Monthly Archives: September 2025

Alternate Reality Game, COMPLEAT, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Ong's Hat

Unfolding Alternate Realities, Ong’s Hat, Synchronicity and more with Joseph Matheny

Consensus Unreality
LINK: https://consensusunreality.podbean.com/e/unfolding-alternate-realities-ongs-hat-synchronicity-and-more-with-joseph-matheny/ A deep and roving interview with the great artist and writer Joseph Matheny. We talk: the origins of his legendary Ong’s Hat project in the very early days of the internet; mail art, collaboration,  and finding new media; the trajectory of ARGs and the internet; the power of synchronicity and art in driving a life’s path; location and folklore; much, much more. Not to be missed! Hear this first hour on Spotify, Youtube, Apple, and other podcast sources The Full Episode and much more at https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality Intro music by Treatment https://treatmentforu.bandcamp.com/album/pond-life
Alternate Reality Game, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Uncategorized

LEAKED Portal Experiments in New Jersey?

LOUD AUDIBLE SIGH

“Ong’s Hat” might be the most bizarre early internet story that’s ever existed.

It’s a mystery named after a ghost town called Ong’s Hat in New Jersey—a mystery revolving around mad science experiments in the woods, a portal to another world, and a trail of leaked information online that some believe reveals the truth of all that’s secretly gone on there.

Who’s behind it? Or is there anything behind it at all?

Rob Counts dived into the history of Ong’s Hat to trace it back to the source, and tasked remote viewer John Vivanco to help get to the bottom of what really happened in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.