The Philadelphia Experiment, a grotesque military urban legend, is an infamous World War II conspiracy theory that claims that the USS Eldridge was made invisible to enemies’ radar during 1943. The first test of the famous experiment took place on July 22, 1943, with the USS Eldridge being rendered invisible through an electrical field manipulation. The Fourth Naval District believes that the questions surrounding the “Philadelphia Experiment” arise from routine research.
The alleged event was witnessed by ex-merchant mariner Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy’s Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. In the fall of 1943, a US Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia. Claims of top secret experiments have long surrounded the USS Eldridge (DE-173), spawning numerous websites and queries.
The Navy has received innumerable queries about the “Philadelphia Experiment” or “Project” and the alleged role of the Office of the Chief of Staff. Customers find the movie entertaining and enjoyable, describing the story as interesting and the quality as good. Additionally, customers appreciate the idea that a US Naval ship traveled through time in 1943.
📹 The Philadelphia Experiment – The truth about invisibility, teleportation and time travel
The Philadelphia Experiment. It was October 1943. The day the US Navy mastered time travel, teleportation, and invisibility.
📹 The Philadelphia Experiment: The Cloaked Ship that Never Was
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My Dad was in the U.S. Navy from 1932 to 1958 and I heard of this from my Dad when I was very little. (I’m in my mid 60’s now). He didn’t have a specific name of the ship. He said it was an invisibility experiment, but the whole ship vanished and when it re-appeared, the men on board were seriously injured.
Hellenic Navy (greek navy) bought this ship, with 3 others of its class. It was renamed as Λεων (lion) and served in our navy. I had the opprtunity to sail with this ship 1985 and 1986 as a cadet officer. Knowing about the Philadelfia experiment, i searched the log books, and, in the dates of the experiment, there was nothing written. Also i perseived that in some bulkheads in the mid and aft of the ship, where some weldings that didnt make sense. Also in some compartments aft, which were for sailors sleeling beds, where modified for some reason, then put back to normal. 1988, when i was a lieutenant junior grade, the ship was in bed at the naval training center, and the u.s. navy request it back. The ship was so rusty that could not sail to the u.s. I was transfered and dont have idea what happened. Some say it went to scrap ….
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In the early 70’s my NJRTC instructor who was a retired high ranking officer in the Navy told us about this whole incident. He said when he first heard about this while he was a commander in the late fifties it was told as a farce. He couldn’t believe it when years later people actually started to believe it.
Thank you so much for doing this article. My uncle was a plank owner (first crew) on the Eldridge he was on the ship from the day it was commissioned till the day it was decommissioned. He says it never happened he was on board on the dates this was to happen. He wrote to the author of the book The Philadelphia Experiment many times with no response. Naturally I have taken a great interest in this story. I have watched and read everything comes my way on the subject. It is interesting many crew members are still alive, why do you never see any of them in stories about it. My uncle about 15 years ago showed me a periodic Eldridge newsletter with an article about this and the crew’s reaction to it, some were mad like my uncle, and some were more whimsical about it. But none were ever contacted about it by anyone claiming it happened. Again, thanks for debunking this absurd story.
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I watched a doc that said Nicola Tesla was first asked to work on this project. He setup the ship with everything it needed but kept insisting that nobody be on the ship because the magnetism would have a very negative effect on the crew. Along the way he was assured that nobody would be onboard. Once the project was at the point to be tested the government changed the plan to include people, Tesla protested, then quit. Not only did the government, so it was told, go ahead with the first test but instead of a low power test it was a full power test, with people onboard. The doc goes on to say the same things that we have all heard, madness, human/ship infusion, etc. Perhaps this is something you can find more information on.
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Got to say I love your website. You’re impartial, fun to watch and just down right interesting, and I’m a skeptic. Though I appreciate this particular story most likely took place – you’re going to be big! Actually just noticed how many subscribers you’ve gained since this morning. You deserve them! Good luck!
As a kid back in the early 80’s I got the chance of perusal this story’s movie adaptation. Which starred Michael Pare, and it really left quite an impression in my young mind. It made me more inquisitive of government’s motives whenever it comes out with pronouncements in certain matters involving ” national security”! Not just there in your part of the world but specially here in mine!
I remember back in my early 20’s reading about the Philadelphia experiment. I so wanted that to be true. I read how the event was accomplished by developing a large stationary magnetic field that was then rapidly pulsed by other magnetic fields creating a rip in space time. Made since to me at the time and I wondered at the time if there was a way to duplicate that on a small scale. I had a secret desire to try that one day when I had some time, expertise and money. Later after the military I went on to get an electrical engineering degree. After which I started working with a healthcare equipment manufacturer as a service engineer. One of the products I serviced in time was Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems. MRI’s use large powerful magnets. Gradient magnetic fields and RF pulses to ultimately create images of soft tissue structures in the human bodies. But I never saw one create a rip in space time. So I had to come to terms that I wasn’t going to be able to create my own teleportation time machine based off what supposedly happened in Philadelphia. But, I still hold out hope for kidnaped by UFO aliens and taken for a galactic tour after the anal probe. Big Foot promised me, so I believe.
I don’t know of any who would have gone on public record because of orders they received to keep quiet, but older navy men used to occasionally reveal bits and pieces about this to younger men they trusted. The ones I’ve heard of from the younger navy men in the 1970s and 80s (when there was next to nothing published on this) include someone who was in Norfolk on the docks when the Eldridge appeared and then disappeared (and heard the men aboard screaming), a man whose brother was stationed on the Eldridge at the time and whose parents received that most dreaded of all telegrams, and later only a tiny sealed metal box (smallish shoebox size) of remains to bury, and one poor fellow who had the nightmarish job of having to use a welding torch to cut corpses out of the metal of the ship. Others were stationed in Philadelphia, heard there was a mystery, and hung around gawking and trying to pick up info. They knew that something had gone really wrong in a most unusual way, security was amped up, lots of brass coming and going. Official records unfortunately are almost routinely changed whenever ‘necessary’.
This has got to be one of the best I’ve ever seen regarding project rainbow and the screening of warships against mines and enemy radar. Something I found out about 6 months ago was that Tesla and Einstein were both supposed to have been involved in developing the technology behind it. I found trying to unravel the mystery and hype surrounding it all, is like trying to unravel the Gordian knot.
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My Grandfather worked for the government, he was involved in top secret research and development for military planes, stuff too complicated for me to wrap my head around. He passed away earlier this year but i recall him talking about the Philadelphia project over a decade ago. He was a very switched on sort of bloke, had to be for his field, but I remember him telling me this story when I was a kid.
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One added tidbit of “proving” this happened that I haven’t heard anyone mention and something I thought of because I used to be into the coin hobbies, the ship was supposedly wrapped in many coils (hundreds of feet worth) of solid, half inch copper, which was energized. Philadelphia also has a mint. Pennies were made of steel that year. Where else would you go to wrap a naval ship with tons of copper?
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The vessel was sold to Greek Navy under the new name : Leon.It served Greek navy until 1992 and then returned to the usa .One friend who served as a sailor once told me that there were cut of cables that had no meaning,big cables through the walls.He also mentioned locked places,and metallic base’s with nothing on them.The ship during traveling used to change course unexpectedly for no obvious reasons.
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Fascinating stuff! I’m very open-minded but often look at the little things. Like if crew members were fused into the ship’s structure, why didn’t other equipment on the ship get fused into other things, or why didn’t water next to the hull suffer the same fate or even sink the ship? Love quandaries like this!
I’ve been so intrigued about this topic for many years. Thank you for the research you did to give us this, and your production is fantastic!! (Love Heckle fish). You said the ship’s log says they weren’t in Philadelphia that day, but were in New York. If it were that top secret, would that have false entries into the ship’s log? Ok. Perhaps I’m a little too similar close to Heckle fish’s way of thinking. That’s ok. Love our work, and I’m telling my family and friends. Love, and peace, brother!
Growing up my best friends dad was in the military. I remember when we were teens he was talking about his service, which was rare. He was an MP in the army, stationed at a military psych ward outside Philadelphia. I believe it was near Phoenixville or Potstown. My buddy pointed it out to me on a visit to see his family. Anyway he said there were a number of survivors from the Philadelphia experiment locked up there. He asked if I was familiar, and I was, and told me they had special walled rooms made of lead or some material. He said he watched thru the window a patient try to lay down on the bed, and theyd just go right thru it to the floor. He said uglier things happened but wouldnt tell us. We were about 15/16 at that time. I dont know if he was just telling stories, but if you could read his demeaner youd know it bothered him. Truely dont know. Hes long gone now and i havent talked to his son in years. Thought itd be cool to share. Never really talked about it before.
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The crew of the ship that was tested on had a couple of loudmouths aboard. They had gotten drunk at a local bar and were celebrating how their ship turned invisible. They were shut up, most likely by fellow crew members, and nothing more was said about it. The attempt to cloak the ship worked, and they were indeed invisible to radar or mines or whatever it was they were testing. That part wasn’t overheard. The drunken sailors just said invisible.
The way I understand it, they don’t often perform autopsies on suicides. I heard this in the context of the story of a man whose wife had apparently put a gun in her mouth and shot through the top of her head. The police medical examiner thought it was odd though that she had shot through her tongue as well as her skull. The end result was, of course, the same, but because of the discrepancy they opted for autopsy and called the husband for consent. This as may we a day or two after the event. “Autopsy?” said the husband, “what do you mean? I called the hospital a week ago and asked, you guys don’t do autopsies on suicides.” So, that one got reclassified as murder pretty quickly.
Isn’t there a story about some sailors getting teleported to the 1960’s or something like that? I vaguely remember hearing about that. IIRC, 3 sailors ended up in a bar dressed as sailors from WW2. They were disoriented and when they were asked how they got there (as no one saw them walk in), they said they came through a door that didn’t exist behind the bar.
I was stationed at philly naval ship yard. A friend and me were jogging on base passed the last dry dock. We paralled an over grown fence that ran for a while until my freind suddenly stopped and looked at a completely over grown section. You couldnt see the fence at all. He tore away some of the vines and there was a gate with a pier number. There was a very old sighn the said ” No admitance beyond this point” DANGER”. We had never evan heard of anther pier. Beyond the gate was a over grown road. We thought it was weird and ran on. A couple of days later at muster it was announced that the base had no go zones due to a security breach. The only no go zone was in that area.
I served in the Navy for five years, starting in 1993. You are right about the system used for radar invisibility. Beyond that, much of what is claimed about the Eldridge is fairly laughable. Among other claims include it getting caught in a time tunnel of sorts, being transported to Mars (yes, there was such a claim), and that two sailors found themselves transported from the Eldridge to the Mountauk Radar Station, where they were apparently monitoring the events happening to the Eldridge, but in the year 1985 (which was apparently the basis for the movie). There is even book called “The Mountauk Project: Adventures in Synchronicity” that claims to detail all of this. I dismiss it as being akin to the book “How to Build a Flying Saucer and Other Projects in Speculative Engineering”. I am of the opinion that the military allows some conspiracy theories to persist since in allows a level plausible deniability. That is to say, if something is brought to light, the military is able to say that there were already stories floating around anyway, and that what was happening wasn’t necessarily what the conspiracy theorists claimed. Oddly, this happened.
I find it interesting that this Sci Fi writer somehow came up with a concept that time travel would cause fusing to a hull when literally every article game proves his theory correct. In a article game, if you move an object anywhere and another object exists they simply collide, often fusing together. You gotta think, for someone of his time to imagine that happening isn’t exactly likely. It had to have occurred previously to imagine it.
I can tell you that I live in Philadelphia PA & heard stories of the experiment. Also G.E . Had a large R&D plant in the south West Philadelphia area that is only a few miles away from the navy yard . Also the navy yard had secret entrances that no one knew of until the 1980’s . So they could have been building equipment and moving it from the G.E. R&D plant . The site for the GE plant is now the large Philadelphia Postal service building . This area was once called the Meadows, or swamps.
I was waiting to see if you mentioned the ship’s location according to its log. The log to which you are referring is the bridge log. At least one researcher claims that the log was falsified, because the ship’s engineering log (essentially its maintenance record), says it was in Philly. From 1951 to 1952, the Eldridge was in the service of the Greek navy, and the ship’s engineering log went with the transfer. Allegedly, examination of the ship’s engineering log while in Greek service revealed the ship was in Philly on the supposed date of the experiment. If you don’t believe ship’s logs are falsified in order to cover up mistakes, read a thorough account of the Battle of Jutland.
I’m pretty sure the research I’ve done on the Philadelphia Experiment says that it was originally a time travel experiment where they hoped to travel a few minutes into the past to surprise the Japanese in a potential battle at sea.. Nikola Tesla was involved at first as they were using Tesla coils to generate the energy they needed.. but Tesla knew something would go wrong and warned them against it but they didn’t listen to his warning so he left the project.. Albert Einstein was also involved in it.. they actually accomplished what they wanted to do even at the expense of the sailors who were killed or injured… They discovered that the science worked and I’m sure they’ve improved on it exponentially since the 40s.. but I can assure you that the technology wasn’t abandoned after they found it worked.. it was compartmentalized and weaponized.. and is still being used around our galaxy..
I like the unified field theory. It pays homage to the creation of the universe… when the only form of energy was a combination of all energy. The laws of physics and everything we know now about time/space, did not apply at that point in “time”. After that point though.. when time became a thing…. the separation of forces also became a thing. Its completely plausible to say that there is enough energy in the universe to negate time.. but it would take ALL the energy in the universe to revert back to the big bang, in order to make it happen. To put it simply, there are forces present to slow time for the observer(gravity… event horizon etc), but it is theoretically impossible(based on Einstein, and pretty much every physicist that has ever been worth a shart) to move backwards in time. Foward, yes.. backwards, oh hell no!
My grandfather (died when my dad was young) brought the Eldridge into and out of commission and worked with Einstein on this project. I remember perusal a History website documentary when I was a kid that had photos of him in it. After his service many of our family members have developed shaky hands with no medical explanation. I wish I could have spoken to him about what actually happened here.
This seems too odd to be speculation. I’m sure it happened. The biggest disappearing act is government accountability to it’s people in this country. It’s hard to believe the US government is “of” the people, “by” the people and “for” the people. The disinformation is enormous. They truly don’t give a shxxt about us.
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I love the tesla stories.. the poorly grounded ship.. the naval paint smoking as a ship becomes electrical weld unit.. steam and smoke screening a ship.. a mirage in the distance.. people poorly protected and melted on board… so easy to do glad it’s just a story.. have you done the tesla spaceship ride.. good story that too.. will look.
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Why no mention of Al Bielek, who figures prominently in other stories about the Philadelphia Experiment? According to one such story, he and his brother were aboard the ship and jumped off when things went squirrely. Only instead of landing in water they claimed they jumped in time and space. Perhaps you plan to cover them in your episode on the Montauk Project?
The article forgot to mention, according to the legend, that some of the members of the Eldridge crew traveled to 1984, and yes a movie was made in the 1980’s with that exact same plot. I remember this story from an episode or maybe a made for tv movie back in the 1970’s or 1980 which, unfortunately i can’t remember the name of, was about the Bermuda Triangle. It then segued into the Philadelphia Experiment. It featured reenactments of events. I remember the documentary showing how a crew member still suffered from the experiment. while sitting on his bunk bed he would feel ill and he would begin to disappear right in front of another sailor. The other sailor who had the most shocked look on his face, watched him as he would vanish and then re-materialize. Another scene was of another crew member having dinner with his family, he then got up from the table with the intention of going into the kitchen, walked through the dining room wall and was never seen again. The narrator even said that too. It was a really cool documentary that had such interesting tales about the Bermuda Triangle. There was a story of a tug boat captain pulling a barge through the Triangle and a weird greenish fog moved in. It was so thick he couldn’t see the barge he was towing but when visibility returned he could see the barge was not tied to the tow anymore but the rope was still behaving as if it was connected to the barge. It was sticking straight out and connected to nothing! I wish i could remember the old show.
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This was on Antient Aliens n the episode was called the Philadelphia experiment. This is why I love that show so much because all the shows you do were on Antient Aliens like the hollow moon theory,Project MK ULTRA, project paperclip, project bluebook, HAARP, ECT. IF you guys like this website you would love Antient Aliens on the history website. I have seen every episode like literally 20 times each. It’s that great!!
I was reading a book about Robert Heinlein and one of his fellow authors and friends wrote about working with Heinlein at the Philadelphia Naval Yards. He wrote that after the rumors of this experiment came out and fans would give him a wink after they found out he and Heilein worked together to the Naval Yards. He then wrote that he only wished they would have worked on something like this. He and Bob were actually working on a way to keep fighter canopies from icing up at high altitude. They were working on a de-icer fluid. :😀
AJ, your articles are actually amazing. Thank you for creating such wonderful content. Here is my opinion on this. It did actually happen. I know it, although it is difficult for anyone to prove atleast in this age but I believe the incident took place. The government was experimenting with energy for teleportation & time travel. They were successful in creating a portal but it was not stable hence many people melded with the matter of the ship as if their molecules were mixed & merged with that of the ship when they appeared in philadelphia back again. It’s strange to think about this but people have to start to be open minded for humankind to progress. Also, this information is provided in Dolores Cannon’s convulted universe book part 3.
Do you train in Kenpo Karate? At the end of the articles, you present both hands open, then a fist covered with your other hand and then prayer. We use all three in our solution before and after class. Open hands mean I have no weapons, then highly treasure the art of Kenpo, and prayer is we ask for forgiveness if we ever have to use it. Or the hand signs at the end were just a big coincidence. LOL. Great articles!
To create invisibility you must negate the charge of the electrons within the protective covering of what you wish not to be seen. The protons field must be minimized in balance with the neutrons so that light partials pass through the solid mass creating a wodow-like appearance. This is achieved through harmonic resonance apparatus worn or placed upon the item or individual wishing not to be seen
It was related to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity of using a nuclear reactor to open up a dimension the military already knew exist from the Roswell findings. Had a friend who served in the Army as a MP and said he was there where they hid the Roswell Craft and other items of seeing many scientists and top Genrals visiting the site, The Philly project was said to be actual experimtation as he saw some of the metal panels from ship stored at same site of Roswell items. He said he heard from other MPs some Sailers on ship were melted or turned to goo, within the metal!!!
This theory is fun, but there are several in accurate assumptions with what this system does. I was one of 3 people in charge of the degaussing system onboard a destroyer years ago. The system isn’t a wild high power system, and it doesn’t do everything people claim it does. It’s a fairly simple system, it’s how the system is used that makes it successful. That being said, while I served i would joke that “we officially invisible” after performing the maintenance required before going underway. Some people on the ship started to believe that we were literally invisible. It’s not difficult to get people to believe wild things when they don’t have any understanding of the “how and why” if it all.
The navy was working on demagnetizing the hull to keep magnetic mines away as Katy has said. You wrapped wiring around hull, run a current through it, and the ship is demagnetized. That is all. From 1940 onwards the hulls of most large British ships were fitted with degaussing cables well before the Philadelphia Experiment.
This happened to me the other day, I lit up a blunt and soon I was surrounded by a green fog… 3 hours later I woke up in a different room, which I was later told was “the kitchen” and ALL around me were empty food boxes and my right hand was fused to a can of Pringles. When I looked up there was even a strange note on the fridge in those magnetic letters, which read “GRIUVEFT MKCPO”. I know that means something but I can’t figure it out. What a trip man!
1 “The Philadelphia Experiment” was a decent enough movie. Not great, not bad, fairly entertaining. Not “Back to the Future” good, but worth a look. 2 Simon “No one went to make something awesome and made something even more awesome.” Seriously, bro? Super glue (cheap, clear, acrylic glass). Silly Putty (cheap synthetic rubber). Slinky (machine springs). It totally happens!
If an object the size of a ship blinked out of existence in Philadelphia and appeared suddenly in Virginia, wouldn’t you get a massive implosion at the point of departure (as air rushed in to fill the space where the ship had been) plus a matching explosion at the point of arrival as the ship instantly displaced both air and seawater as it materialised? (Plus, you’d get a second implosion/explosion pair when the ship returned)
Here’s what actually happened. A guy or a few who served on the Eldridge, probably with the degaussing tech, went to a bar and told some Coast Guard blokes about their fancy, invisible to mines’ tech. With more and more booze, the claimes became bolder and bolder. Who could prove them wrong? This was top secret stuff only they knew about. Allan might have been one of the listeners. Smart enough to understand that they did actually talk about real physics at times. Gullible enough to want to believe their hushed claims, as outlandish as they might have gotten. And when it had festeres long enough within his head, he came to believe. It may have been even simpler. Some talks among sailors about a tech that made a ship invisible to mines could circle and the mines were ommitted. The rumor spread as a tale to be told over a beer. Ship’s name stuck, but details were added and the thing transformed into the myth. Allan heard it and went from there. Source: Been in the Navy. We did this to people all the time. We did it to Army soldiers. Wie did it to Airforce people. We did it to civilians. We did it to people from other Navies. Heck, we did it to new recruits. Believe me when I tell you that this story isn’t the most hilarious one I heard. Some people would believe it all.
2:05 – Chapter 1 – A note 3:25 – Chapter 2 – The philadelphia experiment(Part 1) 8:00 – Chapter 3 – The experiment is brought to light (Part 2) 16:30 – Chapter 4 – Debunking the philadelphia experiment (Part 3) 20:05 – Chapter 5 – The eldridge 22:35 – Chapter 6 – The SS Andrew furest 24:00 – Chapter 7 – Carl allen 26:40 – Chapter 8 – The actual experiment 30:25 – Chapter 9 – Last bits & bobs
Meredith is a Welsh name that was historically given to men, but more recently became far more common for women. On the show Stargate, and Stargate Atlantis the character Dr. Rodney McKay’s real first name was Meredith. Something he kept secret but his sister revealed it as she liked to call him “mere”
…wonder why no one’s seemed to have taken into account, the instantaneous displacement of the many, many tons of water from a teleporting ship, or the sudden absence of that displacement. 🤔 Not to mention, even if cloaking the ship had been a thing, how would they mask the displacement of the water? Wouldn’t you be able to see an absolutely massive hole in the water moving around and creating a bow shock/wake? 😄
Actually, Galvanized Rubber is an example of somebody messing up and inventing something more awesome. The guy who invented rubber was trying to create a better epoxy/glue product. He got the mixture wrong and we have a better material from it That being said, the biggest notion countering it, is we don’t actually have any technical appliances as a side effect of this project. Like, from going to space we go Tang out of that matter. If this happened, we’d have gotten technological applications we can see in day to day life Hell, even Project Acoustic Kitty has shown its own influence on technology we have around today
I have an idea- Sometimes, coverups and conspiracies turn out to be true (rarely, but it’s happened. Light bulb manufacturers, for example). What if you made a game out of that, similar to the real or fake mystery scripts you’ve been doing? Get a bunch of conspiracy theories, find some that turned out to be real, and make Simon guess which ones actually happened
There’s also The Final Countdown movie from 1980. It had Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglass. I remember seeing that as an 11 year old boy. That movie blew my mind on the same level as Star Blazers. The Warp Drive of the Space Ship Yamato was reminiscent of the warp of the S.S. Eldridge. My mind was really blown away when years later I saw Event Horizon with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill. If you carefully watch how the air moves around a jet during a “sonic boom”, the strange patterns are ALSO reminiscent of the Invisibility of the Predators.
Surely Simon knows that the word “dudgeon” (which does in fact rhyme with “dungeon”), is a perfectly common English word meaning “a feeling of resentment”? Just look up “High Dudgeon” – the sort of feeling I get when a purported Englishman fails to pronounce correctly even the most simple words (in any language let alone his native tongue). Props to his scriptwriters for filling their scripts with words and names they know Simon will destroy!
33:40 — Pretty much all Navy ships in any navy in the world that reach the end of their useful life without sinking from enemy action or mishap are sold for scrap. This was even true in the era of wooden ships, since the sheer amount of timber in a ship of the line was worth salvaging. If they actually do have anything secret on board, it’s simply removed before the sale.
Things like this bring me back to my middle school days. I used to go to the school library whenever I could, and I was fascinated by books about “the unexplained”. In hindsight it probably wasn’t super responsible for the school to have books like this, because to a rational adult those books were obviously fiction, but that was NOT obvious to me at the time. I believed in everything from aliens to bigfoot to doppelgangers.
Hey Simon I spent 10 years in the Navy they were rumors floating around when I was in that the USS Eldridge was replaced because of the Philadelphia Experiment that the original one couldn’t be used because of the so-called bodies that refused into the ship that’s something that I just figured I’d make mention
My brother and I saw the movie The Philadelphia Experiment in the theater. At the time, we thought it was really cool. I had no idea it was supposed to have been based on possibly true events. The main character was played by Michael Pare. I thought he was going to go on to huge success in the next few years.
Fun facts: *the ship end up in Greek navy and became almost immediately the source of many urban legends or as are called in Greek army jargon ” radio arvila ” stories ( radio boot ) One of the reasons why,was that there was wiring and doors leading to ” no where” and parts of the ship being unaccessible *Of course very common things in ww2 veteran ships like her sister ship also handed to the Greek navy that you can see it in the movie ” Alice in navy ” * The Armenian navy made a final check out before the ship was allowed to be decomissioned * Right afterwards it was recycled and it’s steel was made into razor blades 😄
While I like perusal Simon tear about complete nonsense like this, I’d love to see him tackle some less ridiculous and far more suspicious mysteries. Here’s two suggestions: Michael Hastings: Investigative reporter who was critical of the US Government and war in Afghanistan. In 2013 he sent an email out to friends and contacts claiming he was on the verge of something huge, was going to go into hiding for awhile, and they should expect visits from the FBI due to their association with him. Two days later he was driving alone when his car accelerated to max speed and ran into a tree, killing him. Experts investigating the car crash have all been eerily similar. Everyone says while they do not personally believe there was any foul play in this case, it is possible to execute a cyber attack on a car, the government almost certainly has that capability, and if someone wanted to hack the car to kill him, that is exactly how to go about doing so. Gary Webb: Journalist who published an exposé in the 90s detailing an alleged connection between the CIA and drug cartels largely responsible for creating the crack epidemic a decade earlier, with the CIA then using that money to fund Contra anti-communist rebels in Central America. He was aggressively discredited, forced to resign and years later committed suicide by shooting himself not once, but twice in the head. While parts of his story are still generally considered inaccurate, since his death the CIA connection to the drug business has all but been confirmed by multiple sources.
I remember doing a report in high school about the Philidelphia experiment. I debunked it back then. This was before the internet. There seems to be 2 objectives. 1) electronic warfare used as radar invisibility. 2) electronic camouflage. The degaussing coil was nothing new. You had 10KW transmitters on deck, 100KW main transmitter, 20KW degausing coil. I don’t know if that was transmitting power or power consumed. The 2nd idea was to heat up the air around the ship using an RF heating technique. This changed the refractive index of the air, much like how heat above a campfire does. So instead of see a ship clearly through binoculars, you see a blur or smudge. Not invisible, but roughly camouflaged. So, with the radar jammed, and a blur closing in on your position, you had not much of a way to target your opponent, except optics. That was the theory. Instead, they ended up microwaving some rather unfortunate sailors who were on deck. I imagine it was pretty horrific. Everything else about it was overheard in a bar.
YES!! Do an episode about the Montauk Project! I love seeing/hearing other people’s perspectives. This episode is so much fun to watch and hear (well the tangents too). It wouldn’t be as good without them. Cloaking would only work in space anyways. You’d hear the engine noise, even a bicycle makes noise. Let’s not mention the obvious…the water just moving on its own.
I remember listening to Coast to Coast AM late one night (can’t recall if the host was Art Bell or George Noory at the time). Some guy called in, I think it was a man named Al Bielek claiming to be part of the Philadelphia Project along with the Montauk Project, he even claimed that he was a different person before the end of WW2 but was reverted back to a child with captured Nazi tech. Then he went on to say that the Montauk Project was basically a space-time stargate worked on in partnership with various alien species. He travelled 800 years in the future where Earth’s pop is 500million, each city is ruled by a highly radioactive supercomputer than can scan your brain for crimes and he is told that there is an attempted alien invasion in 2012. So yeah.
Hey Simon – Re: your thoughts on the Moon Landing Conspiracy, you should see a movie called Capricorn One. It’s a movie from around the 80’s if I remember right, and it involves faking a Mars landing, and all the nonsense the government would have to do to cover it up. It’s great at showing how impossible a conspiracy of that scale would be.
This episode really got me thinking. I will say I do believe the Navy has been involved in some bizarre shit. My grandfather was a WW2/Korea naval vet and he had some crazy story (but most of them do). I do remember him mentioning the Philadelphia experiment and that he felt it was suspicious, but this was in the early 2000’s so I don’t have the details. I also know a guy who suspect Bin Laden’s corpse was brought onto his ship, but he’s not certain because they put all non essential men into what was pretty much a lock down so very few were allowed to even know what was happening, the timeline just added up and him and all his mates guessed that’s what it was.
I have always thought that the most probable explanation for this urban legend was that the Navy really did wire a ship up with a bunch of electrical generators trying to mess with radar signatures and through a horrible accident just managed to electrocute most of the crew….not wanting to admit they did the stupidest thing in the world by wiring up a giant metal ship in the middle of the harbor and killing a few hundred valuable sailors in the middle of the second world war no less they decided this was the best way to cover the whole thing up. The few remaining survivors were probably made to sign NDAs and threatened with jail time should they ever tell anyone about the accident.
This Philadelphia experiment sounds a lot like a real world attempt to teleport a battleship 2 feet to the left that was carried out in the Philipines. Not only did the ship not teleport but it exploded and was structurally damaged along its length. There were people embedded into the metal or rather bits of people, but this was a product of the explosion, rather than material translation.
Simon insisting all aliens would be super intelligent because they made spacecraft is like assuming everyone who drives a car is smart enough or able to build and operate it. In my head, any aliens who get here are incompetent or being punished by getting sent to the “ball of dirt covered in parasites.”
To answer Simon’s question, if a particle teleported(quantum tunneled) to where another particle is, they make a nuclear fusion. This is actually how the sun produces energy, because the temperature inside the sun is not enough for direct fusion, they can only happen by quantum tunneling. So Simon’s guess is correct.
When I first heard about this as a freshman in highschool I asked my history teacher (a navy vet) about it and he sighed and shook his head. No, he said, not invisible to the eye but invisible to water mines and explosives. Then asked the same question to one of my mom’s ex-boyfriends (another navy vet) and got the exact same response. The history teacher even went as far as saying he visited the ship while he was in the service and got to read the not too secret parts of the ships log. Such a cool story, I still bring it up for friendly debates with friends and family.
The major hi-tech innovation of the times: magnetic resonance/influence exploders* on the US Mk XIV and German T II/G7E torpedoes, in addition to the magnetic influence mines you’ve mentioned. The failure of these systems led to improved versions, which, in turn, made degaussing of warships a major need. *These magnetic resonance exploders were buggy as anthills, chiefly due to the magnetic field changing as a ship moves across the globe. The torpedoes needed adjusted for each band of latitudes in which their parent submarines inhabited during a war patrol.
The documentary I saw was about making ships hard to see by hanging a lot of lights on the side. The idea was instead of a ship being a dark spot in the distance against a light background as normal it was a light spot against a light background. The documentary showed the ship with the light racks on the side. The lights overloaded the electrical system, and caused a fire. Some crewmen were hospitalized from toxic fumes. It worked but the project was canceled due to cost, to upgrade electrical systems, build, and maintain the light racks, and danger should something go wrong again. It didn’t work long enough for much to have been found out about how well it may have been made to work.