This is a weird one! I was recently sent an e-mail from a friend who pointed out that in the 1999 cult film The Matrix, we see a file folder about 17 minutes into the film which very briefly shows an image of (the Keanu Reeves character) Neo's passport.In the film, the image appears up-side down as we see above.Interestingly if we rotate the image the right way up we can see that the expiry date of the passport is... 11th September 2001 (see below).

This is not a photoshop fakery. Dig out a copy of the DVD and go 17 approx minutes in and you can verify for yourself as we have done.Understandably this story is currently doing the rounds on some other websites, though we would add that this is not the first bizarre one that we have seen.In March 2001, the American Fox TV network aired the Pilot episode of the short lived series The Lone Gunmen (which was a 'spin-off' series from The X-Files series). The main plot of this show focused on a plan by rogue elements of the US government to hijack a jet aircraft by remote control and crash it into the World Trade Center, in order to justify an increase on military spending and a war on terror. Other anecdotal examples in entertainment such as these are the CD album Coup - Party Music which as we have reported elsewhere was released just months before their graphic depiction of an attack on the WTC Twin Towers was realised (below).