On the 1st of December 1948, the body of a man was located along the Sea Wall of Sementan

Beach, just near Adelaide in South Australia.

At first the case was very little media attention and the police thought it was a pretty straightforward

matter. A natural death on the beach, no big deal. Just had the idea the body and it would

all be over.

But as the weeks and months went on it soon became apparent that this case was anything

but straightforward and the further you dug into it the deeper it went.

To this day we don't know who he is, we don't know where he came from and we don't know

how we do it. Welcome to the mysterious case of the Sementan man.

On Wednesday 1st of December 1948 the body of a non-no man was found on Sementan Beach

in Adelaide, South Australia. The unknown man would come to be known as the Sementan man.

He remains one of Australia's most baffling mysteries. He was found lying on the

sand with his head propped up resting against the Sea Wall. It's a pretty uncomfortable

awkward position. So this day his identity and cause of death remain in mystery. Like all

mysterious and unsolved cases, there are many theories and a lot of wild speculation.

Because in this case there's a lot of information to fuel these theories and wild speculation.

The Sementan man was found with no identification. In fact even the labels from the clothes

he was wearing had been removed. To this day he remains unidentified. He was found with

a crumbled up piece of paper in his pocket containing two words, Taman should, which is

Persian meaning finished or ended. These words were later linked to a poetry book which

contained what many believed of their secret code. Along with the code there was two phone

numbers, that of a local bank and one of a local Adelaide woman who lived only about

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