Hermit Amou Haji smokes animal feces, eats rotten meat of dead animals, especially porcupines, and hasn’t had a single shower in the past 60 years. He is single and is looking for love, but if a woman likes him, she has to accept who he is. Kids and women use his name Amou in Farsi to show affection.
Local reports noted that he chose his isolated hermit lifestyle after suffering emotional setbacks and heartbreak in his youth. The eighty-year-old Iranian hermit Amou Haji lives in a hole in Dejgah village, a southern province in Iran and has beaten 66-year-old Indian man Kailash Singh, who held the last record of 38 years without showers, as reported by Tehran Times.
He did not use soap or water for more than six decades, fearing that cleanliness would make him sick. His skin became heavily covered in soot because he “bathed” in smoke and regularly smoked animal dung out of a pipe instead of tobacco.
When a group of young men tried to give him a shower, he escaped. He drinks rainfall from a rusty oil can to get clean water. According to Tehran Times, he has several places to live. One is a hole in the ground that resembles a grave. The other is an open brick shack built for him by fans or sympathizers.
Haji checks himself occasionally using side mirrors of cars passing by. And yes, he trims his hair by burning it over fire. To ward off the cold during the cold winter months, Mr. Haji pairs helmets with his otherwise standard rags.
Content contributed by staff member, reported from Dejgah, Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran, sourced by Al Arabiya News
