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The highly disturbing case of the SS Ourang Medan challenges our beliefs about facing certain doom. · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In nineteen forty seven, a disturbing distress signal was sent
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  Speaker 1: out kind of in all directions, like a blind distress
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  Speaker 1: signal from some point in the Indian Ocean. Numerous American, Dutch,
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  Speaker 1: and English ships, along with other international listening stations, heard
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  Speaker 1: this distress signal, and once they triangulated where it was
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  Speaker 1: coming from, they sent out a search party to go
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  Speaker 1: see who needed help. When they arrived on scene, they
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  Speaker 1: discovered something that would become one of the most famous
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  Speaker 1: maritime mysteries of all time. This is the story of
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  Speaker 1: the ss orang Madon. What's going on, guys, mister ballin here.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Before we get into the story,
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  Speaker 1: I want you guys to be looking at this through
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  Speaker 1: the lens of trying to decipher whether or not you
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  Speaker 1: believe this really happened, because there is a large percentage
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  Speaker 1: of people that say this is just an urban legend. However,
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  Speaker 1: there is a couple details that make it really hard
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  Speaker 1: to just write off. Number one, you have a number
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  Speaker 1: of international ships and listening stations that all reported hearing
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  Speaker 1: this same distress signal, and it's a very unique distress
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  Speaker 1: signal that we'll get into. In addition, you have the
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  Speaker 1: US Coast Guard and one of their fairly credible publications
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  Speaker 1: published a story about this case five years after it happened.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have the fact that this case has
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  Speaker 1: been around since nineteen forty seven. It's been seventy plus years,
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  Speaker 1: and no one's officially debunked it. So let's dive in.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen forty seven, several Dutch, American, and English ships,
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  Speaker 1: along with a number of listening stations, picked up the
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  Speaker 1: strange distress signal that was coming from somewhere in the
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  Speaker 1: Indian Ocean. The distress signal, which was in Morse code,
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  Speaker 1: went like this, an officer including the captain are dead
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  Speaker 1: lying in chart room and bridge, possibly whole crew dead.
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  Speaker 1: Then there was a burst of indecipherable Morse code, and
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  Speaker 1: then it ended with two words I die, then silence.
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  Speaker 1: One ship that heard this distress signal was the Silver Star.
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  Speaker 1: It was an American vessel that was kind of patrolling
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  Speaker 1: the waterways around the coast of Malaysia, and with the
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  Speaker 1: help of other ships in and around the Indian Ocean
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  Speaker 1: and some of the listening stations, they were able to
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  Speaker 1: triangulate the location of this distress signal and they pinpointed
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  Speaker 1: a ship called the SS Orang Madon that was located
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  Speaker 1: right at the end of the Strait of Malacca, which
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  Speaker 1: is the primary shipping lane between the Indian Ocean and
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  Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean, and so they this ship was basically
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  Speaker 1: drifting out towards the Indian Ocean. And so the first
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  Speaker 1: thing that the Silver Star does is they tried to
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  Speaker 1: send a message back to the Orang Madan, but after
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  Speaker 1: numerous failed attempts, they decide The captain of the Silver
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  Speaker 1: Star decides that we need to go investigate because something
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  Speaker 1: is obviously not right here. So the Silver Star tells
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  Speaker 1: all the other ships in the area along with the
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  Speaker 1: other listening stations, that they are going to be the
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  Speaker 1: search party. They're going to reroute and head for the
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  Speaker 1: Orang Madan because at this point, anybody that had heard
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  Speaker 1: that signal is saying, like, what do we do? Like,
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  Speaker 1: are we going to go investigator you After a couple
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  Speaker 1: of hours of heading straight for the Orang Madan, they
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  Speaker 1: see off in the distance this ship. You know, from
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of these very experienced sailors on the Silver Star,
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  Speaker 1: they knew almost immediately that this ship is dead in
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  Speaker 1: the water. It's just drifting, which is not a good sign,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you combine that with the signal they got.
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  Speaker 1: As they get closer and closer to this ship, it
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  Speaker 1: becomes creepier and creepier because they're looking up and in
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  Speaker 1: the in the bridge where you know, the steering wheel
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  Speaker 1: would be. They can't make any person out. There's no
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  Speaker 1: one up there. There's no nobody's standing on the edge.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they just said this distress signal. You would
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  Speaker 1: think with a ship that's dead in the water that
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  Speaker 1: they would be lining the outside of the ship trying
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  Speaker 1: to signal someone down. But no, it's just quiet, no
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  Speaker 1: one on board, all lights off, just drifting, bobbing in
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  Speaker 1: the choppy waters of the Indian Ocean. And so as
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  Speaker 1: they get closer, they start blowing their whistle to try
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  Speaker 1: to attract anybody on the Orangemadan to signal them back.
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  Speaker 1: They're also doing more morse code to try to get
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  Speaker 1: their attention again not being picked up. And so finally,
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  Speaker 1: after all these failed attempts and just the general weirdness
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  Speaker 1: around it, the captain of the Silver Star decides we
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  Speaker 1: need to board the ship. So the SilverStar crew members
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  Speaker 1: they knew before they boarded that almost definitely they were
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  Speaker 1: going to find something terribly wrong with this ship. There's
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  Speaker 1: just too many red flags about it. They were anticipating
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  Speaker 1: something bad, but I don't think that they were really
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  Speaker 1: prepared for just how bad this was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: So they board the ship and right away on deck
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  Speaker 1: is a number of crew members that had passed away.
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  Speaker 1: They're all deceased, and the mystery really kicks in in
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  Speaker 1: the position the body position of all of the dead
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  Speaker 1: crew members. They were all all on their back with
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  Speaker 1: their hands outstretched in front of them, as if defending
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  Speaker 1: themselves from some unseen assailant above them, even strangers. They
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  Speaker 1: had this abject, this look of abject terror on their face,
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  Speaker 1: as if the final moments before they died were just
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  Speaker 1: excruciatingly painful and terrifying, even the dog was in a
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  Speaker 1: position with its teeth bared, looked like it was growling
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  Speaker 1: up into the sky all of them. And so obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Silver Star crew members are shocked at what they find,
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  Speaker 1: and they're kind of looking at each of these dead
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  Speaker 1: crew members and they're like, what is going on. So
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  Speaker 1: they make their way up to the bridge, and everybody's
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  Speaker 1: so dead in the same position basically fighting with some
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  Speaker 1: unseen assailant in their final moments before they passed. The
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  Speaker 1: person who had been sending out the distress signal had
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  Speaker 1: literally slouched over the telegraph like their finger was literally
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  Speaker 1: on the telegraph. He's the only one that was not
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  Speaker 1: doing this. He was on the telegraph and had passed
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  Speaker 1: away in that position. So they go down into the
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  Speaker 1: bowels of the ship. Normally inside of a steel ship,
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  Speaker 1: in the boiler room, it's going to be pretty hot.
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  Speaker 1: There's no real ventilation to speak of, not to mention
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  Speaker 1: outside it was over one hundred degrees. They went down
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  Speaker 1: into the boiler room and down into the ship and
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  Speaker 1: it was strikingly cold. Some of the crew members from
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  Speaker 1: the Silver Star said it felt like it might have
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  Speaker 1: been about forty degrees fahrenheit. They found more crew members
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  Speaker 1: also passed away, also fighting with something in the air,
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  Speaker 1: with that look of abject terror on their face. So
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  Speaker 1: all of the crew has perished in this very bizarre
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  Speaker 1: There was no overt damage to the ship. It just
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  Speaker 1: appeared that the engine had been turned off, but ultimately
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  Speaker 1: the ship had no real damage to it at all.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't find anything. The crew, despite meeting a fairly
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate end, also had no signs of outside injury. External injury.
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  Speaker 1: Something had obviously caused them all to perish, but there
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  Speaker 1: was no injuries outside their body. In addition, all of
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  Speaker 1: them showed signs of rapidly decomposing, considering they had just
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  Speaker 1: been tapping away that distress signal hours earlier. Unless the
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  Speaker 1: person communicating the distress signal had been the last one
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  Speaker 1: alive for a long time, it doesn't really add up
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  Speaker 1: that they had decomposed as quickly as they had relative
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  Speaker 1: to when this distress signal was sent. So the captain
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  Speaker 1: of the Silver Star, taking into account all of the strangeness,
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  Speaker 1: decides not to touch any of the bodies, leave them
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  Speaker 1: where they are, get off the ship, tie a toe
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  Speaker 1: line to the Orang Madan and tow it in we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have experts look at this and figure out what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And so they attached the toe line the crew members
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  Speaker 1: of the Silver Star, and as soon as they begin
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  Speaker 1: to move it, they noticed the crew of the Silver
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  Speaker 1: Star that smoke has begun billowing out of the inside
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  Speaker 1: of the Orang Madan, and so, not taking any chances,
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  Speaker 1: they cut the toe line and they literally jump back
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  Speaker 1: onto the Silver Star right as the Orang Madon explodes.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there was a quote which basically said it
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  Speaker 1: exploded with so much force that it was lifted out
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  Speaker 1: of the water entirely and then splashed back down and
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  Speaker 1: rapidly sank. So now you have no you have no evidence.
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  Speaker 1: You have the testimony of the people that were on
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  Speaker 1: the ship, but other than that, you have no evidence.
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  Speaker 1: The ship is now gone. The capture of the Silver
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  Speaker 1: Star and his crew just have to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the mainland to try to make sense of what they
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  Speaker 1: just saw, because you have all these people that were
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  Speaker 1: involved and want to know what happen happened, and they're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, we saw this horrible thing on
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  Speaker 1: board and then it exploded and it disappeared, And so
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  Speaker 1: that's where the mystery kind of ends. But here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into what the primary critique is because that's
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  Speaker 1: important here too, and then we'll hear the rebuttal, which
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  Speaker 1: I think is also pretty important. So people that believe
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  Speaker 1: this story is just a legend will point to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there really isn't a good record of the
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  Speaker 1: SS Orang Madan ever existing. There's this one very important
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  Speaker 1: publication called Lloyd's Shipping Registers, where you would expect the
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  Speaker 1: Orang Madan to be registered, but they're not. Others will
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  Speaker 1: say that, well, Orang Madan translates to man of Madan,
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  Speaker 1: and Madon is near as it's near Sumatra, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where they were registered, so they weren't in Lloyd's Shipping registers.
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  Speaker 1: They were in another registry. But either way, there is
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  Speaker 1: contention around whether or not this ship ever existed. But
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  Speaker 1: for those who say that this could be true, they
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  Speaker 1: say that, well, there was a good reason why those
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  Speaker 1: records don't exist, because someone's trying to cover it up.
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  Speaker 1: According to a German researcher who had spent decades covering
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  Speaker 1: the Orang Meadan case, he published in The Death Ship
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  Speaker 1: on the South Seas, it's a publication from nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: three that the Orang Maudan was transporting illegal materials, things
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  Speaker 1: like nitroglycerin and potassium cyanide. These are things used to
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  Speaker 1: create weapons, and there might have been a leak that
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  Speaker 1: led to the death of everyone on board, no physical injuries,
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  Speaker 1: but they passed away. And then also after they tied
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  Speaker 1: that toe line, the materials could have detonated. You know,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps they have detonated that kind of thing. And so
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  Speaker 1: that still leads some questions, right, I mean, then how
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  Speaker 1: did the Silver Star crew not also get exposed to
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  Speaker 1: these chemicals as soon as they got there. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: it's a fascinating story and I hope that you took
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