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Dan Brown boasts the following on his website:

There exists a chapel in Great Britain that contains a ceiling from which hundreds of stone blocks protrude, jutting down to form a bizarre multi-faceted surface. Each block is carved with a symbol, seemingly at random, creating a cipher of unfathomable proportion. Modern cryptographers have never been able to break this code, and a generous reward is offered to anyone who can decipher the baffling message. In recent years, geological ultrasounds have revealed the startling presence of an enormous subterranean vault hidden beneath the chapel. This vault appears to have no entrance and no exit. To this day, the curators of the chapel have permitted no excavation.

If you look under the red carpet that now covers much of the chapel’s floor and examine the aisles, you will find no sign whatsoever of any path worn into the stone floor. There are many five-pointed stars in the vaulted stone ceiling of the chapel and an eight-pointed star beneath the Nativity scene in the Lady Choir. And the hidden vault? It’s the burial vault of the St Clairs of Rosslyn.