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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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Abraham (Avi) LoebHarvard astrophysicist; proposed the lightsail reading · born 1962
1I/'Oumuamua

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Donald WittPhysicist, Sul Ross State University; investigated the lights in the 1970s
Marfa lights

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Giuseppe LongoPhysicist, University of Bologna; led the Italian expeditions
1908 Tunguska event

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Leif RistrophNYU physicist; yardang experiment · born 1982
Great Sphinx of Giza

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Mark BosloughAirburst physicist; co-author of the refutation and PubPeer critic of the 2025 papers
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
MT
Massimo TeodoraniAstrophysicist; at the CNR Institute of Radio Astronomy during the EMBLA expeditions · born 1956
Hessdalen lights
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Matteo LeonePhysicist (University of Bari at the time); author of the EMBLA 2002 rebuttal
Hessdalen lights

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Paul HorleyPhysicist; carving technique and new tracings
Rongorongo
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Ping YuanPhysicist, Northwest Normal University; led the team that recorded the 2012 ball
Ball lightning

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Raoul Gregory VitaleSyrian physicist and musicologist from Latakia who argued in 1982 that the Babylonian scale and the h.6 notation run downward. · 1928–2003
Hurrian songs of Ugarit
Richard L. GarwinIBM physicist; Ruina panel member · 1928–2025
1979 Vela incident
RM
Rolf M. SinclairPhysicist; co-author of the Sun Dagger solar and lunar papers
Great houses of Chaco Canyon

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Saul RappaportMIT astrophysicist; lead author of the discovery paper
HD 139139, the "Random Transiter"
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Slava G. TuryshevJPL physicist; co-author of the 2009 review
Earth flyby anomaly

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UB
Uwe BergmannSSRL physicist; proposed and ran the X-ray fluorescence imaging
Archimedes Palimpsest

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Vagn MejdahlDanish physicist at the Risø National Laboratory, a pioneer of thermoluminescence dating, who first proposed TL for Glozel in 1969 and co-au