One of the country’s most curious cold cases will take a major step forward when authorities exhume the corpse of a body that has puzzled police for 70 years.
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The Tamam Shud Enigma
Investigators were perplexed when they found what appeared to be a secret message stuffed in his trouser pocket. The words
Tamam Shud were printed on a rolled-up scrap of paper, found deep in the unidentified man s pocket. Consulting library experts, police found that the mysterious scrap had been torn from the last page of a rare copy of
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Eerily,
Tamam Shud is a phrase meaning the end or finished , and is found at the end of
The Rubaiyat.
Was this cryptic note a final message of doom for the unknown man?
Published April 24, 2021
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One of Australia’s biggest mysteries
The Somerton Man is going to be reopened and as
Kris Jenner famously said, “this is a case for the FBI.”
In 1948, a couple of locals found a man lying in the sand on Adelaide’s Somerton Beach. The man looked like he was asleep, but he was actually dead. Upon closer inspection, a tiny rolled up scrap of paper was found in a small pocket in his pants. The scrap of paper was torn from a rare edition of a book of poetry called the