Category: Alternate Reality Game

An interview with Joseph Matheny, recorded 08-07-03 from Radio Alchymy- KPFK – Los Angeles. Radio Alchymy

I have decided to dig through the old archives and periodically present some media from the past here on Substack. Today’s radio interview is from 2003 in LA. Yeah, I was thinking about AI even then. If you read COMPLEAT, you know my interest dates back to the late 1980s. Have a great weekend. An interview… Continue reading An interview with Joseph Matheny, recorded 08-07-03 from Radio Alchymy- KPFK – Los Angeles. Radio Alchymy

Ong’s Hat: A Portal To Another Dimension?

What if I told you there’s a lost town in New Jersey that might have vanished… not just from history, but from reality itself? This is the legend of Ong’s Hat—a place some claim was the site of a top-secret interdimensional experiment. But is this a bizarre urban legend, a forgotten ghost town, or something… Continue reading Ong’s Hat: A Portal To Another Dimension?

The Mysterious Egg in Ong’s Hat – The First ARG

Ong’s Hat is a real place.  But the stories about it aren’t.  That didn’t stop tales about a dimension hopping, scientific, transcendentalist, sadomasochistic cult from spreading across the early internet.  This is credited as the first ever ARG and boy, is it weird Episode: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-saspu-1831e0e

The Mystery of Ong’s Hat – The Town That Never Was

 What if I told you there was a town that existed… and then it didn’t? No records, no ruins—just eerie stories of impossible experiments and vanished realities. 🎥 Visual: Old, yellowed maps showing Ong’s Hat, New Jersey, with a hand flipping through mysteriously blacked-out documents. 📍 A Secret in the Pine Barrens Ong’s Hat… Continue reading The Mystery of Ong’s Hat – The Town That Never Was

The creepiest ghost town in the country is right here in New Jersey

It’s time to revisit one of the most famous ghost towns in the country and in my opinion, the creepiest. Ong’s Hat, New Jersey. It’s the kind of town that you’ve seen portrayed in movies but you may not have ever experienced in real life. Actually, “town” is a misnomer because it’s actually just a… Continue reading The creepiest ghost town in the country is right here in New Jersey

Ong’s hat ARG theory

Ong’s Hat” is a fictional conspiracy theory narrative about a group of Princeton scientists who, through experiments in a New Jersey forest called “Ong’s Hat,” accidentally discovered a way to travel to a parallel dimension using a device called “The Egg,” and then covered up their findings to prevent public knowledge of this interdimensional travel… Continue reading Ong’s hat ARG theory