Ok the island was set up as a quarintine zone for sick people. The monster on the island is a mechcanical security system used to retrieve patinets that excape. The isalnd has a helocagenic affect, on the occupants, explaining how the doctor saw his father. The underground doctor is there to monitor the island and its patients, he innoculates himself daily to keep himself form the islands effects. The numbers are a certain combonation to escape the island, which a few people have, explaining the insane man that hurley meet who repeated the numbers. I still have many holes that I need to work on filling, such as why locke could walk again after the plane crash. I think that the "island" wants kids so badly, is because they have something physiology, that adults dotn have, that could make an antidote

The more episodes of Lost that I watch, the more questions that are created. What happened to Jack's wife? The Others obviously do exist, who are they?

Hurley's buddy in the insane tank was the part of Dharma Swan before Kelvin.

I like your theory Andrew...

The others are a group of people on the other side of the island.

I beleive your theory also to be correct gary...

Oh, and the purgatory theory has been OFICIALY SHOT DOWN!!!

how has it been shot down ?

The are all starting to degrade on a psychological level. Its like a govenment test, a big head game.

I think that they are on the island because they all need to redeem themselves because of things done in the past.

Have you ever seen the truman show? Well what if this show follows that same concept? they all might be here for the pure purpose of entertainment for the "outside world" just a thought.

In my opinion, these island is a huge-investigation facility. In one hand you got a numbers that deserves lucky if you use, but a certain bad-luck probability. The thing is, if you use this numbers to investigate, you´ll have more better chance to achieve what you are searching. This whole place is financied for several goals, that you can rewiew in the Hanso foundation web. My theory is that eventually known the risk of use the numbers and for this used a remote place like the island. I think There are several hacks for several investigations, and the others or maybe "another" search mind power in children. Is much more easier for children have precognition because they doesnt develope entirely a rational mind.
Other item, i dont think the other like a savage people. If they were it could be much easier to kill that kidnapped the survivors. Sorry my ortography faults, im not english or american

i think its a kind of spiritual island where sins are forgiven and dreams come true, not due to government intervention (although possible alien intervention)

bear with me

locke wants to walk, he walks. he lives his dream of being in the jungle, hunting, camping etc.
kate and sawyer get the chance to escape the real world.
michael and his kid get to spend all the time they want together.
hurley gets to lose weight, well, maybe not. what ya all think to that!!
they all get to think and reflect as well

after watching the last episode and the appearance of a horse (which you never see on islands) i'm starting to think that the magnetic irregularities and all the experiments going on have made the island a place where your subconscious manifests itself in physical form, (something like solaris with george clooney) but it doesnt happen all the time.
This would explain how polar bears exist in the island (walt's comic book) and the horse that kate sees, the appearance of a past distress and the connection to the natural horse she saw when she was in the car with the cop (horses in farm, areas are not uncommon)...
what do you think?

The island is run by scientists who study human behavior. They are putting situtaions to see what the people will do. Example right Eko and Locke watch the video again, Micheal gets contact from the computer. They are driving the people Mad and the button is to see how long the people will press the button.

MY THEORY ON LOST

This is probably as far wrong as the rest of them but here goes nothing: The jungle is the garden of eden, the whole thing revolves around religion. The numbers are references to religious text. If you have seen s2 e9 the story leads you to the old testaments but it begins with Kate in an apple tree (forbiden fruit?). The jungle (garden) was reached either by a portal from the plane going off course or a state of death (why were they not harmed, they keep saying). The black rock could be Noah's Ark? which would explain why it's in the middle of the Island,this would also explain the 2 polar bears. Desmond is a religious character (I am not religious so lack knowledge of the old testament) and has hand picked all of them to be there, you saw him in Jacks story and I am certain he will turn up again.It could be something to do with the 10 commandments or maybe even the 7 deadly sins, there stories can relate to these.
I know this doesn't explain all but it's food for thought!

I agree with Hector. The island definitely manifests subconcious desires and thoughts as reality. A number of things can be explained that way.

Hurley is obsessed with the numbers that changed his life so the whole Darma institure facility revolves around those numbers.

The horse that made such an impression on Kate when it ran in front of the marshalls car has appeared as reality.

The Polar bear from Walt's comic appeared early on, about the same time when walt had been reading the comic.

When Charlie ran out of drugs and was subconciously craving more, guess what appeared ing the jungle? A whole plane loaded with just what he wanted.

Recently Michael has been searching for his son Walt. Walt appeared to Shannon and now Michael is able to talk to Walt via the computer.

Does this sound plausible. Are any other occurances explained by the characters subconcious desires or fears?

THE SUBCONSCIOUS THEORY

The island was a top secret human test lab, using electo magnetics to alter the subconscious, prolong life and perform eugenics(selective breeding), this was performed on animals first (see www.thehansofoundation.org)

Desmond was the project leader and took injections to be immune from it.

The others were the test subjects who have been affected by the experiments.

The plane crash never happened it was implanted subconsciously by the experiment. So was all their stories, these never happened, they are transmitted memories. As you know all their lifes were quite miserable at the end, this was so they accept the "subconscious tranmissions" easily.This also explains why other characters appear in other peoples stories, imagine your TV set, it is recieving 500 channels but you only watch one, this is what they are recieving, only memories and remember intererence on analogue TV, well that is why they have other people in there, the memories are getting mixed (it is a test lab remember)

The others take the children as kids have very different subconsciousness, so they are not affected (notice we have not had a story from a kid). The others believe that they can use them for a cure for their own condition.

The island security system is to stop the others escaping.

The numbers are the key to the security and eventually Loche and Eko will come to understand this and get them all off the island

I would be interested to hear what you think to this?

"The main and most awful part, and the most impenetrable, of the
incident was the feeling of waiting and counting thirty to press a
button. What was to happen then was uncertain. Either I was to blow up
a planet, had blown one up, or failed to prevent it from being blown
up. For this I felt I was punished by a bearded priest to whom I was
betrayed by colleagues, by being compelled to work the grinder. There
was also, towards the end, the stronger idea that all this appeared to
happen in a robot body."

[L. Ron Hubbard (ed.), Have You Lived Before This Life?, 1958

The survivors of the crash chose to get on the plane in response to an ad released by the scientists running the island. It offering them a chance to get away from their problems. Everyone seems to have a reason to run. The catch is that the memory of their decision to participate in the experiment is erased with the crash of the plane. They allow themselves to be studied as they work through their problems on the island.

ok I've really got it all figured out!!!

they are in the middle of the south pole in some kind of bizarre bermuda triangle type thing. which would explain the weird magnetic fields, and perhaps warm weather.

some government found the island and started doing all sorts of highly confidential experiments with various animals i.e. polar bears. some of the animals have been mutated due to the experiments gone awry.

i think they are all going to prove to be somehow connected in their former, normal lives. i haven't quite figured out the whole numbers thing yet and why the world will end if they are not put in on time. but i think it will all go back for sure to the guy in the mental hospital. i think he knows the answers!

I don't think their ever was a crash! Maybe all these people are still on the plane!

Imagine this, Charlie leaves his seat to run to the toilet to take his drugs, once in their these drugs accidently find their way in to the planes air supply system, giving the remainder of the passengers "mind bending images!".

And as for "The Others", these are the people on the plane not affected by Charlies durgs!

I believe they are all comas and hooked up to psychological simulation machines.
Locke can't really walk and Claire hasn't had her baby.

The "Others" are the scientists monitering all the "survivors".

The others steal the kids bcause they are too young to be in the simulation and Aaron will be taken soon too. This is why Walt was taken.
When ever they hear the whispering in the jungle that is the scientists talking and they slightly wake up from the coma.

If a person completely wakes up from a coma, they will die. When Shannon Saw Walt she was waking up so then Anna Lucia shot and killed her. Since Sayid saw walt I believe he will die next.

The Security System is to regulate the simulation. When ever they are going to "cheat" (try and get of the island with help) the System will come and get rid of the help. This is why the System killed the surviving pilot when he was going to give them a radio and why it shook the ground when Kate was in the tree.

When Shannon saw Walt the first time, (in the tent) I'm pretty sure he said "Don't push the botton". If they don't input the code(4-8-15-16-23-42) into the computer every 108 minutes, the simulation will end and they will all wake up.

IF this whole theory isn't true I have another.
Eithen (remember him?) wasn't an "Other". He was sent there to capture Claire and kill Aaron so the Others wouldn't get theire hands on him(the Others probably capture the kids so they can brainwash or raise them to become an Other). He would need to kill Aaron because he knew they would raise him to be an Other and he woyld do terrible things. (Remember the episode "raised By Another? seperate the worlds and they will be Raised By An Other.)

Oh and the whole Purgatory theory isn't realy because 3 reasons.

1) Purgatory is a neutral place.
2) Claire gave birth...
3) Why would Sayid be there? He's Islaamic...

I am taking no credit for this theory, as it is my cusins!!!

the theory:
Starting off with whats inside that damn hatch... a virus or type of gas. The gas makes you see things, imagine things etc.
The monsater chasing them is the same gas been leaking out, which made Boone see his dead sister, jack see his father and all the other people on the island.
Actually it is only the plane crash survivors and the french woman that are actually real. Who had to kill all of her friends because the gas made them go crazy, and somehow she has manage to become emune to it.
None of them would ever be aloud back into sociaty as they contain the virus themselves. Maybe the island was once a research area for the virus and the plane didnt crash there by accident, but all these people were hand picked and sent to see if the virus remained.

We will let you continue the theory for us, infact please do as we are still filling in holes and perfecting it. We also cannot think how it would end!!!

Thankyou @ Keifer and cusin Joe

Im not up to date with s2 - im english and dont cheat but meh... my theory could syill stand.

Just to add a few things about the numbers...the secret to the show is behind the numbers..all the numbers have to equal to the sequence and to balance the equation...
starting from the last number in the sequence 42...the number of survivors left on one side of the island...when the child is born this makes the number 43- so boone has to die to make the numbers even
23... the number of original survivors on the other side of the island
16..?
8, 15.....flight number
4.. number of survivors left on one side of the island
42+23+16+15+8+4 = 108 : countdown time.
Dunno if this is just a co-incodence or something put in by the producers to get people talking..

I like the purgatory theory. All the people died in the plane crash They've all done some messed up stuff. I think the other are angels that come and take you to heaven. I think Ecko is good too because they tried to take him in the episode where they showed the other side of the island, but they he killed the ppl trying to take him. & they only take the children becuase they're not gogin to heaven. If you die, you go to hell I think, (boone, shannon - incest thing)... Ethan took Claire, cause he's an other...and the ppl who took walt are others too. I dunno i know there's a lot of loose ends like whats jack done wrong. But I think he might be good too, or he just did soemthing we dont know about yet...hugo too...i dunno, think its purgatory 100% tho

i think the fact that many people actually died when the plane crashed sort of pushes away the theory of it being a test or like 'truman show'.

i would like to elaborate on all the magnetism theories. i have only seen up to the first episode of the second season, so im sure there are vital bits of information i am uninformed of. first off, sayid's magnet was off, this was due, obviously to the electromagnetic equipment in the hatch. one would think that such a powerful electromagnet would emmit a fair share of emp, presumable enough to render any electronic devices useless (perhaps airplane navigation equipment). i would also wish to point out the fact that there was a polar bear, polar, as in magnetic polarism and the like. the island is probably near the equator, given the climate. i remember seeing an wpisode of star trek a few years back. the crew found a "pleasure planet" if you will, the planet read your mind and created what you are thinking about. mccoy happened to thinking of dying, guess what happened. at the end of the episode, the planet natives explained that our weak human minds are not ready to posses such power. this supports the theory of the island being a pradise. i personally beleive that the producers are pretty much making this up as they go along, im sure there is some basic idea fro the whole series it is clear that abc is going to milk this baby for all she's worth, and if even a few chosen people know exactly what is going to happen, the truth will surely surface over the course of the series. the show is probably being made up as they go along, keeping us guess, buying dvds, watching paid advertisements. i'm expecting the writers to have soem major resolution at the end of the season, then at the last second of this season drop some giant bombshell that makes nothing make any sense at all. i will, however, be very upset if they end the series by showing a clip of cheech and chong followed by "wait man, this isn't taco bell"

dharma initiative studies pshycological stuff
people a study
number entering with computr is psychy test
maybe island took over

**is it just me or do the 'others' on the boat look remarkable like the people from dharma initiative video?**

I thought the girl on the boat who threw the petrol bomb at the raft looked like Jack`s wife

I'm with the pergatory theory so far.. theres a few things that i havent yet read in earlier posts.

-I think that Locke is a saint, although he doesnt know it, "i guess (the island) found me"- series one when hurley asks why he was travelling in australia. Also suddenly he can walk and he hasnt done anything bad in flashbacks so far. He tested charlie and found his guitar as a reward. theres more on him but... next;

-i agree that the others are angels, but not necesarily as christian faith believes angels to be. I think that they are neither good nor bad but do still move people from the island (pergatory) to their next destination.

-the other guy who infiltrated the tail-end group and killed the guy they put in the pit said that it was ok that he died because he was a 'good person' when anna lucia asked him.

-there are religious clues throughout like the hidden bit of reel that was inside a bible. desmond telling jack he would see him in 'another world' etc...

ok. so discuss that.

halfway through writing this im thinking this is massively wrong so go here for my new favourite theory.. http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12600

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what i dont get is the army knife. why is that there?

also, i heard from a newspaper article that the shows producers have stated that there is absolutely NOTHING supernatural in the shows stories. Don't know what that means for most of the theories going around but i personally don't think that religion is 'super natural' hmmmm. x

perhaps the black rock crashed or departed or something in 1623

i think that there are some freaks in this world and u shud all fuk off and actually get a life

i agree with you ed, but sometimes its good to watch television. but your right xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I read in TV Guide that the producers officailly denied that the island was purgatory.

Ed, if you hate it so much why are you reading these posts in the first place?

I sort of agree with the purgatory. The survivors who survived (who didn't actually survive, they all died too) were the people who didn't deserve to go to either Heavan or Hell. Everyone else who died in the crash went to Heaven or Hell. This would explain Shannon and Boone's deaths, being caught in a kind of incest love sent them to hell. I also think that Walt is the second coming of Christ, and Aaron being the Anti-Christ. They were both placed on the island by God to ensure them safe from the rest of civilisation. Locke and Mr. Ecko are both Saints placed on the island to guide the people up to heaven.

OR!!!!

The people really are on the island. Everything is just a coincidince, the monster is real (no one has ever proved that creepy freaky floating smoke monsters don't exist) and everyone is actually deprived of everything they need.

It is a sort of purgatorial metaphor (life) in which the folks must come to terms with just living.
Until they (we) stop trying the island will constantly control their (our) fates. When they (we) relax and start living, then peace will come to them (us). The reward is not heaven or hell but much better. Dharma. What does this all mean?

Has anyone noticed that almost everyone that has had a back story has killed someone? Just a thought

I think the island is part of the Marshal islands in the south pacific where the U.S. did nuclear bomb testing after WWII. (this explains the army bunker, the old US amry knife, the sickness desmond speaks of is radiation poisoning) and some kind of alien civilization is using the island for testing, and the 'others' are alien abducties that are sort of being forced to help out their alien experimenters. and the aliens have been following the people throughout there lives and guided them to the island

in yesterdays episode when the shadowy monster thing is in front of eko you can see the inside of it. soo since we had tapped it and are lost crazy we paused that part and looked in it for clues. its very very hard to see but you can see images from ekos past such as his brother in his arms dieing and a woman from his village. its kinda like this thing feeds off of peoples pasts...very weird!!

Even J.J. Abrams, the co-creator of Lost, thinks the Purgatory idea is cool, but he offically denies it in this article http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Entertainment/story?id=732221&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

I think Locke can walk simply because the impact of the plane crash jump started his nerve endings or whatever, he wouldn't have been able to participate much otherwise.

As for the big picture...I think the writers are just joining up the dots as they go along, they don't know where it will end up...or if they do it's just a general idea and they occasionally change their minds as the episodes unfold

I think some of you guys need a damn reality check.
First of all, as Locke might say, you need to take a leap of faith. Faith that the writers of this show know what they're doing, are constructing an immaculate and ellaborate storyline, that they are well read and highly intelligent.
Aliens is one of the stupidest suggestions I've ever heard. There are enough aliens on TV, and even more aliens coming in the future. TV needs no more damn aliens. Also, I think we can safely rule out the "implated memory" ideas and the timewarp ideas and the comatosed and dead ideas, mainly because the writers have actually said that none of these theories are true, more importantly because these ideas have been done before!! I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I've faith enough to say that they arent going to revamp an idea that was already done in Donnie Darko or Total Recall or Jacobs Ladder or even The Matrix, because they've got a bit more dignity that that. The series is highly original and hopefully its conclusion and secrets will be just as original.
I think there are only a few things we can safely say that are going on.
Serendipidy/synchronicity/dharma: Dharma may translate directly to "the way things are", however it is also to a degree synonimous with the idea of fate or destiny. In movies like "Donnie Darko" fate or Dharma is a path the hero has to follow to make things right, and along the way is presented with signs that he is going the right way. In lost its more like they are seized by fate (or their fate is somehow manipulated) and the signs act as clues to illustrate this (mostly reoccuring numbers).
2. Then we have this beast made up of black smoke that sounds semi mechanical and reflects images from the obsevers mind back at them. Nano-technology has already been suggested. Another possibility is that the creature is made up of sub atomic particles - the fundamental building blocks of the universe. As such, it can take on any shape it wants, can exist in all times and understands everything based on the fact that it is part of everything. It can read minds, be anywhere at once, travel in time, god knows. It may be a by product of an experiment - or it may be the experiment (scientinsts trying to create a rudimentary God) If this were the case - I'd bet a million dollars to a toenail clipping that the code they have to enter in the computer is part of a method of detaining the beast in its prison - the island. Perhaps the magnetic field under the bunker has something to do with this as well.
Reflecting on this, if the beast is this all powerful entity, maybe its been trying to escape the island all this time, drawing in victims from across the world to serve its needs. Some of these victims may have become the "Others", the infection being nothing more than the beasts influence. Moving on further, perhaps to get released from the island it needs to command the powers of certain children, as just about everyone the Others have abducted seems to have some sort of ability to manipulate the world - or its at least been suggested as such (clair's baby remains ambiguous).
Anyway, just an idea. While you can question my credibility (and I welcome you to of course), lost is certainly not a series about a heroin induced hallucination on a plane. For God's sake, first of all heroin is not a hallucinogen, second of all, even if it were, you simply cannot get high from that amount of heoroin passing through a damn airoplane ventilation system.

lighten up dude!

i thik that maybe they just crashed there and all the events that happened are a coincedence. yeah they were going the rong way and yeah the island has a magnetic pull thts why no one can find it cuz when they do they cant get off it. i think that the dharma initiative just happened to be on the island and the animals broke out and the place went out of business as for the others maybe they are just drugged up islanders. the hatch wel thats self explanetery the monster is actually real and its jst having a bad couple of months so it decided to take its anger out on the pilot and a couple of other people and dump them in trees. and survivors of the plane crash just happened to be involved in each others lives. and the numbers are secretly trying to take over the world with there bad luck. and adam and eve lived on the island for ever and ever but they died in the caves beause the used the numbers and that gave each other bad luck. the french women is on the island because she was sectioned and she is so crazy she has totally lost it with 16 years of being on the island. and the black rock is actually an alien space ship in disguise and the govermant has no part in the island. and the store room place that the tailies found is actually a bomb shelter and it was quarantined from the inside cuz outside is bad maybe LOST is actually real and they havent noticed the camera men following them ....YET..... thats the next story line when they do

4 - number of people from other side of island
8, 15 flight number

16 23 year of ship

43 number on main side of island

You're all right and wrong.
Dharma is real and still in business, but it's letting the island do all it's work for them. Dharma realized the 'attraction' to the island a long time ago, and knew from the Oersted satelite (google this) that the magnetic poles are reversing, as they did thousands of years ago, creating devastation and an eventual ice age (Discovery channel that). The island is protected by it's very own magnetic pole, and the hatches are there to protect the survivors of the cataclysmic event that will evntually happen, and a good mix of people can repopulate the earth. The rest of the stuff, the iron-filament monster, was a way to get funding for the project, no doubt there are more experiments that Locke and the boys will run across, and they are getting a nice dose of BF Skinner's collective concious to keep them busy, and hopefully procreating (Kate has a great bod).
I may have solved the case, but it's the best damn show on, and I'll continue to watch.

nothing is supernatural.I think everything can be explained somehow.the numbers are not a coincedence they have something to do with all of this. the others could be controlling everything, check this out, why is it whenever micheal is in the hatch alone thats when the computer starts talking, then when jack walked in the screen went blank. the others are obviously trying to get micheal out of the way because they dont want to hurt him because he is a good person, hes just looking out for walt. the monster probably does feed on fear because it killed the pilot and not eko, and as for when it went up to locke i think something is going on with him, he hasnt done anything bad in his flashbacks and he can suddenly walk when he gets to the island, whats up with that? as for the new episode on the 18th i was a little disapointed the others were right there and all jack does is try to call a bluff instead of asking questions, come on jack you're smarter than that

I agree with Kelvin. I think that everything on the island can be explained. The only thing that troubles my theory is the freaky black smoke creature. I think that that is the only thing that cannot be explained because it had those pictures of Eko. I think it stopped infront of Eko because he has no soul. I also think that Eko had an idea of what the creature is because he was not scared of it, and no matter how big you are, you get scared of something like that. The numbers all revolve around the island. Hurley's insane friend got them from a transmission he heard, the french woman also got the numbers from a transmission. I beleive they are the same transmission of which are to do with the scientific project that occured on the island. I don't beleive there are stil scientific tests occuring. The numbers on the side of the hatch and the code to be entered i into the computer, they're all to do with the island.

I am in England and have just watched Episode 7 - The other 47 days. I think a lot of what is going on on the Island is related to the psychologist B F Skinner's work. He wrote about creating another society dofferent from mainstream society. I think the experiment is still going on that is why the button must still be pushed.
I agree with this theory that the island creates what you think about. That is surely a 'supernatural idea?

Also see 'Lord of the Flies'

i live in scotland an have only seen the first season i also downloaded the first episode of season 2 cheeky i no but i couldnt wait for it to start again over here. what i dont get is jack sed its 3 hours to light before he went down the hatch when are the others going to come, do they come? u would think they would have come by now.i have seen clips from the abc website from season 2 and wen they meet the others wen the are searchin for micheal they way the speak to each other is as if they havnt met so im guessin the others dnt come.

This is my first time posting, though I have been reading the posts here for months.
I was thinking it would be a good idea to have a post that lists all the "theories" that the writers have officially discredited. If everyone likes this idea, can we have it be made a sticky?
The following are ones I got from Wikepedia, but I looked at their sources and they seem valid. I included the sources they listed

* The survivors are dead and/or in Purgatory.
* The survivors are in a time warp.
* Spaceships or aliens influence the events on the island.
* Everything seen is a fictional reality taking place in one or more of the survivors' minds.
You probably already know most of these. But I have seen some people refering to some of these theories still and wasn't sure if everyone knew what the writers have been saying.

I reckon they all died in a plane crash or are in a coma. And scientists have taken their bodies and are doing experiments on them. Maybe they are all hooked up
to computers and seeing if they can interact with each other through a dream situation created by the pcs.

That sounds like a good theory, however if that were so then it would be a fictional reality and the shows creators have official discredited that. Nice try though.

my theory is that eko and locke knew the plane would crash, like in exodus part 2, the last episode of season 1, locke was looking at Jack as if he was feeling sorry for him and eko is also very simular to locke with his guiding and knowledge of the island which is quite weird.And also i think that Kelvin may have been Ethan!i know it sounds crazy but he cud have been with rosseau the french women trying to get claires baby for her, coz we still dont know wat happened to Claire when she was kidnapped by ethan, but in the last episode, there was that little flashback with the french women and claire and claire scratched her so AHA! it may be bullshit but oh well i tryed!

hey its not 03:47 in my great country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok guys.. here goes.. me n my pal have been reasearchin way to much into this.. quite sadly.
im not givin ya theories.. just evidence.. its all something to do with walt disney.. maybe epcot. http://www.waltopia.com/film.html the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ... maybe lost is a experimental community gone wrong... check out this film of walt disney just before he died.. it has a real resembelance to the dahrma vid.. and also ive noticed a few fake web sites that must have been made by the producers.. now check this lonk out.. http://www.thehansofoundation.org/mission.html the proof is wen you click on the terms and conditions at the bottom.. just see where it takes ya..also the band geronimo jackson.. http://www.geronimo-jackson.com/ then look at there first album name at look it up.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke another interestin site... i have loads more stuff but gotta go x x

I FIGURED IT OUT

I've read everyone's theories thus far, and many of them seem to be somewhat on track, but I think I've figured out what is going on. We need to think outside the box here......The survivors of the crash are in actuality, the first human beings to inhabit Mars. Hear me out now. The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. The phone number/zip code of the new Maritan city called Marstopia. Locke can walk b/c there is actually no gravity, no one realizes it yet though. The flashbacks are all the evil that occured when our survivors lived on the Moon. Walt sees a polar bear because the Polar Bear is the national animal of Marstopia. The Dharma Initiative video is a news broadcast from the Moon. The plane itself was actually a spaceship that got the characters to Marstopia. The hatch is Marstopia's version of the White House, after all, the settlers of the New World aren't exactly rich, as all government resources are obviously still focused in the development of the Moon. And finally, the Others....everyone is looking too much into the "Others." There's really a simple explanation, the Others are employees of Marstopia's newest resort, Marizpan Beach....and they kidnap all the children for cheap labor.

THE ANSWER

A bunch of people crashed on a remote island.
Some live and some have died or will die.
One of them is a doctor.
There is something about numbers that make people rich or sometimes not.
Anna Lucia is a bee-otch.
The monster is made of black smoke.
Mr Ekko could kick my ass.
I love the show and am angry I can't figure it out yet.
The entire show is a mass conspiracy to resurrect 'Pary of Five'.
The Fonz will jump the shark with the Dharma logo.
Charlie will steel the One Ring from Frodo and return it to Sean Astin, who will then be assasinated by Jack Bauer.

To b honest almost everyone on this shite toks utter shite u dnt have a clue stop wasting peoples time and get a grip

It's a Zoo!

I think that maybe the producers will try and annoy everyone by making it a dream and at the end of the last episode one of the characters will wake up on an areoplane which is about to crash

Jack's Tattoo!

Anyone ever notice Jack's tattoo on his shoulder of the number 5? You think it's got to do with Party of Five? Kind of like how the Lord of the Rings guys got their tattoos as memorobelia of the movies?Just wondering.

I too once thought it was purgatory then I keep changing my mind after reading other posts. But I've wondered about one that mentioned talking to Walt through the computer. I have had dreams that seem real as though I've gotten messages through my computer from friends or what not. Could it be possible that there are parallel layers of existence one in which the others exist vs the others etc. Keep in mind I've only got finished watching season 1 so most of what I say is mind blabber. But I remember watching Forbidden Planet too and believed that to be similar to what was going on the island,, particularly with Walt. (Monsters of Id concept).

Then I was intrigued about someone posting on another site about Watership Down by Richard Adsam (is that the last name?) Anyway, it just seems pretty cool the main character of that book is known Fiver and Jack has the 5 tattoo. And Sawyer was reading a copy of it.
Then someone else on his site mentioned similiarities to Ambrose Bierce's Occurence on Owl Creek Bridge.... So many intriguing theories I wish I thought of them first....

What if they're all dead already? What if it's an experiment? What if its collective unconscious? What if they're all entwined?

To be more personal, why I'm destined to be on the island of LOST:
1. Locke's mom = Annabeth is similar to my real name (Anna-Liza)
2. Hurley and my history (for reasons I won't say)
3. An experience that might be considered a "tabula rasa" = difficult to explain if you haven't been through it but basically I felt after waking up (like imagine the opening scenes with close up on a character's eye) felt like my brain was "erased" and my personhood reimplanted
into my physical body with vague memories of my past
(I have yet to have a spiritual awakening much like Locke though perhaps I have forgotten what it was being that I've experienced #3)

lisa! u won the lottery!

This show better have a damn good ending for all this hype created

The whole religous pugatory thing wouldn't be true. The developers wouldn't dream of doing that becasue it has a religious oppion, which many people may find offensive. :)

The theory I belive is right, is the whole coma thing. All of the characters are in a deep sleep. For, some reason they arn't aloud out of the sleep. The mechanical monster thing always appears when the characters are fearing for their lives. We all know that we almost always wake from a bad dream when we are frightend. The monster sprays them with drugs, which keeps them asleep.The numbers hurley are talking about may be some sort of "code" to the whole thing. Hehe, this theory may be completly outta whack because I haven't seen any of the season 2 episodes yet :P

How about this: They all crashed on Fantasy Island long after Mr. Roarke and Tattoo abandoned the island. They left after realizing that their endless extravagant expenditures put Fantasy Island Inc. into receivership. Without Tattoo and the help of the over worked and under paid, native Fantasy Island staff, guests are left to experience random disturbing fantasies that sometimes help them to find closure with their personal messed up issues. More often than not, the fantasies just get them killed in some ironic way. I expect to see the mummified body of Tattoo in one of the caves in later episodes. I predict that they will discover the horrible fact that Mr. Roarke murdered the poor SOB because the little guy was always sooo annoying. I mean, with his, “Yes both” this, and his, “Ok both” that, and his, “Both, do I have to wear the dreth tonight?” Who could blame Ricardo --he’s Khan for ch*st sake!

I don't know if this is a good theory or not (It may have been mentioned before).
Maybe.. maybe it's a whole "Adam and Eve" theory, you know with all the races and all the different animals that showed up (aka The Black Horse and The Pig and The Polar Bear). The baby may be the new Jesus or something great, that Has the Possibility of being changed by the enviornment he lives in (ie Remember when the Pychic sent them on that trip, knowing that the plane would crash and he was specific about where/who should raise the baby?) Recently the whole deal with Charlie reinforced my theory a little (about the baptism). Faith and Destiny are big Ideas about this program. Locke and Echo are the key. We'll see what happens...

i think the monster is controlled by the computer in the hatch and the numbers are a code that secure the monster won't escape. and the others are dharma scientist who kidnappes children for there own experiments.and i think eventually they eventually find out how to escape of the damn island but two of them must stay behind to push the button or else the world be in great danger. i think that jack and locke stay behindd. but the question is where the .... is desmond?!

i think he is kidnapped by the others

i read this book called the green planet or something and it was about people taken to another world because earth died of something maybe thats what happend to them and the others are just people who came before them

I agree with the whole religious theory. Basically when Jesus was around the whole world was a mess and most people were sinners. Jesus died to save people from their sins so that they would go to heaven. The purpose of the bible is to teach people to live in harmony and not be sinners. Almost everybody on the island has committed some sort of sin in their past. One of the episodes is called Exodus and in the Old Testament this is the story of Moses getting LOST in the desert. Claire's baby is called Aaron who was the brother of Moses. Locke keeps talking about having faith and "being tested". Mr Eko has become a priest and found a book in a place that he said was similar to a place in the Old Testament where the people found a book of law that restored harmony amongst the people. The word Dharma comes from Indian Religions and can mean many things from the ways things are to law and religion. One of the episodes is called Deus.... which means God in latin. I think the others only take good people and leave the bad people to thrash it out on the island and learn the way to live. I think the black smoke is something to do with people facing their own fears and sins which is what is taught in the bible.

i think that the darma place were studying electric magnetic stuff and makes up exeriments them tests chemicals or drugs on animals and one day they made a dinosaur type thing and it escaped freeing the rest of the(altered animals e.g poler bear)animals darma knew that the island was now unsafe so quarintened(sorry about spelling)it off ,the numbers are a type of control code to keep the animals under control and keeping them on the island.they knew this was not enough so they made a mecanical security bot of some sort to keep the animals away from both entrances some scientists went mad and ran for it some stayed died of old age but new people cam along ever so often to press the button hence desmin

sorry for being so long but thats my view:)

i posted the one above and i hav something to add.

some scientists disagreed with the use of animals for test subjects so went out and when people came to shore they took the young to try and sheild them from the scientists and one day lead a rebelion (and thats why the others know there way around the island they have worked there for years)

desmind i believe has fixed his boat and sailed away he has a boat because he was in that race around the world

I think the whole "lost" story is something to do with the church of scientology (COS). I knew from watching an episode of south park that the COS is really into experiments regarding human emotions so I did a little research on Wikipedia and found this page; copy this link into your browser and have a good read of this page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera_in_Scientology_doctrine#Invader_Forces

You really need to read this link or the rest of this won't make sense.

There are some amazing coincidences between what's going on in "lost" and some of the COS' beliefs that are described in the link, in particular

1) The spaceship that looks like a plane! I don't know the exact type of plane that is used in lost, but it looks pretty similar to the one in the picture!
2) Read the part about Invader Forces about half way down. It talks of a battle between the 5th invader force and some others who were already there. Jack has a big 5 tatooed on his arm, does this signify that he is part of the 5th invader force? After all they are the 5th party to land on the island that we know about: 1- The Black Rock, 2- The French Research ship, 3- Desmond, the guy from the bunker and 4- The yellow plane loaded with drugs.
3)Under the heading "Key Incidents" it talks about people being brainwashed by having implants known as incidents (remember Desmond - "There has been an incident")
4) The next heading is "Aircraft Door Goals" and talks about goals being implanted in the fuselage by way of an explosion!
5) "Bear goals" is the next heading talking about using live bears - polar bears keep popping up on the island!
6) Under the heading "Marcab Confederacy" it talks of them coming from a planet 108 light years from earth. 108, the number on the timer in the bunker!

Apart from that, some anonymous guy made a post on this forum on Dec 10th 2005 (scroll up and read it). This is an extract from a book written by the guy who founded scientology (L Ron Hubbard) and talks of a guy counting down to push a button and not knowing what the consequences of either pushing or not pushing the button will be. This is exactly what is going on in the bunker in lost!

I'm not saying I have all the answers, I'm not even sure exactly what scientology has to do with lost, I just think that these things are more than a coincidence.

hi there i think Lost is part chance part fate on why the plane crashed it is slightly logical and at the same time baffling.The plane crashed for a reason to have everyone question their lives but the other on the island have heard of a prophacy in which one day a boy will come who will be sum wort of god figure (hence why they steal all the children that are on the island and y they took walt instead of the baby)Walt can make things happen if u havent noticed the rain stopping when he wants his dad to find his dog the bird at the airport the polar bear on the island.Locke can walk because maybe the force of him hitting the ground from the plane crash "clicked sumthing back into place"we dont know why he couldnt walk it could have been a temporary thing his legs did give way when boone died.The time on the island has given everyone time to reflect on their past lives and has made them think twice about how they lived hence halucinations.Claire keeping the baby charlie coming off drugs Shannon looking after the dog hurley giving everyone food...And why is the purgatory theory "shot down"?Those who have made up for the bad things they did in the past life have been let into heaven Boone Shannon and the others who dies in the crash led good lives.It could be a mixture of fantasy and real life terms but i think its sumthing spiritual anyway

http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7712
this site has a gd explanation of whats goin on

maybe you have already realized this...i haven't read all of the posts yet, but for stev's comment made on dec. 22 about the numbers,
16=the number of years that rousseau has been on the island

I think the plane never crashed, all the people were placed in their respective spots after the crash. This is a govt. experiment to see how people react under stress with no information as to their situation. The reason why the children are snatched up is because they make lousy test subjects. Everything is designed for max. freak out, to push everyone to the limits. If the creators of the show interject any reality to the situation the aircraft would have nose dived into the ground killing everyone after the tail was ripped off.

i think that the most interesting element in lost is the monster first we think it is some kind of beast, but we hear mechanical sounds coming from it, then we see black smoke so we think wait maybe it isnt a monster, we are also told it is a security system by rousseau, which makes us think it could be a sort of walking killer robot, but then we see it right infront of eko and we think no way its something way beyond what we first suspected, if you ask me then there must be some serious shit goin down on the island if a security system that appears to be nothing but black smoke was created to guard it.

The letters in the name "Ethan Rom" can be rearranged to spell "other man."
In Watership Down, the story is about two tribes of rabbits battling each other. The character, Fiver, has the gift of intuition about future events.
Pictures of wariors for God or the devil are often drawn with a scar across one eye like the one on Locke's eye.

well done todd(this is not sarcastic)

well with the numbers:
4:the number of tail end survivers when they reach the others(jack,etc)
8,15:flight number
16:years rosseau has been on island
23:original number survivers of tail end survivers AND ana lucias seat number is 23 sumit
42:jacks seat number on plane.
108:all numbers added together

hello everyone my name is andy. i am a geographer at the university of nottingham. i have been analysing the wave crests and comparing them with the mysterious numbers featured in lost. by trial and error i have found an interesting corralation. the number of waves per second coming onto the beach directly relates to the number of times kate looks at jack lovingly per episode. i have also discovered that the producers have set this 24 degrees north and 200 degrees east of jamacia. i have plotted the course of the aircraft and incoorporated the time of radio failure. i intend to re-construct the crash using models to further this investigation.

yours,

proffessor charlotte farmer, nottingham university

i dont know if anyone picked up on it but in episode 11 of the second series when jack refuses to leave when he is told by the bearded guy who appers to be the leader of the others and the bearded guy asks a fellow other bring someone out, that someone of course is kate but if you listen to his exaxt words he says "Bring her out alex" and if you remember alex is name of rousseau's child who was taken, although when kate is brought out you never see the face of the person who is referred to as alex.

I used to think that locke was the hardest mother on the island but know i think that eko is, because not only did he kill some of the others in the episode "the other 48 days" he also heard the monster in the jungle but did he run no he had it a staring contest and he won, he's one fearless bastard.

HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT LOST IS ABOUT.

if you think about it what is the producers of the show acheiving. They are managing to perform on the viewing public the same thing that we see them doing to their characters in the show. They are playing a ultimate psychological game with our minds whilst we watch the show and think it is the characters that are experiencing the confusion.

The creators of the show are putting in all these different elements.like the duality of man ,religious conotations,purgatory,subconcious belief, etc.
And all the time adding more and more complex storylines to keep us on the hook.

During this time they are making wads and wads of cash in syndication rights and dvd sales. And as long as they can keep us interested they will keep doing so. But when this interest runs out or they decide to call it a day they will give us an ending that will not satisfy us. Because they cant meet the expectations that they and we have built up in our minds.

They are playing the Long Con just like Sawyer, and I am eating it up like the rest of you.

Just hope they can keep it up for a good bit longer.

I THINK SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE ON GLUE!

FUCKING ALIENS

MY ARSE

PLEASE READ!!!!!!!! VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!

Hi. Just few things for you to all think about. ive done a bit of research into things in los as well as just coincedently spoted reacurring things in the episodes. listen up:

BLACK AND WHITE:

the 2 colours usually represent good and evil. the 2 colours have been featured a number of times, usual to do with locke;

-in "pilot", Locke and Walt are playing backgammon, locke says to walt, "2 colours that you can choose, one is light, one is dark". maybe saying you choose your own personality/future

-when jack finds the 2 corpses "adam and eve", one is holding a black stone, one is holding a white stone.

-in "house of the rising sun" claire has a dream where locke has one white eye, one black eye.

-sawyer's new glasses have one half white frame, one half black

-polar bears are white, the horse kate sees is black.

-when jack and anna lucia are facing each other in collision, jack is wearing white, anna lucia is wearing black.

-The black-and-white logo of The Dharma Initiative appears on various surfaces in the hatch compound; the same symbol appears on the labels of all the food in a storage room, and of a shark that circles Michael and Sawyer.

maybe all coincedence but someting to think about. the last point leads me onto my next thought, the number sequence:

4- no. of survivors from tail end of plane
8 & 15- flight number

16- number of years rosseau has been on island
23- anna lucia's seat numbe & number of original survirors from tail end of plane
OR
16/23- year on the ship

42- Number of survivors from front end of plane

check this: (research)

The sum of these six numbers, 108, has also become significant in connection to the Dharma Initiative. 108 is a sacred number in taoist philosophy. this is important because the Dharma Initiative's symbol resembles the taoist one. ths number appears on a mural inside the Initiative's Station Three, and the code must be entered into the computer every 108 minutes. these numbers also frequently appear individually throughout the lives of the survivors, both before and after the crash.

i belive that the mental man that hurly gets the numbers from, has a big part in the unfolding of the final story plot. maybe he worked for the dharma initiative in the past.

who knows. cant wait to find out.
i know this isnt really a theory, but its something to think about and would be a very big coincidence if it didnt have anything to do with the plot. and i dont think redemption has anything to do with it. sayid is muslim so that wouldnt make sence.

oh and could ppl stop readin all of these posts, just so they can say "get a life". you obviously dont have one if you read all this for no reason :S sorry this post its so long

thanks for reading, lemme know wat u think pls. cheers

oh i've seen up to 215 but i don't wanna spoil...

but let's say the experimentation thing is getting played at the mo (215) you find out some of claire's history when she was kidnapped...

and i think the electromagnet is to drag people onto the island for whatever reason. i don't think they're all in comas!

I would like to point out some things. 1st off, There is no significance between the numbers that are entered into the computer and that of the people on the island. If everyone remembers, Danielle heard the numbers BEFORE she was on the island, in fact before all of flight 815 came to the island, so how can these numbers play any significance to their lives.

2nd of all, I don't believe Walt will return. Each season of lost is viewed per year, but so far, roughly only a month has passed on the island for each of these seasons. Now, having read an interview about the creators of Lost, they have already written the final episode, but they claim to have enough material to last 7 seasons. 7 seasons = 7 years = 7 months (island time). So in the end, Walt would be what, 18/19, when in fact he is only suppost to be 11/12.

3rd and final, John locke ROCKS!!!

ethan!!!!!!!!!!and claire!!!!!!!!

Personal theory:

The plane never took off. The were gassed, put under, whatever before the flight took off. Now the "crew" is basically being experimented on my Dharma. They are all hook up together, thus why their memories flow in and out of each other. The odd things (smoke monster, horse, walt) show up as stimuli for the minds of the captives. The others are really doctors. When someone "dies", they come out of the experiment.

Im from england and i have a therey that the more you think about the more you think it to be true i think John locke is a dream person or somethink beacause on the phonecall in his past he is called adam and the women is called eve and in the blounds dream i forgot her namebut john has 1 white eye and one black eye and when they find the cave they fing 2 people 1s a women ones a man and locke says are very own adam and eve and kind of laughs and if you think about it locke is the only unlogical thing in the show

it all seems a bit bamuda triangle to me,
because up to now there have been several other
crashed wrecks on the iland one dating to 1623
so there are probably more out there.
the magnetic force on the iland would explain why they would get draged on to the land from sea or sky. i think some people are brought there purposly for experimental reasons , and others accidently stumble into the magnetic field.
the oceanic crash victims are the experimented, and, the others are the experimentors.
i also think it has biblicle nature.

My latest theory (after downloading season 2 episodes from the US)

The Others ARE the Dharma Initiative. They have put up the pretence that they are feral in order to remove suspicion from themselves as being the orchestrator of the island phenomenon. They have taken Walt for the same reason they tried to take Clair’s baby, to protect them from whatever virus/disease that is inflicting the island. I believe that this virus only effects some people, and but not all of them, which is why they were willing to send Clair back to the camp after the baby was born (other than the fact that they have a limited supply of the vaccine). Perhaps children are more susceptible to the virus, or perhaps they wish for someone to continue their work after they die. Perhaps even more a radical view is that the Others first landed on the island on the Black Rock!

Also, that Scottish bloke who was down the hatch, took with him when he left a supply of the vaccine to protect himself.

I also believe that the Scottish dude was running a Dead Man’s Switch, in that if he died from the virus (i.e. the vaccine stopped working) then some sort of Nuclear, Biological or Chemical (NBC) Weapon would be released on the island, destroying the inhabitants and the virus. Also, when Locke failed to put the code in on time, what was the deal with the secondary symbols? I had already predicted that there would be a second countdown as a failsafe, but I could not understand why the symbols looked like hieroglyphs.

I haven’t yet decided how the triangle of the virus/black smoke/magnetic anomaly fits together yet. I am not totally convinced that the magnetic disturbance caused the crash of flight 815 directly, as all aircraft are made of the non-magnetic material Aluminium (Aluminum for my American cousins). I don’t thing the anomaly would cause the equipment to go faulty either, as the radios/transmitters scattered on the island are all functioning correctly, although this does seem at this time to be the most likely cause of the crash as the Pilot said they lost contact with civilisation and that is why they changed course in the first place. Leading on from this, I don’t believe that the Black Rock would have run aground because of the magnetics, as sailing ships of the 17th century were most certainly made entirely of wood! However, those sailing ships would have had compasses for navigation, as is likely that the magnetic anomaly caused them to get lost in the first place.

ships from the 17th century would still have had

tons of metal on board ie cannons, bolts etc,

and a plains engine is entirely made of metal so thats theory is still a float.

plus the others were not going to let clair go back any where, they were going to kill her. watch that episode again kidda and pay attention to what alex ,the french birds daughter says to clair as she saves her from the operation. and the black rock is to old for any of the others to have come to the iland on