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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A. J. Timothy JullArizona AMS laboratory; co-author of the 1989, 2010 and 2026 papers
AMShroud of Turin
Abel MéndezPlanetary Habitability Laboratory, UPR Arecibo; leads the Arecibo Wow! project
AQWow! signal
Abigail QuandtConservator who disbound and conserved the book
Archimedes Palimpsest
Abraham (Avi) LoebHarvard astrophysicist; proposed the lightsail reading · born 1962
AB1I/'Oumuamua
Adam BrummArchaeologist, Griffith University; So'a Basin dating
AFHomo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"
Adam FalkensteinAssyriologist; first editor of the Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1, 1936) · 1906–1966
ARProto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk
Adolph RuthSearcher whose death made the story national
ASLost Dutchman's gold mine
Adrian ShineLeader of the Loch Ness Project; organised Operation Deepscan
Loch Ness
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
AAHomo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims
Ahmad Al-JalladEpigrapher (Ohio State); 2025 decipherment; OCIANA director
ABDhofari script
Alan BermanDirector of the Naval Research Laboratory in 1979
AG1979 Vela incident
Alan GardinerEgyptologist who read b'lt and explained the script as acrophonic · 1879–1963
APProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
Alan P. JacksonProposed the nitrogen-ice reading
AG1I/'Oumuamua
Albert G. RichardsonFirst mate
ADMary Celeste
Alex DietrichPilot of the second F/A-18F · born 1979
AB2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos
Alexander BrusovLed the 1945 Soviet investigation; dated the destruction to 9 to 11 April 1945 · 1885–1966
AGAmber Room
Alexander G. KeulResearcher matching ball-lightning reports with lightning networks
AJBall lightning
Alexander JonesHistorian of astronomy; inscriptions and epoch dates
AMAntikythera Mechanism
Alexander M. PuzrinGeotechnical engineer, ETH Zurich; co-author of the 2021 model
ATDyatlov Pass incident
Alexander ThomEngineer and surveyor of megalithic sites · 1894–1985
AVCarnac alignments
Alexei VranichArchaeologist; excavator of Puma Punku
ARPuma Punku and Tiwanaku
Alfred RohdeDirector of the Königsberg Castle museum; displayed the room
AAAmber Room
Ali AkbarArchaeologist; co-author of the 2023 paper; leads the 2025 study and restoration team
ABGunung Padang
Alice B. KehoeAnthropologist; advocate of authenticity
AWKensington Runestone
Allen WestCo-author of the 2007 paper and most later proponent papers
AYounger Dryas impact hypothesis
AmanirenasKandake (queen) of Kush, late 1st century BC; named on the Hamadab stela
Meroitic
Amelia EarhartPilot
AKDisappearance of Amelia Earhart
Anatoly KuchumovCatherine Palace curator; led the Soviet search
ASAmber Room
Andreas SchlüterDesigner of the room
Amber Room
Andreas ÖnnerforsHistorian of secret societies; the Oculists and Freemasonry · born 1971
AKCopiale cipher
Andrei KuryakovDeputy head, Prosecutor General's directorate for the Ural Federal District; announced the 2020 finding
AVDyatlov Pass incident
Andrew VanderburgCo-author; developer of the K2SFF light curves
HD 139139, the "Random Transiter"
AnkhhafVizier, director of Ro-She Khufu
AMHow the Great Pyramid was built
Anna Margherita JasinkAegean scholar (Florence); seal classification and the DBAS-CHS database
APCretan Hieroglyphic
Anna Paulina LunaChair, House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets
ASUS government UAP disclosures
Anna SofaerRecorded the Sun Dagger; founder of the Solstice Project
ADGreat houses of Chaco Canyon
Anne Draffkorn KilmerAssyriologist at Berkeley who published CBS 10996 (1960), synthesised the Babylonian theory texts (1971) and read h.6 as dyads with repetiti
AMHurrian songs of Ugarit
Anne MacGregorDocumentary maker; 2007 analysis
AAMary Celeste
Anthony AveniAstronomer and anthropologist, Colgate University; led the 1980s survey · born 1938
ACNazca Lines
Anthony ClarkeGeochronologist, Curtin University; lead author of the Altar Stone study
ALStonehenge
Anthony LokeMalaysian Minister of Transport
AVMalaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Anthony VaughanSettler; first digger by tradition
AMOak Island money pit
Antonin MorletVichy physician and amateur prehistorian who leased the field in 1925, excavated until 1936, published the finds as a Neolithic station with
APAntonio ParisProposed the comet hypothesis
ASWow! signal
Antonio StradivariViolin maker, Cremona
AKStradivari "secret"
Artemis KarnavaAegean epigraphist; 2000 thesis on the script's function and decipherment prospects
Cretan Hieroglyphic
Arthur Conan DoyleAuthor of the 1884 story · 1859–1930
AEMary Celeste
Arthur EvansExcavator of Knossos; named and first catalogued the script · 1851–1941
Cretan Hieroglyphic
Arthur EvansPublished the disc in Scripta Minoa · 1891–1961
Phaistos Disc
Arthur EvansExcavator of Knossos; named Linear A · 1891–1961
ABLinear A
Ary BoenderDutch shortwave monitor; recorded the station from 1982
AKUVB-76, "the Buzzer"
Ashok KhoslaIndependent researcher; Khipu Field Guide
APInka khipus: the knotted-cord records
Asko ParpolaIndologist; corpus editor and Dravidian hypothesis · born 1972
ABIndus script
Audrey BlanchardArchaeologist, Archeodunum and Nantes; director of the Le Plasker excavation
AMCarnac alignments
Auguste MarietteExcavator of the Valley Temple and the Isis temple
Great Sphinx of Giza