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Hi, and welcome back to The
Unseen Podcast, a podcast dedicated to missing

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people, unresolved cases, and UK
true crime. Today's episode ten of twelve

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missing person cases throughout December. In
this episode, we're going to be discussing

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the unidentified man known as the Hampshire
barn Man. This is a recent appeal

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from Locate International and so I wanted
to feature this on the twelve day episodes.

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There is not a ton of information
about this case and so it may

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not be the longest, However,
I believe it's important to feature. This

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episode is about an unidentified person and
does not contain any graphic details. However,

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listener discretion is our ways advised.
On the first of December twenty seventeen,

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the area of the village of Mitchell
Deva in Hampshire were searching in a

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rural area of the village close to
Baxley Cope's Lane. Officers were looking for

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evidence in a recent robbery case.
They began looking around a disused barn on

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the land in relation to this robbery. However, instead of evidence of a

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robbery, they found a person's remains. This was an unexpected discovery and one

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that led to many questions who was
this person, why were they there,

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how had they died? They quickly
ascertained that the remains were that of a

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man who appeared to have died of
natural causes. The man did not have

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any signs of being attacked or restrained, and there were no injuries to point

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to the fact that he had been
killed by another person. There was,

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also, however, not lots of
concrete evidence as to who this man was

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either. He did not have identification
with him, and this caused some trouble

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with trying to figure out who he
was. The man has been described as

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being aged between thirty five and fifty
and approximately five feet eight inches tall.

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He had brown hair, was clean
shaven, and its reported that he may

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have had an overbite. There has
been additional information given that the man had

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good dental care when he was younger, but that this had declined in later

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life. The man was wearing a
dark wooly hat, a blue fleece jacket,

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tracksuit, bottoms, and size ten
Wellington boots. He also had several

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possessions with him which could indicate who
he was. It reported that he had

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with him a black caramore rucksack,
as well as a sleeping bag. Inside

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the bag there were various items,
including a Martina coal book titled Close.

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He had an old style Sony Walkman
radio, an extra white T shirt and

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some black pants, as well as
four to five flannels and some gloves.

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Also had an umbrella, a flask, a torch and a garden trowel.

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In addition, he had some germaline, a packet of polos, a kit

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kat and various other wrappers in his
possession. It suggested that he was a

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smoker as he had rizzler papers and
tobacco with him, as well as some

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medication which is listed as Zantac,
which was used for indigestion and removing excess

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stomach acid. A pair of reading
glasses were also found close to the body.

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One of the interesting items that was
found in the barn was a Great

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Britain Road atlas, and on top
of the atlas was written the words Waterloo

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with an arrow, then Winchester,
as though suggesting the journey from Waterloo to

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Winchester, and then the price twenty
seven pounds twenty. This indicated a journey

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by some means from Waterloo to Winchester, and this was linked to the man

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given that he also had a street
atlas of Winchester in his possession. This

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gave investigators some clue that perhaps the
man had been traveling around the UK.

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The fact that all of the man's
possessions could be bought from the UK also

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suggested that he had been in the
country a while. They also speculated that

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the man may have been sleeping rough
due to the fact that he had a

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sleeping bag and multiple pairs of clothing
with him. Initially, this was all

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Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Constabulary
had to go on, given that there

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was little information. In two thousand
and nineteen, however, an appeal was

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launched to try and track down people
who may have known the man or have

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come across him in the past.
This appeal was successful, and it did

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track down some witnesses who had spoken
to him back in two thousand and twelve,

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when he apparently asked them if he
could camp in their garden in the

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village of itch and Stow, around
seven miles from where his body was eventually

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found. These witnesses were able to
provide some crucial information about the man that

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could help They explained that the man
had spoken good English, but with a

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French accent. They confirmed that the
man had been a smoker, and at

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the time they met him he was
unshaven. Despite the fact that glasses had

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been found near the body, they
said that he was not wearing them at

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the time they met him. He
told these witnesses several things about himself that

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may help to track down his identity. He told them that he had been

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in the French military, but that
he didn't like it. He said,

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as a result of an explosion during
his time in the military, he was

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deaf in one ear. He also
stated that his mother and father were deceased.

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He told them that he was walking
across Britain and was on his way

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to Island or Canada. He said
he had been to Ireland before. On

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the Missing Person's UK website, it's
listed that the man had won once said

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he was a gardener for Catherine Deneuve, who is a French actress and model

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known for various film roles since the
nineteen sixties. Whether the man told this

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information to these particular witnesses is not
listed, and therefore is unclear. All

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of this information was of course of
interest to investigators, as this meant that

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the man had connections to France or
a French speaking area of the world.

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This helped investigators to target their appeals
and their search in these particular areas.

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Locate International became involved in the appeals
for the Hampshire Barn Man and have listed

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the appeal in both English and French. In a bid to reach more people

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who may have known him. They
also attempted to narrow down the search area

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by conducting isotope analysis and the man's
remains. This would give them detailed information

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about the area that the man had
lived in during his life, his diet

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and would give a much better indication
where his family may be from. The

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isotope analysis looked at bone and teeth
samples and was able to ascertain that he

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had spent his early years roughly until
the age of twelve, in any of

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the areas of southeastern France, Corsica
or western Switzerland. During this time,

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he had a diet rich with fish. During this analysis, pollutants were found,

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which suggested to scientists that he had
lived in a sizable town or city

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during his life. This gave investigators
much more to go on and they were

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able to at least pinpoint the areas
that they could target with appeals. Locate

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International have appealed for information various times
over the past six years and have tried

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to get information from anyone from these
areas who may be missing a loved one.

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Dave Grimstead told the BBC just this
month he died alone, but we

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want to make sure he has not
forgotten after his death. Doug Utting from

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the Serious Case Review Team at Hampshire
and Isle of Wight Constabulary said in the

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same article. Through this new appeal, I hope we can hear from people

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in those areas that recognize the man
described as someone they may know and who

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they have not seen or heard from
since twenty twelve. If you know anything

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about the Hampshire Barn man, or
recognize any of these details, then please

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contact either Missing People UK or Locate
International to provide your information, no matter

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how small. I will link these
in the show notes. Please also share

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the appeal with anyone you may know
in any of these target areas, because

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any exposure could help. Thank you
for listening to episode ten of our twelve

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Days of Missing Person episodes throughout the
set. Listen in next to episode eleven.

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