Amou Haji, the dirtiest man in the world, who has not bathed since 1954 and lived in a hole, died at the age of 95. Strangely, he died days after he was forced to bathe. Haji stopped bathing when he was 20 and preferred to live alone. He lived in Fars town which is in the southernmost part of Iran.
Everything about Amou Haji was shocking. He stayed single. He always smoked four to five cigarettes in one go. He held three-to-four cigarettes together and took deep puffs. He preferred to eat porcupine meat. The villagers took care of him and provided him with cigarettes. Haji slept on the floor and used stones for pillows.
Haji, on whom a documentary was made in 2013, drank from a dirty can and ate semi-cooked and rotten food. Years of not bathing left a thick coat of dirt and soot on his skin. He told neighbours that he had stopped bathing after he suffered emotional setbacks when he was 20 years of age.
On October 23, he was found dead in his living hole. The locals of his village performed his last rites. Now that he is gone, the record for the dirtiest man alive will go to an Indian, who has stopped washing his teeth and stopped bathing some 35 years ago. He was last spotted in 2009.
