The Peter Bergmann case pertains to the mysterious death of an unidentified man in County Sligo, Ireland, in the early hours of 16 June 2009. The man, using the alias "Peter Bergmann", had checked int
Post-mortem photograph of "Peter Bergmann"
Beach at Rosses Point, Sligo, where Bergmann was last sighted alive and his body later found washed up (photographed 2003)
The Somerton Man is an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is also known by the Persian phrase tamám
Peter Bergmann case
…investigation into his death, the Gardaí have never been able to identify the man or develop any leads in the case. The mystery is often compared to the Somerton Man case in Australia, in which an unidentified man was found dead on a beach in 1948 shortly after the Second World War, although the Bergmann case has…
Reconstructed photograph made by police of the man, 1948
Location on Somerton Park beach where the corpse was found, marked by an 'X'
Suitcase and effects, found at Adelaide railway station. From left to right are detectives Dave Bartlett, Lionel Leane, and Len Brown.
The handwriting found in the back of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The text is presumed to be some sort of code.