An entire site full of interviews can be found at josephmatheny.com here’s a selection of the latest:

Playlist of YouTube videos about Ong’s Hat

• Ong’s Hat is a critical component
• Ong’s Hat: Compleat
• Episode 232: Ong’s Hat (The”Fake” Town)–The Rebel Podcast
• The Mysterious Ong’s Hat: Unraveling an Early Internet Conspiracy
• Ong’s Hat – eine Dimensionsreise zwischen den Welten, Part 1
• The Mystery of Ong’s Hat Unveiled
• There Are Other Worlds
• First Time Caller: An Art Bell Tribute
• Interview with Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez about the film, “Invention” Locarno Film Festival 2024
• 新澤西神秘地帶，科學家發明裝置成功穿越維度，最終集體失蹤，傳說進入另一個維度… ｜Ong’s Hat的傳說｜世界第一個ARG｜世界怪象簡單講
• Keep Tugging That Yarn: A Conversation with Courtney Stephens & Callie Hernandez
• Ong’s Hat: The Portal to Parallel Realities? ⚫ Cocktails & Conspiracies Episode 120
• The Flatwoods Monster and Ong’s Hat, New Jersey
• This Is Not A Game» ist geplant
• New podcast investigates global experiment that spiralled out of control
• BBC Studios Audio and Audible announce This Is Not A Game with Marc Fennell
• New Jersey Is The World: A Return to Ong’s Hat
• LEGEND TRIPPING (PT 1) : A GROWING AMERICAN PASTIME
• This Is Not A Game: How the legend of Ong’s Hat foretold the modern internet
• 【恐怖抖音】偷拍2036年未來人 時光機棚屋穿越時空的證據！神秘人一夜間老了幾十年？網上最熱門的話題，書中其實一早預言過 叫John Titor。
• This is Not a Game: The internet’s first conspiracy theory, Ong’s Hat, was a warning we didn’t hear
• This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell
• Small Town Becomes the Backdrop for an Internet Conspiracy Theory
• Route 666: These Road Trip Destinations Are Rife With Conspiracy Theories- Ong’s Hat
• TV Tropes: ARG / Ong’s Hat
• RADICAL: THE HYPERGAME OF ANARCHIST FAIRIES
• The Dark Secret of a New Jersey Ghost Town
• 4 relatos de viajes a universos paralelos: Taured, Ong’s Hat, Beatles, McElheney
• Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast Episode 67: Ong’s Hat, New Jersey and the Internet Conspiracy Theory
• 7 New Jersey Ghost Towns You Might Not Find on Your Map
• The Incredible Tale of Ong’s Hat
• 48. Tales of Weird NJ: Bovine, Bigfoot, Frogs
•  V133 — Joseph Matheny Interview: Ong’s Hat & The Alchemy of Alternative Realities
• YS0036 | Infinite Game – Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
• Portal a lo desconocido
• Exploring Ong’s Hat
• Video: Joseph Matheny on Ong’s Hat & Blurring Fiction & Reality
• Writer as first reader
• ??????Ong’s Hat??????? ARG ?????????????????????????????????
• ??????? ??? ??? ?????? ??? ????? ????????
• What I meant by “game”
• Wanna go to Ongs Hat
• Joseph Matheny: Ong’s Hat and the Blurring of Fiction and Reality
• Internet’s First Hoax: Did You Fall for It?
• Episode: File 0032: Ted the Immortal from Ong’s Hat pt. 3
• These Scientists Ripped A Hole In Reality From A Cabin In The Woods
• The Mysterious Portal: Unraveling the Unknown World of Ong’s Hat
• ART IN THE AGE OF REELS
• 111 – Slender Man and Marble Hornets (feat. Anne Huston)
• Ong’s Hat Science Camp Collections
• Portal in Ong’s Hat, A Story of Interdimensional Travel
• GHOSTLY WHISPERS: UNRAVELING THE SECRETS OF HAUNTED SOUTH JERSEY
• Der vielleicht älteste Internet-Mythos überhaupt: Das Mysterium von Ong’s Hat
• Are These 12 New Jersey Haunted Houses Real?
• Technikart 273 Digital Version
• The Search for Ong’s Hat
• Michelle Gibson | Hidden and Hijacked History, Architecture, Leylines, and the World Biofield
• Ong’s Hat: Das unglaubliche Geheimnis einer anderen Dimension!
• The Wildest Conspiracy Theories of All Time (Epic Blaze)
• 6 Abandoned and Forgotten Ghost Towns in New Jersey
• Layer 01 Podcast | Episode 06: Ong’s Hat – Liminal Spaces and Legend Tripping
• THE STORY OF ONG’S HAT, NEW JERSEY
• 42. Shoe Soup, Not Dior and Ong Shat
• Où sont passés ces gens disparus à Ong’s Hat ? – Le mystère d’internet qui est allé trop loin
• Ong’s Hat conspiracy
• Qui se cache derrière John Titor, ce soldat venu du futur pour nous avertir ?
• 20 Conspiracy Theory Locations To Visit Including One In North Carolina: Ong’s Hat
• 6 Abandoned and Forgotten Ghost Towns in New Jersey
• 25 BIZARRE CONSPIRACY THEORIES You’ve Never Heard Of- 15: Ong’s Hat, NJ
• 11th Hour Audio – Creature Feature of the Month – Jacob’s Revenge
• Conspiracies: In 1 Minute or Less -Ong’s Hat
• Exploring Haunted Locations in the Pines: AMM 002
• The Most Famous Places on Earth That Aren’t Actually Real
• The Creepy Curse of Ong’s Hat Calls: A Haunting Mystery
• Top 10 Paranormal Conspiracy Theories- #7: New Jersey Travelers
• Taxonomizing Conspiratorial Information Practices: Examining the Ong’s Hat Legend
• 29.23 – MU Podcast – South Pole Secrets
• Burrow Into Another Dimension?
• El Sombrero de Ong La Aterradora Leyenda Urbana que Debes Conocer
• That Would Be Rad: S3 E15: Ong’s Hat – A Gateway to New Dimensions
• Interdemensional travel, cults, & murder. The mysteries of ONG’S HAT, NJ
• They Invented Something Dangerous In This Cabin..
• Ghost Towns in NJ That Deserve a Day Trip
• Some Ong’s Hat Tiktoks
• Creepaway Camp 2023 – Day 6: Jacob’s Revenge & The Forest of Three
• Paranormal Paradice- Ong’s Hat
• The mystery of Ong’s Hat and what it revealed!
• Episode 71 of the SKIDS PODCAST Conspiracy Corner: Ong’s Hat
• When a game makes it so difficult that you have to work to discover its own name: Ong’s Hat Conspiracy – Halo 2
• La conspiración de Ong’s Hat: Cómo el primer juego de realidad alternativa terminó inspirando a Halo 2 y otros grandes títulos
• Catching the Mind Virus
• Ong’s Hat: Eggheads, Gov’t Shills, & The Internet’s First Hoax | 323
• Unbelievable Things That Happened In New Jersey’s Creepiest Abandoned Town
• ‘Vanishing’ Towns That May (Or May Not) Have Really Existed
• New Jersey’s Biggest Mystery HOAX: Ong’s Hat
• Gateway to another dimension! – The Ong’s Hat mystery
• Ong’s Hat isn’t a place, it’s a world.
• The Ghost Of Ong’s Hat by Nigel Roth
• Radio choice, by Ben Dowell
• This show has now made Pokémon creepy to me.” Augmented and Alternate Reality Games, Interactive Narrative and the Documentary TV Series Hellier
• Legend of the Pines: Ong’s Hat, New Jersey
• 25 BIZARRE CONSPIRACY THEORIES You’ve Never Heard Of #15
• ONG’S HAT SQUATCH TALKS PODCAST S3 / EP43
• The greatest mafia movie ever imagined.
• SPLINTERED STATES I ‘traveled back in time from 2036’ – the US capital will change after America breaks into 5 during a second civil war
• The Birth of Alternate Reality Games
• 333: Episode 3- Ong’s Hat
• Some links on ARGs: orbific.com
• 80 Conspiracy Theories That Range From Unbelievable To Purely Outrageous
• Lifehacker-11 Famous Places That Don’t Really Exist: Ong’s Hat
• MY PERFECT PODCAST: JOEL MORRIS
• Take these eerie, haunted hikes in the Pine Barrens, Jersey Shore.
• The Odd Lands: Ong’s Hat
• Ep 173: Ong’s Hat and the Birth of Creepy Pasta’s
• vintagegeekculture on Tumblr
• Ong’s Hat: Alternative Reality Games Are Not Games
• JOHN TITOR: Soldier from the Future | Can this time traveler save us from destruction?
• Most People Have Forgotten About this Creepy Abandoned Town in New Jersey
• PORTAL EN ONG’S HAT: UN MISTERIOSO SITIO DE “VIAJES INTERDIMENSIONALES”
• Hortus Semioticus 9/2022 – 07 ONG’S HAT and the construction of a suspicious model reader
• Ong’s Hat: Abandoned Town or Time Portal?
• Elextraño caso del primer ARG de la historia / Ong’s Hat
• 38 of the most popular conspiracy theories in the US
• Ong’s Hat: The Dimensional City
• PORTAL EN ONG’S HAT HISTORIA REAL SOBRE VIAJES INTERDIMENSIONALES
• What is Ong’s Hat, and why is it so important to interdimensional travel?
• 20 Conspiracy Theory Locations To Visit, Including One In North Carolina
• The Pine Barrens: New Jersey’s weird, wondrous, wild world all its own
• Interdimensional Travel and the Legend of Ong’s Hat
• Penny Royal: Season Two, Episode Eleven: Road To Nowhere
• Mad Tower Radio #8: Pentagon UFOs, Origins of the Rake, & Ong’s Hat, NJ
• Information Golem: New Mini-Series from TOOWi Arts:The Origin Story of Joseph Matheny and the Ong’s Hat ARG
• Incdent w Ong’s Hat – Otwarcie Bramy do Innego ?wiata
• single trails in nj pines looking for ong’s hat laboratory
• Scary Clown Attacks While Weee are Searching for a Portal to Another Dimension – WeeeClown Around
• Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know: The Strange Story of Ong’s Hat
• Ong’s Hat FAQ
• The Exit Ramp #33 – Monsters (4/24/22)
• Ong’s Hat : Hospital in the Woods
• let’s be conspiracy theorists: hollow earth, inter-dimensional travel, oh-my!
• LEGEND TRIPPING (PT 1) : A GROWING AMERICAN PASTIME
• South Jersey Is Also The World: The Ong’s Hat Conspiracy Theory
• Rambling Podcast #23: Ong’s Hat
• Creeps In The Crypt
• Fresh Eggs – John Allen aka “Mr Ballen”
• JTO Ep 27: Chicken Town!
• Early Internet Conspiracies Centered On a Creepy Ghost Town
• Ongs Hat (Weird NJ Short)
• ?? ??? ?? ?(Ong’s Hat) ?? & ?? ?? ?? ???(CERN)
• The First Internet Hoax – Inside A Mind
• Eggless Travel: Segment on The Conspiracy Theory Iceberg (part 9 3/3) Explained- Wendigoon
• Conspiracies, Images, and Emulators (or, a Fall 2021 Conference Recap)
• Creepy Conspiracies: Dead Internet, Ong’s Hat, Serial Killer Willy Wonka and More!
• Bits N’ Bricks Season 3 Episode 37 – The Surreal History of LEGO Galidor Including Ong’s Hat Segments
• Step Inside The Creepy, Abandoned Town Of Ong’s Hat In New Jersey
• Angels, Devils & the Mystery of Ong’s Hat: Mack Maloney’s Military X-Files
• Taxonomizing Conspiratorial Information Practices: Examining the Ong’s Hat Legend
• Ong’s Hat Is Princeton Opposed to Satire
• Augmented Reality Games, Interactive Narrative, and the Documentary TV Series Hellier
• We the Sheeple: Episode 13: Ong’s Hat
• The Math of Hunting Lions
• HEX: The Human Exception- Ong’s Hat
• QAnon, Ong’s Hat, and Robert Anton Wilson: Joseph Matheny discusses ARGs and conspiracy theories in the Internet era
• ????????? ??????? ????????? – Ong’s Hat
• Ong’s Hat And The Incunabula Papers | The Ghost In My Machine
• Is Ong’s Hat The Doorway To Intergalactic Travel?
• Searching ForThe Jersey Devil (ongs hat in the pine barrens)
• #LiveCONARTE | 15/19: ONG´S HAT | XXXVI Encuentro Metropolitano de Danza Contemporánea
• Crazy Shit: Portals
• Mad Tower Radio #8: Pentagon UFOs, Origins of the Rake, & Ong’s Hat, NJ
• Why Did This Entire Village of Scientists Disappear One Day?
• UNFICTION / ARG – MYSTERIES AND ALTERNATE REALITIES
• If QAnon Is a Game, How Do You Stop Playing?
• Joseph Matheny Appears on How Conspiracy Theories Become Violent | Truth Hurts | VICE
• Joseph Matheny & Prop Anon expose QAnon – Pt. 1 – Pt.2
• The Mystery of Ong’s Hat – 3V Off The Books
• 36: New Jersey Tipsy Ghouls
• Ong’s Hat and the construction of a suspicious model reader
• Ong’s Hat And The Portal To Another Dimension | The Gates Of Hell Is In New Jersey
• 5 CREEPY THEORIES IN “NEW JERSEY” !!!
• Did An Alternate Reality Game Gone Wrong Predict The Rise of QAnon?
• Excerpt from Masks
• RPP: Episode 154: Chatting with Joseph Matheny
• This is not a game.
• THEY KNOW! 014 | SOULLESS TRAVEL
• None of this is Real: Episode 79- Internet Mysteries: Ong’s Hat and Cicada 3301
• Interdimensional Travel and the Legend of Ong’s Hat
• Cults, Cryptids, and Conspiracies Episode 169: An Egg In These Trying Times
• Prequel to Q Anon | #16 – RAP Drugs Pod
• TinBiscuit Reviews! The Ong’s Hat Theory
• Ong’s Hat & Inter-Dimensional Portals
• The Strange Story of Ong’s Hat
• Hellhole a Go-Go
• This Is Not a Game: Conspiracy theorizing as alternate-reality game
• 35 of the most popular conspiracy theories in the US
• Ong’s Hat – THE FIRST ARG IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND OR HOW JOSEPH MATHENY CHANGED THE DIGITAL WORLD
• Why Conspiracy Theories Have Become the Most Influential Art Form of Our Time
• The Story Of Ong’s Hat
• A conspiracy thread: Brave New World Order
• The creepiest ghost town in the country is right here in New Jersey
• Abandoned Ghost Town pt2 ONG’s Hat Portal
• ??? ?????? ???? ?????????? ?????????? | Weirdo
• 10 STRANGE Places In North America!
• ONG’S HAT: EL PRIMER JUEGO DE CONSPIRACIÓN EN INTERNET QUE SE VOLVIÓ DEMASIADO REAL
• Cold Case Hammarskjold director Mads Brugger juggles conspiracy and costume play (And one last question for you: What’s your favorite conspiracy theory?)
• Episode 160 – A Seedless Sandwich (Ong’s Hat)
• ARG Pioneer Joseph Matheny on the Counterculture’s Hijacking from Corporatization to QAnon
• The Goldilocks Curve – Umberto Tosi
• Ong’s Hat: An Early Internet Mystery
• Ong’s Hat Interdimensional Travelers
• The Mystery of Ong’s Hat
• 35 of the most popular conspiracy theories in the US
• The Stars Fell On Podcast
• The Truth Is Somewhere: A Conspiracy Theory Podcast- SPIRTuality
• Kayfabe Weekly Shoot 10
• Not Another B Horror Cast #124: “Velvet Buzzsaw
• GRIMERICA: DENNY UNGER AND JOSEPH MATHENY – ALTERNATIVE REALITY GAMES AND CONSPIRACIES
• Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
• The internet’s first conspiracy theory involved a ghost town in New Jersey
• LET’S TALK: ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES II (Spanish)
• ARGNet Insider – Issue 1.4
• How Do You Start a Conspiracy Theory?
• DECODER RING: THE INCUNABULA PAPERS
• Ong’s Hat – The Original LARP
• Those Mummy Flippin’ Flintknappers/ Ong’s Hat
• Ong’s Hat, portal dimensional-Portal dimensional en CLINTON ROAD (Spanish)
• Ong’s Hat: The Original ARG – Sex, Drugs & Quantum Physics
• Interdimensional Travel, Ong’s Hat, and The Egg
• 10 TERRIFYING PLACES IN NJ YOU DEFINITELY DIDN’T KNOW WERE HAUNTED
• Tripping down the Alternate Reality Games rabbit hole
• Eggless Travel, ‘Nuff Said
• Ong’s Hat: The Original ARG – Sex, Drugs & Quantum Physics
• The Incident at Ong’s Hat
• ????????? ????????
• 10 Creepy Tales Of Interdimensional Travel
• Ong’s Hat Haloween posting at Creation Psyence
• Strange Tales of Portals to Other Dimensions
• We Can Weaponize Fiction, But How Do We Monetize Truth?  Excerpt from Narrative Machines.
• Wealth beyond Hollywood’s wildest dreams
• Weird NJ: Was Pine Barrens town gateway to another dimension?
• Five of the Strangest Mysteries of the Internet Age
• Is the Gateway to Another Dimension in New Jersey?
• Weird NJ: Was Pine Barrens town gateway to another dimension?
• How Alternate Reality Gaming Works (#9)
• The 10 Eeriest Deserted Towns in America (#9)
• You’re From Where!? (#10)
• O mare conspira?ie: Institutul subteran de Studii ale Haosului din Ong’s Hat (SUA) a descoperit o poart? c?tre alte dimensiuni! Acolo, nu mai exist? via?? uman?…
• Mind F$#k Tuesday: Slipping Into Parallel Worlds
• The Journal of American Folklore:Vol. 128, No. 508, Spring 2015- Review (pp. 225-226)
• Source Material: Ong’s Hat
• THE NEW OCCULTISM: CHAOS MAGIC, DISCORDIANISM AND TRANSHUMANISM
• ELECTRONIC LITERATURE DIRECTORY
• The Bizarre Tale Of Ong’s Hat (New Jersey Magazine)
• You’re From Where!? 10 Weird Jersey Town Names
• The strange true story of Jacob Ong, and his hat!
• ¿VIAJES A UNIVERSOS PARALELOS? AQUÍ ALGUNOS CASOS DE ESTOS SUCESOS (translated from spanish) –Also a similar Portuguese story (translation)
• LIFE IN THE PINES: ONG’S HAT
• RANDOM LITERARY REFERENCES TO ONG’S HAT: A COLLECTION
• Destinations Across Paranormal America 2
• The Incunabula Catalog Papers, Ong’s Hat at MUFON
• The Cactus Patch: Ong’s Hat
• Ong’s Hat on Medio Sensitivo (Portugese)
• 10 Tales Of Interdimensional Travel: #8 Ong’s Hat
• TUTORIAL: HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN RELIGION?(French)
• Ong’s Hat @ UFO Digest
• Transmedia, de la rébellion à la récupération (French)
• In Beautiful Dreams – Nurturing narratives and the forgotten potentials of digital culture
• Ong’s Hat: ? ???? ??? ??? ?????????? (Greek)
• Know Your Meme
• Chapter on Ong’s Hat included in Mack Maloney’sBeyond Area 51 (Chapter 9: The Mystery of Ong’s Hat)
• Taking Back Transmedia
• The Rise Of The ARG: games™ investigates alternate reality games and what the future has in store for the curious experiment.
• Incunabula: XEKLEIDONONTAS THE GATES OF Parallel Universes (Greek)Translation
• The Incunabula Papers: WeeWarrior’s Weblog
• Ong’s Hat: Piney Ghost Town or Gateway to Another Dimension?
• A Hat, a Hut, or a Tavern: The Tale of Ong’s Hat
• April Fool’s Day: Witches, aliens and raging bison invade N.J.
• Otherword Radio
• ¿Se acuerdan de Ong’s Hat? (Spanish) Translation
• ????????? Incunabula:??????????? ???????????? ? ?????????? ??????????????; (Greek) Translation
• Whistleblower Radio with Kerry Cassidy (Youtube link)
  
• Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat Reviewed by The Journal of Folklore Research
• Supernatural folklore subject of former Sidney man’s book
• The Surprising Online Life of Legends- The Chronicle of Higher Education –He holds the original Incunabula documents, in all their oddness, in high esteem, he adds: “People inserted themselves into the story; the story seemed to take on a life all its own; and it had this far-reaching narrative. I thought it was absolutely brilliant, but I didn’t know what exactly was going on,” he says. Unmistakable, however, was that the writings and their Satan’s spawn were suspending acolytes’ disbelief, and feeding their fantasies.
• Man, Myth, and Forbidden Science
• Ong’s Hat Through the Ages – Dimensional Travel? –Linked from Knapp’s News and mentioned on Coast to Coast AM 1/15/12
• The Hat, The Egg & the Chaos (Ong’s Hat: Hidden History or Piney Mythology)
• Hidden New Jersey
• The Incunabula and the Djinn or how I learned to stop worrying and love transdimesional travel…
• Discordianism Linked With Ong’s Hat Cult
• UFO Digest – Back to Ong’s Hat, baby! There are those who claim Matheny’s 1990s legend is true, as the author remained vague concerning the authenticity of his posts. Whether or not one believes the Ong’s Hat saga, is beside the point, contends its creator, who claims his work stemmed from an actual written narrative known as the Incunabula Papers.
• Podcast-ATS.X: Ong’s Hat – Did a fringe science cult discover a way to travel to an alternate universe?
• Soyons s駻ieux, jouons! Seriously, let’s play! (5/5) : Le jeu est l’arme de la subversion (5 / 5): The game is the weapon of subversion (Translated from French)
• Hijacked Signal
• The Guild Of Pedestrian Wonder
• Hoaxes From Space: Time Travel Hoaxes, Part II
• Ong’s Hat in the new Weird New Jersey- Volume II
• Wikipedia
• This is Not a Game Comprehensive chapter about Ong’s Hat
• The Masons and the Moors New Dawn Magazine: NO. 86 (September-October 2004)
• Inter-Dimensional Dementia: Time Traveling Through New Jersey And BeyondWeird N.J. Issue No. 21
• The Journal of Borderland Research – Warning! This book will make you think.
• Weekly World News– Pick of the Week – September 2003
• Interview with EMORY CRANSTON
• The Ong’s Hat Mystery Revealed New World Disorder – The Ong’s Hat meme – and its curious and intoxicating blend of quantum physics, tantric sex, chaos magick/theory, parallel universes, and conspiracy theory – has spread through the noosphere over the last decade or so and developed into a mini-mythos, eventually transmitting itself through such mass media portals as Coast to Coast AM (the Art Bell show) and Jane Magazine, even becoming the starting point for successful alternate reality game Chasing the Wish.
• Jane Magazine(April 2003) A Target-Marketing Success Story I got really into this “time-travel cult” called Ong’s Hat when a computer-game programmer I know told me she was contacted by a physics scholar who said that a bunch of her recent games reflected their canon. This dude told my friend that someone from Ong’s Hat had befriended her and inspired her to create certain games without her realizing it. Whoa, right? I started researching them on the Internet and mailed off $18 for Ong’s Hat: The Beginning, a typo-riddled yet super-fun book explaining their “clandestine” beliefs (a bunch of LSD-popping physicists figured out interdimensional travel through a portal in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens in the 1970s, among other things). Anyway, 85 years after it should have, it dawned on me that the whole thing is probably a hoax. “The split between who believes the book is fiction vs. nonfiction is pretty even,” says the nice but evasive author, Joseph Matheny. It’s too bad–I think we all want to believe in scientists who party. –Kate Hambrecht
• Galidor– A kid’s television show show wherein a kid from New Jersey travels across dimensions in a interdimensional travel device called The Egg. (Wonder where they got that idea?) There was even a Lego Egg.
• November 2000 Coast to Coast Am Show: Ong’s HatShow Info (Nov. 1, 2000)After trying in vain for 2 years to negotiate with Coast to Coast (Clearchannel geeks) and getting what amounts to the royal run around, we have decided to release the November 2000, Coast to Coast AM (Art Bell show) on MP3, via Kazaa. Keywords for finding the files are: Joseph Matheny, Art Bell, Coast to Coast AM, Ong’s Hat. They are broken into eight separate 30-minute segments and numbered accordingly. Download them and share them off your P2P clients so others may more readily access them. We will be releasing these files via the web here for a short time, due to popular demand.
• Ong’s Hat: The Beginning to Chasing the Wish Currently, Ong’s Hat: The Beginningis the starting place for a wildly successful Alternate Reality Game known as Chasing the Wish. If you are unfamiliar with Chasing the Wish or ARGs we have collected a series of articles from various press sources to get you up to speed. Then, we suggest that you begin Chasing the Wish. Happy hunting.
• Disinfo.com Ong’s Hat Dossier You’ve got your chaos; sex magick; applied quantum physics; shadow conspiracy; crypto-palaeontology and enlightenment hopes all wrapped up in one neat package. What the Hell more do you want?
• Magdalen Sez…Joe Matheny’s been documenting a man who literally travels to the Other Side… or does he? The secret lies in Ong’s Hat… Find out for yourself by gettin’ the book Ong’s Hat: The Beginning.
• technoccult.net a web portal for free thinkers – Few “conspiracy theories” are quite as bizarre as the legend of Ong’s Hat. The confused story is told through a book catalog and numerous interviews and contains many contradictions.
• AOI This is a story, which is told, for the most part, in the descriptions of the books in a Catalog of Rare Books, and in a brochure for the Institute of Chaos Studies. We were first pointed to this material nearly two years ago, by a correspondent who found parallels between the egg-shaped capsule, and the material we started writing about in the Crowley’s Egg? series…Did the events that are written of in these various works, actually take place? Do any of these books exist in reality, or their authors? All we know is that the story given does parallel in some ways, things taking place in the late 70s, in the group surrounding the Consciousness / New Physics / Psychotronics crowd; in the late 80s / early 90s, in our own circle and among the Typhonian OTO people, involved in the “Secret Dikpala of LAM” – see our comments on The LAM Statemen…In the Catalog, we can spot at least a couple of familiar names — Nick Herbert, Fred Alan Wolf, both players in the New Physics crowd mentioned above; as well as Henry Corbin, whose writings we have run across, and of course, Mircea Eliade. It would be nice to find out: does Escape from Earth-Prime actually exist? Is it a real book? That one we find interesting. And, too, the story involving Dr. Kamadev Sohrawardi. Some of these events seem (to us at least) to parallel the events taking place in the 1970s, around the work of Puharich, Bearden, Sarfatti, Ira Einhorn, which involved developing Psychotronics, Tesla Tech, Free Energy, receiving science from the future, etc.Five Stars for the whole work. This is really excellent material.
• Borderlands Sciences Fiction as reality and reality as fiction, breaks one away from the restraints of what is possible. The Incunabula Mystery provokes such evolutionary mentation. I’d like to see every hip kid in America to smirk knowingly about the dimensional egg. Kind of like the old Sub-Genius Rant, too absurd too be true..but too true to be comfortable. It can be unnerving when you stumble on the ether-ship in the basement and whirl down to the hollow earth dance club for the first time. If your imagination has been well conditioned with high weirdness, one can function with relish in bizarre alternate realities as they manifest themselves to the individual.
• Cameron Wilson Columnist for The Inverness Herald(July 2002) Judging from the advanced copy I received unsolicited (how they found my address, I’ll never know), it is easy to see the reason why that malefactor lad Joey is in hiding these days. No? Find out for yourself and order the Great American Noodle from Amazon.Com and crack the code to his real whereabouts if you can. It is hidden somewhere in the subtext as the semioticians say. As you Americans are found of quipping: In order to make an omlette, you need to break some real synchronicity inducing eggs. The proof is in the albumin. Go see for yourself!
• obsucrantist_to_zota Marketing as NarrativeThere’s an old conspiracy theory/secret history/urban legend narrativized in the form of a book catalog.(Oh yeah, it’s true — disinfo has all the dirt on Ong’s Hat , if you’re sure you want to know. But that’s a whole other story. )Using epiphenomenal commercial structures to create an ambient narrative through accretion. That was the genre used by Henry Raddick, star Amazon Reviewer, who became a famous [1–2–3] for being tangental in review comments. For example his take on the book God, Why Did Dad Lose His Job? A truly wonderful guide which has enabled me to explain my recent sacking for vandalising company property to my children in terms of a minor act of redemption. First rate.
• Stories told through marketing ephemera and graffiti. Stories told in the background through an accretion of evidence and seemingly random misdirection….
• That Blasted Catalog One of the oldest and most twisted of the scraps that one can find on the web is the story of the Incunabula Catalog. I’m not sure exactly how old it is, but the catalog is reported to date back to BBS’s back in the early 90’s. And I’ve found, what look to be, logs from old BBS’s that are now on the web, and sure enough the catalog is listed in some of these.One of the first summaries of the story that I came across is atTechnoccult.net. A quick look through there shows that the story is long and twisted, and makes the Illuminatus Trilogy look like a children’s tale.I do not think the catalog’s meme will ever fully die. I think it will bop around the fringe, occasionally being picked up by new comers who’s eyes are wide and are willing to experiment with anything.
• The 23 Apples of Eris Dr Cornelius Confusion The Ong’s Hat conspiracy has just come to my attention, thanks to someone asking if it bore any relation to the Dimensional Gateway Technicians League (an allied branch of our tentacular conspiracy, which it didn’t really before, but now really does. Rumour has it this is entirely partially realmaginary but also a long running Hakim Bey und RAW mindfuck. I spent two days travelling the Ong’s Hat Chapel Perilous, delighting in my rapid total confusion, and the fact that the more I looked the more complicated everything got…
• MSP University Maybe it was the weed. I’ve taken to mixing up the sativa with Yerba Mate, the south american ibogaine-cousin alertness herb, and strange things happen, is all I can say. Strange things happen.I’d read the Incunabula (“rare texts”) once before: didn’t really pay attention, so it seemed pretty boring, like a dumb practical joke laid out by a tripping mathematics major. It’s worth noting, here at the outset, that it could actually be a dumb practical joke laid out by a tripping mathematics major.Cheese, yeah, but lots of interesting tidbits that really jump out at you after you’ve read all the Incunabula material. If this is all a web hoax, these cats are flat-out fricking geniuses.So maybe Ong’s Hat is a little bit not-so-true. The usual reaction of con-heads, when faced with such ugly possibilities as Reality, or, say, the Truth, is to make things even more convoluted: Ong’s Hat is CIA disinformation. The purpose of this whole wild goose chase is to take the spotlight away from the sinister Montauk Project, which is about as insane, deeply disturbing and totally paranoid as conspiracy theory gets.
• Robert Forte Filmmaker/Editor/AuthorThe Road to Eleusis, Entheogens and the Future of Religion andTimothy Leary Outside Looking InI’m sitting down for my third reading of Ong’s Hat since November when Joe and I synchronistically renewed our friendship after not seeing each other for many years; a friendship that began a decade and half ago at that marvelous nexus, 321 2nd Street in Santa Cruz we were both lived, fortunately graced by the embodied wisdom of Nina Graboi, our psychedelic god mother, who lept from this plane in 1999, who I am sure is delighted at all this occuring. Ong’s Hat isn’t just a book to me. Its a cipher of mystery, the dimensions of which I am just beginning to grok….
• Curiouser and Curiouser I never know what to make of this site; mainly because it seems to change dramatically every few months. Right now it’s a blog with assorted news of interest, and an ad for the book about Ong’s Hat, which is what brought me to this site to begin with. But don’t ask me to explain it. I’m writing this review to get this one out of my “to review” folder; I don’t know what else to do with it. (Reviewed January 2003)
• Some Amazon Reviewers said- William Courson – Since before the continents assumed their present shape, countless ages before intelligent proto-hominids walked erect and began using sticks to scratch signs in the mud, immeasurable aeons before alphabets and settled agriculture were new-fangled, Ong’s Hat – a now deserted (?) village in southernmost New Jersey – was fated to become the most important locale in humankind’s history, a critical juncture in time and space, and the nexus of a vast, uncountable quanta of probability matrices joining at the confluence of those temporal streams called past, present and future.Since the event referred to as the “Opening of the Gate” occurred at Ong’s Hat some thirty-three years ago on a spring equinox, much of the paltry amount of writing on that cosmic shifting of gears has been of an intendedly “disinformational” character for reasons apparent to all serious students of alternative history in general and OH in particular. The time has arrived when the truth can be told, neat and naked, complete and uncensored. And that story is, to put it mildly, a circuitous one.In brief, a black Sufi cult founded in Newark, New Jersey in the 1920s by a circus magician has (with the help of a small group of Columbia University students, jazz musicians, beatniks, homosexuals and LSD experimenters) evolved by the late 1960’s into a techno-tantric Moorish Orthodox commune and physics research institute centered in Ong’s Hat, New Jersey, whose members managed to escape from this addled dirt-ball into a parallel universe through the intermediary of the “Egg” – a mechanism that enabled trans-dimensional travel into other worlds in other dimensions.Add to the story a benevolent race of red-necked humanoids descended from Javanese lemurs on a parallel Earth, chaos magick, alternative sexualities, applied quantum physics, conspiracies galore, and heretical Eastern Orthodox bishops and you have an epistemological smorgasbord fit for a king.This is a delightful piece of writing that leaves its reader hungry for more (and we are assured there will be more), that deserves to be read and read again, believed or disbelieved, shared with someone you love, and maybe even memorized!
• Bishop Sotemohk A. (“Billy”) Beeyayelel Ong’s Hat: A Moorish Orthodox ViewBefore the continents assumed their present shape, countless ages before intelligent protohominids walked erect and began using tools, aeons before alphabets and settled agriculture were new-fangled things, Ong’s Hat – a now deserted village in southernmost New Jersey (USA) – was fated to become the most important point in all of space and time, the nexus of uncountable quanta of probability matrices joining at the confluence of those temporal rivers known as past, present and future. Dr. Joseph Matheny and his collaborators have produced a breathtakingly scholarly work in writing “The Incunabula Papers: Ong’s Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions,” which is a tour-de-force not only of the Ong’s Hat incident, but of quantum mechanics, temporal theory and the systematic theology of Moorish Orthodoxy as well I wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend this masterwork to all serious students of the Ong’s Hat phenomena.
• MEDIAGAB How could anything that has Javanese Lemurs in it be less than a masterpiece?
• abuddhas memes They tell us how to get there, where they went, and invite us to join them; but leave to serendipity and intent our ability to do so. Ong’s Hat – Gateway to the Dimensions describes a disparate group’s journey to the shore of chaos, where they discover surfing.
• Leading Edge Review Allegedly, the experimenters achieved the success with the accessing of parallel universes. Up to now, the truth about the cult has been vague and indecisive, but the legends, technology and quantum theory surrounding it are more than tangible.
• Don’t forget to visit the Incunabula Research center, hosted by our friends at Deoxy.org
• LibertyThink Ong’s Hat: The Oldest Urban Legend
• Incunabula/Ong’s Hat was a August 2000 “Cranky Award” winner on CrankdotnetAlso:See this this month’s issue of Commander X’s Conspiracy Journal (Print Edition)
• Arcturus Books Inc. Catalogue (Print) Ong’s Hat is one of those odd places in central New Jersey, supposedly the site of a “clubhouse” where a group of Princeton physicists experimented with time travel and were successful in accessing parallel universes. … it gets all mixed up with the usual mis-wired, schizophrenic-type hallucinating …-and is therefore likely to appeal only to drug-freaks (who will no doubt understand) or overdosed video gamers.
• Where is Ong’s Hat?“Ong’s Hat is the place where science meets sex, drugs and rock-n-roll.” –Chuck P
• Quiche.org I had to think long and hard before including these papers within this website. It’s a difficult subject.I eventually came to the conclusion, that this is why it fit so perfectly within Quiche – it is just so ambiguous, it’s wonderful.
• Strange Magazine – Greek (2 Issues )Issue 1 Issue 2(English translation of number 2 here) Also: Strange Magazine has released two books titled The War against the Matrix and PROHIBITED BOOKSin which both Incunabula articles are included. Greek and English versions are planned.
• What really, really, really, really, really, happened at Ong’s Hat???– Darkplanet Ong’s Hat/Incunabula has always been about levels of understanding. As you research each aspect of the story you are presented with a challenge. That challenge is usually based on twisting and distorting your belief systems. For example: You find a piece of compelling info that takes you down one path only to find that its a invalid path but wait…it turns out that the path you thought was a false path is actually the correct path and so on, and so forth. This is the dance of the Incunabula. Destroying rational assumptions of what is true and what is false.Also: More at the EGGROOM
• The Elusive Ong’s Hat– The WandererOK, so if there’s nobody there and the town’s gone, what’s the point of looking for it? Well, this story is similar to others I’ve heard. I heard that there was a group in the woods near Fort Dix that had a compound (Ong’s Hat is very close to Fort Dix; one of the base’s fences is about a mile from the old town, and if you look at any map, the base’s property actually makes a crescent around where the group supposedly was). Sometime in the 80’s, the army base (Dix) was called in to smash this compound. About 10 of the cult members were killed. None of this ever hit the press. So then why am I searching for this place? These people obviously knew what they were doing if the army had to go in and stop them and destroy the place. I’m hoping something is left over from either the group or the smashed compound. And again, most of this is based on things I’ve heard; none of this is guaranteed. But remember, every story is based on some truth. And at very least, I’ll see the remains of a town that is nearly 200 years old.
• Virus! – Danish (Expanded Print Article ) Also, Ong’s Hat was a special 2 hour segement on Danish Public Radio.
• Fringewire Review Out of all the fringe stories on the net I’ve read about over the years, the story of Ong’s Hat and the Incunabula Catalog has to be the single most bizarre tale ever told as it involves every freaky motif you could ever want in a conspiracy theory – drugs, hippies, renegade physicists, sex, magic, time travel, parallel dimensions, quantum mechanics, lies, truths, deep throats, missing persons, fiction, and reality (whew). It’s the perfect combination of elements to create a story that will surely be debated over a century from now.
• Casusbelli– (French review) Incunabula, un texte bizarroïde en version PDF avec pleins d’illustrations et de liens vers le net. De quoi ça parle ? Disons que c’est une nouvelle écrite sous la forme d’un catalogue commenté de livres rares. L’ambiance y est franchement à la conspiration sous l’angle techno-anarchiste-fringe-science-réalités parallèles. Difficile à décrire sans dévoiler l’histoire qui se développe au fil des commentaires des ouvrages cités. Ajoutez à ça que de nombreux livres réels y sont référencés et vous obtenez une confusion totale entre le réel et la fiction. Un objet bizarre, en anglais uniquement.
• 404 Not Found – Weirdest of the WeirdThis is easily the weirdest site that we have ever come across. Purporting to be the work of an underground community of persecuted heretical scientists and chaoticians, this site truly is a gateway into the Twilight Zone. It contains links to a vast network of sites that just get stranger and stranger as you delve more deeply into the dark genius of their creators. Chaos theory, metaphysics, time travel, alien entities, the ultimate conspiracy. Beware: not recommended for the unstable or the unhinged!
• Cris Net– (Ukrainian – review)

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