Ready to hear one of the creepiest stories ever? In honor of Halloween season coming up, it doesn’t hurt to get in the spirit by listening to an intense spooky tale.

This story, in particular, is about the S.S. Ourang Medan, a Dutch vessel that ended up being led to a tragic and mysterious demise along with its passengers in the 1940s.

Although the dates of when exactly all of this went down are unclear, we know that the events took place in the summertime in the 1940s. While passing through the Strait of Malacca, an American vessel named the Silver Star received a terrifying distress call from a nearby charter ship, the S.S. Ourang Medan.

The radio operator on the Ourang Medan sent out the distress signal in morse code. The call read something along the lines of “all officers including captain dead, lying in chartroom and on the bridge, probably whole crew dead.”

Then, the call was ended with perhaps the most chilling message at all, which was simply, “I die.”

A rescue team aboard the Silver Star decided to go find the Ourang Medan and try to help the people aboard. However, once they found the ship, they discovered a horror show.

The entire crew aboard the Ourang Medan was dead. Their bodies were spread all over the vessel. Allegedly, each corpse had a look of absolute fear on their face, with their eyes bulging, mouths open, and arms reaching upwards towards the sky.

The vessel’s only animal aboard, a dog, was found dead too. It had an expression on its face that looked like it had been growling at something evil.

The vessel itself appeared to have no damage, and the rescue team could not figure out what it was that killed each person aboard.

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However, there was no way for anyone to conduct a thorough investigation, as when the Silver Star began to tow the vessel to port, it caught fire. That fire led to an intense explosion, causing it to sink almost immediately.

There are a ton of conspiracy theories out there as to what happened on the vessel. Some say the vessel never even existed due to a lack of documentation. Yet many do believe that spirits could have taken the lives of these crew members. Especially since one of the Silver Star rescuers allegedly reported feeling a strong chill aboard the Ourang Medan, a signal affiliated with paranormal activity.

No matter what happened that fateful day, the story is horrifying nonetheless.

To read more about the S.S. Ourang Medan, visit the link here.

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