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The Somerton Man: The Beach, The Code, And The Silence | The Last Known
In this episode of The Last Known, host Teresa Howarth dives deep into the Somerton Man case, one of Australia’s most enduring and chilling unsolved mysteries. On a crisp December morning in 1948, an unidentified man was found lying on the sands of Somerton Park in Adelaide, South Australia, with his legs crossed and a half-smoked cigarette resting on his collar. There were no signs of struggle, no identification, and no clear cause of death. Instead, police discovered a cryptic puzzle: a torn page from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám bearing the Persian phrase 'tamám shud,' meaning 'it is…
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