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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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Hallie StillwellTeacher and rancher of the Big Bend; told on television in 1989 of seeing the lights in 1916 · 1897–1997
Marfa lights
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Hans AchtermannSon of a Wehrmacht soldier; held the fourth mosaic until 1997
Amber Room
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Hans J. NissenArchaeologist of Uruk; co-author of ZATU and Archaic Bookkeeping · born 1935
Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk
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Hans-Rudolf HitzSwiss microbiologist and amateur epigrapher who from 1979 published readings of the Glozel tablets as a Celtic language in an Etruscan-deriv
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Hans-Siegfried SchusterGerman Hittitologist who edited the Hattic-Hittite bilinguals (1974, 2002)
Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives
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Harald HaarmannGerman linguist, the main academic proponent of the "Danube script" as the world's earliest writing and an ancestor of Linear A · born 1946
Harald MellerState archaeologist of Saxony-Anhalt, director of the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte · born 1960
Nebra Sky Disc
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Harry J. ShaferArchaeologist; Witte Museum curator of archaeology; co-author of the first plasma-oxidation date
White Shaman Mural
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Harry ReidUS Senator who secured AAWSAP funding
Skinwalker Ranch
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Haruyoshi MatsumotoPMEL acoustics engineer; co-author of the array design paper
Bloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean sounds
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Harvey SobelmanAmerican linguist whose 1961 paper set aside sound values and analysed the Byblos texts by sign sequences to find word boundaries and gramma
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He XiaogeArchaeologist; author of the 2025 and 2026 studies of the bronzes
Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits
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Helaine SilvermanArchaeologist; excavator of Cahuachi
Nazca Lines
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Helmut RixIndo-Europeanist; editor of Etruskische Texte and author of the Tyrsenian hypothesis · 1926–2004
Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated
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Henri van EffenterreArchaeologist; excavator of Dreros, publisher of the Dreros bilinguals · 1912–2007
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Henrik WilliamsRunologist, Uppsala University · born 1958
Kensington Runestone
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Henry TantaleánArchaeologist; co-author of the 2015 survey and the 2025 study · born 1974
Monte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"
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Henry WestphalOne of the two looters
Nebra Sky Disc
Hjalmar HolandHistorian and owner; chief advocate of authenticity · 1872–1963
Kensington Runestone