Mystery AtlasCarl Meredith Allen
American merchant seaman, writing under the pseudonym Carlos Miguel Allende, who originated the Philadelphia Experiment story in anonymous letters sent to Morris K. Jessup in 1955-56; he alternately confessed the story was a hoax and recanted the confession several times before his death, and no independent evidence has ever corroborated his account.
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Theories & Explanations
- Philadelphia Experimentclaimed October 1943
Carl Meredith Allen reported Philadelphia Experiment — Allen's 1955-56 letters to Morris Jessup are the sole original source for the story; no other witness or document independently attests to it.
Objects & Artifacts
- SS Andrew Furuseth1942-1947 under US registry
Carl Meredith Allen claimed to have worked at SS Andrew Furuseth — Allen claimed to have witnessed the Eldridge's disappearance from this ship's deck; the Furuseth's own captain later denied in a letter preserved in the Navy's archives that any unusual event was observed.