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Creepaway Camp 2023 – Day 6: Jacob’s Revenge & The Forest of Three

A coming-of-age take on legend tripping at Ong’s Hat and some other mystery stories for your enjoyment.

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Jacob’s Revenge

Written and narrated by Owen McCuen

The Forest of Three

Link: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Forest_of_Three

Written by: Cdaley and Narrated by: JV Hampton-VanSant

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Sound Design by Pacific Obadiah

Title music by Alex Aldea

The Incunabula Papers | Decoder Ring

Ong’s Hat, or The Incunabula Papers, is a conspiracy theory that arose on the early internet. Combining cutting-edge science, mysticism, and obvious hokum, it intrigued thousands of people who tried to find out what it all meant. Today we uncover the secrets of Ong’s Hat, the man behind it, and the new art form it inadvertently birthed.

The mystery of Ong’s Hat and what it revealed!

In this video, we explore the fascinating story of the Ong’s Hat deception and what it can teach us about the intersection of AI and urban myths. From its origins as a mysterious online forum to its enduring legacy as a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked technological progress, the Ong’s Hat story is a gripping and thought-provoking case study in the power of storytelling and the perils of misinformation.

La conspiración de Ong’s Hat: Cómo el primer juego de realidad alternativa terminó inspirando a Halo 2 y otros grandes títulos

Hacemos un repaso de las mejores campañas de marketing transmedia en el videojuego, así como sus orígenes en Internet.

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Ong’s Hat: Eggheads, Gov’t Shills, & The Internet’s First Hoax | 323

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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 of its own and to this day has people believing it is all true. They also believe the man claiming responsibility is just a government shill planted to throw us off the truth. And the story has everything: Weird religious cults, quantum physics, dimensional travel, hidden laboratories, luxurious silk top hats, carpet salesmen… We are banging on all cylinders! All that and more this week on the podcast that knows a thing or two about other dimensions… at least the Lower 4th Dimension… Hysteria 51! LINK TO SHOW

The Ghost Of Ong’s Hat by Nigel Roth

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The Ghost Of Ong’s Hat by Nigel Roth
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. When Matheny stated that the books were mere fiction, many saw these denials as evidence of government intervention and suppression, and they continue to this day to accept the gateway as fact, despite the improbability of a door to another world.

The truth of Ong’s Hat will probably never be known, and its rise and fall – if it ever rose and fell – is lost to the decades that have wiped the town from today’s maps.

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 a chapter about this series. It will be available in 2025.

I make an appearance playing “myself,” or at least a fictionalized version of myself, as it were.

Here are some raw audio interviews conducted as background material by the “so-called” producers. I call this series Behind the Scenes.

Here’s an Archive.org collection of all the BTS files: https://archive.org/details/joseph-matheny-ongs-hat-interview

The Behind the Scenes Audio Files

https://josephmatheny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/joseph-matheny-ongs-hat-interview.mp3
Joseph Matheny Interview: 5 hours
https://josephmatheny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/david-metcalfe.mp3
David Metcalfe
https://josephmatheny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/p-emerson-williams.mp3
P. Emerson Williams
https://josephmatheny.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/denny-james.mp3
Denny and James

Disclaimer: The Incident at Ong’s Hat was not written by me. It is a true crime podcast story using the Ong’s Hat narrative and elements taken from my personal life. This is part of the reason I am sharing the interviews behind this story. I think seeing both sides, the facts and the fiction, will illuminate the process. I do not endorse or recommend the series.


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