The Philadelphia Experiment is a mysterious event that allegedly occurred in October 1943. It is said to have involved the US Navy's Destroyer Escort, the USS Eldridge, which was made to disappear from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and reappear in Norfolk, Virginia. The experiment is said to have
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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.