Talk:Ourang Medan

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Fix

excuse me can somone please fix this page someone seems to be just ranting on about it— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.239.157.204 (talk • contribs) 06:42, 4 August 2007‎

Book

This book contains more information about the ship, and 'alledged' paranormal activites! Good read too, especially with the annotations of unknown origin.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.193.87.5 (talk • contribs) 09:44, 23 July 2009

Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council

The text from this is quoted (in English) in the German Wikipedia here.Alekksandr (talk) 23:23, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Debunked hoax

Estelle Hargraves at skittish library has debunked this 'mystery': http://skittishlibrary.co.uk/the-myth-of-the-ourang-medan-ghost-ship-1940/ . Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/3z5713/pretty_sure_ive_solved_the_mystery_of_the_ourang/?st=iqnpsxc6&sh=fb6e145e

Silvio Scherli has likely fabricated the February 1948 story in The Locomotive, or De locomotief: Samarangsch handels- en advertentie-blad, loosely based on true (and far less mysterious) events in November 1940.

Shouldn't someone put the above into the article? Wikipedia is not about prolonging hoaxes? Sjoerd22 (talk) 15:51, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

More sources

More sources which explain Silvio Scherli's early versions of the story, its evolution by him, and his defence of the story:

--Yodin^T 03:54, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]