But at that very moment smoke and flames belched froth from No. The fate of the S.S. Ourang Medan is another unsolved mystery of the sea.In 1947 the Dutch Freighter SS Ourang Medan sent a cryptic SOS in The ship transmitting the eerie SOS signal was the . This would not be the first time Marck wrote into the CIA, and there are other letters in their archives from him. What they found instead was a deck littered with the corpses with frozen faces looking at the sun with wide open mouths and eyes staring open, the bodies resembled some waxworks of a surreal artist.After the initial shock, the crew went on to look for the survivors specifically the man who had reportedly sent a message for help, but every living soul on board was dead including the only pet dog on the vessel.During their search for survivors on the ship in the boiler room, the rescue party felt a sudden drop in the temperature nearing 110 degrees Fahrenheit.The crew decided to tow the ship to the safety of a nearby coast to examine the peculiarity, but the ship quickly broke loose after a massive explosion.The ship burnt for few minutes and later sank, taking the mystery of the death of the crew with it to the bottom of the ocean, possibly never to be found again.Join 1000s of subscribers and receive the best Vintage News in your mailbox for FREE The faithful “sparks” was slumped in a chair in the radio shack, his hand still on the sending key. Rescue … Possibly whole crew dead. In The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, the story is reimagined for modern times.The World War II … In February, 1948, distress calls were picked up by numerous ships near Indonesia, from the Dutch freighter SS Ourang Medan.
I first read of this in Vincent Gaddis’s 1965 book “The rescue party noticed several things that seemed strange. The ship was found adrift approximately 50 miles from her Indicated position. Radio directional equipment established the ship’s last position and an American merchant ship some 19hrs away, the Silver Star, was sent to investigate and render aid. Looking through the ship’s papers, Rabbit discovered that Since the lifeboat was equipped with neither water or provisions, the six other boat occupants of the lifeboat died within a few days due to the intense heat. The shocking story of SS Ourang Medan. When the crew returning had covered about half the distance to the , which did not destroy the ship but only set it on fire.” and other, later versions of the story conclude that the date was actually February 1948. When a rescue ship arrived the crew were all dead, with staring eyes and gaping mouths and no sign of what had killed them.
Gee that sounds pretty concrete case of the date solved? Authors such as Strangely there are letters in the CIA Archives, In December 1959, C.H. Details are slim, but it seems that he was told the account while living in Triest by a missionary. The Geneva Protocol of 1925 ratified by 33 nations outlawed all chemical weapons, so the transport of such chemicals would have been done under up most secrecy, with a ship not properly registered, with a foreign crew, all records of the voyage hidden or altered so the government could save face… You had to know a good old fashion government conspiracy was coming to help keep the Legend alive..Biological weapons manufactured by Japanese scientists as the result of insidious experiments beyond even what the Nazi regime would have undertaken, could have been smuggled out of Japan. Allen Dulles. Many details are the same as the 1948 version, with a few notable exceptions;So what can we learn from all the newspaper stories in the end? When the arrived alongside the Ourang no signs of life could be seen, although the ship itself didn’t appear to have suffered any damage. The local temperature was in excess of 110°F, but members of the rescue party felt an ominous chill.
The letter was classified as “top secret” by the C.I.A. They decided to toe the ship to the nearest port and began making preparations. Just a few moments later, the S.S. Ourang Medan exploded with strong force. The engineering crew was also found at their stations with the same expressions on their faces.
After ten days, probably around June 21, 1947, the stokers began to fall ill; a stoker died immediately.