The front page of the New York City Herald on April 16, 1912, describes the sinking of the Titanic.
(Credit: Library of Congress)
DNA has helped solved a nearly 70-year-old hoax — one that has haunted a family and its ancestors in the debacle over the identity of a girl who was said to have died on the Titanic.
When the massive ship struck an iceberg more than 100 years ago, it was believed that only one child from the first class died in the sinking ship: Loraine Allison. The 2-year-old apparently didn’t get safely on a life boat because her parents were said to have been frantically searching for her little brother, who unbeknownst to them was already on a life boat. Allison and her mother’s body were never found in the ship’s wreckage.
In 1940, 28 years after the Titanic went down, a woman named Helen Kramer appeared on a radio show claiming that she was Loraine Allison. She had an intricate story of being saved by the ship’s designer and builder Thomas Andrews, who was also thought to have died on board. Kramer said she was raised in England before going to boarding school in the US.
For more than 50 years, Krame… [Read more]
Related Links:
It’s a muttsterpiece! Dog and his human pal reenact movies
Glow-in-the-dark plants could soon light up your home
How Google and Nest could get the smart home all wrong
Snapchat CEO tweets e-mail exchange with Zuckerberg
Netflix reportedly plans streaming purge for January 1
     |
Post a Comment