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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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Bedřich HroznýCzech orientalist who showed in 1915 that Hittite is Indo-European · 1879–1952
Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives
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Benedek LángHistorian; author of the 2010 review and the 2021 book
Rohonc Codex
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Benjamin SassEpigrapher; author of the 1988 corpus, who later moved the alphabet's date down to c. 1300 BC
Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
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Benjamin Spooner BriggsMaster
Mary Celeste
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Benjamin T. MontetMeasured the Kepler-era fade with Joshua Simon
Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)
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Bettina Schulz PaulssonArchaeologist, University of Gothenburg; built the Bayesian models
Carnac alignments
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Bettye HardenSolved Z408 with her husband
Zodiac ciphers
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Beáta MegyesiComputational linguist, Uppsala then Stockholm; transcription and decipherment
Copiale cipher
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Bill (William) MunnsCreature-effects designer; film analyst
Patterson-Gimlin film
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Bjørn Gitle HaugeØstfold University College; station and spectra
Hessdalen lights
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Bob GimlinWitness and co-participant
Patterson-Gimlin film
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Bob HeironimusClaims to have worn the suit
Patterson-Gimlin film
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Bob MarkRock art photographer; made the 2009 GigaPan of the mural with Evelyn Billo
White Shaman Mural
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Boris VozrozhdennyForensic pathologist who performed the autopsies
Dyatlov Pass incident
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Bradley E. SchaeferAstronomer, Louisiana State University; measured the century-long fade
Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)
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Bram JagersmaLeiden Sumerologist whose 2010 descriptive grammar is the fullest modern account of the language.
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
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Brandon FugalProperty developer; owner since 2016
Skinwalker Ranch
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Brent DavisLinguist; libation formula syntax
Linear A
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Brent DavisStatistical comparison with Linear A
Phaistos Disc
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Brian DunningSceptical writer and host of the Skeptoid podcast
Marfa lights
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Brian E. CollessNew Zealand historian of religion and epigrapher (Massey University) who from 1992 defended and extended Mendenhall's decipherment, treats t
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Brian IngramFound the Tena Bar money as a child
Hijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
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Brian JohnGeomorphologist; advocate of glacial transport
Stonehenge