Did you know there was a forgotten journalist who, months before the Titanic left port, chased rumors about its safety, wrote a bold exposé, and then vanished? That story still has clues and unanswered questions, and I think it’s the kind of hidden angle that could give us a fresh perspective on the tragedy.

The exposé first hit the pages of the Newcastle Daily News, just a week before the Titanic set sail. William Henderson, a young correspondent with a taste for scandal, wrote that the ship’s builders had cut corners on the watertight compartments and that the latest safety inspections had been lax. Rumors in the harbor that week were all about the Titanic’s hull strength, its new engine room boilers, and the fact that the ship was reportedly over‑laden with cargo and passengers. People whispered that the ship’s captain had ignored several warning signs. The strange thing is that the same day Henderson disappeared, a local radio station dropped the signal for a few minutes—almost as if the silence itself was a warning that the ocean was listening.