The world's most ineligible bachelor: Iranian hasn't had a wash for 60 years and smokes animal faeces (but he can whip up a mean decomposed porcupine!)

• Amou Haji, 80, chose this way of life after some 'emotional setbacks'
• The 80-year-old now lives in a hole near a village in southern Iran
  
• He doesn't wash, because he believes being clean will make him sick

By LEON WATSON

PUBLISHED: 09:27 GMT, 15 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:51 GMT, 15 January 2014

He's single and he's looking for love.

But, to win his heart, you'd have to accept his rather unconventional lifestyle.

Amou Haji has not washed for 60 years, because he believes being clean will make him sick, and his favourite food is rotten porcupine.

To relax he likes to sit down and have a smoke, from a pipe packed with animal faeces.

Mr Haji, 80, 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.

His home is in Dejgah village in the southern province of Fars in Iran where, once, a group of young men offered to give him a shower - but luckily he managed to escape.

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.

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