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thehansofoundation.org is the official Hanso Foundation website and is part of The Lost Experience.

It can be found at http://www.thehansofoundation.org.


Site Sections

Mission Statement

The Hanso Foundation stands as the vanguard of social and scientific research for the advancement of the human race.

For forty years, The Foundation has offered grants to worthy experiments seeking to promote world peace through improved health, prevention, vitality and longevity.

The Hanso Foundation. Reaching out to a better tomorrow.

Executive Bios

Main article Executive Bios.

The Executive Bios page is a section of the website which lists the Executives and Board of Directors of the Foundation.

Active Projects

Note: The list of active projects in the Mission Statement, below the project logos, include an "Educational Outreach Imperative" that is not included in any other section of the site. (It is actually repeated twice)

Joop's Corner

Main article Joop's Corner.

Joop's Corner is a section of the Hanso Foundation website dedecated to their 105-year old orangutan Joop, who is a test subject for The Hanso Foundation's Life Extension Project.

The page features a short press release regarding their accomplishment with Joop as well as a quote pertaining to their Life Extension Project and a way to contact send Joop messages.

Newsletter

Main article Newsletter.

The Newsletter page is a section of the website where users are encouraged to leave their email contact details so that they can be updated on future news regarding the site and company.

Television Ad

Main Article Television Ad

In this section of the website you can view the first television advertisement launched by the Hanso Foundation for their "Reaching Out for a Better Tomorrow" advertising campaign.

Other

Other features which seem to be less permanent:

Press Release

As of the May 5, a press release is accessible from the main page. [1]

  • This press release puts the well known "curiosity quote" by Alvar Hanso into context as follows: "Alvar Hanso, Address to the U.N. Security Council, 1967". 1967 is the year of the of the Middle East War, and the resulting U.N. Security Council Resolution on that war. Given that from the site we also learn that during WWII Alvar Hanso provided armaments to resistance forces in Europe, one wonders if he had a part in the Middle East War.
  • Also gives the following contact information: Media Contact: Hugh McIntyre (206) 861-5017/Hugh.McIntyre@thehansofoundation.org - this number goes to a voice mailbox for Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation (as advertised). The mailbox is full. You can page the mailbox owner, and enter in your own phone number. No result from having done this as of yet.

The press release also included an Easter Egg.

RSS Feed

The RSS feed is located at http://www.thehansofoundation.org/feed/thehansofoundation.xml. This can be accessed by right-click on the main site, selecting 'Show All' in the flash setting, then pressing the RSS button.

  1. Feed Reference
    "Alvar Hanso profile updated
    Alvar Hanso first made his mark during the Second World War, providing munitions to various resistance movements around Europe. After the War, Hanso became the leading purveyor of high-technology armaments for NATO."
  2. Feed Reference
    "Important News
    It has come to our attention that our site is experiencing some sort of disruption. Our sincere apologies - please read the full press release on our homepage."
  3. Feed Reference
    "thehansofoundation.org relaunches
    The Hanso Foundation stands at the vanguard of social and scientific research for the advancement of the human race. www.thehansofoundation.org re-launches with a new look. Sign up to the newsletter if you want to get updates."
  4. Feed Reference
    "Joop the Orangutan’s 105th birthday
    The Hanso Foundation Life-Extension Project celebrated a milestone in the 105th birthday of experimental subject 626. Experimental subject 626, known to Hanso Life Extension project researchers as “Joop,” is an orangutan originally harvested by British explorers in the early 1900s"

Each feed provided the same link: http://www.thehansofoundation.org

Trivia: Joop is referenced as "experimental subject 626". 626 is the same experiment number as Stitch from the Lilo & Stitch movies. Stitch is one of many of a line of genetic experiments. Lilo & Stitch are also products of Disney/ABC.

Easter Eggs

Logged-in

Logged in at http://thehansofoundation.org

General

  • The progress/loading animation displays the numbers
  • The bottom left-hand corner, just outside the white content box, has a hidden button that moves the site's background "glowing globes"
  • Other symbols are revealed; relevance not yet determined.
  • Many of the images used on the site are stock photos. For example, the picture at the top of the Mental Health Appeal section is from Getty Images. The image of Alvar Hanso is not a stock photo.

Clearing the Flash Cache

The site does not use traditional cookies or an IP tracker to track your session - instead it uses the Shared Objects persistence solution built into the Flash player.

  • If you want to reset your state with the site, you can close your browser, clear your Flash session and then revisit the site.
    • On Mac OS X this is stored in a folder called www.thehansofoundation.org somewhere within the folder tree <Username>/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects (possibly under an additional unique ID folder).
    • On Windows this is stored in a folder called C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects. It may be under a unique ID folder in that folder.
      • Bear in mind that as the game continues, you may need to redo an entire set of actions to reach the current "status".

Newsletter

  • When trying to subscribe to the newsletter, Persephone contacts you and asks for a password
    • The password is 'breaking strain'
    • After inputting the password, you "get logged in" and Persephone has a quick "chat" with you
    • You can "login" again by subscribing the newsletter, but Persephone isn't "online" after the first time. You are told you have no new messages, and then booted from the "chat".
    • After logging out, you will see flashes of Joop in an altered state (see Newsletter.)

Joop's Corner

Joop-maze

Joop's webmaze

Sbvtgathrty

Persephone's message

Livewebcam

These images appear in Joop's webcam

  • In Joop's Corner, you can leave messages to Joop.
  • Once you have completed the chat with Persephone, you access a webmaze no matter what message you leave.
    • The webmaze, which appears to be 'mapping' the brain of an orangutan, is similar to the ones on the Oceanicflight815.com site. A red bar with a green triangle also moves around the background of Joop's picture every time the image refreshes.
    • When you finish the maze, you see some Hanso correspondence (See Hanso Correspondence for images and text).
      • The first correspondence is a "flashlighted" letter from Global Welfare Consortium to CDC about The Hanso Foundation's experiments in Tanzania. The letter is signed by Jacques Maillot, director general of GWC executive committee. The letter is dated 19 September 2005.
      • After clicking the signature to the letter, you get a "flashlighted" version of another letter, again from GWC to CDC which apologizes about the previous letter, and reassures the CDC regarding Hanso's operations in Tanzania. It also mentions that the person who wrote the first letter has been relieved of his position. This letter is signed by Peter Thompson, Acting Director General of GWC. The letter is dated 25 September 2005.
        • Further clicking produces a slightly moderated version of the second letter, and an audio message saying "The Hanso foundation, setting world speed records for subverting authority."
  • Right below the text in the top-right box, there is a hidden text field. So far, this has no use.
  • There is also a hidden picture of a man's face in Joop's Corner. This picture is hidden behind Joop's webcam and can be seen by changing the brightness and contrast of a screenshot, taken before the webcam picture appears.
    • This person is the same man that is in the picture at the top of the Mental Health Appeal section.
  • There is a text box by Joop's hand which may or may not be a coding error. Entering various texts at this time does not result in any changes.

Mental Health Appeal

Manbehindjoop

Man's face behind Joop

  • In the Mental Health Appeal page, clicking on the Inquire Today button will bring up a Tell Us More About Yourself text box. Entering information at this time returns the message 'Sorry connection timed out'.
    • There is a hidden button on the top right hand corner of the text box.
      • That button appears to have just the same function as the "Next"-button under the text box.
    • There is another hidden button below and to the right of Alvar Hanso's quote.
      • Seems to have the same function as the "Inquire Today!" button.
  • The man on the top photo of this section is the man seen in Joop's webcam.

Worldwide Wellness and Prevention Program

  • If you access the Press Release in the Worldwide Wellness and Prevention Development Program, the word "miracle" in the second paragraph turns your mouse into a hand when moved over it. The asfunction:miracleLink does not function at this time.

World Map

Hidden location on hansofoundation world map

Hidden location on the world map, enhanced.

  • In the World map on the site, there is a hidden spot, located near Bermuda, which displays garbled characters and some sequences of numbers when moused-over.
    • If you "translate" the numbers to the alphabet, it spells "missing organs".

Press Release

5 May 2006

There is a press release added to the main page: http://thehansofoundation.org/press/05_05_06.pdf.

  • Hidden content can be found by selecting all the text, revealing a link at the bottom of the page: http://persephone.thehansofoundation.org/
    • The contents of that site was, until 7th May, the following list of numbers:
      • 106 98 111 32 117 98 115 32 114 115 110 102 32 102 118 32 102 118 101 71 32 49 32 108 110 90 32 116 117 98 46 83 69 71 32 103 110 32 111 118 32 116 98 73
        • This is ASCII code, reading:
          • jbo ubs rsnf fv fveG 1 lnZ tub. SEG gn ov tbI
          • To decipher, first rotate all vowels by 3 (The phrase "aeiouy" would become "ouyaei") which yields:
            • jba ebs rsnf fv fvuG 1 lnZ teb.SUG gn av tbY
          • Which when ROT13 decoded reads:
            • won rof efas si sihT 1 yaM gro.FHT ta ni goL
          • When reversed this reads:
            • Log in at THF.org May 1 This is safe for now
          • Since the game officially began May 5th, clearly the date "May 1" must be incorrect. It is currently unclear how the number '1' should be decoded.
          • If using ROT18 instead of ROT13, for instance, the message is exactly the same, except the 1 becomes a 6. Yet for most of the Earth, it is already May 7, and nothing new seems to have been discovered. This may have something to do with the Press release, which says someone is hacking the site.
          • THF.org refers to TheHansoFoundation.org

7 May 2006

The string of numbers quoted on Persephone's webpage was changed to:

  • 72 65 83 32 87 73 78 32 72 79 83 84 32 80 67 32 73 78 32 78 73 76 32 85 82 71 69 46 32 56 44 32 110 111 116 32 49 32 97 110 100 32 54 46
    • Converting this from decimal numbers into ascii characters, using an online converter gives the textual string
      • HAS WIN HOST PC IN NIL URGE 8 not 1 and 6
    • Rearranging the letters reveals:
      • SIGN IN WITH HANSO PR CLUE 8 not 1 and 6
    • Alternative anagram
      • LOGIN HUNCH WAS PRISTINE 8 not 1 and 6
        • Either may relate to the word "miracle", found as an empty link in the Worldwide Wellness and Prevention Development Program Press Release.
    • The 8 not 1 and 6 may be to clarify confusion stating 8 May, rather than 1 May or 6 May.
  • Mail sent to the email address on the press release, hugh.mcintyre@thehansofoundation.org, bounces. Note: a formatting error in the Press Release (part of the phone number run against the first name) causes the mailto tag to misdirects emails to mcintyre@thehansofoundation.org; this is also an invalid address.
    • Other corporate addresses such as peter.thompson@thehansofoundation.org and alvar.hanso@thehansofoundation.org also bounce.

8 May 2006

This was activated on 8 May 2006 (As revealed by the press release)

Visit the Executive Bios section

  • Go to the article about Alvar Hanso.
    • Under the grayish picture, October 28, 2003 is hyperlinked.
  • Click this link to reveal a message from Persephone
    • "Notice the grainy far away picture?" and the date is circled several times
  • Click the link again to reveal another message from Persephone
    • "It doen't match anyone else?"
  • Click the link again to zoom the view to a satellite view of Western Europe with flight paths drawn over it in white. Each flight path ends at a European city with a date. Persephone reveals a message that her research indicates these locations and dates are places and times that Alvar Hanso has been sighted in person. Those dates are:
14.06.2000 - London
12.11.2000 - Copenhagen
23.02.2001 - Paris
12.07.2001 - Geneva
18.09.2001 - Roma
01.01.2001 - Copenhagen
31.12.2002 - Madrid
  • Click on the dates that flash to reveal subsequent dates and Persephone's next message:
PERSEPHONE: THIS IS THE
LAST RECORD I FOUND OF
ANY PUBLIC APPEARANCE OF
ALVAR HANSO
THE MAN HASN'T BEEN SEEN
IN PUBLIC SINCE 2002!!!
Then there is some flickering Text displayed:
IS HE HIDING?
WHO IS RUNNING THIS PLACE?
ALVAR HANSO WAS NEVER THERE.
A female voiceover (the same one from the phone message on Alvar Hanso's line) asks:
Where is Alvar Hanso?
Is he hiding?
Who is running this place anyway?
After few moments, a black screen appears with a blinking green dot and a beeping noise in morse code:
... .- ..-. . --. which translates to SAFE G

9 May 2006

SpriteTeaser Java Script (name revealed in 'view source')

Heirapparent

Persephone?

Transcript

'CalTech' transcript

CalTech2

Another Version?
(May 10 2006)

Heirapparent2630

2630 appears at the bottom of the screen

  • Access Executive Bios as of 9 May 2006
    • Every 15th and 42nd minute of the hour the clock reads "OB:EY" instead of the time.
  • Click the clock to be sent to:
  • As each monitor lights up, click it repeatedly. The number of times you have to click each monitors corresponds to the numbers. When you have finished with a monitor, it will remain lit, and the circle will turn counterclockwise.
    • When all six monitors are static, they will swirl into miniature and the scene will change to a single bright monitor. The screen of the monitor will have a wavy line with the new code appearing 'subliminally':
      • code: Heir Apparent
    • There will all be a message below the image stating
      • 'sublymonal message unlocked'
  • Click the link below the message to be taken back to
  • Click on Thomas Mittlewerk's bio
  • Enter 'heir apparent' into the new text box
    • A movie will appear in the center with a woman in a hospital dressing gown standing in a doorway.
    • As the movie begins the time and date in the top left hand corner of the screen change to 21:12, 05/04/06. This may, however, be an accident.
    • The number 2630 can be faintly seen at the bottom of the screen.
  • Click the woman
    • A copy of a CalTech transcript will appear
  • Click 'Tuition and Fee Schedule Contract' above the red underline.
    • A new message from Persephone appears (she reads the last three sentences as they appear):
      • 'Caltech has no record of this guy in their Alumni database! He's never made a tuition payment. does he even have a college degree? Why does he call himself a "Doctor"? of what? Who is this clown?'
    • Hidden in the transcript behind the blue and red boxes are the words:
      • "Gary Troup knows too much" and "he must be silenced".
      • Activating this sequence on May 10th reveals a slightly different document, in which both cross-out boxes are red and no text is visible through them.
  • (Clicking another bio, then back to Mittlewerk's, the viewer can repeat the above steps to review the clue)

Mistaken for clues

There is a 12-pronged icon on persephone.thehansofoundation.org website which was confused as a clue. However, this is the default icon of the Plesk Control Panel Software used by the website itself and not a game clue - See http://persephone.thehansofoundation.org:443/ and http://www.swsoft.com/plesk/.

There is a user login box in the far lower right corner of the main screen (next to the RSS button) requesting a username; this appears to be related to website maintenance.

Old site

There was a less detailed website prior to the remodelling for The Lost Experience. It was launched in connection with the US airing of the Orientation Film and contained information about Alvar Hanso and his foundation. None of the pages on the old website is accessible today from the current site but a quicktime version of the film can be found at http://thedharmainitiative.org/orientation/. The information in this section is related to the old website of The Hanso Foundation and thus will contain obsolete references.

  • The Hanso [2] Life-Extension Project contains a link to a memorandum regarding orangutan Joop originally “harvested by British explorers in the early 1900’s” also referred to as experimental subject 626. The release explains this information came from an “experimental station in Zanzibar” and names the source of this information (possibly a scientist) only as Einarsson. Also if you click on the space after last sentence a box will appear, type in 'Copenhagen', then submit and another letter will appear.
  • The Hanso Foundation site contains a page with information about Alvar Hanso [3] On that page if you click on the photo of Alvar Hanso it changes to an animated GIF of what looks like a computer screen with a conversation between two people - similar to Michael's experience at the end of Episode 2x09 "What Kate Did" - after the animation ends the screen changes to a new letter that is a follow up to the letter you reach as described above.
  • The old site can be now found at http://emri.perception.net/ and now includes instructions on how to get into the game and on the messages left by Persephone.

Site Design

A UK design firm called Hi-ReS! (link) apparently designed the new Hanso site. (Warning: the firm's homepage contains large background videos, some of which are not safe for work environments.) Attempts to go to the secure HTTPS version of the new site initially displayed a Plesk error page with a hi-res.net email address as the administrative contact. (As of May 4, the HTTPS page is no longer accessible.) Hi-ReS! was previously responsible for the Lost section of Britain's Channel 4 website. It is highly unlikely that the error page is related to the Lost Experience ARG — but devoted fans will no doubt pore over other sites by Hi-ReS! for clues nonetheless.

Current whois information

  • We can see that there are these e-mail addresses listed.

mexicanlunch@hotmail.com info@thehansofoundation.org (recently changed from info@hotmail.com) 

Domain ID:D106939446-LROR
Domain Name:THEHANSOFOUNDATION.ORG
Created On:18-Jul-2005 19:25:55 UTC
Last Updated On:01-May-2006 21:49:36 UTC
Expiration Date:18-Jul-2007 19:25:55 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:tugBiTw52IqwI8eH
Registrant Name:hanso foundation
Registrant Organization:hanso foundation
Registrant Street1:544 Orsund Klengvjel
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Copenhagen
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code:DK-1604
Registrant Country:DK
Registrant Phone:+1.9999999999
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:mexicanlunch@hotmail.com
Admin ID:tuHVl1FGWcbBbzju
Admin Name:hanso foundation
Admin Organization:hanso foundation
Admin Street1:544 Orsund Klengvjel
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Copenhagen
Admin State/Province:
Admin Postal Code:DK-1604
Admin Country:DK
Admin Phone:+1.9999999999
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:info@hotmail.com
Tech ID:tuZVhFOg5tnzsCSR
Tech Name:hanso foundation
Tech Organization:hanso foundation
Tech Street1:544 Orsund Klengvjel
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Copenhagen
Tech State/Province:
Tech Postal Code:DK-1604
Tech Country:DK
Tech Phone:+1.9999999999
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:info@hotmail.com
Name Server:NS1.MEDIATEMPLE.NET
Name Server:NS2.MEDIATEMPLE.NET

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