"Ourang Medan" is the name of a Dutch cargo ship that was allegedly discovered drifting in the Straits of Malacca (off the coast of Sumatra) in early February 1948.
The entire crew of the ship was found dead and on the faces of people it was as if one could see grimaces as from intense fear.
The Ourang Medan incident is so poorly documented that the entire story has been repeatedly called fictional.
Nevertheless, on the network you can find pictures of the ship itself and even a photo of one of the dead crew members and a secret note from a CIA agent about this incident. And so far no one has proven that this is a fake.
By the way, interest in the mystery of this vessel was stirred up after 2014, after the connection with the Malaysian passenger liner flight MH370 was lost in the same area of the Strait of Malacca. The liner has not yet been found and it is not known what happened to it.
So, according to a secret memo from a CIA agent released in 2013, in early February 1948, the American ship "Silver Star" received an SOS signal from the ship "Ourang Medan".
The signalman gave a short message “All the officers, including the captain, are dead, they are in the wardroom and on the bridge. It is possible that the rest of the crew is also dead and I will soon die too."
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When "Silver Star" soon approached "Ourang Medan", they found that the entire crew and even the ship's dog were indeed dead and at first glance it was difficult to determine what exactly killed them, there were no visible injuries on the bodies.
At the same time, the faces of many of the dead were very distorted, as if before death they saw something frightening or were dying, experiencing unbearable pain. Their eyes were bulging, and their mouths were wide open. Many had their arms outstretched forward, as if they were trying to protect themselves from someone.
The ship itself looked intact and without any oddities, only in the hold the sailors noted an incomprehensible bitter cold. At first it was decided to tow the Ourang Medan to the port, but while the Silver Star sailors were exploring the ship, heavy smoke appeared in the hold area and they had to return to their ship.
Some time later, an explosion occurred on "Ourang Medan" and the ship sank, taking its secret with it.
The very first report on this incident appeared only in 1952 in the US Coast Guard magazine "Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council" and apparently an order from above was immediately received to keep silent about this, since over the next decades this incident was not mentioned anywhere else in official documents …
CIA secret note about the incident.
Later, the historian Roy Bainton discovered a 1954 German pamphlet authored by the publicist Otto Mielke, which provided many details about Ourang Medan. In this case, the date of the incident was 1947.
According to this brochure, the Ourang Medan was carrying nitroglycerin and potassium cyanide. Both substances can be dangerous in contact with seawater, so it is possible that the team was poisoned by hydrogen cyanide, and nitroglycerin caused the explosion.
Among other versions of the death of the crew, the impact of infrasound was indicated, which negatively affects the human body, can cause a state of panic, anxiety or horror, and also cause sudden cardiac arrest.
The simplest version was a fire on the ship and carbon monoxide poisoning of the crew. The most fanciful versions were UFO attacks, a ship hitting an anomalous zone, etc. When a Malaysian liner went missing in the same area in 2014, there were even more recent versions.