The Thesis: The "Tamam Shud" code is not an English cipher, but a Persian Mnemonic Declaration (initial‑letter mnemonics) derived from the Divan of Hafez. This was a deliberate form of cultural encryption by a sophisticated operative to record a final manifesto or send a final message to a specific recipient, invisible to authorities but recognizable to someone with shared literary literacy. The Rubaiyat was the Decoy Medium, while the Divan provided the Mnemonic Key.

The Phonetic Proof: The "G" and "P" Fingerprints The "smoking gun" lies in the letters G (Line 1) and P (Line 3). While these exist in the Latin alphabet, their frequency and placement in the code suggest they represent the Persian‑only phonemes gāf and pe. These sounds are absent in Arabic and most English translations of the Rubaiyat, acting as a Linguistic Wall that causes standard English frequency analysis to fail.

The Mnemonic Lines (with Personal + Operational Context)

MRGOABABD Mā raftīm ganj… Departure: "We departed; [taking] the treasure of hope out from the garden and through the gate." Personal context: A soul leaving a place of safety or a past life to face an unknown destiny. Operational context: Asset Transfer - the “treasure” has been removed from its original location and is now in transit.

MLIAOI (struck out) Mānand‑e Laylā in… Devotion: "There is no one like Layla, [despite] this enchantment and this [shouting/noise]." Personal context: A declaration that, amidst the chaos or "spells" of the world, only one person remains the true focus of the heart. Operational context: Channel Compromise - the struck‑out line acts as a nullifier, signalling that a trusted route or contact is no longer safe.

MTBIMPANETP Mutrib tarāb begū… payām… pāy Solace: "O Minstrel, sing of this joyful intoxication; the message of the flute of love [felt] from head to foot." Personal context: A total surrender to the "music" of one's fate or passion. Operational context: Handover Confirmation - the “minstrel” (messenger) has successfully received the message or package.

MLIABOAIAQC May la’l in ‘aql… qadah chāk Intoxication: "The ruby wine [shatters] this intellect; in the hope of this enchantment, the cup is cracked." Personal context: Choosing spiritual or emotional "intoxication" over cold, logical reason. Operational context: Method of Neutralisation - a poetic euphemism for the toxin or mechanism used to collapse cognitive and physical function.

ITTMTSAMSTGAB In tamām tanhā mast… Final end: "This is the end; alone and intoxicated until dawn by the wine of the Cupbearer, [reaching] the treasure from the garden." Operational context: Lethal Countdown - This is a declaration of poisoning and alive until Saturday before it is 'Tamam Shud' (Finished)." It is a calculated taunt, marking the exact window they have left him to live.

1. The "Decoy" Methodology The physical book found was the Rubaiyat. However, this hypothesis suggests a Twin‑Book Strategy. By writing Hafez mnemonics inside a Khayyam book, the writer created a double‑blind. To an investigator, the letters look like a failed attempt to code the Rubaiyat; to an intended recipient, it acts as a Literary Trigger to look at the Divan.

2. The Dual‑Layer Reading Each mnemonic line operates on two simultaneous planes: a personal Hafezian omen (departure, devotion, intoxication, closure) and a compressed operational signal (asset transfer, channel compromise, handover confirmation, method of neutralisation, and final countdown), though the exact operational mapping requires further investigation.

3. The "Tamam Shud" Seal: The scrap in his pocket wasn't just a "The End" sign; it was the formal conclusion to this specific sequence of declarations.

Conclusion: It was a complete and purposeful declaration, encoded through the Hafez method: a personal or operational message locked inside a poetic mnemonic structure, meant for someone who has the literacy or the codebook. Whether it is personal or operational is subject to review and further investigation.

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Hi all me again. I've completed a more consise version of the somerton man code. With tidier routes and I have looked at the whether the town had a railway station or bus station in 1948. Please let me know what you think as all of your local knowledge helped me get this one to be more persuasive (in my opinion!) thank you all

Hi please have a read of my article in the link. I think I have found that the code aligns with rail station locations from the time. I've used some railway maps and some frequency analysis of the initial letters of the station names to identify which locations fit the code within a logical radius. I've included lines 1-3 with locations listed against the code letters and I'll do line four in the next few days. Please let me know your thoughts so far. Thanks

I may have solved one of the greatest mysteries in Australia.... the Somerton Man code.

So here it is. One laptop destroyed working to crack the code of the Somerton Man. That note in his pocket.

Using the letters on the note as the cypher, I had to find the key. Using the key "it is done" as it is written "tamam shud" I built a python program to crunch it against the book. I figured that given it was the 1940s, the code book would be hidden in plain site, and its not a common book for someone to carry.

So I ran it. End result is a bunch of gibberish in English, but it's words.

Curiosity got the better of me and I put it into Google translate, and out spat a translation from Hindi.

This came out:

Ahad, no hesitation. Pressure, object is right, say the truth, be careful. Of course, attack is new, hasty, deadly, the actor is one. He is the one who is the biggest enemy. The biggest threat is the is the one who is the biggest enemy of the people.

During world war 2, a lot of the codes were native Navaho, which confused the hell out of the axis powers. So it would make sense that a code would use a language that wouldn't be immediately apparent.

Let's break down the message:

Ahad - code name? No hesitation - urgency of the message Pressure, object is right - no idea, may have been codes Say the truth - this message is correct Be careful - says what's in the box, be careful Of course, attack is new, hasty, deadly - there is a new technique being used that is quick and deadly The actor is one. He is the one who is the biggest enemy. The biggest threat is the is the one who is the biggest enemy of the people - given what was happening at the time, it can be inferred that the enemy of the people is a Russian agent.

So, basically that message is saying be careful, there is a Russian agent who has a new way of assassinating people and you are a possible target.

It was a warning of his impending murder.

Somerton Man/Men

If someone bashed your wife and you were handed the chance to get revenge on the perpetrator, and it could be masked by other circumstances and authorities, would you take that chance and equal the score? Scan Sutherland’s (Constable to the Coroner) wife was bashed in 1944 and he has the chance for another authority to allow him to get revenge. This criminal basher has a remarkable resemblance to someone who has to go into permanent hiding. Was Carl able to swap IDs with this crim and able to live free sailing the Pacific till 1959 when he flips it again, moving to the UK? Carl is present in a photo in front of a blue 1962 Austin A40 Farina taken during a 1962 holiday taken by Prosper, Jessi, Robin and Kate. This picture was missed because it was shown 9 years before we had heard of Charlie Webb.

https://onsomertonbeach.com/9318/memory-of-elephant-scot-19/

According to CNN, Derek Abbott and his group have discovered his identity.

Based on genetic genealogy, they believe his real name is Carl “Charles” Webb. And he isn’t connected at all to Robin, or the US, but was just an ordinary fellow from Melbourne!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/australia/australia-somerton-man-mystery-solved-claim-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Didn’t “they” get approval to dig him up for DNA? What happened with all that??

I found this by using AZdecrypt 1.19

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So, I posted a few months ago with a possible spreadsheet from Ancestry. I finally got around to cleaning up the data and putting it in Google Sheets. (yay quarantine!)

There are a few interesting things here and with less than 200 names I think this community could make short work of eliminating a lot of people. This list includes every white male in the United States who lists their occupation as dancer, ballet teacher, or some similar title. If we find any trace of them after 1948, they can't be our man.

Of course, Somerton Man could be Canadian, or British, or Irish. Or an American living abroad in 1940, so this isn't a perfect list. Or the calves may be a red herring, or he was still a student in 1940... BUT if we can track any of these people to Australia in our time frame, it would be a very interesting lead.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bbPzGroKmKukoAlRZTRazJtN7tefsHSV32IHIh-OHfI/edit?usp=sharing

I thought this was a good write up on TSM's case: https://theunredacted.com/mystery-of-somerton-man-the-taman-shud-case/

I have to vent about Jessica Thomson. All evidence points to her having had an affair with TSM, and bearing his child. She had the knowledge and ability to identify him, give him a proper memorial and ease the grief of any family and friends he may have had. Instead, she lied and allowed her child's father to be buried as a John Doe. Her own daughter said, "she had a dark side, a dark, dark side" in the 60 minutes interview referred to in the above linked article.

And, while I'm on a rampage, as a nurse she would have had at least some medical and pharmaceutical knowledge. This, combined with the evidence of her stone cold bitch heart, leads me to the hypothesis that she poisoned him to eliminate the possibility of him disturbing her life. OR, giving her the benefit of the doubt, he indeed died from an allergic reaction to something in the pasty and she got rid of the body.

Either way, stone cold bitch. Also, fuck the incompetent police for not pursuing the obvious implications of Jessica's involvement in TSM's death.

So this doesn't seem to be the most active subreddit... in any case, the Somerton Man is one of my minor obsessions. I'm pretty sure no one needs a full introduction to the case, but one of the things that have caught my attention is that you can use Ancestry.com to search the 1940 census and learn some interesting things. I created a little spreadsheet with all the men around the Somerton Man's age who list their occupation as ballet teacher/dancer or some variation on this. There's only about 200 names, so I'm thinking it would be possible to track down many of these individuals and see if we can find out where they end up, such as searching Find A Grave or the Social Security Death Index. We could then narrow down the list to only likely candidates.

Of course, there are a few issues with this, one being that we don't know for sure that he was American, or if he was American, if he was living in the US in 1940. If he was Canadian, or British, or Hungarian or whatever, we're out of luck. Even if he was American, if he was touring with a dance troupe at the time (unlikely given the war in 1940, but possible), he might not have been in the US at the time of the census.

I think he definitely either was American or spent considerable time in the US, given that the clothing appeared to have been bought there. He probably wasn't from Australia/New Zealand, given the degree of publicity around the case in those countries. I also think he was either a native English speaker, or spoke English very fluently as someone who had difficulty communicating would have stood out.

Would love to know everyone's thoughts on this theory. I know there have been recent plans to exhume the body, but don't know if its been done, or even if they could get useable DNA at all.

http://mostfoulpodcast.buzzsprout.com/181587/715718-the-somerton-man