The Vanishing Ship

October 28, 1943. According to what has been told for decades, on this date the American Navy discovered invisibility, teleportation, and most importantly, time travel.

Actually, it cannot be called a discovery. Because the experiment was an absolute failure with devastating results. However, according to the rumors, speculations, and dozens of reports written to this day, everyone from government secret services to aliens had a hand in this affair.

The year was 1943. Two years had passed since America entered World War Two, and the Navy was suffering its greatest casualties. Due to German U-boats and underwater mines, the American Navy was losing one or two ships almost every day. If America wanted to win the war, it had to stop this disaster.

For this very reason, the USS Eldridge, a destroyer, was sent to the Philadelphia naval yard. What happened next has been embedded in the minds of all conspiracy lovers for eighty years.

USS Eldridge, unlike other standard destroyers, was equipped with very large and powerful generators. According to rumors, these generators provided power for a newly developed technology called radar invisibility. This way, the ship would become invisible on radar against German U-boats and sea mines, gaining superiority in war.

The experiment began as planned with the entire crew aboard the ship. Power was given to the generators, and suddenly unexpected events began to occur.

According to eyewitness statements, a green fog began to surround the ship, and the ship became invisible on radar. But just a few seconds later, the ship had become invisible not only on radar but also to the human eye. It had completely disappeared from the area.

The ship reappeared shortly after in Norfolk, Virginia. Nearly four hundred kilometers from where the experiment was conducted in Philadelphia. And what made things even more extraordinary was that the ship appeared ten minutes before it disappeared in Philadelphia.

Immediately after, the ship disappeared from Virginia and reappeared in Philadelphia ten minutes after the original experiment time. In other words, the Navy had both teleported an entire warship four hundred kilometers in an instant and made it travel twenty minutes forward and backward in time.

However, when the returning ship was examined, the scale of the disaster became clear.

According to reports and witness statements, when the ship rematerialized, most of the USS Eldridge crew had collapsed. Some had gone insane. Some had disappeared. And even more horrifically, some were found fused with the ship's hull.

Of course, when rumors about the incident spread, it immediately became popular among the public. At that time, the American public was already in high paranoia due to the war. For this reason, they immediately believed every kind of conspiracy theory without questioning.

This is why many Americans unconditionally believed in the idea of a ship disappearing after a military experiment, and over the years they added many different striking features to this event, making things utterly complicated.