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Oceania, 1947 or 1948 The American vessel "Silver Star" picks up an SOS from a Dutch freighter by the name of "Ourang Medan" "We drift stop second officer dead on bridge stop captain and chief engineer dead in chartroom stop probably whole crew dead stop part of the crew..."
The broadcast breaks off abruptly. What follows is nothing but indecipherable Morse code. It seems that the radio operator on the "Ourang Medan" is in his death throes, his hand still spasmodically hitting the Morse key. Finally, two more words are received from the "Ourang Medan" "I die."
Then there is silence. The "Silver Star" races all through the night toward the position of the stricken vessel. In the morning, the "Silver Star" sights an ancient steamer.
When the Americans board the "Ourang Medan," they find a ghost ship strewn with corpses. Their faces are contorted as if they died in agony — or of horror. Their mouths gape open as if to scream. Their eyes are staring and their rigid and twisted bodies seem to be pointing their arms at something, something in the sky.
When the boarders are about to investigate further, fire erupts from one of the cargo holds of the "Ourang Medan" and races through the ship with incredible speed. Rocked by explosions and gutted by the fire, the "Ourang Medan" capsizes and sinks, taking her secrets with her. Her wreck has never been found.
For more than six decades, the ghost ship "Ourang Medan" remained one of the greatest mysteries of the sea. Now, this book may be able to present you the solution. Papers lost for decades but discovered recently shed new light on the "Ourang Medan" mystery. It turned out to be older and more complex than anyone expected.
The Ourang Medan Conjuring a Ghost Ship edition by Alexander Butziger Religion Spirituality eBooks
Imagine the nemesis of a UFO conspiracy theorist frantically attempting to debunk any paranormal connections to this ship mystery. What you probably have in mind is the author of this book. Reading this I got the sense of an individual who hadn't slept for three days shuffling papers around in front of me, jabbing them with his finger and yelling "There's the proof!". In his defense he makes a good case for the legend of the Ourang Medan to be nothing but a high seas folk tale, but my guess is most of us already figured that was the case when we purchased this book.The "twist", if you want to call it that, is when a theory is produced about the origin of this tale that is equally as conspiratorial.
I don't think this was the author's intent, but this book plays out like watching someone quickly lose touch with the real world over an obsession. He's the anti-Ahab hell bent on disproving this story. In that regard I would have given it 4 stars for entertainment value, but I don't believe that was the intent.
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The Ourang Medan Conjuring a Ghost Ship edition by Alexander Butziger Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
Book Review Friday, April 24, 2015
The Ourang Medan — Conjuring a Ghost Ship ~ Alexander Butziger
The earliest known English reference to what happened aboard this ship appears in the May 1952 issue of the Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council, published by the United States Coast Guard. The ship was a Malaysian Freighter, whose name translated as The Man from Medan, the biggest city on Sumatra.
The general storyline goes something like this. It happened in June 1947 or in February 1948, in the Strait of Malacca between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. A pair of US ships picks up a distress call from The Ourang Medan. The radio operator on the Ourang Medan describes a tale of horror. Everyone is dead on deck, and whatever has killed them is now coming for him. He signs of with a cryptic, “I die.” The radio goes silent. The US ships are identified as the Silver Star and the City of Baltimore.
A search of the area results in the finding of the named vessel, but almost fifty miles from the position given by the radio operator. It is silent, and there is no response to the rescue ship’s hails. It is decided to board the abandoned ship. To the rescue crew’s horror, bodies are strewn about everywhere, dead with terrified looks on their faces. Their eyes are open and staring and many of them are pointing or gesturing at something they saw before dying.
An investigation begins, a several photo’s are taken. Then the stricken craft spontaneously combusted into flame. The rescue crew withdraws, and the ship goes down in flames. The wreck has never been discovered. Some wonder if it was even searched for at all.
The problem has always been trying to verify these few known facts. And there any investigator runs into trouble. The tales of what really happened are many, some of them quite reasonable and some highly imaginative. There are the photos, but no one really agrees with the number of photos, or what they contain. An Internet search shows photos of bodies on a deck, an officer face down, one of an officer lying on his back, and so on. The question is, are they all from the same camera, let alone the same investigation?
In trying to solve the mystery, one of the reasonable stories is that the ship was carrying poison gas which escaped and killed the crew. The released chemicals combined with other wartime supplies such as TNT, causing the explosion and fire. Another is that the fire had already started and the deaths were from carbon monoxide poisoning, then the fire spread and the ship went down.
Then there are the flights of fantasy. Aliens killed the crew. They were attacked by a ghost ship. It was a conspiracy of some sort that the Government covered up by burning and sinking the ship. This usually involves testing of some super-secret weapon.
Alexander Butziger attempts to use Occam’s Razor The simplest explanation is probably right. And the simplest answer that explains all the strange events and the fact that no records exist, is that it never happened as described. This means it started out as a tale and grew with the telling into a mystery that defies explanation.
To people who propose the outlandish claims, the fact that there are no records proves cover-up. Perhaps this is simply too convenient? If the ship was found as described, an investigation would surely be mounted. They wouldn’t stop until they found the answer, because that would put another ship at risk. But it was fortunately burned and sank, taking all clues with it. The writers never think it through. An investigation would have searched for the sunken ship, because there were unanswered questions that were very pertinent to shipping.
The reader is given the historical facts, the alleged findings, the alternate explanations, and left to choose for themselves what to believe. Does Alexander Butziger have the true explanation? Maybe. Maybe not. But he presents his evidence in a straight forward manner, and references all of his facts. I feel he has earned five stars out of five for this account of the Ourang Medan mystery.
Quoth the Raven…
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Ok. I could not get past chapter three. Yes, you might think it's unfair of me to review this book without finishing it, but I firmly believe in the old saying, "a sample is enough to describe the rest of the merchandise."
I thought this would be an interesting, OBJECTIVE book about a naval mystery a la Marie Celeste. Instead, it reads more like something written by Barney, from How I Met Your Mother (I don't watch the show, but hubby does; usually when I'm in the same room, more's the pity). The author - if one can call him so - seems to suffer from an acute case of postponed adolescence. You know the type. Somebody who thi ks he's funny when he's merely tiresome.
I Googled Alexander Butziger and, not surprisingly, found very little informatiion about him. It looks like sometime around 2005 he was in the process of graduating from the University of Hamburg. If he managed it it can only be because that famous institution has considerably lowered its once high standards.
I don' t know what prompted Mr. Butziger to write about the Ouran Medan. There isn't one aspect of the case that he takes seriously (an entire crew died in mysterious and seemingly horrific circumstances; har, har, isn't that roaring good fun). He is particularly catty about what he calls "the true believers," "the Fox Mulders," whom he ridicules over and over again (and I only got to chapter 3). Maybe because I always considered German humor an acquired taste, but Mr. B came across as silly, shallow and immature. Not to mention extremely prejudiced.
I'm glad I didn't pay for this (thank you, Unlimited). Now let's hope that Mr. Butziger comes to his senses and gives up trying to write books. If only for the sake of trees.
Alexander Butziger is at his best in his latest effort to de-bunk a ghost ship tale. The history was interesting and the research was thorough. I look forward to more books in the future.
Imagine the nemesis of a UFO conspiracy theorist frantically attempting to debunk any paranormal connections to this ship mystery. What you probably have in mind is the author of this book. Reading this I got the sense of an individual who hadn't slept for three days shuffling papers around in front of me, jabbing them with his finger and yelling "There's the proof!". In his defense he makes a good case for the legend of the Ourang Medan to be nothing but a high seas folk tale, but my guess is most of us already figured that was the case when we purchased this book.
The "twist", if you want to call it that, is when a theory is produced about the origin of this tale that is equally as conspiratorial.
I don't think this was the author's intent, but this book plays out like watching someone quickly lose touch with the real world over an obsession. He's the anti-Ahab hell bent on disproving this story. In that regard I would have given it 4 stars for entertainment value, but I don't believe that was the intent.
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