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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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Colin D. ReaderGeologist; early-dynastic dating (2001, 2026)
Great Sphinx of Giza

D 1

Danny Hilman NatawidjajaGeologist, BRIN; lead author of the retracted paper · born 1961
Gunung Padang

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GM
Guillaume MattonGeologist; showed the Richat is the top of a Cretaceous alkaline complex
Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis

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JA
James A. HarrellGeologist; reply to Schoch, 1994 · born 1948
Great Sphinx of Giza
James P. KennettMarine geologist, University of California, Santa Barbara; leading proponent · born 1940
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

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KL
K. Lal GauriGeologist; mapped the Sphinx's limestone beds and weathering
Great Sphinx of Giza

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LP
Leonard PalmerPortland State geologist who examined the Tena Bar site
Hijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
LK
Leonid KulikGeologist who led the first expeditions from 1927
1908 Tunguska event
LG
Luca GasperiniMarine geologist, CNR-ISMAR Bologna; proposed the Cheko crater
1908 Tunguska event

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MJ
Michel JébrakGeologist, Université du Québec à Montréal; co-author of the alkaline-complex model
Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis

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PH
Paul H. G. M. DirksGeologist; led the geological and dating work
Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims

R 3

RB
Richard BevinsGeologist, Aberystwyth University and National Museum Wales; bluestone and Altar Stone provenance
Stonehenge
RA
Robert Adam SchneikerGeologist (ESCI, LLC); 2025 GSA poster
Great Sphinx of Giza
Robert M. SchochGeologist; author of the rain-erosion redating · born 1949
Great Sphinx of Giza

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SW
Scott WolterGeologist; weathering study
Kensington Runestone