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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SW
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
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Tabetha S. BoyajianAstronomer, Louisiana State University; led the discovery paper and the 2017 campaign
TCTabby's star (KIC 8462852)
Ted ConradColonel, base commander in 1980
TKRendlesham Forest, December 1980
Terrence KaufmanLinguist; Epi-Olmec decipherment, Mixe-Zoquean reconstruction
THCascajal block and Isthmian writing
Terry HuntArchaeologist, University of Arizona
TSEaster Island moai
Terry ShermanRancher; owner 1994–1996, later caretaker
Skinwalker Ranch
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TA
Thomas AnsonOwner of Shugborough; commissioned the monument
TCShugborough inscription
Thomas C. WindesNPS archaeologist; Chaco Wood Project
TGGreat houses of Chaco Canyon
Thomas G. PalaimaAegean epigraphist; critique of decipherment schemes
TJCypro-Minoan
Thomas J. BealeThe depositor of the pamphlet's story; no record found
TSBeale ciphers
Thomas S. BarthelEthnologist; first corpus and glyph catalogue · 1873–1926
TSRongorongo
Thomas SutiknaArchaeologist; Liang Bua excavations and the 2016 revision
TIHomo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"
Thutmose IVEighteenth Dynasty king; cleared the Sphinx and set up the Dream Stele
TMGreat Sphinx of Giza
Théodore MonodFrench naturalist and explorer of the Sahara; found the Acheulean sites of the outer ring · 1902–2000
TBEye of the Sahara and Atlantis
Tim BurchettUS Representative (R-Tennessee); said in March 2026 that "there's just too many of them disappearing"
TLAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026
Tim LeyWitness, Prescott Valley and Phoenix; drew the carpenter's-square shape
TAPhoenix Lights, 13 March 1997
Timothy A. KohlerArchaeologist; regional population modelling
TDGreat houses of Chaco Canyon
Timothy DarvillArchaeologist, Bournemouth University; critic of the Waun Mawn claim and author of the calendar reading · 1957–2024
TAStonehenge
Todd A. SurovellArchaeologist, University of Wyoming; led the 2009 replication
TDYounger Dryas impact hypothesis
Tom DeLongeMusician and founder of To The Stars; McCasland advised him on UFO matters
TKAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026
Tom KayeLeads the Citizen Sleuths particle and money analyses
TFHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
Tony FreethLead author of the 2006, 2008 and 2021 reconstructions
TMAntikythera Mechanism
Trevor MorleyESOC flight dynamics expert who reported the Rosetta results
Earth flyby anomaly
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UK
Ulrich KappPhotogrammetrist of the ARCE project (German Archaeological Institute) · born 1971
UBGreat Sphinx of Giza
Uwe BergmannSSRL physicist; proposed and ran the X-ray fluorescence imaging
Archimedes Palimpsest
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VM
Vagn MejdahlDanish physicist at the Risø National Laboratory, a pioneer of thermoluminescence dating, who first proposed TL for Glozel in 1969 and co-au
Valerios StaisCredited with recognising the mechanism in 1902
VTAntikythera Mechanism
Vance T. HollidayGeoarchaeologist, University of Arizona; lead author of the 2023 refutation
VBYounger Dryas impact hypothesis
Vicente-Juan Ballester OlmosKeeper of the FOTOCAT catalogue of photographed UFO reports; co-author of the 2020 re-analysis
VTMarfa lights
Vince ThurkettleForester who examined the site in early 1981
VHRendlesham Forest, December 1980
Vincent H. GaddisWriter who named and popularised the Triangle
Bermuda Triangle
Virginia DareFirst English child born in the Americas; among the lost · born 1587
Lost Colony of Roanoke
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