Joseph Matheny’s website: https://josephmatheny.com/ Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT: http://bit.ly/45GMtWx Ong’s Hat: The Beginning https://bit.ly/4jLOXGM Today’s story is about Ong’s Hat, a story involving dimensional travel. The rabbit hole we’re plunging into today takes place in the early days of the internet and escalated from a short story to something more than it probably should have. Today’s case provides an exciting insight that couldn’t be better, because not only do I have an interesting report for you, but Joseph Matheny, who is at the center of the topic, was willing to do an interview with me, giving us some more firsthand insight. Intro (0:00) What is Ong’s Hat? (1:30) The Story (4:51) Background and Development (9:21) Theories and Paranormal Speculations (21:18) Q&A – Interview with Joseph Matheny (24:08) What does Ong’s Hat show us? (30:35) Outro (31:49) ———————————————————————– Images and Videos: “MuffinTerm screenshots” by blakespot is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Author-historian Henry Charlton Beck.jpeg by William F. Augustine published by Rutgers University Press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Au… Peter Lamborn Wilson, circa 1970s.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pe… https://brooklynrail.org/2022/10/in-m… [4K] Bats Flyby Transition – Green Screen Visual king
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This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell (Ong’s Hat History)
This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat.
LINK: https://www.audible.com/pd/This-Is-Not-a-Game-with-Marc-Fennell-Audiobook/B0CYM73MWM
This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat.
Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures, and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to influence much of what’s wrong with the internet today.
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Der vielleicht älteste Internet-Mythos überhaupt: Das Mysterium von Ong’s Hat
“Perhaps the oldest internet myth of all: the mystery of Ong’s Hat”
I had a wonderful conversation with Michael Förtsch, the author of this piece for the German Scifi mag 1E9. Here is a link to the original German, and below is a PDF of a machine translation into English. I hope you enjoy it.
Der vielleicht älteste Internet-Mythos überhaupt: Das Mysterium von Ong’s Hat
My Old Friend, Nick Herbert in The New Yorker
My old friend gets a nod in the New Yorker regarding his contribution to quantum computing.
The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer
But Clauser had also demonstrated that entangled particles were more than just a thought experiment. They were real, and they were even stranger than Einstein had thought. Their weirdness attracted the attention of the physicist Nick Herbert, a Stanford Ph.D. and LSD enthusiast whose research interests included mental telepathy and communication with the afterlife. Clauser showed Herbert his experiment, and Herbert proposed a machine that would use entanglement to communicate faster than the speed of light, enabling the user to send messages backward through time. Herbert’s blueprint for a time machine was ultimately deemed unfeasible, but it forced physicists to start taking entanglement seriously. “Herbert’s erroneous paper was a spark that generated immense progress,” the physicist Asher Peres recalled, in 2003.
Read the entire article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19/the-world-changing-race-to-develop-the-quantum-computer
Death of a Moor
Dr. Jabir has recently written a eulogy titled, “Death of a Moor” and published it on his Quantum Tantra site.
Peter Lamborn Wilson is dead.
Peter Lamborn Wilson was a prolific, controversial writer and researcher into the lives and beliefs of mavericks, misfits, hobos, punks and heretics. He is best-known for his coinage of the term Temporary Autonomous Zone or TAZ which can be applied to any spontaneous association of free people from Burning Man to improv dancing, especially those gatherings which maximize what Wilson liked to call “ontological anarchy”.
As an Ontological Anarchist, Peter necessarily acquired an unusual resume’. Educated at Columbia, Wilson left New York in 1968 for a spiritual “Journey to the East” across the Islamic world from Morocco to Katmandu, seeking wisdom and teachers in tea houses, palaces and opium dens and settling finally in Tehran, where his presence coincided with Empress Farah Pahlavi’s desire to spread Iranian culture into the West. At the Iranian Academy of Philosophy, Wilson was put in charge of English publication where he was able to translate the works of famous Islamic philosophers and poets, for instance (my favorite) The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry with Nasrollah Pourjavady.
Wilson’s academic tenure in Tehran was cut short in 1979 by the Iranian Revolution in which the Shah and his wife were replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini (a minor poet himself in the tradition of Khayyam and Hafiz).
Back in New York, Wilson aligned himself with various fringe organizations among which was the Moorish Orthodox Church of America which Wikipedia describes as “a syncretic, non-exclusive, and religious anarchist movement originally founded in New York City in 1965 and part of the burgeoning psychedelic church movement of the mid to late 1960’s in the United States.” MOCA traces its lineage back to a black Chicago religious leader from the 1920’s, Noble Drew Ali, whom the Black Muslims also claim as their founder. More detailed information concerning this “religious anarchist movement” can be found on the web at the Moorish Orthodox Information Kiosk or in Wilson’s own Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam published by City Lights in San Francisco.
Wilson obituaries have appeared in such wide-ranging venues as The Global Ganja Report and the New York Times (!) so I will not repeat here what others have written but instead publish a brief account of how this ontological anarchist affected my own life.
In the early 80’s computers were just beginning to enter our lives. Instead the photocopier gave rise to a web-like phenomenon called “zines”, short for “magazines” in which anyone with a few dollars for stamps and access to a Xerox machine could become their own publisher. The quality of zines ranged from semi-professional to unreadable but what they all had in common was quirky originality and instant access to off-beat topics. I cannot locate in my records the zine in which I first encountered the writings of Peter Lamborn Wilson but it might have been Popular Reality which one archivist described as “distinguishing itself as an open forum for the most unpopular of opinions.”
Connecting via one of the zines of that era Peter and I began a letter exchange concerning the Moorish Orthodox Church and he invited me to come visit him in New York should opportunity arise. So in the spring of 1986 on some errand involving physics and publishing I met the man himself in his third floor apartment on West 107th St just a few blocks from the Nicholas Roerich Museum.
Wilson lived in a rat’s warren of books, papers and unusual objects from his Islamic travels, the centerpiece of which was an old mechanical Remington typewriter on which he composed his voluminous works, He seemed to have a dislike for computers and never quite moved into the digital age. Over a few tokes of crumbly hashish he regaled me with tales from his travels and invited me to become a member of the Moorish Church. It is customary to take an Islamic name and I knew nothing of that faith. Wilson’s own Moorish name was “Hakim Bey” and several of his books, articles and performances appear under that name. “Well, you could do worse, Nick, than “Jabir”, the 9th Century Islamic alchemist.”
So Jabir it was. To which I later added “‘abd al-Khaliq”, designating myself as servant of one of the 99 names of God. A few weeks later I received from Hakim Bey a photocopied diploma certifying my new rank as “Adept of the Seventh Heaven.”
My first substantial adventure with the Moorish Orthodox Chuch was the Antarctic Astral Projection Project. On the night separating August from September 1987, various individuals would attempt by any means at their command to astrally project themselves to a location on the Antarctic continent aptly named “Cape Longing”. We would dutifully record our impressions which would then be collected and published in the zinosphere as part of the Akashic Records, one more fanciful account of the spiritual strivings of the human race. Doctor Jabir decided to go there as Mandrake the Magician and fancied the trip as a conclave of other fictional magician/scientists observing and producing new physical, mental and spiritual phenomena in the exotic low-temperature environment not far from the Earth’s South magnetic pole. As I recall music and dancing girls were involved as well as a spectacular display of the best Southern Lights that my human imagination could produce.
Another Moorish adventure as Doctor Jabir, this time in real space, was the Temporary Autonomous Zone San Francisco performance in 1993 organized and produced by the legendary Joseph Matheny. The site of TAZ SF was Komotion International, an art and performance space in San Francisco’s Mission district. This event featured a dozen or so performers, both male and female, some of whom mingled with the audience. Hakim Bey himself was one of the stars and calmly lectured on some obscure feature of Ontological Anarchy. Most of us were attempting to be as outrageous as possible but Bey trumped us all by affecting an utterly conventional academic normality in an ocean of freaks. Jabir read some of his newest quantum tantric poetry, Robert Anton Wilson shared some of his latest provocative prose. Circus acts and dances followed and there was some sort of bondage scene going on that I had helped to prepare back stage.
MOCA produced at odd intervals the Moorish Science Monitor to which I sometimes contributed. And once I was a guest along with Robert Anton Wilson on the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, an after midnight series hosted by Hakim Bey on New York’s independent radio station WBAI.
Back in Boulder Creek I often enjoyed co-hosting our long running series of poetry readings with fellow Moor Omar abu Khan (aka Ed Cramer). But all in all, Doctor Jabir achieved the height of his Moorish identity in the call for Tantric Jihad which he has performed in venues as various as house warmings and Esalen Institute,
Jabir ‘abd al-Khaliq declares Tantric Jihad |
Early Internet Conspiracies Centered On a Creepy Ghost Town
The Ong’s Hat story might be the first attempt at altered reality storytelling
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.
Старейшая загадка интернета – Ong’s Hat
Advances in Skin Science: Quantum Tantra An Interview with Nick Herbert by Joseph Matheny
This material is also available in tablet and ebook reader-friendly formats at Archive.org , Smashwords and as a Kindle version on Amazon.com
This interview also appeared in Boing-Boing 11 when it was still a print zine in 1993.
Also see: 2019- Scientific American: Chasing the Quantum Tantra
Hippy physicist Nick Herbert pursues a lifelong love affair with nature
Advances in Skin Science:
Quantum Tantra
An Interview with Nick Herbert
by Joseph Matheny
“It’s always gooiest before it solidifies”
Beverly’s Ovation, Beverly Rubik Ph.d
“Quantum Tantra is not just another way to get high using common objects you can find around the house… Caution: Practicing Q.T. before you understand Bell’s Theorem of interconnectveness is like walking into the Amazon jungle without a map.” – Alternate Dimensions. Jabir ibn Hayyan
Journal entry:
October 13,1992
I finally get a line on INCUNABULA. Following a lead from a culture-jamming club in San Francisco (MediaKaos 415-789-8350), I arrive in the small New Jersey town of Ong’s Hat. The address that I have for INCUNABULA is a P.O. Box. The local postmaster/general store operator was very helpful. Almost too helpful! He told me that Cranston and INCUNABULA books had fled the area one night about a month ago. I gained access to Cranston’s P.O. Box key while the owner had his back turned and returned later to examine the contents. All I found inside were overdraft notices from his bank and some solicitations from a church of geniuses in Dallas, Texas or some such nonsense. Another dead end.
October 14, 1992
I arrive in New York City, get a room, restock supplies and think. I call New Jersey information to get the phone number for the Ong’s Hat general store and post office so I can ask the postmaster a few more questions. I am told by the inbred boob on the other end of the line that there is no such town listed in New Jersey, and after a long and heated debate, we terminate the phone call by mutually insulting each other’s gene pool. God, I hate the phone company.
October 16, 1992
Two days (and two bottles of Johnny Walker Black Label) later, I finally get lead on one of the most intriguing authors listed in the INCUNABULA Catalog, Nick Herbert, author of Quantum Reality, Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics, and of course, the legendary Alternate Dimensions.
Herbert was a former SDI scientist turned renegade researcher. His past areas of renegade research involved pleasure dome technologies, Quantum Tantra (the Egg Yoke method), Time and Dimensional travel theories, and gelatinous substances.
I’ll give you a little background on Alternate Dimensions (A.D.). It was written in 1989 by Herbert, but was suppressed by the publisher, Harper & Row, for unexplained reasons in 1990. INCUNABULA was offering bound, uncorrected galley copies for $100.00 each, or at least they were, until Cranston disappeared with the whole kit-n-kaboodle. In A.D., it seems that Herbert gave away the inner secrets of a Tantrik-dimensional travel cult based in northern California. Using techniques that combined Herbert’s own theory of Quantum Tantra, and hardware technology, consisting of an egg-shaped craft of some sort, members of the cult were able to penetrate into other dimensions. There were also intense visualization techniques, and Tantrik-Egg-Yoke postures involved, but the Xerox copy I had purchased from MediaKaos seemed to be missing some of the key technical portions.
Herbert was now hiding out in the backwater town of Boulder Creek, CA, deep in the heart of the Santa Cruz mountains.
I hopped aboard a plane to San Jose, and drove a rental car up to Boulder Creek. About a mile away from Herbert’s farm house, I called him on my cellular phone. Surprisingly enough, Herbert was very cordial, and agreed to meet me in town for lunch and conversation. He suggested Adelita’s Mexican Cantina, gave me directions, and promised to meet me there in an hour.
I drove into town and went over my notes while I waited. About an hour later, Dr.Herbert appeared in the parking lot driving a electric Stutz Bearcat kit car. I recognized him instantly from his book jacket photos, even with the recently acquired beard. Was he attempting to change his appearance? Was he preparing to flee, like Cranston had 30 days ago?
I casually reached into my jacket and activated my pocket recorder. I waved him over to my table, and after shaking hands we settled down to a lunch of Dos Equis and Gorditas.
“Okay” I said, after some pleasantries about the weather, “let’s start with the obvious question: What is Quantum Tantra?”
“Well, psychology has used a lot of classic metaphors to explain the mind, like the hydraulic metaphor of urges building up, an even when repressed, they’ll find some way to spurt out to the surface. We’re told that releasing your repressions will relieve the pressure, and you’ll become healthy. That’s a very classical metaphor. Now we have this marvelous new way of thinking called quantum mechanics, and it seems right to use these metaphors to explain human behavior. So, what’s the most interesting human behavior of all? Sexual, of course. That’s the idea, to use quantum mechanical metaphors to explore sexuality, to look at it through the lens of quantum physics. I would consider Q.T. successful if we could find new things to do that never would have been thought, of using the old metaphors. I mean, of course, pleasant things. (laughter). The core idea of Q.T. stems from Heisenberg’s statement that “atoms are not things.” So, Q.T. naturally extrapolated that statement into “well than people are not things, either.” People are not things in the same way that atoms are not things.”
“What are things?” I asked
“Things are entities that have attributes, whether you look at them or not. They’re big, they’re solid and such. You can list their attributes. Non-things, or Quantum objects, like atoms or molecules, don’t have attributes. They are basically clusters of oscillating possibilities, the possibilities not even being well-defined. It might reward us to look that way at people, as oscillating possibilities.” He took a long draw off his Dos Equis, and signaled the waiter for another.
” So, try and think of what the essence of quantum theory is,” he continued,
“Three adjectives: Randomness, thinglessness, and interconectiveness. Randomness I associate with the spontaneity that is within people. Uncertainty is the very essence of romance. It’s what you don’t know that intrigues you.” “Now, thinglessness is even more renunciatory'” he went on. “The notion of treating people like possibilities rather than fixed structures is a healthy one, I think.” “Interconnectiveness is the most fantastic feature of Q.T. Things are connected in the quantum world in such a way that only did we not think of it before the discovery of quantum mechanics, but I don’t think we could have thought this way at all. It’s so strange. The terrestrial belief system that comes the closest to quantum connectiveness is VooDoo.”
“Sympathetic magick?” I queried. This was getting good.
“Yes, sympathetic magick,” he replied.
“Of course, the VooDoo conception is naive in comparison to Q.T.’s connectiveness. In VooDoo, you do something like burn someone’s hair to give them a headache. The Quantum connection isn’t that crude. It has more to do with timing. In the Quantum world, you burn someone’s hair, and maybe they miss an appointment. The Newtonian world view emphasized control over the world, whereas, the Quantum world view doesn’t emphasize control so much as timing. You could say that the Newtonian view emphasized force, where the Quantum world emphasizes finesse.” “One analogy is ordinary, steerable dish radar versus phased array antennae. Steerable dish physically moves the whole antenna structure. In the phased array antennae, you have a whole array that are all fixed. None of them move, but by changing the timing on these antennae, you get a virtual antenna that’s pointed in any direction. That’s an example of finesse, rather than force. Quantum connection is like that. It is set up like VooDoo by having something that the other person has interacted with, some sympathetic object.”
“But what does this have to do with sex?” I asked.
Herbert was quick to answer.
“I’m getting to that. In Q.T., the tantra part has to do with sex as well as religion. Every religion has their symbol. The Christians have the cross, Islam has the crescent and star, the Pagans have the pentagram, the wheel for Buddhism, and so forth. Q.T. has it’s symbols, also. One of them is this fork.”
He picked up a salsa-encrusted fork, and stared at it rapturously.
“It reminds us to see the world as possibilities,” he continued, “In the Newtonian world, starting from now, only one thing could happen.Q.T. sees the future as open possibilities, like the tines of this fork. Actually, if this fork were fuzzy, like Man Ray’s fuzzy cup and spoon…”
I was beginning to understand. That or the Dos Equis was kicking in. I felt lightheaded.
“So the borders would not quite be defined…” I replied.
“Yes,” he said, eyes twinkling in the candlelight.
“The possibilities are defined only by your intentions, by how you construe the moment. Quantum possibilities are not quite as defined as dice possibilities, even. With a die, only one of six numbers will come up, whereas with Quantum possibilities, it depends on how you look at the moment, and that again, is part of thinglessness. All of these elements have resonances in popular literature. Like the talk of the inexplicable chemistry that occurs between two people, or this notion of ‘it’s bigger than both of us’. The type of connectivity that’s possible in quantum theory allows two connected entities to be in indefinite states , but allows the couple itself to be in a definite state! The mathematics on this are clear. As Heisenberg said, ‘quantum theory has changed our way of thinking completely,’ and it’s changed in such a way that it didn’t dissolve into some unclear, fuzzy fog, but into this absolute clarity of a new mathematics. Now the mathematics describe the fog in a very precise way. So, it’s this kind of very precise unclarity.”
“You’re talking like a lot of mystics I know!” I scoffed.
He replied laughing, “Except, this is found in ordinary physics! This is stuff that was discovered 75 years ago, it’s not new stuff at all. It’s only now beginning to permeate popular culture. So, we have this system where each member of the pair, say, a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, or whatever, are defined. They’ve gotten themselves into a state where their individualities are not as clear, but the couple itself as an entity, is better defined than the individual members of the set. We use symbols, like the fork, to remind ourselves of these things, because the human mind is not yet used to thinking in parallels.” “Our data rate is miniscule, compared to say, television data rates equivalent to megabits per second, or telephones, which are equivalent to thousands of kilobits per second. Morse code is about 10 bits per second, and that’s pretty close to our attention rate! I mean, when we’re not on robot, when we do come to attention, we don’t bring much to this moment in terms of quantity. It’s been estimated at about 16 bits a second. So, people need simple graphic symbols, like the fork, or the cross, or the crescent, to remind themselves that they’re Moslems, or whatever. So, one symbol I’ve invented to epitomize Randomness, Thinglessness and Interconnectiveness is the trinity of White, Hot and Sticky. White corresponds to Thinglessness, Hot to Randomness, and Sticky to Interconnectiveness. By white, I mean like white light, all the colors together, all human sexual potentials. Thinglessness is wrought with possibilities. As David Finklestein, the inventor of quantum logic said, ‘We are all white light, in the sense that we are all possibilities.’ Hot has to do with newness, spontaneity that we can bring to the moment to remind us that the moment can be ever new. That’s a hard thing to live up to, sexually, and otherwise. Sticky, of course, typifies the new kind connectiveness. A metaphor for achieving stickieness, are objects that you break in two, and each partner keeps one half. The fracture is unique, that I will only match one other person in the whole world! Quantum objects help to enhance this two-person white, hot, sticky state. And music is the connection in this technology.”
“Why music?” I asked.
“Because, these possibilities are vibratory.” he answered. ‘In the physical world, every atom, or possibility is vibrating at a certain frequency. The higher the energy level, the higher the frequency or pitch of the vibrations. We can’t hear, smell, see, or taste any of these vibrations except indirectly. I’m doing more research with solid state technology, sound sequences.”
“Ok, now what about Alternate Dimensions, the egg craft, the travel cults, Tantric-Yoke techniques, I mean, what about all this stuff!” I finally blurted, unable to hold back any longer.
“Young man, I have no idea what you’re talking about. All I can say is there are some questions that you should not ask directly, and some answers that may come as a result of finesse over force. This interview is now concluded.”
- INCUNABULA: A CATALOG OF RARE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & CURIOSA CONSPIRACY THEORY, FRONTIER SCIENCE & ALTERNATIVE WORLDS
- ONG’S HAT:GATEWAY TO THE DIMENSIONS! A full color brochure for the Institute of Chaos Studies and the Moorish Science Ashram in Ong’s Hat, New Jersey.
- Joseph Matheny’s Journal: Emory Cranston Interview
- Incunabula: Ong‘s Hat- Graphic Novel at Archive.org
- Various uploads in various formats at Archive.org
A collection of Ong’s Hat reviews, interviews and theories.
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
- Interview mit Joseph Matheny – Ongs Hat, Nekronomikon, Randonautica, UAPs, KI, Dimensionen, Künstler
- The Internet’s First Rabbit Hole: What’s Really Behind Ong’s Hat
- Ong’s Hat: Interdimensional Portals or ARG? | Shadow Frequency Ep. 124
- Ong’s Hat | the current
- newjerseyshade
- Ong’s Hat!: Supernatural Sundays
- El Caso de la Reunión en la Carretera (El Incidente de Ong’s Hat)
- Disturbing Signs That You’re Already Living in a Parallel Universe
- Kya scientist waqai dosri duniya me chalay gay?Ongs Hat The Portal to Another Dimension Time travel
- Ong’s Hat: The Town That Vanished
- Ong’s Hat disebut sebagai lokasi eksperimen dimensi paralel. Portal ke dunia lain
- Is There a Real Portal Hidden in the New Jersey Woods?
- Suppressed Experiments Or Nothing But Fiction? The Bizarre Conspiracies Of Ong’s Hat
- GUTEMBERAMUGIHE BAKOZE IMASHINE IJYANA ABANTU MUYINDISI AHO ABANTU BADASAZA cg NGOBAPFE
- Glitch File 002: Ong’s Hat – The Town That Slipped Through Time | Dream Theory
- Ong’s Hat Mystery
- A town that once existed,now nothing but an empty void.What horrors took place in Ong’s Hat?
- Ong’s Hat: The Internet’s First Conspiracy – Or a Hidden Truth?
- New Jersey – Strange Frequencies
- A bibliographic archeology of game-like conspiracy narratives: examining the Ong’s Hat Incunabula catalog
- Ong’s Hat——The Mysterious Portal to Other Dimensions
- The City That Disappeared Overnight — What Really Happened to Ong’s Hat?
- La leyenda de Ong’s Hat: ¿Fue el primer experimento de portales dimensionales?
- History of the Paranormal: The Hitchhiker in Ong’s Hat
- The Town That No One Can Leave
- Bí ẩn Ong’s Hat: Cánh cổng vũ trụ song song?
- La Ciudad Fantasma de Ong’s Hat – El Misterioso Portal Interdimensional de Nueva Jersey
- CONSPIRACY – Ong’s Hat
- Ong’s Hat: Portal To Another Dimension??
- The Mysterious Egg in Ong’s Hat – The First ARG
- The Mystery of Ong’s Hat – The Town That Never Was
- The creepiest ghost town in the country is right here in New Jersey
- Ong’s hat ARG theory
- Was Ong’s Hat simply an Urban Legend or truly a conspiracy?
- Ong’s Hat: New Jersey’s Forbidden Gateway to an Alternate Dimension!
- UFO…No!- Episode 215: Ong’s Hat
- Ong’s Hat: Compleat
- Ong’s Hat: The Town That Vanished Into Another Dimension
- PODIVNÉ PŘÍBĚHY LIDÍ, KTEŘÍ VYBUDOVALI PORTÁLY DO JINÝCH DIMENZÍ
- Suppressed Experiments Or Nothing But Fiction? The Bizarre Conspiracies Of Ong’s Hat
- The Ong’s Hat Mystery: A Hidden Portal or Government Secret?
- Ong’s Hat: The Beginning: CERN, Many Worlds, MMORPGs (QAnon), ARGs “The Beast”, HALO and Artificial Intelligence
- Ong’s Hat & Ben Zweibelson
- The Enigma of the Ong’s Hat Conspiracy
- Ep.232 – Portals to Other Dimensions & Peanut the Squirrel – Theories Thursday
- 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
- 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
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- 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 sé§»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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