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All we wish is to be let alone. ~ Jefferson Davis
I was reading about the “Peter Bergmann” case. At first, I thought, “Ha, just another internet legend, probably fake,” but it turns out it’s one of the real unsolved mysteries out there.
In June 2009, a mysterious man arrived in the town of Sligo, Ireland, using the fake name Peter Bergmann. He checked into the Sligo City Hotel, where he was seen on security cameras leaving and returning multiple times with a purple plastic bag, from which he seemed to dispose of something in carefully chosen spots—always outside the range of the cameras. During his stay, he gave authorities false information, like a non-existent address in Austria and a fake phone number. Everything pointed to him trying to vanish without a trace.
On June 16, 2009, Peter Bergmann’s body was found on Rosses Point beach. He was wearing wet clothes, with no ID, no tags, and nothing that could help identify him. The autopsy revealed he had terminal cancer and several other illnesses, but the cause of death was drowning. Despite efforts by Irish authorities and Interpol, no solid clue about his identity was ever discovered. To this day, no one knows who he was, where he came from, or why he…