In 2009 a man arrived at the seaport town of Sligo, Ireland. He was an elderly man with graying hair, thin-framed prescription glasses, and a black leathered jacket. He appeared peacefully lost in the little footage that would be taken of the visiting stranger from CCTV cameras around the town center.
For the next three days the man known as Peter Bergmann would meticulously erase all evidence of his existence. His lifeless body would soon be discovered in local waters days after his arrival. Authorities retrieved the body only to find out that Peter Bergmann cut out all labels from his clothes and had no documentation. It was only when they traced him back to the hotel that they realized that Peter Bergmann was not real.
The story begins in Derry, Ireland, where authorities were able to trace Bergmann’s arrival. Sifting through hours of footage from several security cameras, they managed to find the footage that showed Bergmann boarding a bus to Sligo, Ireland. A two hour bus ride to the south of the country.
The next footage of the elderly man is from the bus’ arrival at a Sligo center hotel. Here the man checked in under Peter Bergmann and kept a very low profile. He took notice of the several security cameras installed inside and outside the hotel. It was said that he also took a keen look at the city center’s public CCTV cameras that were setup throughout several streets.
For the next three days guests and staff at the hotel recount seeing Bergmann leave the hotel while carrying a purple plastic bag full of unknown things which many thought to be personal belongings. Each day, Bergmann would come back through the lobby empty handed. No plastic bag in sight.
Strangely enough, when the authorities reviewed the hours of footage, they noticed something even stranger about Bergmann. It became apparent to the investigators that the old man had pre-selected his routes to avoid being recorded by the CCTV lenses that keep a constant look throughout Sligo.
They fast forward the tape and another day goes by with Bergmann leaving the hotel with a full bag of his belongings and him coming back empty handed. All while he manages to be seen by security cameras for brief moments at a time.
Where did Bergmann go every day? What was in the bag? The investigators scoured through a plethora of CCTV footage and nowhere did they find where he had dumped his belongings. Or what routes he took as Bergmann chose streets with the least amount of surveillance.
On his second day in Sligo, Bergmann bought $0.82 worth of stamps and airmail stickers from a postal office. However extensive search yielded no information as to what he did with the stamps and stickers. Did Bergmann send a final correspondence to someone?
On his third and final day at Sligo, Bergmann hailed a taxi and asked to be taken to the quiet and peaceful beach at Rosses Point. According to the driver: ‘He got out and had a look at the area and seemed contented. And got back into the taxi and returned back into Sligo itself. He didn’t really communicate with people. He didn’t mix with people.’
On his last day in Sligo, Bergmann checked out of the hotel and purchased a one-way ticket back to Rosses Point. Footage shows him leaving with the same purple plastic bag he left with every morning as well as two suitcases. The same ones seen during his arrival.bergmann3 Bergmann arrived at Rosses Point and went to a cafe and purchased a sandwich and a cappuccino. Cameras show the man eating alone in a contemplative state.
Some witnesses then put Bergmann on the beach. Again, alone and looking engulfed in a world of his own. They saw him wading through the water at the beach. He had rolled up his trousers in the ankle-deep water. Someone else saw him later that night, they only stated that the old man waved and nodded at them.
When dawn came, Bergmanns’ lifeless body was discovered by a father and son who were out on a run. They remembered seeing the body of an oddly dressed man who was obviously not from the area.
The inspection of the body revealed that Bergmann had cut or removed the labels from all the articles of clothing he wore. As if to conceal his own measurements. When an autopsy was performed, investigators learned that there was no evidence of salt water drowning. No evidence whatsoever of an kind of foul play. However they did discover that Bergmann was in a stage of advanced prostate cancer and his body was riddled with bone tumors. There was evidence the he had also suffered from multiple heart attacks throughout his life.
As investigators dug and traced all evidence of Bergmann in Sligo, they came to the realization that Bergmann never really existed. No records matched a man named Peter Bergmann.
The only thing that the authorities were sure about was that Peter Bergmann was a person that did not exist in the United States, South America, or anywhere in Europe. It was a made up name, just like the address he used to check into the hotel. It was traced to an empty lot somewhere in Vienna, Austria.
He just wanted to commit suicide without his family finding out. Not really paranormal.
Only scary thing is how easy it is to track us.
>>17115113
This.
Pretty sad tale.
sounds like a guy who knew his time was near, neatly wrapped up his affairs, then took his own life in a place he found peaceful before he could die in pain in a hospital. good on 'im
>>17115156
What if...(now stay with me here)..if he was a time traveler (or some other various ayy lmao) that was riddled with tumors from radiation from the time traveling processes. And he came to his birth town or was stranded on planet as a dying wish or something...maybe...?
>>17115115
this really
>>17115089
>Derry, Ireland,
Londonderry, Northern Ireland
>>17115744
There's always one...
>>17115326
lol
ARG
>>17115990
Eros.
>>17115744
Fuck you, you proddy cuc.k, you. Have no fucking culture besides sucking up to the UK, who don't even like you, shut up, fuck off,
Up the RA, goodnight and God bless.
>>17115092
Oh. That's me. So this is how it ends.
Maybe is Luis Le Prince finally resting... good for him... fuck Edison...
hmmm so a man in poor health wanted to get away for his last few days before checking out and making sure no one would find him
hmm he was probably a loner
real sad
>>17115089
He knew he was dying of cancer and wanted to end it without anybody who knew his real name finding out it was suicide.
Like when you commit suicide, some people are bothered by people knowing. Maybe somebody he knew always told him to kill himself, maybe a relative or family member. He didn't want them to know he had cancer, or killed himself or ever letting them win in anyway psychologically.
>>17115096
There is another person at that table reading the paper. So he wasn't really eating alone even if they were strangers just sharing a table. That is just sloppy writing.
>>17116076
Consider suicide, role play fag. Using this website if under 18yo is not allowed.
the spookiest thing about this is, that theres somebody out there that considers sligo town a city.
he picked a nice place to kill himself though
>>17115089
Maybe his insurance did not cover suicide, so, he wanted to be "lost" under his real name so his relatives could at last cash in?
Maybe a background that made him aware of security matters.
Judging by his medical, there wouldn't be any need of foul play for him to die.
If so, good on him. Hope at last this worked as planned.
>>17115115
??? Not that i wouldn't agree with you there, but... point of this post is, they DID NOT track him ;)
