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[Cool]

A few nights ago I was with friends talking about politics and various other topics and somehow we got on to the topic of the Philadelphia Experiment. I had never heard of it before this discussion and after I heard about it, after I got home I immediately started reading about it, and I have been for the last few days. I was just wondering if anyone else knew anything about the Philadelphia Experiment and/or had opinions on how much of it is true.

This paragraph is the general idea of it:

Much has been written and speculated about this legend of an experiment in "electronic camouflage," both pro and con. Reportedly it ended with the ship teleporting from Philadelphia to Norfolk with some crew members becoming embedded in the ship. Sorting the facts from the fiction has proven an almost impossible task, particularly with the recent flux of misinformation and deliberate disinformation that has been injected into the internet by those connected to the U.S. intelligence community, professional skeptics and arm chair researchers.

It supposevely took place in circa 1943.

Also, here's a site with a bunch of information on it:

http://www.viewzone.com/philadelphia.html

Anyway, again, I was just wondering if anyone else knew about this strange legend or had any opinions on it as to how much of it is true.

 

[levious]

The main character was flung into the 1985 future, and hilarity ensued when he couldn't drive a car cause he couldn't find the clutch.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

If you watch SCIFI you are bound to see this as the subject of one of those Shows...

 

[Team Rancid]

The main character was flung into the 1985 future, and hilarity ensued when he couldn't drive a car cause he couldn't find the clutch.

Then he was tossed back to the early 60's and wrote "On the Dark Side" with Tom Berenger.

 

[dskillzhtown]

Not sure if I believe that it happened the way people are describing. Just seems a bit too wild. Maybe something happened, but not like the movie. But here is someone who believes it 100%:

http://www.rense.com/general17/philadelphiaexp.htm

 

[sefskillz]

I thought this was going to be about the band...

 

[levious]

Then he was tossed back to the early 60's and wrote "On the Dark Side" with Tom Berenger.

Was that before or after he formed Eddie and the Cruisers and then faked his own death?

 

[Team Rancid]

This was all before he formed Eddie & the Crusers.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Also, here's a site with a bunch of information on it:

http://www.viewzone.com/philadelphia.html

Anyway, again, I was just wondering if anyone else knew about this strange legend or had any opinions on it as to how much of it is true.

My opinion is probably similar to that of yours: interested and curious, but not certain of much beyond that. Really interesting read, though, going into my "Weird Shit" bookmarks category for sure.

Some of the example images made with the diffraction film (like http://www.viewzone.com/philadelphia.realship.jpg , to avoid unnecessary bandwidth use) are really bizarre. Google searches for more information on it mostly point to others talking about this same subject, though.

 

[Warm Machine]

I always thought the concept would work really well as a survial horror game. Put the main character on board a ship and then have the madness ensue. You have crew members in abject pain fused right into the hull and sections of the boat in and out of phase with time. The goal would be to reset the time machine and stop the event from ever happening or something.