Season 1 Investigations

This proves that Hurley was the original owner of the Flash & Friends comic book that Walt later finds and takes a liking to. It makes sense that the comic book is in Spanish.

Hurley is the last to board the plane, and his ticket is clearly shown. Note multiple appearances of The Numbers (including that Flight 815 comes out of Gate 23). Also, Hurley can't seem to get away from chicken (after working at Mr. Cluck's).

A close-up of The Black Rock, showing that its home port was Portsmouth (likely England).

Kate appears in the beginning of "Born to Run" as a mysterious blonde. She has a large collection of license plates in her car's trunk to aid in her being on the run, including Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Idaho, and Michigan. The one she finally settles on is Nebraska, the setting of that episode and her home state.

Kate is running from the cops through MRI doors, but it says Magnetic Resonance ImaginING instead of Imaging.

There was some questions as to whether Locke's mother was admitted in 1995 or 1993. Upon investigation, I have concluded that Locke's mother was admitted on 5/12/1995.

These two images show that the Lotto Girl is the same person we see with Sawyer when he is confronted by Hibbs in a hotel room. This, however, may or may not have significance to the story, as the actress that plays her is the wife of Harold Perrineau (who plays Michael), and may just have been given two small parts due to her real life connections.

Hurley's lotto story is featured on the Korean news, which is on the TV at Byung's house when Jin comes in. His daughter is watching it.

Sawyer meets Jack's father Christian Shephard in a dark Australian bar.

This comparision shows that the same car, a Bonneville, hit Michael and Locke. The same car is also involved in an accident with Kate during her "escape" from the hospital. However, this may be a case of prop reuse, because later in one of the podcasts, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse hinted that the tan car may not hold significance.

Danielle Rousseau's maps can be pieced together from several screencaptures of Sayid and Shannon translating. It shows that there are two separate maps; one is a bird's eye view of the island with some topography, and the other is a side view showing elevation, with scales and notes (including La Mer lyrics) written over it.



Note: There is now a much clearer version of the side-view map in Other Misc. Resources, an Easter egg from Oceanic-Air.com.

A closeup of Boone's license reveals his birthdate is on the 10th, in 1981 but we don't know what month.

A close-up of Tom's toy plane, which Kate took back into her possession after the Halliburton case was found. It shows that there is no Oceanic logo on the plane, and that it appears to be a DC-3 prop plane (unlike the Boeing 777 Flight 815 travels on).

Michael is drawing a picture of an aquaduct design made of bamboo when Jack comes to talk to him. This will allow them to separate the drinking water from water used for showers and other purposes. Click the image below to view a larger image:

Jack finds Kate's mugshot while going through the U.S. marshall's things. It shows that she was arrested in Harrison Vally, PA, however no date is clearly shown.

Jack and Kate stumble on the skeletons of "Adam & Eve" when they first run into the caves. They found a pouch with black and white stones, and Jack put them back in the pouch and pocketed them. To our knowledge, he didn't mention it to Locke when he met them.

Many themes develop throughout the series that appear as brief Easter Eggs. This is a screen found in the background of Jin & Sun's apartment. When translated, this is poem by a famous Chinese poet named Li Bai, called "Travel in Dreams".

Special thanks to Son_of_Locke of Lost-TV for finding this tidbit.

People are always looking for items with dates on them to help determine the timeline of LOST. After enlarging an image of a pill bottle, it appears that Christian's prescription was filled in 9/05/2004 or 9/08/2004, which would mean Flight 815 left sometime after those dates.

Examining Locke's knife case, we can see he had at least seven knives.

A lot of people are convinced the DHARMA logo is on the plane. But, it's not. This image shows that the marks that existed on the plane before the show was ever conceived are what people are confusing to be the DHARMA logo. Despite appearances, there is no swan (or other DHARMA logo) image in the marks. Since this investigation has been up, I've been contacted by several people who work in the airline industry that have confirmed these marks are made when repairs are made and sections are reinforced.

In the first chaotic scenes of the pilot, there is a wisp of smokey material that swoops down over the turbine, shortly before it explodes. Many people believe that this may be a manifestation of 'Smokey', the Monster seen later. However, in the official podcast, Damon Lindelof says that the Smoke Monster did NOT appear in the pilot episode physically. This wisp of smoke was likely just a by-product of poor CGI graphic FX, meant to depict flying wreckage debris.

This screenshot clearly shows there are three seats on the end (A, B and C), as opposed to a two seat configuration.

Using information provided by the Pilot, this map gives a possible crash site location and possible search area.