If the correspondent was still alive when the letter was sent, he would have been dead only a few hours.

Why is corruption happening so fast?

After confirming that there were no casualties, Smith decided to tow the strange "Man of Medan" to the nearest port.

Just as the crew was using ropes to connect the two ships, smoke suddenly came out of the Man of Medan, which seemed to be the location of cargo hold No. 4.

The fire spread quickly, and Smith immediately ordered the crew to return to the Silver Star and cut the ropes.

Within a few minutes, the "Man of Medan" heard a loud noise and sank into the sea with the secrets that no one on board knew.

Smith kept detailed records of the entire Man of Medan exploration.

But there were three points he still couldn't figure out.

First, none of the crew members had any external injuries, but judging from the stiff posture of their arms, it showed that they were just stretching their muscles until the last moment, and it could be clearly judged that they had experienced unimaginable pain.

Secondly, the skin decays much faster than normal, which is very unreasonable.

Third, in this case, the hull was intact, with no obvious signs of damage or similar.

But when he tried to investigate further, he found that no steamship named "Man of Medan" could be found in any official Dutch or Indonesian records at that time, which even made him doubt whether everything he encountered was actually

hallucination.

After submitting the information to the Albany Times, Smith disappeared into the sea of ​​​​people, and the Silver Star was sold and renamed, never to be seen again.

After the story of the "Man of Medan" was reported, it became a topic of conversation for many Americans after dinner.

Even the Merchant Marine Research Record published by the U.S. Coast Guard included this incident.

However, the more people know the story, the more likely it is that problems will be discovered.

It was discovered that an Indonesian newspaper developed three consecutive press releases recording the entire incident.

In this report, the story goes roughly the same way.

However, the whole story is not told by the captain of the "Silver Star", but by a German survivor of the Man of Medan.

After the accident of the "Cotton Blue Man", the German crew members fled to the Marshall Islands and were finally rescued by a local fleet. They were already dying when they were rescued.

Fortunately there was an Italian missionary on board the fleet who knew German.

The German sailor told the missionary everything he knew before his death.

According to the German crew, the Man of Medan's mission at the time was to transport large doses of sulfuric acid to Costa Rica.

However, the container malfunctioned midway, releasing poisonous gas and unknowingly killing all the crew members, except for him who escaped.

At the same time, he also mentioned in his last words that the entire operation and route of the "Man of Medan" were secret in order to avoid official eyes and ears everywhere.

The Italian missionary told his friend Silvio what he had heard.

He wrote the report. This statement seems logical and can explain why there is no "Man of Medan" in official records and other issues.

But there are still some untenable aspects. For example, sulfuric acid is difficult to evaporate, and only high concentrations of sulfuric acid will evaporate.

It is hard to imagine that all the crew members on such a large ship were poisoned at the same time, but no measures were taken until everyone lost their lives.

After that, many conspiracy theorists put forward their own ideas about the "Man of Medan", but they were basically just conjectures without evidence.

Gradually, many people began to agree with a view that the "Man of Medan" might be a fabricated story because someone discovered reports about the "Man of Medan".

As early as 1940, it had appeared in many British newspapers, including the Yorkshire Evening Post and the Times. Among them, there were mysterious deaths, no injuries, and the words "Man of Medan" and other words were prominently listed.

Other details are similar to the last report. The author of these reports in 1940 was the same Italian Silvio as the report published in Indonesian newspapers eight years later.

So many people believe that Silvio made up the story in 1940 and submitted it to the British media.

But the war had just broken out at that time, and the British people were more concerned about the war, and no one cared about the news about a strange ship.

But Silvio himself was very satisfied with the story he made up, so he submitted it to different media eight years later.
Chapter completed!