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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: The Baffling Case of the Body On Somerton Beach

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Since his corpse was found in 1948, wearing a nice suit in summer on an Australian beach, an unidentified man has refused to fade into obscurity, gripping the imagination of sleuths around the world. Learn all about the mystery in this classic episode.

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.1

Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's Select, I chose our 2017 episode about the

0:37.0

man on Somerton Beach, one of the most interesting unsolved mysteries we've ever encountered.

0:43.0

Despite lead after lead, it remains unsolved today and seemingly will remain that way forever.

0:49.5

And after listening to this one, if you liked it a lot, you can go further down the rabbit hole.

0:53.6

There's plenty more stuff on it all over the web and there have even been some updates since we recorded.

0:59.1

So prepare to be baffled and engrossed.

1:07.4

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:11.1

Hey and welcome to The Podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and today is a very

1:22.6

special day. We have a special guest producer, Matt.

1:26.2

Been a while. It has been a while, man. It's been since like 2014 or something.

1:32.2

Yeah, Matt is one half of stuff they don't want you to know.

1:35.1

One third. Oh yeah, it's right, there's three of them.

1:37.4

Yeah, and we are sort of awkwardly recording two of the same shows they've done.

1:42.7

Yeah. So Matt's just sitting there with his arms crossed, shaking his head back and forth.

1:47.8

So we're trying not to look at him. How you doing?

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