Man Found Dead on Beach in 1948, Hidden Pocket Held Code No One Could Crack for 70 Years…

On the morning of December 1, 1948, a well-dressed man was found dead against a seawall on a beach in Adelaide, Australia. He had no wallet, no ID, and every single label had been carefully cut out of his clothes. The poison that killed him defeated the entire South Australian forensic establishment, and six months later a pathologist found a tiny rolled scrap of paper sewn into a hidden pocket of his trousers, printed with two words in Persian script. That scrap led to a torn poetry book, an uncrackable pencilled code, a terrified nurse who fainted at the sight of his face, and a mystery that stayed unsolved for over seventy years. Who was he really? What did the code in the back of the book say? And why did it take a hair caught in a plaster bust to finally give him a name? Watch the full story to find out.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Man

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