The Messages From SS Ourang Medan
In February, 1948, dozens of ships near Indonesia received the same message from SS Ourang Medan, a Dutch ship. The messages were “All officers including captain are dead lying in the chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.” This message was followed by a series of Morse Code messages that were indecipherable and a last message that said “I die”. When the ship was discovered, it was a ghastly scene. Everyone was dead of course but their faces were all frozen to look at the sun, with an anguished look on them, and their bodies were stretched on the deck with their arms pointing outwards.