In June of 1947, several ships received a terrifying distress call from a freighter in the straits of Malacca. The unknown ship’s message said that the entire ship's crew was dead, with the operator finally sending out a final grim message, "I die".

What really happened to the crew of the SS Ourang Medan and did the ship even exist to begin with?

SOURCES

https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofmer40857unit/proceedingsofmer40857unit_djvu.txt

https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofships00emer

https://web.archive.org/web/20070205223141/http://www.neswa.org.au/Library/Articles/A%20cargo%20of%20death.htm

http://skittishlibrary.co.uk/the-myth-of-the-ourang-medan-ghost-ship-1940/

Death Ship in the South Sea; 1954 by Otto Mielke
Cargo of Death, by Roy Bainton

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