Monster    
       
 

The monster is actually much more versatile than most people recognize it to be. The monster comes in many, many different forms and its purpose is simply to serve as an obstacle for the LOSTies to overcome in order to achieve their objectives.

The 'game players' can choose which version of the monster will appear. This may be done through a series of prompts by the video game to the 'game players'. The monster then appears as a polar bear, shark, boar, whispers, hallucinations, sea urchins, rain storms, the black smoke monster, etc. I have included the heroin as Charlie's personal version of the monster.

It is possible that the game itself may insert a random version (or even more than one version) of the monster into some episodes. For instance the Others and the BOATies may be introduced by the game itself, rather than by the 'game players'.

The Others are just one of the many versions of the monster. However, once they are introduced, it is possible that they may actually remain in the game until that particular level, if not the entire game, is completed.

Watch this Season 4 promo where the statement is made that the monster can take human forms.

An 'innteresting' thing can be found on the LOST Season 1 Soundtrack. Take a good look at the index of the soundtrack and the title of track 25. It is "Monsters are Such Innteresting People".   Click the picture to see a larger version


There is also a curious exchange between Jack and Tom/Mr. Friendly in S3E9. Tom/Mr. Friendly asks Jack "What kind of people do you think we are?" and Jack replies "Oh, I don't know Tom. The kind of people that would take a pregnant woman, that would hang Charlie from a tree, would drag our people out of the jungle, would kidnap children. That's what kind of people I think you are."

And there are times when The Others have been referred to as animals:
In S1E15 Charlie says about killing Ethan "I wasn't going to let that animal anywhere near her again"
In S2E6, Ana-Lucia says "They came the first night that we got here. They took 3 of us. Nothing happened for 2 weeks, then they came back. They took 9 more. They're smart, and they're animals, and they could be anywhere at any time.
In S2E20, Michael says "Then let me do it. They're animals. I've seen these people and they are... animals"

The existence of multiple versions of the monster was supported by the Season 2 podcasts.

In the January 17, 2006 podcast, when discussing the monster, Lindelof says "...this week we saw the latest incarnation of the monster". He was referring to the black smoke version of the monster that Eko encounters in S2E10.

In the May 26, 2006 podcast, Lindelof and Cuse say that the audience should not assume that the writers abandoned the monster in Season 2 . That "there is a good chance that the audience saw the monster more than they think. But that the audience just didn’t recognize that it was the monster."

S4E10 also gave us the fact that even though the smoke monster attacked Keamy's men, they all seem to have survived. When asked about this in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel after the show aired, Carlton Cuse stated that "The monster has different rules for different people". Cuse also answers Rose's question as to why Jack got sick on an island that actually cures people, when Cuse answered he said that "Jack gets sick because he is not in communion with the island". This is the first indication we have a possible answer for why Ben got his cancerous tumor and ties in with Richard Alpert's statement to Locke in S3E19 that the Others are concerned that Ben is too obsessed with the pregnancy issues.

Below is my listing of the many versions of the monster by episode #'s.

 
 

 

   
  Season 1  
     
  Season 2  
     
    Season 3  
       
    Season 4  
       
    Season 5  
       
    Sounds of the Monster  
    S1E1 Heard by the Losties from the Beach
    S2E10 Eko's Encounter with the Monster
    S3E14 The Spiders approach Nikki and Paolo
    S3E15 Monster sounds heard by Kate and Juliet while they are hidden in the trees
 

 

Season 1

 
       

S1E1
Jack hallucinates his father
The first version of the monster that we see is the one that that knocks down the trees near the beach, then it causes the rain storm, passes over the window as smoke or a shadow and pulls the pilot up through the windshield, kills the pilot and chases Kate into the banyan trees. Listen to the monster
One of the LOSTies says "It didn't sound like an animal, not exactly."

S1E2
Polar Bear

During the crash scene, as Kate is trying to get the handcuffs off her wrists, you can hear the distinct noises that the monster near the beach makes
Heroin

S1E3
Michael is chased through the jungle by something unseen just before he finds Sun washing herself
Rain Storm
S1E4
Boars enter the fuselage and go after the dead bodies and there is a boar attack in the jungle, Michael is injured
Boar that Locke kills
Monster that knocks down bushes
Locke sees the monster, one he needs to look up at
Jack hallucinates his father

S1E5
Joanna drowns in a riptide
Jack hallucinates about his father

S1E6
Charlie steps on a beehive, and then the bees attack Charlie, Kate and Jack

Heroin
   
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S1E7
Cave collapses on Jack
Locke uses Charlie as bait to catch a boar
Moth
Heroin
S1E8
Shannon has an asthma attack

S1E9
Danielle tells Sayid she hears whispers
Sayid hears whispers
Others- Danielle tells Sayid about the Others
Ethan Rom/Other

Booby Trap- Sayid hits a trip wire for a snare trap

S1E10
Rain Storm
Others/Ethan attacks Claire in her sleep with a syringe
Others/Ethan kidnaps Claire and Charlie
Dreams/Hallucinations- Claire has nightmare with Locke in it, in it he has one black stone and one white stone for eyes
Heroin

S1E11
Whispers- Sayid tells Sawyer about the whispers he heard
Other/Ethan- hangs Charlie
Other/Ethan- meets Jack

Bird screeching sound that turns into what might be whispers just before Jack falls down the hill
Rain Storm

S1E12
Sayid tells Jack
about the whispers he heard
High tide takes the fuselage
   
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S1E13
Hallucinations- Boone sees the monster pick up Shannon and kill her
Sea Urchin- Hurley steps on one
Locke says about the boars "They're smart animals and smart animals adapt quickly when a new predator is introduced into their environment."
S1E14
Polar Bear- attacks Walt
Claire's diary mentions that she had a weird dream about the Black Rock
S1E15
Other/Ethan is killed
Rain Storm
S1E16
Whispers- Sawyer hears whispers
Boar attacks Sawyer
S1E18
Bridge Collapses
Dead Boar in Trap
Booby Trap- Hurley steps on a pressure sensor
Hurley's bad luck
Heroin
   
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S1E19
Hallucinations/Dreams- Locke hallucinates/dreams about his mother, Boone getting hurt and sees himself in a wheelchair
Heroin
S1E20
Sea Urchin- but this time it is used for a 'good' purpose, as a needle for the transfusion
S1E21
Rain Storm
Heroin
S1E23
Tear Down Trees Monster- Arzt gets chased by a monster and Danielle says “It's a security system.”
Rain Storm
S1E24
Locke gets pulled down a hole by the black smoke monster, also seen by Kate and Jack
Booby Trap- Charlie gets hit in head by a bag full of rocks
Whispers- Danielle claims she heard whispers saying that the Others are coming for the boy
Others take Walt
Heroin
   
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Season 2

 
     
S2E1
Whispers- Shannon hears whispers
Hallucinations- Shannon sees Walt and he is whispering “Push the button. Don’t push the button. Bad.”

S2E2
Shark attacks the raft

S2E3
Others

S2E4
H
urley hallucinates Jin speaking English and the man in chicken suit
Hurley's bad luck

S2E5
Others walk by Jin and Mr. Eko in jungle
Boar attacks Jin
Jin uses the sea urchin as bait- another good use for it besides being a needle in S1E20
Other/Goodwin
S2E6
Others/They take Cindy
Others/They took 3 people and then came back and took 9
Ana Lucia says “They're smart, and they're animals, and they could be anywhere at any time….”
Whispers- Shannon hears Walt say “They’re coming and they’re close”
Shannon and Sayid see Walt and hear whispers
Ana Lucia, Michael and the Tailies hear whispers
Rain Storm
Claire says "It's like we're playing Mom & Dad to this baby, but I don't remember marrying him"
Eko, Ana, Michael, Jin, Libby and Bernard hear whispers after Shannon is shot
   
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S2E7
Savage looking Others- 3 Tailies dragged away by 'them'
Savage looking Others - 9 Tailies dragged away by 'them'
Whispers heard by the group
Others/Goodwin
Rain Storm
Boar- Ana mentions that she “heard a pig or something out there”
S2E8
Whispers heard by Sayid, Ana Lucia, Eko, Libby, Bernard, Jin, Michael
Rain Storm
S2E9
Charlie talks about the polar bear and the monster with Kate
Kate hallucinates and sees the black horse
Kate hallucinates that Wayne is speaking through Sawyer
Sawyer and Kate see the black horse
Michael on the computer with Walt or possibly an Other
S2E10
Michael on the computer with Walt or possibly an Other
Eko encounters the black smoke monster and sees images of his life flash by in the smoke. Listen to the monster
Charlie sees the black smoke monster
Heroin
S2E11
Michael on the computer with Walt
Others kidnap Kate and confront losties
S2E12
Charlie dreams/hallucinates
Heroin
   
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S2E13    
Rain storm
Heroin
S2E14    
Ben/Fake Henry Gale is an Other
Tree frog that annoys Sawyer
S2E15    
Ben/Fake Henry Gale
Rain Storm
Ethan and Others
S2E16    

Ben/Fake Henry Gale
Rain Storm

S2E17    
Ben/Fake Henry Gale
Libby is stung by sea urchin
Rain Storm
S2E18    
Ben/Fake Henry Gale
Hurley hallucinates Dave
Hurley's bad luck
   
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S2E19
B
en/Fake Henry Gale
Rain Storm
Jack & Kate caught in a net
S2E20
Ben/Fake Henry Gale
S2E21
Eko dreams/ hallucinates Ana Lucia and Yemi
Locke dreams/hallucinates Yemi
Charlotte dreams/hallucinates Yemi
Heroin
S2E22
Black Smoke on the hill just before Michael finds Pickett
Others
Heroin
S2E23 & S2E24
Others
Whispers
Rain Storm
Bright Light, violet sky and loud noise
   
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Season 3

       
 

S3E1
Others
Whale calls can be heard as Jack asks Juliet if he is in an aquarium
Jack hallucinates his father saying "Let it go" over the intercom

  S3E2
Others
Alex says that Karl "was supposed to be in that cage"
Whale calls can be heard when Sawyer is returned to his cage
  S3E3
Polar Bear
Boar
Hallucinations- Locke hallucinates Boone and Eko speaking to him
Heroin
  S3E4
Others
Rain Storm
Lightning
  S3E5
Others
Eko hallucinates Yemi, Emeka and his men, and Daniel the altar boy
Black smoke monster
Locke says that the monster he saw in S1E4 was "A very bright light" and "It was beautiful", Eko replies "That is not what I saw"
Locke hears the monster noise and runs to find EKo
 

S3E6
O
thers
Nikki asks what happened to Eko and Locke replies "Must have been an animal, maybe one of the bears"

Whale Noises when Kate and Sawyer are cuddling
Rain Storm
Sayid asks Locke what killed Eko and Locke says "Folks back at the beach call it the monster"
Heroin

     
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S3E7
Others
Rain Storm

  S3E8
Claire is caught in an undertow
Locke tells Charlie and Hurley that the island killed Eko, when Charlie questions him more, Locke says "You know what it means", referring to the monster
  S3E9
Others
  S3E10
Hurley's bad luck
  S3E11
 

Others
Animals- cows, horse, chicken and Mikhail Bakunin/Patchy's cat Nadia. Listen to the March 26, 2007 podcast and the discussion about the relationship between Kate's horse, Sayid's cat and Christian Shephard. Also see Level 3 Instructions/Rules for more about Nadia.

  S3E12
Boar
Others
Perimeter Fence around New Otherton
  S3E13
Others
Anthony Cooper- I do not believe that he is actually on the island. But that he is similar to Christian Shephard and Yemi appearing on the island
 
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S3E14
Monster that knocks down trees is discussed by Nikki and Paolo
Jin says the monster killed Paolo
Hurley says that Nikki doesn't have a polar bear bite
Others- Ethan Rom and Ben/Fake Henry
Spiders, Centipede, Monarch Butterflies and Moths
The ticking sound that has often been associated with the monster was heard just before the spiders attacked Nikki. Listen to it.
Regarding the Medusa Spider, there is no such species as Latrodectus regina. If it supposed to be a new species that Arzt has discovered, then he shouldn't refer to the name as what "they" call it, unless of course he is referring to what the Others call it
 

S3E15
Rain Storm
Monster that knocks down trees accompanied by the noise that it makes
Black Smoke Monster
Boar
Others- Sayid remarks "It's like 50 people disappeared into thin air"
Mud Pit- Kate and Juliet fall into a mud pit
Perimeter fence around New Otherton
The ticking sound of the monster makes as it retreats is heard just prior to the flashes being seen. Listen to it.

  S3E16
Others
Butterflies in Ben/Fake Henry's office and Sawyer says about Ben/Fake Henry that Jack "Should have let that bug-eyed bastard die"

The noise that the gate makes as it is opening and closing is the same chain ratcheting sound heard in the noises that the monster made when the LOSTies first heard it from the beach in S1E1.
  S3E17
Rain Storm
Naomi and the BOATies
  S3E18
Others
The ticking noise that the monster makes is heard immediately after Hurley fires the flare gun
Naomi and the Boaties
 
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S3E19
Others
Anthony Cooper calls Ben/Fake Henry "Bug eye"
Naomi and the BOATies

 

S3E20
Others/Hostiles
Jacob is seen briefly and he says "Help Me" to Locke when Locke and Ben/Fake Henry are in Jacob's house. Jacob seems to look quite a bit like Christian Shephard
Whispers- Ben hears whispers twice, just before he sees his mother and then just before Richard Alpert appears
Hallucinations - Ben sees his dead mother Emily outside his window and near the sonic fence

 

S3E21
Others
Rain Storm in Charlie's Flashback

Naomi and the BOATies

  S3E22
Whispers - Locke hears whispers just before he sees Walt
Hallucinations - Locke sees Walt and speaks with him when he is lying in the ditch
Others
Naomi, George Minkowski and the rest of the BOATies
     
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  Season 4
   
 

S4E1
Naomi, George Minkowski, Daniel Faraday and the rest of the BOATies
Others
Rain Storm
Whispers - Hurley hears whispers when he finds Jacob's cabin
Jacob/Christian Shephard - When Hurley finds Jacob's cabin he looks inside and sees a figure rocking in the chair, an enhanced view of the photo is shown above. A larger view of it is available here. The monster has taken on the form of Christian Shephard. An eye appears suddenly from the inside of the cabin that looks just like the eye seen in S3E20. As Hurley tries to run away from the cabin, it suddenly reappears in front of him and then it disappears when he insists that it is not there.
Hallucinations- Hurley hallucinates Charlie while he is in the convenience store, in the police station and at Santa Rosa Mental Hospital

  S4E2
Rain Storm
Lightning/Electrical Storm
Cow
Others
BOATies
  S4E3
Jacob (Jacob's cabin)- Locke looks for Jacob but only finds the line of volcanic ashes that surrounded the cabin
BOATies
Others
  S4E4
BOATies
Others
Bird - calling out as Kate approaches the Boat House. I think it may be the equivalent of the Hurley Bird for the upcoming level change. It occurs at 8 minutes and 54 seconds.
 
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S4E5
BOATies

Others
Thunder Clouds
Rain Storm
Flashes experienced by Desmond and Minkowski

  S4E6
BOATies
Others
Rain Storm
Whispers- Jack and Juliet both hear the whispers
Hallucinations- Harper Stanhope appearing to Juliet and Jack
  S4E7
BOATies
Cockroaches
  S4E8
Others
BOATies
Hallucinations- Michael hallucinates Libby in the hospital and in the engine room on the Kahana
Widmore- Ben tells Michael"There are people on your boat who are innocent. They have no idea that the man they work for is a monster. A killer without a greater purpose"
     
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S4E9
Smoke Monster- Ben enters the secret room off his secret closet and returns covered in soot, moments later, the smoke monster appears and attacks Keamy's men and grabs one man. The smoke monster is accompanied by its usual sounds, but also appears to be able to be able to shake the house, race like a train and also swirl like a tornado. There are also flashes of light as the smoke monster roars in like a train and there are flashes of light when the smoke monster is attacking Keamy's men in the jungle.
BOATies
Others- Charles Widmore says to Ben "I know who you are boy, what you are"
Nightmares- Charles Widmore gets nightmares

 

S4E10
Hallucinations -Jack sees his father in the hospital lobby when talking to Ms. Berenberg and then later when taking the battery out of the smoke detector. Hurley tells Jack about seeing Charlie, that Charlie told Hurley that "You're not supposed to raise him Jack" and that someone will be coming to see Jack too, soon. Later Jack sits outside and stares at the bench where Hurley says Charlie visits him
Hallucinations- Claire sees Christian Shephard holding Aaron
BOATies
Others

Birds Chirping- There are birds chirping that serve to cover over the sounds that Aaron makes to help hide him from Keamy and his men. This could indicate that the monster is working to protect Aaron or it could be the Hurley Bird for Level 5

 

S4E11
Smoke Monster- Keamy says "A black pillar of smoke threw him 50 feet into the air, ripped his guts out" about his man Mayhew getting hurt
Hallucination/Dream- Locke has a hallucination/dream of Horace Goodspeed and when he wakes Ben says "I used to have dreams"
Smoke Monster- Locke drew a picture of the smoke monster when he was a child
Christian Shephard is in Jacob's cabin
Others
BOATies

  S4E12
Keamy and his men, Sawyer tells Jack "Because he is with those animals who just blew up half of New Otherton, you don't want to tussle with them"
BOATies
Others
 

S4E13
Others
BOATies
Keamy and his men
Whispers begin just before the Others show up at the helicopter
Whispers begin just as Christian shows up to say "You can go now Michael"

Kate has a nightmare of Whispers on the phone and Claire being in Aaron's bedroom

 
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  Season 5
   
  S5E1
  Rain
Flashes experienced by the LOSTies
  S5E2
Hurley hallucinates Ana Lucia
Flashes experienced by the LOSTies
Hurley mentions the smoke monster to his mother
Others
  S5E3
Desmond tells Charlie about Great Britain "It has mountains and glens and monsters and deep lochs"
Flashes experienced by the LOSTies
Others
  S5E4
Flashes experienced by the LOSTies
Others
Rain Storm with thunder and lightening flashes (1, 2, 3, 4) that the LOSTies experience and the rain storm that Danielle and her team experience
  S5E5
Butterfly- Montand says that Nadine is probably off looking for a butterfly
Birds are chirping just before the Smoke Monster attacks
Flashes experienced by the LOSTies
The Smoke Monster noise is heard just before the monster uproots a tree, attacks Montand, drags Montand by the leg to the hole, cuts off his arm and drags him down the hole (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
A voice is heard asking for help from the hole. It sounds like Montand but is way to calm for someone who has just lost their arm
Black smoke seen by Jin on the beach
Christian Shepard
 

S5E6
Others
Lightening Storm when Jack is in the church
Flash on Flight 316
Birds chirping near the waterfall

 
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  S5E7
Christian Shepard

Others
Flash on Flight 316
Locke
Dreams-
Walt tells Locke "I've been having dreams about you. You were on the island wearing a suit and there were people all around you. They wanted to hurt you John
  S5E8
Others/Hostiles- including Richard and the two Others that kill Paul (1,2)
Flashes above and below the well (1,2)
Bird heard calling out as Amy sits with dead Paul
  S5E9
The cow is seen at the Flame Station, it is a different cow than the one seen by Frank in S4E2
Others- are mentioned by Sawyer and also referred to as "the hostiles" by Sawyer and in the Orientation Video
Flash on Flight 316
The monster moves the trees around as Sun and Lapidus arrive on the main island and Sun remarks "It's probably just an animal"
Whispers- are heard by Sun and Lapidus as they arrive on the main island
Christian Shepard - Leads Kate and lapidus into the Processing Center and takes a photo down from the wall was previously seen in 1977 as Kate is talking to Phil
Smoke Monster- Wisps of smoke are seen as the door of the Processing Center blows open and it appears as if Claire may be sitting in a dark corner of the room
  S5E10
Others- Young Ben asked Sayid if Richard sent him
Ben- Sayid tells Ilana about Ben "He's a liar, a manipulator, a man who allowed his own daughter to be murdered to save himself. A monster responsible for nothing short of genocide"
Animals- Roger Linus says "I thought you hostiles are supposed to be king of the jungle"
  S5E11
Others
Birds chirping
Animal- Roger says "My son stole my keys so he could bust that animal out of jail (Roger assumes that Sayid is an Other)
 
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S5E12
Horse
Others
Locke is seen standing in the water, just like Christian, appears out of the jungle as Ben is waiting for the monster to show up and is conveniently out of sight as Ben is examined and judged by the smoke monster (see video)
Whispers- When he kidnaps Alex, Ben tells Danielle "Now, you listen to me. If you try and follow me, or if you ever come looking for me, I'll kill you. And if you want your child to live, every time you hear whispers, you run the other way"
Animals - Stuffed Bird and Polar Bear skull in Ben's office in the Hydra
Snakes- Are visible in the hieroglyphics on the wall
Smoke Monster- The Smoke Monster comes out of the vents below the hieroglyphics (1, 2), approaches Ben and then surrounds him (1, 2) . Ben's sees flashes of his life (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Next the Smoke Monster retreats back into the vents. Also See Video of the scene. The Smoke Monster then takes on the form of Alex and makes Ben swear to follow Locke and not to hurt him

  S5E13
Others- Sawyer mentions the hostiles, and Kate tells Juliet that she and Sawyer "gave him to the Others", meaning Young Ben
Flashes- Young Ben sees flashes of Mr. Vonner's death
  S5E14
Others - Kate, Jack and Daniel find the Others in their camp
  S5E15
Others
Birds- Can be heard chirping in the background when Sawyer and Juliet are getting on the submarine
Boar
 

S5E16 & S5E17
The man in the black shirt, also referred to on this website as Esau, who now appears to look like Locke
Others
Birds are seen circling the four toed statue and are heard in several scenes, most notably by the Dharma van just before Jack leaves with the bomb's core
Smoke Monster- Ben says "...when we went to see the monster"

 
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