The Somerton Man is a story based on a real unsolved murder mystery. On May 18th of 2021, the remains of a murder victim were exhumed from a grave in Australia. The name engraved on the tombstone was The Unknown Man. This murder victim had been found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide in 1948, just a few years after the end of World War II. The labels had been cut out of the man’s clothes, and all identifying information removed from his pockets. There was also a cryptic message in Farsi that had been left in his pocket. The words were “Tamam Shud,” which means “it is finished,” or “the end.” People have speculated on the man’s identity for seventy years. This exhumation was an attempt to retrieve enough DNA to finally put a name to his story.
As I read the news article, a thought occurred to me. What if no one had been able to identify this man because he had an extra-terrestrial origin? What if he was an alien?
The Somerton Man is a melding of the well known facts of the case with a fanciful explanation involving the intervention of an alien race in the affairs of man. I hope you enjoy reading it.