People
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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JB
J. B. McCullyTruro Company organiser; author of the 1862 narrative
JMOak Island money pit
J. McKim MalvilleAstronomer; critic of the standstill alignments of the great houses
JPGreat houses of Chaco Canyon
J. Phil DeringArchaeobotanist; co-author on the peyote and dating studies; took the mural images to Huichol shamans
JRWhite Shaman Mural
J. Romilly AllenCo-author of the 1903 classification
JRPictish symbol stones
Jack RuinaMIT professor, former ARPA director; chaired the White House panel
JL1979 Vela incident
Jacob L. BongersArchaeologist, University of Sydney; lead author of the 2025 study
JLMonte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"
Jacob L. DahlAssyriologist (Oxford); Proto-Elamite sign list and CDLI corpus; critic of continuity · born 1972
JRProto-Elamite and Linear Elamite
Jacob RoggeveenDutch navigator; first recorded European visitor · 1659–1729
JWEaster Island moai
Jacob WaltzGerman immigrant prospector and farmer; the 'Dutchman'
JBLost Dutchman's gold mine
Jacques B. M. GuyLinguist; Mamari calendar structure
JKRongorongo
Jakob KrallEgyptologist, Vienna; identified the Zagreb mummy wrappings as Etruscan in 1892 · 1857–1905
JAEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated
James A. HarrellGeologist; reply to Schoch, 1994 · born 1948
JBGreat Sphinx of Giza
James B. WardAgent and copyright holder of the 1885 pamphlet; suspected author
JBBeale ciphers
James BunnellRetired aerospace engineer (BAE Systems); ran unattended camera stations on Mitchell Flat from 2003 and has written several books on the lig
JCMarfa lights
James ComerUS Representative (R-Kentucky), chairman of the House Oversight Committee; opened its inquiry in April 2026
JEAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026
James E. HochCanadian Egyptologist (University of Toronto PhD 1992; University of Alberta) who argued in 1990 that the Byblos signs derive from the Egypt
JFJames FitzjamesCaptain of Erebus; identified by DNA 2024
JJFranklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
James J. GilloglyCryptanalyst; found the alphabetical runs in 1980
Beale ciphers
James P. KennettMarine geologist, University of California, Santa Barbara; leading proponent · born 1940
JTYounger Dryas impact hypothesis
James T. LacatskiDIA analyst who ran AAWSAP
JBSkinwalker Ranch
Jan BestDutch ancient historian and protohistorian at the University of Amsterdam (1941 to 2023) who proposed a decipherment of the Byblos bronze ta
JSJane S. GreavesAstronomer, Cardiff University; led the detection
JKPhosphine in the clouds of Venus
Jarett KobekWriter; identified the K4 plaintext in archive photographs in 2025
JVKryptos
Jarl Van EyckeBelgian programmer; author of AZdecrypt; co-solver of Z340
JTZodiac ciphers
Jason T. WrightPenn State astronomer; set out the family of explanations, including megastructures
JVTabby's star (KIC 8462852)
Javier VelazaEpigrapher; co-author of the 2020 survey and the Irulegi edition
JGIberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts
Jean GuilaineFrench Neolithic specialist, professor at the Collège de France, member of the Ministry of Culture's 1983-1990 Glozel team and co-editor wit
JLJean LeclantEgyptologist; directed the REM · 1920–2011
JOMeroitic
Jean-Pierre OlivierCo-editor of GORILA
JOLinear A
Jean-Pierre OlivierEpigraphist; HoChyMin corpus and sign list
JOCypro-Minoan
Jean-Pierre OlivierEpigraphist; co-editor of CHIC · 1936–2020
JPCretan Hieroglyphic
Jean-Pierre ProtzenArchitectural historian, UC Berkeley
JBPuma Punku and Tiwanaku
Jennifer B. BergnerAstrochemist; proposed hydrogen from irradiated water ice
JM1I/'Oumuamua
Jerome M. EisenbergAntiquities dealer and editor of Minerva; hoax claim · 1930–2022
JRPhaistos Disc
Jerry R. EhmanVolunteer astronomer at Big Ear who found and named the signal · 1649–1692
JMWow! signal
Jesse MarcelMajor, intelligence officer, 509th Bomb Group
JRRoswell, 1947
Jessica Reed KrausSubstack writer (House Inhabit) whose posts on Loureiro, Grillmair and McCasland helped spread the story
JTAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026
Jessica ThomsonNurse whose number was in the book
JQSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)
Ji QiangPalaeontologist, Hebei GEO University; named Homo longi
JYWho were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" cranium
Jiang YubinPalaeographer, then at Fudan University's Center for Research on Chinese Excavated Classics and Paleography, who in 2018 won the first 100,0
JGJim GilloglyComputer scientist; published K1 to K3 in 1999
JPKryptos
Jim PennistonStaff Sergeant, security police; first patrol
JSRendlesham Forest, December 1980
Jim SanbornSculptor; author of the ciphers and sole holder of the K4 method until 2025
JSKryptos
Jim SlaightWeapons systems officer in Fravor's aircraft
2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos
Jimmy CarterUS President, 1977–1981 · 1924–2024
JC1979 Vela incident
Jimmy CorsettiCreator of the Bright Insight YouTube channel; popularised the Richat-Atlantis claim in 2018
JAEye of the Sahara and Atlantis
Jo Anne Van TilburgArchaeologist, UCLA; director of the Easter Island Statue Project
JFEaster Island moai
Joan Ferrer i JanéEpigrapher; dual system and numerals
JMIberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts
Jodi MagnessArchaeologist; author of the standard account of Qumran
Dead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenance
Joe NickellInvestigator; archival and linguistic case for a hoax · 1944–2025
Beale ciphers
Joe NickellSceptical investigator · 1944–2025
JGOak Island money pit
Johan GaumeSnow and avalanche scientist, EPFL/SLF; co-author of the 2021 model
Dyatlov Pass incident
Johan Ludvig HeibergPhilologist; identified the Archimedes undertext in 1906 · 1854–1928
JAArchimedes Palimpsest
John AbrahamsonCo-author of the vaporised-silicon model
JABall lightning
John AnfinogenovExpedition member who found John's Stone in 1972
JA1908 Tunguska event
John Anthony WestWriter who brought Schoch to Giza
JBGreat Sphinx of Giza
John BurroughsAirman First Class, security police; first patrol
JBRendlesham Forest, December 1980
John Burton ClelandPathologist who examined the body and found the scrap
JCSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)
John Coleman DarnellEgyptologist who, with Deborah Darnell, found the Wadi el-Hol inscriptions in 1993 and led their publication
JDProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
John D. AndersonJPL radio scientist; lead author of the 2008 formula paper · 1912–2000
Earth flyby anomaly
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