Bill’s Lost Site

From the Fuselage …

It appears that the call letters for the radio station that Sayid and Hurley picked up are WXR.

What’s interesting about the station is that it dates to 1945. The station broadcast out of Alaska and was ran by Coast Guard Radio.

There is a website that someone posted that describes this in more detail. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to bring up the site. Here it is though.

The Glen Miller band was the group that produced Moonlight Serenade that Hurley and Sayid picked up on the short wave radio.

Glen Miller’s band was the biggest of the bands in his era. He was a patriot to his country, serving in WWII.

However, the real interesting thing about Glen was how he died.

Traveling from England to France his plane disappeared. It was never found. The assumption was that it crashed and all occupants were killed.

Sound familiar?

For a quick bio of Glen Miller click HERE.

This is the book title that Locke is shaking upside down in the latest episode. The story is pretty interesting and was eventually turned into a Twilight Zone.

The basics are this (as I recall - I read the story years ago):

Man is believed to be a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. He is captured and taken to Owl Creek Bridge. Union soldiers wrap a noose around his neck and push him over the side to hang him. Only problem is that the rope breaks and the man falls the ground below. He manages to survive the fall and dashes off to the safety of his home to be reunited with his wife. Happy ending - The End.

Well, actually the end is him swinging from the bridge with the rope around his neck. The rope never broke. The entire story took place in a matter of seconds and was completely in his mind.

For those interested you can read the short story HERE.

Now the question is … did the writers throw this in here as a clue or red herring?