What Lies in the Shadow of the Statue?

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(Pos­si­ble LOST spoil­ers! (depend­ing on how crafty we are at guessing))

  • A beach
  • shade
  • Noth­ing (because it doesn’t pro­duce a shadow)
  • Sun­bathers
  • It depends on the time of day
  • The Time (because it’s a sundial)
  • Dan­ger
  • Another smaller statue
  • Ocean (prob­a­bly a valid answer despite what direc­tion the show goes with it)
  • a mon­key
  • polar bears
  • Ben (but, then again, he lies everywhere)

UPDATE: I was informed by a moti­vated reader of two more sug­ges­tions. Chris S calls him “d bag”, but the per­son in ques­tion says his name is “Dumb Answers”. (I’m guess­ing on gen­der, here. There’s no hard-and-fast rule for “Dumb”.) I’m not sure either name is con­sid­ered valid by the U.S. Social Secu­rity Admin­is­tra­tion, but maybe Dumb had hip­pie par­ents. He men­tioned hav­ing an eight year old, which (I hope) has a more tra­di­tional name like “Sam” or “John”. But, see­ing as how Dumb may very well live up to his name, the 8yo is prob­a­bly named “Dumb II” (or 2Dumb to friends) or “Ter­ri­ble” or “Awesome”.

  • Jug­head
  • The Tem­ple
  • “d bags” (I assume Chris meant “dumb bag”, but this was a con­ve­nient abbreviation)
  • Dumb Answers

Why am I post­ing this update? Because I can’t imag­ine why any­one would take the time to post such a deroga­tory com­ment on a post that is obvi­ously meant for comedic relief. UNLESS WE’RE TOO CLOSE TO THE TRUTH. Because of this, even though I added “Jug­head” and “The Tem­ple” to the list, I don’t think those are viable (since D-Bag men­tioned them).

D-Bag men­tioned “trees” and “a beach”. I men­tioned “a beach”, but not trees (maybe I should have!) which has left me per­plexed for now. D-Bag also men­tioned an eight year old, which at first seems unspec­tac­u­lar. How­ever, what eight year old has the patience and where­withal to reg­u­larly enjoy a show like LOST? None. I think the eight year old isn’t an eight year old HUMAN, it’s an eight year old TREE. A quick Google search turned up an inter­est­ing result: 8-Year-Old Sil­ver Tree Takes Fort Marcy. The arti­cle in ques­tion isn’t about a tree at all; it’s about a HORSE. Like the horse that KATE SAW. Kate spent quite a lot of time in the POLAR BEAR CAGES, which seems to sug­gest that the answer of what lies in the shadow of the statue is, in fact, POLAR BEARS.

I guess I’ll have to mark this post as DEFINITELY SPOILERS. Thanks, D-Bag.

UPDATE 2: Appar­ently we were all wrong. It was “sand”, but not a beach’s worth of sand. It’s a tech­ni­cal­ity, but that’s how LOST is. GO LOST!

19 thoughts on “What Lies in the Shadow of the Statue?”

  1. I think the answer will be the Temple…or some­thing clever like the “What did one snow­man say to the other” I think it all has to do with Dharma ver­sion 2.0 though :o

  2. I find this list hee­lar­i­ous con­sid­er­ing we just started rat­tling off ran­dom things. Because we were bored.

  7. How does that always hap­pen to you. “Man, the new (Ran­dom Tech net thingy) sure sucks the big one” and then a day later some­one hops online, finds your web­site and says, “Daddy make it all bet­ter, Daddy is so sorry he dropped you…quit cry­ing before mommy gets home!“
    Ask for a free T-Shirt from Hel­loTxt, T-shirts kick ass.

  8. Those have to be the dumb­est answers I have seen for that rid­dle. The two most obvi­ous, being Jug­head or the Tem­ple, aren’t even on the list. It’s obvi­ously an impor­tant ques­tion; the answer isn’t going to be some­thing child­ish like “trees” or “the beach” … my 8-year old even thinks that’s stupid.

  12. I read “spoil­ers” and thought I could han­dle it. Then I remem­bered I can’t han­dle Miles. So I stopped reading.

  16. My guess was the pit of the time wheel. Since when Locke was climb­ing down to turn the wheel, they looked up and saw the statue from where they were.
    /shrug

  17. in episode 16, the statue showes the thing hold­ing male and female sym­bols, i think it rep­re­sents (just think about this, dont laugh yet) it rep­re­sents another civi­laza­tion race enslav­ing the humans. and as jacob sais before he dies “they are comming”

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