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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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Gareth OwensProposed a partial reading with John Coleman
Phaistos Disc
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Gary UrtonAnthropologist; founded the Harvard Khipu Database Project · born 1946
Inka khipus: the knotted-cord records
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George E. MendenhallAmerican biblical scholar and Near Eastern philologist at the University of Michigan (1916 to 2016), author of The Syllabic Inscriptions fro
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George H. PepperAMNH archaeologist of the Hyde Exploring Expedition
Great houses of Chaco Canyon
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George HourmouziadisGreek prehistorian, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, who excavated the Dispilio lake settlement from 1992 and found the inscribed woode
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George KnappKLAS-TV journalist; co-author of both books
Skinwalker Ranch
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George SarantitisGreek researcher; placed Atlantis at the Richat from 2008 · born 1954
Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis
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George SmithAssyriologist (British Museum); deciphered the Cypriot syllabary from the Idalion bilingual, 1871 · 1840–1876
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George SpicerReported a land sighting in August 1933
Loch Ness
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George T. FlomLinguist; argued the inscription is modern · 1871–1960
Kensington Runestone
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Gerald B. GallagherOfficer in charge, Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme; reported the bones
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Gerald HawkinsAstronomer; author of the observatory reading · 1928–2003
Stonehenge
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Geraldine M. H. KingEpigrapher; Dhofar Epigraphic Project
Dhofari script
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Gerrit D. van den BerghPalaeontologist, University of Wollongong; Mata Menge excavations
Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"
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Gilman C. ParkerLast master; wrecked the ship in 1885
Mary Celeste
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Giovanni Battista CavigliaCleared the Sphinx in 1817 to 1818; donor of the beard fragment
Great Sphinx of Giza
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Giuliano CastagnaLinguist (Beijing Normal University); South-east Arabian inscriptions, radiocarbon
Dhofari script
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Giuseppe LongoPhysicist, University of Bologna; led the Italian expeditions
1908 Tunguska event
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Glenn DennisMortician; body and nurse account, 1989
Roswell, 1947
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Glenn M. SchwartzArchaeologist who excavated Umm el-Marra and proposed that its clay cylinders carry alphabetic writing of c. 2400 BC
Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
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Gordon NobleArchaeologist, University of Aberdeen; dating and excavation · born 1950
Pictish symbol stones
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Greg LongAuthor of The Making of Bigfoot
Patterson-Gimlin film
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Guido CreemersCurator, Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren
Gallo-Roman dodecahedra
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Guillaume MattonGeologist; showed the Richat is the top of a Cretaceous alkaline complex
Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis
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Guo MoruoWriter, historian and palaeographer, editor-in-chief (with Hu Houxuan as chief editor) of the Jiaguwen heji, the 13-volume standard corpus o
Gusztáv BatthyányDonor of the codex
Rohonc Codex
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Gwen ShermanRancher; owner 1994–1996
Skinwalker Ranch
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Gábor TokaiCo-author of the 2018 decipherment
Rohonc Codex