3. SS Ourang Medan
This is a classic ghost ship tale. The story first appeared in a series of articles in a Dutch-Indonesian newspaper in 1948. The story goes that in 1947, two American ships traversing the Strait of Malacca picked up a distress call from the Dutch merchant ship, Ourang Medan. The message was in morse code and reported that the captain and all officers were dead. A few moments later, two more words came through, “I die.” Then silence.
When one of the ships located and boarded the Ourang Medan, the ship was reportedly found littered with corpses with their mouths gaping open, eyes staring, no visible signs of trauma, and no survivors. Soon a fire broke out in a cargo hold, making the boarding party quickly evacuate. The ship then erupted in an explosion and sunk to the depths. The mysterious deaths were never explained.
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