Mystery

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Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Mystery, a cat character in Emily the Strange

Film

• Mystery film, a genre in cinema
• Mystery (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film
• Mystery (2014 film), a 2014 Chinese suspense thriller adventure film
• Mystery, Alaska (1999), a comedy-drama film

Literature

• Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction
• The Mystery (1907), a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
• Mysteries (novel) or Mysterie, an 1892 existentialist novel by Knut Hamsun
• Mystery (novel), a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub

Television

Channels

• Mystery TV, a Canadian digital television channel

Programs

• Mystery (television), a children's television show
• Mystery!, a long-running PBS program showcasing British detective fiction

Episodes

• "Mystery" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of the children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse

Music

Artists

• Mystery (band), a Canadian progressive-rock band formed in 1986

Albums

• Mystery (RAH Band album), a 1985 album by English Jazz-funk band RAH Band
• Mystery (Mystery EP), the 1992 debut album by the Canadian progressive-rock band Mystery
• Mystery (Faye Wong album), a 1994 album by the Chinese singer Faye Wong
• Mystery (1984), an album by the American psychedelic-rock band Vanilla Fudge
• Mystery (2006), an album by the Taiwanese-American Mandopop singer Evonne Hsu
• Myst3ry (2016), an EP by the South Korean girl group Ladies' Code

Songs

• Mystery (The Manhattan Transfer song), a song written by Rod Temperton, performed by the American a cappella group The Manhattan Transfer 1984, and covered by Anita Baker
• "Mystery" (Live song), a song from the 2006 album Songs from Black Mountain by the alternative-rock band Live
• "Mystery", a song from the album The Last in Line (1984) by the American heavy-metal band Dio
• "Mystery", a comic song written and performed by Hugh Laurie for the British sketch-comedy television series A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995)
• "Mystery", a song from the album Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (1999) by the psychedelic-rock band The Olivia Tremor Control

Religion and ancient culture

• Greco-Roman mysteries, ancient religious cults whose rituals were not revealed to outsiders; the most famous were the Eleusinian Mysteries
• Mystery play, such as the Passion play
• Sacred mysteries, beliefs which cannot be explained by normal reasoning, or esoteric teachings which are kept secret from the non-initiated

Vessels

• Mystery (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe
• Mystery (lugger), a Mount's Bay lugger which made a voyage from Cornwall to Australia in 1855
  • Spirit of Mystery, a modern recreation of Mystery
• USS Mystery, the name of more than one proposed or actual United States Navy ships

Other uses

• The Mystery, Wavertree Playground of England
• Mystery (pickup artist) (born 1971), stage name of entertainer Erik Von Markovik

See also

• Mysterious (disambiguation)
• Mystery watch
• Anomaly (disambiguation), a deviation or departure from the normal
• Fushigi (disambiguation), Japanese for "mystery" or "secret"
• Mystère (disambiguation)
• Paranormal, beyond normal experience or scientific explanation
• Secret
• Unsolved problem