Well, speaking from experience, checking through about 1,000 family trees (not every autosomal DNA test has a usable family tree attached) is a very time consuming business. The number of letters still don’t match in line 1 and line 4, but I suspect that the decoder was quite confused and put an extra letter there.). I can make out a possible telephone number, “O”, or “Q” or maybe “G”, 2583. )” after 11:15 am: Buys a 7d bus ticket on a bus that departed at 11:15 a.m. from the south side of. [11][13] A couple who saw him at around 7 pm noted that they saw him extend his right arm to its fullest extent and then drop it limply. On it was printed Tamam Shud, or “finished” in Persian. Just a thought. That would explain the x over the o aswell, you could read that line AOPXOT. U 0.19 So all’s well that ends well for the lads at least. Also known as The Tamam Shud case, it is Australia's most enduring cold case. to jenn can be attributed to a greeting (on the covers they usually write gift inscriptions) and a personal short love nickname from jestyn (jestyn is a copy of Boxall and she could call herself that to patients). I just ran across this case and had a look at the mysterious note. Yes, it is clear that the “code” was present as indentations in the endpages or back cover of the book. 1948: On Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia, a man’s body was found. Teacher and journalist. Congratulations for your amazing work. “Tamam Shud” is found in the fob pocket of the Mystery man’s pants. Just in case that throws any light on what you’re looking at. But this is all to be taken with a grain of salt. I would like to point out some matters that suggest that the case isn’t a simple murder or suicide, but seems to have some security dimension. Its a joke that they were so inept that they couldn’t even find sufficient to come up with a common blood grouping. Jazz, there has been a lot of research re: number 90a Moseley Street, and much of it hasn’t been posted. though this doesn’t take into account SM’s original destination of Henley Beach. No descriptions of these two men were given (a bit unusual) but it appears from other documents that John senior lived in Adelaide, and John junior was a grazier of Tumby Bay/Verran. Wanted To Buy It, Minutes Passed And Nobody Entered The Place. Obscure literature with hidden meanings? Or, rather, the “cipher” for those of you sensitive to the spelling of the word. In October of 1948, (OCTOBER 1948) he was exhumed: I tried to link but couldn’t post…Google the name and you will find the articles on TROVE. Some of the persons involved in the original police investigation in 1948-9, and others, were interviewed on camera. The first of the two popular theories involving the Somerton Man is that he killed himself after being rejected by the nurse. However, she also reported that, at some time in late 1948, an unidentified man had attempted to visit her and asked a next door neighbour about her. as I understand it, the possibility of the cipher being a simple mono-alphabetic substitution cipher was ruled out because the letter frequency conforms well with the frequency of first letters of English words. MLIAOI I note that myxedema can often cause heart arrhythmias and fainting, and can cause heart failure. Jestyn lived at 90a Moseley Street which is 1,600 feet (480 metres) from Douglas Nunn’s house at 15 Esplanade, Somerton Park. This makes me wonder if there was another person with the Solomons Man when he died? Lucy and he appear to have had 6 children together all originally named Fox. The three Tibor Kaldors; Brothers? I don’t think I can post them but, if they’re ok…could you?). On the inside back cover, detectives were able to read through indentations left from previous handwriting – a local telephone number, another unidentified number, and text that resembled an encrypted message. There are just too many coincidences and connections to ignore and an aggravating number… Ella Mary Elizabeth Nunn nee Schrade. Mangnoson was born in Adelaide on 4 May 1914 and served as a Private in the Australian Army from 11 June 1941 until his discharge on 7 February 1945. Federated Ma-lay States. What this means is that the first and third lines are related to each other, and the second and fourth lines are related to each other. To date, the identity of the mystery man remains unknown, as does the meaning, if any, of the cipher. Learning the code could be flirting with a patient in treatment, but threw away the book because he thought it was too hard for her to do. Nick: I hope we might encourage the old team to renew it’s interest in SM as a likely cipher mystery in the fitting formative context of your blog….Some people might be inclined to the view that some members of our original Mangnoson family may not have been the brightest stars in the night sky; but they could well be dead wrong in my reconning. I don’t have to do this everyone as another option would be just to burn them. On the back was a cipher, pictured right. [87] In May 2009, Abbott consulted with dental experts who concluded that the Somerton Man had hypodontia (a rare genetic disorder) of both lateral incisors, a feature present in only 2% of the general population. Pretty simple. With Morgen and Abend, like Psy noted, the EN were removed, and vowels were misplaced. The substitution of “n” for “m” could be a clue to the reasoning behind the cipher. ^^^ Also, methyl phosphonic acid/sarin gas would cause the arm-flopping symptom the man displayed, AND the fact that the toxin breaks down/leaves the body quickly explains why no evidence of poison was found in his system. This reads, “SAMPLES EMPTIED “. However, in October 2011, Attorney-General John Rau refused permission to exhume the body, stating: "There needs to be public interest reasons that go well beyond public curiosity or broad scientific interest." Any passing pen-and-paper code-breakers (particularly the hairier ones, naming no names *cough* Tony Gaffney) would immediately note a number of stand-out features: I suspect that these largely rule out any sophisticated cipher system: so what we are looking at here is probably a simple monoalphabetic cipher, and one probably executed by a fairly inept code-maker (i.e. I thought of this case when I recently came across mention of the O.J. the deleted line has clearly come out wrong, and he tries to reconfigure it later below. But when you combine that one uncertainty with all the other uncertainties in this whole cold case, you end up with a curious thing indeed. Looks like Gordon Cramer really does have an Agenda! There but for the Grace &C.. FWIW, something I read today (slow day at work) quite explicitly talked about “Doctor or Chemist…..in car outside THEIR house” (that is, while many things talk about “Outside the pier hotel”, this was more directly saying “this wasn’t some random parked at the pub, it was someone who had parked at home” (which might coincidentally be the house either side of the pier hotel or something). [94][95] The exhumation was carried out on 19 May 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case. Hi new to this mystery and beyond fascinated with it. One good page of responsible links is here: Are lead and arsenic related somehow? Too much of a coincidence perhaps? I’ve also got lots of these silk style cigarette badges. A = M [110] Lying next to him was his unconscious father, Keith Waldemar Mangnoson. He was described as a farmer at Verran. Australian-European black/thrash metal band, Episode 9 of the second series of the dystopian science fiction drama, This page was last edited on 19 May 2021, at 17:36. James H: I’ve discussed this a number of times on this blog, e.g. I believe the key to this sub. Misca: given that we have (or appear to have) a long sequence of letters written by her from this period, it seems likely to me that much of what happened in her final two years will emerge before too long. I think it says something like – This means that five of the letters in the decoded string exactly match the letters in line 1. Mitochondrial DNA will be very useful in unraveling the identity of SM but it won’t be as easy as unraveling the autosomal DNA data. Misca: didn’t reach the dashboard here, so I presume it was incorrectly tagged as spam, sorry ’bout that. She appeared as if she was about to faint. I have calculated the letter frequencies of the first letter of surnames in the Glenelg 1950 Commonwealth electoral roll. Not being familiar with the game myself, I assume that it must be played in an intellectually stimulating mode much like other board games such as drafts and Chinese chequers, so I get the general idea….Is the four line Rubaiyet code a quad game meta stefanographic stratagem compiled perhaps during a long tedious train trip to while the time away by a prodigal son, returning home after a long absence, whereupon to hopefully join in celebrations for his parent’s golden wedding anniversary say. d) There is insecurity among researchers whether the first written character in lines 1 and 2 is a W or an M. The letter’s ambiguity can be seen as an insecurity on part of the writer about whether he had decoded the character correctly. 🙂 ), Psyringe: if you think this looks even remotely like spam, you obviously don’t run your own WordPress blog. Has any thought been given to the possible connection between the cipher and the Italian alphabet? The Bible Code). Share with: Link: Copy link. #34 Bowl did I Adjurn My Lip So I surmise that Scandinavians or Celts would be much more likely to accept a naturopathic brew containing foxglove (which is very bitter – nastily bitter IMHO). Possibly, all the versions are on-line. John Sanders: someone certainly made some statements to the police, but whether or not it was the person you seem to think it was is another matter. [44] In 1978, following a request from ABC-TV journalist Stuart Littlemore, Department of Defence cryptographers analysed the handwritten text. You’re the second person I have contacted today. I (TTM) to satan and my soul to God. Feltus said he was still contacted by people in Europe who believed the man was a missing relative but did not believe an exhumation and finding the man's family grouping would provide answers to relatives, as "during that period so many war criminals changed their names and came to different countries. Thank you. Not sure if this makes sense, but pretty creepy huh? I read about this cas for the first timee today and as a little code cracker i got interested. It has the words “Tamam Shud” missing from the end. The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. I’ll get back to you in the near future. These three letters look different from all the others – as if the writer had put them down hastily. Byron: Would you think it is possible that Bob Cowans efforts to identify the poison in SM’s system, would degrade the submitted blood, urine and tissue samples to the extent that they would be of no use to police in their efforts to identify their john doe. Following a public appeal by police, the book from which the page had been torn was located. Derek did say that a connection to the Pleasants family in Virginia was apparent. a) All three words specify a time. And what if I tell you that Nunn was married to an American and had lived in the USA for several years in the 1930s. “”Adelaide News” claim code DBMGPOT etc comes from page 270 of “Salaman and Absal” page 117 verse 21 3rd line verse 45 First Edition and 47 & 49 Second Edition.”. Curious to know if this has been considered by anyone else. He wasn’t a champion of the simple codes that got agents into trouble – like the Poem Code – so I got to thinking about the SM code on the back of the book – and the theory of algebraic equations. “Bowl, I Adjurn My Lip” #34 Newbie. It was torn from a book of Persian poetry — the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyáma. The biggest problem with this search is that the geographic scale is not known; street, suburb, town, city, state, or even overseas? Has Derek Abbott been informed? Then a search of the shipping records and military records. It’s interesting that you note the missing letters: 7 out of the nine missing ciphertext letters are at the end of the alphabet, while ciphertext letters A and B are fairly frequent. [3] International circulation of a photograph of the man and details of his fingerprints yielded no positive identification. When roses grow old, all buds and blossoms depart. Has anyone ever had any luck with the code? [5], In recent years, new evidence has emerged, including an old identification card possibly identifying the Somerton Man as one H. C. Reynolds,[6] and an ongoing DNA analysis of hair roots found on the plaster bust. (formerly Alison Verco, of Adelaide). Between 11:00 a.m. and 11:15 a.m: Checks a brown suitcase into the train station cloak room. The Tuesday ? Some of the letters are dated 1948. The man's death also coincided with a reorganisation of Australian security agencies, which would culminate the following year with the founding of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). He certainly had a dad named Alfred and with the whole family being interred either in Loxton or Renmark, the only possible exception being Les Wytkin’s wife Edith. If you read from right to left, as Persian is read, the repeated a and m correspond with the repeated letters in the first line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case http://ciphermysteries. USIIDBACCUL This of course is open to conjecture as Bob thought that he first saw the book about the time of the airshow earlier in November before SMs body was found on 1 December. Maybe not Curtis, you’re assuming that nobody else, anywhere, has an interest, and a little more information. Perhaps she sent him a close-up of some letters? MLIOAIAQC My life is all but over and I am quite content “My Love, I am only,….” (struck out) and later “My Love, I am but…”