Book Update: Anamorphic Codes and 80-Year-Old Concealed Clues Discovered

Research Post Summary: This update reveals the discovery of anamorphic lettering and alphanumeric sequences concealed on the outer cover edges of the "Boxall Rubaiyat." Utilizing 1940s-era intelligence tradecraft—specifically optical distortion techniques documented in the declassified CIA Secret Writing Document Six—this finding provides physical evidence of professional clandestine communication methods. The Boxall copy of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was inscribed in 1945, three years prior to the discovery of the Somerton Man, suggesting a long-standing intelligence-led connection between the principal figures in the case. This discovery shifts the timeline of the mystery from 1948 back to the wartime era, emphasizing the role of professional tradecraft over random coincidence. Grounded in 15 years of primary archive research and physical evidence testing, this finding is a cornerstone of the upcoming non-fiction volume, Somerton Secrets.

Figure 1: A snippet from the bottom edge of the Boxall Rubaiyat

Showing the presence of tiny letters and numbers

Let’s get our bearings. If you’ve been following the "Somerton Secrets" saga, you’ll know we’re in deep.

The manuscript has swelled to a whopping 142,000 words. Forty-eight chapters of investigation. But this isn’t just another retelling of a cold case—far from it. We’ve been looking through what we can call "the LENS." It’s a total shift in perspective that takes all those baffling contradictions and snaps them into a single, logical picture. No guesswork, no "maybe"—just hard, verifiable science.

A Bit of a Shocker

Earlier this year, I was digging through the old academic files on "microwriting"—those tiny writing techniques intelligence agencies used back in the 1940s and before. Now, you’d think after eighty years, the experts would have tried everything. But here’s the thing: despite all the books written on the subject, even after it had been demonstrated here, No One had actually tested the methods that were shown to them, that was born out by a recent deep research project. It does make you wonder how people make their counter claims without testing? Aa Einstein once said, 'Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignoranace'

Lets have a look at anamorphic writing; when you’re driving, you see the word "STOP" painted on the tarmac. If you stood right next to it, it would look like a giant, stretched-out mess. But from the driver's seat? It looks perfectly normal. That’s anamorphosis. Information hidden in plain sight, waiting for the right angle.

The spooks in the 1940s were using exactly this principle to hide messages. Brilliant, really.

The Experts vs. Reality

I read paper after paper. Thousands of words on the theory of it. But actual, hands-on testing? Not a peep. Not a single soul had actually sat down to see if this stuff could still be found in the old documents.

So, I thought, "Right then, I’ll demonstrate it again"

The Boxall Rubaiyat: A Rather Extraordinary Find

Now, have a look at this. Watch the video. Specifically, keep your eyes peeled for the 35 second mark. What the video does is to pan across from right to left focusing on the bottom edge of the cover on the Boxall Rubaiyat. Initially what you'll see is a jumbled arrangement of lines and crosses that have no meaning at all. When I get to the left and end of the panning exercise, I return but this time panning from left to right AND gradually decreasing the viewing angle

 

Figure 2. The bottom edge of the Boxall Rubaiyat showing jumbled lines that resolve into characters when viewed at a narrow angle.

As the camera tilts and the angle narrows, something happens. Tiny characters that are completely invisible when you look at them head-on suddenly… snap. They just appear. See the citation at the foot of this post.

What you’re looking at is the bottom edge of a book. But not just any book. This is the Boxall Rubaiyat. This is the very book given to Alf Boxall by a nurse named "Jestyn" in August 1945. It is one of the smoking guns of the whole Somerton Man mystery. I said ;one of' deliberately, there are more.

And it’s not just one edge of the book cover. Three edges of this book cover  are covered in these anamorphic letters and numbers. Concealed writing, hidden for eight decades.

Now, here’s the kicker: this book was inscribed and handed over in 1945. That’s three years before the Somerton Man was found dead on the beach. Three years before anyone had even heard of the "Body on the beach".

Finding It vs. Cracking It

Now, I know what the skeptics sitting in their armchairs are going to say: "Well, what does it say then?"

Just hang on, finding a hidden code is one thing; decoding it is a whole different kettle of fish. Think about the VENONA project. After the war, the brightest mathematicians in the world, with all the money and tech you could dream of, spent decades trying to read Soviet cables. And after all that? They only managed to crack about 15% of them.

Asking "what does it say" before you've even acknowledged the code exists is like finding a hidden, locked safe and being cross because I haven't told you what's inside yet. First, you have to find the safe. Then, you start on the lock.

Finding this particular tradecraft or clandestine communcation method in the Boxall book tells us exactly who we’re dealing with: professionals. This wasn't some romantic coincidence. This was a deep, intelligence-led connection between Jestyn, Boxall, and the man on the beach.

Why This Changes Everything

This discovery isn't just a neat trick. It does three massive things:

1. It proves the microcode is real. It’s not just "seeing patterns in the clouds." It’s physics, it's science. When writing only appears at a specific, predictable angle, we’ve found a concealment system.

2. It shows us the "Tradecraft." This is professional intelligence work from 1945, tied directly to military operations.(That's in the book as well!)

3. It rewrites the timeline. Everyone thinks this story starts in December 1948. It doesn't. If the Boxall Rubaiyat was carrying hidden messages in 1945, then whatever happened on that beach three years later was one end of the story, and the beginning of another.

The Home Stretch

We’re in the final stages now—checking the facts, cross-referencing the archives, and making sure every single claim has a citation to back it up. We’re aiming for February-March 2025 because I’d much rather get it right than get it fast.

The book will take you from the early days of the Second World War right through to the answers that have slipped through everyone’s fingers for 77 years. No wild theories. No aliens . Just the verfiable evidence, seen from the correct angle.

It turns out the truth was there all along. We were just looking at it from the wrong direction. And this is just one example and there is so much more.

The story you think you know is about to change.

Citations: Central Intelligence Agency. (1918, declassified 2011). Secret writing document six. CIA Freedom of Information Act Reading Room. Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/Secret-writing