Philadelphia Experiment
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urban legend about a supposed US Naval experiment in 1943
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- Instance of
- urban legend
- Named after
- Philadelphia
- Country
- United States
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- USS Eldridge (DE-173) underway, circa in 1944.jpg
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- The Philadelphia Experiment
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USS Eldridge (DE-173), c. 1944
The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, some time around October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer escort, USS Eldridge, disappear and the bizarre results that followed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philadelphia Experiment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.