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  • Amelia Earhart Situation For Flight 370

    International attention focusing on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has led to collective concern that the most recent occurrence could be another unsolved global mystery, similar to the officially-unsolved case involving renowned pilot Amelia Earhart. Former U.S. aviation accident investigator Ric Gillespie, who studied the 1937 disappearance of Earhart, spoke about the public’s reaction to the recent unresolved tragedy.

    “When something like this happens that confounds us, we’re offended by it, and we’re scared by it. We had the illusion of control and it’s just been shown to us that oh, folks, you know what? A really big airliner can just vanish. And nobody wants to hear that,” Gillespie said.

    Though many are having difficulties grappling with the revelation that a plane can disappear from the technological radar in this day-and-age, the Journal of Transportation Security‘s editor-in-chief Andrew Thomas offered some realistic insight behind the limitations involving modern-day aviation advancements. “There are lots of reasons why they haven’t changed, but the major one is cost. The next-generation technology would cost $70 to $80 billion in the U.S.,” Thomas explained.

    Understanding the events that influenced the disappearance of Flight 370 represent only part of the public’s anxiety when discussing this most recent tragedy. Another part of the struggle is determining the societal recourse needed to lessen, if not prevent, future situations of a similar nature from occurring. According to Brian Havel, who is the director of DePaul University’s International Aviation Law Institute, “The international aviation legal system does not anticipate the complete disappearance of an aircraft. We just don’t have the tools for that at present.”

    The 1937 disappearance of female pioneer pilot Earhart shocked the international community and led to debates and discussions regarding potential underlying factors. Conspiracy theories have persisted since the late 1930’s just like the current onslaught of conspiracy theories concerning Flight 370. While it may be falsely comforting to hope that these events are relegated to the past, present-day aviation is not immune from disastrous mysteries.

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  • JonBenet Ramsey Murder, Cold Case After 17 Years

    Seventeen years later and no arrest has been made in the death of 6-year-old beauty pageant tot, Jonbenet Ramsey.

    In 1996, Ramsey’s body was found the day after Christmas in the basement of John and Patsy Ramsey’s Boulder, Col., home right after the discovery of a ransom note asserting kidnap.

    The young pageant prototype was found with a fractured skull and suffered from asphyxiation through use of a cord.

    Numerous speculations formed from this case during the investigation, one being that the parents were abusive.

    The Grand Jury that investigated the murder case in 1999 voted to indict her parents. Yet, the court could not find reasonable doubt and ample evidence to accuse Mrs. And Mr. Ramsey of murder.

    This information was not released until last October, putting a new spin on Ramsey’s murder details.

    Even after the extraction of DNA testing in 2008, including the parents and brother, Burke Ramsey, Boulder police have failed to link a suspect to the crime.

    “The case is still open, but is not actively being investigated and there are no new leads,” said Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner.

    Now after so many years of change for the Ramsey family-Patsy has been deceased for seven years and John is remarried-the investigation has come to a halt.

    Boulder investigators have recently declared Ramsey’s slaying a cold case.

    A little bit of Ramsey’s life is detailed in John’s book titled “The Other Side of Suffering,” which was released earlier this year. He goes into detail about his faith in God and how it helped him survive through the nightmare he endured during the case.

    Ramsey revealed in an interview with Christian Post that the longer the investigation stretches, the more he felt that the case would go unsolved.

    It looks like his predictions were correct.

    However, Beckner assures that Boulder police still has hope that someday the killer will be found.

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  • Mysterious Hum Heard ‘Round the World

    Mysterious Hum Heard ‘Round the World

    What do Taos, N.M.; Vancouver, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; Bristol, England; and Largs, Scotland all have in common? A select few residents of these diverse cities are victims of the Hum, a constant, low-frequency noise that has affected seemingly random cities around the world over the past several decades.

    Some people who can perceive the noise, called “hearers” or “hummers,” say it sounds like a diesel engine idling, according to a Live Science report.

    Several scientific investigations into the obnoxious noise have been conducted to no avail. The cause of the Hum and why it only affects certain people in certain areas is still unknown.

    Researchers have investigated everything from factories to traffic to determine the cause. Most agree that the phenomenon is real and not caused by mass hysteria. Many people who hear the Hum have had their hearing tested with normal results.

    Most Hum victims hear the noise indoors at night. Each “hearer” usually only experiences the Hum in one location, such as his or her home or workplace.

    The Hum is reported most often in rural and suburban areas. It generally affects people between 55 and 70 years old and only about 2 percent of the population in a Hum-zone can hear the noise, according to a study by acoustical consultant Geoff Leventhall.

    The unfortunate “hearers” are often driven crazy by the constant drone.

    “It’s a kind of torture; sometimes, you just want to scream,” Katie Jacques of Leeds, England, told the BBC. Jacques first started hearing the Hum in 2007.

    “It’s worst at night,” she added. “It’s hard to get off to sleep because I hear this throbbing sound in the background … You’re tossing and turning, and you get more and more agitated about it.”

    Some victims report feeling sick and getting nosebleeds as a result of the noise. One UK victim’s suicide was linked to the Hum, reported the BBC.

    This is not the first time the Hum has kept people up at night. The phenomenon was first reported in the 1950s.