#Somerton Park

[mint-mumbles]

It’s December! You know what that means…

Long video essays exposing plagiarism on YouTube! 🎉

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James Somerton: "Today, we discuss the amazing story of certified gay icon Yeonmi Park"

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[thetreetopinn]

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get)

I went back through Harry's video, focused entirely on the sources James Somerton pulled from in the hopes of creating as much of a comprehensive list as I could--though my Google-Fu is not very strong. I did however find something I thought was forever lost and that made me very happy--specifically the magazine Midlands Zone containing the column by Steven Spinks that Harry poignantly used as an illustration of gay erasure... while Somerton uses it to sound like HE is waxing remorseful about the very subject.

This is not a complete list, I'm sure. For one thing, I was only able to attempt to pull sources that Harry himself mentioned in the video. Surely there's so very much more out there. I expect there to be a great deal more internet archeology to unearth just how much writing and culture Somerton has stolen like he's the British Museum of Natural History but for gay people.

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Harry's list of mentioned youtubers:

Alexander Avila - https://www.youtube.com/@alexander_avila Matt Baume - https://www.youtube.com/@MattBaume Khadija Mbowe - https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe Lady Emily - https://www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents Shanspeare - https://www.youtube.com/@Shanspeare RickiHirsch - https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch VerilyBitchie - https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie

Harry created a convenient playlist of videos by these and other people he wants to bring to everyone's attention.

Please give them your support.

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Midlands Zone Magazine - Column by Steven Spinks

After a great deal of searching, I found an archive of the "Midlands Zone" magazine, where you can read through past issues dating all the way back to February 2014. I have also found the issue from which Somerton took Spinks' poignant discussion of gay erasure: Overall archive Specific Issue - Pages 16-17

It will not allow you to download it, but you can read it exactly as it appeared in print form.

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My best effort to find the exact book or article Somerton lifted from to be able to get attention to the original writers

Tinker Bells and Evil Queens By Sean Griffin

The Celluloid Closet By Vito Russo Wikipedia article about the book Wikipedia article about the documentary My weak google-fu could not find where you can access the book or documentary. Check your local municipal or university library for book or documentary, or if you know a good source for one or both, please reblog with it added

Camp and the Gay Sensibility By Jack Babuscio

The Groundbreaking Queerness of Disney's Mulan By Jes Tom Personal site with links to social media accounts

Why Rebel Without a Cause was a milestone for gay rights By Peter Howell

Why "The Craft" is still the best Halloween coming out movie By Andrew Park

Opinion: From facehuggers to phallic tails, is 'Alien' one of the queerest films ever? By Dani Leever

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer's Body By Zoe Fortier

[Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness By Alejandra Gonzalez

Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' By Colin Arason

Queering James Cameron's Aliens (1986) By Bart Bishop

Demeter and Persephone in space: transformation, femininity, and myth in the 'Alien' films By David Greven

Fears of a millennial masculinity: Scream's queer killers By David Greven (Scholarly site, unable to access original work, offers a way to request a full copy of the text in PDF)

Queer Subtext in Stephen King's It - Part 1: 'Reddie' Character Analysis By Rachel Brands Rachel is the very unfortunate lady who found out she was being stolen from because she supported Somerton through Patreon and saw one of his videos early with her writing--lacking any form of citation or credit

How 'It: Chapter Two' Leaves Richie Tozier Behind By Joelle Monique

When Horror Becomes Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King's 'IT' By Alex London

Why Queer People Love Witchcraft By Amanda Kohr

'The Favourite' Queers The Past And The Present By Giorgi Plys-Garzotto

(Wuko) Crush (Mako x Wu) By MoonFlower on YouTube

5 Terrible Movies With Awesome Hidden Meanings By J.F. Sargent

The Radicalization of Sexuality: The Queer Casae of Jeffrey Dahmer By Ian Barnard

Netflix's 'Dahmer' backlash highlights ethical issues in the platform's obsession with true crime By Shivani Dubey

The Possible Disturbing Dissonance Between Hajime Isayama's Beliefs and Attack on Titan's Themes Original Article by "Seldom Musings" (Author has made all posts not related to Attack On Titan private and has retired from the blog)

Everyone Loves Attack on Titan. So Why Does Everyone Hate Attack on Titan? By Gita Jackson

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The following people are otherwise named in the video. There are no direct citations of articles or books by them in said video. I am unable to guarantee that I have identified the correct individual.

Darren Elliott-Smith Michaela Barton David Church Claire Sisco King Amanda Howell Jessica Roy

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Telos announced and cancelled a film likely based on this book: The Final Girl Support Group - By Grady Hendrix

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I refrained from including certain sources.

First off only focusing on Somerton's work.

Secondly not including anything that might be visible enough to not require amplifying their voice (I cannot speak for all of those I have found links to, but journalism is frequently a thankless job).

Thirdly any source that is of a nature that is antithetical to the very existence of the queer community, such as the right-leaning source that didn't make it into Somerton's video, but Harry was able to identify as a source he had considered using.

If you feel I have missed a mentioned source--or you know of a source from material that was not covered in Harry's video--please do not hesitate to reblog with added details.

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Please share this information far and wide, and please add to it if you find more material that can be positively identified and linked to the creator/writer.

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[salora-rainriver]

Alright look.

You don’t need to be famous!

You don’t need to be a content creator.

You don’t need to have a hundred thousand followers.

You don’t need to make a massive impact on the world.

It’s okay to fucking EXIST in the world. To make a small impact. To have normal friends and a normal obscure life, like everyone else on this planet.

I get it if you’re lonely, I get it if you feel like there’s no point to life, but fame isn’t the answer to that problem.

Yes I am talking about James fucking Somerton. Hell, I am talking TO James Somerton, motherfucker if you’re reading this, somehow, despite me literally being a nobody on tumblr, then- wow! What are the odds! What the fuck is wrong with you. Also don’t fucking do it. Please log off and live a happy normal mediocre life. Please.

But I’m also talking to every 20-something (me included) who thinks “gee i want to be like those fancy content creators and filmmakers and artists who make stuff and everyone looks at it.”

LISTEN. STATISTICALLY SPEAKING, YOU PROBABLY WON’T BE A CELEBRITY, AND THAT’S PROBABLY A GOOD THING.

And I’m not saying don’t dream big. “Dream big” can mean all sorts of things, and none of them have to be about fame. Entertainment and academia are like 10% of the full breadth of human experience.

You can garden. Knit. Raise animals. Go scuba diving. Join a book club. Play sportsball. Dance at a club. Dance at a park. Learn tango! Paint pictures for small local galleries and people who want something crazy on their walls. Have sex. Go to concerts. Volunteer. Write poetry. Learn an instrument. Learn a language. Go hiking! Biking! Run a marathon! Collect coins, collect shells, collect bones. Find god (any god). Be the guy who hands put water bottles at protests. Join a tabletop gaming group. Play trading card games.

I’ve been saying for a real long time that someone like James Somerton is just not fit to write video essays, he’s not fit to be a content creator - James if you’re still here, we all saw your ‘measured response’, if you were telling the truth about those memory issues and ADHD and they genuinely are so bad that you can’t properly cite your sources- you can’t be a video essayist. I’m sorry. It’s part of the job description.

and look. that’s okay. because there’s so much other stuff he can do with his life. Stuff that doesn’t require him to, you know, make proper citations. Write creatively. Manage a film production company. Those things. The things he evidently can’t do competently.

The idea that he’d rather die than have a normal life, a peaceful life out of the public eye, working a job that he can actually be good at, having his hobbies and his real life friends and maybe even a family… there’s no other word for it than “sad”. That’s so fucking sad, and I don’t even mean that in an insulting way. I know I hate the dude, but jesus.

And I just. If you’re reading this post and the idea of someone absolutely who’d rather die than be normal resonated with you - first of all, do you need a hug, second of all,

This post is for you.

Please take care of yourself and just find joy doing what you want to do. Don’t try to Be Famous. Please.

[ellie513]

for the James Somerton thing: here goes.

For a few years he had been building up a following on youtube and posing himself as a truth-telling queer filmmaker who wanted to create and tell queer stories. He primarily did video essays of which he was praised for his research and professional demeanor.

Turns out, it was all bullshit. He had stolen entire articles written by other queer writers and passed them off as his own without any sort of credit whatsoever. And all of the stuff he didn't steal, he basically made up.

A few of the things he made up include:

Gay men thought nazis were hot, and that the SS was made up of a lot of gay men

Lesbians and queer women were/are treated better than queer men

Disney encouraged gay people to come to their parks via special 'Gay Days'

And so, so much more. Hes also notoriously misogynistic and racist.

Holy shit!! Thank you so much!!

[flowerandthesongstress]

hi here's some youtube video essays and such

The Ouroboros of Grief

Esperanto Explained

TomSka's guide to Plagiarism (the Somerton Scale)

The Problem with Irony

An introduction to Semiotics

Ghosts of Mark Fisher: Hauntology, Lost Futures, and Depression

The true and incredible story of Merkel's favorite song and its singer

Planned Obsolescence Will Kill Us All

The Rule of Three

How you all we all became the Big Brother

The art of Semantics

Bo Burnham, Arcade Fire, and the infinite dread of the internet

Actually properly analyzing ‘Inside’ by Bo Burnham

The fictional vampire has always been sexy

Peter Singer and the most controversial ethics paper ever

How the internet kills your creativity (and what to do about it)

Movie monologues that changed my entire worldview

Wings of Desire — the epic of peace

My cluster b parent died and I felt nothing much

Why Bonnie and Clyde is Hollywood’s most revolutionary film

Paterson: embracing the poetry of the Everyday

Melancholia: depression on film

The gift of letting go and Ted Lasso

Fighting cosmic horror with charts and graphs

Poker Face: more than just an homage to Columbo

White Oleander: toxic beauty and narcissistic mothers

An ardent, unironic defense of Edward Cullen

A beginner’s guide to Soviet animated cinema

Dream Scenario — Kristoffer Borgli & the Dream Machine

How to think about your narcissistic parent

The politics of ‘Parks and Rec’

The Lincoln Highway: across America on the first transcontinental motor route

Elden Ring and the Art of Knowing Less

Explaining Europe to Americans

An avoidable disaster: the tragedy of Mass Effect Andromeda

Scrubs: My Retrospective

Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas is Beautiful

okay bye

[inkher0]

Oh my god I'm going to fight James Somerton in a parking lot outside of Denny's at 3 AM. How many times am I going to encounter people that confidently don't know what's honestly basic queer history who then repeat his Exact Words on the subject

Do you guys know why women weren't persecuted as much as men for being gay? BECAUSE IN MOST COUNTRIES BEING GAY WASN'T THE CRIME. There were laws against sodomy, and they were applied to homosexuals as a way to persecute them without incurring public outrage. The sex was the crime, not declaring you loved men to a crowded room. Now, yes, those courts were basically just formalities to lock up gay men who were a little Too Confidently Gay, but they couldn't just jail everyone who had a Visibly Close Relationship with someone of the same gender. They did have to prove you had gay sex, which would be hilarious if it wasn't basically what straight men fantasize about when they imagine being falsely accused of SA. It was a genuinely humiliating process for the accused, and often destroyed their reputation *if* they got acquitted.

That was why lesbians "got away with it". Because they weren't thought to be capable of sexuality, and CERTAINLY not capable of sodomy. And if you watch Hbomb's video on loop like I do, you'd know even that's not true, because lesbians were persecuted all the goddamn time in a bunch of other ways.

James it's on SIGHT. JAMES WHEN I FIND YOU. JAMES WHEN I FIND YOU. JAMES-

[namira]

Old news at this point but one thing that was very odd to me about the James Somerton situation is that most people seemed to focus entirely on the plagiarism aspect and very little on the blatant misinformation in his videos. (Ranging from topics as frivolous as Disney parks to topics as dire as WWII and the Holocaust.)

Plagiarism bad, of course, but misinformation is much worse imo.

Also honestly I think the collective takeaway should have been less focused on 'youtubers do plagiarism sometimes and they shouldn't do that' and more 'people should not be getting their history and political education from youtube video essays.'

[dread-knight]

I know the reason hbomberguy at least put out his video was to draw attention to plagiarism on YouTube as a whole and how to spot it but I’m still flabbergasted by Todd pointing out how much James Somerton kept saying nazis were sexy and the Americans were jealous of their looks like. What??? That sounds like a South Park bit or a particularly distasteful porno not…. anything even remotely close to reality? Like bro???

[unknownworlds4]

The Somerton Man, Australia, 1948. At 6:30 AM, on December 1, 1948, police were called after the body of an unknown man was discovered on Somerton Park Beach in Glenelg, South Australia, about 7 mi (11 km) southwest of Adelaide. He was found laying against the sea wall across from the crippled children’s home. He had an unlit cigarette in the collar of his coat. A search of his pockets revealed an unused second-class rail ticket from Adelaide to Henley Beach, a bus ticket from the city, an aluminum comb made in the US, a half full packet of Juicy Fruit chewing gum, a quarter full box of Bryant & May matches, and an Army Club cigarette package that oddly contained seven cigarettes from the brand Kensitas Club. He had no wallet, cash, or ID of any kind. Witnesses came forward saying that they had seen a man on the beach the previous evening at 7pm and 7:30 to 8pm respectively. Two stated they saw him extend his right arm and then drop it back down and another indicated he had not moved while in view. They didn’t investigate because they thought he was asleep or drunk. One witness indicated that they had seen another man looking down at him from the steps that led to the beach. In 1959, another witness came forward and claimed that he saw a well dressed man carrying another man on his shoulders along the beach that night. Further investigation revealed that all the labels in his clothes had been removed and his dental records couldn’t be matched with any known person. An autopsy showed signs that the man had been poisoned, although the type of poison could not be determined. Other then that, the coroner couldn’t determine the cause of death nor the mans identity. On January 14, 1949, staff at the Adelaide Railway Station discovered a suitcase with its labels removed that was checked in at 11AM on November 30th: the day before the body was found. Inside was a dressing gown, slippers, underwear, a pair of trousers, pajamas, ties, handkerchiefs, shirts, toiletry items, undershirts, a pair of scissors, a screwdriver, a knife, a square of zinc, a stenciling brush, and a book of orange thread - the same thread used to repair the pocket lining of the trousers the man was wearing. All clothing labels had been removed, but the name “Keane” was found on three items, along with three dry cleaning marks on one of the shirts. Not long after an inquest of launched into the mans death, a piece of paper was found in a fob pocket of the mans trousers. The paper had the phrase “Tamam Shud” written on it, meaning “ended” or “finished” in Persian. The phrase came from the book Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, an English translation of a collection of poems by 12th-century Persian polymath Omar Khayyám written in 1859 by Edward Fitzgerald. Following a public appeal by police, the book the paper came from was allegedly located in a car parked on Jetty Road in Glenelg. The book was missing “Tamam Shud” from the last page. Within the book there was also a group of five lines of text that was believed to be a kind of encrypted code. Attempts at deciphering the code have been so far fruitless. A telephone number was also found in the book belonging to a nurse named Jessica Ellen Thomson, who lived 1,300 ft (400 meters) north of where the body was found. When Thomson was interviewed by police, she claimed she had no idea who the man was or why he had her phone number. However, detectives and Thomson’s daughter Kate, claimed she was being evasive and was “taken aback” when showed a plaster bust of the man. Thomson gave a copy of Rubáiyat to Australian Army Lieutenant Alf Boxall while working in Sydney during World War II. However, Boxall was found living in Sydney in 1949 with his copy of the book intact. There was no evidence of any correspondence between Thomson and Boxall since 1945. In 1949, the man was interred at West Terrace Cemetery marked only as the “Somerton Man”.

The case is considered one of Australia’s most “profound mysteries”. There have been numerous theories put forward about the identity of the man and the cause of death. A popular theory states that the man was a spy due to the political tensions at the time, the apparent use of a secret code, the apparent use of an undetectable poison, and the inability by the authorities to identify the man: even investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States and New Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom turned up nothing. In 2022, Adelaide University professor Derek Abbott and Genealogist Colleen M. Fitzpatrick believe they have identified the man as Carl Webb, an electrical instrument maker from South Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne. The South Australia Police have not verified this information and have remained “cautiously optimistic” about it.

[teawitch]

I've watched this and it is important.

I think what really bugs me is some of the parts about the 90s, particulary the Disney parts. Look, I was an adult working at Walt Disney World during the 90s and what I've seen from Somerton is just wrong.

Take Gay Days. I was there for many Gay Days. They were not official Disney events in any way. The early ones were particulary amusing, especially for those of us working in Guest Relations because of the Red Shirt problem.

See, for the early Gay Days, there were forum posts telling gay men to wear red shirts to help recognize each other. Of course, other guests would show up in red T-shirts with no idea what was going on and show up at Guest Relations upset that no one had warned them. (That was the language they used. We should have warned them there would be gay people in the park.)

The solution was to keep a bunch of whatever Disney T-shirts that weren't selling on hand and just let the guests choose a new shirt free of charge. After a few years, some of us began to suspect some men were wearing red shirts just so they could get a free T-shirt.

But the big controversy, if someone knew how to look into the event, was the year Disney sent a memo around telling cast members who were not in costume that they were NOT to wear red shirts during Gay Day. (Because wearing a red button down had started to become a popular thing.) I think they only tried that one or two years, possibly because Gay Days started selling specific branded shirts for the days.

Not only was Somerton wrong - the real info is sometimes more interesting.

This video is important.

We all watched the hbomb vid (or at least got a summary of it) explaining how Somerton stole much of his "research" word-for-word from other queer creators and writers.

Okay, so, we unsubscribe from his channel; we've done our part; everything is cool now, right?

Unfortunately, no. The biggest damage Somerton did may not have been to those he stole from. Rather, it was inventing large swathes of LGBTQ+ history out of whole cloth, tinged with his own incel-adjacent brand of misogyny and weird anti-establishment centrism.

Worse, many of the "facts" Somerton invented are freely circulating on the internet, even on this website, and they are coloring how queers - and especially young queers - understand our own history.

So it's not enough that Somerton's empire burns and he flees with his tail between his legs. We need to actively purge all of the nonsense he injected into the discourse - out of his own personal agendas and resentments - in the years he was posing as an intellectual authority (perhaps the intellectual authority) on our history and experiences.

So give it a watch. It's not nearly as long as the hbomb video and it's neatly organized as well. Save it as a reference for the next time someone pulls out a "Somerton fact" you need to debunk.

Let's work to preserve our history from liars and charlatans.

[6sawazky]

59 years today since the 3 Beaumont Children went missing on Australia Day.

On January 26, 1966, three kids went to visit their local Adelaide beach in the morning. They never returned, nor were they seen again.

They are now forever known as the Beaumont children: Jane, aged nine, Arnna, aged seven, and Grant, aged four. And their disappearance remains one of Australia's most infamous true crime cold cases.

This year marks the 59th anniversary of the children's disappearance and presumed death.

For their parents, Nancy and Jim Beaumont, it's not just a case that changed Australia. It was their own personal nightmare. Sadly, both have since passed away, never knowing what happened to their children.

So what happened that day?

Jane, Arnna and Grant left their family home on the morning of January 26 in 1966 to go to Glenelg Beach, which was a five-minute bus journey away. The family were from the Adelaide suburb of Somerton Park.

At the time, it wasn't unusual for the children to go out on their own. Jane was considered a responsible child, and the three of them had been to the beach together the day before.

Nancy expected them home around noon, and wasn't worried at first when they didn't return. She assumed they would get on the next bus at 2pm. But when Jim arrived home at 3pm, there was still no sign of the children.

"I knew there was something wrong if they weren't home," Jim recounted at the time, per author Michael Madigan. "The thought going through my mind was that they had been taken away. I didn't think they could have been drowned because there were so many people down there."

By late afternoon, the children were reported missing.

Police initially assumed Jane, Arnna and Grant had simply lost track of time.

But within 24 hours, the case had been reported Australia-wide, and concerns were growing for the wellbeing of the three children. Parents across the nation were shaken as well, fearing for the future safety of their own kids.

Even from a news perspective, in the 1960s, there were few to no national newspapers. So for this case to rock not only South Australia, but the whole nation, and even overseas bulletins — it was big.

"This case had a profound effect on parents in the 1960s, given at the time there was such a carefree approach to letting kids roam free in public spaces, particularly the beach," author Alan Whiticker said.

"People rarely locked their doors or windows either. It became a cautionary tale and kids of the '60s grew up with that shadow for a long time. It was beyond tragic for the Beaumont family."

From a number of witness reports, police were able to piece together the last known movements of the Beaumont children.

They had been seen at Colley Reserve near the beach, playing with a tall, blonde man who appeared to be in his 30s.

Around noon, the children went to nearby Wenzel's Bakery, where they typically bought their lunch after the beach. The eldest, Jane, purchased pasties for herself and her siblings, as well as a meat pie with a £1 note.

Nancy, however, had never given Jane a £1 note. She had handed her daughter six shillings that morning — enough for the children's bus rides and their lunch. This £1 note, as well as the meat pie (which Jane and her siblings didn't normally order), were interpreted by police as a sign that the unidentified man was still with the Beaumonts at lunchtime.

The night the kids first went missing, Jim Beaumont rode in a patrol car as they scanned Somerton Park and Glenelg, street by street. And when the cops dropped him off, he got back in his own car and kept looking.

When two days went by without her children returning home, Nancy was reportedly placed under sedation by a doctor.

Investigations continued, leads were followed and Jim and Nancy never stopped looking and hoping. But Jane, Arnna and Grant were never found. Nor were the children's clothes or bags.

What followed over the years were countless false leads, conspiracy theories and hoaxes.

One of the biggest suspects in the case is Harry Phipps.

Phipps grew up in Glenelg, and was a businessman and factory owner. There were allegations of sexual abuse levelled at Phipps by his own son, as well as a young woman who alleged she was raped by Phipps in the 1970s.

These allegations all featured heavily in Whiticker's book The Satin Man: Uncovering the Mystery of the Missing Beaumont Children, which examines Phipps as a potential suspect.

"Harry Phipps was the 'best' suspect for this crime that investigators came across over the past multiple decades. Time has worked against us, but we still remain committed to finding out as much as we can about Mr Phipps and if we can definitively say he was responsible," Whiticker said to Mamamia.

Phipps died in 2004. In 2013, part of his Adelaide factory was excavated after two brothers alleged that Phipps had them dig a pit on the property on January 26 in 1966. Nothing was unearthed.

Phipps' grandson, Nick, said to A Current Affair in 2018 that his father (Phipps' son) had alleged he saw Phipps and the Beaumont children at Phipps' home the day they disappeared.

"My father was actually in a tree house, at the property. He saw them come in and saw them getting carried out and put into the back of a Cadillac," Nick alleged.

Jim and Nancy Beaumont lived the majority of their lives under the shadow of the disappearance of their three children. The pair never spoke to media after 1968, likely too traumatised.

In 2019, Nancy passed away in an Adelaide nursing home aged 92. She died not knowing what happened to her children.

Jim passed away in April 2023, aged 97. A funeral notice said he was the "loved father of Jane, Arnna and Grant, reunited with him in heaven".

"It was horrific for the family. As a parent, it's hard to imagine how they dealt with the loss of their three children. For a good 20 years, local police looked at it as a missing persons case. Perhaps the biggest mishandling was the refusal to call it a homicide case and allocate necessary time and energy to following up leads related to that," Whiticker said.

"The other thing that compounded the agony for the parents was people who preyed on them and their desperation to find their kids — 'religious nuts' and fake clairvoyants claiming they knew information they didn't. They were also burned by the media as well."

Whiticker and fellow researcher Stuart Mullins devoted a significant amount of their time to researching and profiling this case. It's been important work, but challenging as well.

"Chipping away at this case, it's complex. It's such a fascinating crime, not only in what we know about the disappearance of the children, but what we assume to be the main suspect in the case. There's been some incredible investigative journalism work done on this story from Adelaide media as well. Because now we know more about the psychology of people who prey on children."

Reflecting on anniversary of the case, Whiticker explained to Mamamia what's important for us to remember.

"I don't think we'll ever know what happened until we find the bodies. There is a chance those children still may be buried at that factory, because it's a two-hectare space. If bodies were recovered, then police would be able to work backwards and piece it all together," he said.

"If new generations don't read about this and embrace these children's memory, then the whole situation will be lost. We have to keep talking about it."

Now, 59 years after that fateful summer's day, the search for the Beaumont children continues.

The surviving Beaumont family members have never given up hope. Nor have investigators, working on one of the longest-running cases in the nation's history.

What's for certain is that the Beaumont children will forever be burned into the collective consciousness of Australia.

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