[post_page_title]Has it happened before?[/post_page_title]
The Sam Ratulangi isn’t the first ship to wash up on the shore, and authorities could try to look at other cases to try to figure out what happened to it. One such case was a real ghost ship that was found on the coast of Japan in 2017. A wooden boat washed up on the beach and inside were eight skeletons.
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The boat had been drifting for a long time due to the state the bodies were in, but it isn’t the first time a ship has washed up on the shores of Japan. The eight bodies were believed to belong to North Korean men, something which is reported to happen often. Could we possibly learn from its story about what happened to the Sam Ratulangi?