Ourang Medan

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SS Ourang Medan was a reported ghost ship and proposed urban legend of the 1940s. The vessel was supposedly discovered adrift after briefly broadcasting distress messages. The ships that responded to the SOS were reported to have discovered all the crew dead with their eyes open and their faces frozen in shock, as if they were witnessing a horrific scene. As the rescue crews subsequently prepared to tow the Ourang Medan to port, a fire reportedly broke out in the hold resulting in its eventual sinking, hiding it and its mysteries forever. The most prominent version of the story places the vessel in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) in the waters of the Straits of Malacca, while other versions of the tale place the vessel around the Marshall Islands or Solomon Islands. The story was initially reported in Italy in 1940 and in England later that same year, before similar stories were repeated in 1948 and later again in 1952. The inability of researchers to identify the vessel in any...

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