Meet the world's 'dirtiest' man who hasn't showered in 65 years

 Iran's Amou Haji has not bathed for 65 years and is called the world's dirtiest man. Here is what we know about the dirtiest man alive.

 The 87-year-old has not bathed in over six decades and looks close to the biblical Moses bathed in ashes.

Amou Haji, an 83-year-old Iranian is labelled as the world's dirtiest man as he has not bathed in 65 years. Haji is terrified of water, thus the aversion to bathing. He believes he'll fall sick if he bathes and this has stopped him from taking a shower in over six decades.

He lives in the Iranian desert, with rotting porcupine meat as his favourite meal, it is the one that he is accustomed to. 

To stay healthy he drinks five litres of water from a rusty oil can every day. He also loves to smoke but his style of smoking involves inhaling dried cow dung instead of tobacco.

Locals believe that a broken heart was the reason that Amou Haji chose this lifestyle. However, he still hasn't given up on finding love.

Haji has no home, he wanders near the isolated village of Dejgah in the Southern Iranian province of Fars and lives in holes made in the desert outside the village. Although the villagers built a hut for him but he chose not to live there.

He has become almost the same colour as the earth around him and he totally blends in with his environment. Locals say they often mistake him for a rock when he stays still.

Haji has no care for the comforts of the world and is contented  living a nomadic life

Amou Haji, 80, believes that “cleanliness brings him sickness.” For that reason, he hasn’t bathed in the past 65 years, and he’s unofficially called the “dirtiest man in the world”.

He lives in isolation in Dejgah village, in the Southern Iranian province of Fars. The man hates contact with water, and even the suggestion of a bath makes him angry. Apparently, as a young man, he was in love with a woman, but as she rejected him, he chose a life of isolation

He dislikes fresh and clean food as much as he dislikes water — his preferred food is rotted porcupine meat. Meanwhile, his house is a grave-like hole in the ground. He drinks 4-6 liters of water each day (for health reasons, he claims) but only from a dirty, rusty old oil can. 

The man grooms his hair by burning it every now and then and fills his smoking pipe with animal feces instead of tobacco. An old war helmet keeps his head warm during the winter.

You could argue that the man is mentally ill – that may very well be true, but it’s not a certainty. He sleeps on the ground, hasn’t washed in 60 years,  smokes doodoo and eats rotten meat. 

 He’s 80, he’s happy, and he’s apparently healthy, for a man his age. So what does this man gives to the society? Is this man a fantastic exception, or is this something we’ve not fully understood?

I really think psychological studies conducted on people living extremely isolated lives would be interesting, and would reveal valuable information about parts of our mind we know little about. Of course, the logistical problems and challenges of doing this are evident.

I am in no way trying to ridicule him or his lifestyle — if anything, I think there is something to learn from his story. First of all – happiness is a state of mind. Second of all, there are still many things we don’t understand about general human health — because he definitely shouldn’t be as healthy as he is. Third of all, some people live in (almost) total isolation — and we should all learn from their stories.