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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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K. Lal GauriGeologist; mapped the Sphinx's limestone beds and weathering
Great Sphinx of Giza
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Karen J. MeechUniversity of Hawaii astronomer; led the discovery and characterisation papers · born 1959
1I/'Oumuamua
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Karen L. SteelmanChemist; runs Shumla's radiocarbon laboratory; led the 2025 dating of Pecos River style
White Shaman Mural
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Karen O. BruhnsArchaeologist; 2007 critique · born 1941
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing
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Karl D. StephanEngineer, Texas State University; led the 2008 spectroscopy campaign and the 2011 analysis of the 2005 bright object
Marfa lights
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Karoline LeavittWhite House press secretary; announced the review of the cases on 17 April 2026
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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Kash PatelFBI director; said the Bureau was "spearheading" the review and promised a final report
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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Kathryn KelleyAssyriologist (Uppsala); computational Proto-Elamite work
Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite
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Kathryn KelleyAssyriologist; computational work on proto-cuneiform and proto-Elamite sign use
Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk
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Keith MartinInformation security academic, Royal Holloway, University of London
Cicada 3301
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Kemal BalkanTurkish Assyriologist whose Kassitenstudien 1 (1954) collected the Kassite language · 1920–1992
Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives
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Kevin DaySenior radar operator, USS Princeton
2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos
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Kevin KnightComputational linguist, USC Information Sciences Institute; led the decipherment
Copiale cipher
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Kevin ZahnleNASA Ames; co-author of the 2011 and 2025 critiques
Mars methane puzzle
KhafreFourth Dynasty king; builder of the second pyramid · -261–-253
Great Sphinx of Giza
KhufuKing of the Fourth Dynasty · 26th century BC · died -256
How the Great Pyramid was built
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Kim CoxContributor to the 2016 book on the mural; paint-sequence analysis with Boyd
White Shaman Mural
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Kipp DavisLead author of the 2017 study of dubious fragments
Dead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenance
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Kirsty RowanLinguist (SOAS); Afroasiatic hypothesis
Meroitic
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Klaus SchmehCryptology writer; 2018 analysis
Dorabella cipher
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Klaus SchmidtExcavator 1995–2014, DAI
Göbekli Tepe
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Konstantin PozdniakovLinguist; reduced sign inventory and statistics · born 1952
Rongorongo