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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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D. Jeffrey MeldrumAnatomist, Idaho State University; editor of The Relict Hominoid Inquiry
Patterson-Gimlin film
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Dan CooperUnidentified hijacker of Northwest 305
Hijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
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Dan GryderRetired pilot and YouTuber who found the rig
Hijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
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Dan OlsonChief of the FBI Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit in 2011
Ricky McCormick's notes
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Daniel McGinnisSettler; first digger by tradition
Oak Island money pit
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Daniel O. SchmittLocomotion biomechanist, Duke University
Patterson-Gimlin film
Danny Hilman NatawidjajaGeologist, BRIN; lead author of the retracted paper · born 1961
Gunung Padang
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Darryl Z. SeligmanProposed the hydrogen-ice and radiolytic-hydrogen readings; led the dark-comet work
1I/'Oumuamua
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David C. CatlingUniversity of Washington; co-author of the statistical and instrumental critiques
Mars methane puzzle
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David ClarkeHistorian; obtained the MoD file in 2001
Rendlesham Forest, December 1980
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David F. Mora-MarínLinguist (UNC); reading order and distributional analysis
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing
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
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David J. DaeglingBiological anthropologist; sceptical analyst
Patterson-Gimlin film
David KippingColumbia University astronomer; repeating-beacon analysis
Wow! signal
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David L. ClementsImperial College London; leads reporting of JCMT-Venus
Phosphine in the clouds of Venus
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David N. KeightleyBerkeley historian whose Sources of Shang History (1978) made the method of reading the inscriptions available in English and catalogued the
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David NashGeographer, University of Brighton; sarsen provenance
Stonehenge
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David OranchakSoftware developer; co-solver of Z340; maintains the transcriptions
Zodiac ciphers
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David Reed MorehouseMaster of the Dei Gratia
Mary Celeste
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David SteinCIA analyst; solved K1 to K3 in 1998
Kryptos
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David StupplesSignals intelligence specialist, City, University of London
UVB-76, "the Buzzer"
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David W. HoodlessPrincipal, Central Medical School, Suva; examined the bones in 1941
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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David WulstanBritish musicologist who analysed the Ur tuning text with Gurney (1968) and published the first realization of h.6 (1971). · 1937–2017
Hurrian songs of Ugarit
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Denise Schmandt-BesseratArchaeologist; author of the token theory of the origin of writing · born 1933
Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk
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Derek AbbottProfessor of electrical engineering, University of Adelaide
Somerton Man (Tamam Shud)
Derek de Solla PriceFirst full study, 1974
Antikythera Mechanism
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Donald HardenSalinas teacher; solved Z408 with his wife
Zodiac ciphers
Donald TrumpPresident; ordered the 2026 release · born 1946
US government UAP disclosures
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Donald TrumpUS President; said the cases were "pretty serious stuff", then on 30 April 2026 that there was "not much of a connection"
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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Donald WittPhysicist, Sul Ross State University; investigated the lights in the 1970s
Marfa lights
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Dong ZuobinArchaeologist who began the scientific excavation of Anyang in October 1928 and in 1933 published the ten criteria that divide the inscripti
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Dora PennyRecipient; published the note in 1937
Dorabella cipher
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Dorothy GarrodBritish Palaeolithic archaeologist, later the first woman professor at Cambridge, who sat on the international commission that dug at Glozel
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Douglas J. KennettLead author of the Room 33 genomic study
Great houses of Chaco Canyon
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Douglas R. StentonArchaeologist, University of Waterloo; leads the DNA identification work · born 1953
Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
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Drew SullinsCaptain, Maryland ANG spokesman
Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997
Duncan R. LorimerAstronomer, West Virginia University; reported the first burst · born 1969
Fast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off bursts