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Episode 85-The Philadelphia Experiment:
The Warship That Vanished
In this episode of What’s Shakin With Shaner, we dive into one of the most enduring mysteries and conspiracy legends of World War II—the infamous Philadelphia Experiment.
According to the legend, sometime in 1943, the USS Eldridge became the subject of a top-secret Navy experiment designed to make ships invisible to enemy radar. But the experiment allegedly went far beyond radar invisibility. Witnesses claimed the ship was surrounded by a strange green fog, vanished from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and suddenly appeared hundreds of miles away in Norfolk, VA, before returning.
Join Shakin Shaner & Psycho Bob as they step into the fog, turn down the lights, and investigate the strange story of the Philadelphia Experiment—where history, science, conspiracy, and a little bit of the impossible collide. Because sometimes the most fascinating mysteries aren't the ones we can prove. They're the ones that make us ask: "But what if it really happened?"
