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On June 15 of 2009, the body of a middle-aged man was found on Rosses Point Beach in County Sligo, Ireland. He had no identification on him, no passport, even the tags had been removed from his clothes. Over the following days, as authorities reviewed his activity with security camera footage, they found that he went to great pains to dispose of his personal effects without anybody seeing. This was a man who wanted to disappear completely. And he was almost successful. But one random thing went wrong and turned him into one of the biggest internet mysteries of all time.
Who was Peter Bergmann?

Check out the excellent Atlantic podcast on this story:
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That Chapter's video on Peter Bergmann
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/2...

https://irishamerica.com/2015/05/150-...

https://rossespoint.ie/history-and-fo...

https://www.sligotown.net/notable-sli...

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-4...

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich...