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Podcast: Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Episode: THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT: Melted Soldiers, Time Traveling Twins, and a Military Cover-Up #WDRadio
Description: A WWII destroyer escort vanished from Philadelphia's naval yard in a flash of green light, only to reappear with crew members grotesquely fused to its metal hull — or so claimed the disturbed man whose elaborate hoax fooled even the U.S. Navy.==========HOUR ONE: Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Records in the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command have been repeatedly searched, but no documents have been located which confirm the ev...