Casefile Archives 2: The Somerton Man
1/17/202652 min
In December 1948, the body of an unidentified male was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia. It initially appeared the man had simply passed away in his sleep, but as police looked into his death, they discovered a series of bizarre and unexplainable clues that presented more questions than answers. Was the Somerton Man an international spy? If so, what was he doing in Adelaide? And what significance did the ancient Persian text found in his pocket hold?
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Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of...
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[gentle music] Hello, Casefile listeners. As we enter Casefile's 10th year, we've created a new run of special bonus content, Casefile Archives, a series of releases revisiting the earliest years of the show, along with previously unreleased premium episodes. This is completely additional content and will not replace new episodes. We will still be back in March with brand-new cases, and we'll be releasing the same number of new episodes this year as we did last year. Casefile Archives is simply a way to mark the 10th year, revisit some older episodes, and to offer previously subscriber-exclusive episodes to the wider audience for the first time. For the re-release episodes, we have fully edited, polished, re-recorded, and freshly produced them from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not full rewrites. Our aim isn't to reshape the cases or alter the original storytelling, but to preserve them as they were first told, while giving them the level of production they didn't have back in 2016. Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure remains faithful to the originals. Because of this, these episodes may sound a little different to our recent work. Today's re-release is The Somerton Man, the second Casefile episode ever produced.