The Body on Somerton Beach – Unsolved Mysterie

The Body on Somerton Beach In December 1948, they found a man’s body on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. He was wearing a nice suit with shiny shoes, and his head was leaning against a wall. The police thought he might have died from a heart problem or maybe from poison, but they didn’t find any poison in his body during the examination.

They couldn’t find any wallet or ID on the man, and the tags on his clothes were cut off. His fingerprints couldn’t be identified either. They even put his picture in the newspapers, but nobody recognized him. Four months later, detectives discovered a secret pocket sewn inside his pants.

In it was a rolled-up piece of paper from a rare book called the Rubáiyát. On the paper were the words “Tamám Shud,” meaning “it has ended.” Despite months of searching for the exact book, authorities couldn’t figure out who he was. They eventually buried him without knowing his identity, but they made a bust of his face and preserved him with embalming.

Eight months later, a man went to the police station. He said that right after they found the body, he found a Rubáiyát book in his car parked near Somerton Beach. He didn’t think much about it until he read about the search in a newspaper. When he checked, the book had a torn page that matched the paper found in the Somerton Man’s pants. Inside the book, there was a phone number and a strange code of some kind.



The phone number led the police to a woman named Jessica Thompson who lived nearby. When they interviewed her, she acted strangely and nearly fainted when shown the bust of the Somerton Man. She insisted she didn’t know him, but she admitted selling the Rubáiyát book to a man named Alfred Boxall. Strangely, Alfred Boxall was alive and still had his copy of the Rubáiyát. The strange code found in the book was also unhelpful and remains unsolved to this day.

The man found on Somerton Beach still hasn’t been identified.