THE ALTERNATIVE REALITY LOST GAME

SEASON THREE COMMENTS

2006-10-06T07:38:00.000-05:00

For those who are interested... please visit my "Lost" episode re-cap and observation site at:

http://thealternativeisland.blogspot.com/

And for "Heroes" fans my commentary site can be found here:

http://heroespatientzero.blogspot.com/

And our Lost Fan Fiction page - "The Apocalypse Equation"
http://theapocalypseequation.blogspot.com/

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THE HANSO FOUNDATION WEBSITE UPDATE

2006-09-26T09:33:00.000-05:00

The Hanso Foundation website was updated today with the following statement by Alvar Hanso:

“To All:

The path of secrecy is a slippery slope. While necessity may dictate, at times, that we shade ourselves and our work from the all-too-often harsh light of inquiry; habitual secret-keeping can mire even the noblest of intentions in shadow. It is this shadow I feel prey to, blinded not only to the actions of colleagues like Dr. Thomas Werner Mittelwerk, but also to the works of my own hand.

I fear the lessons learned have cost many their happiness. Some few have even lost their lives. My regret for this is endless. But, I assure you now, as I did then, that the work of The Hanso Foundation has always been intended to bring rebirth to a dying land and a dying people.

Our methods must change. As of this moment, The Hanso Foundation enters a period of restructure and overhaul. Transparency and oversight will be our guiding principles, excellence in communication and response to feedback our greatest strengths. To save humanity, we need first tap into just that – our humanity.

Much time has passed – perhaps too much. Thanks to the tireless efforts of my daughter, Rachel Blake, and a worldwide movement set against the dark entity that was Thomas Mittelwerk’s regime, I have been exonerated and freed from imprisonment. Thanks to the grace and foresight of the Global Welfare Consortium, we at The Hans Foundation have been given a second chance to build a future that can support, enrich, and cradle us all in peace and joy.

It is to this I dedicate my life and my Foundation. My only hope is that you will join me.

Namaste,
Alvar Hanso
(Signed) Alvar Hanso

LEP ERI IGA WWPDP MFI EOI

Life-Extension Project – Educational Outreach Imperative – Institute for Genomic Advancement – Mathematical Forecasting Initiative – World Wide Wellness and Prevention Development Program – Educational Outreach Imperative – The Hanso Foundation”

This is quite an elegant exit by Alvar Hanso and Company. Smells like sequel to me.

If you hover your mouse over the word “humanity” in the third paragraph you will hear the old music that indicated a change or a hidden clue. Click on the word and the screen flashes black, which brings back so many memories, and you will then hear the following message from Dr. Thomas Werner Mittelwerk:

“You’ve taken a battle but that’s all it was, a battle. Humanity needs me now more than ever. I have the virus. I have the will and I will not fail.”

In the background this strange image of TWM floats.

Can you say TLE2?

D.J. DAN LIVE BROADCAST & RACHEL BLAKE’S FINAL VIDEO

2006-09-25T14:02:00.000-05:00

D. J. DAN LIVE BROADCAST

Most of us stayed up late last night to listen to the final ramblings of D. J. Dan and crew (we’re going to miss you, Johnny!) And after the normal fare of nanites, doughnuts, aliens and other lesser conspiracies were given the opportunity to witness (hear) a sting operation concerning Thomas Werner Mittelwerk! During Rachel Blake’s call-in interview an anonymous caller phoned in and told Dan that he was monitoring a military or police frequency. The following transcript is of the last moments of the D. J. Dan Live Broadcast and that transmission:

James: Hi, D. J. Dan. My name is James. I’ll get right to the point. My friends and I, we have this little global network going on where we enjoy eavesdropping on all kinds of signals; civilian, corporate, scientific, military…

D. J. Dan: Yeah, yeah James I’m with ya, I’m with ya.

James: And right now at this very moment. Excuse me (clears throat) we are listening to… (Aside: yep, hold on!) We are listening to an encoded highly secure government frequency. I don’t know if its police or military but if you’ll allow me I want to patch you through.

D.J. Dan: Patch us through?

James: You and Miss Blake and the rest of your conspiraspies have to hear this.

D. J. Dan: Alright?!? Go ahead patch it through right now.

James: O.K. Hold on one second…

Sound of radio transmissions…

Alpha Leader: Report

Zulu Team: Zulu in position. Disable lift control?

Bravo Team: Bravo front lobby secure.

Alpha Leader: You have visual on target?

Bravo Team: Yes sir, tenth floor!

Alpha Leader: Is that confirmed?

Bravo Team: It’s a white coat and black ponytail.

Alpha Leader: Lunatics and their hair!

Bravo Team: Ninth floor now.

Alpha Leader: Confirmed tenth floor.

Bravo Team: Look’s like we’ve got a staircase between levels nine and ten.

Alpha Leader: Count on nine?

Bravo Team: We count three. No, four.

Alpha Leader: Armed?

Bravo Team: I’m sure! Target moving towards the elevators!

Alpha Leader: Bravo, we’re moving!

Bravo Team: We’ve been made!

Alpha Leader: Zulu, cut power.

Zulu Team: Cutting

Bravo Team: Alpha, go, Go! Go!

Alpha Leader: Bravo take nine I’ve got ten.

Zulu Team: Power cut.

Bravo Team: Then why am I seeing lights?

Alpha Leader: They’ve got auxiliary

Bravo Team: Freeze!!

Sounds of automatic machine gun fire.

Voices throughout: Freeze, get down, freeze!

Bravo Team: Behind you, behind you.

Alpha Leader: I see him, south corridor.

Bravo Team: Nine clear. I’ve got him cornered in an office. He’s barricaded.

D.J. Dan (in background): Who do they have barricaded?

Alpha Leader: We need a ram.

Sound of door being broken down.

Alpha Leader: Hands behind your back, knees to the floor.

Zulu Team: We’ve got him.

Bravo Team: No that’s not Mittelwerk. They look alike. Repeat, our target’s still loose.

Zulu Team: Where is he?

Voice of Mittelwerk: Gentlemen, I’m sorry to have to do this…

Bravo Team: We’ve got a radio over here.

Voice of Mittelwerk: I can’t have my work compromised. You should run!

Bravo Team: This place is wired. Go! Go!

Sound of people running…

Voice of Mittelwerk: Namaste!

Sound of large explosion and then radio silence…

So it would seem that Rachel’s Sri-Lanka video alerted the authorities to Mittelwerk’s activities. And they tracked him down (most likely in the same building we saw in the video) and attempted to arrest/subdue him. Of course, Tom Mittelwerk was once again one step ahead of those who followed and escaped. But most importantly, he destroyed any evidence of wrong doing when he detonated the building.

RACHEL BLAKE’S FINAL VIDEO

Rachel Blake’s Final Video has been pushed up to YouTube for those who did not get to view it last night. The final video contains the two components of the Sri-Lanka Video and a new portion of Rachel in Narvik, Norway. Here is the transcript (with notes):

Rachel Blake looks down into the hidden camera in her purse so that the viewers can identify her. She rings the doorbell of a very modern looking house. The video title: “Rachel Blake, Navik, Norway” crawls across a black screen. Then, a butler (?) opens the door and allows Rachel entrance into the home. Her camera is running and we catch quick glimpses of the walk from the front door to another room. Classical music plays in the background and we see a man standing in a highly modern Nordic-looking room. It is Alvar Hanso himself, older and looking extremely tired.

Alvar (to the butler): Leave us.

(He motions Rachel to sit with his hand.)

Alvar: (Sighs) Rachel Blake.

Rachel: You recognize me?

Alvar: How did you get past security?

Rachel: I have contacts inside your Foundation. The nurse who comes in regularly to take your blood was called away on a family emergency. I’m her replacement.

Alvar: (quiet laughter) Clever. So, did you come to draw blood?

Rachel: How can you joke, after everything you’ve done?

Alvar: You’ve brought in a recording device.

Rachel: No. This is between you and me.

Alvar: I can hear it Rachel, it’s in your bag. You must have thought you could walk into my home, armed with nothing but the truth, and extract a confession from me.

Rachel: Something like that.

Alvar: (quiet laughter again) I think your idealism is touching. And, since it’s the truth you came for, I suppose that is what I should give you. On tape.

Rachel removes the hidden camera from her purse and places it on the coffee table in front of Hanso.

Alvar: The men you see here work for the Foundation. They do not work for me. Their job is to keep me inside. To keep me from talking to anyone of importance. I’m a prisoner…

Rachel: No! You are not dodging the blame.

Alvar: No. No, I’m not. I am to blame for training Thomas Werner Mittelwerk. For grooming him, to be my successor. For giving him all the tools he needed to do the awful things he has. He cannot kill me, but he can keep me locked up while he kills millions of…

Sounds from another room startle them and Rachel covers the camera for a moment.

Alvar: He is the one who has done all of the things that you have exposed. And much worse. All in my name. And yours.

Rachel: Mine?

Alvar: That’s why you came. The reason why you’ve investigated the Foundation. You wanted to learn more about the trust fund that paid for your upbringing. You wondered how a single mother, could pay for an education, and all the advantages you were given. But you are a beautifully intelligent young woman, and you were able to trace the funds back to the Foundation. You searched, and even as you realized all the evil that was being done, even as you turned against everything that the Foundation now stands for, you kept on, because you knew the path would lead, to your father. And now I need your help, even if I don’t deserve it. I may never leave this house alive, and it’s only a matter of time before the guards realize who you are. So take this confession, get it to the press, to the authorities, to anyone who will listen! Make a scandal, Rachel. You are the only one who can bring down Mittelwerk, and set me free. Go now Rachel; finish this once and for all. Go!

Rachel: So long…Dad.

The video fades to black…

O.K. So, we know the Sri-Lanka video was important in exposing Mittelwerk and we now know where Alvar Hanso is (a prisoner in his own home?!?) We also know that Mittelwerk escaped and destroyed the building in the process. And how does all of this connect to Lost?

Will TLE2 entail the escape of Alvar Hanso? Perhaps, even with his daughters help?
What will become of the Hanso Foundation? Will we ever hear that soothing music again? And where is Thomas Werner Mittlewerk? Will Rachel do what Alvar Hanso asks of her? We know what she has done to find her father but what do you think she’ll do to free him?

So, what is the next step? What happens after The Lost Experience? I know that I’m still Jones-ing for more information. Where do we go from here? Do we wait for another Lost Experience (TLE2) or is it done? I assume the “numbers” (don’t they dictate everything - pun intended) will tell all. If enough viewers played the Experience then perhaps we’ll see another ARG. They certainly set it up as if to leave room for the next phase of the Experience. Only time and TPTB can tell…

P.S. Thanks Damon, Carlton, Javi, Andrew, the actors and all the people known collectively as TPTB, et. al. I had quite the Experience this summer!

P.S.S. In the next few days I will be posting my thank you and re-cap to the players of the Lost Experience here and the transcript of the last D.J. Dan broadcast.

Thank you… and namaste!

D. J. DAN LIVE TONIGHT

2006-09-24T08:21:00.000-05:00

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LET YOUR COMPASS GUIDE YOU.COM & D.J. DAN PODCAST UPDATE

2006-09-21T19:57:00.000-05:00

The Let Your Compass Guide You website was updated today. Although it looks like the site was completely removed a great deal of information was actually released. (The information found here is quite dated and refers to the Jeep Compass sale to THF early in the Experience.) A little investigation of the site, however, will unravel a number of places that you can navigate to.

Visiting the site today you will see the following image and a message that states:

“THIS SITE HAS BEEN REMOVED”

"Warmest Wishes for the Holiday Season"

Or, "What did one snowman say to the other snowman?"

Clicking on the word “REMOVED” will take you to this YouTube Video, entitled “!! PLEASE HELP !!”, of musician Eric Hutchinson on a Jeep Compass uncharted tour. He is performing in a bar or restaurant.

At about the two minute mark of the video Eric’s song is interrupted by a man who identifies himself as an employee of Daimler-Chrysler and as he takes the microphone away from the performer he says,

“My name is William Kilpatrick. I was the Fleet Operations Manager for Jeep when the Hanso Foundation signed an agreement for a fleet of Jeep vehicles. Around that time, Rachel Blake informed me that they were planning on using the vehicles to transplant harvested organs into Africa. Not for their little innocent Apollo Candy Company. Now, what I’m saying you need to listen to. Oh my god I think they’ve found me. Listen! Listen! Everything you need to know is in the organs zip folder!”

At this point two large men enter and try to take Kilpatrick away from the microphone.

He screams, “Everything! Everything! You’ve got to help me… It’s in the missing organs zip folder. Go to the site and find out the truth! Thank you Rachel! Help me, somebody! Help me!!!"

The large men drag him out of the bar and into a white Dodge Sprinter van. The camera zooms in on the Michigan license plate which reads: “1646 HH”

The camera goes back into the bar and zooms in a piece of paper held in someone’s hand:

Back at the Compass site…
If you click on “Edit” and then “Select All” (or left click drag or CTL. A) on the “REMOVED” Compass site you will highlight the following set of numbers:

13/9/19/19/9/14/7/15/18/7/1/14/19

Clicking on the string of numbers (which is the alphabetic transfer code of “Missing Organs”) you will be redirected to the Compass "Index of User" site. Click on the “trash” folder to reveal the following files which were updated today:

OpenersHep.log 21-Sept-2006 1:15
missing_organs.zip 21-Sept-2006 1:15

Click here to open either file...

The OpenersHep.Log file contains the following conversations (note: the last conversation is the newest and the most telling):

Session Start (wtkFleet35:OpenersHep): Mon Mar 1 21:34:42 2006
[21:34] OpenersHep: Hey. I have something for you to see. It’s important.
[21:34] wtkFleet35: who is this?
[21:35] OpenersHep: A friend.
[21:35] wtkFleet35: really?
[21:35] wtkfleet35: …
[21:35] wtkFleet35: all my friends have names. do you have one?
[21:36] OpenersHep: You can stop them, William.
[21:38] OpenersHep: You have no idea, do you? What you’re contributing to. What you’re helping them do.
[21:38] wtkFleet35: who? stop who?
[21:38] OpenersHep: Your business partners. The Hanso Foundation.
[21:40] wtkFleet35: look, think you’re talking to the wrong guy
[21:40] wtkFleet35: sorry
[21:40] OpenersHep: WAIT!
[21:40] wtkFleet35 has logged off.
Session Close (OpenersHep): Mon Mar 6 21:40:42 2006

Session Start (wtkFleet35:OpenersHep): Fri Mar 03 13:08:17 2006
[13:08] OpenersHep: Good. You’re online. Look, I know how that came off before – maybe a little… stalker-y? Sorry. But, I’ve gotta talk to you.
[13:10] wtkFleet35 has logged off.
Session Close (OpenersHep): Fri Mar 03 15:12:23 2006

Session Start (wtkFleet35:OpenersHep): Sat Mar 04 21:30:10 2006
[21:30] OpenersHep: William.
[21:30] OpenersHep: Are you there?
[21:40] wtkFleet35: enough already! Tell me who you are or I’m blocking ypi!
[21:40] wtkFleet35: you! this is ridiculous!
[21:41] wtkFleet35: 5
[21:41] wtkFleet35: 4
[21:41] OpenersHep: Stop
[21:41] wtkFleet35: 3
[21:41] OpenersHep: So, you’ll listen? If I tell you my name?
[21:42] OpenersHep: Promise not to boil your bunny
[21:42] wtkFleet35: cute
[21:44] OpenersHep: My name is Rachel B. I have information… it’s about Africa. Do you know what I’m talking about?
[21:50] wtkFleet35: not a clue
[21:50] OpenersHep: I don’t believe that. And neither do you.
[21:51] OpenersHep: The Hanso Foundation is using your vehicles, Bill. They’re hurting people, and your vehicles are part of it.
[21:51] wtkFleet35: that’s not possible
[21:52] OpenersHep: They’re being used for transport.
[21:52] wtkFleet35: my vehicles…
[21:52] wtkFleet35: are being used… for TRANSPORT?
[21:52] wtkFleet35: wow. Hope you didn’t strain anything coming up with that one.
[21:52] OpenersHep: You want to joke around, Bill? Or you want to know what’s REALLY going on?
[21:55] wtkFleet35: i have work to do. no time for your nonsense.
[21:55] OpenersHep: Fine. Take your time. Wallow in your denial. And when you come around, take a look at these files.
[21:57] *** OpenersHep is trying to send you "missing_organs.zip".
[21:57] OpenersHep: Whenever that night comes, when you can’t sleep cause the guilt’s eating you alive? Come find me.
[1:34] *** You have received F:\admin\my_docs\missing_organs.zip.
Session Close (OpenersHep): Fri Mar 03 1:34:42 2006

Session Start (wtkFleet35:OpenersHep): Sun Mar 05 09:23:14 2006
[21:40] wtkFleet35: ok. tell me more?

Session Start (wtkFleet35:OpenersHep): Thu Sep 21 1:58:03 2006
[1:58] OpenersHep: you there?
[1:58] wtkFleet35: Hello Rachel
[1:58] wtkFleet35: I was just thinking about you.
[1:59] OpenersHep: why's that? what's going on?
[1:59] wtkFleet35: Because
[1:59] wtkFleet35: You're on my mind
[1:59] OpenersHep: ...
[1:59] OpenersHep: trying to win creepy points, will?
[1:59] wtkFleet35: You should watch that tone
[1:59] OpenersHep: who is this?
[1:59] OpenersHep: obviously not william...
[1:59] OpenersHep: spit it out
[2:00] wtkFleet35: Did you really think you would get away with it Miss Blake?
[2:00] OpenersHep: what've you done with him?
[2:01] wtkFleet35: See what you have done Rachel?
[2:01] wtkFleet35: All the people you have hurt.
[2:01] wtkFleet35: And for what, hmm?
[2:01] OpenersHep: tell me you sicko
[2:02] wtkFleet35: Don’t worry about Mr. Kilpatrick. He is in good hands. He is helping others in ways he never imagined.
[2:03] OpenersHep: what is WRONG with you people?
[2:04] wtkFleet35: We promise not to boil his bunny.
[2:04] OpenersHep: I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS.
[2:05] wtkFleet35: Oh, not to worry my dear. We already have
[2:05] OpenersHep: THIS IS OVER FOR YOU. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?
[2:05] wtkFleet35: By the way, nice place you have there in the Big Apple.
[2:07] wtkFleet35: Rachel dear….you there?
[2:07] *** "OpenersHep" signed off at Thu Sep 21 2:07:33 2006

And the missing organs zip file contains the file "evidence.pdf."

There are 11 pages of documents, as follows:

Page 1
Evidence of the Hanso Foundation’s Crimes
Contents
1. Patient Do Not Resuscitate Form
2. Death Certificate
3. Hospital Documents
4. Patient Do Not Resuscitate Form
5. Death Certificate
6. Hospital Documents
7. Jeep Compass Schematics
8. Tax Document
9. Air Manifest
10. Memo

Page 2
Emergency Medical Service Hospital Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Form for Daniel Bolda on 06/05/05. (see image below)

Page 3
Republic of Kenya
Certificate of Death
Death: 1/17/06
Name: Daniel Bolda
Sex: Male
Date of Death: 1/17/06
Date of Birth: 11/22/63
Occupation: XXXXXXXXXXX
Residence: Cape Town, South Africa
Cause of Death: XXXXXXXX
Doctor in Attendence: XXXXXXXX
(See image below)

Page 4
Mombassa Hospital
P.O. Box ______
Mombassa
Kenya
Date: 01/19/06 (Note: 2 days after death he was administered a drug!)
Name: Daniel Bolda
Room Number: CSR3
Drug administered: Vialex HAP-XP 04

Attached to the document is the photo of a dead person covered by a sheet on a gurney in the morgue.

Page 5
Emergency Medical Service Hospital Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Form for Josh Cyccone on 02/09/03.

Page 6
Republic of Kenya
Certificate of Death
Death: 10/08/03
Name: Josh Cyccone
Sex: Male
Date of Death: 10/08/03
Date of Birth: 6/24/59
Occupation: XXXXXXXXXXX
Residence: Cape Town, South Africa
Cause of Death: XXXXXXXX
Doctor in Attendence: XXXXXXXX

Page 7
Mombassa Hospital
P.O. Box ______
Mombassa
Kenya
Date: 10/11/03 (Note: 3 days after death he was administered a drug!)
Name: Josh Cyccone
Room Number: CSR1
Drug administered: Vialex HAP-XP 01

Attached to the document is the photo of a dead person covered by a sheet on a gurney in the morgue.

Page 8
Hanso Foundation – Ground Transport Research and Development
2007 Jeep Compass
(Schematic of Jeep with cooled storage compartments and storage for Vialex)
(Note: There is a clock on the bottom of the schematic which reads: 394 hours 28 minutes 55 seconds. Since the post was updated on LYCGY 21-Sept-2006 1:15pm then this would make the time posted equivalent to October 7th, 2006 at 11:43:55pm (if my math is correct.)

Items identified on drawing include:
2007 Jeep Compass Storage Compartments (hand written on drawing)
Thermal Controller
Hatch
FWD (+Z)
Neuro Compartment
Abdominal Compartment
VIALEX / HAP-xp04
Coolant Pump
Portable Cooler
Data Storage Electronics Assembly
Thoracic Compartment

Page 9
Hanso Foundation – 990-PF Foundation Tax Document for ½ million dollars signed by Peter Thompson.
Note: Peter Thompson checked off the box at the bottom that said "Self-Employed" and the "Employer Identification Number" is listed as 255:5588745. This looks like a phone number to us but if it is its an international one.

Page 10
Torn Hanso Foundation memo to Peter Thompson concerning flight information from Cape Town, South Africa to Geneva, Switzerland for a couple of people listed as donors.

Hanso Foundation Logo (old style)

"TO: P. THOMPSON
AIR MANIFEST - FLIGHT XXXXXXX
DEPARTURE DATE: OCTOBER 25, 2003
FROM: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
DISTINATION: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
ARRIVAL DATE: OCTOBER 26, 2006

NAME ID NUMBER TYPE
DANIEL BOLXX 0027239 DONOR
JOSHXXXXX 0012587 DONOR"

Page 11
Memo from Thomas Mittelwerk to Peter Thompson to use ground transport rather than air transportation (presumably for missing organs.)

Hanso Foundation Logo (old style)

"Date: November 5, 2005
Memo to: Dr. Thomas Werner Mittlewerk
From: Peter Thompson
Subject: Ground transport implementation for XXXXXXXXXXXX Program

I agree air transport has become too risky. It is my recommendation we immediately implement the ground transport strategy as previously discussed. While we will have to add donor hospitals to feed the Swiss and New Deli Centers, the Nairobi facility will be able to continue operations with only the smallest of interruptions.

The next step, of course, is to secure a fleet for transport operations. I have already initiated discussion with several vendors.

Will keep you up to date.

Signed: Peter Thompson

Peter"

Here is the blurb on Vialex and missing organs from earlier in the Experience:

"CAPE TOWN INQUISITOR SOUTH AFRICA Friday, 26th May 2006 HOSPITAL RAID (CONT'D FROM PAGE ONE)

Some of the patients found with missing organs were in a comatose state -- kept alive by heart/lung and dialysis machines. Police investigators have also reported the discovery of a "chilling room" in which recently-deceased bodies were kept just above the freezing point. According to eyewitnesses, industrial quantities of Vialex -- a pharmaceutical agent for the preservation of organs for transport -- were also discovered along with several lots of an as-yet-unidentified chemical marked as "experimental." The hospital -- which has ties to The Hanso Foundation -- denies all accusations of illegal experimentation and organ harvesting, a growing problem in the developing world, but for the families of the victims, the nightmare is worse than any of the charges."

And now we know what happened to William Kilpatrick.

This now makes more sense, too! Organ Couriers

It certainly looks like TPTB are tying up some of their loose ends. This was always one of those unanswered questions that we had after The Hanso Foundation website was Shut Down! Perhaps we need to really keep our eyes open the next few days. The Experience, it seems, is far from over…

D.J. DAN UPDATE
The following sentence was added to the podcast archive site yesterday:

"Oh, one more thing... keep sending those questions to conspiraspiesunite@hotmail.com. The DJ Dan Mailbag lives!!!"

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ABC PRESS RELEASE – THE LOST EXPERIENCE ENDS

2006-09-20T19:13:00.000-05:00

Two articles released today by ABC tell us that the D.J. Dan Live Internet Broadcast is the next to last action of the Lost Experience. The broadcast will evidently include one final clue to find a video transcription (presumably from Rachel Blake) which will be the finale of the Experience.

ABC Television Network
PRESS RELEASE - ENTERTAINMENT - THE LOST EXPERIENCE COMES TO A CLOSE SEPTEMBER 24

GLOBAL INTERACTIVE PHENOMENON "THE LOST EXPERIENCE" COMES TO A CLOSE WITH FINAL LIVE WORLDWIDE INTERNET RADIO BROADCAST HOSTED BY DJ DAN

Live Broadcast Features Special In-Studio Guest Sunday, September 24, 8:00 p.m., PT

The multiplatform interactive phenomenon "The Lost Experience" will come to a climactic close on SEPTEMBER 24 (8:00 p.m., PT, 5:00 p.m., ET), with a live worldwide radio internet broadcast hosted by the renegade DJ Dan. The broadcast will also feature a special in-studio guest and announce a link for the final video clue revealing the truth behind the actions of the Hanso Foundation. DJ Dan's previous broadcast gave clues leading to the Sri Lanka video, which unveiled the meaning behind the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42. To listen to the broadcast, go to www.abc.com.

About "The Lost Experience"
"The Lost Experience" is a revolutionary interactive marketing endeavor based on the international hit television series, "Lost," designed to further enhance viewers' relationship with the program. "The Lost Experience" incorporates over twenty broadcasters from five continents, making it the largest global interactive challenge based on a television series. This experience follows a parallel storyline not featured in the television broadcast, and the challenge is specifically designed in a manner that is not dependent on information specific to either Season One or Season Two, allowing for the participation of those who have not yet seen either season of "Lost". "The Lost Experience" provides insight to unlock some of the island's secrets for those savvy enough to collect the clues, make the connections and find the answers.

About "Lost"
After Oceanic Air flight 815 tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island, its survivors were forced to find inner strength they never knew they had in order to survive. But they discovered that the island holds many secrets, including a mysterious smoke monster, polar bears, a strange French woman and another group of island residents known as "The Others." The survivors have also found signs of those who came to the island before them, including a 19th-century sailing ship, The Black Rock, the remains of an ancient statue and bunkers belonging to the Dharma Initiative, a group of scientific researchers.

"Lost" stars Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Mr. Eko, Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Henry Gale, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Dominic Monaghan as Charlie and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

"Lost" was created by Jeffrey Lieber and J.J. Abrams & Damon Lindelof. Abrams, Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Jeff Pinkner and Carlton Cuse serve as executive producers. "Lost," which is filmed entirely on location in Hawaii and premiered on September 22, 2004, is from Touchstone Television.

And the second article:

The Lost Experience Coming to a Close
Source: ABC
September 20, 2006

The multiplatform interactive phenomenon "The Lost Experience" will come to a climactic close on September 24 (8:00 p.m., PT, 5:00 p.m., ET), with a live worldwide radio internet broadcast hosted by the renegade DJ Dan. The broadcast will also feature a special in-studio guest and announce a link for the final video clue revealing the truth behind the actions of the Hanso Foundation. DJ Dans previous broadcast gave clues leading to the Sri Lanka video, which unveiled the meaning behind the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42. To listen to the broadcast, go to ABC.com.

"The Lost Experience" is a revolutionary interactive marketing endeavor based on the international hit television series, "Lost," designed to further enhance viewers relationship with the program. "The Lost Experience" incorporates over twenty broadcasters from five continents, making it the largest global interactive challenge based on a television series. This experience follows a parallel storyline not featured in the television broadcast, and the challenge is specifically designed in a manner that is not dependent on information specific to either Season One or Season Two, allowing for the participation of those who have not yet seen either season of Lost. "The Lost Experience" provides insight to unlock some of the islands secrets for those savvy enough to collect the clues, make the connections and find the answers.

The third season of "Lost" starts on October 4 at 9/8c.

Important note: The times listed on each of the press releases shown above have incorrect times for Eastern Standard Time. The broadcast begins at 8pm Pacific, which is 9pm Mountain, 10pm Central and 11pm Eastern (and not 5pm as indicated.)

RETRIEVERS OF TRUTH UPDATE

2006-09-19T14:47:00.000-05:00

ROT UPDATE

There are strange happenings at the Retrievers of Truth site. The password is still “Steinbeck”.There is a new post entry made with the date of 09/13/06 but which was not there yesterday. It actually looks like it was posted on September 19th and not September 13th. I can’t help but think this may have been a typo. The title refers to the Rockwell (Kenneth William Gordy) hit single, “Somebody's Watching Me,” which after reading the entry will become apparent.

The transcript reads:

It appears Rockwell wasn't just a one hit wonder. - 09/13/06

iobiSeeingYou 7:01am Alert! Calling all ROT'ers!

BroadBandBeatnik 7:03am Present.

DSLerator 7:04am Here.

Fiberoptician 7:05am Don't yell, it's still early...

iobiSeeingYou 7:07am I have some vital information I must immediately bring to your attention.
Fiberoptician 7:09am Someone raided your cookie stash?

iobiSeeingYou 7:11am Halt the sarcasm. This is serious business.

DSLerator 7:13am Spill your beans.

ioboiSeeingYou 7:15am Ok. I had a really odd encounter last night on my way home. I left work a little later than usual and was attempting to catch a cab. There was a guy hailing a cab on the same corner. Well no cabs showed up for a while so I decided to try my luck elsewhere and walk a few blocks down. The guy followed me. Ok you may think he also didn't want to be stuck without transportation, but there was something weird about the way he walked. I could have sworn he tried really hard to appear casual and unassuming. I started getting a little nervous and was relieved when a cab finally turned the corner and slowed down by me. As I was jumping in, I turned around to check this guy out once more.... He was smiling at me. One of those creepy, knowing smiles. And then I could have sworn I heard him say, "iobi."

BroadBandBeatnik 7:20am Whoa!

DSLerator 7:23am Hmm... Are you sure he said "iobi"? Could you have just been tired and confused?

iobiSeeingYou 7:24am I heard it.

Fiberoptician 7:27am Well your paranoia could have impaired your hearing. Why would someone be trying to follow you?

iobiSeeingYou 7:29am Umm. I don't know, let me think. Oh I got it. Because I'm a Retriever of Truth. Because for the last few months I've been actively involved with people who want to overthrow and destroy the Hanso foundation. Because I'm an obvious threat. Do I need to knock some sense into you?

Fiberoptician 7:31am Ok, ok. All I'm saying is you are not that cute. Hehe. Sorry.

DSLerator 7:34am Take it easy Fiber. She can be dangerous when provoked.
iobiSeeingYou 7:36am Don't any of you guys see what I'm saying? The Hanso Foundation may very well be reading these very lines. Yes, we haven't seen them lurking around our offices for a while, but we are FAR from being completely rid of them...

BroadBandBeatnik 7:37am She could be onto something...

DSLerator 7:39am It is a dangerous game we're playing.

BroadBandBeatnik 7:43am We all know the Foundation execs are still out in the real world.

iobiSeeingYou 7:44am Thank you!

DSLerator 7:46am And a wounded animal attempting to survive can be potentially more dangerous.

iobiSeeingYou 7:48am Exactly! I mean, do Hansoids just go ahead and disappear because a bunch of people got together and started exposing their true face? Heh. Maybe they are sitting around in a conference room right now, crafting an apology letter to us. It is too early to celebrate our victory and call it a day. Remember, as long as we are here, as long as we are working for this cause, none of us are safe.

Fiberoptician 7:50am That's quite a theory...

RACHEL BLAKE E-MAIL & WIA.COM MESSAGES & D.J. DAN UPDATE

2006-09-18T09:02:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE E-MAIL

It seems that many of the players who registered at the WhereIsAlvar site or HansoExposed. com received the same e-mail this morning. It reads:

"OKAY, EVERYBODY. THIS IS IT. YOU'VE FOUND OVER 1000 APOLLO BARS. I KNOW NOW THAT THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING...

GO TO WWW.WHEREISALVAR.COM"

WHERE IS ALVAR.COM MESSAGE

At the Where Is Alvar site the following message has been displayed:

“YOU’VE STUCK WITH ME. SHOWN YOUR SUPPORT. FOUGHT THE HANSO FOUNDATION TOOTH AND NAIL.

NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE WHOLE TRUTH. ABOUT THEM. ABOUT ME.

TUNE IN TO DJ DAN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 AT 8PM PST, AND HELP ME, ONCE AND FOR ALL … TO SHUT IT ALL DOWN!

- RACHEL”

The word "UNITE" is spelled out using an ever-changing display of Apollo images that were posted to the site by players of the Lost Experience. And, the underlined D.J. Dan From the WIA.com page is a hot link to the D.J. Dan Podcast Archive page.

Update: We're being told that the above message has also been uploaded to www.HansoExposed.com and Rachel's Stop Hanso site also.

D.J. DAN UPDATE

D. J. Dan Podcast Archive page was updated today and it seems like he is having a very special guest (see last paragraph of the update below). Our guess? Rachel Blake herself!

"Podcast Archive

Next podcast...

CONSPIRASPIES!! Due to recent and reliable reports stating the 74-storey golden robot Zanthazor will return to orbit once again, disrupting the Earth's ionosphere at precisely 7am Pacific Standard Time on September 22 (thank you, Garthazoid!!)...

...Tonya and I have NO CHOICE but to reschedule my worldwide broadcast to 8pm PST on Sunday, September 24!! For those of you who have already put in for a vacation day, my sincerest apologies, but look at the bright side! Now's the perfect time to do yourself a solid and and spend the day in your official DJ Dan Certified 60 Megaton Bomb Shelter!

Until the 24th, ConspiraSpies, stay suspicious, stay vigilant, shield those eyes from Zanthazor's golden rays, and KEEP SHUTTING DOWN THE MAN!!

This just in, ConspiraSpies! You knew it was gonna be a doozy, but my special guest on the 24th is gonna blow your minds. Who is it, you ask? Who could it be? Just head on over to www.whereisalvar.com for the straight dope."

D. J. DAN UPDATE - TESTING 1, 2, 3

2006-09-16T20:21:00.000-05:00

D.J. DAN LIVE BROADCAST UPDATE - AGAIN!

2006-09-15T15:02:00.000-05:00

D. J. Dan has changed his next podcast air date again. Click on the “Podcast Archive” link to see the following message:

“Podcast Archive

Next podcast...

CONSPIRASPIES!! Due to recent and reliable reports stating the 74-storey golden robot Zanthazor will return to orbit once again, disrupting the Earth's ionosphere at precisely 7am Pacific Standard Time on September 22 (thank you, Garthazoid!!)...

...Tonya and I have NO CHOICE but to reschedule my worldwide broadcast to 8pm PST on Sunday, September 24!! For those of you who have already put in for a vacation day, my sincerest apologies, but look at the bright side! Now's the perfect time to do yourself a solid and and spend the day in your official DJ Dan Certified 60 Megaton Bomb Shelter!

Until the 24th, ConspiraSpies, stay suspicious, stay vigilant, shield those eyes from Zanthazor's golden rays, and KEEP SHUTTING DOWN THE MAN!!”

Considering it would take a massive Gamma Ray Flare to disrupt the Earth’s ionosphere we believe the change was made for other more mundane reasons. However, we suspect that a number of people who were complaining now are breathing a sigh of relief and a number of people who took a day off of work (yours truly included) to listen to D. J. Dan on the 22nd are now complaining. In any event, many more players are going to be able to tune in and listen than would have on Friday. And that is the real reason the change was made!

Now, if he’d only tell us where to tune in …

P.S. For those who didn’t know, the biggest man-made explosion in history was a 60 Megaton Hydrogen bomb dropped on a Siberian island from an airplane in a Cold War military demonstration by the Soviets. (One Megaton is the explosive force of one million tons of TNT. [Energy released by 1 megaton H-bomb (fusion): 5.0*1015 Joules]).

RACHEL MESSAGE AT WIA

2006-09-14T13:50:00.000-05:00

Another coded message has been found at WhereIsAlvar.com.User rachel@whereisalvar.com posted a large binary string as the “Apollo bar image” today at 10:41am from Sri-Lanka. (Hint: to find this entry look in either the recent finds or search for "Sri Lanka" in the locations.)

The binary translates (skip code 12) to the following lines:

Reading top to bottom, from the left the message is decoded as: "You lived in 3 different apartments. Be waiting outside your second at 7:45 PM. I'm sending a car. Hope you remember the brand of iron you hit me with, because that's the code."

Malik has set up a meeting, presumably tonight (?) in NYC at quarter to eight with Rachel. He has instructed her to remember the name of the iron because that is the code. But what he should have said was "code word." Since Malik is sending a car the driver would know her only by the code word. Very clever!

MESSAGES FROM RACHEL

2006-09-14T09:35:00.000-05:00

As we predicted yesterday two new messages have been found on both of Rachel’s blog pages. The first is a binary code found on her public site posted with today’s date and the second is from her secret blog page (Stop Hanso) and is a short octal (base 8) code. (Note: Click on the titles below to be directed to that page.)

Rachel Blake’s Public Blog

The new post found at RachelBlake.com. The long binary string converts to the following hex string:
52202D2D2049207265737065637420796F757220636
17574696F6E2E2020537570706F7365206974277320
77617272616E7465642C20616674657220616C6C2079
6F7527766520636F6D65207468726F7567682E2020
492063616E27742072656D656D62657220697420
65786163746C792C206275742049207468696E6B20
7768656E207765207765726520696E207468652073
7461697277656C6C20696E2050617269732C20796F
75206D7574656420746865206D6963206173204920
736169642022426563617573652068652077616E7465
64206D6520746F2068656C7020796F752C20616E642
0492063616E2774207175657374696F6E2061206D61
6E2077686F20776F756C64206C61756E63682074686
5204D656E74616C204865616C74682041707065616C
2E2E2E20746F20736176652061206C6F7665642
06F6E652E2220200D0A0D0A536179207768617
420796F752077696C6C2061626F75742068696D20
6E6F772C2068697320686561727420776173206F6E
636520696E2074686520726967687420706C6163652E
0D0A00

The hex string then converts (hex to Ascii) to this message: "R -- I respect your caution. Suppose it's warranted, after all you've come through. I can't remember it exactly, but I think when we were in the stairwell in Paris, you muted the mic as I said, "Because he wanted me to help you, and I can't question a man who would launch the Mental Health Appeal... to save a loved one." Say what you will about him now, his heart was once in the right place."

It seems that it was not the content of the message about the Mental Health Appeal but the message itself instead. After muting the microphone only Malik and Rachel really knew what he had said.

So Mittelwerk launched the Mental Health Appeal to save a loved one? Or, is he discussing someone else? In either case the MHA was obviously created for the benevolence of humanity. But why then is the Hanso Foundation being touted as the antagonist in the Experience? Perhaps, we’ll need more information before we can really grasp the complexities of roles. I think I’ll stick around a while to see what transpires.

We presume that this message is from Malik to Rachel and it seems to be enough to convince her that he truly is Malik because later she posted the following message to her secret blog.

Rachel Blake’s Secret Blog

The code 111151131047156103155116056 was found today on Rachel’s Stop Hanso site under a post dated with today’s date. Using an octal (base 8) decoder we find the message "IiY'nCmN" which unscrambles to read, "I'm in NYC."

Rachel is confident enough in the information supplied by Malik to tell him her location. But why New York City and how long has she been there? Has she been in the U.S. since her escape from Sri-Lanka? If so why did it take her so long to get the message out? And will everything truly shift to Norway now?

HANSO EXPOSED MORSE CODE MESSAGE & TV GUIDE ARTICLE

2006-09-13T15:54:00.000-05:00

HANSO EXPOSED MORSE CODE MESSAGE

HansoExposed.com was updated today with a hidden message. After logging in you will see a flashing asterisk next to the /Send. Save sequence * links (see image below).

Click on the flashing asterisk to find this MP3 message. This Morse code message is just over 4 minutes long, which when translated reads:

“M –
I wish it were that simple. Fact is, as much as I want to, I still can't trust you.
I want to believe you are the man who helped me in Paris, but de Zylva's name was not unknown.
You could be Mittlewerk himself, springing a trap under my feet.
I need confirmation it's you.
I need you to tell me something only you could know.”

Rachel is obviously demanding proof that Malik is who he says he is. No time like the present to take precautions, huh Rachel? There is a lot of speculation that he will divulge some secret concerning her parents. I believe it will be much more simple than that – perhaps a discussion about their meeting in a hotel room or in the basement of said hotel. Or a code word only he would know. I do not think a great reveal will be given to us regarding this meeting. If anything, we’ll most likely have more questions than answers after they meet in Norway.

So far, we have seen message from Malik to Rachel in the following forums:
The D.J. Dan Live Broadcast and “Bad Twin” the novel, Inside The Experience (Speaker), The Lost Ninja, The Other Girl, and now Hanso Exposed. I would venture to say that we will see a message from one or the other in every major webpage that has been included in the Experience. Look for the next clue(s) to be found in ROT, Rachel’s Secret Blog, Let Your Compass Guide You, etc. If I were betting I’d say that we’ll end up at Rachel’s Stop Hanso page.

TV GUIDE ARTICLE

The newest TV Guide (September 18th-24th Issue) contains the following Lost Experience article:

"Lost's Numbers Finally Add Up

ABC's online Lost supplement, the Lost Experience, delivered a major payoff on September 8th. An unlocked video detailed how a mathematician was commissioned by the United Nations in 1962 to calculate the timetable for humanity's extinction.

The resulting Valenzetti's Equation was based on factors represented by Egyptian Hieroglyphics, each of which was assigned a numerical value: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42, a.k.a. what would become Hurley's cursed digits. Though the Hanso Foundation created the Dharma Initiative to stave off the forecast apocalypse, the foundation's impatient acting president Dr. Thomas Mittlewerk is itching to unleash a virus that will snub 30 percent of the world's population.

Fans who followed the Experience may someday experience deja vu when watching LOST on TV. Says Michael Benson, senior vice president of marketing for ABC: "There's no reason [the Experience's events] can't be integrated into the program."

- Reported by Matt Webb Mitovich"

I would question the evidence surrounding the use of the phrase major payoff! In reality, there is very little useful information that has been revealed by the video that has not already been found and pieced together by the community of people researching the Experience. A few minor pieces of information have been released via the video – the use of the virus on people and the 30% mortality rate – but no real useful information has actually been disclosed.

Is this an unsuccessful attempt of a non-player to explain the numbers? I think it may be! While the idea may be correct there are some major problems with this statement. Is the Valenzetti Equation really based on factors represented by Egyptian Hieroglyphics? While hieroglyphics are represented in both the series and the Experience there is no reason to believe that each of the hieroglyphics have been assigned a number. Rather, the numbers represent factors that may contribute to the decimation of mankind. At least, that is what I took away from the Sri-Lanka video.

The most intriguing part of this article though is the fact that TPTB have acknowledged that the players of the Experience may see part of their months of research and labor payoff in the form of an inclusion of some form from the Experience into future episodes of Lost. Wouldn’t it be nice… watching a future episode of Lost and they mention Malik or Mittelwerk or Rachel Blake or even a guest appearance by one of them? This is very exciting and extraordinary news for the extreme fans of Lost and The Experience. I, for one, can’t wait!

APOLLO GIVE AWAY – CHICAGO – PART II

2006-09-12T21:19:00.000-05:00

1/2 Tank Gas - $16.00
Parking – Downtown Chicago $10.00
Caesar Salad - $8.00
Apollo Candy Bar from Rockit Bar & Grill – Priceless

Thanks to badgerkyle from over at TLEC The Alternative One was able to obtain an Acura gift bag and now has his very own Apollo Bar.

The Rockit Bar & Grill had an Acura event this evening and inside the gift bags was an Apollo Bar (not to mention other goodies). We did not see a Golden Oracle but we were not there for very long. It was evident though, that this was not an Apollo Bar give away. There were no Apollo t-shirts in the crowd and no one handing out bars. There was free alcohol, appetizers, and Xbox 360 games. All in all, it was a nice evening out.

HANSO FOUNDATION CODE, D.J. DAN LIVE PODCAST CHANGE & APOLLO GIVE AWAY CHICAGO

2006-09-12T13:49:00.000-05:00

HANSO FOUNDATION CODE

Go to the Hanso Foundation’s shutdown site and right click on the screen. Select “Show All.” Move your cursor over the bottom of the screen until you see the text bar and highlight the new message:

Pdeo eo jkp ukqn bwqhp. Wo ukq kjya odkqpaz wp pda pkl
kb ukqn hqjco,
sa'ra whh ckp "xhkkz kj kqn dwjzo." E fqop dkla iu
bneajz eo naopejc awou.

Sdana wna ukq? E'hh jaaz ukq pk iaap ia ej Jknswu.

Using this cyphertext decoder and a code length of 2 the message decodes to:

“This is not your fault. As you once shouted at the top of your lungs, we've all got "blood on our hands." I just hope my friend is resting easy. Where are you? I'll need you to meet me in Norway.”

It looks like Rachel and Malik are heading for Norway. Perhaps, they intend on meeting somewhere near the Hanso Foundation office there? And again, “Where’s Alvar?” comes back again to us… And we may want to keep tabs on Rachel’s secret blog site again. I think we may be seeing a bit more from her site now that she is no longer restrained.

D.J. DAN LIVE PODCAST CHANGE

It seems D.J. Dan has changed the date and time of his next live podcast. Go to D.J. Dan’s website and click on the “Podcast Archive.” The new message, which is identical to the old except for the date and time, has been transcribed below.

“Podcast Archive

Next podcast...

ConspiraSpies - loyal ConspiraSpies, suspicious ConspiraSpies, lonely ConspiraSpies (you KNOW I read those emails!) - I have just one question for you:

DO YOU WANT SOME MORE?

They thought they shut us down. They thought they had us scared. The Hanso Foundation thought they could just swing that pastel hammer of oppression at our noggins and expect us to flinch!! But, did we flinch? Heck n- well... okay, maybe we flinched a little. Pastel hammers of oppression hurt, ConspiraSpies! But are we gonna hide in the shadows with our heads in the sand? Or are we gonna take it on the chin and give 'em one back?

That's right! It's time to liven things up with another LIVE SHOW!!! September 22, 7am PST, it's a DJ Dan Special Live Event: "The DJ Strikes Back!" This time, it's personal.”

That’s FRIDAY September 22, 2006 at 8am Mountain, 9am Central and 10am Eastern.

APOLLO GIVE AWAY - CHICAGO

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
City: Chicago
Venue: Rockit Bar & Grill
22 West Hubbard
Chicago, IL 860610
Event: 5pm – 9pm

Note concerning the Chicago area Apollo give away this evening...

I phoned the Rockit Bar and Grill today and asked them if they had an ABC Promotion this evening. The guy on the phone told me an Acura event was scheduled from 5pm to 9pm. My guess is that they WILL have the Apollo give away there also. We may have to pop in and see what transpires!

E-MAIL WEIRDNESS

2006-09-11T07:39:00.000-05:00

The Other Girl posted a very strange coded message this morning about a weird e-mail she received that was packed full of numbers.

Here is The Other Girl’s message:

“Morning folks, trust you've all had restful weekends. I'm posting early for a change today, as I was going through my postbag and found something weird - got sent an e-mail just with all these numbers in it - and what was even stranger was that it was fixed to look like it had been sent by me! Needless to say, it hadn't and it looks like I've been hacked. Which got me thinking.... anyways, I was looking on Speaker and Ninja's blogs, and they appear to have had something similar happen. I gotta admit, so far I'm drawing a blank, so if you lot feel like applying your considerable brainpower, I'd be most appreciative....”

Using an Octal decode format (base 8) the numbers decode to Rachel's reply to Malik as follows:

"I knew you were behind that. I just knew. He never told me, you know?

When I hit the ground I was sure I was dead. The camera was broken, they were dragging me to my feet... and then a burst of gunfire in the air. These were SCIENTISTS, unarmed. They hit the ground. But not Mittelwerk. He kept coming until de Zylva turned the shots in his direction. Once Mittelwerk was face down on the ground, de Zylva grabbed my hand and we were gone. With the camera.

He didn't talk. He said he was de Zylva, that was it. We knew Mittelwerk was already in pursuit, but we stuck to tunnels that had been dug out during various wartimes. We had some close calls. The goal was the American embassy in Colombo, but when we got there, we knew that was impossible. It was being watched -- the airport, too. de Zylva said The Hanso Foundation had too much influence in Colombo to take the risk.

And, then, they caught wind of us again. We knew we could be caught at any second, and the only important thing was that video. EVIDENCE of Mittelwerk's world-wide decimation plot. I'd planned for this. All I needed was a secure, high-speed connection. The Hanso goons knew it too. They surrounded the place while I was uploading. We barricaded ourselves, de Zylva knew an escape route. I barely got out, made my way to a friend of de Zylva's who could get me to India. I swear, I waited for de Zylva. But he never came.

I'm so sorry."

Click here for the original e-mail coded string (For those purist who might want to plug it in themselves) (Note: click open to view the string or save to download it) and click here for a decoding website and the following for other types of
additional Ascii translations.

We presume that Rachel's first few sentences, "I knew you were behind that. I just knew. He never told me, you know?" deal with Malik and de Zylva. It seems that they were friends and that Malik enlisted de Zylva's help. We certainly embrace the addition of new characters but would appreciate more content than, "He helped me. Then he died!" This is too much like inserting magic into a science fiction novel to rescue the hero from certain death. "And, with the wave of his magic wand our hero was saved!" In our opinion, that is a very sophomoric approach. Especially at this late phase of the Experience.

Rachel seems to be explaining away a great deal here. Tunnels from previous wars? And how was she able to send her message? There is no mention of technology or computers, let alone a high-speed connection. How was she able to code then send the messages to Malik?

And, “EVIDENCE of Mittelwek’s world-wide decimation plot”, sticks out to us as an unusual phrase. Could EVIDENCE be a new password for something? We’ll be checking Rachel’s StopHanso blog-site for any new updates. We believe we’ll see something this week.

ONE WEIRD E-MAIL

2006-09-10T23:19:00.000-05:00

It seems The Lost Ninja has received an e-mail this evening that is also strange in content. And it appears that Rachel and Malik are using the Experience blogs to send each other messages.

The Lost Ninja posted this entry with the following image:

“Apollo news and one weird email!
by Lost Ninja
posted on Sep 11 10:48am
Hey, and this is just a quick heads up to let you know the Third Phase of The Greatest Heist In History has just kicked off and I'm about to run, not walk, run to the post office and get them on their journey. Well, what are you waiting for, I hear you ask?
I just got sent this weird email that I needed to shoot to you. The thing was tricked out so it looked like it had bounced back to me - but I don't ever remember making this image! Ninjas, can you help a brother out?
I've gotta scoot now, but I'll be back later - I've got some red hot theories running through my mind now that we've got all the Sri Lanka video, and I'm keen to share :)
Namaste”

Click here for larger image.

With the image rotated and flipped the following message can be found:

zt == zo yjoml oyd gsot yp dsu. ejsyrbrt vpmdvormvr zo jsbr esd nio;y pm gsi;yu rwio[,rmy/ zyjodod s ,syyrt pg fiyu/ z;pus;yu/// zd[rslomh pg ejovj. zobr nrrm ytpin;rf nu yjr brtu trvrmy fods[[rstsmvr pg sm p;f gtormf/ fr zxu;bs/ zer s;;
dse upit zdto z;smls bofrp/ zupi ertr vs[yitrf sy yjr rmf. smf ury. yjrtr upi ertr.n;sdyomh yjpdr z;pdy [tpfivrtd om zdsm zforhp mpy s errl ;syrt/ zsmf. zo jsbr ypepmfrt/// fof fr zxu;bs jsbr dp,ryjomh yp fp eoyj yjsyz zfp upi lmpe ejsyd nrvp,r pg jo,z

Using a keyboard transference code (1 key to the right) we come up with the following message. But who is de Zylva?

"R -- I think it's fair to say, whatever conscience I have was built on faulty equipment. This is a matter of duty. Loyalty... Speaking of which, I've been troubled by the very recent disappearance of an old friend, de Zylva. We all saw your Sri Lanka video. You were captured at the end, and yet, there you were, blasting those Lost producers in San Diego not a week later. And, I have to wonder... did de Zylva have something to do with that? Do you know what's become of him?"

ANONYMOUS TIDINGS FROM SPEAKER

2006-09-09T18:18:00.000-05:00

Speaker (Inside the Experience.com) received this (image on left – filename “ironman_1”) in his e-mail box today. The same image reversed (right) reveals that this is a hexadecimal string, which contains a hidden message (and that really brings back some early memories of the Experience.) After running through an Ascii converter the code gives us this: "rewsna ym wonk ydaerla uoy neht era uoy kniht i ohw tuoba gniklat eruoy fi nadjd ot ni llac uoy draeh ti si thgif eht ni uoy gnipeek si ecneicsnoc --m" When the message, which has obviously been flipped backwards, is reversed it gives us this recognizable message: "M--Conscience is keeping you in the fight is it? Heard you call in to D.J. Dan. If you're talking about who I think you are then you already know my answer."

This is an obvious message from Rachel to W. Malik, or the ironman, as he was christened by fans, and her confirmation of a meeting. This refers to the coded message left by Malik on the D. J. Dan’s live call in show on August 11, 2006. If you recall, Malik rattled off a series of 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) that corresponded to the first letter of each word on the page number listed in the code from the novel “Bad Twin.” That message read: "I know where he is, I can set it up." We’re not sure who “he” is (we have our guesses) but it sure seems to be leading us in an interesting direction.

Note: Remember D. J. Dan’s first live broadcast was originally aired on www.Radioharvest.com and the call in number was 1-800-942-4704. This may or may not be significant.

726577736E61796d77
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61756F796E65687465
7261756F796B6E6968
74696F687774756F62
61676E696B6C617465
72756F7966696E6164
6A646F746E696C6C61
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Lambda Iota Epsilon

And for those of you who received the following message from humanresources@hansocareers.com concerning the job for “VP or Public Relations…” It is most assuredly fake, but a nice diversion.

“As you may know, the founder of the Hanso Foundation, Alvar Hanso, has been a member of the prestigious Lambda Iota Epsilon fraternity for over 30 years.

We would like to inform you that based on our recommendation they will for the first time ever, open up a position for a non-fraternity member. The position, VP of Public Relations will require someone with a keen awareness of Lambda Iota Epsilons goals and how that can fit into the public at large, especially in regards to future recruits of the fraternity.

Applications can be sent via email to the fraternity at info@lambdaiotaepsilon.com. Also you can visit their site for more information on the fraternities history and membership process.

namesate”

The three things that set it off as bogus are the subject “VP or Public Relations” rather than VP OF Public Relations, the use of the word fraternities rather than the correct fraternity’s and the misspelling of the word namaste. P.S. The initials for Lambda Iota Epsilon are LIE. Quite! And they didn't even leave a URL to their website!

Note: See the side-bar for the hot link to the website.

THE SRI-LANKA VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

2006-09-08T15:48:00.000-05:00

THE SRI-LANKA VIDEO TRANSCRIPT (Without Codes)

But first my own observations…

The Sri-Lanka video was provided by Rachel Blake in 70 fragments from July 22nd to September 7th, 2006, which began at Comic-Con in San Diego, CA. Rachel wore a t-shirt with the URL HansoExposed.com printed on it and directed us to visit the site for more information. This was the beginning of the third phase of the LOST Experience and a massive worldwide hunt for glyphs and codes, which has now reached its conclusion.

The 70 video fragments when pieced together provide two distinct and separate videos. Part 1 is a 1975 Orientation Film narrated by Alvar Hanso, presumably from his office in Denmark and Part 2 is a speech by “Dr.” Thomas Werner Mittelwerk secretively being filmed by Rachel in Sri Lanka. The transcript of the video appears below in paragraph format for easier reading. Those wishing to examine the fragments, glyphs and codes more closely can find additional information at my Pictoglyph Fragment site.

The videos give us little in the form of new information.

Since the introduction of the Valenzetti Equation into the Experience many players have speculated that the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 were somehow connected to the Valenzetti Equation. This anti-climactic revelation by Alvar Hanso comes as no surprise. The definition of D.H.A.R.M.A. was revealed earlier in the Experience with the Simon-like game played on the computer monitor in Phase 1. And, I think most of us knew that there were secret underground facilities. What we would most like to know is, “What are they for? What is the research being done there? And why did they need survival training before being taken there?”

The Mittelwerk video gives us a trivial amount of new information. Mostly, that work on viruses has been adapted for his project and that the DHARMA Initiative failed. We have also learned that Rachel was caught in the act of filming the speech by Mittelwerk and then taken captive. Again, however, we are left with many more questions than answers.

For those who wish to speculate on the video I ask you to send your e-mails to: dharmapoet@wi.rr.com

Transcription of the Sri-Lanka Videos

PART 1 - Alvar Hanso 1975 Orientation Film:

Screen display: THE DHARMA INITIATIVE ©1975 The Hanso Foundation (superimposed over a new Dharma Logo) DHARMA – ORIENTATION [Orientation music plays]

I’m Alvar Hanso. If you are watching this film, you already know and have worked with Gerrold and Karen DeGroot, founders and masterminds of the DHARMA Initiative. By now, you also know there are many research goals for our joint venture. What you may not know is why we have assembled the Dharma Initiative, why we have assembled the brightest minds in the world and given them unlimited funds and access.

As with all you've already been told, you are bound by your honor and commitment to keep what you are about to hear a secret. In a few weeks, after your induction counseling and survival training, you and your collegues will be shipped to a top secret facility. The precise location of the facility is known only to myself, the DeGroots, the few high-ranking members of my organization. Why all the security, all the secrecy? The answer is simple. Your research is intended to do nothing less than save the world as we know it.

In 1962, only thirteen years ago, the world came to the brink of nuclear war. The United States and the Soviet Union almost fulfilled the promise of mutual assured destruction. A promise they continue to foster through a destructive Cold War. After the Cuban missile crisis, both nations decided to find a solution. The result was the Valenzetti Equation. Commissioned under the highest secrecy through the U.N. Security Council, the equation is the brainchild of the Italian mathematician, Enzo Valenzetti. It predicts the exact number of years and months before humanity extinguishes itself. Whether through nuclear fire, chemical and biological warfare, conventional warfare, pandemic, overpopulation…. Now, his results are chilling and attention must be paid.

Valenzetti gave numerical values to the core environmental and human factors of his equation, 4,8,15,16,23, and 42. Only by manipulating the environment by finding scientific solutions to all of our problems will we be able to change those core factors and give humanity a chance to survive. Although the equation has been buried by those who commissioned it. Don't panic. It's always been my belief that we ignore warnings at our own peril. And thus, the D.H.A.R.M.A. Initiative was born. "'D.H.A.R.M.A.' is an acronym for Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications." Screen display: DHARMA Department of Heuristics And Research on Materials Applications. It also stands for the one true way.” Screen display: DEPARTMENT OF HEURISTICS AND RESEARCH ON MATERIAL APPLICATIONS. Through your research, you will help...

We've constructed several stations on the island, underground laboratories with the facilities you'll need to do your research with the optimal expediency, and all of the support you will need, including regular medicine and food drops will be made in perpetuity. A radio transmitter has also been erected on the island. Broadcasting in a frequency and encryption known only to us. The transmitter will only broadcast the core numerical values of the Valenzetti Equation. When, through your research, you manage to change the numerical value of any one of these factors... When you have created through science the... [inaudible] You will know that the one true way has been found. That is the work to which you have committed yourselves. Change the core values of the Valenzetti Equation, and you will change the course of destiny. The fate of the human race is in your hands. Thank you and namaste.” Display: DHARMA (w/ logo) ©1975 THE HANSO

Part 2 - Thomas Mittelwerk speech:

Screen display: DHARMA (w/ logo) ©1975 THE HANSO FOUNDATION [Orientation Music plays]

We all know what happened. The DHARMA Initiative failed. And in spite of every effort of the Foundation, we are gripped in the tyranny of those six Numbers. We have tried to change those values by manipulating the environment in many, many ways. We have done our level best, and yet this inscrutable Equation keeps bringing us back to the Numbers. So now, we have to take radical action. And I just want to tell all of you that I trust you to do what is best. The villages of Philam(?) and Vitu Alami(?) have allowed us to test our vaccine on them. (Uncomfortable coughing from audience.) They think they're infected with a virus carried by local macaques and they believe we are bringing them the cure.

So when you go in, you have to keep up the story. You know it by heart. Don't waver. When the deaths begin, you must comfort everyone with compassion and empathy and the bodies of the dead must be brought to this station immediately for full genetic workup. We must make absoultely certain we are hitting precise genetic targets we have engineered into the virus. The optimum mortality rate is 30%. Our operatives at the VIK Institute have verified this figure… More or less people succumb, we have failed. We need not take any more lives than is absolutely necessary. Yes? Unidentified man, Tom, these are people, innocent human beings, and we're just going to... Mittlewerk interupts, If you knew with mathematical certainty that you could end all famine, war, and poverty, what would you do? Exactly! You'd find the best way to get it done… precisely … surgically, without allowing for any more suffering than is absolutely necessary. (Sigh) It is not fair that innocents have to die so that we can perfect this virus.
But I promise you, someone is going to help.

Interruption of light in Mittelwerk’s face.

Mittelwerk: Is there something... reflecting... in the back? Rachel: Oh, God! Mittelwerk: Somebody grab her! Unknown man: There she is!
Mittelwerk: We have an intruder! Unknown man: She's got a camera... Rachel: No, wait, get off me, get off me... wait... get off me... get off... it’s… Unknown man: Got her!

The sequence that I have used to provide this transcription can be found at the HansoExposed.com website.

THE FINAL FRAGMENT CODE # 70

2006-09-08T11:16:00.000-05:00

Rachel Blake has left us a message in the form of image files today on her public blog and in the process has provided us with fragment code # 70.

The final fragment code “PGVPE4EC“ was found today on Rachel Blake's Public blog. The video fragment code is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying, "Valenzetti assigned numerical values to the core environmental and human factors of his equation, 4,8,15,16,23,42."

On the webpage click “View” then “Source Code” to find a string of .png files (invisible links- "Select All" (CTRL-A), you will see small boxes up and down the margins of the page. Each box is a link to a glyph.). Placing the .png files at the home page URL with img_new/ and placing the image pieces together gets you the glyph and the code.

The message reads: “They say that everything happens for a reason. I wish I could believe that.” This is, of course, a message from Rachel Blake. We wonder what the next move is...

Stay tuned for my complete transcription of the Sri-Lanka Video fragments!

D. J. DAN PODCAST UPDATE

2006-09-07T15:40:00.000-05:00

An update occurred today on the D.J. Dan website today. Click on the Podcast Archives to see the following message. It looks like another live show... this time on a Saturday (September 23rd 8AM PST 10AM Central) during the day. Should see a huge turnout for this. Details have yet to be released. When they are I'll post them here!

"Podcast Archive

Next podcast...

ConspiraSpies - loyal ConspiraSpies, suspicious ConspiraSpies, lonely ConspiraSpies (you KNOW I read those emails!) - I have just one question for you:

DO YOU WANT SOME MORE?

They thought they shut us down. They thought they had us scared. The Hanso Foundation thought they could just swing that pastel hammer of oppression at our noggins and expect us to flinch!! But, did we flinch? Heck n- well... okay, maybe we flinched a little. Pastel hammers of oppression hurt, ConspiraSpies! But are we gonna hide in the shadows with our heads in the sand? Or are we gonna take it on the chin and give 'em one back?

That's right! It's time to liven things up with another LIVE SHOW!!!
September 23, 8am PST, it's a DJ Dan Special Live Event: "The DJ Strikes Back!"

This time, it's personal."

Time to dust off those old questions for D.J. Dan. My advice... send your most lucid and thought provoking questions... or better yet your craziest theories and conspiracies.
D.J. Dan's e-mail address is: conspiraspiesunite@hotmail.com

FRAGMENT CODES 68 & 69

2006-09-07T10:01:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 68

Fragment Code "KCQBMLI6" was found in four-piece glyph hunt on Lost Ninja's MySpace Page and Inside the Experience (The Other Girl was also involved.)

The video fragment is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying, "That is the work to which you have committed yourselves. Change the core values of the Valenzetti Equation, and you will change the course of destiny."

This statement, in our opinion, is the payoff quote of the entire video. It tells us that the VE can be changed and the future with it.

Fragment Code 69

Fragment Code "ZR2JI" was found on the London real world glyph hunt today.

The video fragment is of Dr. Thomas W. Mittlewerk saying, "And in spite of every effort of the Foundation, we are gripped in the tyranny of those six Numbers."

Only 1 more glyph to go…. (Hopefully, we’ll see it today!)

FRAGMENT CODE 67

2006-09-06T21:13:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 67

Fragment code V4UMMA was found today in another of Speaker’s round-about code hunts.

This video fragment is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying, "The transmitter will only broadcast the core numerical values of the Valenzetti Equation."

The glyph can be found here.

Only 3 more codes to go...

FRAGMENT CODES 61, 65 & 66

2006-09-06T11:43:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 61

Fragment Code "FLHO6CUM181" was found late Tuesday night by following clues to piece together another glyph fragment on both Inside the Expeirence and the Lost Ninja Site. The video fragment is of Dr. Mittlewerk saying, "The optimal mortality rate is 30%".

Fragment Code 65

Fragment Code "354G8" was found on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (as we predicted in yesterday’s post.) The glyph was printed on Kimmel's coffee mug. The video fragment is of Thomas Mittlewerk saying, "When the deaths begin, you must comfort everyone with compassion and empathy."

Fragment Code 66

Fragment Code "2NG39Z" was found late Tuesday night by following clues to piece togather another glyph fragment on both Inside the Expeirence and the Lost Ninja Site. The video fragment is of T.W. Mittelwerk from between boxes again saying, "This inscrutable Equation keeps bringing us back into the Numbers."

Note: Code # 61 should be FLHO6CUM181 and Code # 64 should be XQGRMH. Code XQGRMH was listed as # 61 in an earlier post but has since been changed.

Only 4 more codes to go…

SPEAKER ON WHEREISALVAR.COM FRAGMENT CODE 64 & FRAGMENT CODE 63

2006-09-05T17:57:00.000-05:00

Speaker on WhereIsAlvar.com - Fragment Code 64

It looks like Speaker may have a glyph clue started at WhereIsAlvar.com. He is seen in an oversized Golden Oracle image with a t-shirt with writing on it. A simple flip of the image reveals the shirt says “Jonah 61.” Glyph fragment code 61 can’t be too far behind. We’re not sure where this is heading but it looks like a new glyph hunt is under way.

Fragment Code "XQGRMH" was found by following a clue left by Speaker at www.whereisalvar.com (see above). If you go to www.myspace.com/jonahadkins (Jonah the mapmaker) and select all on the page, you'll see more in his "About Me" section than you would normally. It says, “It's just me, Jonah! In Reader Mail 10 & 1/Seek he who is the good son.” Follow his clue and find Speaker’s Reader Mail 11 and you'll see Macaulay Culkin posted the link The Speaker. The fragment code can be found at the bottom of the page hidden under the title.

The video fragment is of Mr. Beardy saying, "…only by manipulating the environment, by finding scientific solutions to all of our problems..."

Also, Speaker has hinted that an important hint or clue will be found on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week. It would probably be a good idea to watch them (or at the very least DVR them.) My guess, we’ll see a glyph during a commercial or better yet a surprise appearance by Hugh McIntyre!

Fragment Code 63

Fragment Code "7C8R" has been found. The glyph aired after the most recent episode of Lost on the UK's Channel 4. The video fragment is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying, "We will be able to change those core factors and give humanity a chance to survive."

RBD FRAGMENT CODE 62 & ROT UPDATE

2006-09-04T12:46:00.000-05:00

Richer Broader Deeper Fragment Code 62

The Richer Broader Deeper webpage has what seems to be another glyph code. Click on the “Breathe Sports” link (the baseball) and then click on the stadium seating under the jet ski. The word “QUARANTINE” will appear in lettered signs. This clue comes from the ROT thread discussing packed stadiums and fans.

The video is of Mittelwerk who detects Rachel filming his speech. He then says, "Is there something... reflecting... in the back?" Rachel says, “Oh, God!” and Mittelwerk yells, “Somebody grab her!” An unknown man says, "There she is!"

Mittelwerk’s speech is interrupted when he notices a reflection from Rachel's camera. The Hanso Foundation logo can be plainly seen on one of the boxes. This is the fragment that comes just before Rachel is chased down by Mittelwerk and his “associates.”

Retrievers of Truth Update

Using the password “Steinbeck” at the ROT page you’ll find the following new forum thread:

With the end zone in sight the team must call the next play. - 09/4/06

iobiSeeingYou 11:22am Hanso's presence amongst us has diminished greatly.

Fiberoptician 11:24am Yeah, and it's really weird. They were all over us like outta-town relatives.

iobiSeeingYou 11:25am Things are changing.

DSLerator 11:28am Times, they are a changing.

Fiberoptician 11:30am Hey did BB ever come up with those season tickets?

BroadBandBeatnik 11:31am It's over fiber?

Fiberoptician 11:40am What, my dreams of rooting for the home team in a packed stadium? Offering my encouragement to all the players on the field as well as those at home on their couches? No my friends. It's not over because I am there. I will always be there. For every yard of field gained and lost… I am there. For every touchdown scored… my hands will be in the air. I am a part of that throng you so casually dub, the fans. Loyal to our team and our city with painted faces, chests and hands.

iobiSeeingYou 11:42am Ok Fibe we get it.

DSLerator 11:43am No, they don't get it. You tell 'em Fiber!

Fiberoptician 11:55am Neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night shall keep me from my ticketed seat. I'll be there early to tailgate and late into the night even if we're assured defeat. Because I am the spirit, the core, the heart and soul. It's not just about beating this team or that team but about that road… that trip to that super bowl. And while we may not make it - and it has been a while - we will always keep our head held high.
Because at the end of the day, the season, the year, you know what they'll say? They sure did try.

DSLerator 11:57am YEAH!!!!

iobiSeeingYou 11:57am Ugh.

BroadBandBeatnik 11:59am The man is dedicated. I'll give him that.

Fiberoptician 12:09pm See you all in the stands! Happy Labor Day and I'm out.

DSLerator 12:11pm Yeah, Happy Labor Day to all the fans who've read us and helped us out.

iobiSeeingYou 12:13pm Happy Labor Day to all that have labored with us in this cause.

BroadBandBeatnik 12:15pm Keep the faith and keep up the good work.

WHEREISALVAR.COM

2006-09-02T09:44:00.000-05:00

The Alternative One

From: Rachel@Whereisalvar.com

Date: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:45pm

To: Dharmapoet@wi.rr.com

Subject: Your pic's online - Where's Alvar?

GOOD NEWS, THE ALTERNATIVE ONE.

YOUR PIC'S BEEN UPLOADED!

IF YOU WANT TO SEE YOUR SMILING FACE, HEAD BACK TO WWW.WHEREISALVAR.COM.AND, DO ME A FAVOR. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS.-

RACHEL

THE HUNT FOR THE LAST FRAGMENT CODES & THE END?

2006-09-01T14:47:00.000-05:00

It seems that the Lost Girl has found a press release that states the final two fragment codes are to be released in England. Here are the specifics:

"September 1st
Listen Up!!

I've just had this press release posted to me - and it's legit, I've made sure. So take heed people - it's comin' home, it's comin' home...

LOST EXPERIENCE - TRACK DOWN THE CODES TO THE LAST TWO FRAGMENTS IN MANCHESTER AND LONDON NEXT WEEK!

The Lost Experience is nearing its conclusion. The final UK fragments are being released next week at two special events in Manchester and London. Meet up with other Lost Experience players and compete to be the first to track down the final two UK codes. This is your last chance to get recognised as a key member of the Lost Experience.

To take part, players need to meet at the following start points (along with a map of the city and mobile phone) at midday. Full instructions of how to track down the codes will then been revealed.

MANCHESTER EVENT
DATE: WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH
START TIME: 12pm (noon)
MEETING POINT
The Chinese Arch
Faulkner Street
Chinatown,
Manchester M1

LONDON EVENT
DATE: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH
START TIME: 12pm (noon)
Thames footpath between Isle of Dogs and Greenwich - meet on the Isle of Dogs side.

So there you have it - best start making preparations now - I might even try and make it to both. Who knows! Thanks to one and all for your fave sites - will amuse myself over weekend with some delving...Have a good one yourselves ;)"

Stay tuned for the U.S. and Australian versions of the "Real Lost Experience Glyph Hunts".

Coming soon… THE END?

An important note – If the above press release is legitimate then we are looking at the end of the Lost Experience. The release specifically states, “The Lost Experience is nearing its conclusion.” and “This is your last chance to get recognised as a key member of the Lost Experience.” If this is to be believed then the five phase Lost Experience post is no longer valid and the Lost Experience will be coming to a close towards the end of next week and the finale of Phase Three. If this is true then we may be entering the last week of the Experience. Stay tuned for more updates as they are revealed (and, if the end is near a final word from The Alternative One.)

FRAGMENT CODES # 58, 59 & 60 & NEW ROT THREAD

2006-09-01T08:40:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 58

Fragment Code "5XW3O" was found at here. This video fragment is very dynamic and involves our Rachel Blake more than any other. In past videos she was in the background. Today she jumps right into the foreground.

The sound of running feet, Rachel's sneakers and jeans are flickering throughout the camera angle as she runs away and then this transcript:
Unknown man: She's got a camera...
Rachel: No, wait, get off me, get off me... wait. get off me... get off...
Mittelwerk: Got her!

Fragment Code 59

Fragment code "BAX5OUX8T" has been found at The Other Girls' blog and click on the hidden link in the left sidebar. This will reveal a video entitled “This is a Knife.” At about the 3 ½ minutes in the newest glyph will be revealed.

This newest video fragment is of Mittelwerk saying "It is not fair that innocents have to die so that we can perfect this virus...".

New ROT Thread

Delivering the goods. - 08/30/06

iobiSeeingYou 1:13pm Beatink, only you could come out of a mess like this smelling better than you did before you went into it. I'm amused and surprised.

iobiSeeingYou 1:15pm You all are so easily duped. I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him.

Fiberoptician 1:17pm You probably shouldn't try throwing him, he looks pretty heavy.

DSLerator 1:18pm Shut up Fiber.

iobiSeeingYou 1:19pm Yeah, shut up Fiber... hehehe.

Fiberoptician 1:21pm Yeah, I don't know if you've really proven you're worthy yet...

BroadBandBeatnik 1:23pm Come on people! You've got to be kidding me. What more can I possibly do to make you believe in me again?

iobiSeeingYou 1:26pm Hmmm…. Get us Jets season tickets? A year subscription to the National Geographic? Oh I got it! Tell us all you know about the mystery woman.

Fiberoptician 1:27pm Yeah, smooth operator, I'm all ears.

BroadBandBeatnik 1:28pm Eh..No.

DSLerator 1:30pm See. That just screams traitor to me.

BroadBandBeatnik 1:33pm PFT. As if. You go around doubting my integrity, questioning my judgment and threaten to kick me off the board I programmed? I'm totally entitled to keep some secrets.

iobiSeeingYou 1:35pm Come on Beatnik. Stop being such a fuss. All we wanna know is when Verizon will be rid of Hanso once and for all?

BroadBandBeatnik 1:39pm Guys, all I'm at liberty to say is that the end of our Hanso tutelage is near.

Fiberoptician 1:41pm Well that's heartening. Although somehow it makes me feel like I will no longer have a purpose in life.

DSLerator 1:44pm Don't despair. Once we've done all we can for the cause, I'm sure iobi will discover a new conspiracy to keep us entertained. But next time I'll be sure to keep SPIES off the board.

iobiSeeingYou 1:47pm Well it's not over till it's over.

BroadBandBeatnik 1:54pm DSL, that's harsh and unfair…. but I forgive you. 'Cause I'm a forgiving and friendly person.

DSLerator 1:56pm Well I'm not.

BroadBandBeatnik 2:01pm Sigh. Ok, I got something for you that will hopefully end your bitterness.

DSLerator 2:03pm I highly doubt that.

DSLerator 2:04pm What you got?

BroadBandBeatnik 2:07pm This morning while you, Fiber and iobi were in a meeting, we got a delivery. Addressed to you know who from you know who else.

Fiberoptician 2:09pm What's in the box? WHAT"S IN THE BOX!!!

BroadBandBeatnik 2:11pm A small token of appreciation from…her. Disguised as a sugar coma.

iobiSeeingYou 2:15pm CHOCOLATE!!!!

DSLerator 2:18pm Oh yeah? Taking candy from strangers has never been a good idea. But in this case I think I can make an exception. Was there a note or something?

iobiSeeingYou 2:22pm Let's take a look.

BroadBandBeatnik 2:25pm Be my guests

Fiberoptician 2:28pm Stop hording the candy and share!

Fragment Code 60

Fragment Code "PKDBAH7J" was found in pieces on Speaker's Blog and Lost Ninja's Blog based on clues between the two moderators.

The video fragment is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying, "When, through your research, you manage to change the numerical value of any one of these factors..."

FRAGMENT CODES 54, 56 & 57

2006-08-30T11:05:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 54

Fragment Code, "NARVIK" was found today on Monster.com. Take the poll on the main page and click the results button.

Monster Poll
I would most like to take a work sabbatical at this exotic location:
Fiji
Sri Lanka
Vik, Iceland
Copenhagen, Denmark

On the results page you’ll see another banner ad for Narvik Travel, (“Narvik Travel – For those who believe getting LOST is an art form. Click Here.”) which links back to hansoexposed.com.

The video fragment is of T. W. Mittelwerk saying, "We have tried to change those values by manipulating the environment in many, many ways."

Fragment Code 56

Fragment Code, "OUDW" was found on an old post on Lost Ninja's blog. If you click the hot link "Snakes on a Plane" it takes you to the new glyph and code. (How this was found remains a mystery.).

The video fragment is of Thomas Mittlewerk saying, "We need not take any more lives than is absolutely necessary. Yes?"

Fragment Code 57

Fragment Code 57 "307L97BDB9" was found today at Rachel's Secret Blog. There is a new “Link” (right sidebar) on the page. Click on the number “57” to be redirected to this image. The code can be found by arranging the flashing letters and numbers, top to bottom, left to right.

The video fragment is of “Dr.” Mittlewerk saying, "...and the bodies of the dead must be brought to this station immediately for full genetic workup."

FRAGMENT CODE # 55

2006-08-29T15:16:00.000-05:00

Fragment code 55 "IRZ7" was found today on the Fuselage with this diary entry under "what's the sitch?":

Kim here, so what's the sitch?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I just started watching Kim Possible. Loved it!!! It is all about a high school teen, balancing the cheer leading captain position, honor roll, and many more, including saving the world from villains. Of course, all heroes need a wisecracking, clumsy partner. "KP" is no exception. The comic relief of the heroic duo, Ron Stoppable is always there for Kim, though his pet and second best friend Rufus, the hairless mole rat, is always there to help out the duo when the going gets rough. Make sure to check it out!!!
Attached Images irz7.gif (14.7 KB, 60 views)

The video fragment of our favorite pony-tailed man Mittlewerk saying, "More or less people succumb… we have failed."

TYSONS CORNER APOLLO CANDY BAR GIVE AWAY (8/25/06)

2006-08-26T20:47:00.000-05:00

We had the good fortune to have one of our associates, Annalisa, present at the Tysons Corner (VA.) Apollo Candy Bar give away on Friday. Here is her report and a few photographs from the event.

“What a crazy day! First, let me start by saying that… things were late… So, lots of people were there at 11 but the candy bars didn't show up until 12… There was no banner or anything, but the local ABC was handing out their usual t-shirts. (“ABC News 7 on your side.” I was kind of hoping for a Hanso or Dharma shirt.) Then the Apollo candy bar people showed up (five in all) and quickly handed them out. A lot of people left quickly, but the die-hards hung around…

The Apollo Greeters

…But no golden ticket! All the boxes where searched; the Apollo people didn't seem to mind. I spoke to the lead guy and he said that they were given a script to follow (no one I spoke to actually heard it) and they were told that they had to take at least ten pictures per hour until all the bars were gone. I can only assume that they were looking for demographic information on the crowd. And save for two other strollers in line, the group was mostly in their very upper twenty to thirties. Maybe five from the forties range.

All in all, I think it went well. And the chocolate is not all that bad!

Later!

Annalisa”

Rummaging for Golden Oracles

PEOPLE MAGAZINE SPEAKER AD (& MONSTER.COM AD)

2006-08-26T10:22:00.000-05:00

People Magazine Speaker Ad

September 4, 2006 – Vol. 66 – No. 10 Issue (page 50) of People magazine has another Speaker ad:

WHERE IS ALVAR HANSO?

It’s the question that’s been on our lips ever since Rachel Blake, a.k.a. “Persephone,” first hacked the Hanso Foundation’s website.

She showed us their lies. She showed us THF’s crimes against man and nature. She uncovered evidence of a sinister plot called the SPIDER PROTOCOL – evidence that is unfolding for us, even now, at www.hansoexposed.com.

But, things became too dangerous. Rachel went underground.

Finally, she sent two emails. Urged us to go to www.apollocandy.com and find the Apollo Bars.

I found one! Stamped into the chocolate was www.whereisalvar.com.

That very same question: WHERE IS ALVAR?

People from all over the world are uploading pictures of themselves with their Apollo Bars. They’re showing The Hanso Foundation the faces of our resistance. And they’re looking for the special Apollo “Golden Oracle” Bars…

The “Golden Oracles” are in limited supply, but Rachel assures us, once enough are found, she has something else to show us. Something HUGE.

I’m looking for my Apollo “Golden Oracle” Bar right now. Why aren’t you?

Let’s find the truth together! Join me, Speaker, at http://www.insidetheexcperience.com

Monster.com ad

On the opposite page of the Speaker ad is an ad for Monster.com. There is a young man seated in an empty stadium pictured. The seat next to him has the “Hanso Foundation” and its logo inside the seat number placard.
Also, pictured is an image of the Monster.com website. On the page is a glyph which reads www.monster.com. The Hanso Foundation’s logo is in the center of the glyph. At the bottom of the ad is: “>> hansoexposed.com.

FRAGMENT CODES # 42, 51, 52 & 53

2006-08-25T12:32:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code # 42

The illusive fragment Code # 42 VE5SMC was found today on Lostpedia. This page for user “Rachel Blake” has a hidden message in Morse code (select the open area under User: Rachel Blake). Translated this message says, “WHAT LINKS HERE OX2A” which is “42” and links to User: HACKALLBEER (RACHEL BLAKE). (See bottom of page). Click on User:HACKALLBEER then “42” to find the hidden glyph. Whew! Who found that convoluted code? Speaker, D.J. Dan, Alvar Hanso himself? The video fragment is of Mittelwerk saying "...exactly. You find the best way to get it done... precisely... surgically."

User:RachelBlake
From Lostpedia
.-- .... .- - .-.. .. -. -.- ... .... . .-. .
----- -..- ..--- .-

Fragment Code # 51

Fragment Code "GZ2I" was found today by hovering your mouse at the bottom of DJ Dan's “Eyes On The Man” link. The video fragment is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying; "A radio transmitter has been erected on the island."

Fragment Code # 52

And fragment Code "ZFTLZAGO014H" was found at Australian TV 7 site. Click "Lost" under “T.V Shows – Entertainment” (near bottom of the page) to reveal this glyph. This video fragment is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying, "Your research is intended to do nothing less than save the world as we know it."

Fragment Code # 53

Fragment code # 53 “TROPICS” was found today at Monster.Com. Go to the Monster.com site and take the following poll:

Monster Poll
I would be most LOST if I were in this position:
* Anger management therapist
* Simian veterinarian
* Genetic engineer
* Personal assistant
* Organ courier

On the results page you’ll find a banner ad for LOST Paradise. Click on the “Click Here >>” button in the ad and you will be re-directed to HansoExposed.com. Enter the code “TROPICS” for the video fragment of Mittlewerk saying, “They think they're infected with a virus carried by local macaques.”

WHERE IS ALVAR? – GOLDEN ORACLE & FRAGMENT CODES # 49 & 50

2006-08-24T08:08:00.000-05:00

Where is Alvar? - Golden Oracle

An e-mail was received this morning by Rachel instructing us to go to ApolloCandy.com and then WhereIsAlvar.com. It looks like she is trying to collect all the Apollo Candy bars from all the give-aways as there is a percent counter on the website. There are some “special” bars out there, so be watchful. Instructions (see below) for what to do next can be found on the site.

Subject: Where's Alvar?

THE TIME HAS ARRIVED.IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO http://www.apollocandy.com/...GO THERE NOW.FIND THE APOLLO BARS. THEN HEAD TO http://www.whereisalvar.com/LET'S SHOW THE HANSO FOUNDATION WHAT THEY'RE REALLY UP AGAINST.YOU'VE WAITED A LONG TIME FOR IT...AND, I PROMISE YOU. THE TRUTH IS COMING.- RACHEL

Instructions from Where IS Alvar website:

RACHEL HERE.

YOU’RE PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER. WE’VE GOT THE HASO FOUNDATION ON THE ROCKS. NOW IT’S TIME TO SHOW THEM OUR FACES. SHOW THEM THE ARMY THAT’S UNITED TO OPPOSE THEIR CRIMES.

FIND THE APOLLO BARS. TAKE YOUR PICTURE WITH ONE. UPLOAD IT AND SHOW US YOUR LOCATION ON THE WORLD MAP. TO UPLOAD YOU’LL HAVE TO REGISTER – IF YOU’VE ALREADY REGISTERED AT HANSOEXPOSED.COM USE THE SAME LOGIN.

KEEP YOUR EYES OUT FOR THE SPECIAL “GOLDEN ORACLE” BARS. THEY LOOK LIKE THIS: (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

IF YOU FIND ONE, TAKE A PIC SHOWING THE GOLD TAG. ENTER THE CODE ON THE TAG WHEN YOU UPLOAD. ONLY WHEN ENOUGH OF THE “GOLDEN ORACLES” HAVE BEEN FOUND, ONLY WHEN ENOUGH OF THE WORLD IS WATCHING…

ONLY THEN WILL I GIVE FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS WHAT I HAVE TO SHOW YOU.

SOME TECHNICAL DETAILS:
YOU CAN ONLY UPLOAD ONE .JPG FILE PER 24 HRS. BE AWARE THE SYSTEM WILL RE-SIZE YOUR IMAGE – THE FINAL DIMENSIONS WILL BE 500 X 376.

***** Important note: If you have already registered at HansoExposed.com you do not need to register at WhereIsAlvar.com. When you are ready to upload your image with the Apollo Bar you've collected, simply click on the login link and enter your e-mail address and password.

Fragment Code # 49

Fragment Code "PFKAB5QXK" was found today in Illoura Reserve, Balmain, Australia by following clues left at the Lost Ninja board. The video fragment is of Mittlwerk saying, "We have engineered into the virus..."

Fragment Code # 50

Fragment code "ING93A11RO86" was found today at Media TV Lost site. This video fragment is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying "…we've constructed several stations on the island."

The site has the following entry posted to it:

“Exclusive LOST experience... only for Ch5 web surfers!
August 24, 2006, 11:59pm

Congratulations! You have unlocked all access to your LOST experience!

URL: www.hansoexposed.com
Password: Ing93a11ro86”

FRAGMENT CODE # 48 & APOLLO CANDY BAR GIVE AWAY

2006-08-23T13:51:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code # 48

Fragment Code "0UJ2" (zero you jay two) was found today on the Channel 4 UK website. Towards the bottom of the page is a video labeled "Burn a hole through the heart of the foundation" and the glyph is displayed here. This new video fragment is Mittlewerk saying, "...and they believe we are bringing them the cure."

Apollo Candy Bar Give Away

A somewhat anticlimactic answer was discovered today during the first Apollo Candy Bar give away event in New York. The WhereIsAlvar.com website had been previously guessed at when the Apollo Candy site first went live. While the website has not yet been activated, a few very savvy players have been able to capture images from the site. Whether they are test images or are part of the site remains to be seen. (More on these images later if they prove to be in-game.) Lostpedia was the first to report on the image of the bars. There has been no indication that a so-called "golden bar" has been found but if my name were Veruca Salt...

E. W. ARTICLE # 7 & ACURA RDX LAUNCH

2006-08-22T17:15:00.000-05:00

E. W. Article # 7

A short article and an Apollo press release from Entertainment Weekly was posted today here. Interestingly enough this article was posted by Scott Brown and not by "Doc" Jensen. Do we have another character entrance here?

Transcript:

August 22, 2006
'Lost': Grab an Apollo bar

The third season of Lost is so close, you can practically taste it. In fact, you can taste it -- in the form of a complimentary Apollo bar. Below, find the complete press release from “The Apollo Candy Company, a subsidiary of The Hanso Group.” (We’ve redacted the contact phone number until we’re absolutely sure it’s part of the game.) Knowing what you now know, would you willingly bite into any air-dropped, Hatch-stored, Hanso-affiliated foodstuff?

Also, let’s begin a running tally of everyone who’s enjoyed the “out-of-this-world” taste of an Apollo: We can assume Hurley ate one (though I believe we only saw him eat one in a hallucination), and Kate devoured one in a long, very deliberate mini-sequence, shortly after the discovery of the Hatch. Are her horsey hallucinations somehow connected to Apollo consumption? Is the “out-of-this-world” thing a clue to an alien thread? (I sure hope not.) Also: Am I hungry? Yes. Not quite hungry enough to consume edible schwag, but certainly hungry enough to raid the breakroom Swiss Miss box. Back soon…

August 21, 2006
COMING TO A GALAXY NEAR YOU: “APOLLO BAR,”THE CHOCOLATE BAR THAT’S OUT OF THIS WORLD

Free Apollo Bars to Be Distributed for a Limited Time In Select Locations Across the U.S., U.K., Australia And Asia

What once was lost, now is found… Apollo Bar, the scrumptious chocolate bar developed in the 1960s by M. David Benson, has been enjoyed by generations of consumers. For those who’ve yet to taste Mr. Benson’s bars, your opportunity to “discover what’s inside” awaits. Beginning Wednesday, August 23, free Apollo Bars will be distributed while supplies last in select locations throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Asia. The Apollo Bar is manufactured and distributed by the Apollo Candy Company, a subsidiary of The Hanso Group.

“Chocolate has been my life’s passion, and I am thrilled to be able to share my passion with people all over the world,” said Mr. Benson. “Once people taste my chocolate bar, I think they‘ll be hooked. I’d like to thank Mr. Alvar Hanso and the good folks at The Hanso Foundation for making this possible.”

Mr. Benson, founder of the “Apollo Candy Company,” distributed the first Apollo Bars in San Francisco, CA in 1964. The bars grew in popularity and were circulating across the United States by 1968 before the company fell into dire straits in the early seventies. However, due to the considerable financial intervention of Alvar Hanso, founder of the worldwide philanthropic organization, The Hanso Foundation, the company was saved from bankruptcy and infused with new life. Today, the Apollo Company is alive and well as the private purveyor of chocolates for Alvar Hanso and his many companies.

From August 23 through September, the Apollo Candy Company will distribute free Apollo Bars in cities throughout the U.S., including New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Chicago. For a complete list of dates and locations where people can get their free Apollo bar, and for more information on the Apollo Candy Company, please visit our website at www.apollocandy.com.
For more information on The Hanso Foundation, please visit www.thehansofoundation.org.

Acura RDX Launch

The Acura RDX Launch locations correspond with the Apollo Candy Bar give away locations. Coincidence? Doubtful!

Visit Acura .com, click on “RDX” then “Launch Events.”

RACHEL BLAKE E-MAIL, FRAGMENT CODES 46 & 47 & APOLLO CANDY U.K. DISTRIBUTION

2006-08-22T08:48:00.000-05:00

Rachel Blake E-mail

An e-mail from Rachel Blake was received today directing us to head over to the Apollo Candy website. We learned yesterday that some new images were loaded which include: The Apollo Bar – Swirling drip of chocolate with another broken piece, The Beginning – now shows a strawberry/chocolate birthday cake with one candle, The Man – no new image, The Company – the image a new hot-air balloon, The Jeep – no new image, and U.S. Distribution – additional dates added (see previous post). Other than that we have not seen any other changes to the site. And at every other page load a U.K. Distribution button appears but only gives a “loading…” message and never loads.

The email…

Subject: The fight's still alive
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:07:46 -0700

RACHEL HERE.JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW -- THEY'RE AFTER ME...

BUT, I'M STILL BREATHING.

I LISTENED TO DJ DAN. I FEEL YOUR SUPPORT. I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT IT MEANS TO ME.

YOU'RE DOING GREAT WORK WITH THE SRI LANKA VIDEO. KEEP GOING. FIND THE PIECES. PUT THEM TOGETHER AT WWW.HANSOEXPOSED.COM

BUT THAT'S NOT WHY I'M WRITING.

THE REASON I'M WRITING IS TO TELL YOU... SOMETHING'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN. PAY ATTENTION. HEAD TO WWW.APOLLOCANDY.COM

TRUST ME.

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW.

Fragment Code 46

Fragment code 46 "25KOCJS6S6" was found in the background of the Valenzetti Equation website here. (Top right hand corner – moving right to left.)The video fragment is of Mittlwerk saying, "The villages of _____ and _____ have allowed us to test our vaccine on them."

Fragment Code 47

And, fragment code 47 "FRXRUK9TQ" was found by a number of players after The Lost Experience was hacked. In our opinion, the hacking was a creative method to releasing a glyph code presented to them by TPTB and was performed by the site owner. The video fragment is of an unidentified off-camera man asking, " These are people, innocent human beings, and we're just..." Then Mittlewerk responds, "If you knew with mathmatical certainty that you could end all famine, war, and poverty, what would you do?"

Apollo Candy U.K. Distribution

Back in 1964, when that very first, sinfully scrumptious Apollo Bar planted a 10,000-watt smile on J. Pickersweet's face, could M. David Benson have possibly imagined his brilliant confection would one day be available worldwide?

The Apollo Candy Company is proud to announce the Apollo Bar, the world's most delectable chocolate sensation, is now available, for the first time ever, in the UK!!!

How can I get one, you ask?

It's easy! We're giving them away! While supplies last, simply go to your nearest Forbidden Planet store (from Thurs 24th August) and say the daily code. Trust us! Your tummy will thank you.

Thursday's code is "Alvar Hanso".
Good eating, UK!!

FRAGMENT CODES 29 & 45

2006-08-21T10:25:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 29

Evidently, an e-mail was sent Friday to TLEC from Jeff “Doc” Jensen which stated:

"All I know is this:
Beginning at 5 PM, a new clue will be exposed to the light of day in the greater Los Angeles area. It will also be on display outside 11766 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles on Aug. 21, from 6 AM to 9 AM."

A player from Southern California found the fragment code and glyph "ESJ4X6EBNC" on the side of a car located near the 11700 block of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles this morning. The video fragment is the voice of the bearded man saying, "...all of the support you will need, including regular medicine and food drops will be made in perpetuity."

We assume the “exposed to the light of day” part of the clue was never found.

Also, the Lost Ninja is calling this glyph 29 but we have doubts about that. Has that car been driving around Los Angeles for weeks without anyone noticing the glyph? And why was the clue given to TLEC via e-mail weeks later and not when it was released? And, more importantly, why did Jeff Jensen enter the code on HansoExposed.com? There is definitely something very fishy about this glyph and its a shame the player who tracked it down will not get credit for the find. We've given in to the 29th glyph being ESJ4X6EBNC but reserve the right to rescind.

Fragment Code 45

As reported on August 18th, the newest People Magazine (Aug. 28) carried the same Jeep ad that's been run the past few weeks but this time "TRIBALWARS" has been replaced by "theflashligh" as the code found on the curb. This code was activated today and the video fragment is of Mittlewerk saying, "… without allowing for any more suffering than is absolutely necessary." The glyph has not yet been found.

SPEAKER IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE, AGAIN!, APOLLO CANDY UPDATE & FRAGMENT 44

2006-08-18T08:28:00.000-05:00

SPEAKER IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE, AGAIN!

Another Speaker ad was found in the latest edition of People magazine (Aug. 28, Vol. 66, No. 9). It reads:

“ARE THE PRODUCERS OF LOST PULLING THE WOOL OVER OUR EYES?

If you believe computer hacker Rachel "Persephone" Blake they just might be. She exposed The Hanso Foundation's crimes on their own website. Unearthed a plot involving Sri Lanka- a plot The Hanso Foundation would kill to protect. And, at the popular entertainment expo, San Diego Comic-Con, she screamed at LOST's executive producers, accusing them of being in The Hanso Foundation's pockets. After all, THF had paid for commercial spots on ABC during LOST.

The producers, of course, denied any connection to the REAL foundation. LOST is just a television show, they said. Alvar Hanso is fictional- he's not real. And, with that, security escorted Rachel out.

But not before she yelled, "Alvar Hanso IS real...! And, if you want the truth you will go to HANSOEXPOSED.COM!"

I wanted the truth. So, I went.

I discovered that images with strange hieroglyphs and codes are being leaked on the web and in the real world. Each code unlocking a portion of a video begging intriguing questions:

Why was Foundation president Dr. Thomas Werner Mittlewerk on the island of Sri Lanka?

Who is the bearded narrator of the "DHARMA Initiative" film?

What information could this video hold that it's worth killing over?

Can it be? If this is all REAL, will the secret of the LOST "numbers" finally be revealed?

Afraid we're ALL in the dark on that one.

Find the glyphs and see for yourself at HANSOEXPOSED.COM

Help solve the puzzle with me, Speaker, at http://inside the experience.com”

Also found in the magazine was the following ad for Verizon Broadband with the following images. A glyph with no code was found at the bottom of the ad. I have enlarged it here.

APOLLO CANDY UPDATE

Additional dates and places have been added to the Apollo Candy website. They are:

8/24 6-10PM
New York
Central Park Summerstage

8/24
Seattle
Merrymoor Park

8/24 & 8/25
Minneapolis
Minnestoat State Fair

8/25
Washington D. C.
Tyson's Corner Center Mall

8/25
Indianapolis
West Park

8/27
New York
NYC 1/2 Marathon

8/29, 7:00PM
Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica Drive In at the Pier

8/29
Portland, Maine
Mill Creek Park

9/2
Harrisburg, PA
Kipona

9/6
Dallas, Texas (Tentative)

9/8
Lexington, KY
Jacobson Park

9/15 + 9/16
Memphis, Tennessee
Cooper Young Festival

9/5, 7:00PM
Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica Drive In at the Pier

9/19, 7:00PM
Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica Drive In at the Pier

Fragment Code # 44

Fragment code # 44 “VACCINE” was found today at RBD.com. During a conversation in an updated ROT thread called, “To tell the sleuth.” the following conversation took place:

BroadBandBeatnik 11:06am Why don't you take a tour and instead of reading into things, listen for a change.
Fiberoptician 11:07am Yeah DSL, listen for a change.

At RBD.com click on the “Take Tour” street sign (lower right corner of page). Click on the drive-in speaker and you’ll hear a sound. This has been interpreted as “VACCINE.” In all honesty, we could not make it out at all. Take the “VACCINE” back over to HansoExposed.com and enter it for the newest video fragment.

VACCINE

People Magazine Ad

The newest People Magazine (Aug. 28) carries the same Jeep ad that's been run the past few weeks but this time "TRIBALWARS" has been replced by "the flashlight". This, however does not work at HansoExposed.com, yet.

FRAGMENT CODE 42 & ROT DISCUSSION (TREVOR)

2006-08-17T10:58:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 42

Fragment Code "44KU2VKQ" was posted today at the Ninja’s website (see quote below) here. The code began working on hansoexposed.com at about 9:15am.

Ninja’s plea:
“I've received word about another possible glyph sighting in Sydney! A ninja wanting to be known only as Mr X emailed me just now to say that, while on board a yacht heading in to dock near the Andrew (Boy) Charlton pool, he thinks he spotted a glyph right down by the water, near some weird scultpture looking stuff.”

ROT Discussion (Trevor)

Rot was updated yesterday and it seems there is discussion concerning sign language and a glyph. Evidently, there is also some information coming in on the Trevor (Nanite) Flikr page. His page was updated with a glyph for "Chocolates". The Chocolates glyph caption is “call tom k yegato”. Head to SubLYMONal.com and type in Chocolates you get “call tom k yegato.” Using the letters “TOM K YEGATO” to the corresponding numbers on a phone, you get the number 866-593-4286. When you call this number, you’ll hear the recording of a man in an English accent saying, “Sod off, I'm watching the tube.” The recording pauses then plays for a total of three times, then in a woman’s voice, “Thank you.” and hangs up. If you go to YouTube and search for "rblake" you'll find a video called "The Chocolate Factory" by CHARLABEELK which is another anagram for RACHEL BLAKE. In the video, there is a sign language translator wearing a glyph t-shirt! Note: TLEC is working on a translation of the sign language on the video and it does not appear to be the same content as that spoken in the video. More to come later…

The Chocolate Factory seems like an homage to Roald Dahl and Willie Wonka and plays straight into the great Apollo Candy give-away next month. Next we’ll see the five-golden tickets and the tour of Oompa-Loompa Land!

It seems that some players who know sign language have interpretted the message to read that Mittelwerk and Hackett had an argument concerning the chemistry of the Apollo Candy bar and that Hackett may be on the run. We'll try to keep this message updated.

TRANSCRIPT OF D. J. DAN BROADCAST, SPEAKER AD - PEOPLE MAGAZINE & FRAGMENT CODES 40 & 41

2006-08-17T06:50:00.000-05:00

Transcript of D.J. Dan Broadcast

My D.J. Dan Marathon Broadcast Transcript

Speaker Ad - People Magazine

The newest edition of People Magazine (August 21, Vol. 66 No. 8) ran another advertisement for Speaker (see transcript below). The Speaker ad can be found on page 35 and is opposite the Jeep ad (page 36) that has “Tribalwars” on the curb. On the backside of that page (or page 37) is a Verizon Chocolate advertisement. We know a glyph clue is buried somewhere here but have been unable to find it. Post a comment or e-mail us should you find it!

Transcript of ad:

Will "THE HANSO FOUNDATION" Get Away with Murder?

The hacker Persephone exposed their crimes on www.thehansofoundation.org. She shot straight and true. But, just as she was about to give us the WHY behind Hanso's LIES--she was SHUT DOWN.

Enter: Rachel Blake and her blog: stophanso.rachelblake.com--

It soon became clear: Persephone and Rachel were one and the same. Having shed her mask, Rachel became a standard for everyone to rally around. She was fighting for us, and she wanted answers:

Was THF president Dr. Mittelwerk's research into ancient shipping lanes related to the fact Alvar Hanso's grandfather once captained a slave ship called "The Black Rock?"

Did Mittelwerk really have mathematicians working in secret on an equation predicting humanity's end?

And, what about Mittelwerk's top-secret SPIDER PROTOCOL? Could THIS explain his search for a mysterious island near the equator? Could THIS answer why he'd equip an ocean freighter with hospital wards labeled "QUARANTINE?"

In QUARANTINE, no one can hear you scream.

The questions mounted. Rachel found the answers. She got 'em on tape.

But the truth is deadly. Rachel's hidden fragments of her video are all over the web. Find the pieces and put them together at

HANSOEXPOSED.COM.

Help solve the puzzle with me, Speaker, at http://www.insidetheexperience.com

Fragment Code 40

Fragment Code 40 56LHZJDCL7A4 was found today via the
Ninja’s Blog. Click on Celebrity Survivor (at the bottom of the post). You’ll find yourself at the Celebrity Survivor Page. Then Click “Read Full Entry” link and finally the word “LOST” to uncover glyph # 40.

The video fragment is of the bearded man (Alvar Hanso) saying, “…panic. It's always been my belief that we ignore warnings at our own peril. And thus, the D.H.A.R.M.A. Initiative was born.”

Fragment Code 41

Fragment Code "XWZW" was found today in a commercial on E4 (Australian T.V.) and recorded by a commenter over at the Speaker’s website Inside The Experience.The video fragment is of Thomas Mittlewerk saying; "We must be absoultely certain we are hitting precise genetic targets."

FRAGMENT CODE 38 & 39

2006-08-14T14:45:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 38

The one that got away… I was e-mailed this clue on Friday. An observant reader told me that the word “chocolates” could be found on the TiVo remote of the subLymonal ad in the August 11th issue of Entertainment Weekly. It turns out that CHOCOLATES is the 38th Fragment code and we missed it completely. Our apologies to RaynhamGuy for not seeing the connection.

The video is of the bearded man saying, “Whether through nuclear fire, chemical and biological warfare, conventional warfare, pandemic, overpopulation..." A number of images flash across the screen (similar to Psychological Video) including a nuclear detonation, a biohazard sign, a laboratory, an aircraft carrier, and scenes of refugees.

Fragment Code 39

Fragment code 39 A0Y8 was found in Times Square on the ABC Super Sign today. The video is of the bearded man saying, "Founders and masterminds of the DHARMA Initiative. By now, you also know there are many research goals for our joint venture."

D. J. DAN LIVE BROADCAST & FRAGMENT CODE 37

2006-08-12T17:19:00.000-05:00

D. J. Dan Live Broadcast

The two-hour D. J. Dan Live Internet Broadcast Marathon last night/this morning ended in a raid by lab-coated members of the Hanso Foundation. Before the interruption, however, we gleaned a few new pieces of information. First, Dan added a new segment to his show called, “Conspiracies in the News,” in which he reveals real stories in American newspapers as conspiracies. Next, our man, the fixer (called Malik by D.J. Dan and Ironman by some others) interrupted the broadcast with a cryptic message for Rachel and then rattled off a series of 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". Then, again, in a leap of unbelievable intuition someone found the answer to this clue quite quickly. We’ve been told that if you look up these page numbers in Bad Twin and take the first letter of each word of each page you get the message, "I know where he is, I can set it up." We are not sure what this message refers to yet but assume TPTB will certainly feed it to someone soon.

We were mildly disappointed with this broadcast as the quality of questions posed by callers was mediocre at best. We also heard from Speaker, Ninja, Fenris and David from TLEC which screams scripted. And, as usual, did not receive any real information of any value. We suppose at this stage of our Experience this should not surprise us but we also hope for that one bit of information that may answer at least some of our unanswered questions.

I will not include a transcript of this broadcast because of its length. However, you can listen to the broadcast in a number of places on the Internet. Point your browser at any of the other Experience blogs to find it.

Fragment Code 37

Also, in his broadcast D.J. Dan hinted a number of times about a new glyph. And that it would be found in a major U.S. city and that it was taped up to the door of the RadioHarvest.com building in a city that rhymed with “Fresh Air.” A few players located this establishment and copied the glyph which is 4R19Y0UXB6Y. The glyph and more information can be found at our Video Segment site. Video Segment site.

Fragment Code 38 note: D.J. Dan also alluded to the fact that another glyph would be released in Times Square sometime on Monday.

D. J. DAN INTERNET RADIO BROADCAST

2006-08-11T22:04:00.000-05:00

We called the above D.J. Dan phone number (800-942-4704) this evening (10:09 Central) and recorded this conversation:

Woman: Hi. You calling for D.J. Dan?
The Alternative One: Yes.
Woman: Where are you calling from?
The Alternative One: Southeast Wisconsin.
Woman: Oh, Wisconsin, Well, D.J. Dan’s not here yet. He won’t be here until 11 o’clock Pacific time. What time zone are you in?
The Alternative One: Central
Woman: Central. So, I think that means that he’ll be on at 1 AM your time.
The Alternative One: O.K. And he’s on at this phone number? Or…?
Woman: Yep, just call him on back and try your luck and maybe you can get through to talk to him.
The Alternative One: What about the RadioHarvest.com site? Do you know anything about that? Is there going to be streaming audio there as well?
Woman: I don’t know anything about that. But try back. Try back in a couple of hours.
The Alternative One: Thank you. Appreciate it.
Woman: Bye.

D. J. DAN LIVE PHONE NUMBER, APOLLO BAR U. S. DIST. & E.W SUBLYMONAL AD

2006-08-11T20:42:00.000-05:00

D. J. DAN LIVE PHONE NUMBER

"D. J. DAN - BLOWS THE LID OFF THE HANSO FOUNDATION -->
INTERNET RADIO BROADCAST
TONIGHT 11PST 800-942-4704"

APOLLO CANDY BAR U. S. DISTRIBUTION

America! Can’t wait to get your hot little hands on the most scrumptious, most ummmm-tious, chocolate bar in the world? You don’t have to!

The Apollo Candy Company is thrilled to announce our legendary Apollo Bars are being given away free for a limited time at the following locations and times. Supplies are limited, so just one bar per person per location. Act fast! Once these Apollo Bars are gone, they’re really gone!

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
City: New York City
Venue: ABC Times Square Studio
7 Times Square
New York, NY 10036
Event: 12pm – 6pm

Thursday, September 7, 2006
City: Washington, D.C.
Venue: ESPN Zone
555 12th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
Event: 5pm – 10pm

Saturday, September 9, 2006
City: Philadelphia
Venue: Smith & Wallensky
210 W. Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Event: 11am – 3pm

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
City: Chicago
Venue: Rockit Bar & Grill
22 West Hubbard
Chicago, IL 860610
Event: 5pm – 9pm

Saturday, September 16, 2006
City: Los Angeles
Venue: Viceroy Hotel
1819 Ocean Ave.
Santa Monica, CA. 90401
Event: 7pm –11pm

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
City: San Francisco
Venue: American Restaurant (Hotel Vitale)
8 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
Event: 5pm – 9pm

Entertainment Weekly SubLYMONal Ad

EW August 18 issue (James Bond on cover) has a Sprite ad (opposite the same Speaker ad that was in People). It's a TV sitting atop a Tivo machine. The screen a weird landscape with SUBLYMONAL across it.
Beneath the text reads:
DIGITAL SUBLYMONAL REVEALER [DSR]Sublymonal advertising is now appearing on your TV. For the most intense dose of Lymon, the proprietary refreshment technology of Sprite, use your Digital Sublymonal Revealer to rewind and view in slow motion. Watch very closely without blinking. Don't be alarmed. It will only affect your brain. Thank you and OBEY.

At the left bottom corner is Sublymonal.com
On the right OBEY. and a Sprite can

FRAGMENT CODE 34, 35 & 36 & D.J. DAN AD ON ABC.COM

2006-08-11T10:17:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 34

A new fragment code “GLLV8B” was found at The Lost Experience Clues today. It seems this glyph was e-mailed to the administrators there who then made a game of locating the glyph. The video is of Mittelwerk sayin,” But I promise you, someone is going to help.”

D.J. Dan Ad on ABC.com

There is this ad on ABC.com this afternoon.

"D.J. DAN LIVE
UNDERGROUND BROADCAST
TONIGHT 11PST go there -->"

Clicking on the "go there" icon takes you to Radio Harvest which is, we presume, where the Live! broadcast will air (probably under the "click here to stream MP3" link.)

Also, found on the ABC mainpage was this note:
DJ DAN: Listen To DJ Dan's Live Underground Broadcast Tonight www.radioharvest.com

Fragment Code 35

Fragment code 35 "TRIBALWARS" was found in a Jeep advertisement in this week's People Magazine. This video is of the bearded man saying, "Alvar Hanso". As we reported early on the bearded man is, apparently, Alvar Hanso.

Fragment Code 36

Fragment Code "GMIWRLHHNHM" was found on the Valenzetti Equation site in the flash intro. The video fragment is the bearded man saying, "When you have created through science the..." then a few moments of static.

D.J. DAN T.V. COMMERCIAL & FRAGMENT CODE 33

2006-08-10T10:43:00.000-05:00

D.J. Dan Commercial & E-mail

The commercial can be found at YouTube here.
This is very much the same c ommercial ad that was posted on the D.J. Dan website.

Note: There are also reports that the ApolloCandy.com ad aired during Jimmy Kimmel live! last night.

And the e-mail reads…

DJ DAN
Shutting Down the Man

MEDIA ALERT
DJ DAN TO HOST LIVE WORLDWIDE INTERNET RADIO SHOW WHICH WILL BLOW OPEN THE HYPOCRISY AND LIES OF THE HANSO FOUNDATION

DJ Dan Will Answer Questions, Discuss Current Conspiracies and Unravel the Mystery for Those Who Are “Lost” in the Hanso Foundation DJ Dan and Producer Tanya will host a live, internet radio show on Friday night that gives co-conspirators the opportunity to interact with DJ Dan as
he spins his thoughts on current conspiracies and the Hanso Foundation. Co-conspirators invited to ask questions, give comments and help DJ Dan shut down “The Man.”

DATE: Friday, August 11th
START TIME: United States: 11:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
U.K.: 7:00 A.M.
Australia: 2:00 P.M.
All other Conspirators: The local time in your area corresponding with 11:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time.
WHERE: United States Conspirators: www.abc.com, or select local ABC
Network Television Affiliates.
U.K. Conspirators: www.channel4.com
Australia Conspirators: http://au.yahoo.com/lost/
All other Conspirators: www.abc.com
DJ DAN CONTACT INFORMATION: conspiraspiesunite@hotmail.com
MORE INFORMATION FORTHCOMING AT www.DJDAN.am
(Keep Checking www.djdan.am on a regular basis)

Fragment Code 33

Fragment Code "R3PUX4" was found today in “real life” in Sydney, Australia across the bay from the Opera House. The video fragment is of the bearded man saying, "…underground laboratories, with the facilities you'll need to do your research with the optimal expediency."

FRAGMENT CODES 31 & 32 & D.J. DAN UPDATE

2006-08-09T09:42:00.000-05:00

FRAGMENT CODE 31

Fragment Code "E2LL1Z5E" was found on Rachel Blake’s travel website. Under the Links section click on Sri Lanka and you will be redirected to an image of the glyph. Note: This pictoglyph is a mirror image (flipped) of glyph number 14 (GMX18BCJ) which was found on the links page of D.J. Dan’s website.The video fragment is of the bearded man saying, "…was the Valenzetti Equation".

FRAGMENT CODE 32 "BURN A HOLE THROUGH THE HEART OF THE FOUNDATION"

Fragment Code "5BE" was found today on the UK Channel 4 website. There is a cycle of ads on the right hand side of the Channel4 Big Brother site. Go to the “Galleries” Link near the top of the screen and hit “Next>>” to flip through the images. There is a note on this pictoglyph, which reads: “BURN A HOLE THROUGH THE HEART OF THE FOUNDATION.” This is a video fragment of the bearded man saying, "Through your research, you will help..."

D. J. DAN LIVE! UPDATE

The following was found today at the local Chicago ABC affiliate site. Here is the following commercial for D.J. Dan. (Some players reported seeing a D. J. Dan commercial on ABC last night. No confirmations yet.)

Transcript:

"Listen LIVE to DJ Dan on August 11
On August 11th 2006 the global interactive phenomenon, Lost Experience will hold a live, web-based event!

DJ Dan will be broadcasting via the web from an unknown location giving "Lost" fans and Lost Experience participants the opportunity to speak with him directly.

Click here for more information and to listen LIVE to DJ Dan on August 11, 2006."
This link directs you to Radio Harvest Music

"So who is DJ Dan? Click here to find out."
And this link takes you to D.J. Dan’s website.

LEHCAREKALB'S FLICKR PHOTOS

2006-08-08T23:26:00.000-05:00

(Rachel Blake backwards)

Found at Flickr here in a round about way (from subLYMONal entering Nanite gives you Flickr. Go to Flickr web page and enter “Nanite”. You’ll find an image of the nanite glyph. Click on the glyph and you get People Search: lehcarekalb) twelve images of pieces of paper give the following message:

“CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM
TO: Dr. Hackett
Apollo Candy

FROM: G. Downs
Engineering Development Center
Atlanta, GA

Date: July 21, 2004

RE: Test Study

Dr. Hackett,
Initial research shows release of the psychotropic compound to be a success. The acid and flavoring agents of the beverage disguise the taste. More tests are necessary to reach optimum viral spread. My superiors are eager for you to join our effort, once you have extricated yourself from your current situation.
G.”

Remember this:

Mel0Drama's Hackett letter (again)...

And this conversation between Mel0Drama and Rachel from her blog:

Mel0Drama: I work in the archive of the Engineering Development Center. It was a punishment. I asked Hackett too many questions. But he never could have guessed... the ARCHIVE was the last place he should have sent me to work. I have the proof. The DOCUMENTS are all there. Sealed in a vault. Untouched by human hands. Ready to convict. And, I need you to help me expose them.

Me: So, why don't you just post your evidence here and get done with it?

Mel0Drama: BECAUSE NOBODY BELIEVES ME. They have to see for themselves. They have to see the documents. Sitting in the company vault. On the company mainframe. Please. It's a fair exchange.

Me: What is?

Mel0Drama: I'll hide your video, secure it for your users to access online. Password-protected. On a CORPORATE mainframe. Untouchable. All you have to do is tell your followers to go to my archive portal and hear my story... once they do, I'll place your video in the archive vault. They can watch it through my portal!

Me: No. Here's how I work. You host my video, keep it secure. If I'm satisfied people can see it, that The Hanso Foundation can't hack it, that YOU'RE not part of the Foundation yourself, THEN I'll put the word out to my friends to check out your "evidence" about Hackett and whatever the heck you think he's doing. Deal?

Mel0Drama: ... Deal.

FRAGMENT CODE 30 & APOLLOCANDY.COM

2006-08-08T15:55:00.000-05:00

FRAGMENT CODE 30

An update has been made to Rachel Blake’s secret page. It is subtle but noticable when found. The fragment code glyph "KU12PB5LV7" can be found at StopHanso.com. Directly below the old 748L glyph is a blank space. Place your cursor over this area and the new glyph will appear.

The video is of the bearded man saying: "What you may not know is why we have assembled the Dharma Initiative."

Make sure you look at our fragment code page for more details concerning the fragment codes at: Fragment Site

APOLLOCANDY.COM

As advertised on the back cover of the Offical Lost Magazine (Issue # 6) ApolloCandy.com is now up and running here at Apollo Candy.

The front page note reads: The Apollo Candy Company is a subsidiary of The Hanso Group. To find out more about The Hanso Group's philanthropic projects, please visit us on the web at www.thehansofoundation.org.

The available hot links include:

THE BEGINNING

(Image of a birthday cake at top of screen)

Never in his wildest dreams could M. David Benson have imagined how this moment would change everything. It was 1964. He had just delivered, from the back of his beat-to-the-bolts 1959 Jeep FC-150, the very first crate of Apollo Bars to San Francisco’s legendary J. Pickersweet’s Five and Dime.

Benson knew this was the moment of truth. If Pickersweet liked what you had to sell, profit and prosperity would most certainly follow. But if he took issue with your product…

Benson held his breath as Pickersweet bit into the impossibly rich, unimaginably creamy Apollo Bar. A full heart-wrenching ten seconds passed.

And then, the miraculous happened.

Pickersweet’s mustache curled up above a grin that stretched from ear to ear. The Apollo Bar had landed in the Golden Gate City.

Distributed by Apollo Candy Company

THE MAN

(Image of another faceless man – silhouette of, presumably, M. David Benson)

Born in 1938, M. David Benson is the child of Nils Christer Benson, son of Oskar Benson, founder of Scandinavia’s revered Benson Chocolatiers.

Some would say Benson was a child of strife. His grandfather, Oskar Benson, was a man of tradition. Upon learning of his son’s engagement to a woman well below his station, Oskar turned his back on Nils, cutting him from the family inheritance. Leaving Norway with his pregnant wife, Elli, Nils established a new life in the U.S., joining the U.S. Marine Corps in December 1941. Sadly, however, Nils Benson lost his life on Omaha Beach just a few short years later.

Like many immigrants, the widowed Elli Benson, felt a strong sense of patriotism for her adopted country. Her husband had died defending America, and M. David Benson was raised to cherish his homeland.

M. David Benson served America in the Korean War and recounts the moment when he, too, discovered that chocolate ran through his veins:
“The six of us were pinned down – scared witless. I knew we’d be lost if we didn’t come together. So, I rifled through my pack and found it – the Benson Chocolate Bar mom had sent. They were expensive. She was poor. But once a month, like clockwork, there was that care package. Six ways, I split that chocolate, and even with death staring us in the eye, not a one of us could deny the smile on his face. It was dead midnight, but for that sweet moment, as we ate that Benson Bar, the sun came up for us all.”

It was in that foxhole that M. David Benson first envisioned the Apollo Bar. Less than two years later, that vision had become a reality. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Distributed by Apollo Candy Company
Enjoy By OCT 23-06

THE APOLLO BAR

(Image of dripping chocolate)

After his tour ended Benson knew what he had to do. He would bring the Benson Bar to America, but with a change. He would make it affordable, but with no sacrifice to quality, so that every American, regardless of class, creed or station could come together through the simple delight of the world’s richest, creamiest milk chocolate.

Bringing this proposal to his grandfather, a man he barely knew, Benson was devastated to learn Benson Chocolatiers had gone under, the brand sold to a British candy manufacturer. However, Oskar Benson had a surprise for his grandson. Having missed out on his childhood, hoping only to reconnect after so many regretful years, Oskar Benson offered his grandson the most valuable family secrets: the original, secret recipe fro Benson Milk Chocolate.

Working form this recipe, it was only a matter of time before M. David Benson concocted the recipe for “The Apollo Bar,” a confection fit for even the Greek god of light himself.

Distributed by Apollo Candy Company

THE COMPANY

(Image of a hot air balloon)

Starting with only the milk chocolate recipe given him by his grandfather, Oskar Benson, M. David Benson began the Apollo Candy Company in 1962, out of a one-room factory in San Francisco’s legendary Cow Hollow district. By 1964, Benson had perfected the recipe for his affordable, yet exceptionally delicious, Apollo Bars, and began distributing them citywide. By 1968, the fledgling company had secured distribution outlets nationwide.
Sadly, in the 1970’s, the Apollo Candy Company fell into dire straights. However, due to the considerable financial intervention of Alvar Hanso, founder of the worldwide philanthropic organization, The Hanso Foundation, the company was saved from bankruptcy… and infused with new life. Today, the Apollo Candy Company is alive and well as the private purveyor of chocolates for Alvar Hanso and his many companies.

Distributed by Apollo Candy Company
Enjoy By OCT 23-06

THE JEEP

(Image of a truck with the Apollo logo on its side and door)

Once he’d perfected the Apollo Bar’s recipe, M. David Benson found himself in a predicament: he’d spent all but his last cent starting the company… which left him with no means to travel around and hawk his sensational new chocolates.

The short of it? He needed a truck, and fast.

But, how? And which truck? This was no small decision. Choosing a distribution vehicle was about more than just getting a box of Apollo Bars from here to there. Whatever Benson chose to drive, he knew it would forever be associated with the Apollo Candy Company. It would represent him, his family and the image of the company he was trying to lift off the ground – for good or for ill.

Luckily, fortune smiled on Benson once again. A close friend had just moved to the Big Apple and had no more need for his Jeep FC-150 Truck. It was beaten up, dirty, looked like it had no business rolling on the streets, but Benson took one look at that jeep and knew it was the perfect truck – not only was it affordable, but it was as rigged and durable as the American spirit.

600,000 miles and 44 years later, Benson still prefers his Jeep FC-150 to the other vehicles in his fleet. As he’s been known to boast, “Apollo himself would glady give up both horse and chariot for a chance to ride in my Jeep FC-150.”

Distributed by the Apollo Candy Company
Enjoy By OCT 23-06
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THE AD

Note: I cannot seem to get the ad to run. Perhaps it is not yet live. Hmm...

But it can be found here Apollo Ad 01

"Announcer: Guess what's coming into your orbit?
Singers: The new bar with the really big taste, Apollo!
Space Boy: Far out!
Space Dog: Woof! Woof!
Singers: The Apollo dark chocolate bar!
Announcer: Go to ApolloCandy.com to find out where you can get your free Apollo Bar."

Presented by ABC, Inc.

Not sold in stores.

www.apollocandy.com

Something to think about?

Fragment 29 has yet to be found.

D. J. DAN LIVE! UPDATE

2006-08-07T12:24:00.000-05:00

An important notice was posted today on D.J. Dan's website concerning the LIVE! podcast. Direct your browser to the D.J. Dan site and click on "Podcast Archives." You'll find the following announcment:

Podcast Archive

Next podcast...Who loves ya?

When DJ Dan promises more details he sure as heckfire gives em!

1) Do you have a question that's burned a hole through your brain, trashed your limbic system and kept the ole ticker ramped up to 8000 RPMs? Well, my poor ConspiraSpy, DJ Dan takes pity on your plight! If your question is good... no, GREAT, I will answer it LIVE LIVE LIVE on my Friday, August 11th show! So, get cracking! Send those emails to conspiraspiesunite@hotmail.com!

2) The live show will be on 8/11 at 11 PM Pacific Standard Time, ConspiraSpies!

But, DJ Dan, you ask, where do I tune my interweb browsing software? And when? How do I HEAR THE SHOW??? Sorry kids... you know as well as I that the EYES OF THE MAN are constantly sweeping, searching for good ole DJ Dan. And I ain't gonna let em shut me down!

But, I gotta compromise. The TRUTH is too IMPORTANT to HIDE! So, twelve hours before the show, and not a minute sooner, I'll release the final details. Risky? You bet. But it's the best I can do to throw those loonybirds off the trail.

Til Friday!

Note: It looks like Dan has given us a time and a contact e-mail address for his upcoming LIVE! podcast. The only other thing we have to wait for now is the medium, which he tells us will be release 12 hours prior to the podcast. That would be 11AM Pacific Standard Time on 08/11.

Also, if you click on the words LIVE LIVE LIVE you'll be taken to the video announcement of D.J. Dan's LIVE! podcast. We all need to think clearly on what questions should be asked. Let's give him our best!

From collaborator amelia crater this thought:
I reviewed the video on his site and the only icon that's there the whole time is the little flying saucer. Since he's been referencing the X-Files all over the place in his recent posts and Speaker referenced X-Files in People, I'm going to make a prediction that the live webcast will be found by clicking that icon on D.J. Dan's site at the appointed hour and time. Or perhaps that icon will go live and offer another clue to where the broadcast will be aired. However, because that also seems too obvious and easy, I'm probably wrong.

D.J. DAN LIVE! ADVERTISEMENT, FRAGMENT 28 & SPEAKER AD IN PEOPLE

2006-08-04T17:47:00.000-05:00

D.J. DAN LIVE! ADVERTISEMENT

D.J. Dan has updated his site again today. Go to the Podcast Archives site and click on the words EYES ON THE MAN. A short video ad will play.

Transcript:

Singing: D.J. Dan
Annoincer: Shutting down the man!Conspiraspies unite! Hear D.J. Dan's live underground broadcast, Friday, August 11th

Screen Text: DJ DAN, SHUTTING DOWN, THE MAN, CONSPIRA-SPIES UNITE, LIVE UNDERGROUND BROADCAST, FRIDAY AUGUST 11TH

Video Observation: At the bottom of the screen are a number of images. We can make out the Hanso Logo, the building in imgae of Alvar Hanso, image of Alvar Hanso, T.V. off air test pattern screen, Tanya, explosion icon image from D.J. Dan page, mapinguari icon image from D.J. Dan page, Thomas Mittelwerk, UFO icon image from D.J. Dan Page, DNA strand from Hanso commercial, all the icon images from bottom of D.J. Dan page, etc.

Podcast Archive
Next podcast...LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! ConspiraSpies! Friday, the night of August 11th (PST - USA). For all you Brits and Aussies, that's... Saturday, August 12th? Is that right? Tonya, where's my international time conversion chart?More details to come! Til then, keep your voices yammering, your hearts beating for the truth, and your EYES ON THE MAN!

FRAGMENT 28

Fragment 28 code is “NANITE” from a Sprite ad for sublymonal.com in People magazine. Opposite an ad for Speaker (Inside the Experience) is a Sprite/subLYMONal ad. In the ad is a Sprite can with a reflection. In the reflection is the code “NANITE.”

This video sequence was again shot secretly from between boxes. Mittelwerk is again seen wearing a lab coat and talking to a group of people (DHARMA Initiative?)

Mittelwerk: “Our operatives at the VIK Institute have verified this figure…”

SPEAKER AD IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE

Issue Aug. 14, Vol. 66, No 7, page 49

Transcript of Speaker ad (thanks to Amelia Crater for the heads-up):

THE HANSO FOUNDATION: REACHING OUT TO A BETTER TOMORROW?
[includes his little white-shaded avatar]

The Hanso Foundation's television ads were convincing. Their call center and website bragged about their "great achievements." They practically gave us an all-access pass. Nothing to hide, right?

Wrong.

A lot of true believers KNEW the Foundation's pristine image was a front. Their bullhorn? Conspiracy schlock-jock DJDan. He was, of course, dismissed as a "conspiracy nut." That is until the arrival of PERSEPHONE.

Hacker. Helper. Hero. She's been risking her life to uncover the truth. With clever website hacks she skewered each and every "fact" Hanso set before us. While The Life Extension Project HAS produced a 105-year-old orangutan named Joop, it's also been connected to deadly outbreaks of disease in Africa. While the Worldwide Wellness and Prevention Development Program IS supposedly a "far-reaching educational initiative designed to teach the basics of sanitation, nutrition, and disease prevention," P uncovered evidence that the program's hospitals were, in fact, used for organ harvesting. And then there's the Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications. What is this DHARMA initiative? What is its connection to a mysterious equation and a room full of number-crunching savants hidden away at a mental hospital in Iceland? And, finally, where's the man who started it all? Is Alvar Hanso even alive? And who is this suspicious "Dr." Mittelwerk (the one running the show in Hanso's absence)? P started to tell us her own theories, but, just as she did--communicating with us directly through Hanso's website--The Foundation SHUT THE SITE DOWN. And, that's when things REALLY started to get weird.

The truth? You won't BELIEVE just how "out there" it really is.It may seem confusing, but help exists. Cut to the heart of the matter and expose the Hanso Foundation with me, Speaker, at http://www.insidetheexperience.com.

FRAGMENT CODE 27

2006-08-04T11:43:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 27 "90VDHOHU" was found today at D.J. Dan’s page today. Click on the link for “Merchandise” and you’ll see he has a new shirt for sale.

The sale tag line reads:
Glyph
Price: $14.99 - $16.99
Availability: [ info ]
Size: S M L XL XXL Cut: M/F black 100% cotton

This video fragment is of the bearded man saying, "We have assembled the brightest minds in the world and given them unlimited funds and access."

Note: clicking on the shirt will direct you to the Hanso Exposed website.

FRAGMENT CODES 23 - 26

2006-08-03T11:41:00.000-05:00

Fragment Code 23

Fragment 23 “VOU8VPNPS5X” was hinted at and then found in the comments at The Lost Ninja blog today here. The transcript is reproduced below. The video is of Mittelwerk saying, “So now we have to take radical action."

“I need your help NOW!
by Lost Ninja
posted on Aug 03 12:21pm

Hey, and I'm not going to muck about with any jibber-jabber. If you live in Sydney, I need your help right this second. I get emails all the time from people saying they've seen something cool - but I just got an email from someone swearing they saw a glyph!

scsi_chicken, who emailed me the LOST A-Team video last night, just sent me this:

Ninja

I was on the monorail just now and while going along Pitt St, I think, I know I saw a glyph in a comic book shop window! We were going way too fast for me to make it out, but the black edges were there, a symbol was there and I swear I saw a code. Now I'm in Darling Harbour at work so I can't get to it, bugger! Help!

Scsi

Ahhhhhhh!!!!! I can't get there either, so I need YOU to get down there and check it out, pronto! If there is anything (and i really trust scsi's word) take a photo and email it to me - hanso_ninja@yahoo.com.au - if it's a glyph, we'll get it out! And if it does.... MAJOR props to scsi!

Only 9 hours til part one of the finale!

Namaste”

The code was found in this comment:
“the code on the king's comics glyph is vou8vpns5x...
curse you slow loading HansoExposed
posted by kingofthesouthernvampires on Aug 03 02:56pm”

Fragment Code 24

Fragment Code 24 “750NZF8X” was found in a text messaging service in the UK mentioned by The Other Girl here The text message gives you this link to the glyph. The video fragment is the bearded man saying, "The equation is the brainchild of the mathematician, Enzo Valenzetti."

The Other Girl’s message is as follows:

August 3rd
Brand new code!

Yes indeed, I have got wind of a brand new code - number 23 now if my calculations are correct - thanks to some quick-fingered work by my text-happy mates.

As you've no doubt already seen elsewhere on the web, code 22 was found on Gary Troup's Bad Twin website - it's 89RMCOCDC6D.

Then yesterday, I heard rumblings that Ninja had been informed that someone had seen another on a poster around Sydney, and then I got a call telling me to 'be more mobile'. Well - frankly, I was a little confused, and then I figured it out! I'll let you do the last little bit of hunting for yourselves, but you need to head to the Channel 4 mobile portal - you access it by texting Mobile to 83188. This'll get you the link you'll need to find the next glyph. However, seems that you need to be in the UK for it to work - sorry Stateside/Aussie followers :(

Found beneath the image of the glyph was this message:
THE SRI-LANKA VIDEO, IT'S THE POISON AND THE CURE... IT'LL BURN A HOLE RIGHT THROUGH THE HEART OF THE FOUNDATION

Fragment Code 25

Fragment Code 25 “NZ59” was found in an Australian Yahoo video here. Click "Watch Ep 223's Secret Clue" at the bottom of the page. The video is of Mittelwerk saying, "So when you go in, you have to keep up with story."

Fragment Code 26

It seems as if TLEC was emailed fragment 26 code E8KNI8L today.Hmmm… when did they become in-game?

D.J. DAN UPDATE & FRAGMENT CODE # 22 08/02/06

2006-08-02T10:07:00.000-05:00

D.J. DAN UPDATE

D.J. Dan has updated his podcast archive page today here and he is preparing a live event on August 11th. The message seems to indicate that a call-in forum will be available for players around the world but a phone number or a time has yet to be announced.

“Podcast Archive

Next podcast...

LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! ConspiraSpies! Friday, the night of August 11th (PST - USA). For all you Brits and Aussies, that's... Saturday, August 12th? Is that right? Tonya, where's my international time conversion chart?

More details to come! Til then, keep your voices yammering, your hearts beating for the truth, and your EYES ON THE MAN!”
Eyes on the man! Is that a clue? Could the phone number and time be found by checking D.J. Dan’s “Eye on the man” page? We’ll keep checking in… When we know… you will!

FRAGMENT CODE # 22

The Gary Troup site has been updated and a new glyph found in the background of the page. At www.GaryTroup.net , click on the "About" tab at the top of the page to find the new fragment code "89RMCOCDC6D". This video is a voice over of the bearded man saying, "It predicts the exact number of years and months before humanity extinguishes itself." The video shows a scientist at a chalkboard, presumably beginning to write out the Valenzetti Equation.

GLYPH CODE FRAGMENT # 20 & 21 & E.W. ARTICLE # 6

2006-08-01T15:20:00.000-05:00

FRAGMENT # 20

JUST ONE PERFECT THING – RACHEL BLAKE AND THE HANSOS

After a slow weekend at the Experience TPTB are at it again. A new glyph code "RGMR" was uncovered today in England. The Channel4 sponsored "The Other Girl's" Blog reveals a new entry entitled, "I've got a secret - and I'm sharing it with you!"

Text: I've got a secret - and I'm sharing it with you!

So, all the toil and long hours spent cultivating useful relationships and sweetening those-who-know has paid off - I bring you Code Numero 20! Yes indeed, I have it, it's mine - and now it can be yours too - just go to the SlashMusic site for new favourite bands and look under 'R'. Seems Rach is branching out into a new career. Or not.”

Click on “new favourite bands” which encourages you to rummage through SlashMusic to find a new band known as "Rachel Blake and the Hansos."

That band's page reveals a truncated image of the new glyph and the new code. The video fragment is of the bearded man saying, "Although the equation has been buried by those who commissioned it..."

From the website:

JUST ONE PERFECT THING
RACHEL BLAKE
Your Rating: 4 ½ stars
Out of 23 votes

ARTIST BLOG
Rachel Blake and The Hanso's is all about making people sit up and take notice - we want people to truly understand and connect with our music - listen to the lyrics and work out what they're telling you. We formed in early 2006 and have dedicated ourselves to seeking out the truth in everything around us - lend us your ears and we'll show you what we mean!

Group Members
Rachel Blake

Genre
Other

Influences
Alvar Hanso
Gidget Girl

This page when loaded reveals the following messages at the top of the screen: Just One Perfect Thing, Be True to Yourself, You Know I know, Bless My cotton Socks I’m in the New, The Time is Passing By, His Teeth as White As Snow, Thanks for the Insult, etc.

Note: Searches in both iTunes and eMusic failed to match any bands with Rachel Blake or Hanso in the name. I wonder if they play Black Rock!?!

FRAGMENT # 21

Glyph code fragment # 21 (VIX7ZXT97) was found today, July 31st, 2006, in the latest release of the Official Lost Podcast. There is an interruption at about the 28 minute mark in which the new fragment code, "VIX7ZXT97" is revealed. The video, when input at HansoExposed.com, shows us the bearded man who says, "Why all the security, all the secrecy? The answer is simple."This video is of the same office as previous and the bearded man begins at left of screen and walks to the right of the office.

Transcript from the podcast:
Audio squelch. Beep.
Woman's voice: Is this on?
Man's voice: Yeah, hurry up. Just read the code.
Woman's voice: Ok, just a second... The code is VIX7ZXT97. Repeat VIX7ZXT97
Knocking at a door is heard.
Man's voice: Quick, hurry up go, go!
Woman's voice: Go!

Doc Jensen E.W. Article # 6

E.W. Article # 6

Caught in the Web

How will "The Lost Experience" end? EW's expert Jeff Jensen offers his prediction about where the alternate-reality Internet game is going. Plus: introducing the "Da Vinci Code" theory...

UN-LOCKE THE CODE - Who isn't hunting for glyphs to solve the Rachel Blake puzzle at the Lost Experience these days?

First, a burning question:

According to the fictional story that's being told through The Lost Experience, Lost is just a TV show, and the Hanso Foundation is a real organization. QUESTION: Is this blurring of fantasy and reality pertinent to the core mysteries of Lost? Or is it just a creative conceit that has no relevance beyond The Lost Experience?

Hopefully, I'll have an official answer soon. In the meantime, here's DOC JENSEN'S INSTA-THEORY: Rachel Blake, TLE's intrepid heroine, is either bogus or being duped and used by the Hanso Foundation. Either way, her function in Hanso's conspiracy is simply this: to attract a worldwide audience. (You know: just like an ad-supported TV show or certain Internet amusements.) She's a Pied Piper, and her alluring music is intrigue. After all, doesn't everyone love a good mystery? (It has certainly worked for Lost.)

What is Hanso planning to do with the global following that Blake is cultivating? Here's my prediction: In the final act of The Lost Experience, Blake will finally flush the elusive Alvar Hanso out into the open. My guess is that Hanso will agree to participate in a live interview with Blake under the pretense of "setting the record straight." But the interview is a Trojan horse. Literally. The broadcast will be embedded with a subliminal message — perhaps the Numbers; perhaps a new sequence of Numbers — that's designed to do something to us. Maybe unlock our full human potential? Maybe bring instant enlightenment? (See: the "Instant Karma" assertion of Doc Jensen's Jingle Theory of Lost). Within seconds of flashing the subliminal signal, the interview will terminate, bringing a strange, abrupt end to TLE (think: the creepy last scene of The Blair Witch Project), and leaving us all to wonder: What the hell just happened? The final words we'll hear will be Alvar telling Rachel: "It's time to go home, daughter."

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Second, an answer to YOUR burning question:

Last week's interview with Rachel Blake was LEGIT. I posed the questions and got authentic answers. Consider the Q&A officially "part of the game," if you like. Put it this way: My interview with Rachel was as "real" as the code-ensconcing glyph that accompanied last week's column. Hope that clears things up for some of you.

As for all of the Jim/Pam fans who've read the previous paragraphs and feel completely well, lost, allow me to explain:

The Lost Experience — a Internet-based "alternate reality game" about a hipster Nancy Drew named Rachel Blake and her efforts to expose the sinister secrets of the Hanso Foundation — has entered an important new phase.

Recently, Blake went to Sri Lanka and recorded a secret Hanso Foundation meeting, during which a film was shown explaining the origins of the Dharma Initiative. Blake has sliced her video document into about 75 little bytes, and now we have to reassemble the film by finding codes that have been scattered across the Web and entering those codes at a website called hansoexposed.com.

When I asked Rachel why she feels she needs to make this so gosh darn difficult — can't she just post the video in its entirety online? — this is what she said:

"If I didn't hide it all over the Web and bury it on corporate [sites], those (expletive)ers would wipe it out. Only chance I have at getting the truth out there is 'gamesmanship.'"

Glyph hunters are invited to share their passwords with fellow glyph hunters. If you want some of mine, send me an e-mail and I'll share what I've collected so far (I've got 20 of the available 20 released as of this writing)... or you can visit this column every Tuesday and I'll recap the info contained in the bits of film and speculate about what they are all adding up to.

But before I do, I encourage you to play the game. Really, it's fun. And it even gives you a nice buzz of smug. "Hey, look at me, I'm a cutting-edge Web guy/gal!'' If you're not in the market for cheap ego boosts, then let the promise of Big Revelations (the Numbers! the DHARMA acronym! Alvar Hanso!) inspire you. Finally, the tricky/trippy/trying experience that has been The Lost Experience is delivering the geeky goods. And what's even better, cheating is allowed! Here's my Glyph Hunting for Dummies suggestion:

1. Set up a glyph-collecting account at hansoexposed.com. It's quick and free and there are NO ADS.

2. Let two killer Lost fan sites — thelostexperience.com or thelostexperienceclues.com — do the glyph hunting for you. They seem to have a knack for finding these things within, like, seconds of their release. Visit one or both of the sites each morning, and scribble down the info they've discovered.

3. Click over to hansoexposed.com; input the codes; inspect and view.

Since there's going to be about 75 of these bits of film, and they are being released out of sequence, my advice would be to arrange them as you go. It's gonna be even more complicated if you wait until the very end.

Or you can just let me explain it for you. Here's what I've pieced together (literally) so far:

— Presumably, the film opens with shady Hanso Foundation exec Dr. Thomas Mittelwerk addressing a group of unseen people.

— Presumably, the group of unseen people are shown a film — a Dharma orientation film. Actually, the mother of all Dharma orientation films.

— The copyright date is 1975. That's five years after the creation of the Dharma Initiative, per the brief history provided by ''Dr. Marvin Candle'' in the Station Three orientation film, and five years before the creation of the Pearl and Swan orientation films, per their copyright dates. This assumes, of course, that the information in those later orientation films is accurate — including their dating.

The film is narrated by an as yet unnamed man with a dark beard and a light accent, probably Danish. It is possible that he could be Alvar Hanso, circa 1975. So far, ''Mr. Beardy,'' as fansites have dubbed him, has explained that:

* In the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union collaborated with the United Nations on a secret project.

* The DHARMA acronym stands for Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications. (Head over to wikipedia.org for a provocative tutorial on Heuristics.) Mr. Beardy adds that Dharma also means ''The one true way.''

* There is also mention of Dharma cofounders Gerald and Karen DeGroot and a ''secret facility...''

There's more — including a reference to an ''equation'' that was ''buried by those who commissioned it'' — but those are the chunky morsels gleaned from the few fragments so far released. DOC JENSEN TIP: Check out valenzettiequation.com, an official TLE website whose purpose in the game has not yet been made clear. Check out the passages about how the U.S. and the Soviet Union, working with the U.N., financed the work of mathematician Enzo Valenzetti in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. One would have to assume that the Valenzetti Equation is the project referred to in the film.

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THE DA VINCI CODE THEORY OF LOST

All this glyph hunting and code breaking definitely has me feeling like Robert Langdon — which reminds of how much Lost resembles everybody's favorite heretical conspiracy theory thriller. Consider:

O, Draconian Devil! O, Devilish Digits!
In Dan Brown's blockbuster novel, the first riddle that symbologist Robert Langdon has to crack is the relevance of the legendary Fibonacci sequence to various other riddles. On Lost, we have the Numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42), a mysterious set of integers linked to various other mysteries (Hurley's bad luck, the Hatch, the computer). Could the Numbers be the Valenzetti Equation? If so, then check out that aforementioned Valenzetti website, especially the part that states where Valenzetti went to school: the Fibonacci State Institute of Advanced Sciences.

Follow The (Cultural) Clues!
In The Da Vinci Code, clues to an elaborate mystery/conspiracy are found in notable works of art like Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Similarly, Lost has referenced novels like The Turn of the Screw, The Third Policeman, and now Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend to illuminate (albeit obliquely) character arcs and aspects of its mythology. (And what could be more scavenger hunt-ish than The Lost Experience, which has fans searching the Web for pop culture sites?)

Encrypted Cartography
In The Da Vinci Code, Langdon must crack the code to a lockbox known as a cryptext that contains the location of the Holy Grail. The corollary in Lost is the Map, showing the locations of various Hatches on the Island and cluttered with annotations describing the functions and history of the Dharma Initiative. But getting to actually see this map is as tricky as cracking Langdon's cryptext, since it's painted on a mysterious retractable wall and only visible in black light. (By the way, this current glyph-hunting phase of The Lost Experience — pure cryptext craziness.)

''The Man'' Is Lying To You. (Or Is He?)
In Da Vinci and Lost, anything that is presented as ''official information'' should be regarded with skepticism. In Da Vinci, it's the accepted history of the Catholic Church. In Lost, it's the purported history of The Dharma Initiative provided by Dr. Marvin Candle (or is that Dr. Mark Wickmund?) in the Swan and Pearl Orientation Films.

It's The Themes, Stupid!
Both Da Vinci and Lost share a central concern: the conflict between faith and reason. And both use convoluted conspiracy theories as the means to present criticisms of blind trust and zealous belief. (In Da Vinci, it's the Vatican's efforts to suppress the truth about Mary Magdalene; in Lost, it's the myth of the Button, per the story spun by the Orientation Film.) It should be noted that in both Da Vinci and Lost, these sketchy, poorly substantiated and seemingly implausible conspiracy theories are essentially proven to be true. In Da Vinci, Langdon finds reason to believe in the Magdalene heresy after realizing that ''The Holy Grail'' is buried in the Louvre. And in Lost, Locke realizes that the Button really does have a function (and a terrifying one at that) when he discovered in the season finale that the computer wasn't useless after all but was actually regulating the fluctuations of the Island's unique electromagnetic energy. (I think.)

I know what you might be saying: ''Cute, Doc Jensen. A neat parlor trick — but how does it really illuminate Lost?''

A fair criticism. But I have an answer. See, The Da Vinci Code Theory of Lost is actually the appetizer before the big meal — an exciting new Big Theory that I think represents the closest I have ever come to cracking the Lost code, and I dare say it might represent the most reasonable theory I've read anywhere. A bold statement, I know. But in the next couple weeks, I'll prove it to you. I call it the ''TV Is Good For You Theory of Lost.''

But that's ''coming soon.'' More immediately, keep checking in with EW.com's blog, PopWatch, throughout the week for TLE updates. And come back next week for our next TLE recap, and maybe a surprise or two. Until then:

Namaste,
Doc Jensen

NEW FRAGMENTS FOUND (# 17, 18 & 19)

2006-07-29T16:06:00.000-05:00

FRAGMENT # 17 (ZY6C)

July 28th, 2006

Speaker updated his weblog today with a bit of cryptic wit:
Eighth moon of the Monkey thrice before.A voice from the Middle knows much more.

Go to Inside the Experience and click on Week Three Roundup. Find the picture labeled hole2. When you click on the faceless man the new glyph appears in a pop-up window. Find the file name here:

ZY6C.jpg

and the image here:

ZY6C.jpg

Also, on Javi’s site (Javi Minions) there is a hidden message under the “STORE” button. Highlight it to see:
“In Round-Up number three,
click what's STILL a mystery.”

FRAGMENTS 18 & 19

July 29th, 2006

No new fragments have officially been “released” on the HansoExposed website but there are reports that two new codes have been found in the Official Lost Magazine. The UK version contains the code RXMHJH9Y and the U.S. version of the magazine contains the code 7TI.

Note: These codes do not yet work on HansoExposed as they have not officially been "released". July 29th, 2006, 4:00pm Central

MORE FRAGMENTS & ROT UPDATE

2006-07-27T19:55:00.000-05:00

FRAGMENTS

Fragment Codes 15 and 16 were found today on the internet.

Code 15 (M6XY398) was found on the Lost Ninja front page and was posted to a wooden light post somewhere in Australia (at the corner of Graythwaite Park). It is of the bearded man speaking about the Cuban missile crisis.
The text on the poster reads:
“DID YOU KNOW THAT THE HANSO FOUNDATION - IS TOYING WITH OUR FUTURE? - HANSOEXPOSED.COM - JOIN THE HUNT FOR THE TRUTH - IT’S ALL REAL - AU.BLOGS.YAHOO.COM/LOST-NINJA/ - INSIDETHEEXPERIENCE.COM - CHANNEL4.COM/ENTERTAINMENT -
TV/MICROSITES/L/LOST/BLOG/INDEX.JSP”
The code is printed on the side of the poster and the bottom shows many of our already widely known Hanso Foundation Projects: MFI, IGA, LEP, WWPDP, MHA and ERI.

Code 16 (3ZGT) was found on the Fuselage front page and is again a video of the bearded man speaking about his facility. This glyph looks like it was drawn on a piece of notepaper and this video shows the same jungle scene as code # 7 (1EY8AZCZNA2).

ROT UPDATE

Remember to use “Steinbeck” to get back into the Verizon Forum. There is a new thread posted today called “Return of the Prodigal Son - 07/27/06” in which BroadBandBeatnik has returned. He explains that he was at Comic-Con and gives us this picture as proof. Was this a panel at Comic-Con?

That’s Me!

But why post this image if not as a clue? Anyone have any ideas? Can you say Christmas in July? It sure looks like this hall is decorated in icicle lights. Is BBB telling us the truth?

ALVAR WATCHING ALVAR?

2006-07-26T22:20:00.000-05:00

Something to think about....

RACHEL BLAKE E.W. INTERVIEW & MORE FRAGMENTS

2006-07-26T11:40:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE INTERVIEW

E.W. Article # 5

Rachel Blake Speaks!
Exclusive: The Hanso Foundation ''muckraker'' gives her first interview since flooding the Internet with strange hieroglyphics... by Jeff Jensen

Hey kids. Doc Jensen here. So check out my good fortune: Due to an unmentionable ''incident'' (oh, okay, I had to pee. Sorry. Man, get off my back...), I lost my place in line at the Lost panel at the San Diego Comic-Con and didn't get to hear Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse spill their juicy spoilers to the Lost faithful.

Anyway, as I was sitting outside Hall H, crying into my overpriced convention beverage, I heard a door slam with a loud bang and saw these security guard guys toss this lovely and familiar young woman on her face. As she got up and dusted herself off and marched away, my jaw dropped, as did my beverage.

It was RACHEL BLAKE. Star of The Lost Experience.

I immediately yanked out my tape recorder and chased after her. This is what happened next.

DOC JENSEN: My name is Doc Jensen. I'm a reporter for Entertainment Weekly —
RACHEL BLAKE: Doctor of what?

I'm sorry?
Why are your pants all wet?

Because I dropped my drink — wait, never mind. I want to talk to you.
Fine. You can run interference for me through this gaggle of stormtroopers up here.

[Ooof.] Okay: We know so little about you — which, to be honest, makes some of us who've been following your adventures wary of giving you our complete trust. So: What can you tell us about yourself?
Are we being followed?

Where did you grow up? Go to school? What's your sign? Do you have a significant other? And because this is EW... what's on your Must List?
''Must'' list? Are you serious? What, you think people care that I'm a Virgo who loves the Go-Go's or that I've... read Peter Pan 40 times? [Looks over her shoulder] You wanna know my favorite movie? How about Three Days of the Condor?

Some people out there seem to believe that you are merely a character in an alternate-reality game called The Lost Experience. How do you respond?
If I'm a character, then why are you talking to me?

Do you have trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality?
Apparently not as much as you.

I apologize if you think I'm being rude in questioning your authenticity — but I have to make sure. So one more incredulous question: How do we know that you're not ''one of them''? Meaning: How do we know you're not a Hanso agent, and that your ''investigation'' isn't part of Hanso's larger agenda?
You've been watching too many episodes of Alias.

You watch Alias?
When I'm not trying to get killed.

How often is that?
You're off-topic and losing your usefulness to me.

Did you know that it was canceled?
[She stops dead in her tracks. Small voice:] What?

Yeah, it, ah... you know. All shows have their time, you know. And it was Alias' time.
[Sniff]

May I hold you?
No! What kind of journalist are you?

The freaky-theory kind. You say you're trying to ''stop Hanso.'' But what do you think it is that Hanso is doing that needs stopping?
Oh, so we stop moving for me to explain it to you, and the next thing we know, bang!, a black van pulls up and I get myself disappeared. You want the truth? Check out the T-shirt, man. [At this point, Rachel petulantly points to the large ''Hansoexposed.com'' printed across the aforementioned T-shirt.]

I think you sat in something.
[Expletive] No wonder our free press is dying on the vine.

Are you really the mysterious hacker known as Persephone?
Well, I guess it's not ''mysterious'' anymore. Hey — you see the guy in the Chargers hat? He's been following us since we left the convention center.

Is your real name ''Rachel Blake''? And if so, why did you decide to reveal your true identity?
Is your real name ''Doc Jensen''?

Answer my question.
No.

Initially, we all thought that your investigation was inspired by Persephone. Now that we know that you are Persephone, can you tell us: What really inspired your interest and investigation into Hanso? Is it personal? Is this a vendetta? Or are you merely a concerned global citizen?
I have my own reasons. What they are isn't important. What's important is that every single person on this planet should be concerned about what the Hanso Foundation is up to.

What does that mean?
I hope you never find out. The hard way, I mean.

Among the many things you've found in your investigation is evidence that the Hanso Foundation is searching for an island. Potentially connected to their interest in this island is the fact that they've recently built a customized ship and sent it to sea. Am I getting this right? Do you think there's a connection between the island that they're searching for and the Island on Lost?
Lost is a TV show... the Hanso Foundation is real. And if you're looking for a connection, ask yourself why the HF is running commercials during Lost... I mean, doesn't that mean they're essentially paying for the show?

Are you suggesting the TV show actually serves another, alternative purpose than just a delivery system for its commercials?
No comment.

Is there a connection between The Black Rock, a ship that we've seen on the Island, and your revelations about Magnus Hanso, Alvar's grandfather?
I don't have time to watch the show. [Picks up her pace] You're not really in shape, are you?

In a recent video blog, the man who you once thought was a Hanso Foundation goon working for Mittlewerk revealed himself to be an ally in your cause. He also promised you secrets — including an understanding of who you really are. What did he mean by that? Do you know who you are?
According to you, I'm a ''character,'' so does it really matter?

You know, you're not that fun to talk to.
You can report me to Miss Manners.

Wait: Was that a clue?
Are you flirting with me?

No. Answer my question. What did the goon tell you about Hanso? Did he tell you anything about Hanso's whereabouts or the Dharma Initiative?
You want to be helpful? Use your journalist skills to find Alvar Hanso. And when you do — e-mail me. If you're lucky, they'll start harassing you and you'll get a goon of your very own to ask these questions.

Did you learn what the DHARMA stands for?
See the T-shirt? You want to have fun with acronyms, go to the site.

Your investigations have led us to a mathematician named Valenzetti and something called the Valenzetti equation. For those of us who watch Lost, there's something called the Numbers, a closed-set sequence with potentially supernatural properties: 4 8 15 16 23 42. Is there a connection?
You didn't play a lot of sports as a kid, did you?

What did you make of the characterization to Hanso in the book Bad Twin?
Bad what?

So Bad Twin doesn't exist in the RachelBlakeverse?
''Racheblakeverse''? What, did you go to a Joss Whedon panel today?

Tell us about this new phase of your investigation. You've discovered a film — what we who watch Lost would recognize as a new Dharma orientation film — correct?
It's not the film I found... it's who presented the film and why.

You say you are trying to expose the Hanso Foundation and want our help, and yet you've made it pretty darn complicated for us to access the results of your investigation, and therefore help you. Why all this gamesmanship?
If I didn't hide it all over the Web and bury it on corporate sites, those [expletive]-ers would wipe it out. Only chance I have at getting the truth out there is ''gamesmanship.''

Are you concerned about people who think this is all a game and are trying to ''play along'' by creating their own clues?
Yeah, I am. There's a lot of misinformation out there... It's great having people get so involved, but when they create their own ''fiction,'' then reality gets confusing.

Let's say everything you say is true. How do you hope to get out of this alive?
I guess I could let a reporter from a major magazine think he caught up with me and think he scored a quick interview in which I reveal my identity, thereby ensuring that if I get killed or ''disappear,'' everyone's going to know who's responsible... but I guess that'd make me pretty devious, huh?

Some of us are worried that you might meet a fate worse than death: You might wake up one day and find yourself on an island being chased by a certain smoke monster. Think that's possible? Do you think the Island could serve that purpose: as a prison for people inconvenient to the Hanso agenda?
Only monsters I know ain't made of smoke. Don't be cute — this is real. Lives are at stake. And if you actually have the nerve to print any of this — better start checking your rearview mirror. See ya...

Wait, one more question: Are you, uh, single?
You don't want to go out with me. I'm not good for your health.

And like that — she was gone.

(Posted:07/25/06)

MORE FRAGMENTS

Code: 4KVKLAYDM0 was found on Speaker’s Blog comments and then moved to Lostpedia on 07/25/06. This is the code reported by Catseye. Is video of the bearded man.
Code: XIGZ2Y10S2 was found on Rachel Blake’s Main Weblog Page (the one that looks innocent) and is also of the bearded man speaking about the cold war.

Code: GMX18BCJ was Found on the links page of D.J. Dan’s website and is again of the bearded man speaking about the DeGroots.

See my Fragments page for more details…

Hanso Exposed Fragments

RACHEL BLAKE CATCH UP W/ THE TRUTH POST & MORE FRAGMENTS

2006-07-25T14:38:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE CATCH UP W/ THE TRUTH POST

Rachel Blake Catch-up Post

Rachel has posted another entry to her blog today. This looks like a re-cap of information for people who are just joining the Experience. Click on the FAQ for the entire details on Rachel’s site. I have added her highlighted topic headings here. Click on the highlights on her page to learn more about each topic.

RACHEL BLAKE FAQ

What is The Hanso Foundation?
Who is Persephone?
Who is Rachel Blake?
Are Rachel Blake and Persephone really the same person?
Who is Alvar Hanso?
But, where exactly IS Hanso?
Who is Dr. Thomas Werner Mittelwerk?
Who are GidgetGirl/Darla Taft and Hugh McIntyre?
Who is DJ Dan?
Who is Joop?
Timeline/Walkthrough of my quest to STOP HANSO
MORE DETAIL on The Hanso Foundation

MORE FRAGMENTS

More Hanso Exposed video fragments were found today.

Code # 3GTVI0M11 (zero not oh) was found today on the Entertainment Weeekly website in an article from Doc Jensen's blog. (See article below)

Code # IG3X comes from the Official U.K. Lost Podcast. The image has not yet been found.

And, a user named Catseye has found a mystery code. We are unsure what the code is, where it was found or what the video contains as it has yet to be shared with anyone. We are not sure if this is a player or a member of TBTP.

See my fragment page for more information... here.

E.W. ARTICLE - DOC JENSEN W/FRAGMENT 07/25/06

2006-07-25T07:17:00.000-05:00

Jingle Jangled

E.W. Article # 4

EW's ''Lost'' expert has an epiphany (involving Coca-Cola and John Lennon) while grocery shopping by Jeff Jensen

(Image of glyph 3GTVI0M11)
Would Prince himself be able to figure this glyph out?

DOC JENSEN PROGRAMMING ANNOUNCEMENT!

Tune in Wednesday at EW.com for a major Doc Jensen scoop. Fans of both The Lost Experience and the show itself won't want to miss it.

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IS IT JUST ME...

... or does the stylized ''O'' in the Hanso Foundation logo look like the hood of a cobra? And considering my previous arguments that the Swan in Station 3 symbol resembles a serpent trapped inside a box, I wonder: What the devil has gotten into Hanso's graphic designers? (And emphasis on devil.)

*

WHY GOD CAN'T ''SEE'' THE ISLAND, ACCORDING TO HENRY GALE

The Island exists on a separate frequency of reality, or a parallel dimension. When Oceanic 815 flew into the blast radius of the electromagnetic pulse, the passengers were ''recalibrated'' to The Island's frequency. The Others seem to believe that this frequency of reality exists outside the auspices of ''God.''

What this means for Michael and Walt, currently tugboating their way ''home,'' I have no idea.

Yet.

*

THE INSIDIOUS JINGLE THEORY OF LOST

Last week at PopWatch, I fumbled and bumbled my way through my personal iteration of the popular Garden of Eden theory. In a nutshell, my contention was that Hanso has been trying to find scientific means to restore mankind and the world to its ideal Garden of Eden state. I attempted some analogies to illustrate my thoughts — comparing Hanso's initiatives to antidotes to poison or fixes to computer viruses. To be honest, I wasn't happy with the articulation. It bugged me. All week.

And then, finally, I had a ''Eureka!'' moment. It came while I was shopping for groceries and I passed a Coca-Cola display. For some reason, I started humming the jingle from my '70s youth: ''I'd like to teach the world to sing/in perfect harmony...''

Suddenly, my mind linked to:

The first episode of the second season, first scene: Desmond playing Mama Cass' ''Make Your Own Kind of Music'' in the Hatch. Another circa '70s tune, the thematic flipside to that Coke jingle. ''Make your own kind of music/ Make your own special song/ Make your own kind of music/ Even if they don't sing along....''

(BTW: Did you catch the song again in the last scene of the last episode of season 2? It was in Russian, playing on the radio inside that snowbound science lab.)

Music. Harmony. Living in harmony, as mankind was supposed to — as mankind was designed to be. Suddenly, the metaphor that I really wanted became clear:

The Island, pulsing with its ''unique'' electromagnetic energy, could be likened to a tuning fork. If the world is ''off key'' as a result of original sin, Hanso has been trying to fix the pitch by tweaking with this ''unique'' EM energy. (''Unique'' = ''Doesn't adhere to a realistic notion of electromagnetic energy, and therefore can mean anything Lost says it means.'')

Or, put another way:

Hanso is trying to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, whether we want to sing along or not, by using the Island to broadcast its own special song throughout the world. The string of Numbers is like that insidiously catchy song — ''Beautiful'' meets ''Bad Day'' — that gets in your head and won't ever leave.

What if Hanso's ''song'' (again, the Numbers) is encoded with info that can... do something to us (fix us? reprogram us? make us buy Hanso stuff?) if it is somehow accessed or unlocked? (Think ''Trojan horse.'' Or ''DVD easter egg.'') If so, how could that info be unlocked?

By another, separate signal.

What that signal may be, and when it will be broadcast, remains to be seen in the TV — or heard, as is the case.

Unless...

Unless you believe Rachel Blake, star of The Lost Experience.

Rachel Blake, who believes the Hanso Foundation is ''real.''

Rachel Blake, who believes that Lost is a TV show sponsored by Hanso.

Could it be that in this multimedia, noodle-cooking, alternate-reality entertainment, the TV show Lost is the activation signal that unlocks the secret music of the Numbers in the world's collective conscious?

If so, might these two words best summarize what Hanso is trying to accomplish:

''INSTANT KARMA.''

Which was recorded and released by John Lennon in 1970 — the same year that Hanso launched the Dharma Initiative, and one year before Lennon recorded and released another song with an ''I'd like to teach the world to sing'' utopian theme:

''IMAGINE.''

Is Hanso merely using its amazing technology to turn John Lennon's dream into a reality?

*

Finally:

What do you think of the hieroglyphic that adorns this story?

Which reminds me of a theory I have — The Da Vinci Code Theory of Lost. But that's next week.

But Wednesday: something huge. Be here for it.

LOST NINJA FRAGMENTS & SPEAKER FRAGMENT 07/24/06

2006-07-24T22:33:00.000-05:00

LOST NINJA FRAGMENTS

Updates were made to the Lost Ninja website today and three new glyphs were spotted and recorded. It seems an Australian photographer got images of three unrecorded glyphs.

Code 88CH was posted on the Lost Ninja’s website today. The video contains the following transcription: Bearded man: “Commissioned under the highest secrecy through the U.N. Security Council...”

Code 1EY8AZCZNA2 was also posted on the Lost Ninja’s website today. The video contains the following transcription: Bearded man: “The DeGroots, the few high-ranking members of my organization.”

And Code VDADOS7YRE0 was also posted on the Lost Ninja’s website today. The video contains the following transcription: Mittelwerk: “I just want to tell all of you that I trust you to do what is best.”

SPEAKER FRAGMENT

Code FVH7N was found today on insidetheexperience.com. If oyu click on the negatinbe image of Speaker (about half-way-down the article) this glyph will appear. The video contains the following transcription: Beraded man: “Thank you and namaste.” and this Screen Text: DHARMA logo ©1975 THE HANSO FOUNDATION

For more details and images of the found glyphs please see my Hanso Exposed Fragment site here.

E.W. Article

Keeping an eye on pop culture
Lost: The time is out of joint?
Special thanks to sharp-eyed fellow blogger Ryan "Ginger" McGee for drawing my attention to the latest burp in the Lost arcanon: According to a choice excerpt from the now-infamous Comic-Con panel, time may not be passing the same way on and off the island. This would explain the discrepancies between the dates in The Lost Experience and the television show. It also might open up a world of teeth-gnashing when it comes to the ever-burgeoning field of Lost theory. (I'll leave that to my colleague, the esteemed Dr. Jensen.)

I'll stop now, before Rachel Blake busts in here and gives me the Colin-Farrell-on-Leno treatment.

RACHEL BLAKE FRAGMENT & SPEAKER FRAGMENT 07/24/06

2006-07-24T11:47:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE FRAGMENT 07/24/06

Rachel Blake made one simple blog entry today:

Fragment 748L

Rachel’s 748L fragment is a screen reading, "THE DHARMA INITIATIVE ©1975 The Hanso Foundation."

SPEAKER FRAGMENT 07/24/06

And Speaker confirmed Damon’s bracelet (4HO) and gave us an image of Jorge’s bracelet (OHGE) on his website:

Jorge’s bracelet fragment says, “Know it by heart. Don’t waver.”

See my Hanso Exposed Video Fragment Site for much more information:

My Hanso Exposed Video Fragment Site

COMIC-CON SAN DIEGO & HANSOEXPOSED.COM

2006-07-22T23:07:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE AT COMIC-CON

Here is the video:

Rachel at Comic-Con

Transcription of video:

Rachel: I have a question. Hello?
Cuse: Yeah
Rachel: Have you no shame?
Cuse: What?
Rachel: HAVE. YOU. NO. SHAME?
Cuse: I have a little shame.
Lindelhof: I have no shame.
Rachel: Don’t be cute. Tell us what you know about the Hanso Foundation.
Crowd: Whistles. “Yeah!” Clapping. Yelling.
Lindelhof: The Hanso Foundation as a, as a film profit organization that we have co-opted for the purposes of Lost that we stuck on the end of an orientation film because we thought it would be fun.
Rachel: Those films are real. We deserve the truth.
Lindelhof: No, no… They are not real.
Cuse: We wrote those films. We’re writers.
Rachel: You’re liars. You’re promoting them as some sort of force for good but they are not.
Voice off screen: Security!
Lindelhof: Look, um, Dan Brown uses Opus Dei in the Da Vinci Code, we…
Rachel: O.K. Stop! Since you claim not to know why don’t I fill you in. How about Joop. The 105 year old orangutan? How about that fire in Iceland? Stop! Stop!
Do you know that they are doing organ harvesting in Africa? How about the deaths of Hugh McIntyre and Darla Taft from the Global Welfare Consortium?
Lindelhof: Look, there are other people waiting to ask questions. We have no connection…
Rachel: I am sure they want me to ask these questions.
Lindelhof: We have no connection with the Hanso Foundation.
Rachel: That’s a lie! They run ads on your show. They’re putting money in ABC’s pockets to prove themselves as this great philanthropic organization…
Cuse: Look, Maybeline runs ads on our shows and we’re not part of the Makeup Global Consortium.
Rachel: Stop it! You’re protecting them. You’re protecting a very real, very dangerous organization.
Lindelhof: Look, it’s not real. It’s a television show. There is no Alvar Hanso.
Rachel: He is real! The Hanso Foundation is real. The DHARMA is real! Thoms Werner Mittelwerk is real and what he’s doing in Sri Lanka right now… He’s doing terrible things! That’s real! Where’s Alvar Hanso?
Lindelhof: He’s an actor.
Cuse: He’s in a window on our T.V. show.
Rachel: Alvar Hanso is real and I am living proof of that and my name is Rachel Blake and I am real and if you want the truth you will go to hansoexposed.com. You have blood on your hands, you have blood on your hands, you have blood on your hands and you disgust me.
Lindelhof: Thanks. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks.
Rachel is escorted from the convention.
Lindelhof: Thank you. Thank you. That was great.
Cuse: Jorge, what did you do to set her off?
Lindelhof: There are some tough looking security guards here.
Cuse: Wow!
Lindelhof: O.K. Alrighty then. Wow!

HANSOEXPOSED.COM

Go to:

Hanso Exposed

Watch carefully and you will learn how to communicate with Rachel to uncover video fragments. Be sure to read the instructions first.

7hkbh
System
Build 0.4-5-000.4
THIS IS RACHEL.
I AM ON THE RUN.
I HAVE GONE UNDERGROUND
WHAT I HAVE TO SHOW YOU WILLTEAR THE HANSO FOUNDATION APART.
THEY WILL TRACK ME IF I UPLOAD
ALL AT ONCE OR TO ONE PLACE.
I’M HIDING THE SRI-LANKA VIDEO
EVERYWHERE ON THE WEB
FIND IT.
PUT IT TOGETHER.
DISCOVER THE TRUTH.

Read the instructions. (Note: Clicking on the panel that says, “NEW TO THIS” will re-direct you to Rachel’s blog. This is, I believe, for newcomers to catch-up.)

Instructions (Click on Instructions):

THE GLYPHS HOLD THE CODES. WHEN YOU FIND ONE ENTER IT INTO THE BOX AT THE LOWER RIGHT. EACH CODE UNLOCKS A SINGLE FRAGMENT. ENTER IT CORRECTLY AND IT WILL BE PLACED IN YOUR TRAY. DRAG YOUR FRAGMENTS TO THE TIMELINE ACROSS THE MIDDLE. STUDY THEM. VIEW THEM. ORDER THEM. WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER. WATCH THE BLOGS. LISTEN TO YOUR PEERS. SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE. BE SURE TO SAVE YOUR SEQUENCE AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.

1ST FRAGMENT = 7hkbh
2ND FRAGMENT = RRGYXS

Register (Click on Register and enter all the information requested. You will received a confirmation e-mail from Rachel):

Register
SCREEN NAME
E-MAIL ADDRESS
PASSWORD*
AGREE TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS (Click on the box to the left to accept)

Date of Birth
Day Month Year

Location

ACCEPT (Click on accept after entering all the requested data)

Enter your codes:

Save your sequences and be sure to send your sequences. (Click Save and then Click Send Sequence)

1st E-mail from Rachel reads:

RACHEL HERE.

YOU'VE STEPPED UP...

YOU'RE NOT GONNA LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.

SO HERE'S THE DEAL.

THE SRI-LANKA VIDEO, IT'S THE POISON AND THE CURE.

IT'LL BURN A HOLE RIGHT THROUGH THE HEART OF THE FOUNDATION.

BUT I'M NOT GONNA LIE.

WE'VE GOT A REAL FIGHT ON OUR HANDS.

THE HANSO SQUAD WILL TRACK ME IF I UPLOAD IT ALL AT ONCE OR TO ONE PLACE.

I CAN'T TRUST THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA -

CAN'T TRUST THE HANSO FOUNDATION

DOESN'T HAVE ITS HOOKS IN EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.

SO I'M HIDING IT - EVERYWHERE ON THE WEB.

LOGIN WITH: dharmapoet@wi.rr.com

PASSWORD IS: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

CLUES WILL FIND THEIR WAY TO A TRUSTED FEW.

HELP EACH OTHER...

FIND THE FRAGMENTS.

PUT THEM TOGETHER.

DISCOVER THE TRUTH.

2nd E-mail from Rachel reads:

HERE'S YOUR VIDEO SEQUENCE

THANKS FOR HELPING ME PIECE TOGETHER THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HANSO FOUNDATION.

THE VIDEO YOU'RE PUTTING TOGETHER COULD BE THE KEY TO TAKING THEM DOWN ONCE AND FOR ALL.
HERE'S YOUR LATEST VIDEO SEQUENCE: Fragment 1
LATER.
RACHEL

3rd E-mail from Rachel reads:

HERE'S YOUR VIDEO SEQUENCE

THANKS FOR HELPING ME PIECE TOGETHER THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HANSO FOUNDATION.

THE VIDEO YOU'RE PUTTING TOGETHER COULD BE THE KEY TO TAKING THEM DOWN ONCE AND FOR ALL.

HERE'S YOUR LATEST VIDEO SEQUENCE:Fragment 2

LATER.
RACHEL

Please note that Fragments 1 & 2 were done incorrectly and do not contain the video fragments. Fragment 3 contains all three videos. I'll try to do better in the future. The Hansoexposed site was a bit unfamiliar and a little confusing at first. Sorry if I directed anyone incorrectly or gave bad information. We'll do better next time. I promise! No really, I swear!

Fragment 3

The first two Fragments are delivered by this bearded man…
(Note: Under the ZOOM bars - there are three: the first click on to Arrange your fragments, the second to Inspect or view the fragments, and the third to View the video, After you enter each code, the fragments will be up top in the Storage Boxes. You can then drag them down into the sequence boxes (/01 - /70) and if you want to view them, click on the MIDDLE ZOOM button and then click once on each frame. It will then play the video fragment.)

1. 7hkbh – Bearded man: “As with all you've already been told, you are bound by your honor and commitment to keep what you are about to hear a secret."

2. RRGYXS - Bearded Man: "You will know that the one true way has been found..."

3. 4ho - Mittelwerk: "We have done our level best, and yet..."

RACHEL BLAKE ST. GERMAIN DE PRES POST 01 (OR PARIS 04 OR SRI LANKA 01) & THE PACKAGE

2006-07-21T18:20:00.000-05:00

Rachel has posted another entry today and there is a great deal to take in. Click on the words, “FIND THE VIDEO NOW.” This will take you to the Retrievers of Truth page. Follow if you will... There were reports today that the ROT forum group gave a clue on AIM about Pedro Armendariz, the actor. We were told to focus on his work, not his life. It was later learned that he played a role in the movie adaptation of "The Pearl" called "La Perla" written by John Steinbeck. This led to "Steinbeck" as the new ROT password log-in. (Also found in the source code) Find the thread, “3 will.. 3 will… ROCK YOU!” This conversation, then, holds the clue: Fiberoptician 11:56am You'd be richer, deeper, and broader my friend. Oh yeah. There was this other thing, wasn't on the menu it was called hoo-gonchoi. And also this conversation: Fiberoptician 12:03am You know, if you go downtown, amongst all those tall buildings, you're bound to see a light in the window of one of them. At the richerdeeperbroader.com webpage find “Fuel Passions” and click on it. You will find a hot link in a window on the building under the dot of broadbandstories.com. Clicking on the window opens up a login box. The username is "rblake" and the password is “hoo-gonchoi”. In the pop-up window click on the word “clip.” The video will then download (4:14). Whew and wow!!

St. Germain de Pres Video Quicktime

St. Germain de Pres Video YouTube

Transcription of Rachel video:

Key unlocks a door.

Rachel: (whisper) I’m in Hugh and Darla’s flat. Looks like our turncoat I.T. guy was right. Mittelwerk didn’t know about this place.

Rachel is frightened of her reflection in the mirror. Sound of voices in the hallway. Rachel finds a note from Hugh (see Rachel's blog for image).

Rachel: Heading to the racket club. Didn’t want to wake you. Can you be ready by 3? I’ll swing by and pick you up. Hugh. If I was Darla I’d hide it… behind the video of Gidget.

Video fast forwards.

Rachel: O.K. guys, here it goes. An I.D. with my face on it. (see photo montage below) Healthway Alliance. A plane ticket. Sri Lanka. That was the island? All those injections for Sri Lanka? What the hell?

Rachel finds a remote control and presses play. Another video begins on the T.V.

Static

Darla: Rachel, um, I guess I feel a bit ashamed coming to you like this. But please understand why I had my friend deliver this package to you in the park. (sigh) By the time you’re watching this, I’ll be, ah, see that’s the reason. The end of that sentence is always dead and God knows, I don’t want to be that cliché. By the time you watch this I’ve left the bloody country. I’ve left him. I’ll have run. I made you an ID pass. Use it. Mittelwerk's about to do something awful, Rachel. I'm not quite sure what, but I know you, you'll find out. Just one last bit, um, if Hugh's still, you know, around . . . Look, I know how you feel about these people and about us but I love him, Rachel. There’s still a good man in there. He got caught up but he’s been helping me. Sri Lanka was the last straw for him too. And believe it or not, but he’s been protecting you. Mittlewerk’s convinced, at least for now, he doesn’t want a martyr on his hands. But that doesn’t mean he won’t change his mind. Especially after you uncover what’s happening in Sri Lanka. Whew, so, be safe, love and get the bastards for me will ya. Once this is all said and done we’ll have martinis in Monte Carlo. You know, I never met the big man, Hanso but something tells me he’d be pr… (video ends)

More static

Rachel: (looking through the package) Spider Protocol, Trial J. And this is the ship. Paik Heavy Industry. The Hanso Foundation. The Helgus Antonius its, its a hospital ship? Oh, God, why are all the wards labeled quarantined?

Contents of the Package (as appears on Rachel’s blog page):

Photo # 1: Confidential - Spider Protocol – Healthway Alliance – Melanie Walker (photo of Rachel Blake) – Badge # M-4937-HWA – (At bottom of screen) # 0120208945-ASR9
(N0te: I'm being told that the code 3of9 bar code at the bottom of the Melanie Walker badge reads, "Andrew Shea.")

Photo # 2: Confidential – Spider Protocol – Classified - # 0120208945-ASR9 – (Background document) Districts Land Use 1981 – 1984 1:100,000

Photo # 3: Map of Sri Lanka

Photo # 4: Boarding Pass
Name: Melanie Walker
Frequent Flyer Nbr: ASL-486005934105
Ticket Nbr: 0122123004920512-0052
Seat: 15-A
Gate: A-6 Please confirm Gate assignment
Date: 15JULY2006
Flight: ASL-1707
Depart: (CDG) Paris, France 10:15AM
Arrive: (CMB) Colombo, Sri Lanka 3:55PM
Coach Class
Confirmation: 7UBASRA
Request: window
Seat: 15-A
Barcode # : 0000910025367852

Photo # 5: (Structural view of “Helgus Antonius” with red areas of quarantine)
HELGUS ANTONIUS
BUILT: 2001
NAME: Helgus Antonius
LENGTH: 321.0 m
O.A.: 45.6 m
BEAM: 9200
TEU: 107200

(Red Square) QUARANTINED
* NAME: HELGUS ANTONIUS
* DEADWEIGHT TONS: 61,441 MT
* LENGTH: 294.13 M
* WIDTH: 32.26 M
* DRAFT: 13.50 M
* CAPACITY: 4,578 TEU

PROPRIETARY MEDICAL VESSEL
PAIK HEAVY INDUSTRY – THE HANSO FOUNDATION

Video Observations:

1. Solid wood door (and key given to Rachel by The Fixer)
2. Kitchen table and chair
3. Kitchen sink full of dishes (Live bug crawls along edge)
4. Kitchen counter with Sprite can, urn and kitchen knick knacks
5. White statue on the kitchen counter (Indian in nature? Persephone)
6. Large gold-framed mirror
7. Bobble-head on the piano wearing a Jeep shirt (Jack Shepherd)
8. Un-made bed and full-length door mirror
9. Caricatured animal masks on wall
10. Hugh’s letter to Darla and clock (the time on the clock is 12:39)
11. Lamp, chest of drawers
12. Wooden floor
13. Entertainment shelf with books, videos, stereo equipment, T.V., etc.
14. Video cassettes: (in order left to right) “Max & Sam – Provincetown”, “Steve “BMOC” 96' “, “Chris - Jackson Hole 91' “, “Video of Gidget”, “Jordan's 28th B-DAY” , “Stu - Sumo Tourney”
15. Lamp and table
16. Envelope with the following items: Melanie Walker, Healthway Alliance I.D. Badge, Boarding pass to Sri Lanka, Districts Land Use and 1981-1984 document, and map of Sri Lanka
17. T.V. Remote control
18. Darla video (in the same apartment)
19. Lamp and table
20. Map of Sri Lanka
21. Photo of land mass?
22. Spider Protocol – Trial J document
23. Schematic drawing of the Helgus Antonius

Thoughts:

Is Melanie Walker a character from Batman? What is the Healthway Alliance? Is the Helgus Antonius quarantined to keep an infection/virus in or out? Does TRIAL J imply that there was TRIALS A through I? And what is the Spider Protocol? It is odd, however, that the Fixer told Rachel that much would be revealed when she went to Darla and Hugh’s flat, when in reality all we ended up with was more questions.

See Spider PROTOCOL document transcription in my post dated Friday, June 30, 2006 RACHEL BLAKE ICELAND POST 03 / D. J. DAN PODCAST 06/30 / D.J. DAN WEBPAGE UPDATE / ROT CLUE UPDATE

And Mandrake Wig posted to his blog at:
http://www.myspace.com/mandrakewig

New ROT newsletter:

Dear friends,

I'm a truly honored to have so many loyal and dedicated fans and supporters. I wish I could sit down with each and every one of you and discuss my work and the science of what I do but alas, that would be too time-consuming for the both of us.

I understand you all took my advice to heed change. Or at least a few of you read my words and took note of it and that's all I can ever ask. Remember don't ever dwell on the changes that confront us on a daily basis but face them head on and allow them to evolve your life and yourself.

I won't tax your time or your brain today with a long message but I would like you all to take a moment out of your busy schedules to sit down in a quiet place, relax, and think about all the good things in your lives. While they may seem few and far between they do exist. It is easier to think of and focus on the negative but not always the healthiest or the most productive way to utilize your mental energies.

When the mind is at rest it is at its most productive. Maybe that's why the yellow lab will rest up to 18 hours in a day. Think about that my friends and have a wonderful day.

Yours truly,
Dr. Vincent "Wally" Bole

RACHEL BLAKE PARIS POST 03 & NEW DOC JENSEN EW ARTICLES

2006-07-20T14:15:00.000-05:00

Rachel Blake Paris Post 03

Rachel has a new entry on her secret blog. There is this image of this man…

Who is presumably “The Fixer.”

Click on the words, “FIND THE VIDEO NOW” or the image of The Fixer, which will re-direct you to Monster.com and the following comment and reply:

A couple of months ago, I was made privy to incriminating evidence concerning my boss and his overseas business projects. The research he has become engaged in -- using the resources and talents of many unwitting employees –- is questionable and almost certainly criminal in nature. To worsen matters, being that my boss is the CEO of a major scientific research company, his unethical acts affect many more lives than just those of my colleagues. I don’t know what to do. Do I sacrifice my career to stop him -- or sit by and watch him ruin the company? I’m aware that blowing the whistle can have drastic consequences, but I feel morally obligated to take some action.
Thank you.
Posted by: Anonymous Jul 20, 2006 8:58:18 AM

Dear Anonymous,
That sounds like an extremely difficult situation. Please read our related advice here: http://adminsupport.monster.com/articles/bad-boss-mirror/. We hope this can offer some assistance.
Best of luck to you,
Maya, Monster Career Advice
Posted by: Maya, Monster Career Advice Jul 20, 2006 9:15:38 AM

Click on the “Bad Boss Mirror link” in the comment above to be directed to

Bad Boss Mirror

At the bottom of the screen find “To view celebrity career advice videos, click here.” And click on the hot link. The following page has the video entitled “Can She Trust Him? - [2:36] He may hold the key.” Click on it for the following video.

Strange as it seems this video links back to D.J. Dan at the following:

Week5_Post2.wmv

Transcription of GlassesCam recording (continued from last video):

Sirens can still be heard in the background. Rachel and the Fixer are still in the basement of the hotel in which shots were fired.

Fixer: Not on camera Ms. Blake. Unless you want them to know who you really are.

Rachel turns off the video recorder but dons her camera glasses.

Rachel: (Sighs)

Fixer: You have caused an awful lot o’ trouble for me.

Rachel: Wanna tell me who you are?

Fixer: Hanso Foundation. Tech support.

Rachel: I’m being terrorized by I.T.?

Fixer: I’ve worked for Mittelwerk a long time. I erase things. Bank accounts, e-mails, cell phones… people.

Rachel: Zander? Darla?

Fixer : No, that wasn’t me. What happened to them was not by my hand. But I knew. And I’ve seen what you’ve been doing. Been on to you since you hacked the Hanso Foundation web... (camera cuts to static) I came to your hotel room in Copenhagen to warn you, Rachel. But you…

Rachel: You should have knocked! Why do you want to help me?

Fixer: Because I don’t want to be a part of it anymore. Because “he” wants me to help you. (camera cuts to static) Now, let’s talk about you. I heard your mother died. Is she the one who told you?

Rachel shakes her head yes at this point (the camera view shakes affirmative).

Fixer: I’m hoping I can trust you… with this.

The Fixer hands Rachel a key.

Rachel: What is this?

Fixer: I intercepted an e-mail. I kept it from Mittelwerk and his enforcers. Hugh and Darla had a flat in St. Germain de Pres. You can find all your answers there.

The Fixer hands Rachel an envelope.

Fixer: Tell the world, Rachel. Make a scandel. It’s the only way to stop them.

Rachel: I don’t understand.? You have the access. Why don’t you tell everyone?

Fixer: Look at who I am. There’s no one I can tell. You have a vested interest. But me, after this I’m gone. I’m going underground. Good luck, Rachel.

Rachel: Hey, wait! I just… Thank you for…

Fixer: Don’t! (whispers) Don’t. I’m going to Hell. I’m just making sure Mittelwerk is there to keep me company.

Camera pans to Rachel's hand holding the key and the envelope.

Observations:
Rachel mispronounces Armand Zanders name. She calls him Zandler. I thought that very strange. Also, Rachel’s mother is very important here. It could be a key. You’d think that an I.T. guy would recognize if a pair of glasses contained a video recording device. No? Should I stop calling him The Fixer and start calling him The Eraser? St. Germain Des Pres is a neighborhood in Paris. Isn't it odd that The Fixer started his anti-Hanso campaign after intercepting and viewing an e-mail. Where can we find that e-mail? And, what information might be contained in an e-mail that would cause a long time Hanso employee to become fifth-column? Does the Anonymous comment on Monster.com sound like The Fixer? He knows his boss, the CEO, is into some very unsavory acts. Here is the e-mail asscociated with this person: ( infiltrate108@hotmail.com ) (This sure sounds like someone in the Hanso world - "Infiltrate 108" Wish I'd thought of that!) And, in the video Fixer looked like he was holding his arm as if injured. In my last comment on this I felt he had been shot in the hotel room. I believe this verifies that fact.

Doc Jensen’s EW Article # 2

EW Article PopWatch

Keeping an eye on pop culture
July 19, 2006
'Lost' Experience: Rachel lives!; Retrievers, not so much
EW.com promised major developments in The Lost Experience this week in the wake of Rachel Blake's possible death last Friday -- and, whaddya know, things are developing. Fret not, Rachel crushers: The intrepid investigator survived the assassination attempt on her life, and seems to have made a new ally in the process, a presumed villain who is promising her answers to a great many questions. Our Experience sources indicate that the intelligence Rachel's about to get is must-know info for all Lost fans. To view Rachel's newest vid blog, you have to travel a circuitous path; we suggest clicking over to thelostexperienceclues.com for directions.

DOC JENSEN INSTA-THEORY: Rachel Blake is being duped. The secret Hanso history that she is "exposing" is actually an elaborate fiction created by the Foundation, and she's been tricked into investigating. Why? To take all of us for a ride -- a ride with a destination. The mystery is the bait; its ultimate answer is a trap. Rachel's fans/audience are being lured toward... something. I suspect either a world-changing psychic event, accompanied by a blast of electromagnetic light, or... the season premiere of Lost, which ABC announced today would occur on Oct. 4.

In other developments: It appears that a key Lost Experience website may be on the verge of being retired. For over a month, the strange psychic-dog website retrieversoftruth.com housed a secret message board comprised of Verizon employees worried about possible corruption of their beloved company by The Hanso Foundation. Until recently, the passsword that accessed the message board was POLAR BEAR. Now, you only get a prompt for an email address. Comply, and you get an e-letter from RoT founder Dr. Vincent "Wally" Bole that thanks RoT supporters for their patronage and speaks ambiguously of "change." Sounds like a "Closed for business" notice to me. If so, head over to RoT NOW if you haven't already to read some of the site's crazy content.

DOC JENSEN INSTA-THEORY: Has Hanso/Dharma been telepathically manipulating the Oceanic 815 castaways via Walt's psychic dog Vincent? Whatever -- I gotta run. My dog tells me he wants to go for a walk. He's also suggesting I change my phone service. Hmmm...

Doc Jensen EW Article # 3

EW Article # 3

Keeping an eye on pop culture
July 20, 2006
'Lost Experience': Who is Rachel Blake?
The Lost Experience may be the worst thing that ever happened to Lost. Follow my reasoning here: TV shows need advertising dollars to survive, right? And advertisers buy time on TV shows because they are watched by people who can presumably buy their products, right? So what happens when people like me lose our jobs -- and therefore lose the salaries with which we buy those aforementioned products -- because we are wasting our employers' time and Internet access surfing Experience sites looking for updates and emailing tips and theories to each other? That's right, kids: Those advertisers will stop advertising on Lost because our viewership, however substantial, will be rendered meaningless to them, and therefore Lost will get cancelled. My logic here is unimpeachable! Do not assail it! Lost is doomed! Way to go, Lost Experience creator people. Way to freakin' go.

All to say: we have more TLE updates for you.

Rachel Blake (pictured) has posted a new vid blog at stophanso.rachelblake.com. As always, if you don't want to do the searching yourself, visit our friends at thelostexperienceclues.com for directions. It's a modest update but rasies delicious questions. What does Rachel's mom have to do with her quest? Who is the mysterious "he" (Alvar Hanso? The leader of The Others?), and why does "he" want to help Rachel? How has this Hanso goon "erased" people? Could these people include the Lost castaways? And will the key Rachel has received unlock the answers to thes questions?

DOC JENSEN 'TLE' TIP: The answer to the last question is YES. I also think we should keep our eyes peeled for at least one more communication from Rachel very soon. And then, right after that, [CENSORED BY THE HANSO FOUNDATION].

In other TLE news:
DJ Dan has updated his conspriacy tracking website with two new videos -- commericals for The Hanso Foundation that promote Hanso's "life extension" and "mathematical forecasting" initiatives.

DOC JENSEN INSTA-THEORY: It's the Garden of Eden hypothesis. What does The Bible tell us about what happened after Adam and Eve ate the apple? Death entered the world, and life would become marked by hardship and chaos. Seems to me that these two Hanso initiatives are means of finding scientific ways of restoring mankind, and the world, back to its pre-fall condition. "Life extension" is about cheating death; "mathematical forecasting" is about eliminating disorder. If the island is a mythical wellspring of life -- in other words, Eden -- then I wonder if Hanso thought he could fix the world by introducing an antidote into its sin-poisoned waters. In other words: The world is a computer that's been compromised by a vrius (original sin); The Numbers is a fix, and it's being distributed around the world through electromagnetic energy. [NOT CENSORED BY THE HANSO FOUNDATION, BECAUSE THAT'S JUST HILARIOUSLY STUPID.]
Posted by Jeff Jensen 07.20.06, 01:33 PM

D.J. DAN / MITTELWERK UPDATE 07/19/06

2006-07-19T14:47:00.000-05:00

D.J. Dan’s website has been updated. Go to the site and click on the link for “Eyes on the Man (Who We’re Looking at This Month)”. There are now three images of Dr. Thomas Werner Mittelwerk.

Images # 1 & # 2

Clicking on the first image (Tom on the ground from his encounter with Rachel) takes you back to the old Hanso Foundation page (see last post) where clicking on the added text will give you the new Mittelwerk / Hanso Foundation Commercial # 7. Update 07/19/06: If you are patient and wait (about 100 seconds) a new clue posts to the site. When the Hanso Foundation page first was hacked and shutdown the image stated "orientation_testing_issue_1980", which revealed a video with many different inages. However, today it reads "orientation_testing_version_1980." I wonder why the difference? Is the Hanso Foundation site scheduled to come back up soon? This new line of code does not work in the URL if added. Perhaps it is for a later date?

Clicking on the second image (Tom and Joop) takes you to

Hanso T.V. Commercial # 8

and clicking on the last image (Tom at Hanso) redirects you to this video

Hanso T.V. Commercial # 9

Commercial # 8 (Joop/Life Extension Program)

Life Extension Program Video

Mittelwerk: "What if 90 years was just the beginning?

Life extension. It's the grand summation of all our work.

Now, many wonder, is it safe, ethical? We say, meet Joop. He's happy, healthy, and 105 years old! We’ve saved Joop from the ravages of time. Now, he's helping us to save our own lives.

The Hanso Life Extension Program.

We're reaching out to a better tomorrow. "

Observations:

Images (in order of apperance): An elderly couple is seen dancing on the beach at sunset, Thomas Werner Mittelwerk in his lab coat, an inset image of Joop drinking milk from a cup, Earth as seen from space with the Hanso "Better tomorrow" blurb in the foreground, and the Hanso Foundation T.V. Commercial logo.

Commercial # 9 (Weather / Mathematical Forecasting Initiative)

Mathematical Forecasting Initiative Video

Mittelwerk: "The brute force of Nature. Need we always live at its mercy? Life's tragedies... they bring pain, but they also bring understanding. While nature's fury cannot be checked, the human cost can be.

With the Hanso Mathematical Forecasting Initiative, we're advancing warning systems and speeding disaster relief.

At the Hanso Foundation, we're reaching out to a better tomorrow, in which Man and Nature live in harmony."

Observations:

Images (in order of appearance): a swirling tornado, an erupting volcano, relief workers with an earthquake victim on a stretcher in front of rubble strewn buildings, a tornado ravaged home, a crying child, Thomas Werner Mittelwerk in his lab coat, the Mathematical Forecasting Initiative logo, a bald man writing formulae on a glass chalkboard, Thomas Werner Mittelwerk again, and the Hanso Foundation T.V. Commercial logo.

RACHEL BLAKE IMAGE POST # 2 & VIDEO

2006-07-18T18:27:00.000-05:00

Rachel Blake has updated her secret web page with the following picture and a new user name log-in.

user name: rblake
password: honourbar

At Rachel’s web site click on the picture of the blurry man. This will direct you to letyourcompassguideyou.com. Click on the hot link between 252 and 216 degrees on the compass. A network password box will appear. Enter the user name and password supplied by Rachel, which will take you to this Index of Administration:

“Index of /admin
*** SECURITY NOTICE ***

This system is for the use of authorized users only.
Individuals using this computer system without
authority, or in excess of their authority, are subject
to having all of their activities on this system
monitored and recorded by system personnel. In the
course of monitoring individuals improperly using this
system, or in the course of system maintenance, the
activities of authorized users may also be monitored.
Anyone using this system expressly consents to such
monitoring and is advised that if such monitoring
reveals possible evidence of criminal activity, system
personnel may provide the evidence of such monitoring
to law enforcement officials.

Name Last modified Size Description
Parent Directory -
my_docs/ 19-June-2006 12:24 -

Click on my_docs/ to be directed to the following:

Index of /admin/my_docs
Name Last modified Size Description
-----------------------------------------
Parent Directory -
wtk.mov 19-June-2006 6:46 -
zero_n_such/ 18-July-2006 10:30 -

You’ll see the William T. Kilpatrick apology video here along with a file called zero_n_such/ . Click on this file name to be directed to this Jeep page:

Zero ‘N Such

In the text which states, “WELL… ONE OF US IS LOST”, the word “LOST” is a hot link. Click on it to be directed to the main Jeep Compass webpage here:

Jeep Compass

Click on the “FEATURES” submenu “SAFTEY/SECURITY” on the left-hand sidebar.
Click “CRUSH ZONES” on the grill of the Compass. When the new screen appears click on the “VIEW DEMO” to see the video.

Video transcription:

…Continued from Video # 1

Interior of hotel room… Phone is still ringing, gunshots through glass can be heard and someone is pounding on the hotel room door.

Rachel: There’s no way out of here.

Voice from behind door: Listen to me! Don’t make me shoot the lock out!

Rachel: Get away!

Door bursts open… enter The Fixer with gun drawn.

Fixer: Don’t Scream! Come to me! Stay low! Now!

Rachel: Uuufh!

More gunshots through glass are heard.

Rachel: Ow!

Fixer: Stop fighting!

Rachel: Get off of me!

Fixer: I’m not who you think I am! Son of a…

Sounds of struggle in the hotel room then a panicked dash through the halls… European police sirens are wailing as Rachel runs down the halls. Rachel stops after a long run down into the basement to a locked door. The Fixer catches up to her.

Rachel: Don’t kill me!

Fixer: If I wanted to kill you I would have shot you with this thing already. It’s for my protection from them. Sit down!

Rachel: Them who?

Fixer: Them, them… Mittelwerk! Turn that thing off. I’m going to tell you everything you want to know.

Rachel: Who are you?

Fixer: Not on camera, Ms. Blake. Unless you want them to know who you really are.

Fade to black.

Observations on the video:

Whoever is shooting at Rachel continues to shoot throughout the video. I believe that The Fixer may even have been hit once. And he certainly seems to know a bit more than Rachel at this point. Did anyone notice Rachel putting on her camera glasses on at the end of the video? It sure looks like more videos are in our future! It seems that The Fixer knows Rachel’s secret identity too but he sounds like he is not friendly with our favorite pony tailed technologist! The Fixer sounds English and the password for today’s video was the very British “honourbar”! Hmm…

Note: An "honour bar" is the name that some European hotels give to the system whereby after certain hours, there is no longer any bartender on duty but patrons are still allowed to pour their own drinks and are on their "honor" to reflect the tab in their final bill.

P.S. ZERO N SUCH is an anagram for CRUSH ZONE.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY “TLE” ARTICLE 07/18/06

2006-07-18T15:10:00.000-05:00

EW Lost Article

Transcription:

“'Lost' in the Video Blogs

Something BIG is brewing at ''The Lost Experience.'' ''The Adventures of Rachel Blake'' dangles intriguing hints of seismic shifts on ''Lost'' by Jeff Jensen

The still red curtains suddenly began to sway, as if roused from sleep by a rude gust of breeze. From behind the crimson couch, a little man packed inside a tight-fitting velvet tux sprung up like a jack-in-a-box clown and landed on the plush pillow of my flabby abs, knocking the wind out of me. As I gasped for breath, the diminutive dude danced a jazzy jig to the lazy wail of a synthesized saxophone, then spun as if chasing his tail and collapsed on my chest like a puppy worn out from play. For a full minute, he did not move. Then, slowly, his head began to inch across my shoulder toward my ear, as if shyly working his way toward an affectionate nuzzle. I was terrified. And then he spoke — a croaky, sputtery whisper:

''Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications,'' he said.

''Something's about to happen. Secrets are about to be revealed. Secrets about Alvar Hanso; about The Dharma Initiative; about what that Dharma acronym means. Could that Department of Heuristics Blah Blah Blah be the answer we've been searching for? (Something tells me the answer is yes.) Wake up, Doc Jensen, Wake up...''

And then I woke up.

-----------

Namaste, my Lost-ies. Doc Jensen here: back in residence — and WIDE AWAKE.

Don't ask me where I've been. Not AUTHORIZED to tell you.

YET.

I know we have outstanding business, and we will get to it in the coming days and weeks. But first, we have URGENT need to start an ongoing dialogue about The Lost Experience, the Internet-based alternate-reality game that's allegedly chockablock with pertinent, even important back story and forward-spinning info for Lost fans.

See, something's about to happen. Something important. Something that's going to put me and you and all the Lost-ies we know back in the theory-spinning business much more quickly than I was expecting. We need to prepare ourselves. We need to be ready. Hence, we need to start the conversation — the TLE ARG — ASAP.

To begin, I want to discuss one of my favorite topics:

YOU.

THE OFFICE THEORY OF LOST FANDOM

On the day after the season finale of Lost, I had the pleasure of interviewing ABC's head of marketing, Mike Benson, for an article I was writing about TLE. (You can read it here.) During our conversation, Mr. Benson explained that Lost fans can be divided into three separate categories. To paraphrase, they are:

1. Heavy, super-savvy Internet users. Their fandom is expressed (daily) at places like thefuselage.com. According to Benson, the smallest segment of the Lost audience, albeit the most conspicuous. (Certainly the most interesting, in my book.)

2. Casual to heavy Internet users; tech savvy but maybe not tech intimate. They might visit places like thefuselage.com, but they only lurk. Confession: While I aspire to be like the fans at the tip of this tri-level pyramid, Doc Jensen more often makes his home in this nebulous middle stratum.

3. The largest segment of the audience. The tech aptitude is irrelevant, as their Lost fandom doesn't extend to the Internet. Presumably, these fans aren't as interested or invested in what we would call the ''mythology'' of the show.

As I have considered Benson's analysis over the past several weeks, I found myself thinking about NBC's The Office. See, to my addled mind, the breakdown of Lost fandom can be translated like this:

1. THE DWIGHT TYPE. The loud and proud geek. At the annual office Halloween party, Dwights would probably come dressed as Dr. Marvin Candle. They know every word of the Swan and Pearl orientation films. Some have even made their own orientation films and posted them at youtube.com. If you think you're a Dwight, but resent being likened to Dwight, think twice before flaming me with complaints: That would totally be a Dwight thing to do.

2. THE MICHAEL TYPE. The fuzzy middle tier of the pyramid. At the annual office Halloween party, Michaels would probably come dressed as Locke: Season One Island Shaman Hero...though they may adhere more often to the Season Two Hatch-Dazzled ''I Was Wrong'' Fool. The Michael analogy might be a little harsh, but since I myself am a Michael, I do believe these Losties share one characteristic with the character: they awkwardly straddle two worlds. Their enthusiasms trend nerdy, but are wary of ''looking nerdy.'' If you think you're a Michael, but resent being likened to Michael, think twice about flaming me with complaints — that's just the kind of nerdy thing Dwight would do.

3. THE JIM/PAM TYPE. The broad base of fandom. At the annual office Halloween party, Jims and Pams come dressed as...Jim or Pam from The Office. Jims and Pams have seen every episode of Lost, but many of them might TiVo it in favor of American Idol during the spring. They are all certainly the type of Lostie who would look at Andrew Smith's ''Ultimate Lost Theory'' and roll their eyes like a non-fan. The worst thing about a Jim or Pam is that they're probably the type who still believes that Purgatory explains the show, despite the repeated memos from Damon and Carlton. But then, they may have no idea who Damon and Carlton are...

DOC JENSEN'S EXPERIENCE OF THE LOST EXPERIENCE
The Lost Experience launched on May 2 with thehansofoundation.org, a website belonging to the mysterious philanthropic scientific research organization that finances The Dharma Initiative. It was soon followed by several other Hanso-affiliated websites, including the Sprite-sponsored sublymonal.com, the Jeep-linked letyourcompassguideyou.com, the monster.com-associated HansoCareers.com, and Verizon-attached retrieversofthetruth.com. (As one Lost source tells me, you know you're at an official TLE site if ''you have to dig through a bunch of advertising to get to the good stuff.'')

I don't begrudge TLE for its corporate sponsorship, in the same way I don't begrudge the TV show for its commercials; in the end, I understand that creating something as extravagantly interesting as Lost isn't cheap. (As for the bellyaching about advertising as being antithetical to the Internet ethos, I am unmoved. Get over yourself and your CompuServe bulletin board nostalgia and join us in the land of spiritual compromise, my friend.) (God, that sounded so soul-deadening sad, didn't it?) Anyway: I've learned to roll with it — and click through it.

Which isn't to say that I ''played'' The Lost Experience that much during its first month. I'm just not good at these kind of games. TLE's first act required participants to crack various codes to unlock content that was hidden at these Hanso sites by a mysterious character named Persephone, who seems to believe that Hanso is up to no good and is bent on exposing the organization's corruption and secret agenda, albeit in the most maddeningly cryptic and elliptical fashion possible.

Truth is, Phase One was aimed at the Dwights of the world. And you know what? I think that's really, really neat. Seriously. But it wasn't for me. While I do have a Ph.D. in Lost-ology, the emphasis is in content — not UNLOCKING content. In retrospect, the 4-8-15-16-23-42 touchstone click code that was required to get into sublymonal.com in the beginning seems pretty obvious. But I have to admit, I never figured it out on my own — I got the answer from a fansite. TLE's tricky barriers of entry — amplified by my personal brand of cluelessness — discouraged me from giving the Experience much of my time during its early stage. When I did investigate, I basically cheated by going to fansites like thelostexperience.com and thelostexperienceclues.com to get codes and passwords. But a lot of times, I was content to make an every-other-day visit to The Lost Experience entry at wikipedia.org for its recap.

But then thehansofoundation.org crashed and Rachel Blake started hunting Alvar Hanso, and slowly, gradually, I got hooked on TLE. ''The Adventures of Rachel Blake'' represent the second act of The Lost Experience, and it has been much more accessible than the first act of TLE. Put another way: Act Two is for the Dwights and Michaels in the Lost Fan Nation, although Michaels like me are still relying on Dwights for help in finding Rachel's riveting video blogs. What I like best about TLE's Blake era is that it has introduced something like structure to TLE's amoeba of narrative. It centralizes the storyline at a single blog, which then directs you to locate content on other sites — like those aforementioned Hanso sites, or to the home of conspiracy sleuth DJ Dan, whose quick-and-painless podcasts are a little goofy, but important, nonetheless.

If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the intrepid Ms. Blake, my suggestion is this: head over to YouTube and check out their collection of her video blogs, then scroll through Blake's blog for more info. Yes, I'm asking you to take shortcuts into TLE, which may not be the most honorable way to ''play'' the Experience. But time is of the essence, as informed sources tell me that Act Two of TLE is about to come to a close, and that Act Three is about to launch. Says my secret Lost source: ''It's going to be a doozy.''

Which brings me to my dream, which bubbled forth from my Twin Peaks-steeped subconscious the other night, and might have been inspired by something I read at The Dharma Initiative entry over at wikipedia.org. Friends, the tip about the DHARMA acronym — I think it's true. And I think we're going to get more info about it very, very soon.

Moreover, my Lost gut tells me that something is going to happen. Something in THE REAL WORLD. My advice: visit ew.com over the next couple weeks, as we are going to be tracking developments as they happen. I think all Lost fans — the Dwights, the Michaels and the Jim/Pams — are going to want to be following this.

There's a lot we haven't yet discussed — like whether or not Rachel Blake is really Persephone, whether or not Rachel Blake is still alive, and perhaps most importantly, whether or not Rachel Blake is ACTUALLY WHO SHE CLAIMS TO BE. Of course, I have theories. And I have some COMPLAINTS, too, including quibbles about the illusion of its fiction/reality blur and some further thoughts on the validity of ABC's breakdown of Lost fans and the Big Truth that they're missing...

But first, I think we should all get on the same page. Let me know: have you been following The Lost Experience? What do you make of it? What's been cool about it — and what's been confusing? And are you a Dwight, a Michael or a Jim/Pam? I want to hear your feedback in the message boards below. Then, in the days to come, I'm going to do my best to offer answers and clarifications. And then, as new developments occur, we're going to dive into theories.

The meaty snack I've been hoping that TLE would be during the Lost hiatus is about to be served. Join me in scarfing it down, won't you?”

RACHEL BLAKE IMAGE POST # 1 & VIDEO & MITTLEWERK VIDEO

2006-07-17T18:50:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE IMAGE POST

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Rachel’s cover page has been updated and it now states that she is in Paris. Rachel, or someone very close to her, has posted again today on her secret site with an image of what looks like a garden and the user name and password for a website.

user naem: rblake
password: milkcartonman

Clicking on the images takes you to the

subLYMONal

website. In Rachel Blake's last post, Mel0drama commented and signed off by saying "LISTEN, LOOK, WATCH". At the subLYMONAL page type in the word LISTEN and you will be directed to the Tarib site. Clicking on his right eye (LOOK) opens a user I.D. and password window. Enter the information supplied by Rachel to WATCH the video.

Video transcription:
Darla, I’m sorry. I didn’t hold up my end of the deal. If it was a trap to get your girl here in Paris I wanted it on camera. But it wasn’t her that called and it could have been anybody. I thought the camera… maybe that could somehow save me. I arrived ten minutes early and waited (image of garden(?) on Rachel’s site) and waited. Maybe she showed, saw the glasses and knew I had the camera. Maybe she balked. I’ll never know. Remember this face? (Rachel pivots her laptop to show an image of a tragic accident) McIntyre, 38, Communications Director of the philanthropic, non-profit The Hanso Foundation apparently lost control of the vehicle. Officials pulled his body and that of Darla Taft, Corporate Liaison, for the Global Welfare Consortium from the submerged car. Initial ruling is that the crash was accidental. It was no accident. They were murdered. I, I can’t do this anymore. GidgetGirl, Darla, was a good person. We had a trust. I knew from the beginning but she was Hugh’s mistress and she knew that I was Persephone. (Gunshots through glass can be heard) Is someone shooting at me? Someone is shooting at me. (Phone rings and there is a pounding on the door a man says, “Open the door!” Rachel says, “Holy God!” and the camera goes dead.

Observations:

The image posted to Rachel’s site has a bullet hole through it (bottom right hand corner). Does this mean that she was shot at more than once today? Or, just a clue to say that the shooting had taken place? Also, Mel0Drama posted a number of comments in which he/she seems very panicked and fearful of Rachel’s safety.

MITTELWERK BROADBAND VIDEO

Mandrake Wig sent out a message to members of MySpace concerning new discussions at the ROT Verizon Forum today. Go to the Retrievers of Truth webpage

ROT

and enter the existing password (polar bear) to get the newest ROT discussion entitled, “How'd you like a greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray? - 07/14/06.” They direct us to the Broadband Stories site, with this entry: “DSLerator: 10:40am Good lord. This is horrific. Mittelwork promoting broadband” for a new video. Go to the Broadband site

Broadband Stories

Look for the link with the Hanso Foundation logo.

Transcription:

Intro: Business lives and dies on communication.

Page Intro: The President's Precedent

Communication is life blood of any company working to better Mankind.

Thomas Mittlewerk
President and Chief Technologist
The Hanso Foundation

In his role as President and Chief Technologist of The Hanso Foundation, Mr. Mittelwerk's leadership has ensured prodigious contributions to numerous scientific disciplines, all in the name of insuring a better future for the whole of humanity.

Visit The Hanso Foundation

Business lives and dies on communication and when your business is extending life and improving health, advancing technology to mend an injured planet, communication can literally mean the difference between life and death.

Text: As President and Chief Technologist of The Hanso Foundation, it is my job to make sure that the beneficial work of this multi-lingual, multi-national, multi-discipline organization reaches every one of the good people we are trying to help. THF isn't just about the cutting edge of science; it's about bringing people together, from prize-winning scientists to villagers in the developing world under the banner of "better living through innovation."

Without broadband we would be completely in the dark. Our ability to communicate relies on real-time video conferencing, uploading and downloading vast quantities of information and the lightening fast transmission of e-mail around the world and back. A lot of people think the medical, education, scientific advancements made by THF are a godsend. And they are right, but, if you ask me, it is the godsend of broadband that truly allows us to reach out for a better tomorrow and do what we must.

Observations:

The last few communications from Mittelwerk contained the words “darkness” and “dark” and he is wearing a white lab coat in both this video and the last commercial. Could they have meaning later on in the Experience? Why did Beatnik have boxes on his desk? Packing up and leaving? Could he be the person pounding on Rachel’s door just before the video went blank?

Retrievers of Truth Page Changes 07/15/06

Enter your e-mail address to receive the last e-mail from Wally. (Repeated here for your review).

“Dear friends,

Thank you for supporting the Retrievers of Truth. You unwavering loyalty and patronage are what keep me working so hard to get the truth out there about the Labrador. Things are going very well for the organization and for myself. I would not be speaking to you if it were not for your belief.

Today I would like to talk to you about something that has effected us all at one time or another - change. Change is the nature of existence. Do you think the now mighty and mentally superior Labrador retriever was always such a symbol of canine superiority? Definitely not.

I myself have experienced change in my life. An awakening or rebirth of sorts. And from that change came personal growth. A flowering, if you will. When a young yellow is but a pup he hasn't the slightest inkling of the changes he will endure. He goes though life as a pet only to later become the true master.

I can't tell you how to overcome change but I can tell you to look to the future. Aim for the stars. Pick a point in your mind that you want to reach and allow yourself to change - to adapt and be ready for anything that might come your way.

Like a wise old yellow once told me, "If I didn't change my mind, I'd be thinking the same things every single day.

Yours truly, Dr. Vincent "Wally" Bole”

The password "polar bear" no longer works on the Retrievers of Truth page. The following can be found in the source code of the ROT page and works as password for the ROT Newsletter login: "1CF11D16-C378-4D5A-B038-00DF9ED171FF"

Update: July 18th, 2006 - New ROT Verizon Forum login: E72CDBF5-94FA-465C-BE5D-0138AE32E38BANDNOITDONTMEANNOTHIN

HANSO FOUNDATION COMMERCIAL # 7 07/12/06

2006-07-12T18:45:00.000-05:00

It has been a long time coming but it looks like we have another commercial from the Hanso Foundation. Dr. Thomas Werner Mittelwerk is the centerpiece of this commercial which aired during the episode “23rd Psalms” of Lost tonight.

Mittelwerk is seen in a white lab coat in the lobby of The Hanso Foundation and the commercial is Presented by ABC, Inc.

Transcription:

Dr. Thomas Mittelwerk
President and Chief Technologist, The Hanso Foundation

“Spirited debate…
It’s the cornerstone of our philosophy, here at the Hanso Foundation. We’re reaching out to a better tomorrow and that means listening to our critics, even those who would lob unfounded claims from the darkness. We’re confident in our mission. That’s why we invite you – talk about us, discuss our accomplishments and continued progress.

We are here for you.
Thank you and Namaste.”

Is there a clue here somewhere? I have been looking at the transcript for quite some time and only “unfounded claims from the darkness” and “spirited debate” stands out. It is a strange way to say this. I wonder if it is a clue of some sort?

Note: The shutdown THF.org site has been changed with new text that reads: "Click here to see a statement by Dr. Werner Mittelwerk, President and Chief Technologist of the Hanso Foundation." The entire statement contains a hot link to the Mittelwerk Hanso Commercial # 7 that we've already seen. The text reads Werner Mittelwerk, but the commercial tells us that this is Thomas Mittelwerk. Strange difference here...

RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 06

2006-07-12T18:39:00.000-05:00

Personal note:
Traveling on business…
Room 423 Undisclosed Hotel, San Diego, CA.

The Post:
Rachel has created an entry today in which she says she received a phone call. Since no one knows where she is she recorded it here:

Phone call portal

User Name: RBlake
Password: FalseDegree

This site requires a user name and password. Enter the information provided by Rachel, click select and you can either listen to the file or download it here:

GidgetGirl phone call

Transcription:

Rachel: Hello? Hello?

Woman: Yeah.

Rachel: Who is this? Hello?

Woman: Just another Monday morning quarterback.

Rachel: GidgetGirl? How did you find me?

GidgetGirl: Is that really important?

Rachel: Where have you been?

GidgetGirl: Hiding! Which is what you should be doing.

Rachel : I am hiding.

GidgetGirl: If I can find you so can they! But they’re leaving you alone for some reason. Why, Rachel?

Rachel: I can’t… Why are you calling now.

GidgetGirl: No! Don’t do that! Don’t avoid the question.

Rachel: I’m not!

GidgetGirl: It doesn’t make sense. For me, I’m involved. The man I love, say what you will about him, about us, he’s involved. I can’t get away, but you… Rachel you’ve a choice.

Rachel: Like you had a choice to fall in love with a married man? I don’t have a choice. I have to do this and I’m sorry but I can’t tell you any more.

GidgetGirl: (Pause) I have something for you. A package. I think it’s time we met.

Rachel: Where?

GidgetGirl: Here, in Paris.

Rachel: But I’m in Italy, I can’t…

GidgetGirl: Tomorrow. Check your e-mail. I’ll send you the meet location. It’ll be encoded but you’re smart. That shouldn’t be a problem.

Rachel: And how will I know you? What’s your name? Please? You know my name!

GidgetGirl: You made it clear… That’s all I know. (Pause) You’ll know me.

Rachel: O.K.

GidgetGirl: One more thing…

Rachel: What’s that?

GidgetGirl: No cameras! You’re reckless Rachel and reckless will get me killed.

Observations:

The password FalseDegree brings back memories of Mittlewerk's fake degree at CalTech. And the reference to “Monday morning quarterback” goes back to a conversation between Rachel and GidgetGirl when Rachel said the very same thing. It seems to me that some of the clues here are circling back on themselves.

The voice of GidgetGirl sounds very much like Darla from the Hanso Call Center who left a message concerning Sri Lanka for Hugh McIntyre in the very first clue of the Experience. There is no doubt in my mind that they are one and the same. But is that a South African, British, or Australian accent? And now we know that GidgetGirl/Darla is Hugh’s love interest.

Rachel is to meet GidgetGirl in Paris. She will receive an encoded e-mail disclosing the location. I assume that the e-mail will also help her recognize GidgetGirl when they meet or perhaps Rachel already has photographs of GidgetGirl (see the GWC badge in an earlier post). But what could the package be? And why Paris? Even with the warning not to I’m willing to say Rachel will bring a camera and a recording device to this meeting.

D.J. DAN PODCAST 07/10/06 & RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 05

2006-07-10T15:06:00.000-05:00

D.J. DAN PODCAST 07/10/06

A new D.J. Dan podcast was posted today on the Let Your Compass Guide You website:

Compass

Go to the site, click on the 108 degrees, enter “Y” to the question and find the owelles folder. Click on the file named DJDan7-10-Pod posted on 10-June-2006 10:09 (Notice incorrect Month entry here.) (Also, refresh the page if you do not see the file when first entering the folder.)
Filename “Where’sAlvar_Jeep” Running Time 4 minutes 58 seconds. You can also find the podcast on the D.J. Dan site under the podcast archives. Click on 7/10 to hear it.

Transcription:

“Announcer: Coming to you live from the bug planted in your head.

Singing: D. J. Dan.

Announcer: You’re listening to D. J. Dan. Shutting down the man!

Background static.

D. J. Dan: Get your dialing fingers ready Conspiraspies. It’s time for the first installment… of our brand new spanking series: Where’s Alvar?! Now, if you’ve been following the work of our dream girl, whistle-blowing, investigative, whippersnapper, Rachel Blake, who may or may not be the hacker Persephone, who in true Conspiraspy fashion literally shut down the Hanso foundation website, then you know she’s having a little bit of a problem. See, she’s hitting a lot of dead ends, most of them circulating around the fact that she can’t seem to locate the man with all the answers, the ring leader himself Alvar Hanso. Tonya, ah, where do you think Alvar Hanso is?

Tonya: Ah, standing right behind you?

D. J. Dan: What? What? Whoa! (Laughs) (Tonya laughs) Right, almost gave me a heart attack Tonya, see, I got, ah, one of those actual size cardboard cutouts of Hanso standing right back there in the corner. Printed it from that Narvik photo, and Tonya knows I have a bad memory. Anyway, back to topic. I wanted to help Rachel find Hanso. So, I thought to myself, self, you’ve got a worldwide network of eager Conspiraspies and most of them have two very curious eyes. So I’ve decided to put those eyeballs to use Conspiraspies. Have you seen Alvar Hanso? Have you had a run in with the man himself? Then give us a call. First caller… Brad from Mitchiana.

Brad: Ah, Michianna.

D.J. Dan: Yeah, whatever. Where the hell is Michianna?

Brad: Southwest Michigan, Northwest Indiana, we’re sparsely populated D.J. Dan.

D.J. Dan: And I can see why. Bradley, where’s Alvar?

Brad: Well, O.K., I’m pretty sure I saw him at a Mr. Cluck’s. He was eating a family bucket, like, all by himself.

D.J. Dan: Breasts or legs and thighs?

Brad: Ah, I think it was legs and thighs.

D.J. Dan: Shutdown! Billionaires do not eat legs and thighs. It’s a fact. Look it up. Andrew from the San Fernando Valley. Like, totally, Andrew, where’s Alvar?

Andrew: Dan I was visiting a friend at the Santa Rosa Hospital For The Mentally Ill and I could swear I saw a guy that looked just like Hanso talking with the doctors.

D.J. Dan: Intriguing, we know these guys are into the mentally ill. When was this Andrew?

Andrew: About two months ago.

D.J. Dan: Two months ago? Shutdown! Useful information only people, come on, come on. Lindsey from N.Y.C. You're on baby

Lindsey: Hey Dan, I was doing a photo shoot of a soccer stadium in L.A. and I swear Hanso was running a tour de staid.

D.J. Dan: And what in the holy-heck fire is a tour de staid Lindsey?

Lindsey: Where you run up and down all the stairs in a stadium.

Dan: Shutdown! Recent estimates put Hanso at somewhere near 112 years old. I don’t care what kinda life extension drugs they’re pumping into the old boy, hey, I couldn’t run a sewer des staid when I was 20, O.K.

Tonya: I think that might be more of an individual problem, D.J. Dan.

D.J. Dan: Tonya, don't make me come into the producer's booth!

Tonya: Hah, if we had a producer's booth.

DJD: Yeah, okay, sorry about that. Steve from Florida, where's Alvar?

Steve: Hey, D.J. Dan, chtsk, you're awesome.

DJD: Yeah, I know that, where's Alvar?

Steve: Um... I know for a fact he was taking applications at an Army recruiting office in Tallahassee.

D.J. Dan: Shutdown! Everybody knows there ain't nothing but strip clubs and waffle joints in Tallahassee. And Hanso doesn't strike me as a desperate man. Tony from San Fran., where's Alvar?

Tony: I'm pretty sure I saw him in a hot air balloon.

D.J. Dan: O.K., O.K., that's a billionaire’s sport. Tell me, Tony, where were you at the time?

T: In a hot air balloon.

D.J. Dan: Shutdown! Speaking of hot air... O.K. Lightning Round! Just name the location, Nat, from Raleigh, go!

Nat: Yeah, Niagara Falls.

D.J. Dan: American or Canadian side?

Nat: Uh, Canadian?

D.J. Dan: Shutdown! Kevin from Des Moines, where's Alvar?

Kevin: Uh, uh, I'm pretty sure I saw him at a diner last night, a few miles from... here?

D.J. Dan: Populated or unpopulated road?

Kevin: Unpopulated.

D.J. Dan: Tanya, take down the info. Don from Athens, Georgia or Greece?

Don: Greece… [Laughs] By way of Georgia.

DJD: Okay, now I'm really confused. Where's Alvar?

Don: Uh, well, uh, I heard from a friend he went to a faith healer at Ayer's Rock in Australia.

DJD: Uh... on the fence with that… Don't know… Gonna have to go with... Shutdown! Hanso is the “Man”, and the “Man” ain't vibing with the faith healers. Okay, last call before the break, Nicolai, from Philly, Where's Alvar?

Nicolai: Hi, D.J. Dan, I’m frequent traveler and more than once in V.I.P. lounge Oceanic Air I've seen old European gentleman absolutely…

DJD: Mm-hmm.

Nicolai: …fitting Hanso's description, always with drink in hand.

DJD: And this alleged drink of yours, uh, what was it?

Nicolai: Look like he drinks Manhattan.

DJD: Shutdown! Now if you'd ‘ave said mineral water, I would have bit. Well folks, our journey today was most likely fruitless, but… keep those peepers peeled and tune in two weeks from now for another edition of Where's… Whoa! Tonya! Help me get rid of this cardboard cutout, c'mon. Let's get it out of here. It’s freakin’ me out!

Announcer: You're listening to DJ Dan, shutting down the man.”

A “Bounce”/Jeep Compass commercial follows the podcast.

Observations:

This episode of D.J. Dan’s podcast was filled with many Lost related references. I have listed them here (with some explanation) for review and research:

Persephone / Rachel connection: It looks like D.J. Dan is not buying into the Rachel is Persephone tie-in. Could it be a lie? P=RB as far as I'm concerned.
Southwest Michigan (Michianna): The DeGroots performed many of their psychological experiments at the University of Michigan.
Mr. Cluck's Chicken: Hurley’s employer and mentioned in “Bad Twin” as a place main character, Paul Artisan, had eaten in L.A.
Santa Rosa Hospital for the Mentally Ill: Hurley and Libby were patients here.
Tour de Staid: Jack and Desmond have both attempted this type of exercise (two episodes of Lost).
Life Extension Drugs: Kelvin, Desmond, Claire and Aaron took LED injections.
Army Recruiting Office: (was Kate from Tallahassee?) Kelvin was an officer. Was he also a recruiter?
Hot Air Balloon: The “real” Henry Gale, Mr. Cluck’s Chicken and Minnesota Metallurgy.
Niagara Falls: Bernard proposed to Rose at a restaurant overlooking the falls.
Diner (in Iowa): Kate's Mom worked at a diner.
Ayers Rock (Uluru): Is the world's largest monolith and an Aboriginal sacred site. It is Australia's most famous natural landmark. Bernard takes Rose here to be healed.
Faith Healer: Bernard takes Rose to a Faith Healer at Ayer’s Rock.
Oceanic Air: THE airlines in Lost.

Also, Narvik is in Norway. Why would D.J. Dan have a cutout of Alvar Hanso from a place never before discussed? Hmm… correct me if you think that Narvik is not what he said (Is there a Narvack somewhere?)

Update 07/11: Oops, I guess Narvik was mentioned before... The Spanish Doctor Perez wrote a letter to Hanso at his Narvik Villa, which was returned to her.

The next podcast is not scheduled until two weeks as D.J. Dan states in his 7/10 episode, “tune in two weeks from now for another edition.” I am not sure if this means that there will be another “Where’s Alvar?” edition podcast or just the D.J. Dan podcast in general. I guess we’ll have to wait until July 17th to find out.

RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 05

Rachel has created another entry today and it seems (if she is to be believed) that someone hacked her site?!? She applauds the players and explains that a very good hacker broke her security and posted the wrong newspaper files. Does any of this sound like damage control? At any rate, she does a shout-out to a dozen or so players (congrats to you all) and tells us that her silence the past few days concerned her own safety. Time will tell…

Then, Rachel asks us if we remember the Geronimo Jackson lyrics, “She left me on the boardwalk/With my head held in my hands...” And, of course, we don’t know of it because no one has ever been able to find this music. San Remo feels like a ghost town to Rachel because the Hanso people and the GWC folks left four days ago, the Valenzetti Equation is still unobtainable, and a certain large ship has departed port (or never was there), not to mention Alvar Hason is still missing.

Rachel bribed the harbormaster (on our advise?) but the Helgus Antonius appears to be a phantom ship. It never arrived in port and never departed. Either it was never there or the master was bribed sufficiently to keep quiet. Rachel says goodbye to her Widmore severance package which implies that she worked for them and confirms that Helgus Antonius means “Holy Flower”. She also thinks that St. Anthony, patron Saint of things lost, may also be important. Rachel again appeals to us, the players, for help as well as GidgetGirl. I assume we’ll be hearing from her very soon…

She also makes a point to tell us again about Mittlewerk's blood transfusion and inoculations. Must be important but I don't see how yet.

P.S. In my opinion this post DOES sound like Rachel and most likely is!!

From member Annalisa the following notes on Narvik:
"DJ Dan mentions that his life size picture of Hanso is from Narvik. If you look up Narvik, there is a huge port in that town and has its own website at

http://narvikhavn.imaker.no/ that can accept any type of ship with no depth restrictions, handling all types of ships. Is our ship going there? They call themselves the "strategic cargo link between east and west." And if you check out the history page, there is a picture from WWII of a german soldier. Alvar Hanso? I know he was a gun runner but nothing else is ever said about him during that time. Was he in the army helping people out as an inside spy?"

Also, there is a container crane here that has a lifting capacity of up to 42 tons of freight and "can handle all types of cargo." They also have a "deep water quay." Interesting that D.J. Dan should mention Alvar Hanso connected to this port city. Hmm...

RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 04

2006-07-06T16:21:00.000-05:00

There is a new entry on Rachel’s secret blog today. Sort of sparse but I am sure that there will be more coming shortly (there usually is). At any rate, Rachel followed Mittlewerk to the airport last night only to find that he was not in the car. A short dejected walk on the wharf? And she saw a 40 foot Hanso container being loaded onto this ship:

Note: Most anagrams I have seen for Helgus Antonius seem contrived, except for perhaps “A legion hunts us!” or the Latin "Lingua Honestus" (Honorable Speech). But I don’t believe that it is an anagram.) The ship seems to be heavily loaded (SPIDER PROTOCOL) and is heading out to sea. Some players say this ship is riding high in the water (read not heavily loaded) but I have yet to see someone with any expertise comment on that. What I see is a lot of containers on a ship heading out to sea. Is Mittlewerk on board? It looks like Rachel has been out-maneuvered here… can you say, Port Authority. If she can bribe a nurse I think a Port official should be next!

Update 07/11/06
Rachel took our advice (as quoted from her blog):
"...because, despite the bribe money I dropped on him (was nice knowing you, Widmore severance package), the harbormaster didn't waver in his account. Not even for a second. The Helgus Antonius never ARRIVED in Sanremo, and it never left."

And for additional information on Helgus and Antonius see the following:

Helgus

Antonius

RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 03 / D.J. DAN PODCAST 07/05

2006-07-05T16:25:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 03

Rachel has made a new entry to her back page today. Rachel has followed Mittlewerk to the Sanremo Mercy Memorial Hospital and went to the Alvar Hanso Center for Advanced Medical Sciences. Rachel links to the old Cape Town Inquisitor newspaper pages from the Worldwide Wellness and Development Program from the Hanso website here:

Capetown Inquisitor page

Then Rachel sends us to the “This is a Knife” website here:

This is a knife

Note: Click on the "Play Now" link and watch the commercials. At about the 3 minute 28 second mark we see static on the video, an image of Rachel Blake with the message "channel4.com/lost", the message "Reaching Out to a Better Tomorrow", and the message "Navigate to the Truth." Navigate your way to www.channel4.com/lost and at the left-hand sidebar you will find a hidden link under the "forums" link. Hint: move your mouse around until it becomes the hand. Click on the hidden link for the audio file Week3_Post3REV2

Transcription:

Rain (running water) and Jazz saxophone in background during conversation.

“Nurse Sophia: Did you bring the money?

Rachel: Yeah, I brought it

Nurse Sophia: That’s all of it? Give it to me.

Rachel: Just, just wait a second

Nurse Sophia: No money, no information.

Rachel: Look, I’m gonna give you the money, but I need to know you’re for real first. What was Mittlework doing at the hospital?

Nurse Sophia: I don’t know this Mittlework.

Rachel: Do you have any idea what these people are doing?

Nurse Sophia: Why should I care?

Rachel: I guess you shouldn’t, thanks. Good-bye.

Nurse Sophia: Wait, he was getting treatments.

Rachel: What kind of treatments? Why?

Nurse Sophia: You don’t want to be looking into these people. I’m sure you have a
mother that cares about you.

Rachel: My mother’s dead. She cared very much about me, but she’s gone.

Nurse Sophia: Is that why you’re doing this?

Rachel: Yes, it is.

Nurse Sophia: We gave him a blood treatment, an exchange transfusion.

Rachel: Is that what it sounds like?

Nurse Sophia: We replaced all his blood with fresh blood.

Rachel: Why would someone do that?

Nurse Sophia: I need my money.

Rachel: You said treatments, what else?

Nurse Sophia: We gave him injections, vaccinations mainly. Hep A, B, DTP, measles, different kinds of flues, typhoid, yellow fever, and they were proprietary formulation.

Rachel: I don’t understand, where would you be going that you would need so many vaccinations?

Nurse Sophia: You don’t have enough money for me to tell you that.”

Sound of footsteps walking away.

Rachel wonders why he would do that and so do we! Then Rachel links back to the letter from Dr, Perez in Spain on his world tour here:

Hospital Letter

So, Mittlewerk is preparing to visit “the/an” island and the SPIDER PROTOCOL still looms out there for us. Rachel again enlists GIDGETGIRL and her readers to post and help her out with this!

D.J. DAN PODCAST 07/05

The DJ Dan podcast for July 5th, has been posted. At the podcast archives page enter any text into the subLYMONAL ad at the top of the screen. You will see the word “Pyramids” appear (it does not matter what you type. The Pyramid icon at the bottom of the page will become an active link (turns yellow). Click on the pyramid icon to hear the podcast. Note: This may take a moment to load.

Cults_DharmaInitiative.mp3

(Running time: 3 minutes 34 seconds)

Transcription:

"Announcer: Coming to you live from Stonehenge.

Singing: D.J. Dan!

Announcer: You’re listening to DJ Dan, shutting down the man!

D.J. Dan: Yep, we’re coming to you live. I’m shutting down the man, that’s the plan so you don’t know the what hit the fan. So much for my hip hop career.

Tonya: Come on, Dan, you’re old school.

D.J. Dan: Yep, hang a grandfather clock around my neck that’s how old school I am. Speaking of... I call myself a DJ but how often do you ever hear me play music? Yeah, jump on that, Conspiraspies. (laughs) We’re having a good time today ladies and GMO’s we’re in our blue tracksuits. We have our name brand white sneakers. That’s right we’re celebrating the anniversary of Heaven’s Gate!

Background cheering. “Yeah”. “Alright.”

D.J. Dan: Cults, people, we’re talking about cults. Tanya, you got a favorite?

Tonya: Uh, what about those guys with the red scarves you know, who just said they cloned their leader?

D.J. Dan: Good one, but you know, you know I mean I have a soft spot for the Heaven’s Gaters, you know the, the sheer ambition just gets to me, okay. They killed themselves to hitch a ride on a comet. It’s kind of poetic. So my sweet Conspiraspies, are you in a cult? Were you in a cult? Are you about to drink the Kool-Aid? Are you making the Kool-Aid? Call us first, tell us all about it. Let’s take Mike from Texas. Suweee! Mike! Got a shotgun under the seat?

Mike: You betcha, D.J. Dan.

D.J. Dan: Don’t mess with Mikey. Mikey, what is your cult connection?

Mike: Well, I’m, I’m listenin’ to the Cult.

D.J. Dan: That’s a band you dink. People, do I have to explain? No self-respecting cult calls itself a cult! The Cult itself is not a cult and even if it spawned a cult it certainly would not be a cult. Shutdown! Bo from Minnesota, hear you, ah, spotted a cult in your hometown.

Bo: Yes, sir. My nephew joined these bald chanting guys, you know dancing, handing out flowers in the street.

D.J. Dan: Chanting guys! Chanting guys! They’re not a cult! Everybody knows they’re a, they're a front for extra terrestrials! Shutdown! Come on people, give me something real. Anthony from Petoskey, Michigan. That in the thumb, Anthony?

Anthony: Um, more in the pinky finger. Anyways, D.J. Dan, I think my grandma was in a cult.

D.J. Dan: Grandma’s don’t join cults. Shutdown! Just kidding. Continue, I am captivated.

Anthony: Um, well she was getting her doctorate in, I think, Psych at the University of Michigan in the 60’s, see. And she joined this group, I guess, called the Karma Imperative or something.

D.J. Dan: The Karma Imperative? Okay, now that sounds like a cult.

Anthony: Yeah! And um well, she told my mom about how she was going with, uh, the Karma Imperative to some place in the South Pacific.

D.J. Dan: Uh, island, continent, cruise ship? What are we talkin' about here? Come on give me somethin’.

Anthony: Um, she just said it was, I think, the Flame or the Fire?

D.J. Dan: Moving on, moving on.

Anthony: Well, they never heard from her after that! It was like, early 70’s when she went. Nobody at the University heard about the Karma Imperative. And well, they had like a funeral for her and, and everything!

D.J. Dan: Well that is a tragedy. A human, real-life tragedy. It makes me sick, Anthony. Sick! These repugnant, selfish, clannish, cronyish, mystical, brain- washing pieces of dung that take away our loved ones. Conspiraspies, you heard it. Anthony from Petoskey has lost his grandmother to the Karma Imperative. You know what to do. You know who you are. I need the dirt on Karma so we can find Tony’s granny and shutdown the man! Back after these messages.

Announcer: You’re listening to DJ Dan, shutting down the man."

Observations on the podcast:
Kharma Imperative = Dharma Initiative
Missing grandmother = Dharma Initiative employee
Flame or Fire = Flame Hatch

Next podcast coming on 7/10...

RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 02

2006-07-04T11:54:00.000-05:00

Rachel updated her blog again today and she is still in Sanremo (or San Remo for you purists). Rachel has recorded a “conversation” and apologizes for the bad sound quality (I think this may be for all the posts calling her an amateur earlier on). Click on the word “CONVERSATION” and you will be directed to this page:
http://au.blogs.yahoo.com/lost-ninja/ then under the “LOST RADIO” (left sidebar) is a link called “The Truth”. Click on that to get the following page:

Execs on the beach...

Rachel gives us the following log-in information:
User = rblake
Pass: = organharvest

Once you’ve enter the user name and password execs on the beach will reappear as a hot link. Click on it to hear the audio file named

No Yes Men!

Transcription:

“Thomas Mittlewerk: I admit that the fire sets us back but all we’ve really lost is time.

Unknown Woman: And Vigi Benoffski. If his family goes public…

Thomas Mittlewerk: They won’t! I’ve seen to that.

Unknown Woman: We’re already funneling millions into your mental programs without knowing if this equation is even…

Mittlewerk: You say it like its an insult, “Mental Programs.” The Mental Health Appeal is the centerpiece to all our future plans.

Peter Thompson: Tom, we’re not disputing the theory. But take a step back, how can we know with any real certainty that we are working with the real Valenzetti Equation?

Thomas Mittelwerk: Because Peter, I am certain!

Unknown Woman: What does Hanso have to say?

Thomas Mittlewerk: Hanso is totally on board.

Peter Thompson: Yeah, it’d be nice if he made an appearance.

Thomas Mittlewerk: You want to see Alvar Hanso, Peter?!? Why don’t you watch the orientation film, he talks all about the Valenzetti Equation. I’ll send you the DVD.

Peter Thompson: It’s not for me, Tom, it’s for our partners.

Thomas Mittlewerk: (Sighs) Then let me be clear… this IS the equation. Now, if you believe the web geeks legend says Valenzetti never even kept a copy of it for himself and that’s true. He offered it to the U.N. They didn’t want it! But Alvar Hanso did. Hanso wanted to carry out research. Good work based on the Valenzetti Equation and in exchange Valenzetti donated it to us.

Peter Thompson: No, he donated it to Alvar Hanso. We have no real way of knowing if he gave us the real equation.

Thomas Mittlewerk: Do I work for you, Peter or do you work for me? Who cured your cancer? Tell me? I want to hear you say it!

Peter Thompson: You did, Tom!

Thomas Mittelwerk: Then this conversation is over.

Sound of person walking away.”

Does the woman in this audio sound like Tonya or what? And did I detect a bit of the D.J. Dan sound quality to Peter Thompson’s voice? The plot just thickened!

Valenzetti Equation?

RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 01 / ROT VERIZON FORUM UPDATE

2006-07-03T17:19:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE ITALY POST 01

Rachel has updated her post again and this time she is in Italy. She’s given us the link (click on the word “VIDEO” for a log-in box) and the user I.D. and password. (It seems like Rachel had everyone doing a great deal of work just so she could supply us with the user I.D. and password. What was the sense of that?)
User name = rblake
Password = allveggie

This will take you to the “/welcome /your /next /video /needs /your
/experiences /check /tomorrow” page with a link called “clip”.
Click on the link to view the video week3_post01.mov

Or check it out here at YouTube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CIbAAYRQsrw

It seems that Mittlewerk, Thompson and McIntyre are all in Sanremo, Italy and are meeting with several members of the Global Welfare Consortium. Rachel looks and listens on with a pair of high-powered binoculars and a directional mic.
Rachel rattles off her clues so far:
1. The ship (via Mr. Paik)
2. The map
3. The island
4. The mathematicians in Iceland
5. The fire (VIK Institute)
6. The secret equation they’ve been working on

Mittlewerk is in Italy to meet with Enzo Valenzetti? Rachel does not feel that Valenzetti is dead. What does Mittlewerk want from the GWC? Rachel’s mom wanted to come to the Italian Riviera (what’s that about). “Goodnight Mrs. Calabash wherever you are” is a reference to a Jimmy Durante’s radio show signoff catchphrase.

Rachel also alludes to this document (SPIDER PROTOCOL):

"Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:53:06 - 0500
------>> To:
Subject: AP site
--------------------------------------------------
Team-
After careful scrutiny of the census figures, geological reports, customs inquiries and gepgraphical surveys prepared by yourselves and the experts at the CCS, the core group has deemed, regretfully, that site alpha--------

(4888), beta (1060), and delta (10120) remain unsuitable for carrying 00000000000000>>>> out the SPIDER PROTOCOL -- even taking into consideration the recommended parametric recalibrations. ---------

Despite my initial (and continued) retience, it seems that fate has dealt its card. We have no choice but to fall backto the original island target. While THF has not utilized the site for some time, its unique properties render it more than adequate for our purposes at this particular juncture.
Namaste.
TM
------------------------000>>&"

Red Green Blue = Blood Money Sorrow
Does anyone know Rachel’s middle name? Is she Rachel G. Blake? RGB?

Rachel adds the documents that comprise a single e-mail (above) from the GWC to Thompson and from that email, we know Mittelwerk has his eyes set on a single island and as Rachel says: "a location that probably rules out the Great Lakes or the regions depicted on those other maps my camera captured. But, as far as I can tell, it wouldn't rule out the map I saw of that island near the equator..."

And it now looks like Rachel wants every single bit of information concerning Enzo Valenzetti that we can find. I leave you with these:

http://www.valenzettiequation.com/

http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Enzo_Valenzetti
http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Valenzetti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valenzetti
http://thelostexperienceresearch.blogspot.com/
http://www.garytroupbooks.com/
http://www.valenzettifoundation.org/
http://www.valenzettifoundation.org/blog/
http://www.enzovalenzetti.com
http://www.thevalenzettiequation.com
http://www.valenzetti.com
http://www.globalwelfareconsortium.com/

See also:

Fermat's Last Theorem

Drake Equation (Sagan)

Armageddon Predicitons

The Fibonacci State Institute of Advanced Sciences does not exist.

ROT VERIZON FORUM UPDATE

And it looks like the guys at the Verizon Forum have substantiated the path to enter the user and I.D. and the password to Rachel’s new video under the thread named, “Now what do I do with all these words? - 07/03/06.”

RACHEL BLAKE ICELAND POST 03 / D. J. DAN PODCAST 06/30 / D.J. DAN WEBPAGE UPDATE / ROT CLUE UPDATE

2006-06-30T17:46:00.000-05:00

New updates included on Saturday, July 1st and Sunday, July 2nd.

Sorry for all the multiple posts at one time… I’ll explain later in this entry!

RACHEL BLAKE ICELAND POST 03

Armand Zander is now missing and Rachel went to his house where cops and reporters were milling about and rumors are flying that Zander set the fire at the VIK Institute. And to top it off Mittlewerk is gone again. Rachel has linked to D.J. Dan’s podcast which means she is listening. And the Valenzetti Equation looms heavier every day. And, wait for it… huge revelation… RACHEL is PERSEPHONE!! Remember we called it over a month ago!

Rachel Blake Update – Friday, June 30, 2006

Does Rachel Blake know who Russell Andrews is? She states in her update that he is "a random guest on a podcast known to exaggerate"! How would Rachel know that if she didn’t have some first-hand knowledge of Andrews? Mittlewerk is on the Italian Riviera and GIDGETGIRL knows from first-hand experience (not explained) that the Valenzetti Equation is one of the highest items on TWM's agenda.

D. J. DAN PODCAST 06/30

The D.J. Dan podcast has been posted today as well as an update. First the podcast… At the Retrievers of Truth page enter your e-mail address to the system. You will receive the following e-mail from Dr. Vincent "Wally" Bole:

Dear friends,

I want to thank you all for registering for my newsletter. Things in the world of Bole and the Retrievers of Truth are very exciting as of late. The RoT is getting worldwide recognition and I will be appearing on several television shows in Korea and Australia in the very near future.

The other day I was walking along the river, Bien Ecouter, near a friend's home in Switzerland. I was contemplating the nature of things and eating a buttercream torte when a yellow lab came out of nowhere and blocked my path. I stood motionless for what seemed like an eternity stunned by this intrusion all the while wondering what the creature's intentions were.

The yellow lab is a highly evolved creature, as I have stated on my website and in my many books. When they venture into our personal space it is usually for a reason and at this moment I could not fathom what this particular stranger wanted of me? Had he heard of me from other retrievers? Did he sense my willingness to communicate? Was this all just a coincidence?

After a few seconds our eyes locked and we communicated. He stated his name was "Wand Prowess." He then stated that I should remember his name, "not as it is but as it can be." Then he began what seemed like a poem, "In the Pacific I'm in the ocean bare, when I'm up north I'm the sea bear." I tried to question both statements but he just looked at me, turned and as he was about to walk away he said, "I'll leave you with two things to ponder" and he then turned and ran off. These are they:

Maslow's hierarchy

Keep who's eye on the prize?

I only tell you these tales of my journeys to entertain. But I do hope these incidents in my life will inspire you to look more deeply into your own. Yours truly, Dr. Vincent "Wally" Bole

PS: Consuming a diet high in fiber can be beneficial to the BLOOD.

Note: Bien Ecouter means "listen well" or "pay attention" in French.
"wand prowess" is an anagram for "new password".

From the above e-mail we note that the "ocean bear" and the "sea bear" are clues to the real password, which is "polar bear". "wand prowess" = new password = polar bear. Enter polar bear to the ROT e-mail box and you will be re-directed to the ROT Verizon Forum. Under the thread "By the power of gravy…" you will find this website listed:

D.J. Dan Podcast 06/30

Part 1
Announcer: Coming to you live, from the fire in your belly...
Singing: D.J.Dan…
Announcer: You're listening to DJ Dan, shutting down the man!
D.J. Dan: And I'm here talkin’ to Russ...
Russell: Russell
D.J. DAN: Yeah, yeah, Russell Andrews...
Russell: Who's...
D.J. DAN: Who, uh...
Russell: ...Who's here to tell yo...
D.J. DAN: Russell...
Russell: —that we are in a lot of trouble and most of us don't realize it!
D.J. DAN: Russell.
Russell: We have an ecosystem that...
D.J. DAN: I'm trying to be polite here, Russell.
Russell: Huh.
D.J. DAN: Tell us, what is your job?
Russell: Okay, I've already explained, I'm a mathematical forecaster, and...
D.J. DAN: Now, now, hold it right there, just hold. My listeners hear "Mathematical Forecaster" and (snaps fingers) they're disconnected. Now Russ, tell me, what does a Mathematical Forecaster do?
Russell: Okay, basically I use algorithms to forecast systematic...
D.J. DAN: Ah! You use math to predict the future! But Russ, nobody can predict the future.
Russell: Not true.
D.J. DAN: I repeat, nobody!
Russell: That's not true!
D.J. DAN: I don't care who you are. What you do. Who you pray to. What kind of computer power you're packing. What kind of degrees you're holding. What kind of tarot cards and star charts and tea leaves and coffee grounds and pig's blood and moon runes you read—you'd never ever predict what is coming out of my mouth right now. Gimme... give it a shot, come on, try, try, try...
Russell: Uh....
D.J. DAN: Six backward church dummies, you know, Madagascar? Huh?
Russell: So, so, so what?
D.J. DAN: So I just proved my point.
Russell: Look, DJ Dan, if what I'm saying is so far off the mark, tell me, why would the U.N. hire Enzo Valenzetti in 1963 to apply the laws of statistical probability to predict the future... of, of mankind?
D.J. DAN: Enzo Venza.. What, ah? What, ah?
Russell: En... Enzo Valenzetti. He was the greatest mind in mathematical history.
D.J. DAN: Then—then how come I ain't heard o’ him?
Russell: Because he died before his prime. He was piloting a plane from Naples to Paris, and it just... disappeared. He—he was killed, killed, DJ Dan, uh, to hide the truth.
D.J. DAN: And what truth might that be?
Russell: Uh, okay, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.N. decided to apply my field, uh to the problems of humanity. They hired this brilliant grad student, Valenzetti, to come up with an equation, that would help look into the future...
D.J. DAN: Alright, alright, alright, alright, Rusty...
Russell: ...of mankind. Russell.
D.J. DAN: Rusty, Rusty, Rusty, uh, what did this equation say?
Russell: Well, nobody knows. It was an oral presentation to the U.N., and then, then the whole thing's been suppressed. And he developed it on his, on his, own in seclusion.
D.J. DAN: Then, then how do you know this Valenzetti Equation even exists?
Russell: Because a book was written about it. I've been trying to get my hands on it for years, but it's out of print, and somebody just bought the original publisher.
D.J. DAN: Yeah, sounds like a real conspiracy theory, Rusty. And who, pray tell bought the publishing company?
Russell: The Hanso Foundation...
D.J. DAN: SHUTDOWN!! Very clever, Russ, very clever, but I've seen enough parlor tricks in my day to know when I'm being had. Next caller!
Part 2
Woman: Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to shut down your callers, D.J. Dan.
D.J. DAN: Oooh, a feisty one. You, uh sound way too hot to be one of my ConspiraSpies, so who am I talking to here?
Woman: Here's what I know. Remember your VIK Institute show?
D.J. DAN: Mmm-hmm.
Woman: Mental hospital run by the Hanso Foundation full of number-crunching savants in the mysterious third basement?
D.J. DAN: Yeah, yeah.Woman: I know for a fact it's full of mathematicians. And those savants? They're running an equation over and over. It's just like what you said. Mittlewerk doesn't want a data trail.
D.J. DAN: So, uh, so, so what. So you think they're running this, uh... Valentiki equation? Woman: Guess you are as smart as you look.
D.J. DAN: Oh-ho-ho-ho. If I wasn't married I'd take you to the Puerto Rican beach where I grew up and marry you on the spot!
Woman: Too bad you're married.
D.J. DAN: (In Spanish - Well, ah, maybe you can humor me and... uh tell me what you're, uh what you're wearing, please? )
Woman: You want to know what I'm wearing? Something cute!
D.J. DAN: Oooh.
Woman: Too bad the Hanso Foundation wants me dead. You'll never get to see.
D.J. DAN: Wait a minute, who is this really?
Persephone: Persephone.
D.J. DAN: What… Persephone? Tonya!... Quick… Perseph…Tonya, quick! Trace the call, trace the call right now, trace it, c'mon!
Tonya: Trace it?
D.J. DAN: Go...just...get...go...
Tonya: With my pencil?
D.J. DAN: Just—aww… D.J. Dan, more in love than ever before.
Announcer: You're listening to D.J. Dan, shutting down the man!

So, it looks like Persephone (Rachel) and D.J. Dan have finally made contact. We wonder what that might mean? And the MF (and what does that stand for?) seemed to know more about Valenzetti than just about anyone else I’ve heard… including Gary Troup. Who is Russell Andrews? And is he now “in-game”? Valenzetti died in a plane crash… then simply disappeared? Which one is it Russell? And why would Rachel want to talk to D.J. Dan now? Stay tuned!!

Next podcast coming on 7/05...

D.J. DAN WEBPAGE UPDATE

Eyes on the Man – Who We’re Looking at This Month

Seeing as the page has been up since May shouldn’t it be “Who We’re Looking at Every Other Month”? At any rate, D.J. Dan has got his eye on Dr. Thomas Werner Mittlewerk:

ROT CLUE UPDATE - SET 1 (DSLerator)
WELCOME (From the Cabaret clue, translated from Wilkomen)
YOUR ("25 15 21 18" clue given over AIM by DSLerator)
NEXT (From the Mandrake Wig Myspace quiz - Question 3)
VIDEO (Also from the Mandrake Wig Myspace quiz - Question 4)
http://myspace.com/mandrakewig
NEEDS (Maslow's hierarchy of "needs" -ROT newsletter)
YOUR (Keep who's eye on the prize? -ROT Newsletter)
EXPERIENCES (Mandrake Wig Flikr Page - "Direct Observation")
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandrakewig
CHECK (ROT clue - "You get it from the waitress! THE END")
TOMMRROW (Guessed by player Acts4Food)

Then at:
http://richerdeeperbroader.com
enter the following extensions to the website and a log-in box appears.
/welcome /your /next /video /needs
/your /experiences /check /tomorrow
Still checking for the user name and password.

Admin Log-in

And confirmed on the Mandrake Wig site with his post from June 29th.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Thank you all.

I want to WELCOME and thank all my new MySpace friends for visiting my page and reading my thought and mental excursions. I enjoy your questions and comments immensely. I hope you understand that at times I cant really answer all of YOUR questions with the specificity most of you would like. NEXT time you ask questions Ill try my hardest to supply as much information as I can provide.

One of my other hobbies is photography. I try to take interesting pictures and VIDEO as often as possible. As a young adult I often envisioned myself a young photojournalist getting the breaking story for the national news magazines... ah those childhood dreams and ambitions. So I really wanted to give my totally amateur photos a nice viewing place and found the gallery on MySpace to be wanting.

When I first joined MySpace I met a lovely lady named Lena. When she learned of my off-hours interest in photography she pointed me to a site called Flickr. If you get a chance or have some time take a look at my photos. And thanks again Lena for your helpful generosity, your discretion, and for just being you. You can meet some of the nicest people on MySpace. Enjoy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandrakewig

ROT CLUE UPDATE - SET 2 (Fiberoptician)
BLOOD
MONEY
SORROW

Complete transcript (all three documents together):

"Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:53:06 - 0500
------>> To:
Subject: AP site -
-------------------------------------------------
Team-
After careful scrutiny of the census figures, geological reports, customs inquiries and gepgraphical surveys prepared by yourselves and the experts at the CCS, the core group has deemed, regretfully, that site alpha

-------- (4888), beta (1060), and delta (10120) remain unsuitable for carrying 00000000000000>>>> out the SPIDER PROTOCOL -- even taking into consideration the recommended parametric recalibrations. ---------

Despite my initial (and continued) retience, it seems that fate has dealt its card. We have no choice but to fall back

to the original island target. While THF has not utilized the site for some time, its unique properties render it more than adequate for our purposes at this particular juncture.

Namaste.
TM
-----------
-------------000>>&"

So perhaps I am wrong and the BLOOD clue is “in-game” or are there two BLOOD clues happening at the same time? It just didn’t (and doesn’t) seem right to me… oh, well… you can’t be right all the time. I apologize for my rant yesterday but I am still feeling a bit miffed that TPTB would not include everyone in all the clues. Onward!!!

A note concerning the Dick Cheever webpage (see sidebar for link):
The way to know for sure if the Dick Cheever's Blog is "in-game" is to find out if "the fixer" is named Paul. Cheever names him in his blog. If this turns out to be true then Dick is "in-game". I've been told that the Cheever website was first found in the source code at Broadband Stories.com but have been unable to find it myself. However, with the quickness that some clues, videos, messages, etc. are removed from their host sites that should not be an indicator.

And a personal note to the loyal readers of this blog. Thank you for your continued support. I have been on vacation the past week and apologize for my very late postings (most done extremely late at night.) We will be returning home tomorrow and will update as frequently as things change… no matter which "in-game" venue it comes from. Again, thanks for reading!

RACHEL BLAKE ICELAND POST 02

2006-06-29T16:53:00.000-05:00

Rachel has updated her post again today and it seems she is definitely reading the comments. For all those with negative criticism please remember that it does nothing towards moving things forward and is only distraction from the important things. For those of you with valid important ideas, thoughts or observations please keeping posting. Let’s all move more towards helping Rachel find out what is really going on and to help find Alvar Hanso. Enough said, on to the post.

It seems Rachel believes that Gary Troup had no idea what was going on at the VIK Institute and I agree. I am sure there was a lot that he did not know concerning things in Iceland. The Valanzetti Equation is, no doubt, important but we will assuredly have to wade through much more before we see the end of this. And there is NO PROOF that the equation they are talking about is THE Valenzetti Equation or that the VE has anything to do with the hieroglyphics.

So, the glyphs are those used by the savants (and in the hatch) and seem to mean “Death” or something close to that in definition. Should we look at the glyphs one by one? Rearrange them? What might that mean?

And to top it all off… Zander does not answer his cell phone and his e-mail bounces back each time Rachel tries to e-mail him. Something is rotten in, uhm, Iceland!

An addition was posted to Rachel's secret site today:
01.53 P.S. ROT

BLOOD Verizon ROT Clue?

Just a word on the clue (or whatever it may be) that is being reported on some of the forums. When a clue, by virtue of the method it is obtained, is so arcane and as oddly hoop-jumping as it is reported being then we have trouble believing it to be a true and actual clue. Perhaps, the BLOOD clue is real but we will personally feel deeply disappointed and surprised if turns out to be an “in-game” clue. It seems odd that only those who own a particular software program should be able to view and find these clues seems rather suspect to us. The developers of the Lost Experience have only reached out to the world masses in the greatest ways possible: television commercials, hard cover novels, large endorsed partnerships, websites, etc. Why would they purposely eliminate a majority of fans from playing this portion of the game? It does not make sense to us. We, therefore, group this clue with the AIM / Verizon chats and Save Joop clues that, at least to us, seem to be diversionary at best. While fun and even entertaining in there own right, so far, none of those clues have had any bearing on helping Rachel move forward towards her goal. In retrospect, almost every major “in-game” clue obtained to date was done so by a method of searching, deduction, reasoning, hard work and even a bit of luck but when you have to stand on your head, close one eye, open Photoshop and squint… well that’s where we think the whole thing has literally jumped the dharma shark (pun intended). We will continue to monitor and observe and report on any clues that we feel are noteworthy but will stay away from wasting time on what we feel are diversions. In the end, we hope that our reporting is judged on what we have found to be truly “in-game” and not based on guesses.

VERIZON FORUM ROT CLUES

The clue within a hint inside a clue near a hint…
The first word was the first word in the first song of Cabaret. That is 'Wilkommen' which is Welcome. The second was given by DSLerator on AIM in a code that spelled Your. The third and fourth came from Mandrake Wig's blog on Myspace in his 3rd and 4th Jeopardy clues which are Next and Video. So we're assuming that it spells out 'Welcome! Your next video...' and the last two words are????

RACHEL BLAKE ICELAND POST 01

2006-06-28T23:00:00.000-05:00

Well, Rachel has reached Iceland and her front cover page has been updated with the typical tourist information. In her secret blog page however, she directs us to the following page from a poster named UdonPaul331 who is from the same city (Kolobrzeg, Poland) as Vigi Benoffski.

http://benoffskimemo.blogspot.com/

Transcription:
“Dear ColleaguesI am taking a short job-related leave of absence in the months of June through August to spend quality time with the family and prepare for the Pattern Theorem speech for the 2006 New Millennium Symposium of Mathematics and Statistics in Perth, Australia. During this time I will not be reachable. Please take care of all the student and faculty issues as soon as possible.Sincerely,Vigi Benoffski”

The memo is in Polish and roughly translated (by Rachel) seems to say Benoffski was to appear at a mathematics symposium in Perth, Australia but the dates overlapped with the SAME DATE he died in the fire in Iceland. Something going on there and some players think he may have been lying. Chrck out Pattern Theory when you have a moment… remember Hueristics?

Rachel is staying in the capital city of Reykjavik of Iceland but made a trip to Vik and the VIK Academy (? What happened to the Institute?) The place was crawling with local police and reports and Armand Zander even made an appearance. Mittelwerk and a few of his henchmen (always wanted to use that word but never found the right place to do it) were also there.

Rachel also links to the VIK letter from Zander to Thompson (see post from yesterday) and evidently convinces him to see her. She has buried the video on the web again and expects us to locate it! Evidently he mentioned an enclave of world-renowned mathematicians. Rachel poses this question and I believe it is very important. Time will tell!

Why would Mittelwerk have these mathematicians hiding in a mental hospital, running some arcane equation through the brains of a bunch of autistic savants?

Clicking on the word “Video” in Rachel’s blog redirects you to the Gary Troup webpage. There were two ways to access the video (through the links page, either modem or broadband) but they were removed from the site. A few smart players preserved the video at YouTube at the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMS-S0wms6c

The video seems to be a discussion between our hero Rachel and Armand Zander, Director of the VIK Institute.

Here are my observations and thoughts:
1. Rachel pretends to be a concerned citizen. Zander ain’t buying it!
2. Rachel tells him that she has read his memo about the mathematicians, the savants and the third basement level.
3. She wants to know why Vigi Benoffski was at the VIK Institute.
4. The third basement is not full of mental patients they are the world’s finest mathematicians. Paid to work undercover and in secret but some of them are working under duress and not of their own free will. They work night and day on an equation (Valenzetti?).
5. The savants are autistic savants with computation powers are unsurpassed. They are running the equation over and over again.
6. The equation is a group of representational symbols that resemble Egyptian hieroglyphics. There are five or six symbols (our hatch symbols, no doubt). A vulture, a staff… Rachel asks to see the symbols.
7. Zander confronts Rachel… asks who she is and why she is involved but Rachel states that the answer to that question is a dangerous piece of information.

http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Hieroglyphics

Last but not least, the Verizon Forum guys are directing people to go to the Mandrake Wig site (see sidebar.) Can you say red herring?

RACHEL BLAKE COPENHAGEN POST 07 / ROT & AIM / GARY TROUP 7 of 9 / SAVE JOOP WEIRDNESS

2006-06-27T23:32:00.000-05:00

RACHEL BLAKE COPENHAGEN 07

Looks like Rachel is still in Copenhagen hanging on to the hope that she’ll learn more. She knows that there is AN island at the zero degree latitude line that was not picked up by her camera. She states that Mittlewerk must be looking for multiple islands.

In the mean time, GIDGETGIRL has reappeared and given Rachel some solid clues. Click on GIDGETGIRL under the “Contributors” on Rachel’s site for more information or check out her blog at GIDGETGIRL's Blog
If you remember, we saw this VIK Institute letter (see transcription below) and visiting GIDGETGIRL’S blog reveals the second letter (image below.)

“The VIK Institute

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
Dr. Armand Zander, M,D., PhD.Director,
The VIK Institute
870 Vik, ICELAND

Dr. Thomas Werner Mittlewerk

The Hanso FoundationOrsund Klegvjiel 544DK 1604 Copenhagen V Den-markDr Mittelwerk:

It is with profound anger that I submit this complaint. I understand The Hanso Foundation prides itself on experimentation and innovation – but what is going on in my own hospital has left me extremely confused about my mission.

I was recruited to the directorship of the Vik Institute with a promise that I would be given the cutting edge of technology for the benefit of my patients. Instead, I find myself prisoner in a hall of mirrors.Day in and day out, new doctors not on my staff enter and exit the hospital. Last night, twenty of my autistic savant patients were administered secret proprietary memory tests without my consult or consent by doctors whom I have never seen before – and then there is, of course, the third sub-basement.

Never in my twenty years of treating the mentally ill have I seen the like. A secret ward containing patients who illness is unknown to the hospital’s director? It is, I regret to say, absurd and offensive.I am responsible for the lives of hundreds of patients, but I cannot, in good conscience, take that responsibility if I am hamstrung by a secret program of experimentation taking place under my own nose.

The bottom line is, I expect a full account of the activities taking place in my hospital. If you are unable, or unwilling to comply, I may just be forced to tender my resignation.

Regretfully yours,
Armand Zander.”

So, GIDGETGIRL is now “in-game” and we should be watching for messages from her from now on. Rachel seems to have placed her trust in her and that is not an easy thing to do, or so it seems. She has even removed the photos of Hugh McIntyre and his “friend.” GIDGETGIRL also tells Rachel that Mittlewerk has flown to Iceland to clean up a mess at the VIK Institute (obviously the Institute in the phone call to the fixer yesterday.) Rachel is heading to Iceland.

We Googled the names from the Vik article but did not come up with anything of interest. We do think that Vigi Benoffski was most likely Polish, Janos Backh was probably Hungarian, Orhan Hikmet Ran was most likely Turkish and Vikram Sahani was probably Indian. Why people from such diverse parts of the world? Scientists? Experimental subjects?

ROT and AIM

It seems that the guys at the Verizon Forum are truly and in real-time conversing with members of AIM and are planning something BIG. For many reasons we cannot monitor AIM. Here is the website for those who are interested http://www.aim.com/ and we would be obliged to anyone who monitors AIM and converses with the ROT guys to e-mail us with any updates that may be of interest.

GARY TROUP INTERVIEW # 7

The 7th Gary Troup video can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdTkNWzl6Qk

Transcript:

“Book Talk”, Show #: 1523, Guest: Gary Troup, Date: 16 Sept. 2004, Length: 37, Clip 7 of 9

Gary Troup: I’m an inveterate bachelor. I mean I never even thought about coming close to getting married until, you know, I started doing research for “Bad Twin”.

Laird Grainger: Which required lots of travel to Australia.

Gary Troup: Eight times, actually.

Laird Grainger: (laughs) Eight?

Gary Troup: Yeah, I’m kind of a research fanatic. Anyhow, a large part of the book takes place down there, so.

Laird Grainger: Of course, your love for deep sea fishing and the barrier reef had nothing to do with it.

Gary Troup: Hey, hey, com’ on, that’s research.

Laird Grainger: (laughs again)

Gary Troup: Anyways, you either coincidently or by fate there is this incredible woman, uh, Cindy. Ah, she’s a flight attendant…

Fade out. Color bars.

SAVE JOOP (WEIRD & STILL OUT-OF-GAME!)

I am not a big fan of SaveJoop.com and still do not consider it to be “in-game” although all the other followers of the game seem to consider it important. I am not convinced. There has never been anything of importance come from the site. It’s cute, fun and even a bit clever but “in-game” it is not. For those who wish to spend a few idle hours playing, some changes have occurred at Save Joop.

Clicking on the quote by Van Gogh takes you to the new MySpace page for Save Joop (Random Shirts). A link to

Sit On A Monkey

which is another odd Hanso Foundation demonstration site. Find the post entitled “108” and check out the comments. This comment explains a lot:

David,

Things are heating up. In case we can't get to a computer...here's what happened:

About a week ago, when we hit 10,000 signatures, we started emailing Hugh like 20 times a day. Within 24 hours of the first email a courier hand delivered a cease and desist letter from Peter Thompson.

We replied via email that we would only "cease and disist" our actions once they gave us evidence of Joop's health and safety.

3 Days later we received a restraining order from some US District Judge demanding we end all Hanso related activity on our website and even prohibiting us from talking about it.

We didn't budge.

Then the phone calls started. We're also pretty sure we're being followed. We haven't been SHUTDOWN yet but we're know the time is coming soon. We're on the run.

Decided Rachel shouldn't be the only one out there doing the dirty work so we're heading to Tanzania incognito ("like Alias" as Rach would say) with the guidance of our friend Autumn. Problem is, we can't leave until August.

We know you're skeptical...Trying to figure out a way to show you the documentation to prove what we're saying is true.

Remember to let your compass guide you...only your conscience can open up the box which contains the truth.

A few additional comments by the SaveJoop people will direct you to the following connected pages:
http://www.box.net/public/m0f2z0astl
PeterThompsonLetter
http://www.box.net/public/maeg4z27h0
Restraining Order
and use the Compass clue “DI 9FFTR731” for both passwords.

RACHEL BLAKE COPENHAGEN POST 06 / ROT UPDATE / WTK VIDEO

2006-06-26T23:15:00.000-05:00

Another very busy day...

RACHEL BLAKE COPENHAGEN 06

Rachel’s newest update takes us back to the Compass page at http://www.letyourcompassguideyou.com/
In the parent directory find the “trash/” folder. You’ll find an old friendly image that I called “the Buddha Mouthpiece”, which is the copy of the old Jeep advertisement with the Buddah and “the mouth piece.” (file name 139191991471518711419.jpg) Obviously this is a password? or information that we will need later. Also found here is a file name “illumination”. Click on it and you’ll be taken to a Jeep Compass commercial website. Note: This video is also available through the owelles folder. Click on the B/0/0/G/10/5/5/16/3/15/13/16/1/19/19 (2007 Jeep Compass) file and you will also be redirected to the same Jeep Compass commercial.

Through a great deal of trial and error the correct path to Rachel’s video can be found like this… At the Jeep page, click “Interior” (in the sidebar left), then "In Back" (top left) and then click on "Removable Flashlight” (center rear). A video will appear. Click on "View Demo" and you will be taken to Rachel's new video!

From the video we find a few pieces of information repeated by Rachel and a bit of the SPY coming out in her too! Mittlewerk is still very interested in the Hanso family shipping history, its involvement in the slave trade and the investigation of “the island by the equator.”

Rachel is also very interested in Hugh McIntyre and his relationship with the unknown woman from Global Welfare Consortium which she says is suppose to monitor groups like the Hanso Foundation. And Paik is indeed responsible for building the ship for the Hanso Foundation.

And the (Cheering from the upper deck)… We see Rachel in her role as an action adventure movie star (well sort of). She is interrupted by a fixer (who is the same man as Mittlewerk’s bodyguard? Associate? Business partner?) While he is rummaging through Rachel’s things he gets a call, presumably, from Mittlewerk.

"Yes? Of course, I’m working. What fire? O.K., Which institute? If you need me I’ll gladly be there... You hired me to fix things... When I’m finished here." Hmm…

We find that Rachel has a bit of spunk. She knocks out the fixer (actually hits him twice when he starts to get up. GO RACHEL!!!!) Mittlewerk has left Denmark and she is short of funds. Rachel is now on the run. It is certain that her next post will not be from Copenhagen. Stay tuned… Things are really starting to get interesting.

ROT VERIZON FORUM UPDATE 06/26/06

The guys from Verizon are at it again too… again another busy day!

Partial (but important) conversation:

DSLerator 3:57pm Yeah... hints to a clue that will lead you to a clue. The answers are words that are right in front of your face on the pages of http://richerdeeperbroader.com/. Now I know some of you are already moaning, "corporate shill!" and to that I say, "HEY... this is where we work. It's where we can do what we gotta do on the DL." If we worked at Happy Larry's Chicken & Waffles, you can bet we'd be sending you there.
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iobiSeeingYou 4:21pm For security reasons, we'll be posting these hints in a lot of different places and you gotta find them. Then you gotta find the words that answer them. Once you get them all, and we mean all, you can use them.

BroadBandBeatnik 4:24pm So basically y'all gotta be on the lookout daily for a hint to where to find the hint that will lead you to the clue that will lead you to the clue to THE CLUE.
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iobiSeeingYou 4:30pm Ok then.... The first word in the first song in Cabaret

("Guttentagen"?) or ("Welkommen"?)

MORE FROM WILLIAM T. KILPATRICK 06/26/06

At the main compass page you will find a hot link between the 252 and 216 degree areas. Clicking on this will bring up a prompt log-in Admin screen. Through more trial and error it was determined that the username is “wtk” (lower case, which is our Jeep Executive, William T. Kilpatrick), and the password is the recycled “themouthpiece" (from the Buddha mouthpiece). This will take you to a "MyDocs" folder that contains a link to his video “wtk.mov”.
User name: wtk
Password: themouthpiece

WTK Apology to D.J. Dan

So, now we know that the video seen previously is truly “in-game”. But why would Kilpatrick apologize to D.J. Dan? And who is Maestro48? Also, ≈ symbol means “approximate”. Why would WTK use this as the name of his video?

D.J. DAN PODCAST 06/26/06

2006-06-26T14:55:00.000-05:00

D.J. Dan has added another podcast today. Head to his site and click on podcast archives and then today’s date. This will take you to a Monster.com sponsored page. Find the podcast “Shutting Down the Man” at the bottom of the screen and click on it. Then “Get the podcast here.
D.J. Dan Podcast 06/26

Monster.com preamble:

Podcast: Shutting Down the Man

In this podcast, conspiracy-theorist DJ Dan talks about Rachel Blake and whether she is on her way to bringing down The Hanso Foundation – or whether her quest will lead to her own demise.

Will her search for evidence against the Foundation lead to a dead end, or will the world help bring about the downfall of this seemingly corrupt corporation and its leader, Dr. Thomas Werner Mittlewerk? Listen to what DJ Dan has to say.

Here is the transcription of the podcast.

Announcer: Coming to you live from the hackles on the back of your neck.

Singing: D.J. DAN...

Announcer: You’re listening to DJ Dan shutting down the man.

DJ Dan: It’s happened Tonya, I’m in love…

Tonya: Who is it this week?

DJ Dan: Nope – this one’s different Tonya, this one’s special, this love Tonya, it’s Shutting Me Down!

Tonya: Why is that Dan?

DJ Dan: Because it’ a forbidden Love…

Tonya: You’re married, every love is a forbidden love.

DJ Dan: Does a priest date his parishioners?

Tonya: I hope not.

DJ Dan: Does a shepherd date his flock?

Tonya: Once again…

DJ Dan: And her name is Rachel Blake, Tonya, and she is the ultimate Conspiraspy

Tonya: How did you meet?

DJ Dan: Oh we didn’t but we have to. If you’re listening Rachel, we need to talk. So here’s the deal. I’m on the web surfing around my favorite Area51 sites when one of my Conspirapies IMs me. Garthasoid, your shoutout! So, I head to this little blog by this beautiful girl, say, lower- middle twenties? Has that scrubbed movie-version of the girl next door look. All smiles and eyelashes. And the site talks about how she’s on a post-college Euro-tour. So I’m thinking, “Ok, this chick is a little slice of heaven, but really, why does Garthasoid think I have to check this out?” I mean, Garthasoid you know what’s going down. We’re talking crop circles, we’re talking Loch Ness, and if I could, just for a second, just to put this whole business to rest for you Nessie-heads, it’s a sound stage you morons – the same place where they faked the Mars landing. Anyway, point is – Rachel’s blog is pleasant, but I don’t have the time to be finding out which Geronimo Jackson song Little Susie Cornbelt is listening to when she’s missing her Mommy. But then I enter this code Garthasoid sends me, and the bells and whistles go off. And Jesus, Mary and Joseph Stalin! We got ourselves a huge nother honkin ball of wax! It’s a video blog. Turns out Rachel is stalking this corporate dude, and the more I watch, the more I realize that everything is connected. Because the dude is none other than Dr. Thomas Werner Mittlewerk. Evil name, I know, and it fits, cause if you don’t know, Dr, Mittlewerk , he is a perpetrator of atrocities in the name of good. Dr. Mittlewerk is president of none other than…

Announcer (deep, sinister): the HANSO FOUNDATION!

D.J. Dan: Aka Evil, Inc., aka Secrets International, aka we do bad things in the name of wickedness and greed and sell them to the world as “we’re saving the planet through our science one adorable child at a time.” Cue the rainbow and fuzzy puppies. So I’m on the site and you’ve got to go – the footage out there is just nuts. And then I start to think – is Rachel our girl? Is this the infamous Persephone? Hacker of the Hanso Foundation website? Could be. And then I start thinking, “What is she doing? Is she like us? Is she looking for Alvar Hanso who’s been strangely missing from the world for the past four years? Is she really after Mittlewerk? Is she gonna take ‘em all down? Is she gonna take ‘em all down to Chinatown? I mean, who knows? And then I get worried. Rachel, once again if you’re listening, you’ve gotta grow a fake beard or something honey, these Hanso people, they’re…. Anyway Conspiraspies, eyes on the prize. If Rachel Blake is willing to risk her pretty little neck, let’s step up and help her. Go to her site, rap with her. And if you ever happen to bump into her in the real world and she’s being followed by some shady goons, do us all a favor and drop a banana peel.”

Announcer: You’re listening to DJ Dan, shutting down the man.

Monster.com commercial follows.