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back in 1942 the U.S Navy conducted a

potentially groundbreaking experiment in

an effort to turn one of its ships

invisible

it went wrong with disastrous

consequences or at least that's how the

story goes indeed throughout history

militaries around the world have

secretly conducted all kinds of crazy

experiments some real some shrouded in

conspiracy

so from Psychic soldiers to Flying Bears

let's investigate some of the craziest

military experiments ever and get to the

bottom of them

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The Philadelphia Experiment

the year was 1942. the second world war

was just reaching its height but the

Allies had just suffered a catastrophic

loss of ships at the hands of German

U-Boat submarines to combat this the U.S

Navy enlisted world famous physicist

Albert Einstein why to develop super

Advanced weapons and defense systems for

them of course the craziest of these by

far was an invisibility cloak designed

to hide U.S ships from the enemy now it

wouldn't have been anything like the one

Harry Potter owned Einstein theorized

that by surrounding a ship with powerful

electromagnetic fields it was possible

to bend light around it effectively

making it invisible

in summer of 1943 it was finally time to

test the theory scientists installed

huge electrical generators around the

anti-submarine Destroyer Escort USS

Eldridge while it was docked at

Philadelphia Naval Shipyard none they

turned them on according to Witnesses a

strange green fog suddenly materialized

around the ship and the Eldridge

flickered into a surreal invisibility

along with all the sailors on board

incredibly it was actually working then

in a burst of crackling blue light it

completely vanished however it turns out

it hadn't just turned invisible some 200

miles away in Norfolk Virginia a group

of Wayfarers were stood aboard an

entirely different ship when they

witnessed something that shocked them to

their core the USS Eldridge materialized

out of thin air into the sea before them

then as soon as it had appeared it

disappeared like it had never been there

back in Philadelphia onlookers were

equally stunned when after a short tense

wait the ship reappeared in the dock but

as it crackled back into Vision it

became clear something was horribly

wrong crew members were flailing about

and talking gibberish others were

running around on fire and that wasn't

even the worst of it upon reappearing

some people had seemingly fused into the

ship itself

moaning Sailors were stuck inside the

vessel's metal structures their Twisted

bodies protruding from the walls and

floor at odd angles it was a living

nightmare the disaster prompted the Navy

to quickly shelve the experiment and

force everybody involved to sign an oath

of secrecy never to speak of it again

but they didn't account for the

unintentional Witnesses or at least

that's how the story goes

despite a multitude of witnesses coming

forward since the 1940s not one of them

has had any real evidence to support the

crazy tail so what actually happened

well the entire event can be traced back

to a Pennsylvanian citizen Carl Allen in

the 1950s Allen started sending odd

letters and documents to the U.S Navy

detailing the account which he called

The Philadelphia Experiment as well as a

host of other strange stories

surprisingly these letters weren't

dismissed in fact they captivated some

government staff so much that over a

hundred copies were made and circulated

around the office

despite this Fanfare Allen himself

remained elusive however his family has

since described him as a fantastic mind

but also a master leg puller hmm so is

this whole tale just one big troll

well Skeptics reckon so but they admit

it could be based in reality during

World War II Einstein really did help

the U.S Navy with weapon designs but

probably not an invisibility force field

and the Navy did develop a way of making

their ships well not invisible but

undetectable to Minds to do this they

wrapped electrical cable around the

ship's holes and sent electricity

through it this reduced the ship's

magnetism and meant they wouldn't

trigger German magnetic mines a process

called D gossing the similarities to the

so-called Philadelphia Experiment aren't

hard to miss

if the whole thing really was just a

story though what about the witnesses

that continued to come forward all the

way up to 1988. well considering

Hollywood made a movie out of Allen's

account in 1984 they were probably

trying to cash in on their 15 minutes of

fame while it was still culturally

relevant so I think we can pretty safely

put this one in the conspiracy trash can

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the Stargate project

you might hear the word Stargate and

immediately think of old school science

fiction but some things are far Stranger

Than Fiction back in the 1970s the U.S

government formed a secret unit of the

army dedicated to wait for it psychic

phenomena yeah named the Stargate

project it was initially established in

response to a similar program supposedly

being funded by the Soviet Union U.S

officials determined that if there was

any value in psychic research they

couldn't be left behind Russia so they

began funding tests to determine the

credibility of psychics in 1972 a group

of so-called psychics were selected and

took part in tests at the Stanford

Research Institute now famous celebrity

Yuri Geller was one of the participants

and apparently correctly guessed symbols

hidden inside envelopes to a wild degree

of accuracy

it is interesting that when he drew his

response in this case he didn't

recognize the object's eyeglasses it

seemed to him to be an abstract drawing

the Project's main focus was a

phenomenon called remote viewing that is

a person being able to physically see

events sites or information from a great

distance

two of the most successful remote

viewers were Gary Langford and rosemary

Smith

incredibly they located a lost Soviet

spy plane that had crashed in a remote

area of African jungle with no prior

knowledge of where it could have been

President Jimmy Carter was so impressed

he became a firm supporter of the

project however after some 20 odd years

of research it was eventually canceled

in 1995.

renowned psychology Professor Ray Hyman

had evaluated the program and found that

although something Beyond statistical

hiccups was happening he wasn't

convinced remote viewers were useful for

intelligence gathering so despite a

modest amount of success Stargate was

shut down for good

something Beyond statistical hiccups

what does that mean I'm not sure where I

stand on this one valuable research or

waste of time and money let me know what

you think in the comments below devil

points if you transmit the answer

straight into my brain

blinding battle tank

the Cold War was a period in which East

and West raged against one another to

try to achieve the greatest scientific

and Military Feats and some of the

results of this were absolutely insane

take oh I don't know the fully fledged

laser tank developed by the Soviets in

the 70s and 80s yep in a move straight

out of Science Fiction the Soviet Union

genuinely began pumping money into

creating the wacky 1K 17 compression

tank it had a total of 12 aimable lasers

created by focusing light through a

whopping 66 pounds of artificial rubies

these lasers were then beamed through

amplification lenses turning them into

one Mega beam of light that could reach

twice the range of a conventional tank

but I know what you're thinking what

damage could a beam of light do against

something that fired missiles well it

turns out a lot by aiming the intense

laser at enemy tanks Optical systems it

could blind them and render the vehicle

unable to accurately attack apparently

during testing one of the tanks actually

managed to disable a helicopter's

optical system from five miles away jeez

so what happened to this Fantastical bit

of tech

sadly not a lot the prototypes weren't

ready until 1992 but by that time the

Soviet Union had collapsed sending the

country into economic despair

suddenly throwing heaps of cash at a

glorified mobile flashlight didn't seem

like such a bright idea

rebirth Island

a mysterious Uncharted Island a series

of sinister inexplicable incidents a

government cover-up this is

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ah darn it yeah whatever I'm talking

about

or rebirth Island located in the oral

sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

the small unassuming Island began

Gathering attention at the start of the

1970s for all the wrong reasons in 1971

a young scientist was sailing near the

island on her research vessel when she

realized she was headed straight into a

strange Brown mist

days later she was diagnosed with

smallpox even though she'd already been

vaccinated against the disease a year

later two fishermen were found drifting

in their boat nearby neither More Alive

somehow autopsy results indicated they'd

Fallen victim to the plague not long

after that local fishermen started

pulling entire Nets of dead fish from

the water that's more than a little

fishy but then in May 1988 things got a

lot worse

a huge 50 000 strong herd of antelope

that were grazing nearby all dropped

dead in the space of an hour what well

it turns out all these incidents were

linked the Soviet Union had been using

the island to secretly test biological

weapons for half a century

humans and animals alike had been

participating in horrific experiments as

part of a top secret project that saw

the island transformed from a peaceful

fishing spot into a creepy Wasteland one

of the main things the Soviet Union was

testing was Anthrax a seriously

dangerous bacterial disease that can

live for hundreds of years but as the

Cold War Drew to a close the Soviets

dumped their remaining stocks of it into

pits and left

So to avoid it getting into the wrong

hands the US government splashed six

million dollars on a cleanup operation

today the island has merged with

surrounding land due to the Aral Sea

drying up but it's still contaminated

and littered with the burial pits of

infected animals

talk about eerie

high-flying bears

flying a plane can't be easy but how

would you feel about flying a plane with

a bear strapped into the seat behind you

well as crazy as it sounds back in the

1950s U.S Pilots did just that

a new bomber called the b-58 had just

been developed capable of flying at

tremendous speeds of Mach 2 which is

twice as fast as the speed of sound the

problem was that they were so fast

Pilots couldn't eject safely

so a new ejector seat had to be

developed and rather than using humans

to test it the military decided to use

bears supposedly American black bears

and Himalayan brown bears simulated the

weight of human Pilots fairly accurately

okay but how do you go about getting a

bear strapped into a plane well you just

anesthetize it of course

after giving the Bears a heavy dose of

anesthetic they were strapped into the

ejector seats and human Pilots took off

flying the planes at Breakneck speeds

before hitting eject and sending the

Bears tumbling through the air then

their parachutes would deploy and the

Furry payloads were sent floating back

down to earth

whoa on touchdown any injuries were

assessed and used to improve the design

of the ejector there's no denying this

was super unethical and utterly Bonkers

luckily the testing period wasn't very

long and not many animals had to be

subjected to this terrifying experience

I can't bear the thought of what they

went through

unlimited solar power

if you're familiar with Star Wars you'll

know about the Death Star that huge

floating laser weapon capable of

destroying entire planets well it turns

out German scientists were planning a

weapon spookily similar to this during

World War II known as the sun gun the

idea was to build a space station over 5

000 miles above Earth

from there a huge concave 3.5 square

mile reflector would harness sunlight

and beam a concentrated Ray of it

wherever the weapon was aimed

hypothetically the laser-like ray of

light would be so powerful it would boil

oceans and burn cities to the ground and

this wasn't just a silly idea the Allies

found detailed plans for the solar

cannon in 1945. originally thought up by

renowned German rocket scientist Hermann

obearth it was to be a crude space

station with Gardens to generate oxygen

and solar powered generators there was

even an estimated budget for it of

around 3 million reich's marks which was

1.2 million dollars or a whopping 25

million dollars today despite these

grandiose plans the weapon was estimated

to take a good 50 to 100 years to build

so it wouldn't have been much use when

it came to fighting the war if things

had gone another way and the Axis powers

had won though well if you looked up at

the sky right now you might have just

been able to see the massive terrifying

mirror looking back down at you no

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station

in the middle of some Russian swamp land

near Saint Petersburg there's a

collection of radio towers and abandoned

buildings surrounded by a gated fence if

you happen to see it you might assume it

was some long defunct Cold War era

communication space but the truth is

much more mysterious

many people suspect it's not actually

defunct at all but rather the secret

headquarters of a radio station known as

UVB 76 instead of playing Taylor swift

though this radio station has been

broadcasting this

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it's been broadcast every day every hour

for almost four decades occasionally a

voice breaks the monotony by reading out

seemingly random words in Russian like

dinghy or Farm specialist but aside from

that nothing changes yet the Erie

broadcast keeps on going and it sparked

all kinds of theories some people think

it's an encoded message used by spies

While others are sure it's an attempt to

commune with extraterrestrials one of

the more popular theories is that it's a

dead hand signal meaning if Russia is

ever hit by a nuclear attack the

broadcast will end and automatically

trigger a retaliatory strike

I really don't know what to think about

this one but if it is the latter let's

hope that creepy broadcast never ends

right

wandering Souls

when you hear the word Warfare what do

you think of

I'll bet whatever it was it was violent

but there's a whole subcategory of

warfare that isn't violent at all at

least not in the traditional sense it's

called psychological warfare and focuses

on influencing people's emotions beliefs

and behaviors the U.S waged a

particularly strange campaign of

psychological warfare during the Vietnam

War which they termed operation

wandering Soul it was based on the

Vietnamese belief that if the Dead

Aren't properly buried their souls

continue to wander the Earth in pain and

suffering nice because of this U.S

Engineers spent weeks recording Eerie

sounds and voices to imitate what could

be the ghoulish cries of Fallen Soldiers

the final recordings termed ghost tapes

were then played through loudspeakers in

areas of Vietnam where the enemy of

Vietcong were active take a listen

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pretty unnerving right the idea was to

Spook the vietcongs so much they'd give

up in retreat but in practice it had

limited success sometimes it worked but

other times Vietcong would realize it

was a tape and shoot where the noise was

coming from despite this the U.S

psychological operations Battalion or

psyops continued the tactic for most of

the war indeed psyops are still active

today this footage isn't a movie trailer

or anything it's a legitimate video

released by them who let the edgelord

take control of their marketing team

thank you

seeing infra red

as we've seen there's not much a

government won't try to give itself an

edge in war so you might not even be

surprised to learn that in World War II

the U.S Navy tried to create soldiers

with infrared vision yep the Navy wanted

its soldiers to be able to see special

infrared lights that would be invisible

to the enemy in order to communicate

things visually and without them knowing

normally humans can't see infrared light

this is because the photoreceptors in

our eyes are only activated when light

hits them with enough energy all

naturally visible light has enough

energy to activate them but infrared

doesn't U.S scientists knew however that

vitamin A is key to our vision they also

knew there are different types of

vitamin A and we usually only consume

one of them so volunteers were fed diets

rich in Alternative forms of vitamin A

and deficient in the usual form to see

if their vision would be altered and lo

and behold it worked after just a few

months their Vision changed and their

eyes became more sensitive to a greater

range of light

whoa hypothetically if they'd have

carried on their eyes could have

adjusted so much they'd have been able

to see better in the dark and indeed

even be able to see infrared however the

experiment was canceled when technology

became available to see infrared without

biologically altering anything looks

like I'll stick to eating carrots then

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the Montauk project

did you know that Netflix's Smash Hit

show stranger things was originally

called Montauk if not you're probably

wondering why I'm telling you well it's

because the show was actually inspired

by a real life series of U.S experiments

collectively known as the Montauk

project or at least they might be real

life supposedly the US government

conducted a number of top secret

projects at Camp hero in New York think

of it as the actual Hawkins lab

the strange experiments were first

discussed in a book published in 1992 by

euphrologist Preston B Nichols where he

claimed to have been a researcher for

the project according to Nichols runaway

children were abducted for the

experiments where they were trained in

mind control telepathy and even opening

space-time portals sound familiar well

hold on to your tinfoil hats because it

gets even Wilder one Al bileck who also

claimed to have seen the Philadelphia

Experiment said he was on board the USS

Eldridge in the 1940s when a wormhole to

the Future opened up and dropped him

into Camp hero in 1983. while there he

teamed up with Nikola Tesla yes the

famous inventor and developed a special

chair which Amplified the psychic powers

of anyone who sat in it now if all this

sounds Bonkers it's because it is I mean

if it was true would there really be no

evidence whatsoever another supposed

witness has the answer

Stewart's swerdlow claims to have been

one of the abducted children and that

after accidentally summoning an

interdimensional monster the base had to

be destroyed and the project shut down

right I guess that clears that up then

in reality the Montauk project is

probably a fabrication of nickels that

got picked up by others wanting to be

part of the narrative but who knows

maybe there's a shred of Truth in it or

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gruesome grunered

if you cast your mind back a few minutes

you should remember the Soviet Union's

biological weapons test site rebirth

Island well years before the Soviets the

British had a similar testing ground for

Anthrax and it was in Aid of a plan so

diabolical it would have changed history

as we know it the year was 1941 and

World War II could still have ended with

an Allied loss so the British were

working towards using Anthrax as a

weapon against the Germans to test how

dangerous the bacterial disease really

was they dropped an Anthrax bomb on two

grunered Island a small unpopulated

island off the coast of Scotland the

results were shocking

though the place was mostly deserted 60

sheep were wiped out within days and

Anthrax spores were carried to the

mainland for months after infecting far

more animals

teams of people in Hazard suits were

sent to the island to incinerate the

dead animals and afterwards it was

closed to the public until 1990 but the

plan wasn't to drop an Anthrax bomb on

Germany oh no it was to infect linseed

cakes with Anthrax spores and dropped

them all over German fields that way

cattle would eat the cakes civilians

would eat the cattle and millions of

civilians and animals would kick the

bucket plus those that did survive would

face a huge food shortage see what I

mean by absolutely diabolical

thankfully the plan never came to

fruition by the time it was ready the

war had turned firmly in the Allies

favor

a whopping 5 million cakes had been made

for it though and all of them had to be

incinerated jeez my new cake was bad for

you but that's something else

falling with style

I can't think of many things more

terrifying than fighting in a war and

seeing a tank rolling over a hill coming

straight at me other than maybe if I saw

a tank flying straight at me yep that's

exactly what the Soviets were trying to

achieve back in World War II they

proposed Antonov A40 was a tank designed

to Glide down onto the battlefield able

to Glide like this it was hoped that the

tank could both arrive at its

destination faster and also land

alongside airborne troops to provide

them near instant support so they first

lightened a t-60 tank by removing its

ammunition headlights and interior

elements then attached wooden fabric

biplane Wings to it alongside a twin

tail

the plan was for a bomber plane to fly

the gutted tank across the battlefield

and drop it at the correct time so it

glided gently to the ground at least

that was the plan the gliding tank was

tested in 1942 but even after its

modifications it was too heavy for the

bomber plane to effectively fly to avoid

crashing the pilot had to ditch the tank

early though it apparently did Glide

smoothly to the ground afterwards

regardless the project was abandoned

guess they wanted to just Glide over

that one

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the perfect Soldier

when you think of super soldiers you

might imagine towering cyborgs with

laser weapons and robotic augmentation I

doubt you imagine chimps yet back in the

1920s Russian zoologist Ilya Ivanov set

out on a mission to create a human chimp

hybrid that would be the perfect super

soldier

communist leader Joseph Stalin had seen

potential in such a creature as he

believed they'd have the immense

strength of chimps but without a fully

developed human brain they'd be easier

to control

Ivanov himself was more interested in

the political and scientific

implications he was part of the

Bolshevik party who opposed religion

because they saw it as dangerous

competition by breeding such a creature

Ivanov hoped to prove Darwin's theory of

evolution and strike a blow to religion

so researchers went to Africa where they

torched trees and chased chimps into

cages to use for experimentation

sounds

ethical

once they were captured it was onto the

next phase to try and create his human

ease even I've ordered three chimps to

be artificially inseminated with human

sperm yuck and believe it or not none of

them fell pregnant the whole plan failed

and Stalin later arrested Ivanov who'd

have guessed this wouldn't have a happy

ending

humanzes have lived on in the

international conscience though and as

recently as the 1990s a chimp called

Oliver was believed by many to be one he

didn't just look odd he also walked

upright had a soft-spoken voice and was

attracted to human women

DNA testing revealed he was in fact just

a chimp so no super soldier here but I

can't deny there's something super

uncanny about this guy either way I

think it's safe to say that human z's

are a load of Monkey Business

all right then that's about it for today

which of these did you find the most

interesting and do you know about any

other freaky experiments that I missed

let me know down in the comments below

man thanks for watching

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