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8 is the second of the Numbers. Below is a list of appearances on the show, by episode chronology.

8 is a very common number, and many of the occurrences could be coincidential. See article: apophenia.

Occurrences in the show

Season 1

The mugshot shows eight years since Kate was arrested.

• # of the Oceanic flight is 815 (first mentioned in "Raised by Another") ("Pilot, Part 1").
• # of months pregnant Claire was when the crash happened ("Pilot, Part 1").
• # of times Jack strikes the lock on the cockpit door until it falls open ("Pilot, Part 1").
• # of months since Ray Mullen's wife had died when he met Kate ("Tabula Rasa").
• # of years since Kate was arrested (according to the mug shot, assuming the flight was in 2004) ("Tabula Rasa").
• # of months Locke and Helen (phone) were talking before he asked her to go to Australia with him ("Walkabout").
• # of days Charlie went without his guitar ("House of the Rising Sun").
• # of weeks Drive Shaft was going on tour ("The Moth").
• # of years Michael worked in construction ("The Moth").
• # of years old Sawyer was when his dad committed a murder-suicide and left him an orphan ("Confidence Man").
• The appointment when Claire wanted to sign the adoption form was at 8:15AM ("Raised by Another").

Michael in a room with eight sides.

• # of hours Kate would spend in the woods with her father tracking deer ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues").
• # of times Jack pounds on Charlie's chest before he starts breathing ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues").
• # on Boone's t-shirt (in the form of a Japanese kanji symbol) ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues").
• # of safe deposit box that Kate robbed is 815 ("Whatever the Case May Be").
• # of years since Michael got hit by a car; also the number of years he has been writing him since ("Special").
• When Michael meets Walt for the first time in Australia, they are standing in an octagonal room ("Special").
• # of days Claire went missing after Ethan kidnapped her ("Homecoming").
• Sum of numbers Tommy typed into the jukebox ("Homecoming").
• The copiers that Charlie was trying to sell were model # C-815 ("Homecoming").

Old Scooter Man's Hat has an eight on it.

• # of whiskey shots between Sawyer and Christian Shephard ("Outlaws").
• # of kilometers away that the associate instructs Jin to drive ("...In Translation").
• The news station at Hurley's lotto interview was KSVU-8 ("Numbers").
• The logo of Mega Lotto Jackpot have a hidden 8 ("Numbers")
• # of people that die in Hurley's shoe factory fire, according to Ken Halperin ("Numbers").
• # of aisle has regular balls in Locke's store. (aisle 15 for nerf ones, strange that the balls are kept so far apart). ("Deus Ex Machina").
• # of years old Shannon was when her dad married Boone's mom ("Do No Harm").
• # of beers Jack's best man says he should have before giving the speech ("Do No Harm").
• # of people kneeling in the second row of the mosque ("The Greater Good").
• Kate and Tom Brennan buried the time capsule on 8/15 ("Born to Run").
• # of Michael and Walt’s room is 815 ("Exodus, Part 1").
• # on the Old Scooter Man's hat in the Sydney Airport (who Hurley buys the scooter from for $1600) ("Exodus, Part 1").
• # of Jack and Ana Lucia's Seat Letters 42F (Ana) and 23B (Jack). F = 6, B = 2. 6+2=8

Season 2

The logo found in the hatch has eight sides.

• Adam Rutherford's time of death was recorded in St. Sebastian Hospital at 8:15. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
• The DHARMA logo is octagonal. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
• # of months until Sarah's wedding, from the time of the car accident. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
• # on a heart rate monitor in St. Sebastian Hospital.("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
• # of people at Michael's injunction to prevent his ex-wife from leaving.("Adrift")
• # of crash survivors that have died at this point when Michael tells Ana Lucia that there are 40 people at their beach. ("Orientation")
• # on one of the gas pumps in Hurley's flashback. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")
• Randy accuses Hurley of eating an 8 piece Mr Cluck's chicken pack without paying in Hurley's flashback. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")
• In Charlie's place, a Drive Shaft "Drive Across America Tour" poster hangs for their concert on 8/15/2000 ("Fire + Water")
• The Blast Door map in the same episode features the expression "√16. √64. √225" beneath The Flame which evaluates to 4, 8, and 15. ("Lockdown")

The Real Henry Gale lives at 815 Walnut Ridge Rd.

• According to the driver's license found by Sayid, Henry Gale lived on 815 Walnut Ridge Rd. ("Lockdown")
• # of people the platform that crashed in the accident involving Hurley was supposed to hold (but 23 were on it, causing it to crash). ("Dave")
• The Pearl is an octagonal room. ("?")
• # of months Desmond has to get ready for his race around the world. ("Live Together, Die Alone")

Season 3

Ben holding #8 Bunny

• # of the locker that housed Kate's dress was 841 ("A Tale of Two Cities").
• # of Eddie Colburn's Humboldt County Sheriff's Department ID is: 84023 ("Further Instructions").
• # of Sawyer's prisoner ID is 840 ("Every Man for Himself").
• # of Munson's prisoner ID is 248 in a prison Sawyer is also in. ("Every Man for Himself").
• # painted on the back of a white bunny that Ben shows Sawyer ("Every Man for Himself").
• 4:8:15 can be seen carved into Eko's stick upon close examination. ("The Cost of Living")
• Jack operated on Ben in OP-08 ("I Do").
• After Mr. Eko dies, John Locke sees a scripture "John 3:05" on the prayer stick. 3+5=8 ("I Do").
• The delivery man in is looking for room 815. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
• In Phuket Jack wears a pendant shaped like an 8. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")

Medusa Spider's paralyze victims for 8 hours. Additionally, spiders have 8 legs

• Juliet's mark has an eight pointed star on it. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")
• Tricia Tanaka works for Action 8 news. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
• The last digit on the odometer when Claire crashed her car was 8 ("Par Avion").
• # of stories Locke falls after being pushed out of a window by his father. ("The Man from Tallahassee").
• Nikki and Paulo steal 8 million dollars worth in diamonds. ("Exposé")
• The Medusa Spider paralyzes victims for 8 hours. ("Exposé")
• Spiders are one class of very few animals with 8 legs ("Exposé")

8 Knot

• Juliet ties a knot that clearly shapes an 8 ("One of Us")
• Jack and Kate spend tense moments in the jungle, gathering firewood and breaking it into usable pieces, and during their angry silence and the following conversation, they break a total of 8 branches ("One of Us").
• The clock on the Looking Glass logo shows the time 8:15
• Jack watches Action 8 News to learn about the car crash. ("Through the Looking Glass")
• Mrs. Arlen's son was 8 years old when Jack rescued him from the car crash. ("Through the Looking Glass")

Season 4

• Jack watched Hurley's chase on Action 8 News. ("The Beginning of the End")
• The ladybug behind Matthew Abaddon has 8 dots. ("The Beginning of the End")
• The registration of the helicopter is N842M. ("Confirmed Dead")
• Elsa tells Sayid to meet her at the restaurant at 8:00. ("The Economist")
• Jack says there were 8 survivors of the flight while on the stand at Kate's trial ("Eggtown")
• Desmond goes back in time 8 years to 1996 while experiencing side effects from his travel off the island to the freighter. ("The Constant")
• The number 8 appears twice on the number plate of the Taxi that Ben was in when he went to visit Charles Widmore in London. (Incidentally, the car behind the taxi when it stopped has the number 8 on it. ("The Shape of Things to Come")

• Sayid tells Ben that he waited 8 years to find his wife. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
• Sayid shoots a man outside the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute at 8:15. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
• The phone number Penny gives Desmond is 7946 0893. ("The Constant")

Season 5

• The swinging pendulum in Ms. Hawking's lab passes the camera 4 times, then another 4 times (making 8). If we continue counting from there, we get a total of 16 passes (and consequently, 15 before it). ("The Lie")
• The sign on the Oxford University Department of Physics is Claredon 142-08. ("Jughead")
• The raft of the Science expedition has 8 sides. ("The Little Prince")
• There were 8 total time shifts in This Place is Death - 2 with Jin & Rousseau, 5 when the group was together, and 1 when John Locke turned the wheel. ("This Place Is Death")
• Jack is seated in row 8 on Ajira Airways Flight 316 which departed from Gate 15. ("316")
• Ben is also seated in row 8 on Ajira Airways Flight 316, as he is seated across the aisle from Jack who is in seat 8C. ("316")
• Frank says he has been working for Ajira Airways for the past 8 months. ("316")
• The death date on the headstone John Locke visited was April (Which is month number 4) 8, 2006. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")
• There was a number 8 on the license plate of the van Ben was standing in front of when he and Sayid met in Moscow, Russia. ("He's Our You")
• There is a number 8 in the ear of the rabbit statue under which Miles finds the key. ("Some Like It Hoth")
• Miles signed the Dharma van back in and put the keys on hook #8. ("Some Like It Hoth")
• Jacob visits nine people off the Island, 8 of which will later arrive on the Island on flight 815 (the other one being Ilana). ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")
• Juliet hits Jughead's thermonuclear core with a rock 8 times. ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")

The Lost Experience

• 08/15 and 08/16 are the respective dates of Widmore Twins birth's in Gary Troup's 'Bad Twin' (Bad Twin).
• Gary Troup stated that he went to Australia 8 times for research on his book "Bad Twin".

Outside the show and real life occurrences

• 8 is the sixth number in the Fibonacci sequence, in which every number is the sum of the two numbers before it - 1,1,2,3,5,8,13...
• One of Buddhism's Four Noble Truths is the Eightfold Path.
• In the game of Chess, each side of the squared board has eight files, thus each player starts with eight pawns.
• In the Damon Lindelof-written comic book Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk, the Hulk is said to have killed 815 people in a New York rampage.
• The number of senses available to normal humans according to Western science
• In Richard Adams' (author of Watership Down) book The Plague Dogs, Snitter was labeled with the number 815 in the Animal Research (Experiments on animals).
• Season Four and Lost: Missing Pieces in total were nominated for 8 Emmys.
• In the Film 'Back to the Future' - 88 MPH is the speed at which timetravel can occur.
• 8 is considered a lucky number in China.