WEBVTT - CLASSIC: The Philadelphia Experiment 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:05.640 Philip conspiracy realist. You remember Philadelphia cream cheese? We sure did, 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.399 and we wanted to figure out where it came from, 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.200 so we did it in this episode. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.320 That's right, that's what this entire episode is about, Baby 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.720 taking them cows and milking them for all that sweet, sweet, white, milky. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.360 Gold big Dary. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.439 Yeah, that's right. No, this is about a really weird 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:28.040 experiment that maybe didn't happen, probably didn't happen, allegedly happened 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.400 about time travel. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:38.120 The USS Eldridge traveling through time and space with disastrous consequence. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.920 It is a thrilling tale. But how much of it, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.440 you know, is straight poop and how much of it 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.839 is just whipped cream cheese? We're going to find out 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:56.840 in this recording from UFOs to Psychic Powers and government Conspiracies. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:01.120 History is riddled with unexplained events. Can turn back now 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.040 or learn this stuff they don't want you to know. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.800 A production of iHeartRadio. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.920 Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:20.960 my name is not. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.880 They called me Ben. We're joined as always with our 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.640 super producer Paul Mission controlled decands. Most importantly, you are you, 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.680 You are here, and that makes this stuff They don't 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:36.400 want you to know. Today's episode is a weird one 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.200 on many levels. First, it's weird that we have not 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.000 done a podcast on this before. We've had a lot 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.040 of people ask us about it over the years. Secondly, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:51.720 it concerns something that has always fascinated us, allegations of 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.320 hidden technology. Now you know these stories or you know 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.480 the rough tropes. They come and go throughout the world 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.760 of conspiratorial lore, but they will never really go away, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:08.400 just because there are way too many known proven cases 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.840 of suppress technology we've explored on the show, and there's 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:17.840 way too much other weird, somewhat sinister, circumstantial, very true 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:23.320 stuff floating around, like the Invention Secrecy Act of what 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.639 was it, nineteen fifty one. That's a real thing. I've 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.840 still boggled by that you can invent something in the 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.120 United States and do everything right, and the government can 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:39.040 totally not just steal your invention, but also legally prevent 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.880 you from ever talking about it. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.320 Do the rest of you imagine getting that visit or 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.359 that call what You're so stoked you've patented your first 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.440 like Gangbuster's genius idea, and then you get a call 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.959 from the g men saying sorry, but we're going to 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.720 suppress the hell out of this and you can never 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:54.480 speak of it again. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.280 You know, it's not the government's fault. They were just 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.920 there two decades before and already patented the thing, and 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.680 then just you know, they didn't have to tell anybody. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.000 So it's parallel thinking with the government. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.119 Yeah, exactly. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.800 I spend a little too much time, I think, whenever 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.560 we get close to these topics, just imagining what sort 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.480 of stuff could have been pulled by the Invention Secrecy Act. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.720 I hope it's not all weapons. I hope it's some 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:26.080 things that are like ridiculous, like a regenitative dentifice, a 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.760 toothpaste you can use that actually removes cavities. And someone 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.000 was like, no, this the world's not ready. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.360 Lock him just a way a way too advanced bidet now, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.960 Like we just we can't have this, We cannot let 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:39.360 this fly. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.000 Yeah, an actually everlasting gob stopper. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.520 Yes, wallpaper where the snosberries actually taste likensbery, yes, yes. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.040 Or a pill that means you'll never have to sleep again. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.800 That's my personal favorite. Anyway, this stuff happens all the time. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:00.400 They have that that's called meth no if there's a 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.400 trailer dropping for a show on the day we record 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.280 this about a very very pill. It's actually more of 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.560 a mind app but it's all good. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.080 Nice. Can you disclose more sure? 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.080 It's called Tomorrow's Monsters. It's brought to you by the 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.760 Flynn Picture Company and Dan Bush and Psycopia Pictures and 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:20.600 myself and my team. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.240 It's documentary, is what you're saying. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:22.960 It's a documentary. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.839 Yeah, very o Matt Frederick. Yeah, that's an exciting one 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.000 and we're not blowing smoke. Do check it out. I 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.560 think we'll have the trailer for that show in our 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:37.240 own feed in a little while, but stay stay tuned. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.239 So suppress technology. Let's start today's story with a little 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.760 bit of background on the US Navy. Here are the facts. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.680 So we could start with the rumors. I suppose we 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.080 don't necessarily need to lead off with saying the rumors 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.000 are true. But there are rumors, tons of them in fact, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.440 about the US Navy and classified space age experiments. These 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.800 rumors don't exist in a vacuum. They don't come from 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.800 absolute whole cloth. The Navy has, of course done tons 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.680 of secret experiments. It's a thing. It's a known thing 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.840 that the Navy does experiments that we'll probably never hear 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:12.880 about or at the very least the full extent of 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.960 this research. But the stuff that has been declassified is 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.359 really really really cool. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.240 Oh yeah, and one of the first things we can 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:23.000 look at is this amazing piece of tech called the 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:23.960 Sea Shadow. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.360 Not to be confused with the sea shanties that are 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.039 very popular on TikTok right now, just putting that out there. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.560 No, it's not a sea shant tea, it's a Sea Shadow. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.159 It's it's a stealth warship. It will remind you of 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.960 if you took one of the stealth bombers or the 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.400 stealth jet fighter that we've talked about before on the 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.160 show that you've seen that made their appearances during the 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.880 Gulf War. I believe, like an yeah F one to 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.480 seventeen Nighthawk, very similar to that. But you took that 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.160 thing then you kind of crunched it down, turned its 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.560 wings kind of on its side and downwards a bit, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.400 and then put it in the water. That's kind of 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.240 what it looks. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.400 Like a little bit like the X or the X 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.839 Men like plane. Sort of. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.560 Yeah, we're a B two bomber or I'm gonna be 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.240 completely honest, A real kick ass toy from the g I. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.520 Joe toy line. It looks like you could buy it 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.680 at Target and put your little figures in it. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.080 I remember when they used to make toys and then 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.320 everything else was just based on the toy. Now it's 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.799 the other way around. Yeah, I missed those days. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.680 I love it. I love all the I love the 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.400 ridiculous extents that we'll go to to make a storyline 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.640 around a toy line, you know what I mean. So, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.480 the Sea Shadow is a real thing, and it's created 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.960 in partnership with Lockheed and DARPA. DARPA again, if you're listening, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.839 get at me. Where's the sleep tech? Not meth. I'm 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.479 not asking for meth. I just want to stay awake. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.479 So the Sea Shadow, it was a project that spanned 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:01.000 from like nineteen eighty four to its public data and 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:05.720 confirmation of existence in nineteen ninety three. It looks super cool. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:11.040 It had some really smart technology a board and in 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.560 its DNA, you could say, But ultimately it was never commissioned. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.080 In fact, it was gutted and sold by Uncle Sam 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.880 after they had spent a while trying to get a 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.520 museum to take it. No museum would take it, so 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.800 they sold it to a private company with a very 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.400 weird condition. And so we're selling this to you and 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.000 you have to destroy it, you know, to take it apart. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.160 You can never use it or sale it, just sell 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:37.800 it for scrap. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.960 And typically we're not going to hear about this kind 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.880 of stuff unless the military decides they no longer have 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.280 any use for it, or it's more or less considered 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:46.280 a failed experiment. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.160 Right, right, that's a good point. So there are two 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:52.840 ways that there are number of ways militaries will disclose 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.960 this kind of bleeding edge tech. First if it doesn't 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.840 work and they feel like maybe another intel elegency agency 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.880 has already compromised the research. That's why, you know, when 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.600 enough time passes, that's when you start hearing about stuff 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:12.400 like we tried to use bats as explosive devices in 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:13.720 World War two, things. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.480 Like that, or those hover platforms. Remember those hover platforms 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.480 with the like propellers on the bottom. That was a 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.120 real cool idea. Clearly it was super wonky, impossible to steer, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.600 more so than like a segue, and that came out. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:27.720 You know, you can see you can see drawings of 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:28.600 these on the Internet. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:33.280 One of those was actually mistaken for a UFO in 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.000 Mexico a few years back. Actually, I don't think mistaken 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.520 is right, because it was an r phenomenon. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.160 I think that's what you know, that's sort of the 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.959 old story of where a lot of sightings of of 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.240 UFOs come from is veiled government technology that no one 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.560 knows about. So therefore it must be if we don't 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.840 know about it, it must be, you know, from another galaxy. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.839 Absolutely. Another reason that government might disclose bleeding edge t 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:05.520 is to send an intimidation signal to a geopolitical rival. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.640 And that's I mean, that's that's a powerful statement. And 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.120 then there are of course legit leaks like the assages 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.400 and snowed ends of the world. But but what's interesting 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.000 about this is although the Sea Shadow is long gone, 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.760 you can see its influence, its legacy and other ships 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:30.240 today like the USNS Impeccable, an ocean surveillance ship that 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.840 was recently or a few years back, I should say, 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:39.240 in the news for some ratcheting tensions in the Pacific theater, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.720 mainly China and interacting with US and the Philippines. But 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.360 so the Sea Shadow, it's a real thing. It looks 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.959 like a spaceship on the water. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:55.240 And just to be clear here, the USNS Impeccable looks 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.160 like that build that we were discussing where it's got 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.800 It looks like it's got too parts of it on 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.400 the bottom that go into the. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.480 Water and are submerged really deeply and then kind of 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.000 goes up in an arc almost like almost like the 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.280 underside of a bridge tunnel or something. Great example, Yeah, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.080 beneath the ship so that other things can go in there. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.400 I guess pretty cool. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.440 I want one. I want to live on one. But 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.880 so the Navy also did other wild stuff back in 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.880 the day, just to show you how long ago this 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.880 process was, so Sea Shadow fair comparatively recent. But the 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:38.080 Navy also experimented with airborne aircraft carriers. This is something 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.839 we covered in an old episode of car Stuff. For 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:46.760 a while, they Okay, this idea is going to sound crazy, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.360 and it's going to sound like it's a conversation that 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.559 a bunch of coked up eighties movie producers would have. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.400 But here's what happened. They said, blimps are cool. We 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:03.480 like airships. Let's build airships that we can put tiny 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:08.400 planes in. And then we can have these tiny planes 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:14.719 fly out of the airships and then guys, guys, we're 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.360 gonna put the planes back in the blimps. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.040 Bro. I love that idea, and I will love you 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:20.600 so much. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.480 Guys. This is the best carry okay, n'd ever blimps. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.320 But yeah, they did the USS Akron the USS making. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:34.480 They were lighter than air craft, uh, and they were huge. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.120 They were eight hundred feet long. They had built in 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.800 hangars and they could take these tiny tiny planes and 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:46.360 deploy them, and then the pilots could in theory, and 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.280 they did this successfully a few times. They could also 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.400 return to the airship dock and be taken back up 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:57.240 into the blimp. But it's like anybody with anxiety, your 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.120 heart will already start racing when you hear about how 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.760 they connected back. They had to like fly up under 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.920 the airship at this match at speed, and they had 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.600 a little hook on this tiny plane and they had 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.720 to kind of like like at a carnival gamer an 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.199 arcade game. They had to kind of like position the 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.679 hook onto this bar that was just hanging down from 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.679 the blimp. They had to hope it connected and then 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:27.200 have perfect timing so that they didn't destroy the whole 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:33.600 house of airborne cards, no surprise. Eventually they eventually, Uncle 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.720 Sam decided this was kind of a wild, unreliable idea 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.320 for a number of reasons. And we know the Navy 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.160 also experiments with armament, right I remember. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.880 Wait, wait, we can't. We can't leave uss Akron yet 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:57.280 because we know it exploded, right yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.200 I think it didn't fly for very long, but in 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.600 nineteen thirty three, that's when its final flight occurred. At 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.239 least the the Akron version that we spoke. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.679 Of, it had a number of accidents. Yeah, but with 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.760 work in progress, work in progress. So we also know 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:19.920 the Navy experiments extensively with new types of armament, you know, 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.959 mortarshells and so on. Probably one of the coolest things 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.679 to hit the public sphere is the rail gun, which 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:31.640 has been fascinating us for a number of years. Shout out, 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.880 shout out to the railgun cruise because that stuff is 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.720 supposed to be ready in twenty twenty one to twenty 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:39.560 twenty five. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:40.680 Was that quake? 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:41.800 Yeah? 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:42.520 I think it was quake. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.439 Yes, I was just I was like, am I crazy? 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.120 Like I thought that was a weapon in doom or quake. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.120 Pretty sure it's quake. But this is not a handheld device. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.319 This is like a massive ordinance cannon. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.840 Yeah, correct, Yeah, it's not something you can carry around 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.120 with you yet. And a handheld version we don't know, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.080 we don't know what they're up to. Yeah, okay, let's 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.200 put that it's not something we can carry around handtel version. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.960 And the Navy has done tons of other stuff. The 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.840 drawing board is filled with mistakes and triumphs. Of course, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.680 you know, Matt, I thought of you specifically with this one. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.400 It's maybe a story for another day. But there's a 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:29.440 lot of research into unmanned maritime vehicles like lockeeds. Is 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.360 building those prototypes now. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:32.280 Like seed drones? 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.680 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, cool, of course they are. Oh man, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.920 I just haven't seen it. I haven't looked into it, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.920 but yeah, find me in a week. I'll be very 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:44.920 very into this. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:46.040 Yeah. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.720 I always picture oh what was that film? I always 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:54.160 picture the guys from Step Brothers looking at an unmanned 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.240 ship of this sort and saying like, wow, once you 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.640 take the people out, there's so much room for activities. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.720 Yeah, I suppose, But isn't the idea the same way 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.280 that like laptops now don't have desk drives in them anymore. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.240 Aren't they trying to make the smallest possible package. I 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.640 guess when you say activities, we're like using that as 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.920 a stand in for features and like tech and weaponry, right. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:20.680 Yep, fuel more communications equipment. You also don't have to 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.640 worry so much about various safety mechanisms you would put 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.359 in to keep the meat bags going safely port to ports. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.680 Almost as though people are going to one day become 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.360 an afterthought and all of this stuff. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:38.600 Maybe maybe, But we are giving you these examples again, 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:43.520 these very real examples, to establish this fact. Yes, the 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:49.080 US military constantly engages in classified research, experimentation and design 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.440 and so on and so on and so on. A 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.000 ton of it ends up never working. But it's also 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.960 safe to assume, I would say, it's crucial to assume 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:03.880 that all competent, world class militaries are doing the same thing. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.240 The US is not alone in this regard. It's not 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.960 a matter of like, we're beyond good and evil. These 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.080 are just the rules of the road for these organizations. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.880 But in the case of the US Navy specifically, there 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.280 is one project, gentlemen, one rumor of a test that 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:26.640 has obsessed thousands of people for decades. That's our episode today. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.720 What is the Philadelphia Experiment. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.360 We'll tell you about it in just a moment. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.960 Here's where it gets crazy. We're back. We don't have 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.920 to spend a lot of time on this, but we've 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:48.240 researched extensively and the facts are there. The Philadelphia Experiment 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.080 was the original name for what we call cream cheese. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.360 It was invented by the US Navy back in the 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.960 nineteen fifties, shortly after World War Two, to address growing 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.720 and urgent concerns about the lack of cream and wartime 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:00.560 chae supplies. 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.560 Those maniacs, they were so preoccupied with whether they could 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.160 do this, they never considered whether they should. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.000 Yep, and we made a whole video about it. If 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.800 you head over to YouTube dot com slash conspiracy stuff, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.600 you can watch that video. And really it's just the 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.120 lack of cream in that video is astounding, and it's 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:20.880 really what it's all about. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:22.440 The best part of the video is when they start 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.560 getting into different flavors. That's when it really they cracked 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:26.520 the egg wide open. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.400 The cream cheese arm race. Yeah, the flavor arm race. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.000 It was a harrowing time, you know, and I think 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:37.480 I think we can all agree that the world got 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.240 very close to ending, So thank you. That's cream cheese 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.080 is also, you know, the cream cheese conflict is also 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.520 where we see the origins of mutually assured destruction or 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.320 mad policy, which later you might recognize from nuclear weapons. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:58.480 We're kidding, this is something different. We think we're kidding. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:03.200 I don't know, Big Cream, don't shut us down. What 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:08.440 we're really talking about is something that I believe could 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.600 now be described as an urban legend. It's been around 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:16.000 long enough that it's reached legend status, and we have 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.000 a story for you, folks, strap. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.960 In legendary to the point that, you know, kind of 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:23.560 like we were talking about earlier, with that room of 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.440 Navy tech people getting a little excited big upping each 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.840 other on weird ideas, there was a room full of 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.040 Hollywood executives doing something very similar, saying the Philadelphia Experiment 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.800 brilliant idea for a sci fi film of nineteen eighty four. 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:44.400 That's right. Now, cast your mind back to nineteen forty 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:51.040 three October. At the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, government scientists are 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.679 conducting an experiment aboard a US Navy Canon class destroyer 0:18:55.920 --> 0:19:01.480 escort called the USS Eldridge. It's number d E one 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:02.440 seventy three. 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:08.440 There are some notable people in attendance at this momentous occasion, 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.920 one of whom is Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein was making 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.320 the rounds according to this story, because you see, the 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:22.640 eggheads working for the Navy had reached some fascinating conclusions 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:26.399 about the application of Einstein's theory of the unified field, 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.919 and they were hoping to create a real life invisibility cloak, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.720 a field of energy that would render the Eldridge invisible 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.320 both to the human eye and to radar, which was 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:40.200 the more important part. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.320 This is sort of like a science y tech version 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.680 of like, you know, D and D Cloak of invisibility. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:51.679 Basically, right, Harry Potter, Cloak of invisibility? What have you? 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.800 Just a ship? It's on a ship instead of a 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:58.080 person or a level three warlock. And this this gets 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:02.399 love Craftian pretty quick. And it's a story that I think, 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.119 you know, if you consider yourself a conspiracy realist, this 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:07.400 is probably one of your favorite stories when you're growing up. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.000 Ben. Is it any accident that the ship was named 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:11.560 the USS Eldridge. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:13.320 It's great, good story. 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.080 It really works, it really works. 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:17.040 And this is a real ship. By the way, we'll 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:17.760 get into this too. 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.720 That part's spelled differently. It's spelled e L dri DG Yes. 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:27.359 Good points. So according to this story, this experiment is 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:32.399 unusual in comparison to other declassified experiments because it is 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:38.240 witnessed by hundreds, possibly thousands of sailors who are at 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:43.000 the port or who are on other nearby ships. The 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:47.480 testing was a series of events, and it began, as 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.720 Matt said, in the summer of forty three. At first 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:57.440 it seemed successful to a limited extent. One test allegedly 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:02.679 resulted in the Eldridge mean kind of translucent, you know, 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:07.359 somewhat obscured, almost invisible. And then some witnesses reported a 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:11.040 quote greenish fog or later described as a green glow 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.399 appearing in place of where the ship used to be. 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:21.600 Crew Members allegedly complained of severe nausea and then disaster. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.159 Struck and just you know, while we're here. If that 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:31.320 is true, it sounds like nuclear stuff to me, a 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:35.520 greenish people are getting dosed by radiation and feeling a 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:37.840 little sick. That's what it sounds like. 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.680 It also reminds me a lot of when David Copperfield 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.400 made the Statue of Liberty disappear on live television, minus 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.400 the radiation and the greenish glow. Apparently he just pulled 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.960 a giant like curtain up and then dropped it. But 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:51.520 that was a big deal at the time. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.199 I vaguely remember that. Yeah, yeah, I always wondered how 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.080 he did that, And also related, I always wonder how 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.960 people get into those words of gigs, you know, like 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.040 just from a infrastructure equipment materials. 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:08.120 Practice, practice practice, same way you get to Carnegie Hall, 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:08.480 you know. 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.639 Start with a spoon and you end up with the 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:11.479 Statue of Liberty. 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.160 You just pick a real specific niche and just go 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:15.680 with it, lean into it hard. 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.320 I'm a magician, but I only disappear statues. 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:23.000 That's like paltic, guys, I'm big serious here. I mean, 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.800 think about the fog even, like what could that be? Oh, 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.120 I don't know. If someone trying to figure out how 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:33.600 to make a piece of uranium go into water and 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:38.240 then I don't know, use the steam that's coming off 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:40.520 of it to make some experiment happen, but they don't 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:43.680 understand exactly what's happening. Yet with all that steam. 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:45.919 And we know now from what was soon to follow, 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:50.479 radioactive energy creation is all about steam, and we know 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:52.560 that the water and all of that stuff that is 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:56.399 used to generate radioactive energy is absolutely toxic. 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.120 Yes, but we're not saying that that's what was happening here. 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:01.359 This is Matt's a little silly put theory. 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.320 This has been Matt's silly pet theory. Corners. 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:08.720