Wednesday, May 30, 2007

More news on Lost

This is the newpaper clipping that set Jack off in the Lost finale. I'll try to make the image bigger tonight, but until then, you can click on it to expand it. According to Lost Pedia, the newspaper clipping reads:

Los Angeles
Man found dead in
downtown loft

"The body of Jo...[unreadable]...[a]ntham of
New York was discovered shortly after 4
a.m. in the...[unreadable]...of Grand
Avenue. Ted [lastname], [a door]man at The
Tower...[unreadable]...heard loud
noises...[unreadable]...antham's loft.
[unreadable]... [sa]fety, he co[nfessed]
[unreadable]...discovered the
[unreadable]...a beam in the
[unreadable]...[ac]cordin[g]...[unreadable]..."

Jo... ...[a]ntham must be our misterious island survivor, but I don't think the name (or anything else from the article) actually provides any more clues. Interesting stuff!

1 comment:

Robyn said...

nice find. i did some research on this also, and this is what doc jenson said about the article:

The likely suspect is Michael, followed by Locke, Ben, and even the mysterious Jacob. Curious: According to several eagle-eyed super-sleuths like Maria Rotella, the name of the deceased in the death notice that Jack saw in the newspaper is partially visible. The first name begins with ''J'' and the last name ends with the letters ''ntham.'' (However, there MIGHT be a second reference in the obit that spells the last name ''Latham.'') Many of you believe that this clue points to ''Jeremy Bentham,'' a name that happens to be shared by...yet another Enlightenment-era philosopher! And as Ryan McGee pointed out to me, one of Bentham's claims to fame was designing a prison known as the Panopticon, which has a Wikipedia entry sure to fire the imaginations of all you theorists.