Bonus - Tamám Shud: The Mysterious Case of the Somerton Man

RedHanded

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True Crime

4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On 1 December 1948 a fully clothed man was found dead on Somerton beach, South Australia. The bizarre discoveries that followed - including a couple of genetic abnormalities, a rare book of Persian poetry and a mysterious code - led to this becoming one of the strangest and most obsessed over mysteries in history...

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0:00.0	I'm Hannah, I'm Sruti, and welcome to your second and final thanks for getting us into
0:16.0	silver position bonus episode as voted for by you yourselves.
0:22.0	Red handed listeners.
0:23.6	Congratulations to you and to us.
0:26.0	I guess did you see the person that tweeted us after Holly and Jessica who said that
0:29.8	I know what you're going to say.
0:30.8	He was like, oh, all you did was pat yourself on the back for five minutes and then give
0:34.0	us a case.
0:35.0	It's 18 years old.
0:36.0	I was like, people voted for it.
0:37.0	F*** her.
0:38.0	What do you want me to say?
0:39.0	I know.
0:40.0	I was really baffled by that.
0:41.0	I was like, thank you for listening.
0:42.0	Maybe you'll still hear.
0:43.0	I don't know.
0:44.0	Here's a f***ing even older case.
0:45.8	It's almost 80 years old.
0:47.3	So you're welcome.
0:48.3	Again, you know, you guys voted for these two cases.
0:51.3	I thought you did really well with the Holly and Jessica case, especially given that it was
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