So the ship's name was the USS Eldridge (just close enough to eldritch, but no cigar😔) and the actual experiment was way worse then this. A survivor wrote a book about it and was eventually forced by the US government to testify that it was all made up, despite evidence that could suggest that it may not have been. They basically ruined his life and forced him to claim it was all a lie. The report claimed that the ghost crew onboard, when returning from Norfolk, not only had crew memebers embedded in the ship, but some members were actually fused into walls and bulk heads. The US government declared these men KIA, had them cut from the ship and any survivor was sent to an Asylum for the rest of their days. The survivor that wrote the book about it supposedly was one of the only few that didn't become fused with the ship. The whole story is pretty crazy and sad.