The Philadelphia Experiment Murder

by Alexandra Bruce, Peter Moon (Editor)

In 1996, conspiracy lecturer and ex-government employee Phil Schneider was found dead in his apartment. Although it is against the law, the detective on the scene did not call the coroner and released the body to the morgue. To his surprise and dismay, the mortician discovered a murder weapon wrapped around the neck of the corpse. The former wife of Phil Schneider was outraged by these circumstances and sought to uncover the truth about her ex-husband's demise but was countered or tricked by the authorities at every step. An investigation of this covered-up murder revealed astonishing information, the trail of which led back to the infamous Philadelphia Experiment of 1943. Before his assassination, Phil Schneider had lectured across the country and had released documents connecting his father to the U.S.S. Eldridge . Additionally, his father claimed to be a Nazi U-boat captain who, after being captured by the Allies, was recruited as a Senior Medical Officer to the crew of the U.S.S. Eldridge . More haunting was the discovery of gold bars with Nazi insignias in his father's possessions. The Philadelphia Experiment Murder investigates these circumstances and uncovers a host of new characters, including Preston Nichols' boss from the Montauk Project. Besides exposing the murder of an innocent man, the effort to murder the truth is exposed which leads to an examination of the nature of insanity and its relationship to physics and the constructs of the physical universe itself. In the name of a martyred man, the quantum potential of mankind is opened to a new horizon.

254 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Brazilian-American Author and filmmaker.

She is the author of six non-fiction books about popular culture, science and spirituality.

Reviews

[Denny Hunt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the book and the author & especially the author’s more recent work. This book was written over 20 years ago and still stands up. There are some places now, 20 years later, where she did not go far enough and some places where she was FAR ahead of her time. Not even hindsight is 20-20; one of the many hard lessons of time.

[Bart Stuck · Rating 5 out of 5]

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The Philadelphia experiment has new dimensions with a new boat and a cast of characters in multiple dimensions and time lines make this book a mind blower

[Trekscribbler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don't get me wrong: I love a great conspiracy read, and THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT MURDER succeeds grandly on that level.
Alexandra Bruce goes to great lengths to summarize the Philadelphia Experiment while juxtaposing that factline with the unexplainable death of not one but two key figures in the mythology associated to the famous experiment taking place aboard USS Eldridge (or did it?). Of course, facts are hard to come by, in this day and age, but the author does an exceptional job places the puzzle pieces together in a coherent fashion ... with perhaps only a few pieces missing.

The mysterious death of Paul Schneider (murder or suicide?) provides the true backbone to this read, the death closely following his jaunt on the convention circuit talking about the Philadelphia Experiment, the Dulce Wars, and the U.S. governments secret network of underground bases. A tried and true journalist might tear the book to shred over the lack of proof associated to the read, but therein lies the appeal to TPEM: did the Philadelphia Experiment happen or did it not AND, if it did, what was the relationship to what appears to be an obvious cover-up of what should have been a relatively routine murder investigation?

While the 'Physics of Insanity' portion of the book veers off course of bit from the main thrust of the text, Ms. Bruce manages to pull it all into focus in her closing chapters, catapulting the reader to a broader level of understanding how or why the government might have a tactical need to keep whatever did or did not happen a secret.

Sound confusing? Some of it may be, but Ms. Bruce creates an easily accessible account that kept me glued to the pages.

A few parts of the book are a bit meaty, and, in all honesty, I would've rather seen a more expansive attempt to get to the bottom of the mysterious deaths ... but, as is common in conspiracy literature, those trails rarely lead to rewarding conclusions or destinations. Still, TPEM is well worth a glance, if for no greater purpose than to set straight some of the misconceptions surrounding the USS Eldridge, Albert Einstein, Nikolai Tesla, and the infamous Area 51.

[Bood · Rating 3 out of 5]

Crap really, but fun crap.