The Teleportation Experiment That Fused Humans To A Ships Hull... 

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Best part of any teleportation story is how did they know exactly where it would end up when its never been done before

Pretty sure this is how Roanoke can travel from his area to Iowa so fast...

Teleportation stops working when you realize that the universe doesn’t care about our coordinate system.

Sounds more like an arerosol pychodelic experiment than a massive leap in physics.

I've always loved the Philadelphia Experiment story. I don't believe it happened, of course, but it is a really cool story. Much cooler than most government/military conspiracy theories.

I remember watching The Philadelphia Experiment back in 1985 and being shaken to my very core by the sight of those Navy personnel being fused to the metal of the ship.

Nothings better than playing mass effect and listening to Roanoke taking about weird shit. Keep up the amazing work

Yes! Something I can listen to on the way to the airport!

I'm a fan of the "if you want to teleport or time travel you need to know the exact position of the Earth at the time you intend to do it or you can pop into the middle of nowhere space"

I remember my aunt telling me about this after we saw the movie and I became slightly obsessed with it for a bit, it still fascinates me

Hopped on this video because the Philadelphia experiment is sooooo interesting. The fact they even tried this with some form of confidence, is insane to me. Than I heard the voice. And smiled. Didn't realize I clicked/found another Roanoke channel. Very happy. Love your stuff bud.

i remember playing a game where the japanese army tried this but on an entire artificial island, anyone there got terribly mutated and fused to the clothes they wore and are basically zombies, and you got there as a crewman on the Philadelphia experiment who fell off the ship as the test was running

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was just a smokescreen, because like you said, tech that significant would’ve been leaked or be in public use by now, but on the other hand I wouldn’t be surprised if the government did try some teleportation experiments, even if they didn’t work, cuz they’re always doing something weird when we’re not looking.

I remember walking into a credit union and the computer monitor was was all messed up. Most likely due to a radio placed nearby. I pressed the Degaussing button on the computer monitor and what do you know ? It cleared right up. They were all amazed. I "brushed my hands together" and pretended to start walking towards the door proclaiming that my work was done.

I heard a story about two sailors (supposedly crewmen who had been onboard the Eldridge at the time of the experiment) miraculously disappeared into thin air during a bar fight in Philadelphia.

An urban legend that inspired at least two references in great videogames. The Chronosphere in Red Alert which in-lore was an iteration of the Philadelphia Experiment, and the Philadelphia-class starship Eldridge in Xenogears.

A Japanese manga named Record Of Ragnarok discussed this experiment when talking of Nikola Tesla’s feats with his scientific advancements

I know that there is no f-ing way that this story can be true. If teleportation, let alone time travel were as simple as playing around with Tesla coils, somebody would have yeeted themselves into the past or future by now. But it never gets old, no matter how many times I hear it! Teleportation? Time travel into a post-apocalypse future? It has all the trimmings of a classic science fiction story! Which is what it is!

Hope you had a great trip! Here's one you may like, apparently there was bear in Utah called Old Ephraim and it was a monster in size and body count. Might be cool to look into.

It's always fun and dreadful to think of all the stuff that gets declassified. At a certain point, the government was like "Okay...We will...let them know about...This stuff. But keep that other shit secret still!" So perhaps, you know. This could have been a thing that happened, but, the results, or the methods, were of course, so horrifying and terrible, the government buried the hell out of this. It could be so incredibly awful and unfathomable, that, the US Government did not even want this type of technology revisited, nor discovered by other nations on Earth! I imagine it something like, in order to travel like this, they did cross a dimension, and that alternate plane was Hell, or an Eldritch-ridden Abyss, or worse! Or of course this never happened. Either or.

I once read that the ship in question inadvertently time travelled and ended up in the early 80's.

The year was 1943. Our ship was stationed in Philadelphia, and was about to generate an electromagnetic field that would make us invisible to the enemy. What happened instead, we were teleported to New York. And in that process, my shipmates fused to the hull of the ship, embedded in the metal, screaming for help. I was destroyed, forced to regain my physicality.

This story is one of my favorites and it’s being told by Roanoke. Awesome.

I was just thinking about the movie on this a few days ago. Such a neat story, but absurd if you really think about it. Great video as always.

Thanks! For all the work you put into these.

This experiment is also the inspiration behind Red Alerts chronosphere, with the cutscene being the most obvious.

I love this old story. Keep up the good work Roanoke.

Being fused to an object like some sort of noclip videogame glitch is absolutely terrifying.

I started off watching the gaming channel, but then I started watching this one, and for a while, I forgot the gaming channel even existed because I was watching this on repeat all the time.

From Philly, can confirm random, seemingly inscrutable freakouts.

Naval mines work by detecting the magnetic field of metal hulled ships. That magnetic field can be lessened by running electrical cables along the outside of a ship's hull and sending a current through them, which is called degaussing. It doesn't make the ship invisible to radar, but it does make them much less "Visible" to mines. It would explain why the Navy was trying to alter the ship's magnetic field. Maritime Horrors has a great video on this same topic

Thanks for covering this! Love it love it!❤ PS, my mom bought me a magnet that said "shoot for the moon even if u miss you'll land among the stars." I just started cracking up.😂

im pretty sure the instantaneous appearance of the ship would displace water so violently that it would create a tidal wave comparable to a meteorite impact

Could you do a video on the horrors of radiation studies. The lead lined casket of marie curie, and the demon core I know you’re really into nuclear technology and the advancements it could bring, so demonstrating how far we’ve come and the sacrifices that came in the pursuit of knowledge would be amazing

Quick note - there were experiments in the late 2000s and throughout the 2010s into utilizing electromagnetic fields to distort both visible light and radio waves, but there was only limited success with microwave portion of the EM spectrum, and, as Roanoke speculated, the power required made it useless outside of high-end labs. The most recent information I can recall would indicate that the research has largely been mothballed, if it's continuing at all.

Y'know it's funny you mention that a refutation of the Philadelphia Experiment contained things like improper capitalization and punctuation, because that is something a lot of times you'll see with regards to espionage; agencies will give out a story that most people will ignore, but which is still weird enough to attract peoples' attention without them entirely knowing what's up, and people have even gotten angry at news organizations for editing such messages because it'd completely change the orders within.

I remember asking a physic teacher and researcher why we can't use quantic entanglement to relay information. I can't recall exactly the answer but in short it was something like : quantic entanglement can't be used for that unless our law of physic are very wrong. It's like saying 1+1=3 . It's not possible unless our mathematics are wrong at it's core, which is very unlikely.

Say what you will, but there’s nothing like teleporting a battle cruiser across the map to rain hell in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 👍

Nicola Tesla's final invention being put through the ringer by less brilliant minds. (Yes that was a Record of Ragnarok reference)

These videos have become so much easier to listen to and follow then your movie ones.

“How did it stop of from being seen it, remains to be seen” Apparently not.

This reminds me of the ending of "Devil's Pass" which is a fictionalized version of the events of the dyatlov pass incident

"Hey yo Japan, we can turn shit invisible and/or teleport." "Nani?!" "You're already dead."

Another Roanoke masterpiece, keep it up brother!

People really underestimate just how easy it is for the US Govt to "disappear" documents... I also love how people act like something isn't possible because it supposedly "violates the laws of physics", as if our current understanding of physics isn't constantly being proven wrong practically every other day. The issue isn't that something is impossible, the issue is that humans don't actually understand this Universe as much as we egotistically like to think we do...

For years I thought the name of the vessel was the USS Eldritch.

Heavy on original reference and accounts and light on the personal speculation presented as fact with very little filler language. Your meter and diction doesn't sound like a bot. I don't know if the last of your videos I caught was just a fluke but this offering is much more to my taste. Hope you make mad money for your hard work. Then I hope that money disappears from your bank account and appears in my living room with nobody fused to it. Awesome video.

i wonder if the tests were as you stated about de-gausing the magnetic signature to invisibility but some one mistook magnetic to mean electromagnetic so that would lead one along the idea of making it invisible to radar. The thing just snowballed from there. A great story either way and one based on some elements of truth and scientific possibilities.

Fun fact the manga Record of Ragnarok referenced this event linking it to tesla by them using giant tesla coils

Would you consider convering some modern ARG ? (winter 83, The Backrooms, Vita Carnis, The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park...)

This would definitely make a cool thing to be referenced in something like Fallout, or some other Post-apocalyptic setting. Like something that happened right before the end of the modern world, or during it, leading to the sailors on the ship surviving into the period of the game. It'd make for one hell of a cold open for the player character, for that matter.

Also, visible light is still electromagnetic radiation, so in theory, if you can manipulate the right wavelengths or just manipulate all wavelengths you would be invisible by all means of observation. Like an EM cloak. I can see how the energy needed for that kind of experiment would not only be dangerous on it's own, but also have unknown effects on other properties

I would not say that teleportation is physically impossible, nor does it violate conservation. It happens all the time, just only for things with the mass around that of an elementary particle. Quantum tunneling is basically teleportation. Put a particle in front of a potential barrier that it should not have the energy to cross and there is a chance it will still make it through. Also, virtual particles and hawking radiation. Its easiest to conceptualize using zero point energy, the minimum energy that a system can have is not always zero. The greater the curvature of space, the higher the zero point energy density, and the higher the chance for a virtual particle to form. Normally the pair of particles will immediately annihilate, but if one falls into a black hole and the other doesnt, that's energy that has been removed from the system and the black hole shrinks. Nothing to do with teleportation. Also Hawking once explained it as the antiparticle having a negative energy and that one being the one to fall in, and people like to regurgitate that explanation. No, he was trying to put it into laymens terms for the press and he bungled it like a nerd.

The declassification of any document is hand picked by C.I.A and top Military officials for the the standing Government, only after very meticulous handling and editing (usually done by marking over of the primary pieces of information) of these documents are they declassified and released, we will never see the declassified documents involving cases such as this.

I love that this story is so famous now that a there is a shipwaifu of the Eldrige in a Japanese gatcha mobile game based around WW2 ships and factions.

i swear i watched a movie or possibly a few movies based off this.

A classic case of humans playing with shit they don't understand

I knew you'd touch this after the last one.

I can’t believe they made the Borealis from Half life a real thing

The year was 1943 Our ship was stationed off the coast of Philadelphia and was equipped with an electromagnetic field to hide us from the enemy. Instead; our ship ended up in new york. My shipmates fused to the hull of the ship, screaming for help. I was destroyed..... forced to regain my physicality 🤡

This should be a movie

In the head of a spy, who most likely know nothing about nuclear fission as this were a completely new and mostly theoretical science, hearing that the allies are both splitting atoms and teleportation, what a spy decide to dig deeper into is kind of obvious. "Splitting atoms? .. why? They are teleporting battleships all over the place, and you want to look into atoms?! You're fired!"

I wouldnt be suprised if the government slapped a massive em generator on a ship hoping it'd do something only to accidentally microwave a bunch of sailors, and then claim it was something much more impressive to cover their asses.

If they had really developed this technology in 1943 it would have been repeated. There is no sign that it has.

That this isnt linked to a review of the Philadelphia Experiment movie saddens me. Such a good movie.

You can create an electro magnetic field that could create an illusion of the ship disappearing, when in fact all it did was heat up the ship to the point were heat waves distorted the radar image. The heat could have also melted the deck and cause severe burns to the crew making it appear that they were fused to the deck. No teleportation, instead they turned the ship into one be heat lamp/toaster.

You can tell there was no such experiment, bc if there had been, the US military would just have kept experimenting, despite the loss of personnel and material. This kind of technology would have been more important than the a-bomb.

Suspiciously fitting ship name, this reminds me of the warp from Warhammer 40K

The fact its name Eldrige which is a phonetic play on Eldritch which may not mean anything in the language of the intended enemy hints heavily it was a intel misinformation op

It sounds like they basically created a chrono sphere device like in Command and Conquer Red Alert 2

bruh i was playing subnautica hardcore and was exploring the most dangerous biome and had this vid in the backround. that outro music genuinly scared me nice vid btw!

Now i cannot get Event Horizon out of my head. Guess I'll just have to go watch it again 😂

Another blizzard but also entertaining video by yours truly!🎉

I was a force recon Marine. The last 5 years of my tenure, I was a sergeant in the 13th MEU. In 2016 we were at sea for 7 months. Off the coast of Yemen, our vessel sailing east at around 13 knots, comes to an abrupt but gentle stop. It pitched and rolled pretty violently, there was some sort of vibration, then it appeared like something absolutely gargantuan swam away. The boils and surface disturbance was so large it actually caused our vessel to again, pitch and roll as if in 10-15 foot seas. Our sled wasn't halted long enough for helm to throttle back. It was a really short disturbance. I just happened to be on deck smoking with this SMOKING hot NAVY chick. She was a sergeant too, badass woman. I know, she ended up becoming my wife were still very happily married and we have twin boys. We'll forever remember that night as it was the night my wife learned most women do end up marrying their fathers (her dad is an MEU Marine as well) but both of us knew 100% we would never swim in the fucking ocean again. I know beyond the shadow of doubt it was some kind of emmensely massive sea creature. But I also know it's not possible it was a whale simply because we watched it swim off and not one time did we see a blowhole spray. Not only that but even if it was a blue whale, it would have been a speed bump for our vessel. I won't go into specifics about what boat I was on or anything like that because we all had to sign NDAs. So I could probably get in a shit load of trouble for this. It's true, I tell no lies. I don't have time to lie on a comment thread man. Anyway, don't swim in the ocean kids. That thing was so fuckin big man. I cannot stress that enough. It was absolutely fucking gargantuan. Take care everyone.

I remember that teleporting experiment with an orange. If I recall the man either vaporised it or he did not account for when it would return he knew where but miscalculated when. Or hey he was full of it. I will keep my eyes peeled for unexplained fruit just in case.

This whole teleportation thing is just nonsense. Something everyone always forgets about sudden mass translocation in movies and stuff is is the side effects of moving that much material so quickly. If you make something just vanish even if it is possible you now have a void with nothing in it and that's going to suck everything near by in like a tornado to fill the void. The larger the object the more negative pressure that needs to be filled. Then on the other side you have a sudden expansion of mass as something appears out of thin air. This would cause what amounts to an explosion in the form of a sonic boom from that sudden expansion of air. So even if it was possible everyone on that ship would be ether dead or injured from the sonic boom created from the sudden pressure shift.

Something to note. China at one point made a claim that their scientists had discovered a way to teleport objects. Objects specifically since, according to them.. Their machine had issues with trying to teleport organic matter. Also.. What they "could" teleport also had limitations other than said object having to not be organic. Forgetting the dimensions at the moment but said object would be relatively small.. But big enough to be interesting.. Now obviously this is a story China fabricated at said time much like a LOT of things but still. Interesting to think about some times.

I love Al Bielek story about Philadelphia experiment

I always wondered what was the point of making a surface ship invisible. It still leaves a wake

I was twenty seconds in, and when you said USS Eldritch I knew it was a farce. Good story though.

Do you want Warp Daemons? Cause that’s how you get Warp Daemons.

That title is a trip and I am all packed

Oh gosh, I remember when I found the book "Ship of the Damned" in my public library in high school, now I'm going on a nostalgic trip, thanks!

'Honey, new Roanoke dropped!'

The Philadelphia Experiment: There was definitely a ship called the USS Eldridge. She was a destroyer. She had a captain and a crew.

Umami's Interface used the Philadelphia Experiment in its story for the character Mischief.

It would be cool if you would do videos about cryptids covering theyre origin and how likely it is that they exist and how theyre biologie works. Thank you for the content and keep up the good work

Two banger videos. God damn yes

So light is on the electromagnetic spectrum so if we were able to manipulate magnetic fields so that they do not bounce off and object, we would not be able to see it. Where did you go for your road trip? I live in Hawaii, being in not a plane for more than an hour is torture for me.

How did they control the destination? Where are the hundreds of crew members and base personnel who would have seen this.

And here I thought it was all about teleporting cheeses

You know, I hadn't ever heard of this myth until watching Interface by umami. This experiment being the catalyst for that series' story. I didn't realize it was based on an existing story at that time, but I do find it pretty weird and kinda creepy.

Sounds like a pre 40k warp trip

I think most people overthink teleportation, the arguments for "well the earth moves around the sun and the whole solar system moves through our Milky Way Galaxy, so how do you account for that?" I think any *real* teleportation that gets discovered or invented will be heavily quantum based. We don't really understand how quantum theory connects the universe together, but I don't think it's unreasonable to think that the key could be our brains, or rather our imagination. I think of the movie Jumper right off (underrated scifi imo), where the ability only works if you can visualize or know the place where you're going, and the visualization in our brain might communicate through some unseen web of influence how to get the atoms there accurately, no super complicated calculation needed to adjust for cosmic movement. Adding to that, any device used for teleportation would need to be linked to a human so the device knows how and where to send whatever it is they are teleporting

Time-Space Anomaly. Somewhere in a parallel universe, the Navy was jazzed that it worked, while accidentally displacing our two scientists and their two scientists. Our two are in the other universe claiming nothing happened but mass hysteria among the Naval Officers.

I could see this as even an elaborate set-up "experiment" used as misinformation. To me that makes a lot of sense, given the time period.

Thank god. Just in time to save me from death by boredom at work. Love your videos

So this is the inspiration behind the movie Event Horizon

I've been binge watching Roanoke Tales from the newest and going back since yesterday and I've learned from Roanoke how best to notice hoaxes. If the only evidence is "trust me bro" it's most likely a hoax. Lol Edit: Also this reminds me of the "carrots help us see better" ploy America did to hide our new radar technology.