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Deceased People

• When People die on the island, they become part of the island; the whispers is the cumulative voices of the island and the people who died.
  • Frank Duckett's voice is heard on the whispers. He died in Australia, not on the island.
  • Christian Shepherd's voice was also heard by Jack in the Hydra Station. Christian also died in Australia, not on the island.
  • Emily Linus died 42 miles outside of Portland, but her specter appears to her son Ben on the island years later. Her appearance is preceded by the whispers.
• In the whispers for "Sayid and Shannon in the Jungle", the whispers are able to predict that Shannon is about to die. Whats more, one party member says "Hi Sis" and "Meet me on the other side Shannon," therefore Boone, who was dead at the time, was one of the voices.
  • Also, in the same instance of the whispers, one says 'Dying sucks', as if they've already experienced death themselves.
• In reading the whisper transcripts, what is said sounds as though they are being spoken by the spirits of dead people. They were aware of what was going on in the scene and spoke in reference to what was going on at the time, indicating the whispers weren't just random whispers from another time or another dimension or reality. This is what Miles hears, but because he is more adept at sensing spirits than most of the other people that have heard whispers, he understands what is being said better.
• One of the supernatural qualities of the island allows the deceased to remain on the island; either simply as a consciousness or as corporeal beings in a different dimension.
• Miles, who we know has some sort of supernatural ability to communicate with the dead, hears the whispers at the sight of Rousseau and Carl's death. He is the first person we see successfully attempt to understand / manipulate the whispers such that he knows where to find Rousseau and Carl's bodies.
  • Following this vein of thought, maybe this suggests that the Others are dead. The whispers certainly manifest themselves frequently around the Others, but they are not actually uttered by the people. Maybe the Others are all the same sort of undead entities similar to what Christian and Claire may currently be.
    • When the monster roared over Kate and Claire in the "pit" in Sundown, there were images of people-like shapes in its smoky trail. Perhaps the whispers are from the souls the monster has overtaken, including all of those who were "sacrifices the island demanded."

Congratulations to those who prescribed to the 'deceased people' theory, you were right. Do a little dance to show off just how clever you are :3

Misc.

• The whispers are part of the unseen "darker threat".
• When the Others took a few men, as Nathan said, one was a German. This happened on the first night, it is him speaking German in the jungle. There was also German broadcast from the loudspeaker in the Swan during the episode "Lockdown".
• The Whispers are memories of certain people, or the subconscious thoughts of the people that are in the area when the whispers are heard.

Physical form

• While the whispers themselves seem to have some supernatural aspects, the people responsible for them often worry about being spotted or found, suggesting they have physical bodies on the island.

The Rules

• When a situation comes up in which the mysterious "rules" might be in jeopardy, something happens to prevent their breaking. This is manifested somehow through whispering between unknown parties (Jacob and MiB?)

Jacob

• We know the MiB, in smoke monster form, makes a strange clacking/mechanical sound. It is not ludicrous to suggest that Jacob has a similar alternative form, which makes this sound. We have some evidence for whispers following either MiB/Jacob around (e.g. There's No Place Like Home) and it is certainly possible that Jacob only appears to select people in life as well as death, which explains why only some people hear the whispers when others don't (Miles).