An "Alternate" Alternate Reality (LOST)

With regard to the previous post, The Crying of Lost 49, I think I may have discovered the only plausible alternative to the theory that the sites are officially affiliated with LOST. They could be an elaborate resumé.

On the site for the Valenzetti Foundation, there is a link labeled Please Help Hylie!, that leads to forhylie.org. That site claims Hylie has died, and contains a link to Methusalabs, a fake anti-aging website. Neither appears to have anything to do with LOST, or any of the sites I mentioned in the last post.

A google search for the term "For Hylie" elicits a resumé for a woman named Dee Cook, whose website is located at addlepated.net. Her portfolio and resumé
identify her as a 'puppetmaster' for Alternate Reality Games (ARG). She claims responsibility for (part of) the 'Hylie' site, and says she has also created numerous false websites, news articles, emails, blogs, manipulated images and the like for various Internet ARGs. She is a staff writer for the Alternate Reality Gaming Network and was even involved in a website about Rimbaldi, the cipher from J.J. Abram's OTHER show, Alias. (And the Valenzetti Foundation page includes a link to a Ribaldi page that may or may not have once been a part of FollowersOfRimbaldi.com, for which Dee Cook WAS partially responsible.

It is possible, then, that Ms. Cook has created this elaborate web of fake-sites, hoping to either fool LOST fans, or get the attention of the people running the LOST Experience game (which began last week at The Hanso Foundation site). She could be using it as an elaborate example of what she can manage. And if she's not trying to impress the LOST people specifically, then she's done it for anyone else looking for someone to spearhead an ARG. If she manages to pull the wool over enough people's eyes, and gain enough noteriety for this stunt, maybe she will become the go-to person for this sort of thing.

And if it isn't Cook behind this, then it will be some of her compatriots, perhaps one or more of those listed in the credits page for the Followers of Rimbaldi site. (Which lists Jackie Kerr, Haley Moore, and Michelle Senderhauf [among others] as sharing responsibility for forhylie.org and methusalabs.com).

I'm starting to believe this is the case, and that I may have given the LOST crew too much credit in attributing all those sites to them. We'll all find out someday, I guess. What do you think?