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I Actually Thought The FINAL COUNTDOWN

posted 10 months ago by BKB (9912)
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Was The Philadelphia Experiment which is supposedly based in some truth behind it..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment#:~:text=Allen%27s%20account%20of%20the%20event,paranormal%20literature%20and%20popular%20movies.

They went through time and back and in the process, many crew members were melded into the structure of the ship, the bulkhead with body parts sticking out fused to steel.. This sounds excruciatingly painful and a shitty way to die

[–] thingmakersback (1373) 10 months ago

Worth reading through that whole Wiki page on The Philadelphia Expt. It pretty much explains how the whole thing is nonsense.

I remember listening to a fellow on the Art Bell show talking about his personal involvement with the event. Even Art Bell got round to asking a couple of key questions which led to the guy explaining that his current body was not involved, but rather his mind had been in another body when the events occurred... This is the sort of first person account we have - a guy who is either inventing fantasies or living them.

[–] BKB (9912) 10 months ago

Art Bell was the Man.. Ahhhh, the Memories.. And I enjoy George Noory as well, but Art Bell was Art Bell.. Ever listened to that segment on "Mel's Hole" on Art Bell?? It's on Youtube

[–] thingmakersback (1373) 10 months ago

I remember Mel's Hole. I also remember the first time Art played the sound clip from the sealed borehole in Siberia... Sealed because they breached Hell and recorded the cries of the damned.

Art Bell was fun. I still remember the night he got a call from a guy who claimed he was flying a small experimental aircraft into Area 51. The guy was finally reporting that fighter jets were closing on him and he was grunting and saying things like, "Taking her into a steep dive... C'mon baby! Pulling her around.... ...Something coming up out of the ground. Shining a beam on me! I think I***" And no more was heard from him - Something like that. He made out that he was shot down over Area 51, possibly by secret laser antiaircraft weapons. It was as unbelievable as anything else on Art Bell, but very entertaining.

[–] BKB (9912) 10 months ago

Now THAT was some creepy shit with that borehole in Siberia.. I remember that and it sounded so damn real

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21466) 10 months ago

They have linked some of those sounds to sound effects in Mario Bava’s Baron Blood (1972).

[–] Underdog_73 (768) 7 months ago

I also confused these two movies. I'm guessing they were both on HBO at the same time in the 80s.