The Terrifying Philadelphia Experiment

In October of 1943 the allies were locked in a devastating conflict that would cost them hundreds thousands of lives and tens of thousands of tons of ships. Desperate to turn the tide of the war, the U.S. Navy would perform top secret experiments to try and turn their ships invisible. But the results were a disaster. Now a secret 80 years in the making is brought to light. Is there any truth to it at all, or is this just another terrifying ghost tale?
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Works cited:
people.howstuffworks.com/phil...
gizmodo.com/what-really-happe...
Office of Naval Research's Information sheet: Philadelphia Experiment
www.military.com/off-duty/202...
www.history.navy.mil/research...
Anatomy of a Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Fifty Years Later by Jacques F. Vallee
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Me...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Eld...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philade...
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[@MaritimeHorrors]

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[@feelingfriskyx560]

Never make an intro like that again

[@tylermckillop408]

Very cool are those pictures real as possible i wonder or just reconstructed

[@atthesunrise]

@@feelingfriskyx560 I thought it was funny and cool.

[@feelingfriskyx560]

@@atthesunrise that's freaking awesome dude!!!

[@robertalbano3826]

I live right near the sports complex.

[@jmoe2060]

"What do we want?" "Time travel!" "When do we want it?" "It's irrelevant."

[@jeremiah1059]

Hahahahah

[@Wildstar40]

Good one lol !

[@danielslonecker6708]

And I didn't even see it coming.... 😂

[@mariakelly1059]

Whenever you go, there you are.

[@crabbyj]

ROFL 🤣🤣

[@SK22000]

Having spent many years in the Navy, I can honestly say they are not competent enough to get an invisibility device going 😂

[@buckberthod5007]

But if they made the invisible machine invisible, and anything that they want to hide it, how would we know if it exists? We wouldn't be able to see it 😂

[@callumdonington2227]

@@buckberthod5007 I'd bet they really did build an invisibility field machine. But it was turned on and now nobody can find it.

[@StrikeWyvern]

@@callumdonington2227 The Army lost a 60+ ton prototype in a fucking bush, I bet if it existed they'd lose it too.

[@callumdonington2227]

@@StrikeWyvern What kind of prototype?

[@StrikeWyvern]

@@callumdonington2227 The T28/T95 Super Heavy Tank It was a self propelled gun with over a foot of armor on the front, meant to engage hardened bunkers on the Seigfried line. It was abysmally slow and very cumbersome. It never made it to combat and they lost it in a bush at Aberdeen Proving Grounds for 28 years.

[@mickeysupbro2576]

*"Completely invisible warship"* except for the massive unexplained divot of water in the middle of the ocean

[@jeffreyskoritowski4114]

In addition to being visible to radar, both active and passive sonar and infrared (in a couple more years).

[@joshuahadams]

The smoke from the Diesel engines too

[@dustinwashburn1283]

I once watched something on History channel that stated the natives of Mexico could not actually see the Ships as they approached the coast, but once they realized there were divots in the water, and they started to question why and suddenly ships appeared. And they couldn't see them before because they had never seen ships before. This proves History Channel knows more than any of us.

[@foloan1209]

@@dustinwashburn1283 I get what you're saying but I also don't understand at the same time

[@foloan1209]

And making some amount to noise

[@stephenjackson1604]

Funny how the ship just conveniently appeared in another shipyard rather than in the middle of a desert or at the top of Mount Everest

[@royalewithchz]

Underappreciated comment

[@connor4955]

Yup how convenient :)

[@kirkkerman]

Or the middle of the ocean, or the bottom of the ocean, or inside the earth, or somewhere in space

[@poitor492]

or pearl harbour 😩

[@Daniel_Huffman]

@@poitor492If she appeared there, any American forces present would have been too paranoid to have _not_ opened fire on her.

[@FireTeamHarmony]

Man, the good old days before the internet, where you could just make up any bullshit you wanted and come up with a conspiracy that lasted 80 years.

[@jerryhatrick5860]

The earth isn't flat? I can't believe that. There proof it is. Dig around its out there. Hahahahahahaha

[@PNW_Adventures1]

This was them testing degaussing cables. The myth isn’t real. However i was onboard a ship and seen the tic tacs and a cloaked small craft in the South China Sea

[@budhamms874]

In reality it doesn't matter if its flat or not there's much more important questions out thete

[@MrChickennugget360]

@@budhamms874 the earth being flat or round is a very important question.

[@ExUSSailor]

Anyone who wanted to could disprove this one, though. Her deck logs, and, war diary were preserved, and, show that she was nowhere near Philadelphia Navy Yard on the dates in question.

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

One thing that always pointed against the reality of this conspiracy theory for me: I find the fact that the ship said to have been used in a quasi-paranormal reality-bending experiment has a name so similar to the word "Eldritch" a little too precious.

[@onewayturtles]

Username checks out.

[@danielkorladis7869]

Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

[@tylercoon1791]

Ehh...this _is_ the same government that when codenaming one of the ufo studies, called it Project Saucer.

[@poutinedream5066]

I don't know whether I should feel uneducated, uncultured, or unread for having no idea who or what Eldritch is 🤣

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

@@poutinedream5066 Don't worry. It's not a very common word to come across unless you're into the horror or dark fantasy genres. Eldritch is basically a very posh and mildly pretentious way of saying "weird and spooky." It's often used in high fantasy books, especially those with a grimdark slant, because everyone talks in a mildly pretentious manner in those settings (seriously, look at your average Warhammer novel and check out how many times they say "slain" instead of "killed." It's a lot.) "Eldritch" is also often used to describe Hideous Creatures From Beyond Sanity And Reality; i.e. "Cthulhu is an eldritch monstrosity." Because of this, "Eldritch horror" is often used as a synonym for "Cosmic horror," although that's not strictly 100% accurate.

[@scentlessapprentice88]

I live right by the Philadelphia navy yard and think of this everytime I drive over the bridge and look over at it. Another story to share would be the German uboat that came right up to the mouth of the Hudson in NYC and took photos of the night skyline. This uboat captain was also responsible for sinking thousands of USA tonnage during its efforts in the war. Cheers.

[@iagocaoiolive1902]

I mean, it's a super chad move...

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

Germany was Right Their ideological values and economic plan was far better than what we have , which is crony capitalism for global Marxism. Sad so many don’t know or care to know that so many died for compounding interest debt and obsolescence.

[@ryanbuzzard9979]

Ayyy what's up fellow philadephian

[@Gatsu_Gambino]

What? Have any links for that U-BOAT

[@johnvoorhees7881]

My grandfather was a tugboat captain and sawyer a U-boat periscope in NY harbor!

[@guardrailbiter]

The ship's legacy was rendered "hard-to-believe."

[@SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

Source: I made this up **chad music plays** Also you gotta see the Final Countdown movie they made of this

[@Blazeww]

I don't know. Maybe they made something but not what they wanted to. How was it spotted far from the port the test took place. Some seamen came forward with wild stories. Tho nothing can be proven if it did make it invisible or even teleport the ship. If its a true story maybe it scares them and they avoid recreating it for some reason. Or maybe they have smaller versions and test randomly till people don't die. Also worth scientists recreating to test anyway cause its unlikely not a possibility that massive amounts of energy may not be needed to make a wormhole or cause something to teleport.. A long shot but worth testing.

[@joek4238]

Final Countdown wasn't about the Philadelphia Experiment, it was about a rogue storm teleporting Martin Sheen on an aircraft carrier back to the day before Pearl Harbor.

[@ZGryphon]

Yeah, the Philadelphia Experiment movie was called... wait for it... _The Philadelphia Experiment._ :)

[@uniteddeejys1269]

"What have you got ... Two Zeros, Sir... two WHAT??? " 😆😆😆 .. Man I love that film @@joek4238

[@mariofan1ish]

"Nice conspiracy theory, Senator. How about you back it up with a source!" "My source is I made it the fuck up!"

[@hc1897]

The "What the hell? ... Well that's weird, let's start the experiment" had me spitting my drink laughing. Great stuff.

[@bencushwa8902]

I know this is a Halloween episode, but the physicist in me demands that I point out a key error: Einstein's devised the theory of general relativity. Unified field theories didn't start arising until the '60s. ;)

[@ZGryphon]

Einstein did spend pretty much the rest of his career after relativity _pursuing_ a unified field theory, but never accomplished it, probably on account of it's impossible.

[@rictusmetallicus]

Don't you agree that this "fact" is irrelevant regarding to time travelling destroyers?

[@redvenge709]

Wait, that's the error you went with? What about "The only phenomenon we know of that uses gravity to bend light to the extent of rendering something invisible... is a black hole. Generating one of those at the Norfolk shipyard would be bad for Earth". One of the weirdest issues with conspiracy theories is how they all seem to break rules of thermodynamics and energy conservation. How much energy would it take to teleport an entire destroyer escort 100 miles? How would a WWII destroyer ever hope to generate that much power? They didn't even have super conductors, so the energy loss would be staggering.

[@tiryaclearsong421]

@@redvenge709 lol. When conspiracy theories start incorporating scientific word salad it's usually one gigantic, "that isn't how any of this works".

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

@@tiryaclearsong421 for the most part, yes..

[@seanmacdermott6555]

If the first experiment was so horrorific, how would you ever get the crew to give it a second try ?

[@ZGryphon]

This is probably the most plausible part of the story, really. Especially in wartime, sailors who mutiny don't fare much better than sailors who participate in crazy physics experiments and get blended with bulkheads.

[@aaronkindoll8242]

Maybe a new crew? Just my opinion I'm not all the way through the video yet.

[@acester86]

Conscription is a bitch. No like seriously one of the biggest upgrades they had to give the Iowas in the 1980s was environmental control cause they had an all volunteer military. Realize you are on a big metal box, so when it's cold, the whole ship is freaking cold (except for engineering that is always hotter than the devils sweaty nut sack) when it's hot, the whole ship is hot. Ryan talks about it over on the USS New Jersey museum's YT. Also I've got experience with working with steel in a metal shop, and spent a few very cold nights on the USS Kidd in early march. 🤷‍♂️

[@sibestfunction4400]

i identify as NavyDestroyerKin and i demand to be in an experiment which may result in me being fused to the metal innards of a ship.

[@cneterer]

Because they were ordered to. That's what military service drills into you. You're expendable for the greater good of your nation, and you know it.

[@ropeburnsrussell]

If the Creepster is a Great Lakes sailor, maybe you should do a freshwater series. This channel just gets better.

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

I don't know how you, Maritime Horror Dude, approached this story but, in my opinion when it comes to whacky weird tales like this one, it's precisely the rambling that's the most fun. That's why working for a think tank must be great! You sit around spitballing whatever strange and twisted ideas come into your head and you get PAID to do it!! And it doesn't even feel like work!

[@joek4238]

If it made a green mist when it was... "INVISIBLE" wouldn't the U Boats just learn to attack the green mist clouds?

[@joaogomes9405]

I think the way it's worded implies that the ship created the green fog, then once the fog dissipated the ship would be invisible. So if the ships could become invisible before coming into contact with the wolfpacks, the fog wouldn't matter. Still a really fucking stupid plan though, since ships create very very visible ripples in the water as they sail, plus the submarines detected ships through sonar first and visual contact later, meaning the ships would get detected anyways regardless of being invisible. At best it would be an effective plan for a short time before the Germans got that the shooting at where the ships should be would still work perfectly fine.

[@bertkilborne6464]

That's the part of the experiment that they considered a failure

[@greenseaships]

Not really. You've just described a smokescreen which was quite often used successfully in combat to hide ships. Especially in the Atlantic campaign.

[@tamlandipper29]

Harder to spot a green mist at distance. Very hard to plot a firing solution when uou can't gauge the heading or speed.

[@gosportjamie]

@@joaogomes9405 If you can alter the magnetic and gravitational fields of the ship then it wouldn't leave a wake in the water as it would effectively have zero displacement. It also has to be remembered that, in the Second World War, sonar was still very much in its' infancy and submarine crew, particularly U-boat crew as Germany was rather behind in the development of sonar and was more interested in developing other technologies rather than sonar which could have easily won the war for them by simply starving the UK out, were very used to getting rogue sonar signals so it would be no surprise to the crew of a U-boat to be following a sonar target only to come to periscope depth to mount an attack and find they were staring at an empty piece of ocean... The theory behind this is perfectly sound, and navies around the world are still heavily engaged in developing ships that are far harder to detect at range, which is why we are seeing a lot of warships that look decidedly strange compared to the line of gentle evolution that went before. Unfortunately, NOW it would be pretty obvious that trying to engineer a system to render a ship effectively invisible using massive electrical fields would be a very bad idea if you wished the crew to remain effective as the human body runs on electrical impulses that any massive electrical field is bound to disrupt, causing anything from temporary incapacitation to instant death, not to mention the effect it would have on the steel ship, effectively superheating it like a fork put in a microwave... Although this actual version of the tale of The Philadelphia Experiment is almost certainly largely fabricated, it is highly likely that it is a story that has grown from a grain of truth in experiments that were carried out into ways to make warships harder to detect at range, which very much were going on as the comment about degaussing ships shows. HAD The Philadelphia Experiment actually taken place, you can be damn sure that NO-ONE would have ever heard about it. Governments are extremely good at making things they don't want to be known about utterly disappear, and anyone who wanted to speak out otherwise would be silenced or made to look like a total nut, as has been done before...

[@joaogomes9405]

Seriously, the ELDRITCH? That's subtler than a bull in a china shop, isn't it.

[@ZGryphon]

Well... it would be, except the ship's name was _Eldridge._ She was named for Lt. Cmdr. John Eldridge, a naval aviator who was killed over the Solomon Islands the previous year. It's a daft story, but not _that_ daft. :)

[@ovni2295]

The USS Eldridge was a real ship, but that's the only thing the story gets right. Actual invisibility experiments are far more recent and far, far less interesting.

[@mollyencrypted2488]

@@ZGryphon Still, the phonetic similarity feels a little too coincidental.

[@natedlc854]

@@ovni2295 what happened to the ship?

[@ovni2295]

@@natedlc854 Put into mothballs in 46, sold to Greece in 51, decommissioned in 92, sold for scrap in 99

[@corvo9100]

This is a cool creepypasta, and I’d love to read a novel like this, but the fact that people believe this is a real thing that actually happened is shocking

[@Tidalx]

it happened i was there

[@cecilkeith1951]

Nothing has ever happened. This conversation didn't even happen.

[@andywilson5828]

Watch the film....

[@cecilkeith1951]

@@andywilson5828 I can't I don't have eyes

[@corvo9100]

@@endiii27 so shocking that it would rewrite all of our current knowledge of how physics work lol

[@mirandagehris1028]

One of the things that I really love about this channel is that the creator just really seems to have a passion what he's doing here, He's having fun, and that adds a new level of enjoyability in my opinion

[@clarencesworld2921]

Agreed. I commented above something very similar to your comment lol

[@Thebes77777]

The crew of the ship in question obviously had no fun through this experiment!

[@clarsach29]

This story makes the plot of "Event Horizon" look like a well-researched, factual documentary

[@thefishenthusiast1492]

That movie was so weird the villain looked like a steak out of a smoker

[@nonpartisangunowner4524]

The Enterprise D must’ve traveled back in time and given the phasing cloak to the US Navy.

[@statemonster]

Lmao this reference is too fucking good! Though that still against the treaty, they should be held responsible!

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

Department of Temporal Integrity would like to know your location (and current stardate.)

[@luichinplaystation610]

Or Time travel Kligons

[@luichinplaystation610]

Or time travel Vulcans

[@ReverendV92]

The ship appearing ten minutes before the start of the experiment would be an example of retrocausality (effect happens before cause). You're *just* scratching the surface of the hellhole that is temporal mechanics. It only gets worse from there, because once you start factoring in the various temporal mechanics it becomes a logic bomb nightmare.

[@higueraft571]

Ngl, time shenanigans are hot in concept

[@chrismaverick9828]

"Oh... Lessons about changing history from Mr. "I'm my own Grandpa". " Futurama hit that idea harder than Ike Turner. :D

[@Inferno144]

Really makes me wonder if humanity is ready for this kind of tech if feasible at all. The answer is probably a resounding 'hell no'.

[@DragonSpirit469]

I'm gonna miss Ghost Ship Month so much! This is my favorite and most ridiculous of all your spooky ship vids! Well done :)

[@raptormaster666]

On the subject of which: In the Loki series, when Loki and Sylvie are sent to the end of existence, a certain ship is also there. I think the gag there is that in the Loki universe the experiment worked, and the TVA came in and said "nope". :P

[@LancasterResponding]

I noticed that too!!!

[@jamesfloerke7519]

I was in the Navy 2000-2005 and we couldn't get everybody, officers included, to stop emailing details about ship movement, even after the USS Cole and 9/11 the following year. Most people got the loose lips sink ships message and followed it, but it seemed it was happening everyday. That makes me question how in the hell did they keep those sailors who were on the Eldridge from telling everyone they knew. And then a short while later, it was decided that it would be tried again, even though absolutely nothing had been changed. Every damn sailor knew what had happened the first time, and yet they were just cool with giving it another go? Not a damn one said "yeah, fuck a bunch of that noise, I'm not doing that shit again. I wish you all luck, but I'm allergic to being fused to steel. Sailors aren't Marines, we don't just blindly follow orders without a few questions.

[@redvenge709]

Well, they were being shot at in WWII. They might have taken ship movement more seriously than in the early 2000's. Even during Enduring Freedom, no one shot at the US Navy. The Cole is probably the worst incident since the Forrestal.

[@cornerboyswag6479]

@@redvenge709 how is the Cole more worst than USS Indianapolis?? Nothin is more worst than USS Indianapolis

[@redvenge709]

@@cornerboyswag6479 The USS Indianapolis happened BEFORE the USS Forestal caught fire. Outside of the US Navy bumping into things or running arground, the bombing of the USS Cole is the worst incident to happen to the US Navy in decades. The point of my comment is that "with no one engaging the US Navy in naval combat, it's readiness suffers. There is a lack of combat veterans, because no one will pick a fight".

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

My cousin works on a Nuclear Sub and (according to him) even he doesn't know where on the earth they'll be. You ask him where he went and it's "Uhhh, I dunno man" and immediately changes the subject.

[@MrNegative57]

And to think OPSEC is not taken seriously enough. I remember reporting a suspicious person in Germany. A friend and I both saw the tinted glass lense cover on a bag, the man carrying it seeing us looking , he averted his head looked down and walked straight to his car. He had been loitering outside the gate . Tag number written down, description time. No idea what became of our reported sighting. That's what amazed me with Hillary's email account. Some of the people that could dismiss it so easily and that was the exact information we were constantly warned to keep it to ourselves. Loose lips. How easily movement of people and resources can be deduced through normal communication. The field artillery,watch for wives in the clubs. They're in the field...lol

[@corwin32]

Another point--I can't think of a dumber thing to make "invisible" than a large ship. All it was supposed to do was bend light. It would still make noise. It would still generate heat. It would still displace water and leave a wake. The u boat crew is just going to observe all this and say, "Huh. That's something you don't see everyday. Wonder what that's all about?" and then just go back to their routine?

[@danielkorladis7869]

also like... the escorts weren't the main targets, the freighters were.

[@drakesdrum1]

"Clearly a sea serpent. Best not to mess with it."

[@wonderbread4323]

@@drakesdrum1 they said “mein gott”

[@Irishcream216]

While I have zero faith in government, I do know that if they had the ability to do this, it definitely would have occurred under lock and key deep inside a research facility. Furthermore, they'd still be doing it.

[@danielkorladis7869]

Yeah, given how much has been spent on various stealth tech

[@andrewmoens8614]

Agree...

[@dustinwashburn1283]

To be fair though, the best way to cover up something that actually happened, would be to start a rumor, and give odd disjointed evidence as to why it could and could not have happened.

[@dyveira]

People who believe this sort of thing have clearly never worked for the government.

[@derrick4544]

"zero faith in government"? Do you trust yourself?

[@williamcampbell6846]

Knowing anything at all about WWII makes this story incredibly ridiculous. Cool that the ship is practically named eldritch

[@michalsoukup1021]

Drachinifel proposed that the likely source of this might be a misinterpretation of the radar jamming efforts, someone might have gotten an incomplete picture of that and come off thinking that the navy was trying to make stuff invisible to Mark One eyeball instead of the Radar

[@joshuahadams]

Early ship degaussing coils could have worked into it, too. Dockside degaussing equipment is big and weird looking to someone who doesn’t know what it is.

[@tomhutchins7495]

Degaussing makes a reasonable explanation for this, though I would like to point out it wasn't that new: Royal Navy ships had carried degaussing cables since the beginning of the war in Europe (1939) because of the fear of German magnetic mines. However, that does not invalidate this theory, because many older ships had been retrofitted with external cables, while new ships were being built with them internally, and it was by 1943 that this was becoming common practice, so this would have been new technology, especially on such a small ship. I also like the degaussing idea because it provides an explanation not just for the claim to invisibility as you said, but also the claim about Unified Field Theory: degaussing wipes the ship's magnetic field, making it indistinguishable from the Earth's in that location. Of course this doesn't use Einstein's theory, but talk (among sailors who would neither understand the science nor be told the full picture) of merging the magnetic fields may have been just enough to spark the idea in the mind of an intelligent person who could have followed but not understood Einstein's work. Add a tendency to lie and embellish, and the conditions for this story are all set.

[@skyhawkpilot172]

Many of these sailors were stepping out of school and straight into a world full of technology they had never heard of. That goes for the radar guided gun directors, radar directed plotting rooms, ect. Imagine trying to make sense of all this as you hear about it in bits and pieces of incorrect and correct information.

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

Installing degaussing equipment was expensive so an alternate method was created called wiping. This procedure dragged a large electrical cable along the side of the ship with a pulse of about 2000 amperes flowing through it. This induced the proper field into the ship in the form of a slight bias. It was originally thought that the pounding of the sea and the ship's engines would slowly randomize this field, but in testing, this was found not to be a real problem. A more serious problem was later realized: as a ship travels through Earth's magnetic field, it will slowly pick up that field, counteracting the effects of the degaussing. From then on captains were instructed to change direction as often as possible to avoid this problem. Nevertheless, the bias did wear off eventually, and ships had to be degaussed on a schedule. Smaller ships continued to use wiping through the war.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

@@CRAZYHORSE19682003 they wiped around 500 ships and small boats in a week for the evacuation at Dunkirk.

[@davidschaadt3460]

Yes my father spoke of the degaussing and was in the Pacific in WW2.

[@CruelestChris]

@@CRAZYHORSE19682003 As I recall the most coherent theory for this being derived from anything that might have happened was that they were wiping a ship, something went wrong and they tripped a fuse and blew out all the power on the dock. The ship left dock so they could figure out what went wrong, and so some sailors saw a huge bright flash and when the lights came back on the ship was gone.

[@kolowski13]

Love these horror mysteries! To be fair about the "fusing" thing, atoms are majority empty space and so *in theory* you could have two objects with separate bonds in the same space because they aren't technically touching each other just the charge fields are getting in the way of separating them again.

[@Thebes77777]

Nice, that poor crew, what a horrific result for one to experience.

[@michaelshannon8046]

I'm actually glad you researched this because I've always wondered about the details,as I've seen it referenced in even the X-Files TV show,which should've gave me an indication,but I never researched it for myself...for whatever reason. So again,thank you for actually researching this "event".

[@csn6234]

You needed someone else to tell you it is bullshit?

[@bertkilborne6464]

I watched this video while I was folding my socks after a visit to the laundromat, and it all makes sense to me now ! ! no - Really - I have a pile of single socks that once had a match, to prove it.

[@fizzplease6742]

"Can't just leave that there, it'll leave a weird stain" pff nothing a little paint can't fix.

[@photone]

That's pretty much how the Navy tends to repair things! ;)

[@JKSSubstandard]

So, as for the fusion thing. The assumption would be that whatever dimension the ship was sent to does not have the normal force. Normal force is the force between atoms that stops them from passing through each other. If this was the case, it might be possible for objects, including the ship and human flesh to meld through each other like ghosts. However, I believe that would also mean they would all just.... Melt...

[@subduedreader5627]

Not a physicist, but it's my understanding that the loss of normal force would be closer to becoming a cloud of atoms/molecules.

[@jobe_seed6674]

I think the resonance field and electro gravitics that were used on this most likely just like the Hutchison effect shook the molecules of the ship and the crew to a specific frequency that caused some crew to have melted with the ship like a destructive resonance.

[@andrewince8824]

Easiest one to debunk. If that technology existed in 1943 then it would be used today, on everything. Look no further than Vietnam, the ability to render equipment invisible would have been a massive advantage.

[@ghostrider-be9ek]

the B2/F22/F35 are likely equipped with some kind of EM cloak. Read up on the disclosures of the men and women involved as a part of Dr. STEPHEN GREERs work.

[@jeffreyskoritowski4114]

Not really, the exhaust would've been visible and you would've been able to see it on radar.

[@kodoaok626]

What if they didn't want that ?

[@tomhenry897]

One it failed, that usually kills a project Two how would we know if being used

[@Dominion69420]

The thing is, electromagnetism can be used to bent light, so potentially it can be done with modern technology, but not with 1940s tech, and not able to cause people to fuse with the ship like that unless somehow the generators were powerful enough to seperate atoms enough to do allow for decent obfuscation

[@sage5296]

You *can* bend light with electromagnetic or gravitational fields but you'd need energy on the scale of suns to do that, the ship would probably implode under the gravitational and electromagnetic fields before the light bent appreciably

[@RobinTheBot]

With modern technology... nah. The other commenter is right lol. Totally impossible.

[@ctdaniels7049]

Basically some kinda phasing powers from X-Men, or a transporter from Star Trek. :P

[@poutinedream5066]

Oh you've got excellent obfuscation and and if I'm not mistaken, the US military invented it🤣

[@davymckeown4577]

Electromagnetism is light, it can be bent by massive objects such as stars or galaxies. This fact was an early proof of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

[@markenriquez1486]

This story is true...I was there. I was fused to the bulkhead right down the middle. They cut me out of the bulkhead, but it was still part of me. The good thing is it gave me a steel heart which is why I'm still alive and vigorously strong. the bad news is I have a constant steel hard on, but it's truly a "lady-killer"... :-(

[@2lotusman851]

Yeah I know you. You are the guy that slows everybody down at the airport metal detector. You tell them-- I'm a veteran I have a steel plate in my body. deal with it.

[@matthewstorer8236]

I guess it would give true meaning to the phrase "polishing your knob".

[@jdmbeats]

You had me until the "hard on" part.

[@kevintipker5909]

The way you tell these stories combined with the rest of your videos I think you deserve far more views & subs than you have now. Keep it going \m/

[@mr-x7689]

About the point around 19:00 about "Fuzing to the hull". Everything is made up of atoms and magnetic fields. To our eyes wee see solid objects but nothing is truly "Solid". Imagine atoms as the ball pit in Mc-Donalds. IF you some how manage to weaken the magnetic force of two objects atoms, then in teory you could put them togeather. And when you make said objects solid agein, they would fuze togeather. Tho I dont know how that would be possible to do, other than from my limited knowledge on the subject. You need an near infinite amount of energy to do somthing like that. Due the magnetic force of atoms being incredible strong.

[@ZGryphon]

It seems likely that even if you did somehow manage to create conditions wherein the atoms of two objects intermingled, as soon as you switched it off, the "overlapped" matter would explode. The exclusion principle is a harsh mistress...

[@CartoonHero1986]

The "people got hurt so let's not do that anymore" argument reminds me of Star Trek Voyager and the episode where they break the Warp Threshold and get to "Warp 10" but it caused Tom to turn into some kind of salamander thing which they easily reversed at the end of the episode so they just shelved it and went about their 70+ year journey home. Like... no! Use the damned technology to get home in an instant, then cure the transformation, and you're all home where experts can start to work out the kinks and figure out a better way to use the tech then travel, turn into a salamander, get cured before applying it as a standard mode of transportation.

[@joshuahadams]

There’s a TNG episode that was damn similar to this idea. Riker’s first posting was doing some shady shit that went against the peace treaty between the United Federation of Planets and Romulan Star Empire, testing an unsanctioned phased cloaking device. Shit went south and years later the Enterprise found what was left of the test ship half materialized in an asteroid

[@markvickroy6725]

This channel is going to blow up. Great stuff!

[@inlonging]

22:11 somehow the algorithm didn’t give me any of these creepy ones except this. And I thought it WAS your boring sinking ship stories until the teleport part and then I was like WHAT?! 🤣

[@markgouthro7375]

Oh, you can fuse objects together, with explosive welding... Not something that works with squishy humans lol.

[@ernestweaver9720]

I was on the Piedmont AD17 in 78 when I heard this ridiculous story. I can't believe they actually made a movie about it.

[@merafirewing6591]

A friend of mine told me his relative a delivery guy who delivered power cables and extension cords had seen a few guys with sponges cleaning out a warehouse where the Eldridge was supposedly being tested, and there was blood in there. And it was in Philadelphia of all places.

[@ventues9751]

I think that this is all true !!!

[@maxb9759]

They sent those guys 500 years ago and we currently living in a alternate timeline that is different from if they didnt mess with the past..

[@jakebimrose]

Amazing work. Would love it if you covered the MS Estonia disaster, a relatively recent maritime disaster compared with your typical work, but still so full of terror and mystery.

[@yves3560]

No mystery in case of the Estonia, just a ship badly taken care of. And the philadelphia experiment ? BS.

[@tiryaclearsong421]

He said at some point he doesn't like to cover disasters that are recent enough there may be survivors watching his video. He would feel terrible if he harmed them after they already went through hell by giving a faulty account of what they went through. I would love to hear him do the Estonia and the Sewol but I think it's unlikely.

[@acedogboy8421]

The estonia has a big cover up so its also a very difficult subject and with heated tensions of a major nation rn and their most likely the cause. Not the grandest idea.

[@Daniel_Huffman]

I checked, and the SS _Estonia_ didn’t sink, and was not recent. I have a link here for verification. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Czar

[@lucastekkan]

@@Daniel_Huffman are you dense on purpose? MS Estonia, not SS

[@darkwingduck1267]

I am CRYING at everything in this video. It’s a work of art and I have been bingeing your channel for 12 hours straight now.

[@lukebrahler7802]

Coming back to these a year later and the rambling in this episode is top notch and I love it. Will always love this channel

[@Hans013]

"We made it disappear and reappear, but with very little control. We lost some men." - Albert Einstein

[@MaritimeHorrors]

Lol, it's got quotation marks, he must have said it.

[@Tiberiansam]

Nice Command&Conquer Red Alert quote!

[@jonathanbrown7250]

Great background music. I just found this channel and subscribed. I feel like an early discoverer. I guess growth takes awhile, but I see a lot of growth ahead for this channel.

[@kpturn42]

I love how the end of the video just devolves into you coming within an inch of screaming in wordless frustration 😂😂

[@Megabob777]

just found your channel and i love your content, not sure if anyone has suggested this but i would love to see a video on the halifax harbour explosion

[@Pablo668]

You ought to look up the Middleton Reef. It's a Platform ref several hundred km's off the coast of New South Wales. It's kind of a spooky place as so many ships ended up grounded on it with no hope of being floated again. For a decade or so it was visible in the distance by all the ships sitting on it. I think most of the wrecks have since broken up.

[@duncanmaclean1001]

Nice touch hearing you uncork the bottle and pour a shot. 😁

[@MaritimeHorrors]

I went and bought a very nice bottle of whiskey for that one lol

[@MrSWGrant]

The USS Eldritch? Eldritch? ELDRITCH? How horrible that the Eldritch endured such horror. As in Eldritch Horror…

[@MaritimeHorrors]

Coincidence? I think NOT!

[@ovni2295]

I live for the kind of anger and incredulity you show in the latter half of this video. Thank you so much for that, I was laughing my ass off the whole time and I agree with every word.

[@jdencook]

New to your channel and love it, thank you. Presentation is awesome and fact based. Watched the Franklin Expedition series before your vids and agree the polar bear monster kinda fucked it up. Your site is the only one I would consider doing the Patreon thing. Good luck !

[@radoodly5514]

Is there a list of ships you plan to cover? I'd also love to see content about treacherous seas. Something like the Columbia River Bar between Astoria, Oregon and Cape Disappointment, Washington is certainly something worth doing a video on.

[@albertoamoruso7711]

Honestly the US military being willing to put its people at risk is the most believable part in this story. Think about stuff like the Tuskegee experiments, MKUltra or GIs being exposed to nuclear weapons and radioactive waste in the 1950s.

[@clarencesworld2921]

Just randomly came across this page and I AM ADDICTED ALREADY. WHAT AN AMAZING PAGE AND AMAZING CONTENT. You can tell u spend a lot of time making this what it is and I'd like to thank you on behalf of almost all of us with the exception of a few trolls and haters here and there lol. So THANK YOU

[@kellymartin8090]

I was on that ship during that experiment and I’ve been trapped in time ever since. I phase in and out…and it just so happens I phased in today and just so happened to run across this video. It’s all true…I’m not lyi….

[@kscorp5176]

This is embarrassing but in the 90s I was a teenaged conspiracy nutter, and I remember...studying...a transcript of the notes in the margin of Jessop's book. In the chapter about rains of fish, slime, and other rare meterological (tornado/waterspout-related) phenomena, the "alien" mentioned an incident where abducted human were processed and sprayed all over the fields. Something about that mental image has followed me for over two decades. Great video - extra kudos for the screenshot from 'Loki' (I laughed at the ship materialising into that scene).

[@the_dark_soul_of_man]

When I heard "modifying gravitational field and magnetic field and bend light" I started laughing.

[@straswa]

Great work MH, thanks for the in-depth info.

[@toddlinder-flowman6687]

Wish I could give this way more likes. Excellent video. Hilarious as well. Great work!

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

I knew a navy veteran that was supposed to be on the Eldridge but was assigned to another ship at the last second and then later again the same thing happened this time he was to be in the Indianapolis and at the last second he was transferred to another ship. He died in the either in the late 90's it the early or mid 2000's.

[@anthonyhayes1267]

8:14 "but the sailor is inside out" ... "I heard that" "And he exploded"

[@qba-bomb3959]

I just discovered your channel and I love it!!! Excellent work!!!

[@JustinCase-ey4ok]

In theory, if you were to change the Quantum oscillation of an object it would be able to phase through other matter. To explain the concept two basic concepts come into play. First, all physical objects are made of mostly nothing. If you were able to break the Empire state building into its surplus molicules they would fit inside a Tylenol capsule with ease. The second concept is that interaction between objects is a matter of force carriers like the strong magnetic and weak nuclear forces. So in theory if you were to use a strong EM field combined with hyper low frequency sound you could adjust the strong magnetic force of an object permitting it to pass through other objects. The energy required to achieve this would be impossible with our current technology and would most likely just disintegrate the object. The paper I read stated the field needed was like 14-18 billion gauss.

[@weffyj6427]

I'm no physicist, but I do know that everything is made of frequency, or vibrational fields of electromagnetic information, which is decoded by our brains. Learning how to manipulate the frequency in things is the trick! Our forefathers and mothers knew how (with sound probably), in a history that has been erased from our memories. Does form follow function? You KNOW it does. Now look at the Cathedral in Ulm and feast your eyes on the most rad tech you've ever seen, and stark evidence of unmatched sophistication. We've been lied to. Our history is a hoax.

[@douglasspende6685]

Sweet you get my vote to.

[@pfadiva]

This was your best "ghost" tale yet! I quite enjoyed it and totally agree with you.

[@niranjanmurthy126]

Y

[@david.bowerman]

This makes me think of teleportation and the warp in 40k

[@JH-kn6rt]

USS Eldridge crew: can't shoot us, we're invisible! U-boat crew fires torpedo at the green cloud. USS Eldridge crew: haha, they mist!

[@brothergrimaldus3836]

Oh... boo...

[@natedlc854]

I remember the first time I heard this story, while I was camping with strangers at an airsoft event at 15 years old. Man I almost believed every word.

[@idyllicmoon3651]

I doubt a test like this would have been done using actual crew, at least the first run. It would have been done on a smaller "spare" vessel with perhaps animals (goats, cows, whatnot) first before using people. This is just a really awesome urban legend.

[@tomhenry897]

Why not Dropped a nuke with soldiers beneath

[@Eye5x5]

Me and the boys at 2 am fusing through ships to find BEANS

[@mercy2606]

There's a really cool animated series/movie called "interface" that uses this story as a base for its plot. It's absolutely mad, and I recommend it highly.

[@southpakrules]

The most terrifying thing about this experiment, was the movie.

[@nobody6546]

🎯🎯🎯 SPR!! There Was one Great 60, 70’s Older one. Then 1-2 later ( let’s just say..) Cheaper with Terribly Special Effects ones! What IS Sad is that supposedly, Things Came BACK!?! So much for disappearing my Neighbors 3am Yapping Dogs! God Bless, Keep the Faith. 👴🏼NoBody. NRN .

[@TheKevinAdventures]

Was that a "hastily made cleveland tourism video" reference? I love it!

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

I grew up with SO many "documentaries" on the History channel talking about this as though it actually happened. So glad TV is dying.

[@Fairyfink]

TV spread so many falsehoods. Unlike the Internet......?

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

@@Fairyfink If the internet was only ten websites all saying the same thing, I'd agree with you. But you can find the truth if you're willing to look. Couldn't ever do that with TV because of network gatekeeping.

[@violetdreams1799]

thank you very much! well done 👍😁 appreciate your research and your rambling! i agree with you 😄

[@Blizofoz45]

To be fair, Einstein theorized that speed affects time(aka time travel) and years later, NASA confirmed this to be true. GPS satellites are affected by time travel and corrections have to be computed before positional data is sent to your phone. It makes no logical sense to me but the truth is Einstein was right before we had even broke the sound barrier.

[@ha420weednumber]

I love that when you said "you're going back to hell?" and creepster responds "no close..." my first thought was Cleveland

[@Emptybee]

"We're Not Detroit"

[@mtvdvm4940]

Might not fit the general motif of the channel as both events happened at port but as a Texan I can’t help but suggest my states worst two Maritime disasters. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane & the Texas City Explosion.

[@elijaha773]

I loved the Cleveland/Detroit joke at the end, even if I didn't get it.

[@danasmith3288]

Just ask anyone who has lived in either place . . .

[@jean-francoislemieux5509]

I like your debunking style! keep it up, lots of work to do !

[@ixm2unvrz]

22:35 "oh my god, you're going back to hell?" "no, close. Cleveland, Ohioooooooooooooooo" I choked on my MRE lads

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

I think this whole myth got started when crews were told that degaussing the ship would make them invisible to magnetic mines. Add in the fact that experiments were done with Yehudi lights to make things like planes nearly impossible to detect by Uboat sailors until the plane was practically on top of them, AKA invisibility experiments.

[@slavonic8970]

I love how he used pictures form The Floating Drydock. My grandpa helped create those :D

[@IIMoses740II]

While it may have been Ancient Aliens that made the History Channel into the meme it is today, thanks to their Philadelphia Experiment 'documentary', which I still recognize some of the shots of the crew being 'fused' are from, this story scared the sh*t out of me as a kid. They just played it so straight and weren't really all that critical about it. It's weird to think that it took something like KZbin, many years later, to learn it was just a damn hoax. Now it's great to find new videos about it just to see it get bashed even further.

[@mrmeep2047]

It does make a great sci-fi horror story.

[@magnumman50]

You forgot to add the man who researched this for 5 years and was found dead in his car with a hose from the tailpipe (suicide) and all his notes and papers were missing.

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

Regarding Soviet Russia, there was the attempt to make a nuclear-powered aircraft fly and so fly it the aircraft did. America was attempting the same concept but couldn't get the aircraft fully functional due to the heavy shielding required, you know, to keep the crew safe. The Soviet aircraft designers bypassed the problem with a rather simple and elegant solution...by dispersing with the shielding.

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

I'm also emotionally unhinged from this experience... ;)

[@cwstreeper]

The best part of this video is the very true conversation about the luxurious opportunities D9 has to offer in Cleveland & Detroit! Lol. BZ Shipmate.

[@robertbruce7686]

Wow! Large shot of Jack Daniels required at end of video.....

[@MaritimeHorrors]

Jameson Black Barrel, actually. Really good stuff, I highly suggest it.

[@soundesrexgaming9169]

“Well uh, well damn there you have it” 😂

[@jerlee620]

This was indeed proven to be possible in the 1971 Docudrama: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.. But who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@MaritimeHorrors]

Oh my god... I totally forgot. You've just blown this whole case wide open lol

[@jerlee620]

@@MaritimeHorrors Lol. Good stuff. Looking forward to more.

[@3_14pie]

Really awesome channel, Its hard to find sea stories online without bullshit, great work

[@tylergrutbo766]

I really really appreciate your approach to these stories. I love getting the story itself first then the evidence behind it. I would love to see you take on other ghost stories or creepy pasta like stuff.

[@honeyLXIX]

Reminds me of something that would be in a Star Trek episode ☄