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Mystery Men
Mystery Men is a 1999 American superhero comedy based on Bob's comic series, starring Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, and others as amateur crime-fighters.
Mystery of Antiques (古董局中局)
Mystery of Antiques (古董局中局) is Ma Boyong's antique-authentication mystery novel and its adaptations: a 2018 Tencent web drama with Xia Yu, sequels in 2020-2021, and a 2021 film with Lei Jiayin directed by Derek Kwok.
Mystery of Crowning
Mystery of Crowning (Sacrament of Crowning, stefana) is the central Eastern Orthodox marriage rite in which a priest or bishop crowns bride and groom; unlike the Latin rite, the minister confers the sacrament, and the service has no vows.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) is a Michael Curtiz Warner Bros. pre-Code horror film with Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, and Glenda Farrell, the last two-color Technicolor feature, remade as House of Wax (1953) and restored in 4K by UCLA in 2020.
Mystery play
Mystery plays are medieval European biblical dramas, typically organized in guild-performed cycles from Creation to Last Judgment, staged on pageant wagons at Corpus Christi; surviving English cycles include York, Chester, Towneley/Wakefield, and N-Town.
Mystery Road (TV series)
Mystery Road is an Australian ABC crime drama (2018) spun off from Ivan Sen's films, starring Aaron Pedersen as Aboriginal detective Jay Swan; two seasons plus the prequel Mystery Road: Origin (2022, Mark Coles Smith), labeled outback noir.
Mystery Road: Origin
Mystery Road: Origin is an Australian prequel crime drama to the Mystery Road franchise, set in 1999, with Mark Coles Smith as young detective Jay Swan; two ABC seasons, seven 2022 AACTA awards.
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is Joel Hodgson's American comedy series, first aired on KTMA Minneapolis in 1988, in which captive hosts and robots riff on bad movies; it ran on Comedy Central, Sci-Fi, Netflix, the Gizmoplex, and RiffTrax.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) is the theatrical film version of MST3K, directed by Jim Mallon, riffing This Island Earth, released by Gramercy Pictures, grossing about $1 million.
Mystery shopping
Mystery shopping, also known as secret shopping, is a market research technique in which anonymous trained shoppers pose as customers and report on service standards.
Mystery Spot
The Mystery Spot is a tilt-box roadside attraction in Santa Cruz, California, built 1940-41 by George Prather, inspired by the Oregon Vortex, a California Historical Landmark whose gravity illusions are explained as tilt-induced visual effects.
Mystery to Me
Mystery to Me is a 1973 studio album by Fleetwood Mac, the last they recorded in England, mixing soft rock with funk, reggae, and disco and featuring "Hypnotized."
Mystery Train (film)
Mystery Train (1989) is Jim Jarmusch's independent anthology comedy-drama set over one night in Memphis, Tennessee, with three vignettes linked by the Arcade Hotel, Elvis Presley's ghost, and pop songs; it won Best Artistic Contribution at Cannes 1989.
Mystery Woman
Mystery Woman is a Hallmark Channel franchise of eleven TV movies (2003-2007) starring Kellie Martin as amateur sleuth Samantha Kinsey, a mystery bookstore owner aided by former CIA operative Philby (Clarence Williams III), distinct from the Amanda Quick novel of a similar title.
Mystery Wrestling
Mystery Wrestling: Canadian independent pro wrestling promotion founded by AEW's Evil Uno in Gatineau, Quebec (began 2019, relaunched 2023). No announced cards; matches revealed live; free YouTube/Twitch streams; nearly half a billion social media views; expanding to Philadelphia in 2026.
Mystery-Bouffe
Mystery-Bouffe (Мистерия-буфф) is a play in verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, written in 1918 and first staged that November in Petrograd as the first Soviet play glorifying the proletarian revolution.
Mystery, Alaska
Mystery, Alaska (1999) is a Jay Roach comedy-drama written by David E. Kelley and Sean O'Byrne, starring Russell Crowe, about a 633-person Alaskan town whose pond hockey team faces the New York Rangers in a televised exhibition game.
Mysteryland
Mysteryland is a Dutch electronic dance music festival first held in 1993 and organized by ID&T, staged since 2003 on the former Floriade grounds in the Haarlemmermeer near Amsterdam.
Mysteryland 2024
Mysteryland 2024 was the 30 August to 1 September 2024 edition of Mysteryland, the long-running Dutch electronic music festival near Amsterdam, drawing about 125,000 visitors to more than 300 acts on 15 stages.
Mysteryland 2024 - Sunday
Mysteryland 2024 - Sunday was the closing day of the Dutch electronic dance festival Mysteryland on 1 September 2024, where Charlotte de Witte became the first techno act to close the main stage.
Mystic generating station
Mystic generating station was a fossil-fueled power plant on the Mystic River in Everett, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, generating electricity from 1943 until its final units retired in 2024.
Mystic Pizza
Mystic Pizza (1988) is an American coming-of-age romantic comedy directed by Donald Petrie, starring Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, and Lili Taylor as waitresses in Mystic, Connecticut; based on the real 1973 pizzeria, grossing about $12.8 million.
Mystic Pop-up Bar (쌍갑포차)
Mystic Pop-up Bar (쌍갑포차, Ssanggabpocha) is a 2020 JTBC fantasy comedy-drama, 12 episodes, adapted from Bae Hye-soo's Daum webtoon; Hwang Jung-eum, Yook Sung-jae, and Choi Won-young run a dream-visiting bar resolving Korean han grudges, streaming on Netflix.
Mystic Production (Poland)
Mystic Production is a Polish independent record label founded in 1995 in Skała near Kraków, the long-time home of Behemoth and organizer of the Mystic Festival.
Mystic River (film)
Mystic River, also known as Clint Eastwood's 2003 adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel, is a Boston-set crime drama starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon; it won two Oscars from six nominations and 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic Seaport Museum is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, founded in 1929, with nearly 600 historic vessels including the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan.
Mystic, Connecticut
Mystic, Connecticut: a coastal village and census-designated place (pop. 4,348, 2020) split between Groton and Stonington, not a municipality. Historic shipbuilding port, home of Mystic Seaport Museum and Mystic Aquarium.
Mystical Experience Questionnaire
The Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) is a 30-item self-report measure of a single mystical experience, most often occasioned by a psychedelic drug, and a standard outcome measure in psychedelic trials.
Mystical Magical
"Mystical Magical" is a 2025 pop single by Benson Boone, released April 24, 2025 via Night Street/Warner as the second single from American Heart; Gb major, 120 BPM, "moonbeam ice cream" hook, fourth Hot 100 top-40 entry.
Mystical poetry
Mystical poetry expresses the soul's search for union with the divine, best known in sixteenth-century Spanish works by St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Ávila.