MISSING American aviator Amelia Earhart was eaten by gigantic land crabs after she survived a crash landing on Nikumaroro, a remote island in the middle of the Pacific!
Researchers believe Earhart and her injured navigator, Fred Noonan, became food for the island’s savage coconut crabs, which can weigh up to nine pounds and have four-foot-long legs, after their crippled plane plunged into the surf off the rock in September 1937.
Experts from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), who have camped on the island while hunting for the doomed daredevil, say hordes of the massive meateaters will surround their prey in the middle of the night, leaving no outlet for escape.
“The crabs close in on you,” says TIGHAR member John Clauss, a veteran of more than ten…
