All officers including the captain are dead, lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead … I die.” This was supposedly the final chilling SOS message from on board Dutch vessel SS Ourang Medan, which mysteriously went missing in 1948 while sailing the Strait of Malacca during clear weather and calm seas.
When the crew from the nearby Silver Star ship answered the distress call and boarded the stricken vessel, they were reportedly greeted with a nightmare. The entire ship was littered with corpses — including a dog — with terrified expressions frozen on their faces.
Eyeballs bulged from their sockets, mouths were wide open as if in the midst of screams, and arms were outstretched as if they had been reaching for something. Oddly, the bodies showed no signs of any injuries.
The boat was to be towed into port but a fire broke out, leading to an explosion that sunk it.
However, there’s a twist to this story: To this day nobody has found a shred of evidence the boat had even existed, and it has become one of the most controversial maritime legends in history.
Just what happened to the ship — if there really was one — remains a mystery. While some historians argue the incident never happened due to the fact there were no logs on the Silver Star detailing the rescue attempt, conspiracy theorists believe several countries worked together to cover it up.
Besides, why didn’t the coast guard report what had happened until May 1954?
Others theorize that noxious gas bubbled up from fissures in the seabed and engulfed the boat, while some even blamed the supernatural.
An eyebrow-raising
“top secret” CIA document about the incident, which wasn’t released to the public until 2013, pondered whether it may have involved “something from the unknown.”
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