Author: jmatheny

Happy Solar Return (New Year)

News to share Sequoyah Kennedy and I have finished recording Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT. I have completed the cover, as evidenced below. I have finished building the final bundle of audio interviews, original notes that inspired the conversations that make up the recordings, and a collection of images. Polypores provided the soundtrack, and it’s divine. This work started as an idea… Continue reading Happy Solar Return (New Year)

The Ong’s Hat Mystery: A Hidden Portal or Government Secret?

On a crisp October morning in 1926, a strange and mysterious pit appeared overnight in the heart of the Pine Barrens in New Jersey. At nearly fifty feet wide and twenty feet deep, its eerie precision and lack of explanation sparked wild theories. Could it be a gateway to another dimension? Was it the result… Continue reading The Ong’s Hat Mystery: A Hidden Portal or Government Secret?

Ong’s Hat: The Beginning: CERN, Many Worlds, MMORPGs (QAnon), ARGs “The Beast”, HALO and Artificial Intelligence

Original post: https://xammon.blogspot.com/2024/12/ongs-hat-beginning-cern-many-worlds.html Exploring the Origins of a Digital Age Conspiracy Introduction Ong’s Hat stands as one of the earliest and most enduring Internet-based secret history conspiracy theories, often recognized as the first Alternate Reality Game (ARG). Originating in the late 1980s, it evolved into a sprawling piece of collaborative fiction blending speculative science, metaphysics,… Continue reading Ong’s Hat: The Beginning: CERN, Many Worlds, MMORPGs (QAnon), ARGs “The Beast”, HALO and Artificial Intelligence

Ep.232 – Portals to Other Dimensions & Peanut the Squirrel – Theories Thursday

We discuss multiple topics on this Theories Thursday Episode. Throughout history individuals have claimed they had created or had access to portals that led to other dimensions. We dive down that rabbit hole and discuss various sites where portals supposedly once existed. The Gate of the Gods and Ong’s Hat. We also discuss an individual… Continue reading Ep.232 – Portals to Other Dimensions & Peanut the Squirrel – Theories Thursday

Ong’s Hat is a critical component

So… this was in the mailbox of our little bakery this morning… other than it being conspiracy theory, I have no idea what I’m looking at. I don’t even know if this is the right order for the pages… One line made me wonder if they’re looking at us, since we haven’t opened up yet… Continue reading Ong’s Hat is a critical component

Soundtrack for Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT

I’m excited to announce another addition to our COMPLEAT project. The audiobook will feature music, sounds, and atmosphere by the multi-talented Polypores (aka Stephen James Buckley). I love Polypores’ music and soundscapes and am excited that they will provide our atmospheres. Most of their music is at polypores.bandcamp.com, but the latest album is here: Find Polypores on Twitter as @stephenjbuckle on Instagram as @sjbuckers, and on YouTube as @polyporeshq See the full COMPLEAT announcement here.… Continue reading Soundtrack for Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT

Ong’s Hat: Compleat

I think the interview is the new art form. – Jim Morrison This work was initially planned as an ordinary “book.” However, I’ve grown tired of that outdated description of a unit of measure. “The book” doesn’t mean the same thing in the digital information age that it once did. The concept of this project outgrew… Continue reading Ong’s Hat: Compleat

HSA Skateboard Deck (Reissue)

A faithful reissue of the Hyperborean Skateboarding Association Protective Sigil Deck (Ong’s Hat fans will get this wildly inside joke provided by the roasters of the official coffee of the Institute for Chaos Studies) Description Redshift and the Hyperborean Skateboarding Association have collaborated to re-create the deck designed by Teofila herself and used on Java2 by the teenagers of… Continue reading HSA Skateboard Deck (Reissue)