The U.S. Navy Allegedly Made One of Its Destroyers Invisible and Managed to Teleport It
Known as the “Philadelphia Experiment,” this theory centers on a U.S. Navy destroyer in 1943, the USS Eldridge. Some believe that the Navy managed to make the USS Eldridge invisible and then teleported it from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia. The destroyer was supposedly equipped with generators that would power a new type of magnetic field that would make the warship invisible to enemy radar.
When the generators were activated, the ship was engulfed in an eerie blue glow and then vanished on the radar and in person, or so the dubious story goes. There were then reports of the USS Eldridge appearing in Norfolk, only to reappear in Philadelphia shortly afterward. The legend states that crew members suffered terrible burns and disorientation. In what is perhaps the creepiest thing of all, some crewmen were supposedly sealed to the ship as part of the experiment while they were still alive.
After scouring its records, the Navy has said this is all baloney. It states that it has a letter from the master of the civilian merchant ship, the SS Andrew Furuseth, that supposedly saw the USS Eldridge teleport into Norfolk saying that he and his crew never saw anything unusual in the area.
