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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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Tabetha S. BoyajianAstronomer, Louisiana State University; led the discovery paper and the 2017 campaign
Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)
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Ted ConradColonel, base commander in 1980
Rendlesham Forest, December 1980
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Terrence KaufmanLinguist; Epi-Olmec decipherment, Mixe-Zoquean reconstruction
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing
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Terry HuntArchaeologist, University of Arizona
Easter Island moai
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Terry ShermanRancher; owner 1994–1996, later caretaker
Skinwalker Ranch
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Thomas AnsonOwner of Shugborough; commissioned the monument
Shugborough inscription
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Thomas C. WindesNPS archaeologist; Chaco Wood Project
Great houses of Chaco Canyon
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Thomas G. PalaimaAegean epigraphist; critique of decipherment schemes
Cypro-Minoan
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Thomas J. BealeThe depositor of the pamphlet's story; no record found
Beale ciphers
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Thomas S. BarthelEthnologist; first corpus and glyph catalogue · 1873–1926
Rongorongo
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Thomas SutiknaArchaeologist; Liang Bua excavations and the 2016 revision
Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"
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Thutmose IVEighteenth Dynasty king; cleared the Sphinx and set up the Dream Stele
Great Sphinx of Giza
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Théodore MonodFrench naturalist and explorer of the Sahara; found the Acheulean sites of the outer ring · 1902–2000
Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis
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Tim BurchettUS Representative (R-Tennessee); said in March 2026 that "there's just too many of them disappearing"
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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Tim LeyWitness, Prescott Valley and Phoenix; drew the carpenter's-square shape
Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997
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Timothy A. KohlerArchaeologist; regional population modelling
Great houses of Chaco Canyon
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Timothy DarvillArchaeologist, Bournemouth University; critic of the Waun Mawn claim and author of the calendar reading · 1957–2024
Stonehenge
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Todd A. SurovellArchaeologist, University of Wyoming; led the 2009 replication
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
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Tom DeLongeMusician and founder of To The Stars; McCasland advised him on UFO matters
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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Tom KayeLeads the Citizen Sleuths particle and money analyses
Hijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
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Tony FreethLead author of the 2006, 2008 and 2021 reconstructions
Antikythera Mechanism
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Trevor MorleyESOC flight dynamics expert who reported the Rosetta results
Earth flyby anomaly