LOST Theories: Where the Islands are, The Purge, Yellow Brick Road...

AN OLD THEORY
Bermuda triangle theory? Remember that when watching the first few episodes and you so badly believed that’s where they are. Well, that doesn’t seem so far fetched, since there was this whole Amelia Earhart anagram. Earhat dies flying over the Pacfic Ocean, so Bermuda is out of her question then. Well, there is one place; ten places actually, that supernatural activity has been reported. The Bermuda Triangle is part of these ten areas called the Vile Vortices. I know we’ve heard of these before, especially Sci-Fi fans. And, one of these areas is very much conveniently placed in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and California. (check the map above)
Vanessa and I ran this whole Bermuda Triangle theory, but NEVER dove into the whole Vile Vortices. In time I forgot about this, since this was probably our first time watching the show, but Vanessa brought it up the night of “One Of Us”, and now realized how much more this Vile Vortices makes sense. “One Of Us” displays an anagram which fits for Earhart, and also the OUTSIDE world knows Flight 815 has “disappeared”.
Each of these ten Vile Vortices are named, Bermuda Triangle being one of them, but the location that we feel the island on Lost is located, is surprisingly called “Loyalty Islands”. Now, on these “Loyalty Islands” there is civilization there, but these triangles/Vile Vortices are pretty HUGE, so, maybe there are a few islands for Dharma and Hanso surrounding them?
Well, when looking on google maps, I moved the map around to find JUST northeast of these “Loyalty Islands” but STILL in the triangle are 4 Islands. One major one with two mini islands accompanying it, plus a smaller one JUST a little more off. Looks like our islands! Looks like our LOSTIES.
Also, here is something interesting! Some say that planes, boats, etc. DO NOT disappear in the Bermuda Triangle, some survivors have said to teleport, or transfer to another Vile Vortices. Now, what if, what we saw this week, Ethan and Richard took Juliet towards the Bermuda Triangle, and they knew of an exact point where the teleport section of the Triangle? And Poof! They are now in that Loyalty Island section.
Spending A LOT of time on these websites, and researching these Negative to Positive energy islands, there are so many amazing coincidences to why this section of the earth is the perfect spot for our survivors of this crash. Speaking of CRASH, shouldn’t they be dead? Well. This section of the Vile Vortices holds positive energy. With the positive energy this section gives off, during the Chernobyl accident, this section of the earth, and so close to Ukraine, was unaffected by the explosion. No shit! Even Alaska felt the explosion and some were affected, but why not this triangle, these islands?
The Loyalty Islands also fit comfortably in the Polynesia Triangle. More Greek mythology to make our show’s ongoing Greek hints and appreciation stand out. Let’s go onto what we’re thinking might have happened. Getting onto the island.

A NEW THEORY
What if the “Purge” was to “eliminate”, “cleanse”, or “eradicate” who ever was there before, and make the island their living space? Imagine Alvar Hanso is a Walt Disney figure at this point of our theory. What if, Alvar Hanso is very sick, but knows of a place that can “heal” people and was making a “beautiful place to live and maybe never get sick again” for the world? Hanso needed a team of scientists and doctors to figure out what this energy is.
Hanso buys these islands up, and finds companies like Widmore Pharmaceuticals, Apollo Foods, and Oceanic Air to put some money into this project and things are going smoothly. But at this time, they never knew that the islands powers have had “others” who may have lived there prior, had left the island. The island may not want anyone living there, making people “see things they have never even imagined” as Richard Alpert would say.
What if these flashbacks that we are seeing, it’s not only us seeing them, but the character that we are following that week is seeing as well. We notice that the flashback’s story ties in with the story of what the character is going through that week/day on the island. Maybe the island is reminding them of why these people are “bad” or their downfalls.
Back to Hanso. So Hanso starts to build this community and runs out of money since a lot of unfortunate events start to happen. The money runs out and never gets to finish his dream, and he’s not getting any younger, so they freeze him. Sponsors pull out, but these scientists still have a place to live. During their time there, people start to realize that love is forming on the island and babies are not being conceived on this island. In fact, women are dying on this island because of it. With never being sick, and working hard to make this island the “perfect place”, these scientists work harder, but in some years more people come in.
In 1970, The Hanso Foundation was forced to sell the island to the American Government, whom knows the power of this island, and they decide that they too, can use the islands powers. A married couple, scientists from Hanso and the University of Michigan, Gerrald and (a pregnant) Karen DeGroot, come up with the Dharma Initiative. They leave Hanso’s dream, and start to work for the government to keep their work going. Karen succeeds in having her baby, and she names him Benjamin. Some are amazed at Karen, but some seem skeptical, as if she’s a witch, or not normal. Some people shun the DeGroots, and “others” take them in, giving them a house in the barracks to raise the newborn Ben.
The Dharma Initiative uses their information to “help save the world.” Gerald and Karen not knowing of what the Government REALLY had up their sleeve, Gerald and Karen are put on the back burner. Which is okay, since the birth of Ben and raising him was very important since their were no children on the island.
Between Dharma and Hanso, the island is not big enough for the two of them. In time, they share the island, but Dharma start to go crazy being confined in these hatches. Hatches being built because of in 1986, the explosion in Chernobyl (or something like this) and they are forced to be quarantined. Not knowing the power of the island, Dharma look foolish to Hanso, and something has to be done.
Hanso feels that Dharma don’t belong, so they decide to take their island back. What we know as the “Purge”, Hanso fail in taking back the island. But killing off many of the Dharma (including Gerald and Karen), Ben is 16 years old by this time and can take care of himself.
As we know I don’t want to get in too much about after the Purge, but! I LOVE the idea of Hanso being this Disney mogul-type, and being so close to Oceanic Air mogul Michael Orteig and knows of a spot in the Berumda Triangle that teleports you to these islands. Hanso checks it out, and winds up purchasing these “Special” islands that he will make MILLIONS on by building a civilization where NO ONE gets ill, but time lapsed because of no babies are allowed to be born on the island. Hanso lost money, went frozen until they solved the problem, looks like it might be happening with Aaron being born (or is it Ben?).
The island will give you want you want (Hurley’s van, connecting him with his father), but wants only what is on there (in their minds). It feels it has what it needs on there, and doesn’t want any more, maybe the island isn’t smart enough. But the island saw something in Ben, knowing there is this evil inside him and the island knew his destiny and knew he would help the island. Ben is born on the island, BUT he will not have the powers that “others” have, handed to him. He can feel pain, he can get sick, etc. But someone like, let’s say VERY CLOSE to Ben, like Locke, could and heals very quickly.

A QUICK THOERY
Something stuck me odd when we first met Ben and what I like to call the “Yellow Brick Road” theory. When we first met Ben he went as the name Henry Gale (uncle to Dorothy Gale in the Wizard Of Oz) and the story of the Wizard Of Oz keeps coming back. Think about how Dorothy gets to Oz, a tornado teleports her, if you will (in a dream, but Lost wouldn’t do that to us) and is forced to meet new people and make friends. But in the end of Oz, we find out that the Oz friends, Dorothy was connected to, even related to. Jack and Claire. Get it. Well, I want to tackle the Wizard if you will, the “Man Behind The Curtain” as he is credited as. What if, and what if, we think of Jack as Dorothy and at the end of the movie, the man who brings Dorothy back was a doctor who was no other than the Man Behind the Curtain as well, and Jack’s dad, Christian is a doctor. If you look at the credits for Frank Morgan in the Wizard of Oz, he plays MANY roles in the film, very much like Christian Shepherd. But everyone else plays TWO roles, very much like EVERYONE on the show. Flashback, and island.
This “Yellow Brick Road” theory, I would like to get more into, but I have taken away from the Island. Sorry! I have a great idea for all of us LOST fans to get into for next weeks blog post, and that’s for the season finale coming in almost a month.

(1999 by Prince in my own words)
“I was rushing when I wrote this, so sue me if it makes no sense.”
Sorry this was such a rant, I wrote this in such a hurry and I don’t want to look back, because I will start to edit it, and look too much into it and never post it. So, there will be holes in what I say, and maybe not make much sense. I didn’t want to go into the Purge, or Dharma, or Hanso, but I do, and it’s going to bite me in the ass later. Think of the Islands and where they are.

Thank you guys!
b.quain