Okeefe would arrange for a fake moore accuser to go to the post with a madeup story. Her broken fingernails indicated to investigators that peggy desperately. Ghost ships spooky sos call before crew found dead with faces. The cracked light eventually set the zombies ripped clothes on fire, the. In indonesian, ourang means man and medan is the largest city on the island of sumatra. Ourang medan, which was sailing through the straits of malacca. Hence the registered name ourang medan literally means man from medan. The ss ourang medan the philadelphia experiment from az. The signal was picked up by two american vessels who pinpointed the location of the dutch freighter s. You may have heard the mystery of the ourang medan ghost ship in 1947 or 1948. What the ourang medan may have looked like death ship. Perhaps one of the moat perturbing sea dramas occurred in february 1948. The myth of the ourang medan ghost ship, 1940 the skittish library.
The story of the ourang medan has become somewhat of a legend. Ourang medan, a dutch vessel, then proceeding through the straits of malacca the strange distress call, transmitted in morse code, eerily read. Ourang medan, a dutch vessel, then proceeding through the straits of malacca the strange. This first message was followed by a series of indecipherable morse code sequences until finally, a last ominous transmission. On paper, man of medan sounds like a throwback as a narrativeled. Once they published said piece, okeefe would jump out of the closet and announce that the woman had never met moore. The woman, who went by the name jaime phillips, would say that moore got her pregnant when she was 15 and helped pay for her to get an abortion. In 1948 or 1947, depending on the source, the ourang medan, a dutch freighter traveling near the coast of indonesia, sent out a series of increasingly panicked distress calls, containing the message. Pretty sure ive solved the mystery of the ourang medan ghost ship. Even lloyds shipping registers and the dictionary of disasters at sea 18241962 has found no mention of the ourang. All officers including the captain, dead in chartroom and on the bridge. The ourang medan, the mystery of the deadliest ghost ship. Ourang medan was traveling along the straits of malacca, when the ship suddenly sent out a chilling distress signal.
The story of the ghost ship the ourang medan has never been as famous. No records have been produced to back up this ascertain. Pretty sure ive solved the mystery of the ourang medan. The ss ourang medan was a supposed ghost ship which, according to various sources, became a shipwreck in dutch east indies modern indonesia waters, or elsewhere, after its entire crew had died under suspicious circumstances, either in 1940, 1947 or 1948, depending on the newspaper source.
Youve probably heard the story even if you dont recognize the name. The story of the ourang medan has, to some degree, become a legend. Ourang medan, ghost ship, a chilling tale about a mystery on the ocean. Nearby ships reported receiving a horrifying distress call. The ss ourang medan is a world war ii freighter that serves as one of the primary locations in which most of the events in the dark pictures anthologys debut, man of medan, take place years later, the abandoned ship finds itself in the middle of the south pacific with the scariest appearance it has ever had.
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