Amelia Earhart, The Real Story, And The True 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' Connection

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Some Common Misperceptions of Amelia Earhart's 1937 Disappearance
Introduction
Important Forensic Comparison Samples: The Amelia To Irene Congruence
Will The Real Irene Craigmile Bolam Please Stand Up?
A Closer Comparison Of Eyes & Faces; Amelia To Irene, Separating The Irenes
Was Amelia Earhart's Disappearance Physically True?
Did You Know?
The Second Front Page
An Amelia Earhart To Irene Craigmile Bolam Forensic Reality: 1982 Published Mug-Shot Forgeries
About Retired USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais
Amelia Earhart's Long Hidden Daughter Made It Three Irene Craigmiles...?
About Beyond 37', Amelia Earhart, & Irene-Amelia.Com
Press Notices & Quotes About Beyond 37's Amelia Earhart Research
Amelia Earhart Miscellaneous: Monsignor Kelley's Words, NASA Astronaut Schirra's Words, Etc.
The History of Amelia Earhart Mystery 'Investigative Research'
Controversial Amelia Earhart Forensic Argument Information
The 1982 New Jersey Tribune's Irene-Amelia Photo Page 10/29/82
Wikipedia: The Irene Craigmile Bolam Manipulated "Public Info Provided" On-Line Encyclopedia
Amelia Earhart Press Notice Samples
A Few Odd Rumors About Amelia Earhart
The National Geographic Channel 'Misfires' While Aiming At 'The Real Amelia Earhart'
The Amelia Earhart Truth Mistake We Make...
What Reality Now Tells Us, And Why People Fight It
Conclusion
The Tillman, Earhart Parallel
About The 2009 Movie 'Amelia' Starring Hilary Swank...
Opposing Views: Alex Mandel, Carol Linn Dow, TIGHAR & The AES Distort The Truth
WWII hero & retired USAF Major Joe Gervais...
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...in 1983 on his way to Howland Island. Amelia never made there in 1937.

How It All Began...
 
Recently it was verified there was more than one person identified in the past as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' Why is this important today, and how did the path to learning such information begin? In 1965 retired Air Force Major Joseph A. Gervais was five years into conducting an intense research study on Amelia Earhart's complete life story. This included his investigation of some peculiar information he'd come across about her disappearance. That same 1965 year one of Amelia's past good friends, famous pilot Viola Gentry arranged to fly Joe Gervais and his family across the country from their Las Vegas home to New York. Viola did such a thing so Major Gervais could share his research progress with a group of well known retired pilots who belonged to a club known as "The Early Birds of Aviation." There Gervais met a British-American couple, Guy Bolam of England and Irene Craigmile Bolam of New York, and he was astounded at Mrs. Bolam's incredible similarity to Amelia Earhart. He queried Mrs. Bolam, and he candidly took a photograph of she and her husband without their formal permission. Mrs. Bolam told him she had known Amelia "rather well," and they had "often flown together." Gervais also noticed how the couple was treated 'like royalty' among their peers, and how Mrs. Bolam, Viola Gentry, and Amelia's own survived sister, Muriel Earhart Morrissey all appeared to be good friends. Curious, because for one who was a veritable walking encyclopedia concerning who was who in U. S. aviation history, Gervais found it odd he'd never heard of an 'Irene Craigmile' before. Gervais tried to disclose such a historical quandary to the national news media, but he was quickly chastised by official history, by Amelia's and Irene's families, and by Mrs. Irene Bolam herself. In following years he thoroughly examined the personal life history of Mrs. Bolam anyway, only to find one hole after another. This included his inability to locate 'a clear linear visible record' of her person from prior to the 1940s. No matter, in 2005 Joe Gervais passed away after decades of always insisting how the wool had been pulled over the American public's eyes when it came to Amelia Earhart's true full life story. Meanwhile, during the same span of time official history managed to relegate Joe Gervais to obscurity, as much as it did the never solved Irene-Amelia controversy he made public all those years ago. All of this notwithstanding and not so incredibly anymore, if not almost predictable as well, during the course of the past decade Beyond 37' discovered the woman Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 was not the original Irene Craigmile. So much being so, who was she and where did she come from? After taking in Irene-Amelia.com, decide for yourself.

The Gervais-Irene, 1978; Amelia Earhart, 1923
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Head to toe and character trait wise; a true match.

Foreword

Beyond 37' has 'lifted the veil' off the buried history of Amelia Earhart. While always a world loved person, since the 1970s the Smithsonian's official 'famous American biography division' has passively described her 1937 disappearance as 'a mystery.' Why? In short the 'official silence' regard towards Earhart's loss ever since the event took place, left academic historians impotent when it came to seriously addressing it. True, over the course of the past four decades the Smithsonian has encouraged a three tier suggestive look at Earhart's final flight ending; 1.) She possibly crashed and sank (its most favored one), 2.) She ended up on the desert island of Nikumororo where she and Noonan eventually perished (TIGHAR's long dismissed but still advertised by the Discovery Channel 'Gilligan's Island' version of Earhart's ending), and 3.) She ended up in Japan's Imperial Mandate Islands where she either died of dysentery or was executed by Japanese soldiers.

Notice however, not one of the above suggested ideas offers the possibility of Amelia's survival beyond a short period of time (after she was reported missing) or the option of Japan's potential cooperative nature when it came to her post-disappearance well being. From above for example, consider what Admiral Chester Nimitz admitted in 1965 about Earhart's continued survival having been "known and documented in Washington," only to have it buried and subsequently diffused by 'official' U. S. history record keepers.

Amelia's 1928 flight brought her instant fame.
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Her 1932 solo Atlantic flight immortalized her.

Monsignor James Francis Kelley (1902-1996)The well known Seton Hall University President and friend of two Popes and Francis Cardinal Spellman knew the truth about the original Irene Craigmile, and how there had been a total of three different women attributed to the same 'Irene Craigmile' identity, to include his later life good friend, 'the Gervais-Irene.' In 1991 Msgr. Kelley admitted in a taped interview, how his late friend Irene Craigmile (Bolam) [the Gervais-Irene] had formerly been known as 'Amelia Earhart.' Of course the U. S. and the Catholic Church refused to offer credibility to his comment. As President Nixon remarked in the White House when asked (after the Irene-Amelia story first broke in 1970) "We don't discuss that around here."

 

Monsignor Kelley & the Gervais-Irene, 1980.
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The Gervais-Irene used the original Irene Craigmile's identity from 1945 to 1982.
Kelley with his sister, Gertrude Kelley Hession.
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Early 1980s photo.

Msgr. Kelley's sister Gertrude & the Gervais-Irene
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Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia 1976.

Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam
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From Beyond 37's study, overlayed with Amelia Earhart.

Some key information about Monsignor Kelley's long time close friendship with Irene Craigmile Bolam: In 1991 Monsignor James Francis Kelley, a former President of Seton Hall University admitted in a taped interview how his late long time friend, Irene Craigmile Bolam (AKA the 'Gervais-Irene') was previously known as 'Amelia Earhart.' He also mentioned he was 'instrumental' with helping to receive her back from Japan during the final days of World War Two. Father Kelley held doctorates in psychology and philosophy, and Irene Bolam's 1982 obituaries described him as her "close friend" and "confessor." Monsignor Kelley added how it was her own wish; "She didn't want to be Amelia Earhart anymore" after her varied war-time experiences. Dissenters called him 'crazy' and the press completely sidestepped his truthful reveal, until several years later, when the forensic comparisons were at last initiated. Decades before, in 1965 Admiral Chester Nimitz who Monsignor Kelley also knew, admitted to CBS/Earhart Author, Fred Goerner (mentioned above) how it existed as 'long withheld' information in Washington: 'In 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan were "picked up by Japan" after making it to the Marshall Islands.' In other words, the duo never really disappeared. He also added their future dispositions after they were 'picked up' remained unclear to himself and others on his level. It appeared evident though, Admiral Nimitz believed Amelia Earhart somehow survived the duration of World War Two. Yet those opposing the idea of Amelia Earhart ending up under the auspice of Japan suggested Admiral Nimitz didn't know what he was talking about. Many people agreed with him though, with some myopically pondering if Earhart was detained against her own will. Apparently she wasn't. [See more below.] Note: To date there has never been an 'official investigation' into the 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.
 

Below: The Gervais-Irene, who died in 1982 only started to appear as 'Irene Craigmile' in the mid-1940s United States after World War Two ended. Where did she come from? Isn't it odd how she appeared to be so similar looking to Amelia Earhart? Not really. Notwithstanding 'official silence' dating back to the World War Two era and the limited viewpoints expressed by opposing theorists; she definitely was, formerly known as... Amelia Earhart. Please continue to navigate this website for additional pertinent information.
 

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The 1960s and 1970s world-traveling, multilingual  'Gervais-Irene Craigmile (Bolam)' was nicknamed for USAF Major Joe Gervais (1924-2005.) [No relation to comedian Ricky Gervais.] In 1965 Gervais, who was forty at the time met and photographed the 'Irene' shown above at a gathering of well known retired pilots in East Hampton, New York. Gervais had been investigating Earhart's disappearance for several years. Having heard of him, Amelia's old pilot friend, Viola Gentry had invited Gervais to lecture about his Earhart investigative research to said retired pilots club, The Early Birds of Aviation. There Major Gervais was introduced to the 'Irene' above by Viola after he asked her to do so. It's amazing, in the mid-1940s the Gervais-Irene seemingly emerged from nowhere into Amelia's 1930s stomping grounds of Long Island, New York. She even lived in Great Neck for awhile, where Amelia had once lived. Beyond 37's forensic analysis displayed how the long suspected Gervais-Irene did share an exact head-to-toe congruence with Amelia Earhart after all. Those who claim otherwise, such as TIGHAR and the National Geographic Society wish for the truth to remain ignored. Note: Also see the Viola Gentry/Amelia/Gervais-Irene comparison pics under the 'Early Birds' letter a bit further down.
 

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Amelia, 1928, after the Friendship flight.

Eyes from the 1945 and on Gervais-Irene...
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...compared to Amelia's on the right.
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1928

A 1987 Marshall Islands Commemorative Stamp...
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...plane hoisted, Japan naval officer with Noonan and Earhart. "Picked up, not captured."

From FDR's Cabinet, Henry P. Morgenthau Jr.
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His duties well exceeded his job description of Secretary of the Treasury.

"  I hope I've just got to never make it public."
 [Below the following paragraph see the White House transcript where the above quote about Earhart appeared.]
 
A revealing quote about Amelia Earhart's actual fate. It appeared in a May 13, 1938 White House transcript. Spoken by FDR Presidential Cabinet member, Henry P. Morgenthau Jr., he is replying to Eleanor Roosevelt's request for the 'unreleased' White House official report on Amelia Earhart's July 2, 1937 disappearance. (The transcript was discovered in 1971.) Mr. Morgenthau mentioned a different reality he knew about Amelia's world flight ending. He appeared aware of what actually became of the famous pilot, and how it would harm Amelia Earhart's heroic image if people were made privy to the White House understood reality of the matter. (See more on this further down.) Mr. Morgenthau ended his transcripted communication by saying "think up a good one" when it came to explaining why the White House refused to openly discuss the case of Earhart's so-called 'disappearance.'  Previous Words from Amelia's friend and confidante, Eleanor Roosevelt also appeared somewhat conspicuous; "I do like her and I'll miss seeing her..." "Life might not have held such a happy future for her." [From a letter the First Lady wrote to her daughter the day Amelia Earhart was reported missing. Amelia had been a repeat White House guest of the Roosevelt's.] [Cook, 1999]

Below: Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s spoken words...
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...to the First Lady's secretary, Malvina Scheider about the withheld Earhart disappearance report.
1938 White House transcript continued from above:
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The lack of a "proper search" referenced the U. S. never searching the Marshalls.

Above: As he continued on during his meeting on Social Security reform, where others were present when Ms. Scheider interrupted him with her phone call, Morgenthau placed a spin on the First Lady's actual request she made on behalf of Paul Mantz and Jackie Cochran. The two had been close to Amelia before she left on the world flight she never came back from. Mantz and Cochran, as well as Amelia's left behind husband, George Putnam all believed in the possibility of Amelia having ended up further existing under the auspice of Japan among Japan's mandated Marshall Islands. The problem there, by May of 1938 the Sino-Japanese War was well underway as World War Two heated up. So where it was never permitted by Japan before anyway, Morgenthau could not even bring up the Marshall Islands idea to anyone where the survived Earhart came into play. George Putnam had also written the White House in late July of 1937 though, not long after Amelia turned up missing, suggesting the Marshall Islands as "the most fruitful place" to look. He was right, but he was outright ignored too, of course. At the end of the conversation Morgenthau ambiguously suggested "those islands" to the group present, leaving all to incorrectly deduce how a request to search the SAME islands (much farther south than the Marshalls, where U. S. planes had flown over before) had been made again. Of course Morgenthau had covered the truth. The politically correct idea he embraced, stemmed from how a certain White House inner circle shared an agreed viewpoint to maintain about Amelia Earhart. Again, their agenda described how Amelia had met her demise under hostile circumstances. Yet if the White House had known such a thing about Amelia, why did they conduct a search for her at all? What "evidence" did Gibbons claim to hold? Where he mentioned  "the thing is all over," was it? If Earhart died as the White House seemed to imply, why were her remains never shipped home? The Answer? Because she didn't die. To this day the White House seal on Morgenthau's words remains solidly in place. And the White House NEVER included, let alone mentioned a Marshall Islands suvival at all in connection to Earhart's last flight, and no doubt, so much has ever since remained a silent White House credo of tactful design. The silly theories pushed on the public today have nothing to do with what the White House knew all along, both about Amelia Earhart's flight ending and about her continued existence after the time she was last officially heard from. The White House inference was for people to accept how after July 2, 1937 Amelia no longer existed. To those in the room with Morgenthau that day, what they heard was an off-hand mention of Morgenthau's. It suggested Amelia had disobeyed orders and flew in a direction she wasn't supposed to, and the "not a very nice story" result stressed how Earhart and Noonan likely died after entering hostile Japanese territory, with the real implication being they were shot down. Except, it was a misconveyed account. Amelia (and Noonan) had continued to live after making it to the Marshall Islands, but no one was ever supposed to know about it, with the exception a select few, [to include the likes of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Emperor Hirohito of Japan] and it was something Amelia no doubt understood as well. The truth behind her so-called 'disappearance' became privately understood by this particular FDR White House inner circle. Then the advent of World War Two efficiently buried it even further, where by the end of the war Amelia's curious fate had become an all-but forgotten by the public item of concern. Only in 1965, when Admiral Nimitz mentioned how it was long ago "known and documented in Washington" away from all public view, how Amelia went down in the Mashalls where she and Noonan were 'picked up' by Japan, did people begin to realize another truth about Amelia's final destiny; one that had always secretly existed.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DURING PEARL HARBOR CONFERENCE. General MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz on deck of the USS Baltimore with the President, July 1944.
General MacArthur, President Roosevelt, Admiral Nimitz on the USS Baltimore, July 1944. These three famous figures from the World War Two era knew as much about the Earhart post-loss situation as anyone did. In 1965 Admiral Nimitz himself admitted it was "known and documented in Washington" that Amelia Earhart had survived to exist under the auspice of Japan. In the 1970s the Gervais-Irene was a friend to General MacArthur's widow, Jean MacArthur. The Gervais-Irene also had her love of flying and photography in common with her good friend, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

The word 'conspiracy' is one lined with negative connotations. Perhaps it is improper to use it when discussing Amelia Earhart's disappearance case, which appears complex beyond what such a word might stereotypically imply. There is no doubt Amelia had help with her private survival, but it appears the choices she made were mostly hers, and she merely appealed to close family and friends to enable her see them through. Not to mention the advent of World War Two surely threw a wrench into the works of her original intentions. It appears clear enough however, the American public was never supposed to know about it. This is why it remains argued against by pseudo historical authorities still today, who've managed to keep it from being generally accepted." Beyond 37's Tod Swindell, 2010

"You're onto something that will stagger your imagination."
Retired U. S. Navy Commander John Pillsbury's past comment to CBS Radio Journalist Fred Goerner, concerning Goerner's long term investigation into Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance. Fred Goerner discovered Amelia Earhart never did disappear, although the United States has maintained 'official silence' about Earhart ever since she was publicly declared 'a missing person.'
 

"You will always hear important sounding people tell you the Irene-Amelia equation isn't true. Well, it is true." 2001 quote from retired USAF Major Joe Gervais (1924-2005)
 

From a 1978 photo, the 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene.
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Recently a long-protected truth became known: Three women used the same 'Irene' identity

Blend: Gervais-Irene & Amelia Earhart
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Irene-1978 / Amelia-1923 at age 26

Below: KMBC TV Kansas City; From an article about Amelia Earhart investigative research by news journalist Lara Moritz (2009) 
 
"All the evidence all put together, I feel like she did survive," Foudray added. "I think she survived and came back to the United States." "Foudray calls the investigative research of Gervais and Swindell, "'just the tip of the Iceberg.'" From a May 7, 2009 interview with Lou Foudray of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum conducted by Lara Moritz of KMBC TV, Kansas City; and a 2004 Topeka Kansas Capital-Journal interview with Foudray by Jan Biles.
 

 
Below: Viola Gentry, Amelia Earhart, and Irene Craigmile referred to as 1930s "pals" in the same sentence.

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Above: Excerpts from a 1967 letter to Joe Gervais from Elmo Pickerill.

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1933
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Amelia Earhart, head slightly tilted in original above.
Blend: Gervais-Irene & Amelia
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Irene-1965 / Amelia-1933

Gervais-Irene / Gervais photo, 1965
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One of three women attributed to the same 'Irene' identity.

Blend: Gervais-Irene & Amelia
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Irene-1978 / Amelia-1923
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Irene-1965 / Amelia-1933
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Irene-1963 / Amelia-1928
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Irene-1976 / Amelia-1932
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Irene-1978 / Amelia-1929

Irene and Amelia as doppelgangers? No way. The overall 'Irene-Amelia' equation displays a different, long misunderstood forensic truth.

1945-1982 Gervais-Irene Craigmile (Bolam)
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At Cocoa Beach, Florida in 1965
The transition begins...
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...see Amelia's image becoming apparent.
Amelia's image starts to take over...
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...notice the congruent alignment; face, chin, neck, shoulders, et al.
Amelia's image dominant.
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From a 1935 photo taken during Amelia's pre Hawaii to Oakland flight sea voyage.

Above: The word 'doppelganger' (German) translates into 'non related twin' or 'double walker.'  Of course the Gervais-Irene and the original Irene Craigmile were not doppelgangers of each other. Nor were the original Irene Craigmile and Amelia Earhart doppelgangers of each other. However, lacking any admission of Amelia's continued survival with a new identity, with the public simply left unaware of such a thing, the congruence displayed between Amelia Earhart and the Gervais-Irene would suggest they were doppelgangers. Head to toe, foot size, arm length, height, hands, neck, shoulders, face, hairline, breastplate and more, they matched one another exquisitely. The simpler explanation of course; it is now known the original Irene Craigmile herself had somehow turned up missing by the 1940s, and the survived Amelia Earhart (who knew the original Irene's family) had assumed her gone friend's identity with a desire to no longer be recognized as the famous Amelia Earhart. She lived with her new name until she herself passed away in 1982. Those who still cannot accept such a reality are naively fooling themselves, and further submitting to the long existing 'official U. S. history' wish to have all accept how Amelia Earhart vanished without a trace in 1937, and was never seen again. In essence, to believe in any other suggestion on what became of Amelia Earhart other than the  'she became Irene' reality, merely plays into the hand of fabricating false history in lieu of real, albeit non-recognized history.       

The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile in 1930.
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After she gave birth to a son in 1934 she appeared to no longer exist.

The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile,1932.
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A past friend of famous pilots Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry.

What information have you heard, or what do you feel you understand about Amelia Earhart and her 1930s friend, Irene Craigmile? Why is Irene Craigmile never mentioned in Amelia Earhart's biographies? Why is it one Lloyd Royer, Amelia's first 'airfield beau' who once proposed marriage to Amelia before remaining her friend throughout her career hardly discussed? And why is Amelia's last closest friend, famous pilot Jackie Cochran barely even mentioned in any of Amelia's biographical profiles? Are you aware how in more recent years it was 'forensically' revealed a total of three different women had employed the same 'Irene Craigmile' identity? Is it at all curious how in his later years Lloyd Royer knew the Gervais-Irene too? And how Jackie Cochran claimed she didn't know her but it was eventually revealed she once threw a party for her in 1951? Have you heard what a former Seton Hall University President admitted in a 1991 recorded interview about his late friend Irene? Note: This odd story has existed in the public realm since 1970. Contrary to public opinion it was never disproved, and still to date it remains subjected to U. S. history obfuscation, family avoidance, and 'official silence.'

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.

[Note: See more details about the original Irene Craigmile's true background and the 'identity sharing' equation throughout Irene-Amelia.com]

The Non Gervais-Irene Craigmile
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Identified as 'Irene Craigmile' from the late 1930s to early 1940s.

1982 New Jersey News Tribune photo.
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Older version of the 'Non Gervais-Irene' also ID'd as 'Irene Craigmile (Bolam)'

Below: Familiar? The Gervais-Irene, c. 1945
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Info on her post-loss 'deviated septum rhinoplasty' and dental work is included in this website.
Post deviated septum rhinoplasty & dental work.
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The 'Gervais-Irene Craigmile'

The Gervais-Irene, 1978.
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Identified as Irene Craigmile (& later 'Bolam') from the early 1940s until her passing in 1982

"She certainly knew flying. She knew everything there was to know about Japan."
 
The above is a 1982 New Jersey News Tribune quote from one of Irene's friends, John Malloy of Rumson, New Jersey. Mr. Malloy expressed his opinion three months after Irene's passing. He and other survived friends of the 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam (Gervais-Irene) always viewed the issue of her true identity as suspect. Contrary to popular belief, the claim of the Gervais-Irene having been known as 'Amelia' in the 1930s was never proven false. It had been dismissed by friends and family of both Irene and Amelia, and negated by the press and the public as a non-likelihood for decades, but again, never was it proven false.

1945-1982 Gervais-Irene, harder exposure...
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...different angle too, all of eighty years detectable.

The Gervais-Irene, 1978.
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A long-hidden-from-the-public truth now appears to be revealing itself.

1978, the Gervais-Irene Craigmile...
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...proud with her wings, she was identified nowhere as "Irene" prior to the 1940s.
Below: Gervais-Irene, Amelia superimposition:
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Strange but true United States history...?

Amelia Earhart, age 26, before she became famous.
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"Lifting the veil off the historical record of Amelia Earhart."

The Gervais-Irene, 1978; Amelia Earhart, 1923
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A head-to-toe physical & 'character traits' comparison study.

Original Irene Craigmile, 1930
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The original Irene Craigmile, first learning to fly in 1932, Amelia and Viola's friend.

Known as Irene Craigmile late 1930s to early 1940s
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AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene,' photo circa mid-1940s

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...older version of the Non Gervais-Irene, est. age fifty-eight, 1982.

Note: From the mid-1940s until 1982 the Non Gervais-Irene (above center) was never publicly identified as Irene Craigmile Bolam, until months after the Gervais-Irene died in 1982. Then, photos of her appeared once again as Irene in an 'Irene Bolam' obituary sense in newspapers, and for example on the memorial dinner program cover above. She was not the Gervais-Irene, nor was she the orignal Irene. However, it is understood she was raised in the O'Crowley household. The 1934 born son of the original Irene Craigmile instantly recognized the Non Gervais-Irene's younger image as his early childhood mother figure. He also recalled the Gervais-Irene as his post-boarding school mother figure from the mid-late 1940s on. It is evident, although he has a hard time admitting or accepting so much, the son of the original Irene Craigmile, Larry Heller never knew his true birth mother.

Irene Craigmile, mid-1940s to 1982
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The 'Gervais-Irene' circa 1945

Post cosmetic & dental adjustments, nose work too,
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The 'Gervais-Irene Craigmile'

Gervais-Irene / Gervais photo, 1965
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Again, one of three 'same identity' Irenes.

An Extraordinary Coincidence?
Were Amelia And Irene 'Doppelgangers' In The 1930s?
 
Was it possible for Amelia Earhart and Irene Craigmile, two people who had known each other in the 1930s to have looked so much alike? Some say 'yes.' The 'doppelganger theory' states all living persons have a non-related identical twin. Concerning the 1930s friendship of Irene Craigmile and Amelia Earhart, was this the case? Most surely it was not, especially after the recent 'realization' occurred of three different women having used the same 'Irene Craigmile' identity. This is a new known fact the public was long left unaware of, and one U. S. historians are now begrudgingly having to contend with.
 
Where the mystery exists because it's 'supposed to exist,' what did the 1934 born son of the original Irene have to offer about it? Why was he quoted by the press in 1982 to say he "wished" for the issue of  Irene Craigmile's suggested 'plural identity' to "remain a mystery" as opposed to his digging for, or simply revealing the truth? Why was he not pressed further for answers? Why was his father never a permanent fixture in his household, and why does he hold no photos of his mother displaying her image before the year of 1947? Was the reality as offered correct, where his true birth mother had eventually succumbed by 1937 as a result of ongoing post childbirth complications, and it was hushed so her identity would be kept alive? What did a well known Catholic Monsignor disclose in 1991 about his late 'dear friend' Irene, (AKA the 'Gervais-Irene') and how could the Gervais-Irene, who was only recognized as 'Irene' from the mid 1940s until her passing in 1982 have at all appeared as a head-to-toe carbon copy of Amelia Earhart, who had supposedly 'vanished without a trace' in 1937? This includes her person having exhibited the same character traits Amelia did, and knowing several of the same friends Amelia had known, to include Amelia's own survived sister, Muriel Grace Earhart Morrissey.
 
And there's more, such as asking why government 'official silence' and/or 'dismissive obfuscation' from the Smithsonian Institute (a ward of the U. S. Government) has plagued this story ever since it was first made public in 1970? And again, what really became of the original Irene Craigmile who was seen no more after the 1930s? Or, why is 'official progress' never made in the 'solving' of the Earhart mystery? When asked about the renewed Earhart controversy at the White House in 1970, why did President Richard Nixon reply "We don't discuss that around here." And why are the recently discovered Irene-Amelia realities still glossed over by the press, and only 'quickly' rejected by the historically misinformed? Consider the following explanations about the still yet to be 'officially resolved' Irene-Amelia issue. Note: For four decades Earhart image protectors have persuaded all to sidestep the Irene-Amelia case, and to simply recall Amelia as a long-ago famous person who had disappeared in 1937, and 'most likely' died from a tragic plane mishap into the ocean. In truth however, the Earhart story exists as the most ridiculous famous American biographical profile ever unofficially concocted by official U. S. history record keepers. For it is obvious anymore (to some it had been for a long time already) Amelia quietly survived to eventually inherit the name of her one time friend, Irene Craigmile who was seen no more after the 1930s.

Amelia Earhart in 1933.
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The 'mystery' of her disappearance began four years later.
Amelia's 1933 Image blended equally with...
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...the 1940s-on Irene, AKA 'The Gervais-Irene.' (See more comparisons below.)

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1945-1982 ID'd 'Gervais-Irene' shown in 1965.
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AKA "Irene Craigmile" AKA "Irene Bolam" after her 1958 marriage.

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.

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...

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.

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.'

The Original Irene

The orginal Irene Craigmile, 1930...
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...no longer seen after the 1930s, she and Amelia were past friends.
1985, Amelia's sister Muriel & Grace McGuire.
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Grace is advanced as intricately linked to Amelia's hidden true story.

Again, 1985, AE's sister Muriel & Grace McGuire.
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They knew the Gervais-Irene; Grace was to fly around the world with the original Irene's son in 2006

A Garbo Prototype? Lifting Amelia Earhart's Historical Veil
In 1965 some curiosities were noticed concerning Earhart's disappearance. Few embraced them.
Now, newly discovered 'forensic truths' pertaining to what was first noticed in 1965
have significantly altered the landscape of Earhart investigative research.
 
 

Did Greta Garbo pull an Earhart, or did Earhart pull a Garbo? Why have the two 1920s and 1930s icons been compared in recent years? Hint: Both had dropped out of sight amid hidden pregnancy rumors, one in 1924 (Earhart) and the other in 1927 (Garbo) for almost a full year. Both were proposed to by the supposed father, and both utlimately chose not to wed. (Earhart would later endure a six-year 'business-partnership' marriage to George Putnam, while Garbo never married.) Both Earhart and Garbo were deeply private and evasive 'world famous people' who made no secret about the difficulties of dealing with their self-consuming careers, and after exiting their public lives at the height of their world fame, they eventually grew to be close with their own suspected and 'long hidden from the public' progeny no one knew they had. By the late 1950s Garbo and 'the former' Earhart were quiet New York acquaintances who some believe shared such a private understanding about each others past. Where so, it is also believed their progeny (daughters of both) also grew to be friends, and for what public lives they led their mother's cover stories worked well when it came to disguising their true origins. (One need only ask, who was the biological maternal grandmother of Grace McGuire? [See 'Muriel-Grace' photo above.])  Where so again, Garbo and the former Earhart; theirs existed as an amazing 'post-fame years' pact never deciphered, let alone, barely even thought about.
   

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The original Irene Craigmile in 1932; Amelia and Viola's friend.

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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 devoted Amelia Earhart researcher ever having pursued the mystery since 1960, 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. Fallout the Amelia Earhart Lives book caused notwithstanding, and still lacking official authoritative guidance, Colonel Reineck spent the last several years of his life trying to advance the Gervais claim of Earhart's name-changed survival to authenticity. Colonel Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived published in late 2003, was partly inspired by the Irene-Amelia forensic studies of Beyond 37's Tod Swindell. Several portions of the analysis appeared in the Reineck book, although more samples are better displayed in this website. [Beyond 37' was formed in 2001 by the Tod Evan Company in Los Angeles. It is run  by Investigative Researcher and Filmmaker, Tod Swindell who also serves as Chief Editor of Irene-Amelia.com. The research opinions and forensic material of Beyond 37' & Irene-Amelia.com have been copyrighted and renewed yearly by Tod Swindell, C. 2001-2011]
 

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