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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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Jacob RoggeveenDutch navigator; first recorded European visitor · 1659–1729
Easter Island moai
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Jerry R. EhmanVolunteer astronomer at Big Ear who found and named the signal · 1649–1692
Wow! signal
John D. KrausDesigner and builder of the Big Ear · 1730–1790
Wow! signal
John SmithSettler; first digger by tradition; later owned the pit lot · 1798–1888
Oak Island money pit

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KhafreFourth Dynasty king; builder of the second pyramid · -261–-253
Great Sphinx of Giza

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Nicole OresmeTheologian and bishop of Lisieux; wrote on false relics · 1323–1382
Shroud of Turin

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Peter ScheemakersSculptor of the relief · 1691–1781
Shugborough inscription
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Philodemus of GadaraEpicurean philosopher; author of much of the opened library · -011–-003
Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge

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Ramesses IIIPharaoh of Egypt's 20th Dynasty; recorded the Sea Peoples battles at Medinet Habu · -121–-115
Late Bronze Age collapse

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Sir James CochraneChief Justice of Gibraltar; presided over the salvage hearing · 1798–1883
Mary Celeste
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Sámuel Literáti NemesAntiquarian and forger; suspected but not shown to have made the codex · 1796–1842
Rohonc Codex

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Virginia DareFirst English child born in the Americas; among the lost · born 1587
Lost Colony of Roanoke