Bill’s Lost Site

So, there is this guy Locke on the island. Box company collection supervisor by day and super-hero of our mystery island by night. Seems like every episode I am left asking myself, “How in the world does Locke know so much?”.

This post will be an on-going post based off feedback that I receive. My hope is that by the time we document everything Locke knows or does we will have a better understanding of his real background.

In no particular order here is what Locke can do:
— Hunt boars
— Skin boars
— Cook boars
— Collect water off plants
— Make glue out of plant stuff
— Make stuff that causes people to have really bad mental trips
— Ties up Boone in a very particular way after giving Boone the head trip stuff
— Quotes extensively from ancient history
— Speaks a little Italian
— Knows how to set a fuse in a stick of dynamite
— Built massive piece of equipment to try to break into the hatch
— Makes ropes
— Built a cradle for Claire’s baby
— Can track humans
— Great shot - flashback scene he bags a bird on his first shot
— Cleans and maintains all weapons ranging from hand guns to assualt rifles
— Knows how to install a lock on the gun room in the hatch
— Can seriously fight - whoops up on Charlie
— Knows how to take a lock apart and change the combination
— NEW from MamaMia - Locke is able to do this with just a single kidney
— NEW from Amber - Locke is able to predict when it will rain - usually in 3 seconds or less
— NEW - Locke is a literary critic

I consider all of these things unique since I can’t do a single one of them. Further, from what we know about Locke’s past he was a foster child. He mentioned that he was an outcast. He worked in a toy store and at a box company. Oh, and for the past 4 years he was paralyzed from the waist down.

Now some of these items you can learn from a book. But others … you have to actually do it.

So, post your comments about other things that Locke has done. He is truly an amazing character.

Faithful reader Mike emailed me with some interesting information using Google Earth (which, by the way, if you haven’t used it yet you are really missing out). Anyway, he drew a 1200 mile diameter around coastal Nigeria to see how far the plane could go prior to it crashing on our island. There is an island called Annonbon that showed up. The island appears to have similar topographical and fauna to what our island is showing. Click HERE for a great picture of the island.

Of course, the problem is that this island and islands around it aren’t anywhere near the South Pacific. So this leads us to one of the major questions so far. How did our Lostie’s end up off of Africa OR how did the Nigerian plane end up in the South Pacific?

Here is what we know: The corporate headquarters for the Hanso Foundation appear to be in Denmark. However, from the cease and desist letter from the GHO, the writer references an Off-Shore facility on the island of Zanzibar (click HERE for the Zanzibar site). They reference this island because of a recent disease that is breaking out in the Congo. The GHO believes whatever is happening on this island led to the outbreak of the disease in the Congo (similar plot line to the Jurassic Park books - though not the movies).

Zanzibar and the surrounding islands are well within the range of our drug smuggling airplane. The climate and topography of the island are also very similar to our Lost island. Is it possible that, like Jurassic Park, Zanzibar is where the main facilities are BUT another more remote island is where our Losties are stuck?

This suggestion makes even more sense if you buy into the theory that our Losties have had their memory modified. If their memories were implanted then they didn’t leave from Australia - the island doesn’t have to be in the South Pacific.

Since I am a big believer in this theory I am now making my official prediction - our island is somewhere off the East Coast of Tanzania near the island of Zanzibar.