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Week 34, 2006

Aired on August 11th, the DJ Dan Live Broadcast gave fans of the Lost Experience a two hour live radio show where the listeners could phone in and, for the first time, actively communicate with characters behind the game. Though this article is perhaps not the most groundbreaking of Lostpedia's pages, it highlights the dedication and hardwork of its united editors, becoming the first and to date only Lost site to transcribe the radio show in its entirity for the benefit of fans worldwide (Read more...)

Week 33, 2006

An assertive and enigmatic young woman, Libby was one of the tail section survivors of Flight 815. Notably the only main character to have had no flashback, Libby's life before the crash, as well as her strange connections to other characters like Hurley and Desmond, remains but a mystery. Indeed, during the LOST Q&A at Comic Con, Libby's backstory was a topic of much debate, with the writers themselves hinting that she is one to watch out for... (Read More)

Week 32, 2006

The Black Rock is a British slaving ship that was found about a mile inland on The Island. Its history and reason for being on the island is shrouded in mystery. From documents revealed in The Lost Experience, it was found that the ship was owned and run by the British trading group the New World Sea Traders, a company owned by the grandfather of Alvar Hanso, Magnus Hanso.

This ship disappeared in 1881 on a return voyage from a gold mining operation in the South Indian Ocean. According to the manifest, The Black Rock initially sailed from (and was supposed to return to) slip 23 in Portsmouth, Britain - but no shipping company claimed ownership. A crew of some 40 men, along with an uncounted number of slaves, were presumably lost at sea. (more...)

Week 31, 2006

A Box is a highly variable receptacle. When no shape is described, a typical rectangular box may be expected. Nevertheless, a box may have a horizontal cross-section that is square, elongated, round or oval; sloped or domed top surfaces, or non-vertical sides. Many critics have praised LOST for the way it stretches the concept of a box

What does an ordinary box have to do with Lost? Many things; It is said that the box will play a big part in Season 3, it is rumored to be the reclusive Him, and over-anaysis suggests that the box is a new DHARMA Initiative Station. (Read More)

Week 30, 2006

The Pearl is DHARMA Initiative station number 5, discovered by Locke and Mr. Eko in episode 2x21, "?". The task of this station, according to its orientation video, was to monitor The Swan station via a Remote Viewing system, in a psychological experiment.

However, the work the Pearl staff were conducting was in fact useless, as notebooks in which observations were made only ended up on a dump, after being sent through the designated pneumatic tube. It seems the Pearl personnel themselves and not the Swan's inhabitants were the actual subjects of the experiment (Read More...)

Week 29, 2006

The Third Policeman, written by Flann O' Brien, was a novel only published posthumously. Desmond was reading this book when Jack, Locke, Kate, and Hurley gained access to the hatch in Man of Science, Man of Faith; it contains many subtle parallels with the situation in the hatch, as well as many elements of the (discounted) Purgatory theory. (Read More...)

Week 28, 2006

Rachel Blake has become a character of considerable mystery and

questions in the Lost Experience. Her website, www.rachelblake.com, is a blog about her vacation to Copenhagen. However, when one uses a password found in the source code of www.persephone.thehansofoundation.org, he/she is taken to Blake's real website, www.stophanso.rachelblake.com. It is in this site that Rachel Blake proclaims her mission to infiltrate and expose the Hanso Foundation, and their evil works. Many speculated that Blake is the hacker known as Persephone, which was recently confirmed in her blog.

Week 27, 2006

A four-toed monument dominates the coastline as Sayid, Jin and Sun look on from the boat in wonder. Seen in the Season 2 finale, the statue has become a popular mystery amongst Lost fans. Discover some of the theories behind its origins, including the clever ruse idea, the evolutionary branch hypothesis, or the more extreme David and Goliath theory... (Read More...)

Week 26, 2006

David LaChapelle is a director and photographer known for music videos and fashion media. LaChapelle was commissioned to create the Lost promotional video for the UK's launch of Lost on Channel 4.

This video was shot in March 2005, and featured the actors from the main cast paired as dancing partners. The original version was set to music by Portishead, while the final version which aired featured a voiceover by the cast members. While familiar to UK viewers, these videos are generally not known to viewers in other countries around the world. For Lostpedia editors, this article is an example of the use of the Deteurocanon Template, for information that is considered to be marginally canonical. Editors are encouraged to join the ongoing policy discussion on Lostpedia's working definition of Lost's Canon. "

Week 25, 2006

Do you have the courage to take your finger out of the dam and blow the whole thing up instead? This is the question Kelvin poses to Desmond when he first shows him the fail-safe device at the hatch. This device is a "last resort" method of terminating the magnetic field at The Swan. Would you have the guts to "make it all go away?"

Week 24, 2006

In the season 2 finale, the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend makes a prominent appearance on Lost. Learn what inspired the executive producers to incorporate this literary reference into the storyline and what parallels it may have with Desmond's backstory.

Week 23, 2006

Locke looked into its eyes. Mr. Eko stared into its heart. The "Monster", aka security system is one of the many unsolved mysteries of Lost. Damon and Carlton have promised more of it next season, and hinted that we may have seen it in season two but didn't realize what it was. Whatever it is, this tree rustling, ground shaking thing is still an enigma to the survivors.

Week 22, 2006

The Swan is the third of apparently six stations, all of which seem to thusfar be situated underground. It is designed for a two member team to live inside, and has many ammenities of life, including ample food supplies. The occupants are to input the the numbers into the computer every 108 minutes, in order to prevent a system failure. The station was likely badly damaged, and possibly even destroyed, during the season 2 season finale.

Week 21, 2006

Mr. Friendly

Since appearing during the final Episode of Season 1, Exodus: Part 3, and taking part in the kidnapping of Walt and sinking of The Raft, people have been curious as to the origin of Mr. Friendly. Is he Gerald DeGroot? Maybe he is Robert or even the fabled Him? Why the fake beard and did Sawyer really name him after a Muppet? Whatever the questions, Mr. Friendly has been integral to Season 2 in Lost. We don't know a lot about Mr. Friendly, but what we do know has significantly changed the thinking of Lostites about the direction of the TV show so far... (Read More...)