Tamam Shud Case

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case

Hadn't heard baout this before, v v interesting.

Also I should probably listen to the band Tamam Shud, I guess?

wow, i love stories like these. thoroughly compelling. i can't remember the last time i read every last word of a long wiki page

this part gave me chills:

In 1945, three years prior to the death of the Somerton Man, in Mosman, Sydney, a Singaporean man named George Marshall was found dead with an open copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam beside him

Doco from the late 70s about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnPqlYPQ9lY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=605V1-o3r1Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieczsZRQnu8

wow great wikipedia article

According to the pathologist Sir John Burton Cleland, the man, of "Britisher" appearance

LOL ILXors be writin wiki articles.

i was reading about this a couple of months ago, not sure why. fascinating stuff.

Pretty interesting! My first thought was he's a spy who was offed by other spies/govt assasins.

yuh and there's the theory that he was a ballet dancer (physique + pointy toes) as a british ballet company was in the country at the time, and came to ADL to chase a lady friend (Jestyn?), found out she was married and commsui'd on the beach.

Totally intriguing shit

lol @ commsui

Never heard of this case before fwiw. Love this shit. I used to love all the numbers station stuff on shortwave radio, I'd listen to them all the time as a kid and had no idea what they were (when you live in canberra pre-wifi/mobile days, you can pick up alllll sorts of interesting shit from the various embassies nearby...)

interesting!

trayce that's awesome! i had a blast reading about numbers stations and the whole conant project thing a while ago.

Yeah me too! Theres a webpage with mp3 samples and they all make my hair stand on end, there's something so strange and secretive about them.

My grandad - who lives in a suburb that contains the Russian embassy - used to point out that they'd station ASIO spies in a building across the rd from it and basically just watch it all day long. I liked the idea of all this political cold war intrigue going on right under my nose.

conet project, in case anyone hasn't heard it and in the public domain so xd

One of my old man's friend's from school became a 'BHP exec who worked in russia for 30 yrs' and he was apparently always evasive about what he did, they always joekd around and said he was a spy. tis a mystery...

Ha cool :)

Conet project isnt strictly speaking public domain - it kind of is but there's some "pls give credit" or "get persmission" clause. I think BoC or Wilco or someone got sued for using a sample without credit.

persmission!

Its like smision.

http://danielcosta.ca/wp-content/uploads/Persimmon.jpg

Fascinating story. Here are 100+ pictures pertaining to the case and investigation on a Facebook group that's looking for the book: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=92730912666&v=photos#!/group.php?gid=92730912666&v=photos&so=0

(I can't post youtube clips because I've just flown into ADL [omg spooky] and I've only got my work computer where youtube's blocked.) But if you look at the dude who uploaded the vids I posted above (iirc) he/she's posted a recent video of the embalmer where he describes when Jestyn observes the plaster cast and he refers to her as 'Mrs Thompson'.

And from 'possible link to Mangnoson case' section of the wiki article: "Mrs Mangnoson believed that this situation was related to her husband's attempt to identify the Somerton Man, believing him to be Carl Thompsen, who had worked with him in Renmark in 1939."

Thompson is obv a very common surname in Aus...

Russian numbers station UVB-76 has stopped transmitting!

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread579556/pg1

(loads of edits to the wikipedia page since yesterday: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UVB-76&action=history )

Unless it hasn't stopped transmitting, that is. (Latest news is that it hasn't). Nevermind.