However, she likely meant the Black Smoke or the Sickness. Taking into account Rousseau's mental instability, shifting accounts of the story, and position as the actual murderer of her team, it is difficult to determine what she meant when she recorded her messages.What was the "it" that killed all the other members from Rousseau's expedition?.They were then caught in a storm which destroyed their vessel and made it to the Island inside a small life raft. The science team picked up a broadcast of the numbers coming from the radio tower.(" The Little Prince") (" This Place Is Death") Danielle, Robert, Montand, Brennan, Nadine and Lacombe.(" There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3") (" This Place is Death") Similarly, dead whisperers trapped on the Island could manifest themselves on the freighter. (" Because You Left") The freighter was within the circle's radius. According to Daniel, the Island exerts a finite circle of influence that extends into the surrounding water.How did Christian appear to Michael on the freighter if the Man in Black can't leave the island? (" There's No Place Like Home").Since the Man in Black wasn't able to leave the Island, Jack's off-Island visions of his father were either psychological-due to substance abuse or simply stress-or psychic in nature.How was the Man in Black able to appear as Christian Shephard to Jack off the Island?.(" The Lie") (" Ab Aeterno") (" Everybody Loves Hugo") Some of the latter visions were of ghosts trapped on the island, whispering. Because of his ability to take the form of the dead, most of these appearances were the Man in Black in disguise (such as Christian Shephard, Yemi, Alex Rousseau, John Locke), (" White Rabbit") (" The Cost of Living") (" Dead Is Dead") (" Sundown") (" The Last Recruit") while some of them are actual ghosts who appear chiefly to people with the ability of mediumship (such as Claudia and Michael Dawson).Why do certain dead people appear on the Island?.(" The 23rd Psalm") This is because the Monster was made from the Heart of the Island's electromagnetism. They are actually the electrical sounds naturally emanating from the Monster's composition.Why does the monster make mechanical sounds?.
He was willing to stop, or kill, anyone he perceived as a threat to that goal.
(" White Rabbit") (" The 23rd Psalm") (" The Cost of Living") (" Dead Is Dead ) (" Some Like It Hoth") (" Ab Aeterno") (" The Last Recruit") The smoke monster can also see into the pasts of those it encounters, and has used this ability to conjure images of (dead) people from their lives and/or "judge" them. In addition to being a cloud of black smoke capable of traveling the island, damaging property, hurting or killing people, the smoke monster can assume the form of people who have died, and of other creatures, including paralyzing spiders (" Expose") (" Official Lost Podcast/March 21, 2008") and possibly others (e.g.What are all of the the powers of the smoke monster?.His brother, Jacob, threw him into the Heart of the Island creating a pillar of black smoke for him to inhabit and leaving his physical, human body lifeless.How did he acquire the black smoke form?.