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The USS Eldridge was a US navy ship used in the secret government experiments known as both "Project Rainbow" and the Philadelphia Experiment. The ship was captained by Captain Brenner.
In 1943, an experimental device aboard the ship was activated, with scientists hoping to turn the ship invisible and undetectable to the Germans. However, this instead caused the vessel to momentarily travel to the Abyss, where most of the crew were apparently attacked and killed by Demogorgons.
Only Captain Brenner survived the disaster, albeit in a somewhat vegetative state; the incident also caused Brenner to now possess a unique blood type. His son, the government scientist Martin Brenner, was later involved in the Nevada Experiment in the 1950s, an attempt to replicate what had happened to the Eldridge. The "Project Rainbow" name later seemed to serve as Brenner's inspiration behind the Rainbow Room at Hawkins Lab.[1]
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The USS Eldridge was a real US naval vessel, and the Philadelphia Experiment/Project Rainbow connected with the ship is a widely known conspiracy theory.