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What Happened to Amelia Earhart? The Full Story | Sleepy History with Rain Sounds

On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from New Guinea toward a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific and were never seen again. Tonight, we follow her story slowly from start to finish, until you drift off to sleep.

This calm, long-form history episode traces the full life and final flight of America’s most famous aviator. We begin in Atchison, Kansas, with a girl who wasn’t impressed by her first airplane, and follow her through her first flying lessons, her 1928 Atlantic crossing aboard the Friendship, and her record-breaking 1932 solo transatlantic flight to…

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