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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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All mysteries1908 Tunguska event1979 Vela incident1I/'Oumuamua2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videosAmber RoomAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026Antikythera MechanismArchimedes PalimpsestBall lightningBeale ciphersBermuda TriangleBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsCarnac alignmentsCascajal block and Isthmian writingCicada 3301Copiale cipherCretan HieroglyphicCypro-MinoanDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenanceDhofari scriptDisappearance of Amelia EarhartDorabella cipherDyatlov Pass incidentEarth flyby anomalyEaster Island moaiEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translatedEye of the Sahara and AtlantisFast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off burstsFlor de la MarFranklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)Gallo-Roman dodecahedraGreat Sphinx of GizaGreat houses of Chaco CanyonGunung PadangGöbekli TepeHD 139139, the "Random Transiter"Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archivesHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius ChallengeHessdalen lightsHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claimsHow the Great Pyramid was builtHurrian songs of UgaritIberian language and Palaeohispanic scriptsIndus scriptInka khipus: the knotted-cord recordsKensington RunestoneKryptosLate Bronze Age collapseLinear ALoch NessLost Colony of RoanokeLost Dutchman's gold mineMalaysia Airlines Flight MH370Marfa lightsMars methane puzzleMary CelesteMeroiticMonte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"Nazca LinesNebra Sky DiscOak Island money pitPatterson-Gimlin filmPhaistos DiscPhoenix Lights, 13 March 1997Phosphine in the clouds of VenusPictish symbol stonesProto-Elamite and Linear ElamiteProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetProto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of UrukPuma Punku and TiwanakuRendlesham Forest, December 1980Ricky McCormick's notesRohonc CodexRongorongoRoswell, 1947San José galleonSanxingdui and its sacrificial pitsShroud of TurinShugborough inscriptionSkinwalker RanchSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)StonehengeStradivari "secret"Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)US government UAP disclosuresUVB-76, "the Buzzer"Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianWhite Shaman MuralWho were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" craniumWow! signalYounger Dryas impact hypothesisZodiac ciphers
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Abraham (Avi) LoebHarvard astrophysicist; proposed the lightsail reading · born 1962
1I/'Oumuamua
Agustín FuentesAnthropologist, Princeton; co-author of the burial and meaning-making papers · born 1966
Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims
Andreas ÖnnerforsHistorian of secret societies; the Oculists and Freemasonry · born 1971
Copiale cipher

D 3

Danny Hilman NatawidjajaGeologist, BRIN; lead author of the retracted paper · born 1961
Gunung Padang
David GruschFormer NGA officer and UAP Task Force member; whistleblower · born 1987
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

H 1

Harald MellerState archaeologist of Saxony-Anhalt, director of the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte · born 1960
Nebra Sky Disc

M 1

Mike Parker PearsonArchaeologist, UCL; director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project and the Preseli excavations · born 1957
Stonehenge

P 2

Pete HegsethSecretary of War · born 1980
US government UAP disclosures
Pierre TalletEgyptologist, Sorbonne; director of the Wadi al-Jarf excavation · born 1966
How the Great Pyramid was built

R 1

Rüdiger KrauseArchaeologist; co-author of the Iron Age critique · born 1958
Nebra Sky Disc

S 3

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
Svante PääboGeneticist, MPI-EVA; senior author of the 2010 Denisovan papers · born 1955
Who were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" cranium