For decades he has been known only as a man frozen in death, a face without peace, rigid and inscrutable, with deep wells of darkness beneath his lidded eyes. Now, for the first time, the face of the ...
Some victims who die under mysterious circumstances leave behind frustratingly few clues. That wasn't the case with the Somerton Man. When his body was discovered on a beach in South Australia in 1948 ...
On Tuesday, November 30, 1948, John Lyons and his wife were walking along Somerton Beach in South Australia when they noticed a man, fully dressed in a suit, drunkenly (it seemed) attempting to smoke ...
A breakthrough in one of Australia's most enduring mysteries — the case of the Somerton Man — last week saw the previously unidentified man named as Melbourne electrical engineer Carl "Charles" Webb.