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Ong’s Hat: Eggheads, Gov’t Shills, & The Internet’s First Hoax | 323

Ever start telling a story as a joke and it gets out of hand? People believe it no matter how much you swear you made it up and try to destroy your life? No, just Joseph Matheny? This week we tackle Ong’s Hat, the internets first honest to goodness hoax that took on a life… Continue reading Ong’s Hat: Eggheads, Gov’t Shills, & The Internet’s First Hoax | 323

‘Vanishing’ Towns That May (Or May Not) Have Really Existed

Did Scientists In Ong’s Hat, NJ, Burrow Into Another Dimension? Near where New Jersey Route 72 intersects with Route 70, there’s little left to mark what was once a small town called Ong’s Hat – but it was, in fact, really there. You can find evidence of its history in things like a local street… Continue reading ‘Vanishing’ Towns That May (Or May Not) Have Really Existed

Radio choice, by Ben Dowell The Incident at Ong’s Hat

Radio choice, by Ben Dowell The Incident at Ong’s Hat Radio 4, 2.15pm Ong’s Hat is one of the earliest internet-based conspiracy theories conceived on some of the first online bulletin boards (remember them?) as a deliberate experiment in which the story — about the activities of a group of professors in Ong’s Hat in… Continue reading Radio choice, by Ben Dowell The Incident at Ong’s Hat

Announcing the Incident at Ong’s Hat

The series will premiere on BBC 4 Radio Limelight on air and then as a podcast after every Friday broadcast for five weeks. It was a five-part series titled The Incident at Ong’s Hat. The series was inspired by Ong’s Hat: The Beginning and elements from my personal life. My upcoming book, Ong’s Hat: Compleat, will have… Continue reading Announcing the Incident at Ong’s Hat

This show has now made Pokémon creepy to me.” Augmented and Alternate Reality Games, Interactive Narrative and the Documentary TV Series Hellier

Regardless of whether it is a genuine documentary or not, the series certainly represents the investigative team’s immersion in an interactive quest narrative comparable to such Alternate Reality Games as Joseph Matheny’s Ong’s Hat from 1988 – widely considered to be the first Alternate Reality Game and, like Wriste, associated with both anarchism and occultism… Continue reading This show has now made Pokémon creepy to me.” Augmented and Alternate Reality Games, Interactive Narrative and the Documentary TV Series Hellier

My Old Friend, Nick Herbert in The New Yorker

My old friend gets a nod in the New Yorker regarding his contribution to quantum computing. The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first? But Clauser had also demonstrated that entangled particles… Continue reading My Old Friend, Nick Herbert in The New Yorker

25 BIZARRE CONSPIRACY THEORIES You’ve Never Heard Of #15

Another conspiracy theory “joke” that got out of hand was that of Ong’s Hat, New Jersey. Ong’s Hat was one of the earliest online conspiracy theories, based on a few run-down, abandoned buildings located deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The story goes that science and the paranormal blended together to open doors to… Continue reading 25 BIZARRE CONSPIRACY THEORIES You’ve Never Heard Of #15