Australia: The Mystery of the Somerton Man (TRIH ep 257)
1948 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History examines the Somerton Man, an enigmatic death discovered on Somerton Park Beach near Adelaide on 1 December 1948. Tom Holland outlines the baffling physical and forensic clues: a well-dressed unidentified man with labels surgically removed from his clothing, an unused rail ticket, American items, and signs suggesting poison. A tiny scrap of paper bearing the Persian words (Tammam Shud) ripped from a copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a book containing...
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