Skeptoid #756: The Death Ship SS Ourang Medan

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This ship was said to be discovered with all its crew dead under unexplainable circumstances.

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0:00.0	Tales of the Sea Carry With Them A Special Mystique None moreso than the Ghost Ship SSO-Rong
0:10.4	Maidon.
0:11.7	A crew responding to its SOS found the ship not deserted, but much worse.
0:17.9	Everyone on board was not only dead, they were horribly dead.
0:23.1	Today we're going to uncover the truth about this grizzly tale.
0:27.5	What's up next?
0:31.3	Unskeptoid
0:34.5	You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.
0:39.6	The Death Ship, O'Rong Maidon.
0:44.1	It's another of those classic mystery ships from Notical Lore.
0:48.1	Sometime around 1940, somewhere in the Western Pacific, the cargo ship O'Rong Maidon
0:53.8	sent out a distress call via Morse code.
0:57.1	The first ship to arrive was greeted with a grizzly scene.
1:00.8	The O'Rong Maidon was apparently undamaged, but also uncrewed.
1:05.9	Until the rescuers went aboard and found everyone dead.
1:10.2	And not just dead, gruesomely dead.
1:13.2	All uninjured, yet split out flat on their backs, their eyes and mouth wide open in silent
1:19.8	screams of horror.
1:21.6	Many still at their posts.
1:23.6	The rescuers made preparations to take the O'Rong Maidon in tow, but before they could,
1:29.3	a fire broke out below decks and they evacuated just in time to see the vessel explode and
1:34.7	sink beneath the waves.
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