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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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John D. KrausDesigner and builder of the Big Ear · 1730–1790
Wow! signal
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John G. YoungerAegean prehistorian (Kansas); web editions of the hieroglyphic and Linear A texts
Cretan Hieroglyphic
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John G. YoungerEditor of the online Linear A texts
Linear A
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John GregoryWarrant Officer (Engineer), Erebus; identified by DNA
Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
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John HawksPalaeoanthropologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison; joint corresponding author
Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims
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John O. LambrechtSenior aviator, USS Colorado; led the Phoenix Islands overflight
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
John RaeHudson's Bay Company surgeon and explorer; reported Inuit accounts in 1854 · 1813–1893
Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
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John S. JustesonLinguist; Epi-Olmec decipherment
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing
John SmithSettler; first digger by tradition; later owned the pit lot · 1798–1888
Oak Island money pit
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John Wayne JanusekArchaeologist, Vanderbilt University
Puma Punku and Tiwanaku
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John WhiteArtist and governor of the 1587 colony
Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Jon ClindanielAuthor of a grammar of non-numerical khipu signs
Inka khipus: the knotted-cord records
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Jon KosloskiDirector of AARO from August 2024
US government UAP disclosures
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Jon KosloskiDirector of AARO from 2024
2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos
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Joseba LakarraBascologist; critic of the numeral comparison
Iberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts
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Joseph AndersonCo-author of the 1903 classification
Pictish symbol stones
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Joseph NagyvaryBiochemist; long-time proponent of chemical treatment
Stradivari "secret"
JD
Joshua D. EnglehardtArchaeologist; archaeometric study
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing
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José CaprilesArchaeologist, Penn State; Palaspata
Puma Punku and Tiwanaku
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José Fernández de Santillán, Count of Casa AlegreCommander of the Tierra Firme fleet; died in the San José
San José galleon
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Julia ThomasNeighbour who nursed Waltz; led the 1892 search; sold maps
Lost Dutchman's gold mine
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Julian Schilliger2023 Grand Prize winner
Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge
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Jürgen UntermannEditor of Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum
Iberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts