ONG’S HAT and the construction of a suspicious model reader Hortus Semioticus 9/2022 – 07
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Ong’s Hat: Abandoned Town or Time Portal?
LP is in Aruba…so Joe Conte keeps his chair warm while KP tells Kahuna and Joe about the mysterious abandoned town of Ong’s Hat, NJ….ghost town, time portal…work of fiction…government cover up??? You tell us when you need to hope off the train…we all know it’s coming. ENJOY!
Page Link: https://player.fm/series/american-loser-podcast/ongs-hat-abandoned-town-or-time-portal
El extraño caso del primer ARG de la historia / Ong’s Hat
EP. 64 | Accidental Tourists: Interdimensional Travellers
Sometimes the fabric of our world thins out, and people slip through – either from another dimension or into one. So some people think, while others claim it happened to them. Come along on a trip through different times and places, visiting 12th century England, 19th century Germany, Spain, Japan, Mormon mythology and, of course, the United States, including Ong’s Hat, New Jersey – site of the very first internet conspiracy theory.
SECTIONS 01:42 – It’s Not Easy Being Green – The Green Children of Woolpit 05:57 – There is No Map, and a Compass Wouldn’t Help at All – Jophar Vorin from Laxaria 09:33 – The Man from Taured & John Zegrus from Negus-Habessian 16:16 – I Wanna be Your Boyfriend – Breaking up is hard to do for Lerina Garcia Gordo 20:43 – Baby, You Can Drive My Car – The “Gadianton” Canyon Incident 25:23 – Pedro Oliva Ramirez tries to get to Alcalá de Guadaír 27:01 – Carol Chase McElheney visits a Bedford Falls version of Riverside 31:03 – “James Richards” mixes Everyday Chemistry 32:13 – You Can Leave Your Hat On – Joseph Matheny, Ong’s Hat and Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) 43:51 – Travelling in other dimensions
Ong’s Hat: The Dimensional City
A Portal to Another Dimension in the Pine Barrens
PORTAL EN ONG’S HAT HISTORIA REAL SOBRE VIAJES INTERDIMENSIONALES
Diversas teorías pretenden comprobar la idea de que existen numerosas realidades y dimensiones de forma paralela a la nuestra, y que de vez en cuando estas realidades se solapan. Aquí también cabe el concepto de que los viajes interdimensionales son posibles y los portales, algunos abiertos desde hace tiempo, garantizan el acceso a estas realidades. Estos portales pueden resultar aterradores, intrigantes e invariablemente extraños, pero siempre terminan atrapando nuestra imaginación y provocando que nos cuestionemos: ¿si realmente existen estas dimensiones alternas, qué podemos hacer nosotros, simples mortales, para comprobarlo? ✨0:00 PORTAL EN ONG’S HAT HISTORIA REAL SOBRE VIAJES INTERDIMENSIONALES–DOCUMENTAL ESPAÑOL LATINO ✨0:37 LA HISTORIA DE ONG’S HAT ✨1:39 EL LIBRO DE JOSEPH MATHENY ✨2:04 WALI FARD, EL LÍDER ESPIRITUAL ✨3:35 ORIGEN DEL CENTRO ÁSHRAN ✨5:00 FRANK Y ALTHEA DOBBS ✨6:44 INICIO DE LOS EXPERIMENTOS EN EL CENTRO ÁSHRAN ✨7:41 PROYECTO El HUEVO ✨8:25 EL PORTAL ✨9:09 VIAJES INTERDIMENSIONALES ✨10:05 LA MASACRE EN EL CENTRO ÁSHRAN ✨11:18 EL FIN DE LA SECTA ✨12:13 LAS FILTRACIONES EN LA DÉCADA DE 1990 ✨13:07 HISTORIA DE CIENCIA FICCIÓN
CICADA 3301 e T1WER3 (a verdade além de até mais…) Ong’s Hat o primeiro criado
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What is Ong’s Hat, and why is it so important to interdimensional travel?
Ong’s Hat was once a small town in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. However, in the 1990’s, rumors began to pop up about chaos theory and interdimensional travel via depravation tanks. The JTO tries to replicate the experiment.
The Pine Barrens: New Jersey’s weird, wondrous, wild world all its own
Is there a portal in the Pines? In his 1936 book, “Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey,” Henry Charlton Beck calls Ong’s Hat a “vanished town of murder, of prize fights and of isolated country dances,” a place that “a hundred or so years ago, we were told … was a center of life among the Pineys,” with “brawls and fisticuffs, some of them bloody enough.” While the book outlines Ong’s Hat’s somewhat sketchy origins, including how the ghost town got its unique name, there’s another, more mysterious narrative. WeirdNJ, the indispensable guide to all things strange and unusual about our great state, dove into Ong’s Hat’s paranormal possibilities in a post entitled “Ong’s Hat: Piney Ghost Town or Gateway to Another Dimension?” Drawing on a book by Joseph Matheny, “Ong’s Hat: The Beginning,” WeirdNJ tells the story of a 1950s quasi-church/sect and one of its “travelers,” Wali Fard. According to their tale, Fard bought 200 acres in the Pine Barrens and, joined by “a group of runaway boys from Paramus and two lesbian anarchists,” he formed his own breakaway sect, publishing newsletters and drawing the attention of a pair of Texas twins and UFO enthusiasts, Frank and Althea Dobbs. The pair, rejected from Princeton after submitting a PhD thesis on “cognitive chaos,” believed people could tap into the unused portions of their brains to perform extraordinary tasks, including halting the aging process; the sect formed the Institute of Chaos Studies. WeirdNJ’s post says that within a couple of years, the Dobbs twins discovered “the Egg,” a device they used to chart brain waves. Experimenting with mind manipulation, they believed they could “control the chaos they found within the mind,” the post says. But one version of “the Egg” appeared to open a portal to another dimension, opening “the Gate.” And when a chemical spill from nearby Fort Dix (now called Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst) forced them to abandon the Pines, they did so not physically, but “inter-dimensionally.” “In this dimension,” WeirdNJ writes, “they still lived in Ong’s Hat, but humankind did not exist.” So, is Matheny’s book fact or fiction? According to WeirdNJ, the author isn’t saying, so you’ll have to decide that one for yourself.
Center your Schizowave (An interview w Joseph Matheny)
I first learned about Ong’s Hat from Bradley Sands, bizarro fiction writer extraordinaire, back in the late 90s. Hearing the story of paranormal activity happening in a New Jersey ghost town reminded me of other conspiracy theories involving the tri-state area and travelling through space and/or dimensions-like the Montauk Project and the Philadelphia experiment, which I found intriguing at the time. Later, I heard about how groups of people were venturing to Ong’s Hat in search of the secret magical remnants of a secret village of inter-dimensional time-travelling ex-Princeton professors.
Ong’s Hat was alive. It was so because of the active participation of its readers. It had become an urban myth where “legend trippers,” searching for a fun and free night of entertainment, went to the place and then by added interpretations of the everything on the Ong’s Hat internet forum. The story’s enigmatic quality and its exoteric insistence that it was true and not a fiction fantasy made it that more much engaging. However, as you will read, Matheny watched as groups of anonymous people swooped into the forum and attempted to high jack the story he created.
As you will read, it wasn’t just the plot of Ong’s Hat that made it so engaging. It was also the structure. Ong’s Hat is the original alternative reality game. As such it laid the tracks and created the foundation for many of the ARG’s that came after. For those still making sense of and deconstructing the destructive quality of QAnon, which looks to me like a propaganda campaign representing as a distorted and schizophrenic alternative reality game, Matheny’s insights offer a way out of the angry confusion.