The town of Ong’s Hat in New Jersey may have been the site of a top secret experiment that brought scientists to a parallel world in another dimension. Or it’s the subject of a big inside joke and perhaps the first alternate reality game on the Internet. This week’s episode comes from the Slate podcast… Continue reading Imaginary Worlds: Catching the Mind Virus
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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
Unbelievable Things That Happened In New Jersey’s Creepiest Abandoned Town
Unbelievable Things That Happened In New Jersey’s Creepiest Abandoned Town Read More: The Creepiest Town In New Jersey IS Ongs Hat | https://wobm.com/ixp/392/p/new-jersey-creepiest-abandoned-town/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
Gateway to another dimension! – The Ong’s Hat mystery
In this video were going to jump down the rabbit hole of the worlds first internet conspiracy theory and what happens when the actual creator of the hoax comes forward and admits that its just that. A big fat hoax. This… is Ong’s Hat!
‘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
New Jersey’s Biggest Mystery HOAX: Ong’s Hat
Ong’s Hat isn’t a place, it’s a world. by waxbanks
Ong’s Hat isn’t a place, it’s a world. by waxbanks FROM: https://waxbanks.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/ongs-hat-isnt-a-place-its-a-world/ Stating what should be obvious: Ong’s Hat — not the ghost town in New Jersey but the fictional town-story overlaid on it by Joseph Matheny and later collaborators/followers — isn’t a place, though it’s certainly tied to one. Rather, it’s a way of… Continue reading Ong’s Hat isn’t a place, it’s a world. by waxbanks
The Ghost Of Ong’s Hat by Nigel Roth
LINK TO ORIGINAL POST In the 1980s, a writer and transmedia artist called Joseph Wayne Matheny, who was born on Christmas Eve in the early sixties, wrote The Incunabula Papers, a tale that follows a series of narratives about time travel, and tells the story of a gateway to a parallel dimension at Ong’s Hat.… Continue reading The Ghost Of Ong’s Hat by Nigel Roth
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