Bergman was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He is a third-generation psychic medium who realized his gift at a very early age. During his 32-year career as a police officer in Salem, Massachusetts, however, he kept his gift under wraps. Since retirement and going public as a psychic medium, the A&E Channel and the Biography Channel have featured Bergman on the program and his own pilot program Psychic Search. Bergman has been a repeat guest on many live radio shows, including Coast to Coast AM.

In addition to regularly holding sessions and giving readings as a medium, Bergman has helped numerous police departments around the world locate missing persons and solve murder cases. He is the co-author of The Everything Guide to Evidence of an Afterlife (2011) and his autobiography Psychic Cop was published in 2012. Now retired from the police ...