In the late 1990s, an obscure town in New Jersey became the center of one of the strangest stories on the internet.
According to online documents known as The Incunabula Papers, Ong’s Hat wasn’t just a ghost town—it was the site of a secret scientific experiment. One that allegedly opened a gateway… to another universe.
Was it all an elaborate game? Or a leak disguised as fiction?
Journey into the eerie heart of New Jersey, where fact and folklore collide. First, discover Ong’s Hat, a ghost town said to hide a portal to another dimension. Then, delve into the mystery of Thomas Edison’s rumored “ghost phone,” an invention meant to communicate with spirits of the departed. Are these merely legends, or does New Jersey truly bridge worlds beyond our own?
The City That Disappeared Overnight — What Really Happened to Ong’s Hat?
Welcome to Behind the Veil, where mystery meets reality.
In this episode, we uncover the strange, unsettling story of Ong’s Hat — a town in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that mysteriously vanished without explanation. What started as a strange local legend evolved into a sprawling conspiracy involving secret scientific experiments, interdimensional travel, and government cover-ups.
From the eerie silence of the Pine Barrens to the mind-bending Incunabula Papers, discover the truth — or illusion — behind one of the internet’s earliest and most disturbing myths.
Was Ong’s Hat just a clever hoax? Or did someone actually tear a hole in reality… and vanish through it?
Secondo i racconti, la vicenda dell’autostoppista si sarebbe verificata negli anni ’70 o ’80, quando Ong’s Hat era già un luogo disabitato. Inoltre, parlava un inglese perfetto ma con un’inflessione inusuale, che non sembrava appartenere a nessun accento typical of the States. “What is America?” “Where are the other nations?” “What year is it?” According to the story, the hitchhiker’s story took place in the 70s or 80s, when On’s Hut was already a no man’s land. A group of travelers traveling at night on Route 72 reported meeting a man who looked normal but had a confused and frightened expression. The man was dressed in simple clothes, but with a slightly unusual cut, as if he was slightly different from the general fashion. In addition, he spoke perfect English, but with a peculiar intonation and did not seem to belong to a typical American accent. “Is this still America?” “What happened to the other two countries?” “What year is it now?
They’re wrong.
I have decided to dig through the old archives and periodically present some media from the past here on Substack.
Today’s radio interview is from 2003 in LA. Yeah, I was thinking about AI even then. If you read COMPLEAT, you know my interest dates back to the late 1980s. Have a great weekend.
