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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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Denise Schmandt-BesseratArchaeologist; author of the token theory of the origin of writing · born 1933
Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

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Erik WahlgrenScandinavianist; author of the 1958 study · 1909–1990
Kensington Runestone

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GE
George E. MendenhallAmerican biblical scholar and Near Eastern philologist at the University of Michigan (1916 to 2016), author of The Syllabic Inscriptions fro
Gerald HawkinsAstronomer; author of the observatory reading · 1928–2003
Stonehenge

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HJ
Hans J. NissenArchaeologist of Uruk; co-author of ZATU and Archaic Bookkeeping · born 1935
Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk
HR
Helmut RixIndo-Europeanist; editor of Etruskische Texte and author of the Tyrsenian hypothesis · 1926–2004
Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated

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JD
John D. AndersonJPL radio scientist; lead author of the 2008 formula paper · 1912–2000
Earth flyby anomaly

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MD
Michael D. CoeMesoamericanist (Yale); co-author of the 2006 paper; critic of the Isthmian decipherment · 1929–2019
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing

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RB
Richard B. FirestoneNuclear chemist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; first author of the 2007 paper · 1945–2024
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Robert M. SchochGeologist; author of the rain-erosion redating · born 1949
Great Sphinx of Giza