The Somerton Man Mystery

The Somerton Man case proves that sometimes the most disturbing mysteries are the ones hiding

in plain sight. December 1948, a perfectly dressed man was found dead on an Australian

beach. No identification, no labels on his clothes, all tags removed.

Police discovered a secret pocket in his pants containing a scrap of paper with two words:

Tamam Shud, meaning finished in Persian. It was torn from an extremely rare

book of poetry. When they found the actual book, it contained a phone number and an indecipherable

code that cryptographers still cannot crack today. His dental records matched no one.

His fingerprints led nowhere. DNA testing decades later revealed he likely had a rare