Amou Haji, a 94-year-old Iranian man, also known as the ‘world’s dirtiest man’ died on October 23, when he took his first bath, in the village of Dejgah, IRNA news agency reported.
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According to reports, Amou Haji avoided showering over the fear of falling sick. The hermit had not taken a bath with soap and water for over 60 years. A report from the local news agency stated that a few months ago he was taken to the bathroom for a shower by the villagers. It was also widely believed in the village that Amou Haji had suffered from some sort of personal trauma in his younger days, as a result of which he avoided washing.
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Amou Haji, Known as ‘World’s Dirtiest Man,’ Dead at 94
Tehran Times reported that Haji would roam around the streets of his village being covered in soot and live in a shack that was built by the villagers. Haji reportedly believed that fresh food could make him sick, and thus he smoked a pipe filled with animal excrement.In 2013, a documentary film titled “The Strange Life of Amou Haji” was made on his life, according to local media outlets.
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A similar incident was recorded in India by the Hindustan Times, in 2009. A man named Kailash “Kalau” Singh, from a village close to Varanasi had not taken a bath for more than 30 years. He saw it as a means to end “all the problems confronting the nation”. “Every evening as villagers gather, Kalau…lights a bonfire, smokes marijuana and stands on a leg praying to Lord Shiva” reported the newspaper.
