Chilling last SOS from sailors ‘frozen in fear’

A spooky SOS call from a ship where the entire crew was found dead and “frozen in fear” has been revealed in a chilling secret memo as the maritime mystery continues to baffle the world.

In 1959 the entire crew of the SS Ourang Medan and its captain were found strewn around the ship with expressions of “convulsive horror” but no obvious injuries that could have killed them.

Before investigations could determine what had happened, a fire broke out and the vessel sank without trace.

A secret CIA memo detailed the eerie “frenzied” SOS call from on board. “All officers, including captain dead,” the call said. A series of indecipherable dots and dashes followed, and then clearly: “I die”.

The CIA had hoped the memo would solve a mystery. The ship was in the Strait of Malacca, where other vessels have disappeared and Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished in 2014.