The following is a list of official discussion threads::
Official Hanso Foundation Website ThreadThe Hanso Foundation Website PasswordsChannel4 in UK Day One RecapUSA CluesJoop's CornerBad Twin CluesPersephone/Hole.thf.org Clues (Merge)LYMON / subLYMONal (Merged)LetyourcompassguideyouHanso Careers Site (Multi-Merge)WWPDPMathematical Forecast Initiative World MapRetrievers Of TruthMental Health Appeal Electromagnetic Research InitiativeSWF LinksRECLUSE Hack/Orientation Testing IssueValenzetti EquationHanso ExposedOfficial Frag Sequencing ThreadHanso Exposed Transcript ThreadOfficial Glyph GalleryOfficial Character Discussion Threads:
Characters Involved So FarAlvar HansoThomas MittelwerkPeter ThompsonHugh McIntyrePersephoneGary TroupDJ DanRachel BlakeGidgetgirl
The following is a timeline from my LOST blog:
The following is a complete timeline of clues. Throughout this timeline, you will find links that, when clicked, will redirect you to the blog post where you can read the full recap on that particular clue.
May 3, 2006 (May 2nd in UK, and May 6th in Australia.)
The LOST Experience Begins.
Fans first meet Persephone.
The game begins with the
thehansofoundation.org website being updated and the airing of a
fictional television ad which provided a phone number that fans could call to get the first clue/password: "
Breakingstrain".
Hugh McIntyre’s Phone Number is found on a Hanso Press Release.
"
Joop’s Corner" hack discovered.
"
Missing Organs" code found on Worldwide Wellness page.
RSS Feed reveals that Joop’s designation is "
626".
Boarders Rewards members receive an e-mail with a link to a
written correspondence between Gary Troup and an Australian publisher.
May 4, 2006Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the
Gary Troup interview are released on the Barnes & Noble, Borders.com and Amazon.com websites respectively.
May 5, 2006Hugh McIntyre, a fictional employee of the Hanso Foundation, issues a press release. The release includes a hidden link to persephone.thehansofoundation.org where the
second clue is found.
May 7, 2006Message on persephone.thehansofoundation.org is
updated.
May 8, 2006Message from Persephone in the executive biography about the fictional
Alvar Hanso, CEO and founder of the Hanso Foundation, having not been seen in public since 2002.
May 9, 2006The Hanso Foundation places an
ad in real world newspapers: "Don't Believe "Bad Twin"
A
hidden link and a TV commercial direct viewers to
www.sublymonal.com, where a puzzle reveals a code.
After using the code at
Thomas Mittelwerk's executive biography on the Hanso Foundation's website, Persephone questions his Caltech credentials, including a concealed message about Gary Troup, the fictional author of Bad Twin.
May 10, 2006Persephone's
sublymonal clue was changed and the Gary Troup message is no longer readable.
A note from Bad Twin's publisher is placed on hyperionbooks.com and Gary Troup's websites regarding Hanso criticism of
Bad Twin.
May 12, 2006A new press release is issued on thehansofoundation.org website about Bad Twin with a link to the
May 10 newspaper ad.
A
hidden letter from Hugh McIntyre to Robert Miller, real-life President of Hyperion Books, demanding that Hyperion cease selling the Bad Twin is found.
May 13, 2006Link to
Horde webmail service found at webmail.thehansofoundation.org.
May 15, 2006Hidden pictures are found on the Executive Bios page.
May 16, 2006A link is found in the source code of thehansofoundation.org to
http://www.djdan.am/. Interestingly, on the site there is a section reference of a mapinguari in "mythic beast sighting", which is the
first clue in the Lost Experience to tie in another LOST related web game on
oceanic-air.com.
A new set of numbers are posted persephone.thehansofoundation.orgwhich is translated to "
stand by".
May 17, 2006Links previously listed on the
DJ Dan website are removed.
Hugh McIntyre's picture is removed from the Executive Bios page. A password entry field for press releases also appeared on the same page.
One of the active project pages
directs viewers to a link:
www.letyourcompassguideyou.com.
Parts 4, 5, and 6 of the
Gary Troup interview are released on the Amazon.com, Powell's Books and garytroup.net websites respectively.
May 18, 2006Persephone.thehansofoundation.org has been changed to a new number set, which translates to "
A mouse does not rely on one hole".
May 19, 2006Flashing letters are superimposed and a hidden password entry is added to "
Peter Thompson's Executive Bio".
May 23, 2006Numbers on persephone.thehansofoundation.org is changed to "
2", which leads to the discovery of an
image on hole2.thehansofoundation.org.
May 24, 2006A link to hansocarees.com is added to the Hanso site, wherein the password "
Inmate Asylum"was found and used to unlock the Jacob Vanderfield & Lawrence Peck hack.
Hugh McIntyre is
interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
May 25, 2006sublymonal.com is
updated, and a new podcast by DJ Dan is found in a hidden area of the site.
May 30, 2006MFI page on the Hanso site is updated, which reveals a correspondence between Peter Thompson and the
Minister of the Interior Mugato.
May 31, 2006Persephone's number is changed to "+1", which leads us to a
new faceless image at hole3.thehansofoundation.com.
June 1, 2006Worldwide Wellness page is updated which reveals a secret phone message, and the ominous message, "Persephone, if you can read this I know who you are".
As promised, DJ Dan posted a new podcast, however, fans soon found that djdan.am had been hacked, and instead of finding the podcast, they were directed to letyourcompassguideyou.com where they found new content in the "
owells" folder. Among which was a hacked version of DJ Dan's latest podcast.
June 6, 2006A new link is added to the Institute for Genomic Advancement page. Upon clicking on the underlined word "
disease", a countdown timer and message from Persephone appears.
A Hanso Foundation
commercial, which directs viewers to
http://www.retriversoftruth.com, airs during an episode of Boston Legal.
June 7, 2006The password "
parthenogenesis" is found embedded in the source code of richerdeeperbroader.com, and is used to unlock a hidden area on the Institute for Genomic Advancement page.
June 8, 2006A link to Monster.com is added to djdan.am, which leads gamers to a new podcast by DJ Dan. In this podcast, a caller leaves an
ominous warning for DJ Dan.
June 12, 2006Persephone posts a new set of numbers, which once translated, direct gamers to a
new image at
http://hole4.thehansofoundation.org.
The Mental Health Appeal page is hacked, and information about the hidden page is leaked onto the Internet before the password is discovered. This latest update reveals the meaning of the
D.H.A.R.M.A. (Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications) acronym.
June 13, 2006One of the mysteries of the "Hole" pictures is finally revealed when a message from Persephone, "
Timeless Together", leads gamers to combine the image names and discover the anagram "light sequence again". This new password is then used to unlock the Mental Health Appeal's hidden features, which were leaked the day before.
Another link to a hidden page is added to the Electromagnetic Research Initiative page, which reveals a correspondence between Thomas Mittelwerk, and
Hoo-Gon Choi of an unknown government ministry.
June 14, 2006A url is found in a newly added thread on the Retriever's of Truth board, which leads gamers to DJ Dan's latest podcast. The podcast, which was originally announced to be released on
June 13, kept gamers guessing as to why it was released a day late. Among the topics discussed is a caller question about "Nanobots".
June 16, 2006An image showing various objects is posted on persephone.thehansofoundation.org, which provides the clues to finding the password "
recluse".
A new login box is found on the Life Extension Project page by clicking on the word "
mortality". Gamers then are able to unlock the new hidden page by entering the "recluse" password found at the Persephone url. At the end of the hack, gamers are locked out of thf.org, however, access is still possible through alternate urls, and direct links.
A new discussion thread is added to the Retrievers of Truth forum which leads gamers to start AIMing in-game board users DSLerator, and iobiSeeingYou.
A new link is added to the DJ Dan podcast page, and the "Fallout" footer is changed. The word "
BigD" is added to the upper left, and three green dots appear in the upper right when you float your mouse over the pic. By clicking on the new footer, gamers are redirects to sublymonal.com. DJ Dan's latest podcast can then be heard by entering the password "BigD" into the login box.
A video by a woman identifying herself as "
Rachel Blake" is found on Monster.com. Since there was no direct link between the video and the ARG, it was debatable as to whether or not she was an in game character.
June 18, 2006Act Two of the game begins.
Suspicions about the
Rachel Blake video are increased when it is removed from Monster.com.
June 19, 2006A new discussion thread is added to the Retrievers of Truth forum, which leads gamers to a short video by
DJ Dan mixed in with a series of promotional videos on the "
Broadband Stories" page of the Verizon site.
A video is posted by "thejeepchanel", which is the screen name of the jeep account that previously posted the other Jeep videos,
apologizing for the DJ Dan sellout video.
A new "Orientation" style clip is found via a clue that periodically flashes on the "
lock out" screen on the Hanso Site. among the many images that flashes during the clip is a hand holding a card with the words "Evident Agenda" which is later found to be the password to rachelblake.com.
The
Rachel Blake character is confirmed when a ghostly image is posted on persephone.thf.org along with a new set of numbers found in a backwards audio message, and a url embedded in the source code that leads gamers to
www.rachelblake.com. By translating the numbers found in the backwards audio, the password, "evident agenda", is found which is then used to gain access to Rachel's personal blog.
The thf.org site goes into complete
lock down preventing gamers from accessing it, even blocking direct links and backdoor hacks.
June 20, 2006Rachel Blake's second video is found on the on the Verizon site "
Broadband Stories".
Two links are submitted to
Rachel Blake's blog by in game posters which leads to background information about the Black Rock and it's connection to the Hanso Foundation.
June 21, 2006A link redirecting gamers from djdan.am to letyourcompassguideyou.com leads to the discovery of DJ Dan's latest podcast in the "
owells" folder on the site.
Rachel Blake adds her "
Copenhagen 03" post to her blog. Among the things included in the post are new pictures of Hugh McIntyre "Ally-Catting" around, a correspondence between the Hanso Foundation, and the GWC, and speculation of a possible password hidden in one of the pictures.
June 22,2006A link leading gamers to,
http://au.messages.yahoo.com/lost/, is posted on Rachel Blake's blog which has a
hidden audio recording of a discussion between Thomas Mittelwerk, and a man named Minsu speaking in Korean. In this conversation, the two men discussed a ship that was being built by Paik-Heavy Industries.
An instant message log between
OpenersHep (which is an anagram for Persephone) and wtkFleet35, is found in "trash" folder in the directory on letyourcompassguideyou.com.
Rachel's Copenhagen 02 video is
removed from the Broadband Stories website.
June 23, 2006The correspondence between Mel0Drama and Rachel in her Copenhagen01 post is changed to include "Me: Cool. Gotta go. I've got 43 things to do to stop their "
better tomorrow".
Copenhagen05 is posted on Rachel Blake's blog, which first leads gamers to
www.43things.com. Clues on this site eventually lead to sublymonal.com where the password "
better tomorrow" is used to access a directory where another
video is hidden.
June 26, 2006Rachel Blake posts Copenhagen 06 on her blog. A link with-in the post leads gamers to letyourcompassguideyou.com where a link in the trash file further leads gamers to a Jeep site. Rachel's latest video is then found under the heading "
Removable Flashlight".
A new link is added to the
DJ Dan podcast site which redirects gamers to Monster.com where his latest Podcast is found among a list of business related podcasts.
A new thread is added to the Retriever of Truth forum. The new thread explains that there will be "Hint Hunt" in which there will be a release of several smaller clues over the next few days that, when put together, will lead to the revelation of a bigger clue. The first clue was the first word of the first song in Cabaret, which is "
Willkommen" or "Welcome".
June 27, 2006Rachel Blake posts
Copenhagen 07 on her blog. With-in this new post is a link to an article about the VIK Institute posted on a
GidgetGirl's blog.
Gary Troup's interview video
7 of 9 is found on
myspace.com.
People who previously AIMed ROT members receive the following instant message from DSLerator: "Here’s your next hint: 25 15 21 18". By doing an alpha-numeric exchange, gamers find the second word in the ROT
Hint Hunt: 25 15 21 18 = "Your".
June 28, 2006After announcing her move to Iceland to follow a lead, Rachel posted her first "
Iceland" post. Through a link in the post, gamers were led to garytroupbooks.com where she hid her first Iceland video.
People start receiving instant messages from DSLerator, directing them to the MySpace page of a "
Mandrake Wig", where clues for two more of the
Hint Hunt words ("Your" and "Video") are found in a
blog entry.
Hours after its initial post, the Rachel Blake
Iceland video is removed from garytroupbooks.com.
June 29, 2006Iceland 02 is posted on Rachel Blake's blog. The entry offers a quick recap to what has happened to her up until this point, as well as an explanation as to why her video was removed from the Gary Troup site.
A new thread is posted on the Retrievers of Truth forum by
fiberoptician which details the following:
1. The password to the site will be changed, and gamers will have to register again to get the new password.
2. Gamers will receive two more clues for the word hunt in the registration e-mail (making a total of six hidden words).
3. Fiberoptician is now administering a secondary word hunt.
4. The registration e-mail will also contain a "PS" at the end of the message with the first clue for Fiberoptician’s word hunt. The word, when added to the richerdeeperbroader.com url, will reveal a secret "Goodie".
5. Fiberoptician’s second clue will come on Friday June 30th via Mandrake Wig’s myspace site.
6. Fiberoptician’s third clue will be given by him somehow on Saturday July 1st.
As promised, the password to the ROT site is changed. Upon re-registering, gamers receive an e-mail, which contain
clues that lead to the discovery of the new password ("polar bear"), two more words for the "Hint Hunt" ("Needs" and "Your"), and the first word in fiberoptician's word hunt ("Blood").
The first of
three pieces to a document is found at
http://richerdeeperbroader.com/blood/Hours after the first piece of the document was found, gamers discovered the remaining
two pieces , with out the assistance of the official clues, at:
http://richerdeeperbroader.com/money/http://richerdeeperbroader.com/sorrow/June 30, 2006A month of speculation by gamers is confirmed when Rachel
admits in her Iceland 3 post on her blog, that she is in fact Persephone.
A link redirecting gamers to the Retrievers of Truth site is added to DJ Dan's Podcast page. Gamers then find a new thread on the ROT forum, which provides a link to where DJ Dan's
latest podcast can be downloaded.
As promised, the second clue for fiberoptician's
word find is found through Mandrake Wig's myspace site. Two new pictures are added to his Flickr page. One of which has the description, "Green like MONEY".
Also included on the Mandrake Wig update is a second picture with the tag "Get a clue:
Direct observation or participation?", which after an internet search is discovered to be the definition of the word "
EXPERIENCE".
July 1, 2006A new thread is added to the Retrievers of Truth forum, which
provides clues to both the Hint Hunt, "CHECK", and fiberoptician's Word Hunt, "SORROW.
A hidden page requiring a login is found at
richerdeeperbroader.com/welcome/your/next/video/needs/your/
experiences/check/tomorrow/ by a gamer who guessed the final word, "
Tomorrow", in the Retrievers of Truth's Hint Hunt.
July 2, 2006Several gamers receive the clue to the final Hint Hunt word "
Tomorrow" which proved irrelevant since the word was guessed by a gamer the previous day. Although the final word was guessed the day before, this clue officially brought the full message to: "
Welcome, your next video needs your experience. Check tomorrow."
July 3, 2006Rachel Blake posts her
Italy 01 entry on her blog, which includes a link and login information to
richerdeeperbroader.com/welcome/your/next/video/needs/your/
experiences/check/tomorrow/. Upon logging in gamers find Rachel's latest video in which she speculates about the Foundation's connection with the GWC, and Enzo Valenzetti.
Shortly after Rachel Blake posted her latest video on July 3rd, in which she mentions
Enzo Valenzetti, The Speaker adds a
post to his blog providing gamers with a link to
www.valenzettiequation.com.
July 4, 2006Rachel Blake posts her
Italy 02 post which provides a login, "rblake", a password "organharvest", and a link that redirects gamers to
Lost Ninja's site. By clicking on "The Truth" and entering the provided login information, gamers found a audio recording of a conversation between Hanso Executives Thomas Mittelwerk, Peter Thompson, and an unknown woman whom many gamers speculate is the GWC woman seen with Hugh McIntyre in an earlier post.
July 5, 2006A new banner is added to the DJ Dan podcast page, which activates the "
Pyramid" link in the footer that allows gamers to listen to his
latest podcast. Included was a caller detailing the disappearance of his grandmother (Whom many gamers believe could be Karen Degroot), after joining what he called the "Karma Imperative".
A new post is added to Rachel Blake's blog which provides various links to evidence questioning
medical procedures undergone by Thomas Mittelwerk. Among them are Screen shots from a previous hack, an
audio recording of Rachel trying to get information from an unnamed nurse, and a scan of a letter from a Dr. Eliza Vasquez to Alvar Hanso.
July 6, 2006Italy 04 post was added to Rachel Blake's blog. In this entry, she recounts how she followed Mittelwerk only to find out that she lost him, only to stumble upon a ship loading Hanso Foundation containers on board,
destination unknown.
July 10, 2006A new in game character is possibly introduced when Rachel Blake explains in her Italy 05 post, that a
hacker was trying to gain access to Rachel's files, and possibly subvert her attempts to topple the Hanso Foundation.
A new link is added to the DJ Dan podcast page, which leads gamers to letyoucompassguideyou.com where DJ Dan's latest podcast is found in the "Owells" folder. In this podcast, DJ Dan tries to drum up support for Rachel Blake, and the call-in game "
Where's Hanso".
July 12, 2006A new post is added to Rachel Blake’s blog. In this short entry, gamers were provided with a link to the LOST Podcast page on
ABC.com where they are able to listen to a recording of a
phone conversation between Rachel and GidgetGirl by using the login "RBlake" (case sensitive), and the password "FalseDegree". During the phone conversation, Rachel is directed by GidgetGirl to meet her in Paris where she will give Rachel something.
A new Hanso Foundation
commercial featuring Thomas Mittelwerk airs during a re-broadcast of 23rd Psalm, and again later that night during Jimmy Kimmel Live.
July 13, 2006Friends on Mandrake Wig's Myspace page receive a message to look out for a Retrievers of Truth update on July14th.
MelODrama makes several post in the comments section of Rachel Blake's blogs trying to get confirmation about posting her next video, ending one of the comments with the words, "
listen, look, and watch".
July 14, 2006As promised, a new thread is posted on the Retrievers of Truth forum which leads gamers to a
video clip on Broadband Stories featuring Thomas Mittelwerk.
In the same thread, it is hinted that
BroadBandBeatnik may have defected and accepted a job with the Hanso Foundation.
An un-titled post is added to Rachel Blake’s blog consisting of only of a picture link leading to sublymonal.com, and the login information "rblake", and "milkcartonman". By using the clue left my melOdrama in the comments section the day before, gamers found Rachel's latest video hidden with-in the
Talib Kweli page on the site.
July 17, 2006BroadBandBeatnik's defection appears to be confirmed when the password at the Retrievers of Truth website is changed to,
1CF11D16-C378-4D5A-B038-00DF9ED171FF.
July 18, 2006Another
untitled post is added to the Rachel Blake blog. By clicking on the picture in the post, gamers were then redirected to letyourcompassguideyou.com where they use the password "honourbar" to access an
admin screen, which then in turn leads to Jeep.com where Rachel's latest video entry is under the heading "
Crunch Zones".
July 19, 2006Who videos featuring Thomas Mittelwerk are added to DJ Dan's "
Eyes on the Man" page. In the first video, Mittelwerk talks about Joop, and the
Life Extension Program, and then the Foundation's
Mathematical Forecasting Initiative in the second.
The Retrievers of Truth password is changed, for the second time in three days, to "
E72CDBF5-94FA-465C-BE5D-0138AE32E38BANDNOITDONTMEANNOTHIN".
<a href="
www.stophanso.rachelblake.com">www.stophanso.rachelblake.com[/url] was updated, and now directly links to thf.org
lockout screen where gamers find a link to the first Mittelwerk commercial which was first aired on July 12th. At this time, however, direct links to Rachel’s blog (
http://stophanso.rachelblake.com/index2.html) still allow access, but this may be an indicator that Act Three will be starting in the coming days.
July 20, 2006A third untitled entry is added to Rachel Blake's blog which provides a link to monster.com where gamers were able to find her latest video on the Career Advice page under the heading "
Can She Trust Him?".
July 21, 2006The Retrievers of Truth password is changed again. Similar to the previous two, the new password, "
Steinbeck", is found embedded in the code of the ROT cover site. It was also reported that members of ROT were contacting people on AIM, and giving them the clue "Pedro Armendariz". They indicated that gamers needed to; "focus on his work, not his life". It didn't take long for gamers to figure out that he was in a movie adaptation of "The Pearl" written by John Steinbeck, titled "La Perla".
A new thread is added to the Retrivers of Truth forum where gamers find the password "
hoo-gonchoi" which is later used to access Rachel Blake's latest video.
Another
untitled post is added to Rachel Blake's blog providing several images, and a link leading to the Retrievers of Truth site which eventually leads gamers to Rachel's
latest video hidden at richerdeeperbroader.com.
July 22, 2006Act Three begins when Rachel Blake, interrupts a LOST Q&A panel at
ComicCon featuring Jorge Garcia, Daniel Dae Kim, Damon Lindelof, and Carlton Cuse. During her
tyrade, Rachel told everyone to go Hansoexposed.com.
After weeks of speculation,
hansoexposed.com finally goes live, announcing that this next stage of the ARG will involve a "
Glyph Hunt". Each glyph will provide a code, which, when entered at hansoexposed.com will unlock a clip from Rachel's Sri Lanka video. Once all the codes are acquired, and the video clips unlocked, gamers will then be able to piece the clips together to view the complete video.
The first two glyphs are found on hansoexposed.com providing the codes
"7hkbh", and "RRGYXS".
The third "Glyph Hunt" code is found when Attendees of the LOST Q&A at Comic-con report that Damon Lindeloff is seen wearing a wrist band with the code "
4ho" while sighning autographs.
The Fourth "Glyph Hunt" code, "
ohge", is found when when blatantly up-close pictures of two of the wrist bands worn by the panelists at Comic-Con show up on the
Speaker's blog.
July 24, 2006Glyph number five, with the code "748L", is posted in an untitled entry on
Rachel Blake's blog.
Glyph 6 with the code "
FVH7N" is found through a picture link on the
Speaker's blog. By clicking on the white Speaker picture, a window popped up with the sixth glyph.
Glyphs 7-9, with the
codes 88CH, 1EY8AZCZNA2, and VDADOS7YRE0; are found on
LOST Ninja's blog (AU version of the Speaker)
July 25, 2006According to the stats page on hansoexposed.com, the 10th frag code was found on July 25th by someone with the handle “
Catseye”. For reasons unknown, no one else has been able to find this code leading the theory monger in me to believe that it was possibly acquired through unofficial means, and as such Catseye does not want to say how he/she found it.
Glyph 11 along with the code "
3GTVI0M11", is found in an article by EW's resident Lost Geek
Jeff Jensen.
Frag code twelve, "
IG3X", is found in a phone segment on a
UK Channel 4 "Maternity Leave" podcast.
July 26, 2006An
interview between Doc Jensen, and Rachel Blake taken right after she was removed from the LOST panel at Comic-Con is posted on
EW.com.
A new glyph, with the code "
XIGZ2Y10S2", is found was posted on rachelblake.com (The cover page, not to be mistaken for the stophanso,rachelblake.com page).
The second glyph of the day was found at DJ Dan’s site on the links page. On the links page, gamers found a broken image link. By viewing the source code, gamers were able to find the image url, along with the code “
gmx18bcj”.
The mysterious 10th frag code, "
4kvklaydm0", was finally found by QuinceTheCarpenter from the Fuselage. The actual glyph has yet to be found, but Quince was able to "
acquire" the code through alternate means. For the sake of the game, Gamers are still looking for the glyph, but at least now all the released frag codes have been found.
A few hours after originally being posted, the broken link on the DJ Dan links page was fixed and the
14th glyph was found.
July 27, 2006Glyph 15 along with the code "
m6xy398" is found in a post on
Lostninja's blog. According to the entry, the glyph was actually found on a poster taped to a pole in northern Sydney.
The 16th glyph with the code "
3ZGT" is found on the
Fuselage Diaries.
A new thread was added to the the Retrievers of Truth forum, in which supposed defector
BroadBandBeatnik returned to the forum claiming that he had not joined the Hanso Foundation, but had been at Comic-Con for the last week. Among other things discoved in this thread are a suspicious picture which supposedly shows Beatnik at Comic-Con, and a mention of the
Beatbox Mixer page on the Verizon site.
July 28, 2006Glyph 17 with the code "
ZY6C" was found when the Speaker, in his weekly “Reader Mail” entry, posted the clue,
"Eighth moon of the Monkey thrice before. A voice from the Middle knows much more.", which lead gamers to his Week Three Recap where the glyph was found through a link connected to the "Hole 2" image on the recap.
July 29, 2006Codes 18 (RXMHJH9Y), and 19 (7TI) are
leaked onto the internet. Supposedly, they were going to be released in the latest issues of the U.S. and U.K. printings of LOST The Magazine.
July 31, 2006Other Girl added a post to her U.K. LOST blog which provided gamers with a link to Channel 4's
music page where Glyph 20 along with the code "
RGMR", was found among a list of featured musicians.
Frag code 21 (
VIX7ZXT97) was found embeded with-in the LOST Panel audio from Comic-Con that was posted as part of the Official Lost Podcast. At the 27 minute and 52 seconds point in the podcast, Rachel cuts into the broadcast to read the frag code before the transmission is returned to the Comic-Con audio.
The glyph for frag 10 is finally found on the LOST page of
AXN-Asia.com.
August 2, 2006After an almost three week absence, a new post is added to DJ Dan's podcast page informing gamers that there will be a live podcast on
August 11th.
Glyph 22 with the code "
89RMCOCDC6D" appears as a watermark on the "About" page of
Garytroup.net.
Lost Ninja posts an e-mail on his blog that he received from someone claiming to have seen a glyph in the window of a comic book store in Sydney. Australian based Gamers then traveled to Pitt Street where the glyph was sited, and found the code for frag 23, "
VOU8VPNPS5X".
August 3, 2006An entry is posted on Other Girl's blog telling gamers that if they sent a text message to the number 83188, the would recieve the url where the a Glyph would be found. Upon sending the text message, gamers were led to
http://mobile.channel4.com/mobile-portal/entertainment/ august_2006/hansoexposedcom.xml where they found Glyph 24 along with the code "
750NZF8X".
Glyph 25 with the code "
NZ59", is found embeded in a video clip under the title "Episode 223 Secret Clue" on
au.yahoo.com/lost/clue/clue23.html Frag code 26, "
E82KNI8L", is posted anonymously in the comments section of the Speaker's blog. The glyph was later found posted on a Korean language forum hosted by the network that aires the show in Korea.
August 4, 2006A t-shirt with glyph 27 and the code "
90VDHOHU" is added to the Merchandise page on djdan.am.
An article about Speaker's blog appears on page 48 in the current issue of People Magazine. Gamers noticed that there was a Sublymonal ad on the opposite page with the word "
Nanite" on the can. They then entered the word into Hansoexposed.com, and found that it was in fact a frag code. This is the first instance that a word was used as a code which means that now, anything could be a frag code.
When gamers enter the word "nanite" at sublymonal.com, an audio message plays which leads to the discovery of the nanite
glyph on Flickr.com.
A correspondence between Dr. Hacket and a G. Downs is found by piecing together document fragments from a series of pictures on the
Flickr album of "
lehcarekalb" (which is blake rachel backwards).
August 7, 2006Information on DJ Dan's upcoming
live podcast the podcast was posted on the podcast page on djdan.am.
August 8, 2006Apollocandy.com goes
online.
Glyph 29 (
KU12PB5LV7) was found on the
July 24th post on Rachel's Stop Hanso blog. There is now a gap below the previously posted glyph, and games found that when then float their cursor over it, the new glyph will flash.
August 9 2006Glyph 30 with the code "
E2LL1Z5E" is found in the links section on Rachel Blake's
cover page to her hidden blog.
Glyph 31 with the code "
5BE" is found on the
Big Brother page on the UK Channel 4 site.
August 10, 2006Glyph 32 with the code "
R3PUX4" is found on a poster at the Jeffreys Street Wharf in Sydney, and posted on
Lost Ninja's blog.
Glyph 33 with the code "
GLLV8B" is found through a glyph hunt administered by the guys at thelostexperienceclues.blogspot.com. This was the first time in the ARG that a glyph hunt was administered by out of game characters. However, because of a previous stunt that the guys pulled with the
Save Joop site, many people were skeptical as to the validity to their claims of having a glyph. As a result, people on LOST sites all over the net were claiming "SHENANNIGANS!" until the hunt was finally cracked, and it was shown that they did in fact have a valid glyph. Yet another example that glyphs could now come from anywhere on or off the net.
Someone at ABC.com goofs and posts a live link to the
rehersal feed for DJ Dan's Live Podcast. The main thing that is revealed by this mistake is that Javi, who is pretty pissed over this screw up, and can be heard swearing during the recording, is most deffinitly DJ Dan.
August 11, 2006Glyph 34 with the code "
GMIWRLHHNHM" is found in the opening flash sequence on the
Valenzetti Equation site.
Frag Code 35 (
TRIBALWARS) is found in PEOPLE magazine on a Jeep advertisement.
Frag code 36 (
CHOCOLATES) is found in a Sprite ad Entertainment Weekly magazine.
Apollocandy.com is updated to include a page with
dates and locations around the U.S. mainland in which Apollo bars will be given away. Of course, Hawaii is not on the list Grrrr!
DJ Dan broadcasts a
live podcast in which gamers are able to call in with their questions. Among some of the things revealed in the podcast were:
Dan gives leads for two glyphs:
One to appear Monday August 14 in New York City ("la manzana grande") in a "prominant touristy location that rhymes with 'fresh air'" (likely Times Square)
One faxed to him which was left on his studio door and found on August 12 at Radio Harvest
Dan claims that both Lost and Bad Twin are non-fiction, portraying actual events and actions of the Hanso Foundation and related characters.
Dan believes that Enzo Valenzetti could still be alive (his favorite theory is that he was "caught under the wheels of his combine at his family farm in the Swiss Alps")
Dan mentions that the Vik Institute has "verified a figure", but that he doesn't know what it is yet, presumably related to the Valenzetti Equation.
Dan denies being Peter Thompson, Speaker, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, or working for The Hanso Foundation. He makes a point of repetitively mocking "this guy" Javier.
Dan referred to the Karma Imperative as the band Keith Strutter was in before founding Geronimo Jackson.
This name (first mentioned in 7/10 podcast) is a malapropism of the DHARMA Initiative.
Dan doesn't believe in nanotechnology, and specifically tells a caller that you will not see it on TV come September.
Speaker calls in, Dan jokes that he'd better not be the guy who runs the Javi Minions fan site; he later calls him Andy (which also happens to be the name of the guy who runs Javi Minions)
His announcer's name is Johnny, and one of his roadies is named Louis.
DJ Dan was at Comic-Con
Dan seems fairly obsessed by donuts, and makes repetitive mention of them
A mysterious caller named Malek (the "fixer" from Rachel's videos) called in with a message for Rachel Blake and said the following numbers:
240 249 68 61 37 118 75 233 231 150 36 184 157 51 144 180 253 50 173 30 222 192 13 82 1
Each of these numbers is a page from the book Bad Twin. Take the first letter of the first word from each page and you get: "I know where he is, I can set it up!"
August 12, 2006As promised on DJ Dan’s live podcast, Glyph 37 with the code “
4R19Y0UXB6Y” is posted on the front door of the Harvest Radio Station at 3002 Pennsylvania Avenue in Santa Monica, California.
August 14, 2006Glyph 38 with the code “
A0Y8” is broadcasted on the ABC Super Sign in Times Square.
August 15, 2006Glyph 39 with the code “
56LHZJDCL7A4” was found via a link on
Lost Ninja’s blog.
August 16, 2006Glyph 40 with the code "
XWZW" is found in an UK Channel 4 commercial.
An interview between a user by the name of "Fox" and the Speaker in his
ITE Profiles #1 post leads to the discovery of page one of a Lost Experience themed
comic.
August 17, 2006Glyph 41 with the code "
44KU2VKQ" is found in a Botanical Garden in Sydney, and a photo is posted on
Lost Ninja's blog.
The "
Chocolates" glyph is found on
Trevtrevtrevor's Flickr.
Sublymonal.com is updated so that now when you enter in the code "
Chocolates" the message "Call tom k yegato" appears, which eventually leads to the discovery of a video on you tube titled "
The chocolate factory".
August 18, 2006The frag code "
theflashlight" is found in a Jeep ad in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly.
A new thread is added to the Retrievers of Truth
forum, which eventually leads to the discovery of the frag code “
vaccine” on
Richerdeeperbroader.com.
August 20, 2006DocArzt of the Tailsection reports that someone had been trying to
hack their server. The hacker first changed the template of their
LOST Experience site by adding <!-- I am not your enemy. More soon. --> to the code, and then flipped their banner.
August 21, 2006The frag code "
theflashlight", which was found in a Jeep ad in the August 18th issue of Entertainment Weekly is finally activated on hansoexposed.com.
Glyph 43 (the long time missing #29 on the official he.com list) with the code "
ESJ4X6EBNC" was found by Tapdawg on the side of a car in Los Angeles, and posted on Lost Ninja's blog.
Apollocandy.com is updated to also include information on a
UK give away at "Forbidden Planet" Stores.
August 22, 2006At approx. 8 am est gamers recieved an
e-mail from Rachel telling them to "Pay Attention. Head to
www.apollocandy.com". As to what will happen (most likely a new glyph), that is yet to be seen.
Clues left on thelostexperience.com by a hacker eventually lead to the discovery of glyph 45 with the code "
FRXRUK9TQ" on a subdomain at
grendel.thelostexperience.com.
Glyph 46, with the code "
25KOCJS6S6", is found in the upper right of the opening flash of the
Valenzettiequation.com
