People
625 people in 95 mysteries
Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.
B 19 on this page
BT
Benjamin T. MontetMeasured the Kepler-era fade with Joshua Simon
BSTabby's star (KIC 8462852)
Bettina Schulz PaulssonArchaeologist, University of Gothenburg; built the Bayesian models
BHCarnac alignments
Bettye HardenSolved Z408 with her husband
BMZodiac ciphers
Beáta MegyesiComputational linguist, Uppsala then Stockholm; transcription and decipherment
BMCopiale cipher
Bill (William) MunnsCreature-effects designer; film analyst
BGPatterson-Gimlin film
Bjørn Gitle HaugeØstfold University College; station and spectra
BGHessdalen lights
Bob GimlinWitness and co-participant
BHPatterson-Gimlin film
Bob HeironimusClaims to have worn the suit
BMPatterson-Gimlin film
Bob MarkRock art photographer; made the 2009 GigaPan of the mural with Evelyn Billo
BVWhite Shaman Mural
Boris VozrozhdennyForensic pathologist who performed the autopsies
BEDyatlov Pass incident
Bradley E. SchaeferAstronomer, Louisiana State University; measured the century-long fade
BJTabby's star (KIC 8462852)
Bram JagersmaLeiden Sumerologist whose 2010 descriptive grammar is the fullest modern account of the language.
BFUnread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
Brandon FugalProperty developer; owner since 2016
BDSkinwalker Ranch
Brent DavisLinguist; libation formula syntax
BDLinear A
Brent DavisStatistical comparison with Linear A
BDPhaistos Disc
Brian DunningSceptical writer and host of the Skeptoid podcast
BEMarfa lights
Brian E. CollessNew Zealand historian of religion and epigrapher (Massey University) who from 1992 defended and extended Mendenhall's decipherment, treats t
BIBrian IngramFound the Tena Bar money as a child
BJHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
Brian JohnGeomorphologist; advocate of glacial transport
Stonehenge
C 30 on this page
CC
Carl 'Charles' WebbElectrical instrument maker of Melbourne; proposed identity
CHSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)
Carl HammerSperry Univac computer scientist; led the Beale Cypher Association · 1914–2004
CLBeale ciphers
Carl LipoArchaeologist, Binghamton University
CEEaster Island moai
Carolyn E. BoydArchaeologist and artist; founder of Shumla; author of the creation-narrative reading
CMWhite Shaman Mural
Cassandra M. DonnellyArchaeologist; potmarks, writers and the integrated signary
CUCypro-Minoan
Chad UnderwoodWeapons systems officer who recorded FLIR1
CM2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos
Chanté McCoyDaughter of Richard McCoy
CBHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
Charles BerlitzAuthor of the 1974 bestseller
CCBermuda Triangle
Charles C. TaylorLieutenant, US Navy; instructor and leader of Flight 19
CIBermuda Triangle
Charles I. HaltLieutenant Colonel, deputy base commander; author of the memo
CPRendlesham Forest, December 1980
Charles PaxtonStatistician, University of St Andrews; cataloguer of reports
CSLoch Ness
Charles StanishArchaeologist; proposed the accounting hypothesis and led the 2025 project · born 1956
CTMonte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"
Charles ThomasArchaeologist; 1963 interpretation of the symbols
CWPictish symbol stones
Charles WagerBritish commodore at the Battle of Barú
CJSan José galleon
Choongwon JeongPopulation geneticist, Seoul National University; corresponding author 2021
CSTarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)
Christiane SchaeferLinguist, Uppsala; transcription and decipherment
CGCopiale cipher
Christopher G. FoxPMEL acoustic monitoring scientist; first author of the array design paper
CHBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean sounds
Christopher H. GuitermanDendrochronologist; tree-ring timber sourcing
CMGreat houses of Chaco Canyon
Christopher M. WrightAustralian scientist; co-author of the 2017 and 2018 analyses
CR1979 Vela incident
Christopher R. MooreGeoarchaeologist, University of South Carolina; lead author of the retracted Baffin Bay paper
CRYounger Dryas impact hypothesis
Christopher R. WebsterJPL; lead of the TLS methane measurements
CRMars methane puzzle
Christopher RollstonPalaeographer, George Washington University
CRDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenance
Claude RillyLinguist (CNRS); Northern East Sudanic identification · born 1959
CFMeroitic
Claudia FritzAcoustician; led the blind tests
CRStradivari "secret"
Clive RugglesArchaeoastronomer, University of Leicester
CDStonehenge
Colin D. ReaderGeologist; early-dynastic dating (2001, 2026)
CFGreat Sphinx of Giza
Colleen FitzpatrickForensic genealogist, Identifinders International · born 1955
CKSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)
Colm KelleherBiochemist; NIDS deputy administrator and ranch investigator; AAWSAP
CPSkinwalker Ranch
Cosimo PosthArchaeogeneticist, University of Tübingen; led the 2021 Etruscan genome transect
CHEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated
Cyrus H. GordonSemitist; read Eteocretan and Linear A as Northwest Semitic · 1908–2001
D 11 on this page
DJ
D. Jeffrey MeldrumAnatomist, Idaho State University; editor of The Relict Hominoid Inquiry
DCPatterson-Gimlin film
Dan CooperUnidentified hijacker of Northwest 305
DGHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
Dan GryderRetired pilot and YouTuber who found the rig
DOHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
Dan OlsonChief of the FBI Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit in 2011
DMRicky McCormick's notes
Daniel McGinnisSettler; first digger by tradition
DOOak Island money pit
Daniel O. SchmittLocomotion biomechanist, Duke University
Patterson-Gimlin film
Danny Hilman NatawidjajaGeologist, BRIN; lead author of the retracted paper · born 1961
DZGunung Padang
Darryl Z. SeligmanProposed the hydrogen-ice and radiolytic-hydrogen readings; led the dark-comet work
DC1I/'Oumuamua
David C. CatlingUniversity of Washington; co-author of the statistical and instrumental critiques
DCMars methane puzzle
David ClarkeHistorian; obtained the MoD file in 2001
DFRendlesham Forest, December 1980
David F. Mora-MarínLinguist (UNC); reading order and distributional analysis
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing
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