Widmore Industries Websites 2

I posted a comment over on the Wordpress ARG blog using a psyeudonym of fredelliott (A character in the British soap Coronation Street) about four new websites that were registered recently :





WidmoreIndustries.co.uk
Widmorecorporation.co.uk
paikheavyindustries.com
thehansofoundation.org.uk

Elliott Graves apparently read this and posted this tweet :

"I may not trust Widmore completely, but I think they'd have a better website than that."

This doesn't give us any clue as to whether these sites are in game or not so it is just speculation for now, as with this whole game :-)

Update to Elliotts Blog Post 4

Elliott Graves has updated his earlier post to thank the people that helped him translate the letter. He has spotted the extra and missing letters in the text and has said that this is an anagram and explained what the rearranged letters mean.

It is quite a stretch to see this code word from the details supplied, but it obviously means something to Elliott.

Click here to see the code word.

"....When you take all the letters that shouldn’t be there (or should) — those being th-t-i-a-e — and rearrange them, you get I. Theta. I. Theta was a classified project my brother was working on for Widmore Construction....."

Household Artifacts and Other Musings 15

A new blog post from Elliott Graves, he apparently works on the Ajira ticket desk !

He has found some bits of paper with a coded message and convieniently enough some information that may be a key to the code. However the key seems to be faulty so he needs help in interpreting it.

I have left a message on the blog post to say we can help, so get those brains working.



Update dedioste has commented to say that the code looks like a reverse alphabet code, however there are still some more letters that appear to be wrong. The key below lists the coded glyphs with the reverse alphabet equivalent.


Update 2 - Using the reverse key above The translation of the passage seems to be -

Click here to see the translation.

NATHANIAL, fatheher meant a great deal to us and we are honored you wish to follow in his footsteps. When Adomis told me what you could do, I knew you were a perfect candidate.

However the road ahead is long. You maybe a good person in my eyes but Jacob is much harder to please. Initiation into our ----- order is an old and sacred process and not the easiest thing to endure.

Your first goal is to find the Phoenix. He will ask you to recite Apollo’s creed and if you answer correctly he will give you a test. Thas ----- test is painful and deeply personal, so be prepared. This is where most peopl fail.

Everything from then on will have to remain a secret. I wish you luck and hope to count you among our number soon.”

Follow the 27PROJECT.ORG 4

The 27Project.org website has been updated. If you click on the 100 Photographs gallery link, instead of the previous gallery page a blank page with a single link "follow" in the top left corner is displayed.

If you link to this page from the home page of 27project then this follow link takes you to a wikipedia page about King James II however if you go to another one of the pages and link to the 100 Photographs gallery the follow link takes you to a blog site called Toasty Doodle .This appears to be a post about a drawing of a candle, no obious references to Lost or this PARG (Potential ARG).

The Fates 1

In the background of the Simeon Hobbes Twitter account there is a picture which is a painting called The Fates by Goya.

You can read about it at a blog site about Masterpiece paintings. The details of the painting are interesting - "In classical mythology, the fates are three goddesses that control the thread of life. They are the personifications of destiny (or fate)."

Also marielevenstar has let us know that there is a new Twitter account for Elliott Graves. In the most recent post he says "@simeonhobbes and (the departed) @epithetalpha are the only ones I think have anything to do with my brother's disappearance."

Who is Simeon Hobbes ? 11

A new wordpress blog has started up entitled "Who is Simeon Hobbes ?"

It is by a person called Elliott Graves who details members of his family that go missing and the only link seems to be with Simeon Hobbes. Hobbes seems to have been around for about 100 years.

A lot of use of the number 27 in the post as that is the age that male members of his family disappear. Elliott is going to turn 27 in a couple of months and he wants to find his brother.

The post also mentions his father working for Widmore Industries.

Thanks to marielevenstar for mentioning this in the comments.

"And with this fire I purify" 9

Another YouTube video has been found with the title "And with this fire I purify", in it the words "sedm" and "dva" are repeated, and these are Czech words for Seven and Two.

There is a website out there called www.27project.org that epithetalpha has also tweeted about "This site means a lot to me: http://www.27project.org/" but it has no obvious links to Lost or these new "clues" that have been appearing.

Another possible link to investigate around EpithetAlpha and one of Simeon Hobbes' latest tweets - "May the light of Jacob be with you all this day, as we celebrate musical Aegocerus." - A search on Aegocerus shows that it is an epithet of Pan, who is a character from Greek mythology.



The whole thing is increasingly being labelled as a fan based project with no official connections to Lost, but it does seem well worked out anyway.

New ARG ? 26

Information about a potential new ARG has been appearing around the internet over the last few days, all started by a Twitter account of a user called Simeon Hobbes posting some interesting messages.

Shortly after this a YouTube video was published called 'Who is Simeon Hobbes' in the YouTube channel used for The Lost Experience. The video consists of a star scape and some audio, and in the audio there is some Morse Code. The translation of which is :-

"I AM THE BENNU BIRD, THE HEART-SOUL OF RA, THE GUIDE OF THE GODS TO THE TUAT."

A tweet from Simeon said 'Follow the Pheonix' which led to another twitter user 'epithetalpha'. Simeon Hobbes then responded with the tweet 'Phoeonix Found'.

Maven from The Lost Community sent a message - "And With This Fire I Purify" - to Epithetalpha and received this reply :-

"Are you a candidate? Await further instructions May 18."


None of this has been confirmed as official by any source related to Lost and this may only be the stirings of someone wiaitng for Lost to return next year, however if it is then the timing of all of this is immaculate to coincide with the Lost finale. It also quite neatly fits in with a lot of the egyptian themes increasingly used by Lost this year.

More information if it becomes available.



Thanks to Maven for posting information in The Lost Community about this.

Also the translation of the Morse Code came from the LostPedia blog.

Ajira Airways: Destination Destiny 16

An updated video has been added to the Ajira Airways home page. The video features an announcement of a new route:

Welcome To Ajira Airways. We're happy to announce a new route leaving from LAX to Honolulu, Guam, then Indonesia. Check out our new feature Destination Destiny. Namaste.

The Destination Destiny section appears to be unchanged, however the video is strangely hosted on another server, AndersonMacCutcheon.com, which at this time seems only to exist to host this video.

Ajira Airways: Now Boarding 23

The Ajira Airways website has been updated with a new video in the "seating chart" section. To view it, book a successful flight (see the "Choose your Seat" post), then the video of passengers boarding a flight will play automatically.

* Thanks to dragossh for letting us know about this!

Destiny Calls: Choose Your Seat 503

Ajira Airways is e-mailing and the flights page is open for business, but will only allow you to a book flight for a very specific destination!

Welcome to the new Ajira Airways. We proudly present a new way to get lost in the world of travel. Visit AjiraAirways.com to book your business, pleasure or fate now! Check back soon for the opportunity to preview new adventures exclusive to our Ajira Airways travelers. The skies have no limit with our new and exciting destinations. Life's a journey, book it.
- Ajira Airways

Click here to see how to book a flight:

Book a Flight and Choose a Seat
One Way
From: Los Angeles, CA
To: Guam
Departing: 1/21/2009
Select Flight: 316 11:30am
Adults: 10
Children: 0
Promotional Code: 112114111109111

Once you access the seating page, the seat will appear to be all taken. By clicking on various seats, flashes of images will be revealed. Eventually an available seat will be found, at which point you can print your new boarding pass.

Click here to see the hidden seating images:

The following images are revealed based on the number of seats you select:

3rd - a shot of LAX airport.
4th - code N824
10th - a departure timetable.
15th - a shot of an Ajira airport lounge
24th - an image of a young woman
34th - an image of a man
35th - the "lamp post" DHARMA logo seen during a DSA video.
36th - your seat number will be accepted and you can download a new boarding pass (very similar to the sample one, just with info on it, download here).

I added an unedited and "enhanced" version of the background photo, taken directly from the flash file. The N824 is not actually a photo, but text superimposed over the background.

* Thanks to NickB123 for the seating info, Lisa and Sayid'sGirl for emailing images, and Aaron Bohannon for posting information that lets you book a flight.

Ajira Airways Website Launches 227

The Ajira Airways website is now open for business! You can try to book a flight, check out some of the exciting Ajira Adventures, or learn more about Ajira Airways.
You can also print a sample boarding pass, and there's a hidden surprise which you can find by following these origami instructions. BTW, Here is an enhanced version of the boarding pass, which highlights the Dharma symbols.

The site also features an area where you can book a flight to the following locations: Bangkok, Los Angeles, Wellington, Portland, Mexico City, Seoul, Baghdad, Rome, Tustin, Ames, Santa Monica, New York, Sydney, Guam, and Tokyo. If you followed Find 815, you may recognize some of these cities as places Oceanic Airlines flew to as well as locations where Oceanic Airlines billboards showed up.

Lisa e-emailed us with this screen cap. from the video on the site.
If you find anything else interesting, let us know in the comments!

UPDATE: Hidden in the source code of each page are some unusual comments (some of which need to be HEX decoded):

• For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
• So off they started about Irish sport and shoneen games the like of lawn tennis and about Hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all of that.
• PINEAPPLES IN HAWAII
• SUPERSONIC IS COMMERCIAL THIRTY TILL MERIDIAN
• WHERE AMERICA'S DAY BEGINS.
  

*Thanks to Eugene and Lisa for the heads up on this.

DSA Announcement #4 82

The latest Dharma Special Access announcement features two videos - an intentionally ambiguous Q & A with Damon and Carlton, and a sneak peek of an upcoming scene from Season 5 of Lost. This week's password is: kapalaran.

Hey, guys. Happy Holidays.

One of the fun things about shooting the show in Hawaii is how completely inconsequential Mother Nature makes us feel. This week a landslide hit one of our upcoming locations, and now we can't shoot there for a couple of weeks while the site is restored. In season two it rained for a truly Biblical 42 straight days and nights, which required lots of schedule revisions, and when that wasn't possible our fearless crew put on their wading boots and shot for days on end in mud that was literally knee deep and higher.

Speaking of mud, this week our exclusive video for you features OUR ANSWERS to YOUR QUESTIONS, which many of you sadly will find maddeningly obtuse and muddy. Other LOST fans, like our mothers for example, will find our answers sparking, insightful and maybe even amusing.

And finally, based on how popular the last sneak peek was, we also have another exclusive look at a scene from the premiere episode. Click on the link below, enter the password, and all will be revealed. Enjoy. And until next week...

Aloha,

Damon and Carlton
dharmaspecialaccess.com
ENTER PASSWORD
kapalaran

http://ll.media.abc.com/video/flv/526x296/LOST_551_DharmaSpecialAccessF_Dharma_SpecialAccess_HD_42e703f8-9d18-4e71-a83f-08a51435a975_1903446.flv

http://ll.media.abc.com/video/flv/526x296/LOST_0057ILOS191423EH_LOSTBACKTOTHEISLANDS_Dharma_SpecialAccess_HD720p_7430bb80-3321-4325-a3fd-504983a38f40_1903358.flv

Carlton and Damon explain what is going on (sort of) 253

A new email was received today that takes us to DHARMASPECIALACCESS.COM, by using the password in the email you can view a video of Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof who explain what Dharma Special Access is all about, and it seems the ARG is over for now.

UPDATE 12/5/08- We've received word from a reader that the process for choosing questions for Damon and Carlton's DSA Q&A has begun. Potential questioners are being e-mailed in preparation for the event, so stay tuned...

Ajira Airways: The New Lost ARG? 94

A new LOST music video by The Fray, appeared on ABC.com. Embedded in the video was a quick flash of a company logo - Ajira Airways. The website officially launches on January 21 - which also happens to be the premiere of LOST season 5 - but you can enter your email address now for future updates.

Dharma Special Access with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse

It's all happening today, in the email from Hans there is this comment line
<-- DSAqandaatgmaildotcom -->

If you translate that to an email address : DSAqanda@gmail.com and then send an email to that address with any subject, you get this response :

Got a question for the creators of LOST? Submit your question along with your name and hometown, and if selected, Damon and Carlton will answer it in a DSA announcement… that is, if you haven't been a bad Black Swan.

Results Available 245

The site has been updated, it looks like Hans could not wait until December 15th.

Thanks to Maven and Codysmom for letting us know the site was updating.

The dossier contains a job assignment and a certificate of completion along with the results from each test.









There has also been another email to tell us that the Dharma Initiative revival is no more, the financial crisis has hit and there will be no more DI, the email is quite odd in style and seems to have an underlying message. Click here to read it
Thanks to T8RO for letting us know about the email.

LostARGs Chat room 0

The chat room below is for anyone to use when they feel the need to chat to others on Lost ARG related subjects. It is intended to be a self monitoring chat room, as there will be no active monitoring.

Choose an ID, be curteous and polite, enjoy.

Recruitment Update 375

Dharma Wants You has updated, and all of the links to the tests are gone. When you log-in you can view a message reminding us that Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet and to check back on December 15th. See you then!

Update 10/9 (Confirmed Fake): Lisa e-mailed with some information on a possible new Hans Van Eegen message. You can follow the story HERE. None of the administrators at the Lost ARGs, The Fuselage, Dark UFO, or the ABC message boards have mentioned this mysterious e-mail, but we'll keep an eye on it.

The Lost ARGs Podcast #7 - Do Or Die Cast 24

Join hosts David A. Dein and Steve 'The Goog' Guglich as they head out on the adventure of a lifetime, back from a short Haitus they wrap up the testing portion of the new Lost ARG and hope for a brighter future

Listen now:


Download (right-click, save as)

You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, by clicking the iTunes logo, or searching for "Lost ARGs" in the iTunes store.

If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast, have any theories, or just want to say "Hi!", contact podcast@lostargs.com (mp3 comments are accepted as well), or leave a voice mail or fax at (206) 202-3512.

Instructor Email - Official Events ? 61

The details of the email sent to DharmaWantsYou instructors has been sent to us by Lisa.

It says that the T-Shirts will be used for identification purposes at official Dharma Initiative Events, so does that mean we will get some official events ? Click here to read the email contents

Test 7 Email - Thats all folks.....? 71

The Test 7 email has been sent by Hans, he has confirmed what was said in the video and that we now have to wait until December the 15th for our dossiers to be produced and the departmental positions to be assigned. Click here to see the email in full

Stick around with this blog until at least the 7th of October as that is when the recruitment closes and we may see some further developments then. Remember to make sure you take all your tests before then.

*Thanks to
takes a village for notifying us.

Test 7: Integrity, Honor, and Honesty Assessment 174

Test 7 is The Integrity, Honor, and Honesty Assessment. Hans, in his latest video, is happy to tell us that we have already completed this most challenging exam. He goes on to explain the who and why of Black Swan. I don't want to spoil it here, so check out the video yourself, or head over to Dharmawantsyou.com. It's not good news for those who cheated though. Hans has a lot of raw data to look over and our results are going to the Dharma Initiative Recruiting Evaluation Panel for review to determine our rolls in the Dharma Initiative's current project. Results will be released AFTER DECEMBER 15th.

There are two groups after Test 7 (as of 11:15 EST); Black Swan and White Swan. CodysMom reports that her "non-cheater" account is in the White Swan group.

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

*Thank-you CodysMom for the White Swan image.