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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Sabine HylandAnthropologist; Collata and hair-khipu studies · born 1964
SRInka khipus: the knotted-cord records
Salomon ReinachArchaeologist, member of the Académie des Inscriptions and director of the Musée des Antiquités nationales, who dug at Glozel for three days
SBSam BlakeAustralian mathematician; co-solver of Z340
Zodiac ciphers
Sara SeagerMIT planetary scientist; co-author of the detection and source studies · born 1971
SEPhosphine in the clouds of Venus
Sarah Elizabeth BriggsThe captain's wife
SRMary Celeste
Saul RappaportMIT astrophysicist; lead author of the discovery paper
SDHD 139139, the "Random Transiter"
Scott DawsonHatteras Island historian; co-leads the excavations and runs the Lost Colony Museum in Buxton
SWLost Colony of Roanoke
Scott WolterGeologist; weathering study
SJKensington Runestone
Sean JohnsonVesuvius Challenge researcher; read the title of PHerc. 172
SKHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge
Sean KirkpatrickFirst director of AARO, 2022 to December 2023
US government UAP disclosures
Secondo PiaLawyer and photographer; first photographed the cloth · 1855–1941
SHShroud of Turin
Selim HassanExcavator of the enclosure, 1936 to 1938
SGGreat Sphinx of Giza
Shai GordinAssyriologist at Ariel University who leads the Digital Pasts Lab and co-authored the neural restoration and Akkadian machine-translation pa
SMUnread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
Shan M. M. WinnAmerican archaeologist whose 1973 UCLA dissertation and 1981 book gave the Vinča signs their standard list and the verdict "pre-writing"
SBShmuel BialyCo-author of the radiation-pressure paper
SF1I/'Oumuamua
Silvia FerraraPhilologist (Bologna); INSCRIBE project, sign-list revision, co-editor of the 2024 volume
SFCretan Hieroglyphic
Silvia FerraraPhilologist (Bologna); radiocarbon and 3D work
SFRongorongo
Silvia FerraraPhilologist (Bologna); corpus volumes and INSCRIBE
Cypro-Minoan
Sir James CochraneChief Justice of Gibraltar; presided over the salvage hearing · 1798–1883
Mary Celeste
Sir John FranklinCommander of the expedition
SGFranklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
Slava G. TuryshevJPL physicist; co-author of the 2009 review
SAEarth flyby anomaly
Solveig A. TurpinArchaeologist; surveyed Seminole Canyon in 1980; read the Pecos River figures as shamans
White Shaman Mural
Stanton FriedmanResearcher who reopened the case in 1978 · 1898–1961
SNRoswell, 1947
Stella NairArchitectural historian, UCLA
SDPuma Punku and Tiwanaku
Stephen D. HoustonEpigrapher; drew the block; critic of the Isthmian decipherment
SPCascajal block and Isthmian writing
Stephen PlogArchaeologist; Chaco hierarchy and mortuary studies
SFGreat houses of Chaco Canyon
Steve FarmerCo-author of the non-script argument
SJIndus script
Steven J. DeschProposed the nitrogen-ice reading
SR1I/'Oumuamua
Steven Roger FischerLinguist; procreation-chant reading
SSRongorongo
Steven SchiffCongressman who requested the GAO search · 1927–1988
SWRoswell, 1947
Sturt W. ManningArchaeologist and dendrochronologist, Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory; led the Gordion drought study
Late Bronze Age collapse
Suppiluliuma IILast recorded Great King of the Hittites; reigned from about 1207 BC
Late Bronze Age collapse
Svante PääboGeneticist, MPI-EVA; senior author of the 2010 Denisovan papers · born 1955
SLWho were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" cranium
Sámuel Literáti NemesAntiquarian and forger; suspected but not shown to have made the codex · 1796–1842
SVRohonc Codex
Sébastien ViscardyRoyal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy; lead author of the 2025 re-analysis
Mars methane puzzle