The Mystery of the Ss Ourang Medan

In 1947 in the Straits of Malacca near Indonesia An old Dutch freighter the SS Ourang Medan Sent a message out that the whole crew was dead With the last message from the operator being, “I die” An all-out effort was made to find the ship And when it was found no-one responded from aboard They were able to get on board by rope What they found deepened the mystery Because the whole crew were indeed dead And in death they all had a look of terror on their faces Suddenly smoke was seen from the engine room The rescue crew had to quickly leave the ship And it blew up sinking quickly beneath the waves Taking the mystery of what had happened with it Was it ghosts or aliens that killed them all? Or was it a cover up of transporting nerve gas No records about whether this was true are available The dead crew and the destroyed ship still remains a mystery. © Paul Warren Poetry