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

Route 666: Conspiracy Theory Destinations Across America

Ong’s Hat

Pine Barrens, New Jersey

Ong’s Hat is a tiny ghost town that only ever held a single building called Ong’s Hut. Reportedly, the town was lively in the 1860s, but it plays a role in one of the earliest internet-based conspiracy theories. The conspiracy alleges that Princeton professors supposedly built a secret quantum physics lab in the tiny town, and that they participated in inter-dimensional travel. Bizarre as the theory is, it would explain why the town is deserted today.

LINK: https://blog.cheapism.com/conspiracy-theory-road-trips/#slide=13

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What is Ong’s Hat?

A collection of text, audio, and video pieces about the Ong’s Hat ARG project

The First Internet Hoax: Inside a Mind

Why Did This Entire Village of Scientists Disappear One Day?

Joseph Matheny Appears on How Conspiracy Theories Become Violent | Truth Hurts | VICE

Did An Alternate Reality Game Gone Wrong Predict The Rise of QAnon?

 

http://redpagespodcast.com/listen/chatting-with-joseph-matheny
https://archive.org/download/rpp-20-09-29/RPP20-09-29.mp3?_=1

The Red Pages Podcast: Episode 154: Chatting with Joseph Matheny

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/download/mkhhja/ParallaxViews_MathenyQ.mp3?_=2

ARG Pioneer Joseph Matheny on the Counterculture’s Hijacking from Corporatization to QAnon

https://dcs.megaphone.fm/SLT5448932272.mp3?_=3

Slate-Decoder Ring: The Incunabula Papers

Gizmodo-Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real

Alternate Reality Games | Ong’s Hat | Know Your Meme

The Surprising Online Life of Legends – Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat

The Rise Of The ARG: Games™ investigates alternate reality games and what the future has in store for the curious experiment

 

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Some Ong’s Hat Audio and Video Pieces

A collection of audio and video pieces about the Ong’s Hat ARG project

https://youtu.be/uHkn0CWWfBk
The First Internet Hoax: Inside a Mind
https://youtu.be/NIG3x3kVtos?list=PLCjME-3m5B3GbDXmAUQ9qddYqgCT_litc
Why Did This Entire Village of Scientists Disappear One Day?
https://youtu.be/mE4UhROjVxM
Joseph Matheny Appears on How Conspiracy Theories Become Violent | Truth Hurts | VICE
https://youtu.be/brijcd-8oWE
Did An Alternate Reality Game Gone Wrong Predict The Rise of QAnon?
https://archive.org/download/rpp-20-09-29/RPP20-09-29.mp3?_=4 The Red Pages Podcast: Episode 154: Chatting with Joseph Matheny https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/download/mkhhja/ParallaxViews_MathenyQ.mp3?_=5 ARG Pioneer Joseph Matheny on the Counterculture’s Hijacking from Corporatization to QAnon https://dcs.megaphone.fm/SLT5448932272.mp3?_=6 Slate-Decoder Ring: The Incunabula Papers
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let’s be conspiracy theorists: hollow earth, inter-dimensional travel, oh-my!

 

This is a take that’s a little different than the normal podcast we usually feature on here. I love listening to these young people giving their hot takes. The volume is a little low on this so prepare.

listen to us do our best to explain a conspiracy theory to one another and candidly discuss. do tall beautiful giants and aliens live inside our hollow earth? is ong’s hat the true tale of inter-dimensional travel? in glowing hour we touch on some shorter and more fun theories. also, fuck helicopters flying around LA all afternoon, we promise we are investing in better mics for next season.

Show Link: https://anchor.fm/glow-getter-collective7/episodes/lets-be-conspiracy-theorists-hollow-earth–inter-dimensional-travel–oh-my-el5m7r/a-a3ift6e

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LEGEND TRIPPING (PT 1) : A GROWING AMERICAN PASTIME

LEGEND TRIPPING (PT 1) : A GROWING AMERICAN PASTIME

Legend Tripping- the process of seeking adventure by going to places known to be associated with paranormal events. In the episode we offer some background on legend tripping in America (wait for Part Two for the best international destinations), including Capt. McKerry’s Vault on the Ohio River (Indiana)~Goatman’s Grave in Missouri~Ong’s Hat (ghosttown in NJ~Mountain Meadows Massacre Site (UT)~Winchester Mystery House (CA)~The Marshall House Hotel (Savannah GA)~Bloody Lane at Antietam (Sharpsburg, MD~Fort Monroe (Hampton, VA~ Murder Hotel (Chicago)~The Bridgewater Traingle (Mass)~ The 8 Best Places to find Bigfoot (in US).

https://chtbl.com/track/95538/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL8903198032.mp3?_=7

Link: https://player.fm/series/series-2354660/legend-tripping-pt-1-a-growing-american-pastime

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South Jersey Is Also The World: The Ong’s Hat Conspiracy Theory

Today we focus on one of the most fascinating conspiracy theories out there: the legend of ONG’S HAT, which mixes together the military-industrial complex, academic outlaws, and inter-dimensional travel all in one of the most remote pockets of the Pine Barrens. What’s real? What’s not? Why do some people want to believe so bad? And how is Ong’s Hat – which pre-exists the internet itself – a blueprint to things like QAnon today?

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Creeps In The Crypt

Creeps In The Crypt
https://stream.redcircle.com/episodes/81e03df0-589f-4a1c-8480-a144f0347b95/stream.mp3?_=8
If you like the paranormal, the macabre, the strange, and the unusual then you’ll be dying to listen to Creeps in the Crypt every week! In this episode, we are talking about a small ghost town in the pine barrens of New Jersey with an insane conspiracy theory surrounding it. https://player.fm/series/creeps-in-the-crypt/episode-36-ongs-hat
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Fresh Eggs – John Allen aka “Mr Ballen”

https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/48532046/fresh_eggs_jallen_1_mixdown.mp3?_=9

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Sneak Peek – featuring John Allen aka Mr Ballen. Fresh Eggs features interviews from the depths of the #Dragonsbread archives +plus more. Researchers, warlocks, generals, contactees, artists, rock musicians, mediums, psychologists, shamans, film makers, paranormal investigators, and more talk about the mysteries of being human. In this episode Jerry share his POV about a High Strangeness project, a missing time event, and early ARG experiment known as Ong’s Hat. John then answers questions all things strange. Exclusive to Patreon subscribers.
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Early Internet Conspiracies Centered On a Creepy Ghost Town

The Ong’s Hat story might be the first attempt at altered reality storytelling

Wharton State Forest, New Jersey. By Famartin from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Portal by Stefan Keller from Pixabay. Edited by the author.


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.

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