Identified as Amou Haji, is known to eat rotten porcupine meat with relish and smoking animal poop. The old man claims he started living away from society after he went through emotional setbacks in his youthful days.
His home is in Dejgah village in the southern province of Fars in Iran where, sometime ago, a group of young men offered to give him a shower – but he managed to escape from them.
The man living in southern Iran is scared of taking a bath as he thinks it might make him ill. To relax, he likes to sit down and have a smoke, from a pipe packed with animal faeces.
Haji, says he chose this way of life after going through some emotional setbacks in his youth and since then – perhaps unsurprisingly – he has become a bit isolated.
At night, he either sleeps in a hole in the ground, which is quite like a grave, or in an open brick shack which concerned locals built for him.
As well as cleanliness, Haji also has an aversion to clean food and drink. He much prefers the rotten meat of dead animals and five litres of water a day from a rusty oil can.
And, when he needs a haircut, he simply burns his locks in a fire. As for clothing, he wears rags and, in the winter, a war helmet to ward off the cold.
The last record of longest time going without showers belonged to a 66-year-old Indian man, Kailash Singh, who had not taken a bath over 38 years. Amou Haji has however beaten that.
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