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This episode contains discussions of murder, suicide, and detailed descriptions of autopsy

findings. If these aren't things you want to hear about, this may be a good episode to skip.

Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.

Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.

I am one of those people. My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. The

The Everyone secretly, or in the creepy communities case, not so secretly, loves an unsolved mystery. In Australia,

one of the most popular and baffling mysteries is the unsolved death of an unidentified man at

Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia, which occurred in 1948. To this day, the man's

identity and the cause of his death remain cloaked in mystery.

The only clues he left behind were a suitcase full of clothing and a tiny scrap of paper

with the words Tamamshud tucked into a tiny pocket of his trousers.

The words are Persian for finished or ended, and they come from a poem written by an

11th century Persian philosopher. This case has baffled investigators for 71 years, and there are

many theories as to who the man was and what may have occurred to cause his death. In this episode,

I hope to summarize the details of

the Tamam Shud case and discuss several of the most prevalent theories. Before we get into those

details, let me give you some historical context. World War II ended in September of 1945.

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