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Multiverse

New Jersey – Strange Frequencies


Journey into the eerie heart of New Jersey, where fact and folklore collide. First, discover Ong’s Hat, a ghost town said to hide a portal to another dimension. Then, delve into the mystery of Thomas Edison’s rumored “ghost phone,” an invention meant to communicate with spirits of the departed. Are these merely legends, or does New Jersey truly bridge worlds beyond our own?

A bibliographic archeology of game-like conspiracy narratives: examining the Ong’s Hat Incunabula catalog

James A. Hodges (School of Information, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA) Journal of Documentation ISSN: 0022-0418 Article publication date: 21 April 2025

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to reframe contemporary research on conspiracy narratives by examining a formative document in online conspiracy culture using bibliographic archeology and focusing on its use of intertextuality. LINK: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/jd-07-2024-0185/full/html

The City That Disappeared Overnight — What Really Happened to Ong’s Hat?‪

The City That Disappeared Overnight — What Really Happened to Ong’s Hat?
Welcome to Behind the Veil, where mystery meets reality.

In this episode, we uncover the strange, unsettling story of Ong’s Hat — a town in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that mysteriously vanished without explanation. What started as a strange local legend evolved into a sprawling conspiracy involving secret scientific experiments, interdimensional travel, and government cover-ups.

From the eerie silence of the Pine Barrens to the mind-bending Incunabula Papers, discover the truth — or illusion — behind one of the internet’s earliest and most disturbing myths.

Was Ong’s Hat just a clever hoax? Or did someone actually tear a hole in reality… and vanish through it?

La leyenda de Ong’s Hat: ¿Fue el primer experimento de portales dimensionales?

Bienvenidos a Misterios A La Orden, el canal donde exploramos los enigmas más oscuros y desconcertantes de la historia. Hoy nos adentraremos en una historia que muchos consideran una leyenda urbana, otros una compleja teoría de la conspiración, y algunos, la prueba de que existen portales hacia otras dimensiones. Hablamos del misterioso caso de Ong’s Hat, una historia que comenzó como una publicación underground en los años ochenta y que poco a poco se convirtió en uno de los relatos más inquietantes del internet primitivo, hasta tal punto que algunas agencias gubernamentales llegaron a investigar su origen. Pero ¿qué hay realmente detrás de Ong’s Hat? ¿Se trata de un juego mental, una ficción experimental… o estamos ante uno de los más extraños intentos humanos de viajar entre dimensiones?

From the Archive

I have decided to dig through the old archives and periodically present some media from the past here on Substack.

Today’s radio interview is from 2003 in LA. Yeah, I was thinking about AI even then. If you read COMPLEAT, you know my interest dates back to the late 1980s. Have a great weekend.

An interview with Joseph Matheny, recorded 08-07-03 from Radio Alchymy- KPFK – Los Angeles. Radio Alchymy

https://incunabula.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/JMatheny08-05-03.mp3?_=1