Episode Details

Next up on our listener hometown spooky story tour of the world is everyone's favorite island full of criminals, Australia. We're talking The Somerton Man (including a major DNA update from 2022!) and the land down under's most haunted abandoned insane asylum, Larundel.

Music box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBEHGb95tJg

Sources used in this episode include:

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/have-scholars-finally-identified-the-mysterious-somerton-man-180980540/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Man
• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/27/somerton-man-mystery-identity-solved-identified-australia
• https://amyscrypt.com/larundel-mental-asylum-ghost-music-box/
• https://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/bipolar-disorder-lithium
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-rundle-asylum

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