How a connection between a lonely Reader in New Kensington Pa to the Philadelphia Experiment proves it was all just a story

 Yes the well known story about the man who saw the USS Eldridge disappear from Philadelphia  and reappear during an electrical experiment in 1943  seems to be nothing more than one lonely mans imagination

It appears that in 1955 a lone guy Carl Allen who lived with his parents  and was a prolific reader,concocted the whole story

 Carl had a strange habit of writing notes on margins and liners of books he read and making up story's lines.

https://infactvideo.com/episode/01/04/

He made up the Philadelphia story  while reading a UFO book tore out the pages and submitted them to author of  the UFO book who then submitted them to Naval Research Center to verify the story  and the story leaked out and the rest is History as they say.

 Using the name Carlos Allende  he claims to have witnessed the event from the ship SS Andrew Furuseth  

 

https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/05/04/truth-behind-wwiis-creepy-philadelphia-experiment.html

 

 Only problem both ships where not there at time the event played out and there are no credible eye witnesses to come forward and those who have have been debunked. In fact sailors who would have been on the ship at the time have been questioned and say it never happened. 

https://ia802709.us.archive.org/28/items/PhiladelphiaExperiment/Philadelphia%20Experiment_text.pdf

After all these years as we have lost the majority of WWII veterans many would have witnessed it and some one should have come forward and no one has and you cant hide something like that. Many veterans as they near end of their lives start telling what they did no one has in this case. There are no records of mass injury's etc either.

 Carl Allen Committed suicide in 1959 and proof of his forgery's came out in 1980.

But there are those who believe Einstein and Tesla where involved and it really happened well if it did it was not Philadelphia and not the the Eldridge. 

The legend of the Giant catfish that swallowed a Diver in the Ohio river

 Now I have seen some big fish in our local rivers and I know divers who are afraid to go around certain intakes and out takes along the rivers because fish can grow to very large sizes.But not bigger than a car.The largest fish pulled from the Ohio in WV. was a 70 pound Flat head catfish

But a legend has persisted that a giant catfish devoured a diver at a set of lock and dams along the Ohio river 

The story goes as follows but there are different versions .

A man driving his car in 1950s at a newly completed  Ohio River  lock and dam looses control and drives into the river  and drowns before emergency divers can get to him. 

The  submerged car blocks the locks  water intake to raise and lower the lock so 2 divers go down to remove it and persons body .  They find the car open door to remove the drivers body  and are shadowed by the fish  who is bigger than a car who attacks the one diver as the other takes off for the surface he surfaces and is rescued just in time as the attacked drivers legs  surface then the fish who swallows them and goes back under the waves all witnessed by nearby observers waiting to see the car removed. 

First off such a thing happening would be in newspaper some where with so many witnesses and no such article exists and you can not get that close to any of the locks and dams they have fencing and barriers.

So it apparently is just another Urban legend some one made up about the fish which do grow large around intakes where they feed on nutrients. My driver friend takes a fish billy down with him when they get that big they are usually pretty slow and you just bump them out of the way.

The Mystery behind leaving a piece of old construction equipment behind at an old Coal strip Mine

 Have you ever gone along a Pa.  back country Road perhaps past some old Strip Mining Land  and you see just a single old bulldozer or Grader  just sitting there abandoned but looks like its ready to go to work.

Like you see in the picture below

Well it was left behind by Mine Owners deliberately with the belief that as long as one piece of equipment  remains on the property they still have control of property and State of Pa. DER  can not force them to forfeit a Coal Reclamation Bond which can cost millions to post.

Which guarantees the mine property will be cleaned up.  

One of the most famous of these is sitting along Pa 51  Near Uniontown Which unfortunately was destroyed and is tied up in a lawsuit.between new and old property owners 

https://archive.triblive.com/news/suit-seeks-restoration-of-giant-steam-shovel-in-fayette-county/

 Hopefully some one will restore it but belief leaving a piece of equipment proves property ownership to prevent forfeiting a  reclamation Bond  doe not when its time to go to court after a mine owner. But the practice which may of had some truth back in 50s  still goes on.

Mysterious Parkers Tomb sitting in the middle of no where. Near Emporium Pa. and a Treasure connected to it?

 Thru the many years the state of Pa. has grown and expanded their where many fortunes made and lost and towns which sprung up around the Coal ,Iron , Oil  and lumber Industry which also found fortune and failure and in some cases have completely disappeared like the famous Pit Hole Ghost town which is now a state museum and park.

Many times only thing left where  Grave yards and cemetery  to become lost to time like  Livermore  a town removed when they flooded the town with a reservoir   designed to protect Pittsburgh .

So finding a Mausoleum  from a long forgotten town out in the middle of nowhere would be rare but it does happen.

Take the case of the tomb of Colonel Noah Parker near Emporium  located in a one time Lumber  town of Gardeau

Its sits there all by itself surrounded by forests and rattle snakes. With no apparent cemetery to go with it. 

Some say its filled with treasure and the colonel is not even buried there. 

 

 

The truth in this case may be stranger than true and involves Indians and Pirates 

What ever the truth the whole back story to it is winding and complicated so I have included the following link to give you the whole story .The author of whom can give you a much more complete picture.

https://paoddities.blogspot.com/2019/08/colonel-noah-parker-and-myth-of.html

A Phantom Fire truck from Westerville West Virginia Every time its shows up a structure fire is sure to occur .

 Hard to believe a Fire Truck that has been out of Commission and  been stripped of all usable  parts still sitting and rusting away next to the Panther Fire Dept in McDowell County .has been spotted by people on the road and then disappearing  and shortly after a structure fire has occurred .

its appearance being like that of an Omen

The  1959 era Truck which became known as Big Red started its career in 1961 when Westerville WV was desperate for a truck and bought the big red chassis and members then put sweat equity into fitting it out with a water tank and equipment and put in into service .for almost 18 years 

The dept eventually grew into a  Paid Service as the town grew  and all the volunteers for the dept where allowed to try and pass test to join paid dept. one member could not and cursed the dept  saying after he died he would come back and haunt Big Red 

Which you can see in the google photo is still there sitting disabled.

Well eventually the truck was sold despite the efforts of the old chief to try and save it off it went to a truck dealer. 

He sold the truck to Panther fire dept in 79 and they kept it running for 2 years till it became too dangerous to do so.  especially with it being a standard shift and many not able to drive a standard shift and just trying to keep maintenance up on truck they parked it beside dept and stripped it of parts .

Now this is where things get weird. Shortly after the Westerville chief passed away Old Red was seen running on and then disappearing on the back road around panther and every time some one has seen it there has been a horrific fire often times fatal.

One time the Panther fire chief and wife out on a drive saw it running on a back road and the chief and he drove back quickly to fire House and truck had not moved.  

Now there are plenty of story's of haunted fire houses and stations but this is first time I heard of haunted fire Truck.

 

https://www.blogarama.com/paranormal-blogs/280752-theresas-haunted-history-tristate-blog/39955484-panthers-phantom-fire-truck