The Philadelphia Experiment

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, listeners can't thank enough for tuning in for another
episode of the Time Travel Unravel podcast, a show dedicated
to all things time travel. We've got an exciting episode
for you to day. If you've never heard of the
Philadelphia Experiment, you are about to. The Philadelphia Experiment is

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a fascinating tale of alleged time travel teleportation even invisibility.
The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly took place at the Philadelphia Naval
Shipyard in October of nineteen forty three, the U. S.

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Navy allegedly conducted a top secret experiment on the U
S S Eldridge. This was a newly commissioned Canon class
destroyer escort. The goal was to render the ship invisible
to enemy radar early attempts at stealth technology. According to

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conspiracy lore, the experiment went horribly wrong. The ship vanished
in a flash of greenish blue light. Some reports claim
it reappeared in Norfolk, Virginia, over two hundred miles away,
before teleporting back to Philadelphia. Some versions claim the ship

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time traveled, possibly going ten seconds into the past or
even forward in time byeveral hours. Theories suggest that the
experiment used a powerful electromagnetic field generator or some version

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of Einstein's unified field theory to bend light and radar
waves around the ship. Solid idea. The ship was equipped
with massive Tesla coils powered by high voltage electrical currents.
The electromagnetic field was so intense that it affected the

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fabric of space time. This resulted in the ship either
turning invisible, teleporting, or time jumping. One of those three
things happened. Witnesses supposedly saw green mists surrounding the ship
before it vanished. They heard a loud, humming or buzzing

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noise indicating a strong energy field. They experienced distorted aura,
similar to mirage effects caused by intense heat. The most
infamous part of the Philadelphia Experiment legend is what happened

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to the crew. Some sailors were found physically fused into
the ship's metal hull, their bodies grotesquely merged with bulkheads.
Others disappeared entirely and were never seen again. Some became insane,

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suffering from amnesia, paranoia, a just plain mental breakdown. Survivors
reportedly phased in and out of existence, sometimes vanishing for
minutes or hours before reappearing. One particularly chilling claim was

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that some sailors were frozen in time, stuck between dimensions,
and only visible when someone disturbed the energy field. Many
believe the US Navy covered up the experiment, possibly because

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it involved dangerous new technology related to Einstein's unfinished unified
field theory. The Navy feared the ethical implications of experiments
causing severe injuries and deaths. The experiment was part of
a larger military program related to advanced war tactics. Some

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theories connected to later government projects like the Montauk Project
and another alleged secret experiment on time travel and psychological warfare.
The legend of the Philadelphia Experiment took off in the
nineteen fifties when a man named Carl Allen sent letters

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to UFO researcher Morris K. Jessop claiming that he witnessed
the Philadelphia Experiment firsthand. Alan claimed to have been on
the SS Andrew Furrow, seth a Mergan ship, and saw
the USS Eldridge teleport. Jessop, a respected researcher of UFOs

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and advanced physics, became obsessed with the story. The US
Office of Naval Research reportedly received an annotated copy of
Jessop's book The Case for the UFO, the cryptic Notes,
allegedly written by intelligence insiders discussing advanced technologies. Jess Up

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later died by suicide, fueling suspicions that he had learned
too much and was silenced. While the Philadelphia experiment remains
a popular conspiracy theory, many scientists and skeptics have debunked it.
Military technology such as electromagnetic cloaking can hide objects from

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radar detection, but full optical invisibility making an object completely disappear,
is not currently possible. Modern stealth technology, such as the
B two Spirit bomber, uses radar absorbent materials to reduce detectability,
but it does not involve true invisibility. Some claim the

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experiment was based on Einstein's unified fuel theory, a hypothetical
physics theory that aim to unify gravity and electromagnetism. If
successfully manipulated, gravitational fields might distort time, creating a time
warp or wormhole. However, no concrete evidence exists that this

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was ever achieved. In nineteen forty three, the US Navy
has officially denied the experiment ever took place. No verifiable documents, photographs,
or eyewitnesses testimonies support the idea that the USS Eldridge
ever teleported. Many claims story is based on misinterpretations and hoaxes.

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Some researchers believe the story arose from confusion with degausing,
a real World War II naval technology that used electromagnetic
fields to neutralize a ship's magnetic signature, making it less
vulnerable to magnetic minds. Degausing did not involve invisibility, teleportation

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or time travel. Unfortunately, a later conspiracy theory suggests that
research on time travel and psychological warfare continued under the
Montalk project, allegedly conducted at Camp hero Mon Talk. Some
claimed the Philadelphia experiment accidentally created a rift in space time,

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leading to continued secret experiments on mind control, teleportation, and
interdimensional travel. Wormholes or Einstein rosenbridges are hypothetical shortcuts through
space time that could allow instant teleportation. Some suggest the
Philadelphia experiment opened a wormhole between Philadelphia and Norfolk. However,

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mainstream physicists consider or firm whole travel purely theoretical and
currently impossible with known technology. Some theories suggest that high
energy electromagnetic fields could create localized distortions. In space time,
leading to time loops or temporal echoes. However, quantum effects

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observed in laboratory experiments are microscopic and there is no
proof such effects could occur on a large scale like
a naval ship. Some conspiracy theories claim that John von Neumann,
a mathematical genius, was involved in the Philadelphia Experiment. Later,

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von Neumann became a key figure in quantum computing and
artificial intelligence, leading to speculation that he was part of
a secret military research on consciousness and time manipulation. The
Philadelphia Experiment in nineteen eighty four was a sci fi
film loosely based on this legend. Numerous books and documentaries

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have also explored the conspiracy theory, mixing fact and fiction.
Many stories about teleportation time traveling government conspiracies borrow elements
from the Philadelphia Experiment. Similar themes appear in The X
Files in nineteen ninety three, Stranger Things in twenty sixteen,

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and The Prestige in two thousand and six, which features
Tesla inspired teleportation experiments. The Philadelphia Experiment has been compared
to the Bermuda Triangle Area fifty one, as well as
other tales of ghost ships folks Unfortunately, that's all the

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time we have for today's time travel unraval podcasts. I
can't thank you enough for joining us, and I hope
you've enjoyed Until next time,