Aug. 11, 2026
Chapter 150: Dead Men Tell No Tales-The Legend of the S.S. Ourang Medan
Was the Ourang Medan a real ghost ship—or one of the greatest maritime legends ever created? The crew of the Ourang Medan were reportedly found dead aboard their ship in the waters of the Strait of Malacca in the late 1940s. Their bodies were said to...
Key Takeaways
- The legend of the S.S. Ourang Medan involves a fateful ghost ship reportedly found adrift in the late 1940s with a dead crew frozen in expressions of sheer terror.
- A chilling distress call received from the vessel famously ended with the haunting final message: "I die now."
- Prominent theories explaining the mysterious deaths range from exposure to toxic cargo like potassium cyanide and nitroglycerine to wartime chemical warfare experiments.
- Despite its deep roots in maritime lore and pop culture, historians and researchers have found no official shipping registries or documentation proving the S.S. Ourang Medan actually existed.
Was the Ourang Medan a real ghost ship—or one of the greatest maritime legends ever created?
The crew of the Ourang Medan were reportedly found dead aboard their ship in the waters of the Strait of Malacca in the late 1940s. Their bodies were said to have been discovered sprawled across the ship, their faces frozen in expressions of terror, and then came the chilling message allegedly sent from the vessel: “I die.”Before anyone could uncover the truth, the Ourang Medan caught fire and exploded, sending the ship and its secrets to the bottom of the sea.
But did the Ourang Medan really exist? Was the crew killed by toxic gas, a dangerous cargo, or something far more mysterious? And how much of the story is actually true? In this episode of The Book of the Dead, we dive into one of the most infamous maritime mysteries ever told: the legend of the Ourang Medan, the ghost ship of Southeast Asia.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What was the S.S. Ourang Medan?
The S.S. Ourang Medan is a legendary ghost ship said to have been discovered in the late 1940s in the Strait of Malacca with its entire crew and officers dead under mysterious circumstances.
What caused the deaths on the S.S. Ourang Medan according to popular theories?
The most common theories suggest the crew was killed or driven to hallucinate by toxic fumes leaking from smuggled hazardous cargo, such as potassium cyanide and nitroglycerine.
Was the S.S. Ourang Medan a real ship?
There are no official maritime records, registrations, or contemporary government documents confirming the actual existence of a ship named the Ourang Medan, leading many to classify it as an urban legend.
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the ss Urang Madan. If you've been around for a
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really long time, you'd know that I'm fascinated by this
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legendary ship that so few people have heard of. But
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this episode was actually taken off of my feed some
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to like talking about this ghost ship and felt that
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it was time to revisit the story that some of
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my newer listeners may not know. With that being said,
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let's get into the story of what may be one
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of the most mysterious ships of all time. This is
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the legend of the ss uranng Medan. Now, before we
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dive into the story, some of you may actually be
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familiar with this ship, even if it's just in the abstract.
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If any of you are into video games. The developer
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super Massive Games created what they called the Dark Pictures
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Anthology a few years ago, and they put out games
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inspired by different things in history, such as the Salem
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Witch Trials, HH Holmes and the Urrong Medan. In the
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game called Man of Medan, the ship was left floating
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in the sea a band after its crew mysteriously died.
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You come to find out that the deaths were caused
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by exposure to dangerous chemicals causing extreme hallucinations, resulting in
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the crew literally being scared to death. While just a game,
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this version is actually one of the more prominent theories
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as to what happened to the ship's crew. There is
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a lot of conflicting information out there, and we're going
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to get into why. But supposedly the legend goes as follows.
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Sometime in the late nineteen forties, along the Straits of Malacca,
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which is between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, and SOS broadcast
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was made. The message was received by nearby ships and
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they were extremely alarmed by what they heard. The message
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said quote all officers, including Captain dead lying in chart
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room and on bridge, probably whole crew dead. This message
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was immediately followed by a series of morse code that
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no one could make out because it happened so quickly,
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and then one final message came through and the officer said,
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I die now. This broadcast transcript comes from an article
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on Ripley's Believe It or Not dot com and an
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article for houseduff Works by Alison Trautner. Obviously, the ships
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that received this transmission were more than concerned for multiple reasons,
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and one of the main ones was that the crew
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members sending out this SOS gave no indication as to
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what caused the death of the crew. They also didn't
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send their coordinates or what sort of danger these crew
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members were in. So the ships sailing out to rest
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to them, we're going in completely blind. According to what
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seems to be the original legend, an American ship called
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the Silver Star was the ship that answered the distress
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call and organized a rescue mission. They figure out the
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approximate coordinates of the urrang Madan's location, and they immediately
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set sail into the unknown, completely unaware of what horrors
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could be awaiting them. Aboard the urrang Madan. Supposedly, they
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arrive and when they call out to the crew, there's
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no answer. There's no movement on the ship. So the
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captain of the Silver Star organizes a crew and they
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bore the urg Madan to help out. When this rescue
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crew gets onto the ship, they are met with a
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terrifying site. Not one single sailor is alive. Everyone is dead,
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and they are all exactly where the man that made
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the distress call said they would be, their chart room,
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the bridge. The officer that made the broadcast was found
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dead in the radio room, and every single person on
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this ship is lying with their eyes looking up, with
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their faces turned to the sun, frozen in fear, their
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teeth bared in horror. Even the ship's dog is dead,
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frozen mid snarl. According to a nineteen forty article for
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The Daily Mirror, an officer said of what they saw, quote,
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we could find no sign of a wound on any
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of them. Death seemed to have taken them by surprise
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at their posts. It was terrifying. On the captain's bridge
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we found the body of the second officer. We counted
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twelve bodies, three of them zack officers. Again according to
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the original legend, Allegedly, as the rescue crew was looking
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around trying to figure out what happened, a fire was
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discovered in the bowels of the ship, smoke billowing out
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of the cargo hold. The rescue crew abandons the ship,
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and as they flee back to the Silver Star, an
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explosion erupts so forcefully that the Urang Madan was literally
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lifted out of the water before sinking to the ocean floor.
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That same officer said, quote, we decided to check the
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captain's quarters, but at that moment we heard an explosion
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in the ship. We abandoned the ship immediately and rowed
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back to our own. The explosions were repeated. Soon nothing
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was left to the Urrang Madan but a blazing hulk.
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The next day, the fire burned itself out and the
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steamer went under, taking her secret with her. So what happened,
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how did the crew die and how did this fire start?
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Is this even a real story or is it a
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ghost story crewman made up to pass the time that
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morphed into this horrifying mystery. Well, according to multiple sources,
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there is allegedly no mention of a ship called the
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Urang Madan in any shipping registry, and there is no
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official record of this incident from the nineteen forties when
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this supposedly occurred. However, various versions of this story have
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been printed in newspapers from the nineteen fifties onward. Now,
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one of the theories as to why there's no mention
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of this ship in any registry is because it's a
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ship that was registered as belonging to the island of Sumatra,
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which is an island of western Indonesia. The reason people
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believe this as being a possibility is because Urang Madan
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translates to Man from Midan, and Midan is the capital
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of North Sumatra. According to that article on Ripley's, a
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German researcher, professor Theodore Syersdwarfer, discovered a German publication from
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nineteen fifty three called Dos Tautenschiff in der Sudsey or
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the Death Ship in the South Seas. This was written
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by a man named Automilka, and it is believed to
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contain evidence the ship and what happened to it was
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a real event. Now. Allegedly, this claims that the ship's
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cargo holt contained potassium cyanide, and nitroglycerine. If it did,
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this could explain a possible explosion if the containers were
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compromised or mishandled in some way, and it could explain
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why the ship's legitimacy is so iffy, because a ship
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would never have legally been able to transport something like that.
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This was because tensions during World War Two when this
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incident was supposed to have occurred, was of course incredibly high,
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and sensitive materials being transported and used inappropriately or maliciously
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would have of course caused an incredible amount of problems,
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which again is a possible reason why the ship's records
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are so hard to find or have never been found
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at all. And for those that are curious, mixing potassium
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cyanide and nitric lycern is highly dangerous and could potentially
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cause temporary incapacitation or residual injury. It can ignite under
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almost any ambient temperature, and according to CAMEO Chemicals via
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the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, it is readily capable
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of detonation or explosive decomposition or explosive reaction at normal
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temperatures and pressure. In fact, the NOAA states that this
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can explode and throw fragments sixteen hundred meters or more
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if while on a ship or train, these chemicals react
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and create a fire in or near the cargo hold. Now,
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according to that article by Alison Trautner, Michael East, a
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history and true crime writer, said, quote, nobody came forward
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to say they knew the ship or had served on her. Equally,
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the inconsistent dates constantly stand out, as does the changing
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location as evidence for this ship not being real at all.
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Mentions of the fate of the Urragmudan have been found
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in publications scattered from nineteen thirty to nineteen forty, and
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every one of them have details changed. Locations vary from
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the Solomon Islands to the Marshall Islands, and even the
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ship that tried to rescue them varies. Researcher Estelle Hargraves
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found quotes from the nineteen forties in British national newspapers
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from British marine officers describing a distress call requesting a
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medic and warship. These newspaper articles also claimed that it
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was a British ship that attempted a rescue mission, not
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the Silver Star. According to an article for the Ghosts
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in Mymachine dot com. Articles found by Estelle Hargraves in
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the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Daily Mirror and the Hampshire
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Telegraph claim this accident occurred in November of nineteen forty
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and they place it occurring in the Solomon Islands in
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the Melanesian region of the Pacific Ocean. In the Yorkshire
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Evening Post, their information is supposedly from an officer for
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from an on name ship that tried to come to
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the urang Madan's aid. This I actually referenced in the
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quotes from the Daily Mirror as mentioned earlier. Now allegedly
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according to the book The Urang Madan Conjuring a Ghost Ship,
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he found an article from a French magazine from September seventh,
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nineteen forty one that claims this incident occurred in nineteen
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thirty nine and it places the location as being around
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Fiji and the ship was supposedly in australianship that had
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been sold to a smuggler and was smuggling a legal cargo.
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Now going back to Michael East, he blames the changing
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details on a reporter named Silvio Scaly. Now Silvio is
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a name heavily attached to the Urang story. Allegedly, Sylvia
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wrote and published his own version of the Urang Madan
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story after he allegedly came across a survivor that washed
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up on the shores of Tanji Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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In nineteen forty eight. A Dutch Indonesia newspaper De Lakomotif
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published this story, where Silvio claimed he was told the
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ship was traveling to Costa Rica from a Chinese port
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because of the illegal cargo they were carrying, which was
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sulfuric acid. This survivor's name was supposedly Cherry Rabbit. According
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to Cherry, he washed up on the shore of the
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Marshall Islands ten days after the Urangbdan sank in a
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lifeboat with six other crew members, but he was the
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only survivor. Rabbit made it to a missionary and reportedly
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told them that he joined the Urang Bdan's crew in
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Shanghai and the crew was loading fifteen thousand creates of
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mysterious cargo into the bowels of the ship. He claimed
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that after they set sail to Costa Rica, he realized
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that this was a smuggling operation, and according to this report,
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Rabbit said that after men on the crew started growing sick,
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he investigated what the ship was carrying and found out
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via a log book that the crates they were transporting
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contained sulfuric acid, potassium cyanide, and nitroglycerine. After men started dying,
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Rabbit escaped on the lifeboat and he allegedly died himself
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soon after telling this story. Of course, this is a
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really tragic story, right. The problem is there's no mention
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of Jerry Rabbit existing at all outside of this article. Now,
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this article also claimed that the cargo was mishandled or
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not stored properly, and the escaping fumes caused the crew's
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death and caused the explosion. I will say that toxic
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fumes killing the crew is the most common theory, with
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minor differences. Some claimed the fumes alone killed them, and
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some claimed the fumes caused horrific hallucinations that literally scared
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these crew members to death. Another theory points to a
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pirate attack, which, given the time this would have occurred,
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could have been a possibility except for the fact that
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the bodies on board reportedly showed no injuries. According to
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a different article, by Les Hewett for Historic Mysteries dot Com.
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The incident occurred in either June nineteen forty seven or
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February nineteen forty eight, which is a huge window, but
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none of these dates are consistent. According to this article,
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two ships picked up the dist us called from the
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urang Madan, the Silver Star, and the SS City of Baltimore.
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With the help of a Dutch ship and a British
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listening post, they were able to figure out the coordinates
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of the urang Madan and the Silver Star set out
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on the rescue mission. The urang Madan was supposedly found
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around one hundred and fifty miles from the broadcast coordinates,
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and according to this article, the rescue crew noticed a
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few other things besides the deceased crew. One of the
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lightboats attached to the side of the ship was missing,
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which obviously means, or at least implies, that some of
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the crew managed to get off the ship. The temperature
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of the ship itself was somewhere between one hundred and
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