A recent email from Mary Abbot of Leamington in Warwickshire has thrown what may be new light on the Epiphany code.

Dear Mr Phillips

You have been asking for new information about the Epiphany Window and I think I may be on to something.  One of the main features in the design is the blue lantern that hangs near the top.  I have noted with interest that a number of readers have suggested that this must be an important clue, although it is not mentioned in your book.  To me, it seems obvious what this represents.  In your book you say that the area by the well is known for the appearance of a strange blue light that you suggest is a natural but little understood electrical phenomenon called geoplasma caused by the rocks and streams of the area.  Surely it is not a coincidence that the widow has a blue light hanging at the top of the scene.  I have done some research and discovered that this eerie light, known locally as the “ghost light”, has been seen in the area on many occasions over the years.  The earliest record I can find is from the 1930s, but if this was a known phenomenon at the time Jacob Cove-Jones designed the clues for the window, then this is what could be represented by the blue lantern.  The guiding light that would help reveal where the treasure was.

Yours sincerely

Mary Abbot (maryabbot@hotmail.co.uk)

Graham’s Reply

The blue light was seen over the location where the stone tablet was found.  Graham, Jodi and I actually saw it ourselves one night.  It was just about the weirdest thing I have ever seen.  It certainly could not have been a natural light because it was far from the nearest house and at least a hundred yards from the road.  I only managed to see it through the trees, but it seemed to be a sphere of bright blue, flickering light which hung in the air before disappearing as we got closer to it.  If the phenomenon was known by Jacob Cove-Jones in 1907 when the window was made then it is indeed possible that he would allude to it in the code.

Another reader from Warwickshire has made a discovery that may be linked with the mysterious stone tablet found near the well at Chapel Green.

Dear Graham

In a churchyard in Warwickshire, I have found a gravestone bearing two of the mysterious symbols that are on the stone tablet you found.  They are the two Y shaped symbols, one upside down.  I live in Warwickshire and so read your book with great interest and decided to follow up with some research of my own.  I decided to look into the history of the Cove-Jones family and discovered that Jacob [the man who left the clues in the Epiphany window in 1907] had a relative who was buried in the graveyard of St John the Baptist Church in Baginton, near Coventry, in 1905.  Her name was Emma Williams, but I have not yet managed to find out any more about her.  You say that the symbols on the tablet are a mystery to archaeologists as they are unlike any found before.  Well, whoever had the gravestone erected must have known what two of them meant.  I am trying to find out more about Emma, as she has to be important in the ever growing mystery that you have uncovered.

Best wishes

Jane Littleton (email address withheld by request) 

The grave in Baginton churchyard, showing the two symbols and their similarity to the two central symbols on the stone slab

Graham’s Reply

We have not yet been able to trace Emma Williams, though we have visited the grave and you are right.  The two symbols do look quite similar.  It could be a coincidence, I suppose, but perhaps not, if Emma was a relative of Jacob Cove-Jones.    So far, I have found no one who knows what they mean.  I have passed on the information to the people in Utah who are examining the stone.  Hopefully your discovery may help in deciphering it.