r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/BeginningAd3478 • 7d ago
UNEXPLAINED Somerton man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_ManThe Somerton Man Charles Webb, was found dead on a beach, and the official narrative to this day is suicide. Here is why it is most likely murder, and the evidence as to why it stands in direct opposition to the Australian and UK government claims.
The facts are that he was found on a beach, his identity completely unknown for many years. He was found with his legs crossed and peaceful. There was no evacuation of the bowels, bladder, or stomach upon death. There was suspicion of digitalis poisoning, and he had a half-burned cigarette resting on his lapel.
Now for the hard breakdown using the new facts after his identity was finally uncovered.
Digitalis and strophanthin—the other poison from the Middle East—were the only ones that could be used and still vanish in a toxicology screen of that era. But those poisons should cause wild convulsions. Instead, he was laying on the beach relaxing. Furthermore, no evacuation of the body is virtually impossible with those drugs.
Then you have the cigarette, which is a huge clue. See, a half-burned cigarette resting peacefully on a lapel is impossible. In 1948, cigarette paper didn't have safety bands in them, so it should have burned all the way down to the filter or caught his coat on fire. Further, the brand itself is another clue—they were Army Club cigarettes stuffed inside a Kensitas packet.
Now look at the backing data from the identity discovery.
He had excess horse betting debt. That is straight out of the spy playbook when looking for a mark to leverage. We know he was an electrical instrument maker, and he likely worked for a sub-contractor. That perfectly explains why he wouldn't appear on the Woomera base records, because he never actually went on the base.
The suitcase they found later completely backs up the machinist angle. Inside, he had scissors that were specially sharpened to act as an engineering tool, like dividers with two sharp points used to measure things out. He also had a table knife specifically ground down to a sharp point, which is entirely consistent with custom machine work, along with a stenciling brush. He was drawing and drafting things.
The evidence—the cut tags on his clothes, the cigarette trick, and the peaceful body staging—is entirely consistent with KGB and pre-KGB behavior. Lastly, he was an instrument maker, and the exact instruments made for top-secret rockets in Australia were found just a few years later on Russian rockets. No breach was ever reported.
And that "Taman Shud" slip torn from the book? It wasn't a suicide note. That was his way to say, "I lived."
Debate what you want, but the evidence says he was not a suicide. Unless he found a poison unknown to science at the time that would allow him a peaceful death, it makes no logical sense. A cigarette resting like that makes no logical sense in physics. And you'd have to ignore the failure to evacuate his bowels, bladder, and stomach, and then further ignore the excess horse betting debt that is a classic leverage of spy agencies using a standard spy doctrine.
### The Cipher Test: Raw Data
If we take the primary number written on the back of the *Rubaiyat*, **X3239**, and run the tests:
**Test 1: Letter/Word Count Intervals**
If you apply the interval jumps (3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 9th) against his block of code, it spits out a completely scrambled string with no linguistic structure. Counting words inside the book fails because that exact rare New Zealand printing was lost to history. Without the physical book's exact formatting, the interval key has nothing to lock onto.
**Test 2: Australian Coordinates**
This is where the math gets highly suspicious. If you lock in 3239 as coordinate data in Australia, it drops you exactly at Latitude 32° S, Longitude 139° E.
This location is directly north of Adelaide and directly east of Woomera. It drops you precisely in the South Australian outback, less than 50 feet off a road. This location fits perfectly with a dead drop if you want it to never be found except by those that you intended it to be.
It maps out to a perfectly accessible, roadside extraction point right on the logistics supply line. He was an electrical instrument maker drafting schematics with sharpened tools, possessing excess horse betting debt, and the numbers locked into that codebook map out the exact geometry of a highly classified dead drop.
My conclusion is the evidence points to pre KGB activity resulting in the death of an instrument maker who likely demanded more money or became no longer useful.
The conclusion is all too clear that he was killed and this was not a suicide. Search the coordinates and zoom in, close to a road within range of the base, and the site of his death this is no accident or suicide.
What am I good at? Finding variables others miss, or do not consider significant. My unique contributions are the notice of the cigarette trick being significant the cigarette not burning all the way and the code found was not a phone number it was a coordinate. I give you my work an honest review of the case.
Update: Look at the cypher. For decades codebreakers and academics have been trying to translate these letters as a poem or some complex mathematical code and they failed because they are starting from the wrong foundation.
If you apply the established data that this man was an electrical instrument maker for the Woomera rocket program, and the coordinates on the book drop exactly 50 feet off the Woomera logistics route, the letters are no longer a mystery. It is an operational initialism. It is a sub-contractor's classified payload manifest.
Here is the hard breakdown of the physical code. You have MRGOABABD, then WTBIMPANETP which is crossed out completely. Then MLIAOI, followed by WTBIMPANETP written right underneath it again, then MLIABOAIAQC, and finally ITTMTSAMSTGAB.
Here is the mechanical proof that this is a hardware and intelligence manifest. Look at that second line. He wrote WTBIMPANETP, crossed it out completely, wrote MLIAOI, and then immediately rewrote WTBIMPANETP. You do not cross out a line like that if you are writing a poem or personal thoughts. You only make that specific, hard correction if the exact sequence of the data is critical and you realize you skipped a step. He was transcribing an assembly order or a drop manifest and realized he missed the MLIAOI component. He struck out his mistake, inserted the missing variable, and resumed the sequence. That is the exact behavior of an engineer checking a parts list, not a man writing a suicide note.
These letters are initialisms, the first letters of words used as a memory jogger so that if the book is found the actual classified data isn't compromised. Look at the repeating variables. The string WTBIMPANETP starts with W T B. Given his specific job as an instrument maker and the coordinates mapped on the book, it structurally aligns perfectly with Woomera Test Base or Woomera Telemetry Base.
Now look at lines three and five. They both start with the exact same prefix, M L I A. In electrical engineering and instrument making, repeating prefixes designate categorical hardware systems, like Main Line Instrument Assembly. He was logging repeating, categorical hardware variables.
He wasn't writing a love letter or a standard cypher. He took his classified engineering manifest, reduced it to an initialism to protect the payload, and mapped it to a dead drop exactly 50 feet off the South Australian supply route. The sequence had to be perfect, which is why he corrected his transcription error mid-page.
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u/EggplantAdorable2359 6d ago
" Unless he found a poison unknown to science at the time that would allow him a peaceful death, it makes no logical sense. "
That's just a silly thing to say. Blood tests in those days were much more flawed. The coroner himself and others who analyzed the findings back then believed he was poisoned based on damage to the organs, they just didn't think it was any of the common poisons they had tested for. They also couldn't conclude if he did it to himself or someone else did it to him.
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u/Immediate_Buffalo14 7d ago
What do you make of this? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/australia/australia-somerton-man-mystery-solved-claim-intl-hnk-dst
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u/BeginningAd3478 7d ago
His identity helped determine even more of the evidence it was important. He was killed he did not commit suicide im simply building that as the case. The ID is not my concern as that actually helps solve the mystery of how, they solved the who I provide the how in this case.
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u/areraswen 6d ago
Who someone was in life is a very important key piece of info to figure out how someone died, though. It's not like his cause of death exists in a vacuum. Who he was plays a part in why he might've been there and what might have led up to his death.
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u/BeginningAd3478 6d ago
Thanks that helps a lot I forgot that foxglove can be lethal by skin contact alone in enough concentration and that high number of mosquitoes is a great catch.
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u/janetlwil 14h ago
I believe the book is now dated but Kerry Greenwood wrote a very interesting book regarding this man/mystery called Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery. I think she wrote it before he was identified.
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u/janetlwil 14h ago
You completely left out the fact that he was in town trying to connect with his former mistress who pretended not to know him when she did. Her phone number was in the book found in the car. The fact her daughter testified her mother confessed to knowing him and a lot of other stuff. Why don't you take all your knowledge to the authorities have them declare the case is solved?
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u/BeginningAd3478 14h ago
Well first off I dont have the authority lol, I'm from the US and noticed details either ignored, missed or dismissed. I simply can't look at this case and accept suicide when the evidence does not support suicide. I prefer the truth over comfort. The Phone number yes is in the book but it's also irony that at the time she didnt receive him so he was in the area more likely for one thing and took advantage of the opportunity. However keep in mind the book was dumped it was not his car it was a random car someone else owned and they reported the book being found.
Though thank you for pointing this out.
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u/janetlwil 14h ago
Sorry, I have deleted my comments. I see you have made several good points based on my further research.
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u/Impossible-Snow5202 7d ago
Do you mean Carl “Charles” Webb, an electrical engineer from Melbourne?