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?

#Halloween #GhostShip #GhostStory

Works cited:
Office of Naval Research's Information sheet: Philadelphia Experiment
Anatomy of a Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Fifty Years Later by Jacques F. Vallee

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[MaritimeHorrors]

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[jmoe]

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

[SK]

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

[mickeysupbro]

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

[minimalbstolerance]

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.

[ClimaxBlues]

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.

[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.

[guardrailbiter]

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

[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!

[seanmacdermott]

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

[ropeburnsrussell]

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

[mirandagehris]

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

[hc]

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

[bencushwa]

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. ;)

[DragonSpirit]

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

[SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

Source: I made this up
**chad music plays**

Also you gotta see the Final Countdown movie they made of this

[corvo]

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

[joek]

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

[joaogomes]

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

[ReverendV]

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.