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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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Fan ZhangFirst author of the 2021 genomic study
Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)
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Federica NicolardiPapyrologist; leads the Vesuvius Challenge papyrological team · born 1990
Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge
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Fife SymingtonGovernor of Arizona 1991 to 1997; witness from 2007
Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997
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Flinders PetrieExcavator of Serabit el-Khadim; found and first published the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions · 1853–1942
Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
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Florentin Étienne JaussenBishop of Tahiti; collected tablets and Metoro's readings
Rongorongo
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Folke BergmanSwedish archaeologist, Sino-Swedish Expedition
Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)
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Forrest KirklandDallas draftsman and artist; recorded Texas rock art in watercolour in the 1930s
White Shaman Mural
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Frances BarwoodPhoenix city councilwoman who asked for an investigation
Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997
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Francis CrozierCaptain of Terror; led the 1848 retreat
Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
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Francis Leopold McClintockLed the 1857-1859 search that found the record
Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
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Francis Llewellyn GriffithEgyptologist; deciphered the Meroitic script · 1862–1934
Meroitic
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François DessetArchaeologist (Liège); lead author of the 2022 decipherment
Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite
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Fred GoernerCBS correspondent; author of the Saipan capture claim
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Fred NoonanNavigator
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Frederick Solly-FloodAttorney General and Advocate General of Gibraltar · 1829–1909
Mary Celeste