A replica of the gravestone can still be seen in Rushes Cemetery.
The original stone was badly weathered and was replaced with this durable granite replica in 1982.
Underneath the names is a grid carved with 225 seemingly random numbers and letters.
Then in 1904, while holidaying in Cuba, Dr. Bean fell overboard from a sailboat and drowned.
The secret of the coded gravestone was forever lost.
It was in 1947, some eighty years after Dr. Hammond had copied the inscription, took it home and over the course of several months figured it out.
If made an “O” it completes the word “SO” in the puzzle’s final phrase.
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Dr. Bean wasnt the first to incorporate puzzles into headstones.
Renies gravestone comprises a rectangular carved 285-letter acrostic puzzle.
It is claimed that the sentence may be read a total of 46,000 different ways.
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