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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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Carl 'Charles' WebbElectrical instrument maker of Melbourne; proposed identity
Somerton Man (Tamam Shud)
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Carl HammerSperry Univac computer scientist; led the Beale Cypher Association · 1914–2004
Beale ciphers
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Carl LipoArchaeologist, Binghamton University
Easter Island moai
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Carolyn E. BoydArchaeologist and artist; founder of Shumla; author of the creation-narrative reading
White Shaman Mural
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Cassandra M. DonnellyArchaeologist; potmarks, writers and the integrated signary
Cypro-Minoan
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Chad UnderwoodWeapons systems officer who recorded FLIR1
2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos
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Chanté McCoyDaughter of Richard McCoy
Hijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
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Charles BerlitzAuthor of the 1974 bestseller
Bermuda Triangle
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Charles C. TaylorLieutenant, US Navy; instructor and leader of Flight 19
Bermuda Triangle
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Charles I. HaltLieutenant Colonel, deputy base commander; author of the memo
Rendlesham Forest, December 1980
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Charles PaxtonStatistician, University of St Andrews; cataloguer of reports
Loch Ness
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Charles StanishArchaeologist; proposed the accounting hypothesis and led the 2025 project · born 1956
Monte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"
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Charles ThomasArchaeologist; 1963 interpretation of the symbols
Pictish symbol stones
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Charles WagerBritish commodore at the Battle of Barú
San José galleon
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Choongwon JeongPopulation geneticist, Seoul National University; corresponding author 2021
Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)
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Christiane SchaeferLinguist, Uppsala; transcription and decipherment
Copiale cipher
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Christopher G. FoxPMEL acoustic monitoring scientist; first author of the array design paper
Bloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean sounds
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Christopher H. GuitermanDendrochronologist; tree-ring timber sourcing
Great houses of Chaco Canyon
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Christopher M. WrightAustralian scientist; co-author of the 2017 and 2018 analyses
1979 Vela incident
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Christopher R. MooreGeoarchaeologist, University of South Carolina; lead author of the retracted Baffin Bay paper
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
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Christopher R. WebsterJPL; lead of the TLS methane measurements
Mars methane puzzle
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Christopher RollstonPalaeographer, George Washington University
Dead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenance
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Claude RillyLinguist (CNRS); Northern East Sudanic identification · born 1959
Meroitic
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Claudia FritzAcoustician; led the blind tests
Stradivari "secret"
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Clive RugglesArchaeoastronomer, University of Leicester
Stonehenge
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Colin D. ReaderGeologist; early-dynastic dating (2001, 2026)
Great Sphinx of Giza
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Colleen FitzpatrickForensic genealogist, Identifinders International · born 1955
Somerton Man (Tamam Shud)
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Colm KelleherBiochemist; NIDS deputy administrator and ranch investigator; AAWSAP
Skinwalker Ranch
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Cosimo PosthArchaeogeneticist, University of Tübingen; led the 2021 Etruscan genome transect
Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated
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Cyrus H. GordonSemitist; read Eteocretan and Linear A as Northwest Semitic · 1908–2001