Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The ocean is a dark and mysterious place.

One can get disoriented bobbing like a cork in the water with no land in sight.

Sailors who are dehydrated or sleep deprived have been known to hallucinate, seen ships,

islands, and even people that aren't really there.

History is riddled with tales of vessels turning up with their crews missing, or a lone

survivor who can't remember what happened next.

Ships have ways of signaling for help, of course, from flares to radios, and even satellite

phones nowadays.

But back in the 1940s, one ship in distress didn't have a radio or a telephone, and it

didn't shoot a flare into the sky either.

It sent a harrowing cryptic message in a last-ditch effort for help that came too late.

It followed, could not be explained.

It started, well, no one is quite sure about that.

The event was said to have occurred in 1947 when a cargo ship named the SS Aureng Medan

sent out a distress call.

It was a 40-year-old steamer whose name in Malaysian translated to Man of Medan.

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