Exterior View of the Freighter. The turret that finds itself in the bow of the freighter is the same one that knocked down the B-29 when it was going to rescue the already affected soldiers of the same maritime vehicle. Clearly before the, Possible Explanations from Scientific to Silly, by the Maritime Commission however this was on 12 Aug, 1948. when in their Shacks with sender turned on. It was early February 1948, the sea calm, the weather clear.SOS, SOS, again came the frenzied call. of Scottsdale, Arizona sent a letter to the assistant to the Director of the U.S.’s Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) There is also an exit door on the right that leads outside. Navigator trying to Plot Movement of ship? Of the seven passengers, six had already died; the last surviving person was cared for by a missionary. If he was the source of the 1940 story, then there’s simply no way he could have truthfully reported on the matter in 1948, describing it as a new incident. After the response of the Silver Star the Ourang Medan gave in a renewed radio message their position with 179 degrees West and 20 degrees South [Between the named position and the one mentioned in the original more than 5000 km.] The lift for the missing boat with lines still hung from the side of the damaged vessel, which made an absolutely seaworthy impression. But maybe there’s more still to be found in how this story got off the ground.” ~ Estelle Hargraves, If five people witnessed, say, a car crash, they would relate similar stories and basic facts would remain unaltered (The sky was blue, the car was green, it happened in November, everyone died, etc.). Many details are the same as the 1948 version, with a few notable exceptions; The Locomotive stated clearly that the entirety of its information came from Silvio Scherli. So who was Silvio Scherli? Four friends and their captain set sail on a holiday diving trip to find a rumored WWII wreck, but as the day unfolds, a storm rolls in and soon their trip changes into something much more sinister. Interestingly may explain a lot, possible lethal and highly illegal toxic chemicals, when accidentally mixed caused the crew to die, and later the ship to explode. When examined, the book contained several hundred notes written by what seemed, three different people in three different colors of ink (blue, blue-violet, and blue-green.) I found the letter in the CIA Archives, as well as the response below; “Sprawled on their backs, the frozen faces upturned to the sun with mouths gaping open and eyes staring, the dead bodies resembled horrible caricatures“ [1]. Years later, the abandoned ship finds itself in the middle of the South Pacific with the scariest appearance it has ever had. 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. In the wireless room, the young operator, who presumably sent the distress call, lay dead with his earphones on, hand at his key. I think Estelle Hargraves conclusions are well founded; “Trieste is the crucial link, as we can therefore assume that Silvio Scherli of Trieste is the same person involved in this story [1940], as he was in the later version [1948.] The group alongside their punishment (a group of armed fishermen) must fight against an unknown evil that will purify their survival capabilities throughout the night that will completely change their lives forever. Looking through the ship’s papers, Rabbit discovered that Ourang Medan had loaded 15,000 boxes of sulfuric acid and cyanide and 20 canisters of nitroglycerine. The ship’s staff all seemed to be Asians. Otto also states the incident happened in June of 1947, again no two accounts can agree on a date. I first read of this in Vincent Gaddis’s 1965 book “Invisible Horizons: Strange Mysteries of the Sea-True stories that defy logic…” Now many years later I revisit this interesting legend to see what new evidence the passage of time has revealed. The letter was classified as “top secret” by the C.I.A. That coupled with the frightened expressions on the crew’s faces and lack of any cause, yep what’s a Ghost Ship story without ghosts. The City of Baltimore, which had a doctor on board, continued in communications with the Silver Star as it was located over 800 nautical miles from the distressed vessel’s reported location. One of the most disturbing of such tales is that of the S.S. Ourang Medan. Straight ahead of the cargo hold 3 is the cargo hold 2. In Indonesian, Ourang means ‘man’ and Medan is the largest city on the island of Sumatra. Even the ship’s dog a small terrier, was lifeless, its teeth bared in anger or agony. Nor can we answer the many unanswered questions in the story. These chemicals A fire and subsequent explosion could have also taken place.[4]. He refers anyone interested in their own research to a 32-page booklet written in German called “Das Totenschiffin der Südsee” (translates to “The ship of the dead in the South Sea“) by Otto Mielke, written in 1954. After the WWII, just in June 22, 1947, a group of American soldiers decided to load a box with apparently toxic products on board the ship (possible future bio-weapon to use in future wars) and set sail from Manchuria to United States. Rabbit suspected that the entire cargo was contraband. The ship’s dog was found dead as well, in the midst of snarling at the cause. We must repeat that we don’t have any other data on this ‘mystery of the sea’. 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. Gee that sounds pretty concrete case of the date solved? On the island of Taongi , which belongs to the group of the Marshall Islands . Four men climbed over the Taligen runners and began to look at the ship. What could have possibly happened to these men? His lifeboat had made it to “Toangi Island in the Marshalls”. Anyway, there is an accessible door at the end of the room (on the right hand) that leads directly to cargo hold 2 via a large corridor. He voiced and motion captured the role of Conrad in the game Man of Medan. The crew of the Silver Star suspected that the list was due to poorly loaded cargo or uneven coal consumption. All officers, including the Captain dead In chartroom and on the bridge. There are many secrets that can be found throughout course of Man of Medan's story. As the steamer circled, the Silver Star noted that a lifeboat was missing on the starboard side. [2] “The Myth of the Ourang Medan Ghost Ship, 1940” by Estelle Hargraves. Later, when she jumps onto the ladder of Ourang Medan, she will feel hurt and wonder what is happening for. Already on the upper deck, the men of the Silver Star found the first bodies. From that day to this, no one has ever been able to determine what happened to this unfortunate ship or to her officers and crew. The archives yielded nothing.” ~ Roy Bainton [2a], There are no original/verified pictures of the SS Ourang Medan, or the incident. The story of the Ourang Medan, and how it came to be a ghost ship filled with these bodies, is told in pieces found throughout the cabins. According to the story, the Ourang Medan was sailing from an unnamed small Chinese port to Costa Rica, and deliberately avoiding the authorities. Tragedy on the S.S. Ourang Medan – Fact or Legend? If another character is present they will try to resuscitate her, but fail, and she will die. I only included this one as even the city I work in reported on it. When boarding parties reached the Ourang Medan they found an eerie sight. “The Locomotive, or De locomotief: Samarangsch handelsen advertentie-blad”. Bodies were strewn about the decks. The Ourang Medan had a slight list to starboard, but no visible damage. If sea water breached the Ourang Medan’s hold, its reaction with these deadly materials may have released toxic gases that could’ve caused poisoning or asphyxiation of the crew. The reason the S.S. Ourang Medan is considered a mystery is no one has found the registry of the ship. I spent a few hours searching newspaper archives and really not a single thing could be found for a ship called “Silver Star” which is odd as if you run other ships from the 1940’s you will find all sorts of stuff, launch announcements, deployment announcements, stories in general… I can find articles for the Grace Line shipping company, but nothing of the ship in question. Hoewel na zo’n lange tijd nog moeilijk iets valt te achterhalen, zijn er over verloop van tijd wel meerdere mogelijke verklaringen genoemd die variëren van koolmonoxide tot het paranormale en ufo’s. The comments were written on the top, bottom, and edges of the printed text, and referenced underlined passages in the book. More Work of “The Little-Men” of Mu & their force-ships.Radio Men are Liffle affected bv “freezing”when in their Shacks with sender turned on.Electro Resistance. Freighter (related to WWII) This room is one of the most mysterious of the ship due to its content was completely prohibited to the soldiers of 1947. Possibly whole crew dead. In Shanghai, allegedly 7000 boxes of unknown materials were taken over at night. The SS Ourang Medan is a WWII freighter that serves as one of the primary locations in which most of the events in The Dark Pictures Anthology's debut, Man of Medan, take place. Since a lot of this story has the date of the incident in question, I started by looking through some books as early as 1955, which provided the date as of February 1948. While the letter and its sender were known, the person to whom Marck wrote the letter remains redacted by the C.I.A. The Dark Pictures Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Directed by Tom Heaton. Storia. The captain lay dead on the bridge. The ship was found adrift approximately 50 miles from her Indicated position. 16 km to Adamstown). In all 22 crew members were found dead. It Happened When? This missionary, in turn, heard it from the last surviving member of the Ourang Medan’s crew a German man who had related the tale. There followed a series of indecipherable dots and dashes and then came quite clearly: “I die.” And after that only an ominous silence.Rescue ships from Dutch Sumatra and British Malaya rushed to the indicated location of the vessel in distress. Die Ourang Medan war vermutlich ein Dampfschiff, dessen Besatzung 1947 auf offener See starb und das anschließend in Brand geriet und sank. Problems with this theory is clear, it doesn’t explain some accounts saying that there were no visible wounds on the victims’ bodies. I did find normal shipping news for the “, More on Jessup’s Book “The Case for the UFO”, The Varo Edition contained close to two hundred retyped, mimeographed pages including the, Excerpt from The Varo Edtion of the Case for the UFO, ARE TOO ACCURATE & SHIPS TOO SLOW TO MOVE THAT, SUFFOCATION? The remainder of the Bridge Officers were found in the wheelhouse and Chartroom. The local temperature was in excess of 110°F, but members of the rescue party felt an ominous chill. I find these very interesting articles, take note of the dates; As it turns out the earliest date reported for the incident is November 13th, 1939! 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. An earlier English reference was published on October 10, 1948, in the Albany Times, Albany, NY, and references its original source as Elsevier’s Weekly. I like facts I can verify, so yep I can say there was a ship called the “Silver Star.” Did it run a rescue mission to the SS Ourang Medan.. no records can be found. Radio silence was broken with an urgent S. O. S. from the S. S. Ourang Medan, a Dutch vessel, then proceeding through the Straits of Malacca The strange distress call, transmitted In Morse Code, eerily read.

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