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    Haunting mystery hiding in ‘world’s deadliest waters’

    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.”

    https://nypost.com/2019/02/15/haunti...dliest-waters/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    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.”

    https://nypost.com/2019/02/15/haunti...dliest-waters/
    If true it should have been burned and sunk due to the possibility of some super deadly bacteria or virus. Could of been gas and the sailors stories made up the rest.

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    Scylla?
    Charybdis?


    Goddam autocorrect should be against the law.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    If true it should have been burned and sunk due to the possibility of some super deadly bacteria or virus. Could of been gas and the sailors stories made up the rest.
    A highly contagious disease would have likely transferred to the boarding party too although I agree burning the boat then sinking it would be a good way to handle such a situation.

    In the end, it seems we're left with either a cover-up which hid the existence of the boat or a legend/hoax. I strongly doubt anything related to space aliens or the supernatural.


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    Perhaps the boarding party was still on the ship when it sank.
    Quote Originally Posted by Max Rockatansky View Post
    A highly contagious disease would have likely transferred to the boarding party too although I agree burning the boat then sinking it would be a good way to handle such a situation.

    In the end, it seems we're left with either a cover-up which hid the existence of the boat or a legend/hoax. I strongly doubt anything related to space aliens or the supernatural.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mak2 View Post
    Perhaps the boarding party was still on the ship when it sank.
    Then there'd have to be an explanation on why a handful of men were lost at sea.

    For that matter, even the crew of the mystery ship, if they existed, had families. They'd be wondering what happened to their sailors too.


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    That is my point. If you could not find records of the entire ships crew, why not the boarding party too?
    Quote Originally Posted by Max Rockatansky View Post
    Then there'd have to be an explanation on why a handful of men were lost at sea.

    For that matter, even the crew of the mystery ship, if they existed, had families. They'd be wondering what happened to their sailors too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mak2 View Post
    That is my point. If you could not find records of the entire ships crew, why not the boarding party too?
    One reason why conspiracy theories continue to spin.

    I'd submit that a "mystery ship" could possibly be a covert vessel with government-backed cover stories, but that the ship which found them, including the boarding party, were just regular folks. If they disappeared, there's less chance of cover stories on their loss.


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