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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
- Subject: Re: Phantom Ship Inquiry
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.034239.3542@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <BzFwp4.CMz@world.std.com> <1992Dec23.153519.1@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 03:42:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.153519.1@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov> ibc@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov writes:
- >In article <BzFwp4.CMz@world.std.com>, rjc@world.std.com (Richard J Callahan) writes:
- >>
- >> I am researching phantom ship legends and sightings along the New
- >> England coast, concentrating especially on the areas of Casco Bay and
- >> Penobscot Bay in Maine.
- >>
- >
- >I seem to remember hearing something about a large naval ship, maybe a
- >battleship, "disappearing" temporarily in the Philadelphia ship yards. I
- >don't recall when this was supposed to have happened. Can anyone fill
- >in the details?
-
- There's such a snarl of pseudo-scientific hokery surrounding the supposed
- "Philadelphia Incident" that it's hard to pull _any_ facts out. The
- minimalist version of the story is that extremely powerful electromagnets
- were supposedly used on a ship supposedly named the USS Eldridge, and that
- the ship supposedly reappeared instantly hundreds of miles away in
- Portsmouth or Norfolk, VA, and supposedly sailors were walking through
- walls and disappearing into thin air and supposedly efforts using a wide
- range of weird technology were supposedly used to try to rescue the
- sailors from their supposed living hell about this supposed death ship.
-
- Joel "Vandervecken" Furr
- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
-