Titanic mysteries solved

HE WAS heroic Morpheus in The Matrix film franchise, fighting the mysterious machine intelligence that kept mankind confined to a dream world.

- Garry Bushell

But now Hollywood star Laurence Fishburne is investigating stranger things slightly closer to home – the biggest unexplained puzzles in history.

His new TV series will tackle everything from the Roswell aliens to the possibility that Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth faked his own death.

It starts on Tuesday with an episode called The Titanic’s Lost Evidence.

The hour-long documentary examines the private papers of Lord Mersey, who headed the official investigation into the 1912 disaster, and considers the part human error played in the tragic sinking of RMS Titanic.

A judge’s notes show he was worried by the Titanic’s lack of lifeboat drills and its failure to slow down the night it sank, despite ice warnings from other vessels.