Review of Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Unraveled, by P.J. Dowers. Pandora's Press, 2012. Available from TheBookPatch.com, $15.95. Hoax is an odd title for a book so committed to the reality of the Philadelphia Experiment--invisibility, teleportation, and all. This is a rather odd book in … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – Reflections
I drove up to Clarksburg, West Virginia, on Monday, September 6, 2004. I spent Tuesday through Saturday morning immersed in the decades-old files of Gray Barker, impresario of the Three Men in Black, the Philadelphia Experiment, and other myths and legends almost too numerous to list. “Gray Barker … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – Carl Allen and the Esoteric Tradition
This week's post I owe entirely to a man named Marco Mucci, whose acquaintance I've made over the past two weeks. Marco lives in Rome, where Journal of a UFO Investigator has just been published in Italian, as La Voce Smarrita del Cielo ("The Lost Voice of Heaven"). He's made a series of … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – The Sound of Silence, Part 2
How would you react if you got a letter from a man claiming first-hand knowledge of a Navy experiment in which a ship at Philadelphia and all its sailors had been turned invisible, then teleported to Virginia and back again? Would you pursue the matter? Or would you laugh, say “Crackpot,” and … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – Jessup, Allen, and the “Mary Celeste”
On December 4, 1872, the American ship Mary Celeste was found abandoned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean. Its crew had vanished, never to be seen or heard from again. The mystery inspired, in the nineteenth century, a flesh-creeping story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle entitled “J. Habakkuk Jephson’s … [Read more...]
