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Nov 4, 2026
Steve StocktonHOST
While the bloop might be solved on paper, anyone who has looked out at a dark open ocean and wondered what lies beneath the waves, the sound remains a haunting what if.
Steve StocktonHOST
Next up, the mystery of the SS Ourang Medan.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now it's often called the maritime counterpart to the Dyatlov Pass.
Steve StocktonHOST
It's a story so horrific and chemically complex that it straddles the line between a tragic maritime accident and a high-stakes Cold War cover-up.
Steve StocktonHOST
Whether the ship actually existed or was a ghost created by the stresses of post-World War II smuggling, the legend of the Ourang Medan remains one of the most chilling tales of the high seas.
Steve StocktonHOST
The story begins in June 1947, although some sources cite 1948.
Steve StocktonHOST
Two American vessels, the City of Portsmouth and the Silver Star, were navigating the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest and most treacherous shipping lanes, when they picked up a series of frantic Morse code signals.
Steve StocktonHOST
There was a flurry of indecipherable dots and dashes, followed by one final terrifying sentence, I die.
Yves PreisslerGUEST
outside of Jakarta? Like there's desk research, right? I have not gone to all the cities.
Yves PreisslerGUEST
But we've written about Surabaya, Badung, Medan, Semarang, Yogyakarta, and millions and millions of people living there.
Yves PreisslerGUEST
So I see it quite similar to Jakarta.
Yves PreisslerGUEST
It might not be the international hub, but all of these cities have airports.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
That's what has made America to fall.
BonnieHOST
Now, we can talk, it's happening in, you can think that it's very far, now it's in Medan already.
BonnieHOST
Right here.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
We had a sister here who used to go and use that to
Stephen ManheimerGUEST
And having arranged with the supplier to take the material by what they call an LST, which is a second war landing device, which had a front that went right on the beach.
Stephen ManheimerGUEST
and to load on 10 tons of patchouli on the beach near Sumatra, near Medan, and bring it over to Singapore to protect that shipment.
Stephen ManheimerGUEST
I mean, that was...
Stephen ManheimerGUEST
Oh, my God, that's incredible.
AmirGUEST
And when I say became Muslim, our last name is Tobing, so I'm half Indonesian, half Dutch.
AmirGUEST
So my father's from North Sumatra, an area called Darudung, which we would normally say is just like Northern Sumatra, Medan area.
AmirGUEST
And the last name Tobin usually is a Christian name, so when people meet me and they're like, oh, you have the last name Tobin, but you're Muslim, I give credit, of course, by Allah guiding my grandfather, if you will, and then my father holding on to that, especially in a very dominated Christian area.
AmirGUEST
And then he migrated to America.
Steve StocktonHOST
While the bloop might be solved on paper, anyone who has looked out at a dark open ocean and wondered what lies beneath the waves, the sound remains a haunting what-if.
Steve StocktonHOST
Next up, the mystery of the SS Orang Medan.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, it's often called the maritime counterpart to the Dyatlov Pass.
Steve StocktonHOST
It's a story so horrific and chemically complex that it straddles the line between a tragic maritime accident and a high-stakes Cold War cover-up.
Steve StocktonHOST
Whether the ship actually existed or was a ghost created by the stresses of post-World War II smuggling, the legend of the Orang Medan remains one of the most chilling tales of the high seas.
Steve StocktonHOST
The story begins in June 1947, although some sources cite 1948.
Steve StocktonHOST
Two American vessels, the city of Portsmouth and the Silver Star, were navigating the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest and most treacherous shipping lanes, when they picked up a series of frantic Morse code signals.
Steve StocktonHOST
There was a flurry of indecipherable dots and dashes, followed by one final terrifying sentence, I die.
Ashley Kalagian BluntHOST
So could you tell us the premise of your novel, But Won't I Miss Me?
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
So the novel takes place between an alternate universe, Sydney and Medan in Indonesia.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
And it's very close to our reality, but a little removed.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
And there are two main things that are different.
Kong HeeHOST
So I joined them in their church planting efforts there.
Kong HeeHOST
Now, we flew to Medan And drove six hours southwest to Lawe Sigala, more than 500 meters above sea level.
Kong HeeHOST
When we finally crossed Aceh, my heart was overwhelmed.
Kong HeeHOST
Because for more than 20 years, Son and I have prayed for an opportunity like this, and now I was actually standing there just at the gateway, the entrance to the Aceh province.
6 MINS LATER
Kong HeeHOST
[audience laughing] How happy he was, you know? He'd never been up above the clouds before.
Kong HeeHOST
So going there, I kept thinking How many people live in places like this? Just waiting for someone like you and I to come and share with them that Jesus loves them.
Kong HeeHOST
It took us 12 hours in the van to get back to Medan City.
Kong HeeHOST
You could see the journey is very convoluted because it's a mountain range.
Gemma WhelanHOST
Until she reaches the old temple ruins, the place where she can escape the gossip and the violence and dance in peace.
Gemma WhelanHOST
It's a few months later, and Margarita has moved with her husband and children to Medan, a rapidly ballooning tobacco town in northeastern Sumatra.
Gemma WhelanHOST
MacLeod is now garrison commander, but what might have been a fresh start has brought tragedy.
Gemma WhelanHOST
In the neoclassical colonial building that is now the family home, Margarita sits in an upstairs bedroom beside a cot.
speaker_1NARRATOR
But on 26 September 1997, a paralysing panic took hold in Garuda's headquarters.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Garuda flight GA152, an Airbus A300, carrying 234 passengers and crew, was cleared to land at Polonia International Airport in Medan.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Just minutes away from landing, a wrong instruction from air traffic controllers caused the plane to crash.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Go,
DwiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They all died.
DwiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was shocked.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Dwi's career as a stewardess with Garuda had taken off just three years before the crash in Medan.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Some were pregnant.
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