Although there are many reports of supernatural occurrences in the maritime world, we know very little about them. As in the distant past, many ships sail around the world using the great ocean as their route. There are many obstacles and natural calamities that all these ships pass between their destination and destination.
History bears witness that these ships have faced sometimes unbelievable events. In this article, we will focus on these mysterious events that have taken place since the distant past until now, related to these ships that travel around the world taking the ocean as their home.
All the passengers were found dead with their eyes open in terror – aceh.tribunnews.com
The story of the Orang Medan ship can be mentioned as one of the most mysterious events recorded in naval history. A mysterious incident that happened while this container ship was traveling near Indonesia along the Malacca Straits in 1947 has become an unsolved mystery in the maritime world.
"Medan" was the name of the largest city in Sumatra, Indonesia, and the ship was named Orang Medan, giving the name "Man of Medan".
The death of sailors on board the Orang Medan
According to the reports, this incident was considered to have happened in one of the three years of 1940, 1947, 1948, but it was later accepted that the year was 1947 and that it happened on a day in June. A distress call from the ship, which was sailing from a small, unnamed port in China to Costa Rica with a large container of chemicals, was intercepted by a nearby Portuguese ship, the Silver Star.
That call ” …..we are floating, I think everyone is dead including the captain. Most likely all the crew are dead…..I'm dying too” and other unrecognizable signs were found in the mine, so the Silver Star began to search for the Orang Medan ship following those signs.
Eyes wide open and very scared
After finding the Orang Medan ship, all its occupants were found dead without any injuries or bleeding, and all of them were seen with their eyes open and very frightened. In addition, it was possible to recognize that they had engaged in an effort to prevent some disaster with their own hands and it was found that there was no damage to the ship from outside or inside.
Although the cause of this mysterious incident that has happened to the ship has not been solved till now, it is considered that this accident may have happened due to the chemical substances that the ship was transporting. One of the current beliefs is that potassium cyanide and nitroglycerin may have been present among the chemical substances that the ship was carrying and due to the mixing of sea water, poisonous gases may have been released and the deaths of all those traveling on the ship may have occurred.
Another opinion is that this accident may have happened due to a fault in the ship's boiler due to inhalation of carbon monoxide gas. However, what happened to the Orang Medan ship has become an unsolved mystery until now, and no one was able to solve it until the ship exploded and sank to the seabed.
The Mary Celeste where everyone disappeared – guilfordvoyager.com
The Mary Celesti, where everyone is missing
Another mysterious event that took place in the maritime world is connected with the ship Mary Celesti, which started its journey from New York, United States of America on November 7, 1872.
The ship was carrying containers of alcohol and one evening in December 1872, in the waters between the Azores and Portugal, it was spotted by another ship, the De Grazia, which was crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Morehouse, the captain of the De Grazia, identified it as the Mary Celesti, which had launched from New York harbor a few days earlier under Captain Briggs. Capt. Morehouse sailed alongside the Mary Celesti as it was due to sail to Genoa, Italy to end its voyage and was detected to be in some distress.
That there is no one in the ship
After a rescue party from the De Grazia was directed to the Mary Celesti, it was observed that there was no one on board, and that the cargo and food that had been collected by the sailors were in no danger. The ship's lifeboat and logbook, which contained 1701 barrels of alcohol without any loss, were missing.
What happened to the Mary Celeste? Were they kidnapped by some people? What happened to Captain Briggs and his family as well as the crew? What happened to them in a situation where there was no sign of a storm or any other danger? All of that remains a mystery until now and the mystery of the Mary Celeste has also been included among the mysterious maritime events.
British-owned Octavius – www.grunge.com
The ship Octavius, which suddenly disappeared
In the year 1761, the Octavius, a British ship, had returned to Britain after transporting goods to China. It is said that there were 28 crew members along with the captain and his family.
Distracted from the warm weather, the ship veered north-west along an icy course, and suddenly disappeared without giving any signal to nearby ships. The Octavius was never heard from again, and no one ever found out what happened to him.
On October 11, 1775, sixteen years after the disappearance of the Octavius, the Herald, traveling the same route, sighted a wreck near Greenland. When the crew of the Herald boarded the discovered ship to investigate further, they were horrified by the sight.
Captain's body petrified by cold – www.quora.com
The ship was the Octavius, and everyone on board had died, their bodies petrified by the extreme cold. The captain's body was in a chair near his desk, and the ship's logbook was spread out on the desk, and he was dead in the pose of writing something with his pen.
Bodies petrified by extreme cold
The crew of the Herald ship were horrified by this sight and they tried to take away the Octavius's log book, but it is reported that they were only able to get the first and last two pages as it was frozen in stone. The last entry in the log was dated November 11, 1762, and the ship is thought to have been missing in the Arctic Ocean for years.
The fate of the crew of the Octavius, which lost its course in bitterly cold weather, remains unclear and has become one of the most unsolved naval mysteries.
Throughout naval history, information is reported about ships that are being talked about due to such mysterious events, and no one has yet confirmed what happened to them. It is thus clear to us that despite the seemingly amazing and unbelievable events, the stories are filled with horror, curiosity and horror.
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