So, only two people knew about and had seen the hatch -- and now one of them is dead, right? Not so fast!

My post first on these forums was about the diary hosted at abc.com ... at that time it was only a curious addition to the Lost lore. As of the entry for day 34, the diary became a WHOLE lot more interesting. This character FOLLOWED Locke and Boone and saw the hatch that they were excavating. This is *official* stuff ... so I think this diary business may prove to be /very/ significant.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/diary25.html

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I knew it! I knew they weren't really out trying to hunt for boar... This morning I got up and headed down to the beach for my swim like always -- only this time I didn't go in the water. I walked down the beach a ways and then hurried back into the bush to hide and watch the camp. Just before the sun came up Locke and Boone set off on to go hunting... and I followed them. They walked for a long time, way over an hour into parts of the island I haven't yet explored. And just when I tought they might actually be trying to locate food they arrived at their destination. I don't know what else to say except that there was this huge... "thing" made of metal and surrounded by what looked like concrete. I couldn't get close enough to see exactly what it was, but one thing is definitely clear. Whatever it is -- It's man-made. And Locke and Boone are keeping it a secret. I dont know what they would do if they knew I had followed them, but I going to make damn sure they don't. And I don't ever go anywhere without my dive bag anymore -- ever. What the hell is going on here and why is everyone keeping sercets. All I want is to get off this damn island and if whatever is in the jungle can help with that, Locke and Boone have no right to keep it to themselves! Who do they think they are, anyway? God, I'm so confused! I just want to go home...

To top it off, word is that a new main character is joining the cast! Daniel Roebuck [ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736263/ ] already has three episodes of Lost credited to him.

Now, the writer of the diary is female ... but she mentions a guy named "Larry" on day ten. Wouldn't it be interesting if this new character turns out to be Larry?

Just some food for thought.

Whoa. Nice post Kendric! I haven't paid attention to the diary at all but this is undoubtedly significant. As it stands we've all assumed that only Locke and Boone know about the hatch. But if there's another survivor running about with knowledge then the hatch will be blown (so to speak), especially now that Boone's death is common knowledge.

Excellent catch. This is great stuff!

Just spent my lunch hour flipping through all the entries of the diary. Very interesting. There isn't much in "new" information, but it's a nice re-cap if you'd forgotten things along the way. She mentions Larry several times, so it would be interesting if he is added to the cast.

I also like how the diaries offer a "back story" of sorts to the diary writer. Pretty consistent to the structure of the character development in the show. Nice touch.

I've been a reader of this forum since the early days, but have never joined or posted. This diary has pushed me over the edge. I've read it carefully and think there's lots in it that may bear fruit in the show itself in the future. I offer a recap here.

First, the diary author seems to be female, though I never saw that clearly established. The handwriting seems female and the author talks about being hit on by guys. For the sake of argument I'll refer to the author as "her".

The diary establishes some interesting things about the author, some of which may prove important. She:

• Doesn't believe in God
  
• Is a surfer with strong swimming skills, looking for her surfboard from the plane
  Likes sushi
  
• Hate's hiking, but has started new efforts to get in shape to face potential future adversities
  
• Has a dog at home
  
• Quit smoking a year ago, but bummed a smoke from Sawyer at one point
  
• Has a $6000 credit card bill
  

The diary establishes other things that are even more likely to be important:

The girl that drowned in one episode was named Joanna who was also a surfer and should have known better about dangerous rip tides.

Related: The diary author thinks she saw a whale while swimming. She heard a sound like a steam vent and turned to see a large shape submerge. (day 13)

Related: As a tide expert, she found the increased tide that took over the beach unusual. It was "as if someone flicked a switch and turned on the waves." (day 22) The plane wreckage was actually carried away from the beach by the tide -- I don't know that that was ever established in the show itself.

At one point, she hears the whispering that several other characters have heard.

She's had the feeling that someone was following her during a jog, and thought she glimpsed someone for moment.

The diary author has made several references to her dive bag being important. She doesn't go anywhere without it anymore (day 34). She once checked it to "make sure my kit was ready", and liked the feel of "cold steel" in her hand (day 36).

She talks of surviving a horrible week in Louisiana once, followed by a hospital stay and a trial (day 17). After Charlie shot Ethan, she comments that she's "the last person to pass judgement about that" (day 27). Then, after Boone's accident, she comments that she "knows how dangerous 'accidents' can be" and makes reference to someone she left dead in Louisiana.

Amongst references to characters we know, she also mentions a Scott and a Larry. Both were mentioned first on day 10. Larry hits on her, which she rejects. He's mentioned again on days 14, 16, and 22. On day 26 she discovers Scott dead on the beach with every major bone broken.

As mentioned in the previous posts, perhaps the biggest issue is that the diary author has followed Locke and Boone and knows about the hatch. During that revelation we learn that the hatch is over an hour walk from the beach camp.

I love it!!! Lots of good fodder to chew on, and some potential new characters to watch out for in the program itself.

Semaphore -- welcome!

Awesome recap. There's some very interesting stuff in there.

Also, the author of the diary knows about Walt setting fire to the raft. So does anyone know whether the writers have included this diary character in this season? Or do you think that she'll be one of the central characters in next season?

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Also, the author of the diary knows about Walt setting fire to the raft. So does anyone know whether the writers have included this diary character in this season? Or do you think that she'll be one of the central characters in next season?

Good point about Walt and the fire. I forgot that it isn't common knowledge among the survivors.

I wish I had all the episodes on tape to go back and look for evidence of the diary author in background scenes. The writers claim to have done some far reaching plans on the story arcs, and it wouldn't surprise me to find seeds planted early on for things that won't surface for a while. This diary is a prime example.

They should add links on the web site to various days in the diary. It's painful to turn one page at a time when you're trying to get to an early entry.

I think the author is definitely a female. So it can't be any of the current cast members. It's clearly not Claire, Sun or Kate b/c the author specifically mentions them in her journal. It can't be Shannon b/c there's no reference to Boone that would indicate that they have a relationship of any sort. The only time she mentions him (other than the parts about following him) is to say that he "seems soft". She knows him very well so she should know whether or not he IS soft, not speculate on what he "seems" to be.

I wonder if the author will enter the show as a featured character or if she'll remain merely as a narrator who recaps the events on the island from the perspective of a fellow castaway.

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I wonder if the author will enter the show as a featured character or if she'll remain merely as a narrator who recaps the events on the island from the perspective of a fellow castaway.

It may be that the diary is only intended as a narrator -- and clue giver. Which leads me to believe there are very basic un-supernatural aspects to the main underlying mystery. The diary mentions several things that lean toward machinery (steam vents, switches). The whale could easily have been a small submarine. Personally I'd love for the main mystery to be a combination of normal issues (government experiments, for instance) and supernatural elements.

I wouldn't mind though if the diary author became a regular character in the show. The hints at her backstory seem interesting, and she knows crucial things (like the existence of the hatch). Her appearance may be in the works for the second season. There are, what, 45 survivors still alive from this section of the plane. And we've only gotten to know 14 of them.

I would be really disappointed if it turned out to be another "Truman Show" situation where all the characters are living unwittingly in some massive "laboratory" built by some omnipotent govt or corporation.

I'm not necessarily a big fan of time travel or supernatural events, but if done well, those explanations would be totally fine. In fact, I don't see how there cannot be a supernatural power at play here. Even if most of the mysterious events can be explained away "scientifically" (Locke's paralysis was cured when the crash jarred his nerves back to life, for example), at least two things cannot so easily explained: (1) the issue with the psychic and Claire's baby, and (2) the appearance of the numbers in the lotto, Sam Toomey's beans, and the hatch.

Oh, I completely agree that there is something supernatural at work, and wouldn't have it any other way. I'm just saying that parts of the diary, as well as various parts of the show itself, focus on technology. I'm currently leaning toward some interesting combination of effects.

Day 38 of the diary establishes that the author saw Locke at the hatch when it began to glow. But it conveniently doesn't say what happened after that. I'm beginning to fear that, as we originally assumed, the diary is nothing more than a way to provide a synopsis of key events.

The author is an interesting character in some ways, so I hope I'm wrong. That entry makes another point about the author. She says "Why do people always think I'm crazy!" If we ever do learn more about this person in the show, she may be nuts.

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Originally posted by Semaphore:
Day 38 of the diary establishes that the author saw Locke at the hatch when it began to glow. But it conveniently doesn't say what happened after that. I'm beginning to fear that, as we originally assumed, the diary is nothing more than a way to provide a synopsis of key events.

The author is an interesting character in some ways, so I hope I'm wrong. That entry makes another point about the author. She says "Why do people always think I'm crazy!" If we ever do learn more about this person in the show, she may be nuts.

As soon as I read the part about "Why do people always think I'm crazy!" - I immediately thought of Danielle Rousseau, as she is the only woman I've seen who I would say is just crazy. And the few times we see Danielle, she's with a knapsack of sorts - "her kit"?

The author is not DAnielle, cuz we know the author's been living with the group and if it was Danielle, SAyid would have realized it by now. But I'm suggesting it's someone like Danielle, like part of her crew, who has lost it and in her madness now believes she is part of the group from Oceanic. She may have, in the chaos of the crash, blended in with the Oceanic group. And maybe as she was blending in, she came across a dead person's property, gone through it, and assumed The Identity of the person to whom the personal effects belonged to - thereby getting past the whole Census thing. AFter all, the census was haphazardly done, based only on a flight manifest, with no pictures to go with the names.

If there was let's say a diary in the personal effects, and this person in question is mentally distrubed enough ( as 16 years on the island could do), she could actually have read the diary and come to believe she is that person. Therefore, she continues writing in the diary as if she were the original author. The diary we see just could be continuation of that. She writes about the past life of someone on the plane who died cuz she belives that person to be her.

AFter all, if we're dealing with a crazy woman, we can't believe everything at face value.

In fact, maybe the madwoman who is masquearading as the author of the diary could be Alex- Danielle's child. As someone pointed out elsewhere, nobody ever specified Alex had to be a guy.

Maybe it's farfetched, but the whole possibly crazy person who always travels with some sort of "kit" reminded me too much of Danielle for me to not try to draw some sort of connection.

I don't know if I'm being as clear as I can, as I'm just writing as things as fast as I can, before I forget anything.

One more idea - and this one maybe even crazier. If the author is crazy, maybe the author is the alter ego of someone we already know. Like a split personality.

Hey guys, I know there's a lot to talk about right now, with the new episodes. But it looks like there is an inheritor to the diary. Take a look at the ABC LOST website, and you'll see that someone new is reading the diary, and is very surprised about what he finds inside.
Wonder what happened to the girl?
Stay tuned!

can someone help me and tell me what the diary is? and where to find it... is that the recap?

Try this link, lostthinker,
http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/found.html
The diary now starts at the end, you'll have to click on the arrows at the bottom to look at the past entries.

Thanks, klemens. I have read one entry before from visiting that site, but had no clue it was actually significant. So those are supposed to be mysterious journal entries?

Just found this forum today - glad they're are other out there trying to figure this show out. I read through the diary starting from the end, and I only got a few pages before the author actually writes who she is: Janelle Granger of Hermosa Beach, CA. I don't remember a Janelle, but it's weird that whoever found it "can't figure out" who it belongs to, especially since they did the census. I mean, there were only 45 people on the plane, wouldn't they have learned each others names by now?

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/diary/90432.html