Apparently people heard her calls later - after her last “official” transmission:
“In the week after her plane vanished on July 2, 1937, there were 120 reports from around the world claiming to have picked up radio signals and distress calls from Earhart – 57 of which were determined to be credible.
The distress calls suggest Earhart and a severely injured Fred Noonan were stranded on a reef, at the mercy of the tides.
These heartbreaking messages were picked up around the world by naval stations actively participating in the search, and casual listeners in their homes.
Later that night in the second ‘active period’ of signaling, a housewife from Amarillo, Texas heard Earhart say she was ‘down on an uncharted island - small, uninhabited.’
The transmission went on to say the plane was ‘part on land, part in water,’ and that the navigator Fred Noonan was seriously injured, and needed immediate medical attention.
That same night, a woman from Ashland, Kentucky heard Earhart say the plane was ‘down in ocean’ and ‘on or near a little island.’
She continued: ‘Our plane is about out of gas. Water all around. Very dark,’ before going on to mention a storm and winds blowing.
‘Will have to get out of here,’ she said. ‘We can’t stay here long.’
Almost all of signals considered to be credible can be traced back to Gardner Island, where Earhart and Noonan were likely marooned on a reef.
I have a cool AE story:
she was suppost to fly from Oakland to hawaia then to howland then to OZ in 1936, well she crashed the electra in Oakland and the plane had to be trucked back to lockheed in Burbank to be repaired..
well my Paternal Great grandpather and grand father worked at loclheed!!!
around this time my great grandm morther passed away my dad age 8 took it ver hard, so..
my grandfather decided to ask a favior and my dad age * and my aunt age 14 got to fly around with AE during the berial .
the ONE restriction for my dad and my aunt was to NEVER repeat a work that came out of her mouth..
AE swore like a longshoreman.. F this F that etc..
I tried to call BS on my dad.. but it was true.. NO pictures are to be had.