After having a few of my posted theories deleted, and then later becoming inspired by the infamous Muffin Drop page, I've decided to start my own page completely dedicated to ridiculous theories about LOST. These are the types of theories that, not only are probably not true, but in fact, very unlikely to ever be addressed on the show.

Contents 1 What Happened to Claire's Bird 2 The Island Extends Food Expiration 3 Neil's Sudden Appearance in Season 5 4 The Island Favors Single People 5 Ben Turned the Wheel the Wrong Way 6 Faraday Shouldn't Have Named His Rat Eloise 7 Sawyer's Forensics Hatch 8 The Disappearance of Background Survivor Richard 9 Peanuts Cured Rose's Cancer 10 Jacob

What Happened to Claire's BirdEdit

Fact: In the third season episode "Par Avion", Claire released a bird with a message attached to its metal tag, in hopes that someone would find the message and somehow find and rescue the survivors. This bird was never seen or heard from again.

Fact: We've since learned that objects that leave the Island and do not follow an exact compass bearing of 305 tend to experience "side effects", particularly time-jumping. The helicopter carrying Sayid and Desmond arrives on the freighter an entire day and a half after it took off from the island, and Ray's body washes up on the shore two days before Keamy threw it overboard.

Theory: Considering the gulls are probably not aware of the need to follow this particular bearing, they too experienced the side effect of time travel upon flying away from the island.

When did they arrive? Possibilities:

• They arrived on the night that Naomi was piloting her helicopter to the island. The birds unfortunately struck the helicopter blades, which, in addition to ripping the birds and the message to shreds, caused Naomi's helicopter to crash into the ocean.
• They arrived on the day that Paulo was swinging a golf club and whacking golf balls into the ocean, and one of the golf balls struck the bird, killing it.
• They struck the Nigerian drug smugglers' plane, bringing it down.
• They struck Henry Gale's balloon, bringing it down.
• They struck Oceanic Flight 815. (How's that for irony? Claire's attempt at getting everyone rescued is what caused them to crash in the first place!)

The Island Extends Food ExpirationEdit

We've observed various examples of how the Island heals wounds at an incredible rate, cures paralysis, cures cancer, and increases male sperm count. In addition, the Island also has the ability to greatly extend the amount of time that food is preserved before it starts to go bad. This explains:

• DHARMA Ranch Composite having a shelf-life of seven years at room temperature.
• The 15-year-old crackers that both Hurley and Sawyer eat without noticing any degradation in quality or getting sick.
• The DHARMA fish biscuits that Sawyer and Kate eat without getting sick. (It is unlikely that the Others actually took the time to reload the fish biscuit dispenser just for Sawyer, so they've probably been in there since the DHARMA Initiative days.)
• The uncanny amount of food that the 40+ survivors are able to find on a daily basis during the entire two months before the food supply drop. It is unlikely that that much fruit is growing on the trees near the survivors' camp, so they must be finding stuff that's fallen on the ground over the last several years.

Based on this theory, the Island may have also had the ability to "heal" Juliet's burnt muffins.

Neil's Sudden Appearance in Season 5Edit

Neil "Frogurt", previously seen only in a Missing Pieces mobisode, suddenly appears at the beginning of Season 5, displaying a very outspoken whiny attitude. One would think that if this was his typical behavior, he would've voiced his opinions at certain times when a crisis was affecting the entire camp, such as the death of Boone, threats of the Others, the mysterious food drop, etc. However, since we do not hear from Neil during any of these moments, it is reasonable to conclude that either he simply was not at the beach camp at any of those moments (he just happened to pick those crisis moments to go take a leak in the jungle or do some random exploring), or, more likely, Neil's outspoken whiny attitude is not his typical behavior on the island.

The reason Neil is suddenly more outspoken after the island moves is because the leaders he trusts the most to get him through any situation are not there. He's more at ease when he can depend on Jack's leadership skills, Locke's survival skills, Sayid's combat skills, and Hurley's comic relief. However, with none of those people in sight when the island begins time-jumping and the camp supplies disappear, Neil panics, and his whining takes the spotlight. (He likely panicked in a similar way during the Swan discharge at the end of Season 2, another moment when his most trusted leaders were not present, but the beach camp got a short enough screen time during that incident that he could've easily whined off-camera.)

The Island Favors Single PeopleEdit

In the fourth season episode "Ji Yeon", Bernard points out to Jin that they are the only two married men on the Island. We can also reasonably guess that Rose and Sun are the only married women on the island. We can also add Tracy, who apparently has a husband and two children back in California. Since national census statistics show that roughly 45% of people currently living in the U.S. are married, it seems like the odds are rather skewed if only 5 out of the 40 residents of the beach camp (at the time of Bernard's comment) are married. The obvious conclusion is that one of the following must be true:

• The Island, for some reason, favors single people, and therefore allowed a disproportionate number of single people to survive the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 (giving exception to certain "special" married people).
• Something inherent to the nature of single people makes them more prone to surviving plane crashes.
• I am mistaking fate for coincidence.

Ben Turned the Wheel the Wrong WayEdit

Fact: In the Season 4 Finale, "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3", Ben turns the frozen wheel with all his might, which appears to be quite a struggle for him. He finally succeeds and is transported off the Island. The next time we see the wheel, in the Season 5 episode "This Place is Death", the wheel has slipped off its axis, and Locke has to fix it.

Observations: In order to get to the frozen wheel from the Orchid station, Ben had to blow up the vault, break through a solid sheet of ice, and chip away chunks of ice around the wheel with a crowbar. It would appear from all of this evidence that, although Ben seems to know roughly what to do, he has never actually done this before.

Theory: Ben turned the wheel the wrong way and ended up breaking it. The wheel was designed to turn counter-clockwise instead of clockwise. Perhaps as far as achieving the end-result of moving the island and transporting Ben off of it, it didn't really matter which direction the wheel was turned. But had Ben turned it the opposite direction, he would've encountered much less resistance and had a much easier time turning it, and it wouldn't have slipped off of its axis. And the Losties wouldn't have been time-skipping out of control. Way to go, Ben!

Faraday Shouldn't Have Named His Rat EloiseEdit

In 1996, Daniel Faraday, professor of physics at Queens College at Oxford, had a lab rat that he named Eloise, which we now know is also his mother's first name. While Faraday meant this in an affectionate way, his mom happens to hate rats and unfortunately took great offense at having one named after her. This severely damaged the relationship between Daniel Faraday and his mother, which explains why when Desmond approaches her in "316" and mentions that he spoke to her son, whom we know she hasn't seen or heard from in at least three years, Ms. Hawking shows very little emotional reaction.

Sawyer's Forensics HatchEdit

"Crime scene? Is there a forensics hatch I don't know about?" -Sawyer, "Exposé"

Shortly after Sawyer and the other time-shifting Losties arrive in 1974 and gain permission from Horace to remain on the Island for two more weeks, another DHARMA Initiative member is murdered, and the DHARMA security team is unable to solve the murder. Sawyer, still using the name Jim LaFleur, uses his own investigative skills and solves the murder. Remembering his own earlier remark about the "forensics hatch", he points out DHARMA security's deficiency in the forensics department to Horace. Horace is so impressed that he decides to make "LaFleur" the new Head of Security. Almost immediately after settling into his new role, Sawyer creates his own forensics hatch.

• • I would love to see CSI: The Island! :) Gingle87 22:50, February 11, 2010 (UTC)Gingle87

The Disappearance of Background Survivor RichardEdit

In real life, uncredited background cast member Bryan Sato left the show after Season 3. Storywise, however, the character that he played, a background crash survivor named Richard, seemingly disappeared without explanation. The following explains why Richard the survivor disappeared after Season 3:

When the survivors split up into Jack's group and Locke's group, Richard started following Jack's group to the beach, but then changed his mind and foolishly tried to go back to find Locke's group on his own in the middle of the night, got lost, and eventually got eaten by a polar bear.

Peanuts Cured Rose's CancerEdit

In the second season episode "S.O.S.", Rose told Bernard that the Island miraculously healed her of her cancer. This was not entirely true. Rose's cancer was cured, but not by the Island.

On the way home on Flight 815, Rose read a magazine article that stated that peanuts were found to cure certain types of cancer, including the type that Rose had. Curious about this claim, she ate the bag of airline peanuts served on the flight. Immediately, she started noticing the effects. However, since she still wanted Bernard to believe that Isaac of Uluru had healed her in Australia, she didn't tell Bernard about the peanuts.

After Flight 815 crashed on the Island, Rose immediately began to secretly collect as many airline peanut bags as she could and then ate a few peanuts each day, gradually noticing her strength return. She was just about out of peanuts, when the survivors discovered the pallet drop, which included a few cans of DHARMA peanuts. Rose no longer had to worry about running out of peanuts anytime soon.

Frustrated with Bernard's stubbornness with building the SOS sign, Rose finally confronted Bernard and confessed that Isaac never healed her. However, she also realized that the best way to get Bernard to stop his "fool's errand" was to convince him that it was the Island that cured her cancer, so that he'd stop trying to find a way off of it. Thus, her peanut cure continued to remain a secret.

During Season 4, when Daniel and Charlotte settled into the survivors' beach camp and started helping themselves out to their food supplies, Rose had no problem with it, knowing that they needed to eat. However, when Miles helped himself to some of the peanuts, Rose immediately became protective of her secret cancer cure. This is why in the fourth season episode "There's No Place Like Home", she approached Miles and said, "Uh... who told you you could eat those peanuts?!"

JacobEdit

Of course, no Ridiculous Theories page would be complete without at least one Jacob theory. But because there are so many endless possibilities for Jacob theories out there, I've decided to take this "who is Jacob" question and turn it into a weekly blog series that I call the Jacob Pick of the Week. Here are the links to the "Jacob Pick" blog entries I've posted so far. As I post new ones each week, I'll add them to this list.

• Week 1: Brother Campbell
• Week 2: Thomas, Aaron's biological father
• Week 3: The shop clerk who sold Hurley the winning lottery ticket
• Week 4: Arturo
• Week 5: The poor man whose kid had to use the bathroom at the Seoul Gateway Hotel
• Week 6: Meathead, the schoolyard bully who beat up young Jack