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Ep. 109 The Philadelphia Experiment: How Tales of an Invisible Teleporting Naval Ship Found Their Way Into History


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In the 1950s, a strange story emerged about a ship called the USS Eldridge docked at a naval shipyard in Philadelphia. According to a man aboard another ship docked nearby, in October of 1948 the hull of the Eldridge suddenly glowed an eery blueish green and then the entire ship disappeared, became invisible. But that's not all. After it turned invisible, it then suddenly teleported 300 miles away to another naval shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia and back. The crew aboard the Eldridge reportedly suffered ill effects, disorientation, burns, and some of them even had body parts fused to the hull of the ship. This witness, a man named Carl Allen or sometimes Carlos Allende, claimed that what he had seen was a top secret government experiment gone wrong, an experiment that had been covered up ever since. But what was the Philadelphia Experiment really - a government conspiracy or a hoax turned urban legend? Let's fix that. 

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Sources: 

  • Naval History and Heritage Command "Philadelphia Experiment"
  • Wikipedia "Philadelphia Experiment"
  • Military.com "This Is the Truth Behind WWII's Creepy Philadelphia Experiment"
  • Wikipedia "Carl Meredith Allen"
  • ussslater.org "Destroyer Escort Anecdotes"
  • How Stuff Works "How the Philadelphia Experiment Worked"
  • Skeptical Inquirer "Solving a UFOlogical Murder: The Case of Morris K. Jessup"
  • Wikipedia "Morris Ketchum Jesup"

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