In December 1959, a scholar named Mark in Arizona sent a mysterious letter to a senior member of the U.S. Intelligence Agency, in which he described some shipwrecks and said to the recipient:
In March of last year, I sent you a similar letter with a lot of news about the disappearance of the ship. In today's letter, I would like to tell you about some of my latest discoveries, and I wonder if you think there is something unknown in the events I have described today. I have always believed that perhaps this incident is the key to unlocking the mysterious disappearance of many planes and ships in the sea, and even let us know what terrible secrets are hidden in that bottomless sea
Half a century after 2003, Mark's letter to the Intelligence Bureau was declassified after the secrecy expired, but the letterhead was still encrypted. It can be seen that to this day, the intelligence bureau does not want people to know the identity of the recipient, and the declassified shipwreck in the letter is our story today.
One day in February 1948, a merchant ship called the Silver Star sailed on the vast waters of the Strait of Malacca. As they were on the way, the silence of the ship was shattered by the sound of Morse code coming from a radio unit. The voice of the telegram was monotonous and cold, and it seemed that there was nothing special, but the receiver quickly discovered the problem, because the Morse code began with SOS, which could be determined to be an emergency distress passage, and the ship that sent the telegram was called the Medan.
The telegram received by the Silver Star was rather vague, and judging from the description in the telegram, the shipwrecked ship must have suffered some terrible disaster. The situation was so critical that the Silver Star immediately contacted a listening post near the Channel to report what it had received, and after verification by the site, at the same time, in addition to the Silver Star, there was also a merchant ship called the Baltimore, which also received the exact same code.
The listening post could only determine the general position and asked the closer Silver Star to come to the rescue first, and the shipwrecked ship was probably on a route southeast of the Strait of Malacca. After several hours of searching, the Silver Star finally found a freighter floating at sea in the sea far from the normal shipping lane.
Outwardly, the ship belonged to the Netherlands, the hull was covered in rust, and the Medan was the same cargo ship that sent the telegram. The engines and wheels showed no signs of working, and after several whistles without a response, the captain of the Silver Star sent a small team and soon arrived under the Medan.
Several members of the team made it to the stern of the ship, and there didn't seem to be much unusual in the boat except for the deathly silence on the boat. But as they reached the deck in front of them, they paused for a moment, and the boarding team included some amazing seamen and knowledgeable ships, but they had never seen such a horrific picture in their lives.
The deck bridge of the Medan and the bow of the ship are densely packed, and a bunch of human bodies are lying upside down, which looks extremely strange. Each corpse was stiff, their expressions full of hideousness and fear, their bodies had no visible wounds, and their hands were all held high in front of their chests, as if they had once resisted something terrible.
After getting used to the scene in front of them, the team began to search for survivors, finding the dead captain and first mate on the bridge, and the messenger who had sent a distress signal hours earlier in the communications room. Without exception, all of them had the same dead expressions and expressions, and even a hound that fell to the ground was in a stiff state of full defense.
What's even more incredible is that the sea weather is good at this time, but there is always a biting cold inside the Medan. The men searched for a while, but found no survivors on the ship. When they were about to leave the cargo hold, the ships in the team suddenly felt extremely incongruous, and after checking around the cargo ship, they finally found it in horror.
All the corpses in the deck bridge cabin, both inside and out, had their heads tilted in the same direction. Due to the inconclusive search and the terrible environment at the scene, the Silver Star decided to tow the shipwrecked ship back to the shore for other professionals to investigate, but they were just about to install the tow rope, but suddenly found that the rear of the Medan was probably at the location of the No. 4 warehouse, and there was an inexplicable fire without warning, and the flames spread rapidly from the cabin, and soon covered most of the hull.
In the midst of the crisis, the Silver Star immediately retreated and just arrived at a safe position, but the Mianna on the opposite side suddenly had a violent **, and the powerful shock wave tore the hull in half. The story of the Medan was interrupted here, and with the departure of the Silver Star, the Medan was gradually sealed in the dust at the bottom of the deep sea.
Four years later, the U.S. Coast Guard published a book called the Proceedings of the National Merchant Shipping Commission, which not only described common accidents and how to deal with them, but also provided detailed instructions and regulations on the navigation and transportation of various merchant ships. As a national military and police department integrating coastal defense, search and rescue, and law enforcement, the guard force has a high degree of authority in domestic waters.
As soon as the publication was published, it attracted many people to read and read it, and it was soon discovered that the book section on the ship's accident mentioned a shipwreck that occurred four years ago, telling the story of the rescue of a merchant ship called the Silver Star. This accident, which was intervened by an authoritative journal, immediately aroused speculation.
Because of the potential research value, many scholars, writers and historians familiar with the sea have become very interested in the event, and finding the truth about the Medan has become a new story. To find out exactly what happened to the Mina, the first thing you need to find is the background of the ship.
In 1953, a historian named Roy Bainton conducted the first public investigation into the incident, but he searched through all the records of ships in the Strait, but there was not a single ship called the Medan. Roy didn't give up, and he went to the National Maritime Museum, and the Singapore Maritime Authority, which is in charge of the waters off Malacca, to check all the relevant coastal records and locally registered vessel information, but still found nothing.
Roy then travels to the Netherlands, where the Medan belongs, and finally finds a ship of the same name in Amsterdam, but he is soon disappointed to find that the ship has been scrapped before World War II. The absence of any registration records in the world only suggests that the Medan incident may well have been a fabricated story from beginning to end.
Just when Roywan was about to give up, events took a new turn. During Roy's visit to the Netherlands, Theodore, a professor of German descent, gave him a manuscript of a book created by a former World War II Navy man, which tells the story of the Medan incident. The book is extremely detailed, from the routes of the two cargo ships, the Silver Star and the Medan, the goods transported, the names of the captains, and even the model of the engines, which does not look like a fabricated story at all.
In the second half of the article, it is mentioned that the Medan is a black ship that departed from Asia to the United States, and the cargo transported is likely to be some kind of biochemical **, and these contraband are placed in warehouse No. 4 for camouflage, and the receiving party of the cargo ship is an American ** agency. Although the description in the book is extremely bizarre, the theory that a black ship with a military background sailed far from the ordinary shipping lanes and eventually killed all the crew members due to the leakage of biochemicals, such a theory can indeed be explained.
Roy continued his search along this trail, only to find that the author of the article, Otto Milk, had passed away two years earlier. After Roy, an oceanographer named Alvar Masteen spent a long time finally finding the Silver Star at that time, and the ship did exist, but he found that there was no record of the Medan in the ship's logbook. Equally strange was the fact that not a single member of the crew of the Silver Star was willing to accept his visit, and at the same time was unwilling to give any explanation of the incident, and there was no new news of the shipwreck.
The Medan is a world-famous ghost ship incident, because the incident itself only appeared in newspapers and books, without any substantial evidence, so it is still very controversial to this day. However, some people deduced one of the most likely events based on these clues, and the prototype turned out to be related to Unit 731.
After the end of World War II, Shiro Ishii, the leader of Unit 731, proposed to the United States that he would be exempted from retrospective use at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East on the condition that he be exempted from the information and samples of bacteriological **. Due to the great value of the research results, in order to prevent the data from being obtained by the Soviet Union, the United States finally reached an agreement with Ishii.
Biochemical ** is a sensitive and dangerous item, and the safest way to transport it is to find a few old cargo ships that are not registered, departing from an unknown seaport and quietly moving to the territory through the Strait of Malacca. Due to the high level of secrecy required for the shipment of goods, the military issued gag orders to all those involved. But because of an accident, one of them had a serious leak, and the accident was finally exposed to the public.
The strange death of the crew, the unreasonable temperature in the cabin, and the bizarre ** in the end, all seem to be able to be linked to biochemistry**, which is a theory that most skeptics believe. But if it really was a completely fictional incident, then why would the U.S. Coast Guard include such a fabricated story.
More than 70 years have passed since the Medan incident until now, with the passage of time. It has been shipwrecked for the first time in the press. It gradually evolved into an urban legend that has been passed down for half a century.