Jacob is Santa Claus. He writes lists which judge who's been naughty and who's been nice and deals with them accordingly with his pet smoke reindeer.

If you're nice he gives you the gift of healing or mind powers and if you are bad it gives you some coal by taking you underground to go fill your stockings.

The Island is St Nick's hideaway and the others are his elf army. The island is of course protected from view so that his good works are not spoiled. As misdirection, instead of being at the north pole it's in the Southern Pacific.

Santa will do anything to protect his secret and sends his evil Oompa Loompa's out, the cheeky leader wearing a fake beard as he pretends to be his master, to keep the survivors from his toy making station with is transmission tower for collecting the transmissions of children's Christmas letters.

The Hatch is one of the elf factories that has been abandoned as the minerals mined there have run out and they have moved onto another area of the island. The Hurley bird is Santa's talking mascot and potential product tie-in from the failed feature film pilot.

The Magnetism is from the link the island has with the North pole and is seeping from a leaky portal. He used magnetic portals to bring reindeer to the island, and to enable them to pull his sleigh, but accidentally brought a polar bear through at the same time, causing the Incident involving Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer.

It's also therefore possible that test flights of the sleigh have brought down nearby aircraft (both airplanes and balloons)

ProsEdit

• Explains 'the others' preoccupation with "good" people.
• Explains why the island is magically hidden from view.
• Explains the crash, monster, polar bear, the transmission tower, the Swan, the others, electromagnetism.
• Explains the stealth supply drop

ConsEdit

• It does not explain: the numbers, whispers or computer.
• It doesn't explain the Hanso Foundation in the outside world or the strange coincidences that have occurred in everyones pasts.
  • Or does it? He is Santa Claus after all...