Few Months After First Bathe, World’s Dirtiest Man’ Dies At 94

An Iranian man nicknamed the “world’s dirtiest man” for not taking a shower for more than half a century has died at the healthy old age of 94, state media has reported.

Irna news agency reported that “Amou Haji”, a nickname for an elderly person, died on Sunday.

Haji, covered in soot and living in a cinder-block shack, was reported by local media not to have bathed with water or soap in more than 60 years. Villagers said he had experienced “emotional setbacks in his youth” that led him to refuse to wash.

In 2014, news revealed that Haji would eat roadkill, smoke a pipe filled with animal excrement, and believed that cleanliness would make him ill. Photos showed him smoking multiple cigarettes at once.

Eaglesforesight had learnt that a few months ago, villagers had persuaded Haji to wash for the first time.

After Haji’s death, the unofficial record could go to an Indian man, Kailash “Kalau” Singh, who also had not bathed for much of his life.

Kalau claimed he was doing that in an attempt to help end “all the problems confronting the nation”.