Flame Hatch Location

Well, this is my first official attempt at a theory thus far with lost (on a website that is). I've attempted to write a few here and there, but always get near the end of my theory, and see the swiss cheese-like holes all over it. Hopefully it will not be the same with this one.

So, the Blast Door Map has opened us to a number of new insights and thought-provoking issues. One of which is the location of these other hatches or bunkers which are displayed on the Blast Door Map. One such location is The Flame, or the hatch directly to the left of the Swan hatch.

I've been rewatching some episodes to see if i can spot anything helpful to add to the Blast Door Map, and have run across one thing so far. In Maternity Leave (S2-E15), Claire and Kate find the Medial Hatch, or The Staff, which is two hatches left of The Swan Hatch. You will notice that there are markings in between the hatches. Some believe these to be tunnels connecting the hatches. But due to their constant twists and turns, and inability to actually CONNECT two hatches, i think otherwise. I believe these to be one of two things: roads (which if this were true, i think the Blast Door Map would point it out) or most likley, rivers/streams.

In Maternity Leave, after they have headed back to the beach, the Maternity party (Claire, Kate, and Rousseau) pass by/through/over a stream. If my observations are correct, and these markings ARE rivers/streams, then they had to be somewhere NEAR the Flame Hatch.

Not that the Losties KNOW to look for other hatches yet because Locke only just found this Blast Door Map, but if they did, all they would have to do is comb in between the Swan Hatch and the Medical Hatch, and i am almost positive they would find the Flame Hatch.

So that's that. Let me know what you think. But gentle with me...i'm a bleeder...

Yes, they could have easily walked by another hatch on the way to
the medical hatch and not realized it.

The hatches are very well hidden. I wonder if the flame hatch is right under their noses and they don't realize it.

Well its deep forest in thar so it could be hard to spot with all the flora

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Originally Posted by White_Stone

Well its deep forest in thar so it could be hard to spot with all the flora

Not only that, but they've probably camoflaged it (covered it with branches, etc.) like they did the medical hatch in Maternity Leave.

It would be ironic for obvious reasons if the flame hatch was the hatch that is supposed to be under water.

Well no one would expect to find it there, I guess.

It must make it extreamly easy for the others/ Dharma to slip in and out of the trees unseen. they could grab someone and pop right back into a hatch right under the losties nose.

I wonder if they went back to the Arrow Hatch if they would find anything else. It is uncanny how they managed to steal 9 individuals from the Tail section survivors, nearly all full grown adults and disappear that quickly
into the jungle. The ratio would have to be at least 1 to 1. Even the kids
would be hard to manage since they were pretty big (age wise)
They were gone in an instant - there had to be an entrance very close by.

I wonder if the Others are living in any of the other hatches. It's interesting to me that they've only found abandoned hatches (if you count the one with just Desmond in it as abandoned). I would think they would need a pretty large area to house all those Others. Maybe that has something to do with the Line or maybe the ? in the middle of the map?