10. Amelia Earhart After successfully making her mark as the
first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart
attempted to do one better and fly around the world. She instead
flew into thin air, disappearing somewhere over the Pacific in
1937. Declared dead in 1939, a skeleton that may have been hers
was found in 1940 on a remote Pacific island, although that,
too, disappeared after reportedly being carried away by giant
coconut crabs. Other theories insisted Earhart and her
navigator, Fred Noonan, survived but were captured and then
executed by the Japanese during World War II. The most bizarre
theory surfaced in a 1970 book, Amelia Earhart Lives, which
claimed Earhart was living in New Jersey as a woman named Irene
Bolam. That theory pretty much bit the dust when Bolam sued the
publisher for $1.5 million in damages, the book was pulled off
the shelves and a researcher said Bolam didn’t really look like
Earhart, anyway. 9. Butch Cassidy Bank robber, train robber and
legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy