Category Archives: Alternate Reality Game

LEGEND TRIPPING (PT 1) : A GROWING AMERICAN PASTIME

LEGEND TRIPPING (PT 1) : A GROWING AMERICAN PASTIME

Legend Tripping- the process of seeking adventure by going to places known to be associated with paranormal events. In the episode we offer some background on legend tripping in America (wait for Part Two for the best international destinations), including Capt. McKerry’s Vault on the Ohio River (Indiana)~Goatman’s Grave in Missouri~Ong’s Hat (ghosttown in NJ~Mountain Meadows Massacre Site (UT)~Winchester Mystery House (CA)~The Marshall House Hotel (Savannah GA)~Bloody Lane at Antietam (Sharpsburg, MD~Fort Monroe (Hampton, VA~ Murder Hotel (Chicago)~The Bridgewater Traingle (Mass)~ The 8 Best Places to find Bigfoot (in US).

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Link: https://player.fm/series/series-2354660/legend-tripping-pt-1-a-growing-american-pastime

South Jersey Is Also The World: The Ong’s Hat Conspiracy Theory

Today we focus on one of the most fascinating conspiracy theories out there: the legend of ONG’S HAT, which mixes together the military-industrial complex, academic outlaws, and inter-dimensional travel all in one of the most remote pockets of the Pine Barrens. What’s real? What’s not? Why do some people want to believe so bad? And how is Ong’s Hat – which pre-exists the internet itself – a blueprint to things like QAnon today?

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Creeps In The Crypt

Creeps In The Crypt
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If you like the paranormal, the macabre, the strange, and the unusual then you’ll be dying to listen to Creeps in the Crypt every week! In this episode, we are talking about a small ghost town in the pine barrens of New Jersey with an insane conspiracy theory surrounding it. https://player.fm/series/creeps-in-the-crypt/episode-36-ongs-hat

Fresh Eggs – John Allen aka “Mr Ballen”

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Sneak Peek – featuring John Allen aka Mr Ballen. Fresh Eggs features interviews from the depths of the #Dragonsbread archives +plus more. Researchers, warlocks, generals, contactees, artists, rock musicians, mediums, psychologists, shamans, film makers, paranormal investigators, and more talk about the mysteries of being human. In this episode Jerry share his POV about a High Strangeness project, a missing time event, and early ARG experiment known as Ong’s Hat. John then answers questions all things strange. Exclusive to Patreon subscribers.
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Early Internet Conspiracies Centered On a Creepy Ghost Town

The Ong’s Hat story might be the first attempt at altered reality storytelling

Wharton State Forest, New Jersey. By Famartin from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Portal by Stefan Keller from Pixabay. Edited by the author.


Technology made the world much smaller in the early 1990s. New connections gave people opportunities to share large chunks of information, perhaps even new worlds. Users soon consumed data they never seen before. Some even encountered new experiences. In a couple corners of the internet, the Ong’s Hat narrative blended reality, virtual worlds, and fiction to pull the audience into its experience.

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The First Internet Hoax – Inside A Mind

An urban legend tells of a group of scientists who successfully escaped into another dimension. Join me as we go back in time to a place where the internet was like nothing we see today. Ong’s Hat is a ghost town in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. Many Myths and Legends are said to exist within the area. Such as the Jersey Devil and a tale revolving around a military operation that came into the town and took several individuals nearby who were never heard of again. This is the story of Ong’s Hat.