People
625 people in 95 mysteries
Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.
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Abraham (Avi) LoebHarvard astrophysicist; proposed the lightsail reading · born 1962
1I/'Oumuamua
Afonso de AlbuquerqueGovernor of Portuguese India; commanded the ship at her loss
Flor de la Mar
Agustín FuentesAnthropologist, Princeton; co-author of the burial and meaning-making papers · born 1966
Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims
Amelia EarhartPilot
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Andreas ÖnnerforsHistorian of secret societies; the Oculists and Freemasonry · born 1971
Copiale cipher
AnkhhafVizier, director of Ro-She Khufu
How the Great Pyramid was built
Arthur Conan DoyleAuthor of the 1884 story · 1859–1930
Mary Celeste
Arthur EvansPublished the disc in Scripta Minoa · 1891–1961
Phaistos Disc
Arthur EvansExcavator of Knossos; named Linear A · 1891–1961
Linear A
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Danny Hilman NatawidjajaGeologist, BRIN; lead author of the retracted paper · born 1961
Gunung Padang
David FravorRetired Navy commander; 2004 Nimitz witness
US government UAP disclosures
David FravorCommanding officer, VFA-41; flight lead on 14 November 2004
2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos
David GruschFormer NGA officer and UAP Task Force member; whistleblower · born 1987
US government UAP disclosures
David KippingColumbia University astronomer; repeating-beacon analysis
Wow! signal
Derek de Solla PriceFirst full study, 1974
Antikythera Mechanism
Donald TrumpPresident; ordered the 2026 release · born 1946
US government UAP disclosures
Duncan R. LorimerAstronomer, West Virginia University; reported the first burst · born 1969
Fast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off bursts
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Gerald HawkinsAstronomer; author of the observatory reading · 1928–2003
Stonehenge
Gusztáv BatthyányDonor of the codex
Rohonc Codex
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Harald MellerState archaeologist of Saxony-Anhalt, director of the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte · born 1960
Nebra Sky Disc
Hjalmar HolandHistorian and owner; chief advocate of authenticity · 1872–1963
Kensington Runestone
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James P. KennettMarine geologist, University of California, Santa Barbara; leading proponent · born 1940
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Jimmy CarterUS President, 1977–1981 · 1924–2024
1979 Vela incident
Joe NickellInvestigator; archival and linguistic case for a hoax · 1944–2025
Beale ciphers
Joe NickellSceptical investigator · 1944–2025
Oak Island money pit
Johan Ludvig HeibergPhilologist; identified the Archimedes undertext in 1906 · 1854–1928
Archimedes Palimpsest
John D. KrausDesigner and builder of the Big Ear · 1730–1790
Wow! signal
John RaeHudson's Bay Company surgeon and explorer; reported Inuit accounts in 1854 · 1813–1893
Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
John SmithSettler; first digger by tradition; later owned the pit lot · 1798–1888
Oak Island money pit
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KhafreFourth Dynasty king; builder of the second pyramid · -261–-253
Great Sphinx of Giza
KhufuKing of the Fourth Dynasty · 26th century BC · died -256
How the Great Pyramid was built
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Maria ReicheMathematician; documented and protected the lines, proposed the calendar reading · 1903–1998
Nazca Lines
Mark BosloughAirburst physicist; co-author of the refutation and PubPeer critic of the 2025 papers
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Mike Parker PearsonArchaeologist, UCL; director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project and the Preseli excavations · born 1957
Stonehenge
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Neil GemmellGeneticist, University of Otago; led the 2018 eDNA survey
Loch Ness
Nicole OresmeTheologian and bishop of Lisieux; wrote on false relics · 1323–1382
Shroud of Turin
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Pete HegsethSecretary of War · born 1980
US government UAP disclosures
Peter ScheemakersSculptor of the relief · 1691–1781
Shugborough inscription
Pierre TalletEgyptologist, Sorbonne; director of the Wadi al-Jarf excavation · born 1966
How the Great Pyramid was built
Puzur-InshushinakKing of Awan and Susa, c. 2150 to 2100 BC; author of the bilinguals
Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite
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Ramesses IIIPharaoh of Egypt's 20th Dynasty; recorded the Sea Peoples battles at Medinet Habu · -121–-115
Late Bronze Age collapse
Richard L. GarwinIBM physicist; Ruina panel member · 1928–2025
1979 Vela incident
Robert BallardOceanographer; led the 2019 Nikumaroro expedition · born 1942
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Robert BigelowDeveloper; founder of NIDS and Bigelow Aerospace; owner 1996–2016 · 1908–1978
Skinwalker Ranch
Robert H. GrayIndependent astronomer; led most follow-up searches · born 1948
Wow! signal
Robert M. SchochGeologist; author of the rain-erosion redating · born 1949
Great Sphinx of Giza
Roger M. RameyBrigadier General, Eighth Air Force
Roswell, 1947
Ryan GravesFormer Navy pilot; Americans for Safe Aerospace
US government UAP disclosures
Rüdiger KrauseArchaeologist; co-author of the Iron Age critique · born 1958
Nebra Sky Disc
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Sabine HylandAnthropologist; Collata and hair-khipu studies · born 1964
Inka khipus: the knotted-cord records
Sara SeagerMIT planetary scientist; co-author of the detection and source studies · born 1971
Phosphine in the clouds of Venus
Secondo PiaLawyer and photographer; first photographed the cloth · 1855–1941
Shroud of Turin
Sir James CochraneChief Justice of Gibraltar; presided over the salvage hearing · 1798–1883
Mary Celeste
Sir John FranklinCommander of the expedition
Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
Stanton FriedmanResearcher who reopened the case in 1978 · 1898–1961
Roswell, 1947
Suppiluliuma IILast recorded Great King of the Hittites; reigned from about 1207 BC
Late Bronze Age collapse
Svante PääboGeneticist, MPI-EVA; senior author of the 2010 Denisovan papers · born 1955
Who were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" cranium
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