Original Investigations

Back in the early days of Sledgeweb's Lost Stuff there was just Sledge, and not quite as many investigations as we have now. There were three investigations over this four episode span, one of which was more of an easter egg, with some Korean text in Sun and Jin's apartment during the flashback of "House of the Rising Sun." When translated, this is poem by a famous Chinese poet named Li Bai, called "Travel in Dreams". There was also a post about some dates on some of Christian's pill bottles, and finally a post about the black and white stones that Jack found on Adam and Eve. Sledge points out how Jack keeps possession of the stones, and as far as we know never mentions it to anyone else, including Locke.

Solved Investigations

As for investigations that were presented within these four episodes that have since been solved, there wasn't a whole lot. The biggest item is probably Jack seeing Christian in the jungle. We took the sighting as most likely part of Jack's exhaustion induced hallucination and there's certainly been a ton of debate over the years as to whether this was indeed a revived Christian, a hallucination, or something else. With the close of Season 5 I'd have to say that the evidence is mounting for the "something else" category. There is certainly no proof yet, but it is mine, as well as many others, opinion that either Jacob or his nemesis (the man being called Esau by fans) have been the cause of all of the hallucinations the losties have been seeing over these 5 seasons, and it certainly puts a new perspective on Jack seeing his dead father on the island.

As for some other solved investigations, the mystery of why Jin was such an ass; watching his wife's every move, regulating the amount of flesh she showed, and not allowing her to speak to the others was certainly solved. We now know that Jin was reacting to the knowledge that Sun had an affair, and he was obviously struggling with who he wanted to be and who he was supposed to be (according to her father).

In other solved mysteries we've learned that Locke was indeed the one who sabataged Sayid's triangulation experiment, in an effort to ensure that they stayed on the island. It seems pretty obvious that Locke felt almost immediately that it was the destiny of all of them to be on that island.

New Investigations

Keep in mind that when I say new investigations, it doesn't necessarily mean that nobody has mentioned these in the years since the first season, it just means that these are items that weren't mentioned or discussed during season 1. With that said, the first item is Christian's appearance to Jack. This was originally dismissed due to Jack's exhaustion, however after more and more hallucinations were seen over the last 5 seasons more of us have realized there was more to this than meets the eye. But this hallucination is a little different than all of the others because we have continued to see Christian season after season. And unlike the other hallucinations, which are usually a part of the past for the person seeing them, Christian has been seen by many of the characters. It begs the question of why he's so special, and makes me wonder if the manifestations of Christian were Esau utilizing his body in the same way that he utilized Locke's body.

This brings up the fact that there may be some importance to dead bodies on the island, and Esau (and maybe Jacob's) ability to take their form. lf you remember, the Others had a ritual funeral where the sent the dead bodies out to sea. Could this be a method to get the bodies away from the island and away from the control of Esau? Also, this season Richard seemed hell bent on getting the bodies of the men Sawyer had killed back. We've seen a lot of people who died on the island show up again as hallucinations to others that are still alive, especially Hurley. Perhaps there has been a reason for all of this.

The final investigation that I'll mention is one that has been discussed a ton over the past five years, but one that we never posted here at Sledgeweb, and that is the finding of Adam and Eve, the skeletons. At the time of the episode, the black and white rock seemed more important than the actual skeletons, but since then the tables have turned. We have almost been guaranteed a resolution to the skeletons by the show's producers but its a mystery we will undoubtedly have to wait until almost the very end for. I just hope that it's worth it.

Finally, don't forget to visit the Lost Rewatch page at Lostpedia as well as Docarzt's and Friends Lost Blog for more rewatch articles.