Category Archives: Ong’s Hat

Alternate Reality Game, COMPLEAT, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Ong's Hat

Ongs Hat Compleat – Official Soundtrack

LINK: https://polypores.bandcamp.com/album/ongs-hat-compleat-official-soundtrack

The soundtrack to the audiobook version of Ong’s Hat: Compleat

Back in the early 1990s, a conspiracy theory/urban legend was doing the rounds on internet messageboards, about a group of scientists and mystics who opened a portal to an alternative dimension in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. In Ong’s Hat:Compleat, the creator of this fascinating piece of living, infinite art, Joseph Matheny, talks to podcaster and AI wizard Sequoya Kennedy about its intentions and origins, and all manner of highly weird shit that happened in the process.

It’s a tale that intertwines early AI, paranormal encounters, emergent phenomena, and the nascent Internet culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The story is a rich tapestry woven from diverse cultural threads:

Psychedelic and avant-garde art movements

Punk rock and industrial music scenes

Experimental theater and method acting

Hermetic magick and beat literature

The Esalen Institute’s influence

Philip K. Dick’s literary works

This narrative is a modern spiritual quest that blends these eclectic elements into a compelling journey.

———————————————————————————————–

I’m super-thrilled to be involved with this, as a big fan of both Matheny and Kennedy’s previous work. Those who are watching carefully might remember that Matheny’s Ong’s Hat project was a big inspiration behind my album “There Are Other Worlds”, so it really means a lot to be onboard.

The soundtrack was created using a modular synthesizer I put together for the occasion, relying on a number of techniques including (but not limited to) chaos, random generation, feedback loops, tarot, the I Ching, cybernetic systems, trance, self-generation, mind-altering chemicals, The Gateway Tapes, and automatic writing,

I hope some of you will check this out, it’s a fascinating story, weirder than most fiction, and somehow still self-perpetuating…

Check it out here: josephmatheny.com/ongs-hat-compleat/

(Also available on Amazon/Google Play etc)

I’d highly recommend either paperback or audiobook “Ong’s Hat: The Beginning” as a good place to start.

Or the audiobook/podcast “This Is Not A Game” by Marc Fennell – which offers a good intro to the whole thing,

credits

released July 28, 2025

Written and performed by Stephen James Buckley – October 2024

Thanks to Joseph and Sequoya for having me onboard, and to Peter C Hine and his part in making these connections happen.

Alternate Reality Game, COMPLEAT, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Ong's Hat

Invention on Mubi

From an interview-

CH: The most surprising insight I found was in terms of examining the concept of ‘conspiracy’ itself. I was pretty heavily researching things like ‘Ong’s Hat,’ which was one of the first well-known internet-based conspiracy theories.

Invention On MUBI

Love this from the AMA:

Callie: Fun Fact — no one knew it was a Blair Witch remake until we were already attached. To be honest, I did not understand how we were supposed to recreate one of the most conspiratorial films of all time, especially since such a huge part of why the original was so terrifying was due to the fact that there was all this folklore around it. Ong’s Hat was a reference for INVENTION when we first started to explore the conspiratorial themes in the film. I weirdly feel like there are a lot of similarities between Ong’s Hat and the origin stories of how the original Blair Witch came to be…

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1lx8haf/comment/n2lq9st/

Alternate Reality Game, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Ong's Hat

ONG’S HAT, LA CIUDAD DEL EXPERIMENTO CUÁNTICO.

¿Puede una ciudad entera desaparecer sin dejar rastro?
En este episodio de Escalofríos, te contamos la perturbadora historia de Ong’s Hat, un pequeño poblado de Nueva Jersey que, según múltiples teorías, fue escenario de un experimento secreto que salió terriblemente mal. Lo que comenzó como un rumor en los márgenes de internet, terminó convirtiéndose en uno de los casos más inquietantes de desaparición colectiva y viajes interdimensionales jamás contados.

Prepárate para conocer la verdad detrás del primer ARG de la historia, los científicos del Instituto de las Ciencias del Caos, y los archivos ocultos que apuntan a una realidad más aterradora de lo que imaginamos.

Alternate Reality Game, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Ong's Hat

A Machine to Another Dimension? The Ong’s Hat Mystery EXPOSED 😱📂#alternatereality #OngsHat

A town erased from maps… and a machine said to open doorways to other realities.
In the 1990s, strange documents appeared online describing “Ong’s Hat”—an abandoned town in New Jersey where rogue scientists allegedly built an interdimensional device.

They called it The Egg.
A machine that folded space, time, and human consciousness.

Was it just an early internet hoax?
Or did someone really slip through to another world?

Alternate Reality Game, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Ong's Hat

Interview mit Joseph Matheny – Ongs Hat, Nekronomikon, Randonautica, UAPs, KI, Dimensionen, Künstler

As promised last week, here is the complete, unedited interview. I hope you enjoy it. I have a few more like this coming shortly. I hope you enjoy the new direction. I will only have conversations with independent creators like today’s host. Enjoy.

Alternate Reality Game, COMPLEAT, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Nick Herbert, Ong's Hat

The Internet’s First Rabbit Hole: What’s Really Behind Ong’s Hat

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    • [4K] Bats Flyby Transition – Green Screen   Map images from Google Earth pixabay.com Pexel.com and commons.wikimedia.org ——————————————————————————- Music and sounds: There was a simple answer CO.AG Music    • There was a Simple Answer – Documentary  M…   The Disappearance Documentary Music CO.AG Music    • The Disappearance  Documentary  Music   Duplicator. Edit mix Futuristic Sci-fi Electronic Background Music CO.AG Music    • Duplicator. Edit mix Futuristic Sci-fi Ele…   ——————————————————————————- Sources: Ong’s Hat: The Beginning: Authorized Version – Joseph Matheny Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT – Joseph Matheny Incunabula.org https://incunabula.org/wp-content/upl… Legend Tripping Online – Michael Kinsellas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong%27s… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong%27s…

How this content was made
Auto-dubbed
Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Learn more
Alternate Reality Game, Incunabula, Joseph Matheny, Multiverse, Ong's Hat

Ong’s Hat: Interdimensional Portals or ARG? | Shadow Frequency Ep. 124

Did rogue scientists in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens really build a device that opened portals to parallel worlds? In Episode 124 of The Shadow Frequency, Matt Wilson explores the infamous Ong’s Hat conspiracy—from the Incunabula Papers to the mysterious Egg Device. Is this early internet myth more real than we think?

🎧 Full episode streaming now on all platforms.
💻 Bonus content at: shadowfrequencypodcast.com

#OngsHat #InterdimensionalPortal #ParanormalPodcast #QuantumConspiracy #TheEggDevice #ARG #PodcastEpisode #ShadowFrequency #PineBarrens #JerseyDevil