peculiar if not a bit odd, how Viola Gentry had another good friend named 'Irene' who
looked like a carbon copy of an 'older' Amelia Earhart, and was held in such high esteem by other famous fliers and even NASA
astronauts. It would not be until the 'multiple Irenes discovery' was made over three decades later; World War Two hero Joe
Gervais would finally be vindicated for what he had come to believe in, and long stressed to the public he clearly recognized,
right up until his death in 2005.
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Quiz Challenge: Where was Amelia Earhart the last time she laid eyes on her
Lockheed Electra airplane?
A. On or near to land…
(an island or atoll, etc.)
B. Still airborne…
C. Sinking beneath the ocean surface with it after ditching on the water… D. Adrift in a raft watching it sink...
E. Watching it ablaze after a fiery wreck…
F. Watching it get hoisted onto a Japanese hauling ship... G.
Watching it fade away from aboard a Japanese fishing boat... H. Looking back at it while
hiking down from a mountain jungle...
I. At a Japanese Naval Authority base in the pacific…
J. On a Japanese Imperial Mandate Island, or in Japan…
K. In the United States…
L. Somewhere else…
All
of these theorized 'Earhart flight endings' have been seriosuly discussed
and/or existed in the realm of possibilities over time. Of course, unless one automatically accepts “C” as the
answer (the crashed and sank theory) it's noticeable how Amelia’s final disposition would otherwise remain 'unknown.'
The rogue idea introduced by Joe Gervais in the 1960s basically went like this: ‘Joe Gervais did
not know how it got there, all he knew was with certainty he believed he recognized the survived body of Amelia Earhart in
1965, in the name-changed form of the Irene Craigmile Bolam he met at a gathering of well known ‘senior citizen’
retired pilots. Viola Gentry, one of Amelia’s past New York pilot-friends was also good friends with the same Irene
Bolam and her British husband, Guy Bolam. When Joe Gervais met Irene and Guy, indeed it was Viola Gentry who introduced them
to each other.
On the
surface, after the modern forensic analysis began in 1997 it finally did begin to appear odd how Viola Gentry, a charter Ninety-Nines’s
women’s flying club member with Amelia Earhart, (Amelia served as the Ninety-Nine’s first president starting in
1929) yes it seemed odd how Viola had two friends who matched so well in different eras of photographs. If anything it appeared as a remarkable coincidence how Viola’s 1960s friend, Mrs. Irene Craigmile Bolam aligned
head to toe in photographs with Viola‘s long gone friend, Amelia Earhart. At least, until 2002 anyway, when it was discovered
and revealed how more than one person had been identifiied as the same Irene Craigmile Bolam. By 2006 it was also certain,
after verification was received from the original Irene's 1934 born Son Larry Heller, no
photos displaying the Irene Craigmile Bolam who Joe Gervais greeted and photographed in 1965 showed her identified as Irene
prior to the mid-1940s. In other words, the person named ’Irene Craigmile Bolam’ who Joe Gervais encountered,
seemed to have emerged from nowhere into existence sometime in the 1940s identified as Irene Craigmile, according to the photographic
record of Irene Craigmile Bolam's person. In the meantime two other women, the original Irene Craigmile and a woman who still
remains forensically non-identified to this day, appear in the early photo history record of Irene Craigmile Bolam. Incidently as well, Irene's complete name on record after the three marriages attributed to her person (1927, 1933,
1958) ended as Irene Madaline O'Crowley Craigmile Heller Bolam. Of note, O'Crowley was her maiden name, and after a thick
paper trail that evidenced a 1940 annulment of her second marriage to Alvin Victor Heller, (who would go on to become a Sr.
VP of the Miami Aviation Association) the name of 'Heller' was formally dropped from her person and reverted back to 'Craigmile,'
until her marriage to (family described British MI6 operative) Guy Bolam in 1958. This later realization signaled a remarkable discovery made in the long held Gervais claim-dispute. Plus, it finally
backed former Seton Hall University President, Monsignor James Francis Kelley’s 1991 admission (after he refused to
admit it for many years) of his long time good friend ‘Irene’ having formerly been known as Amelia Earhart. Otherwise
on paper, if one ignores the multiple Irenes discovery, everything else appears fairly linear as far as Irene's life story
goes. Yet such had been the arrangement, evidently.
It also appeared there were various individuals who over time, wished not to clue the the public in
on such a forensic truth about Earhart's real personal history. After all,
history had declared Amelia 'dead' two years after she turned up missing. Apparently she was always to remain so. Naturally
Earhart’s survived Sister Muriel, who knew her as Irene in later life, along with the original Irene’s still living
Son were included among those who were against exploiting the truth, and apparently the Smithsonian, the National Geographic
Society, the Amelia Earhart Society, TIGHAR, Nauticos, and ostensibly the forever silent about it U. S. Government all but
surreptitiously coerced the national media circuit over time, to pay attention to other ideas about Amelia Earhart’s
ending. Thus, for years they all collectively steered the public away from what has
now grown to become a rather obvious forensic truth to behold. And as evidenced by Noel
Dockstater's recent National Geographic profile on the matter, he as well had been hopelessly bullied into submission on the
matter. It is also a shame how media stories focused on the negatives of Earhart’s survival
only; via the perverbial catchall 'Earhart may have survived for a while, but she sure must
have died over there somehow’ routine. It was hardly ever
asked: What if she survived and didn’t die? It’s true, Amelia Earhart and/or Fred Noonan survival
stories all sell their final demises (or 'deaths') in some sure way. The Nikumororo story offered by TIGHAR ends with Earhart
and Noonan’s death by starvation and/or dehydration. The Amelia Earhart Society as well might imply how Amelia Earhart’s
death took place in the Marshall Islands or on Saipan, although philosophically it rejects all theories at the same time,
as confusing as that sounds. Four decades ago, in 1966 the media first exploited the negative offerings of CBS radio journalist,
Fred Goerner and continued to do so through Buddy Brennan‘s offering from the late 1980s, where both described Amelia
Earhart having been on some kind of spy mission before being caught and either executed by Japanese soldiers, or dying of
some kind of sickness while in Japan’s custody. The idea of Amelia Earhart remaining basically ‘ok’ the
entire time after she turned up missing, coupled with some hard to explain experiences she endured during the war era that
left her to change her name for future anonymity rather than explain it all when she returned to the U. S., was never even remotely welcomed into the realm of possibilities by ANYONE, except for Major
Joe Gervais and those who became devoted to his years of investigating the matter. Contrarily, the most consistent media support
over the years since the late 1970s was afforded to Earhart family friend, Elgen Long who always insisted Earhart, Noonan,
and their plane made it to the deep bottom of the Pacific Ocean, somewhere northwest of Howland Island. Hence, in most people's
steered perception of the matter, Amelia Earhart ended up there, and the elderly Elgen Long himself would even be hired to
advise the makers of the new 2009 Hilary Swank film, for nothing more really, than the sake of political history correctness. * * *
It is evident how official U. S. historians were conditioned
over time to steer both the media and the public away from seriously investigating the Irene-Amelia story. Until the late
1990s they most often succeeded in doing just that, and they still would be succeeding had it not been realized by a select
few scholars, how Earhart's 'survival' was at long last
a recognizable forensic true-hood. So many letters had repeatedly been written to the White
House, to the Smithsonian Institute, and even to the National Geographic Society about the Earhart case over the years, yet
they were all systematically answered with polite and non-informative 'sorry, can't
help you there' replies. Once again, as Bender and Altschull wrote in their 1982 Pan Am Airways
history book, The Chosen Instrument; "Numerous investigations foundered
on official silence in Tokyo and Washington, leaving the fate of Amelia Earhart
an everlasting mystery." Of course, one could always turn to the 1965 words of Admiral Chester Nimitz,
who stated it was long "known and documented in Washington" as non-public information, how Amelia Earhart and Fred
Noonan were actually picked up by Japan after they were said to have 'vanished' in 1937, and they had continued to exist henceforth
under Japan's auspice.
No matter. In the Conclusion link the reader
will perhaps consider, how even high-end Masonic members have influenced the public's perception of U. S. history over the
years, through such notable organizations as the Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic Society. The History Channel
conveys how nine past United States Presidents were Freemasons. the following list of
WWII era Freemason members is also very impressive if one poponders the true Amelia Earhart saga,
and it is justifiably deemed worthy of consideration. Such a WWII era list of Freemason members (AKA "a secret society
of upper echelon intellectuals)
included General Douglas MacArthur, President H Truman, General Jimmy Doolittle, Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
President Franklin Roosevelt, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, and WWII national radio reporter Lowell Thomas. Once strongly challenged by
the Papacy (Catholicism) dating back hundreds of years ago,
Freemasonry still exists today. Masonic societies are always applauded for their benevolent doings, and they are still quietly
influential towards the way history should go down
and be recorded. Interestingly enough, when
the late 1990s to early 2000s forensic and investigative research advancements in the Irene-Amelia case became known, a 'back
away and observe' attitude was identifiable. But such a control factor still seemed to ominously dominate from within. The
various 'private citizens' who have long steered the United States national media sway over the Amelia Earhart controversy,
if not Masonic themselves could have been unknowingly subjugated by such an influence. In the specific example cited above,
four years after the 2002 'shared identity discovery' was made, right after it was affirmed by the Son of the original Irene
Craigmile in April of 2006, within a few months of it becoming known information, filmmaker Noel Dockstader via the National
Geographic Channel, set out to take control of such a revelation through the national media eyes of the public. After the original Irene's Son, Mr. Larry Heller identified the entirely different
'Irene Craigmile' individuals prevalently shown in this website to have been his one in the same Mother figure, with the 1945-1982 identified one [Irene-Amelia] matching the profile of Amelia Earhart in a
haunting congruence, within a short while Mr. Dockstader
had molded his self produced 'Undercover History' National Geographic Channel episode around the Irene-Amelia topic. With
equal measure, to be sure, he carefully took the Irene-Amelia controversy and mixed it in with the outdated yet more traditionally
publicized Amelia Earhart disappearance theories, avoiding the new dilemma caused by the original Irene's Son by not even
bringing it up. Basically, Dockstader simply revisited the old 'Irene Bolam' story without truly
updating it, and he hired a forensic detective who he clearly left dumbed down on the matter to shore up his expressed opinion.
Not to forget, the National Geographic Channel's original show title at the time, 'Unsolved
History' was a true indicator of NG's locked-in approach to the topic. Even Noel Dockstader admitted he 'knew' NG was
not about to enlighten a national TV audience in any truth-conversion way. No doubt the long debated Earhart disappearance
subject matter is too controversial of a historical topic, and too concretely set in the American public mindset as 'a mystery' for National Geographic and/or the Smithsonian Institute, to suddenly
start admitting how a different Amelia Earhart disappearance story version was known all along by some of its past, and perhaps
even present to an extent, big brother-like 'influential' coffers. Yet there is always hope. Perhaps President Barack Obama with
his 'new winds for change' and 'truthful to the people' updates will instigate a permissive outcropping that allows for some
responsible clueing-in of American citizens, as pertains to some of its own true history value. Amelia Earhart was always
a wonderful person, even after she changed her name to Irene during the World War Two era. No one knows why she did such a
thing, but her reasons must have been good ones. The hidden historical fact remains, she did to it, and so much is all that
is wholesomely known thus far in a true forensic sense. Of course the Smithsonian Institute and National Geographic Society
are still trying to get people to avoid seriously considering such a truth, and no doubt they always will, until the United
States Executive Branch orders them not to, anymore.
| 1945-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile Bolam, 1978 photo. |
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| AKA The 'Gervais-Irene,' distinguished and proud, silver wings below her left shoulder. |
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| From a 10/18/82 New Jersey Tribune article: |
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| A decade later Msgr. Kelley told the truth about his late friend 'Irene' in a taped interview. |
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| Again, the original Irene Craigmile, 1930 |
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| Husband Charles Craigmile (left), and her father Joe O'Crowley (Right). She was 'gone' by the 1940s. |
| The 'third' Irene Craigmile, shown 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. |
Note:
If you watched the brief profile of the Joe Gervais Irene-Amelia theory displayed on the National
Geographic Channel, it did not include the newfound reality of there having been three different women attributed to the same
identity of Irene Craigmile Bolam, nor did it offer a head-to-toe comparison analysis, expert medical opinions, or handwriting
and other character trait comparisons. Realize, both the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society have never been permitted
to conduct their own investigation into Amelia Earhart's disappearance, nor are they allowed to 'side' with any one theory.
Here however, one can observe the most objective and comprehensive version of the Irene-Amelia conveyance.
[IMPORTANT: The privately run Amelia
Earhart Society (the AES) and its internet chat-room group at Earhart@yahoogroups.com has long been campaigning to the public,
through the dominant voices of Bill Prymak, Alex Mandel, Ron Bright, and others... to NOT take the Irene-Amelia truth seriously.
Richard Gillespie who runs the TIGHAR organization and sports his own theory also argues against it. Realize they are mere
private citizens, part of the historical obfuscation of the Irene-Amelia story, or, if there ever was one, the so called 'cover-up'
of the truth about Amelia Earhart. Those who take the time to digest the information displayed here, accumulated over a span
of four decades dating back to the investigative research work of the legendary Joe Gervais, are encouraged to challenge those
who run and control the earhart@yahoogroups.com chat room and the TIGHAR organization. Be advised, they will all detract away
from and strongly argue against the Irene-Amelia truth, so find some courage and get ready to go toe to toe with them. For
the sake of beautiful Amelia's truth, every bit helps.]
| WWII hero & retired USAF Major Joe Gervais... |
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| ...aboard The Flying Lady sailboat on his way to Howland Island, 1983. |
| The original Irene Craigmile, circa 1930 |
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| Husband Charles Craigmile (left), and her father Joe O'Crowley (Right). |
| This Irene (below) was not the original... |
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| ...but she used to know the original. |
| 'New' 1940s Irene Craigmile without augmentations. |
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| AKA the 'Gervais-Irene' ('Irene Craigmile Bolam' after her 1958 marriage to Guy Bolam of England.) |
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| The original Irene Craigmile, circa 1930. |
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| Her maiden name was "O'Crowley." She was seen no more after the 1930s. |
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| The 'third' Irene Craigmile, shown 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. |
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| Irene Craigmile (Bolam), 1945 |
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| The Gervais-Irene, post-loss augmented, publicly identified as 'Irene' from 1945 to 1982. |
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| Irene Craigmile (Bolam), 1940s |
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| The Non Gervais-Irene, recently 'family described' as the same Irene Craigmile (Bolam.) |
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Where both women shown above were historically identified as the same Irene
Craigmile Bolam, see the "Closer Comparison of Eyes and Faces" link
for their distinct separation. Also see the "Will The Real Irene Craigmile Bolam Please Stand Up" link, upper left, for info on the 'original''
Irene Craigmile (Bolam). To view the 1982 newspaper 'forged photo history' of Irene Craigmile Bolam, see the "1982 New Jersey Tribune" link.
| Who is/was this person? |
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| Shown in the 1940s, she is/was not the original Irene Craigmile nor the former Amelia Earhart. |
The woman in the photograph directly above was not the 1945-1982 identified Irene, nor was she the original
Irene. Still, the only identity publicly attributed to her after the 1930s was that of "Irene Craigmile Bolam."
It is apparent, intentionally to the public the two 'non-original' Irenes were identified as one in the same in the interest
of obfuscating and protecting their real identities. As well, the mystery
of what became of the original Irene Craigmile grew to loom as a heavy one. Meanwhile directly below, see another example
of the 1945-1982 identified Irene compared to Amelia.
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| 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene, harder exposure... |
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| ...different angle too, all of eighty years detectable. |
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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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| AE photo in an equal morph blend... |
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| ...with the 1978 photo of the Gervais-Irene |
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| Irene Craigmile, 1940s |
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| As identified by the original Irene's Son in 2006 |
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| Irene Craigmile, 1982 |
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| Same person as shown to the left, the original Irene's Son supplied this 1982 news series photo. |
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| 1945-1982 ID'd Irene [1945 'Zonta' labeled photo] |
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| Earliest known photo of this particular Irene Craigmile (later "Bolam") |
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| 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam |
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| Same person as shown to the left, photo taken in 1965 by USAF Major Joe Gervais, (Ret.) |
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| Prior to rhinoplasty and brow skin tucking... |
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| ...before dental work and cosmetic adjustments, one can easily recognize a familiar image |
It is certain only the 1945-1982 Irene died in July of 1982, so where the other 'non-original'
Irene's estimated birth year was 1924 by family friend Lucy McDannel, said 'Irene' would have turned eighty years old in 2004
making her continued existence at that time a possibility. Again, neither woman shown
above was the original Irene Craigmile Bolam who bore a Son in 1934. Still,
both women shown above repeatedly appeared in newsprint photos and in an obituary sense while identified as one in the same
'Irene Craigmile Bolam.'
A Preview Of Additional Information Found In This Website: Note: Among the photos and info displayed farther down, read more about the 'different Irenes' who employed
the same identity. Also be sure to check out the various page links shown in the left column to include the 'Forensic Comparison' links, the 'Press Notices' link, and
'The History of Amelia Earhart Research' link. [One
may also scroll halfway down for the more formal Home Page foreword and introduction.]
"In the past five years great strides
were made to help the Earhart-curious better understand the controversy of Amelia Earhart's disappearance and its future correlation
to the identity of Irene Craigmile Bolam. Most important was the realization of more than one person having shared the identity
of Irene Craigmile Bolam, with the 1945-1982 identified Irene matching Amelia Earhart physically and character trait wise.
Said Irene was internationally familiar, she socialized with Amelia's Sister, and she was part of organizations Amelia used
to belong to." Tod Swindell, 2007 *
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| 1945-1982 Irene + Amelia = Irene-Amelia |
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