Thursday, April 25, 2013

DEAD MAN FOUND WITH NOTHING BUT A TORN PAGE WITH AN ENCRYPTED CODE.









On December 1st, 1948, the body of a man was discovered in Somerton Beast in Australia. He was carrying nothing but a train ticket for later that evening.

At first, authorities thought he was poisoned because there was no trace of any injury in his body, but it turned out he was completely clean of any toxins or foreign agents in his body.

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He was very well dressed, but all the clothes he was wearing had the tag cut off, so authorities could not tell where they were from. Some days later, there was a suitcase found in the train station where he was supposed to go which was linked to the man because it also had the tag removed. But there was nothing in that suitcase that could prove his identity.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/SomertonManSuitcase.jpgAfter examining every inch of his clothing, detectives found a secret pocket on his pants that contained an encrypted message that said the words “Taman Shud”. This page matched a poem book called Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

It was found later in the car of another man who came upfront with the evidence.
“I had nothing to do with the murder of this man, the book just appeared in the back seat of my car” said the man who found the book.

Even now, after 60 years this mystery remains unsolved.









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