Episode 23-Tamam Shud/Somerton Man
On the first morning of December 1948, a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. He had no wallet, no ID, and every label had been cut from his clothes. In a hidden pocket, police discovered a torn scrap of paper with two haunting words: Tamám Shud — “It is ended.”
What followed is one of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century.
In this episode of The Midnight Mystery Archive, we unravel the strange and chilling threads of the Somerton Man case: a rare book with a missing page, a cryptic code that’s never been cracked, a woman with possible ties to espionage, and a body exhumed more than 70 years later in search of a name.
Was he a Cold War spy? A scorned lover? Or someone determined to vanish so thoroughly, even death left no clues?
This is the story of a riddle in human form — and a case that asks: can a mystery be truly solved if the story behind it stays buried?
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