The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and other Gateways to New Dimensions

We’re producing our first original on high strangeness. In it we explore the psyche of “strange” through the stories of three people in highly strange situations. Season One – “Information Golem” looks at the life of Joseph Matheny as he dreams up what perhaps becomes the world’s first online ARG (Alternative Reality Game) known as Ong’s Hat. Launched in the 90’s as an innocent social experiment around story and information, things quickly went left of field. The oddities that surrounded...

In 2001, an ARG was released in the form of a PC game. Despite its innovation, it became a tragic failure and faded into obscurity. Join me for a look into the ARG Majestic. https://youtu.be/DKLLDJZmxl4

The story of one of the ancestors of what we now call alternate reality games https://youtu.be/QgWI32NS9Qw

Ong’s Hat, also known as The Incunabula, is the original ARG and laid the ground for all future experiments in transmedia storytelling. Join me as we take a brief look at the tale of a ghost town in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey… https://youtu.be/siF75w1gJrA FOLLOW THE WEIRDNET: TWITTER: @theweirdnet GAB.AI: @THEWEIRDNET FACEBOOK: @welcometotheweirdnet INSTAGRAM: @theweirdnet MINDS: https://www.minds.com/THEWEIRDNET ALTERNATIVE VIDEO SITES BITCHUTE: http://bit.ly/weirdnetbitchute OTHER...

Elemental Mind – Human Consciousness and the New Physics https://youtu.be/a3O4bhQgb2U

Ong's Hat was once a small town in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. However, in the 1990's, rumours began to swirl online of secret experiments that had taken place there by a group of rogue scientists, and that they had travelled to an alternate dimension. But what this real? Or was it in fact the world's first ARG. Let's explore. Patreon► https://www.patreon.com/thatchapter Twitter► https://twitter.com/that_chapter Instagram► https://www.instagram.com/that_chapter References► Photos: Misha...

Podcast-ATS.X: Ong’s Hat – Did a fringe science cult discover a way to travel to an alternate universe?

Topics include: Crimbus gifts, planning our funerals, Scary German Lady, Philly Legends: The Bubble Fairy, Josh is home alone, Alien Alloys, BFS Road Trip, Corrections and Josh’s Chaos Dimension: Ong’s Hat, the Pine Barrens, and Joseph Matheny Characters: Sammy Squarespace (the CEO of Square Space)

On this edition of Parallax Views, a special, previously unpublished conversation with Joseph Matheny, a pivotal fixture of the bohemian tech counterculture during the early days of the internet, who may offer a key to understanding the wild social media phenomenon of QAnon and the general hijacking of the counterculture by right-wing and corporate forces. This should be of particular interest in light of the recent FBI memo pointing towards QAnon conspiracy theories presenting a potential...

What lies at the heart of Ong’s Hat? http://traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT5448932272.mp3 LINK TO DECODER RING PAGE Decoder Ring is a podcast about cracking cultural mysteries. Every month, host Willa Paskin, Slate’s TV critic, takes on a cultural question, object, idea, or habit and speaks with experts, historians and obsessives to try and figure out where it comes from, what it means and why it matters. On the early internet, a conspiracy theory known as Ong’s Hat flourished. It combined...

Here’s a show with Grimerica that I recently did with my old friend Denny Unger along with the hosts of Grimerica, D-Ron, and Grahambo. Show notes Interview Starts at 36:05 Denny Unger and Joseph Matheny join us for the last chat about Ong’s Hat, Alternative Reality games, Magick and the last couple decades of Conspiracy Culture. Denny is the CEO and Creative Directive of Cloudhead Games and used to run the website darkplanet in the early 90’s which was a big part of the Ong’s Hat...

Today’s short minisode is 3 of Madison’s favorite places of alleged Portals to other dimensions! Learn the basics about the Children of Woolpit, Marcahuasi, and Ong’s Hat, NJ. If you do or don’t like what you hear, let us know and if you want a full episode on this topic or anything discussed today, send us an email at sfo.podcast@gmail.com! Join us next week for another regular episode about New Jersey’s most infamous monster. We used some cool AI generated music from jukedeck. Make...

Both parts of a 2 part interview with Joseph Matheny on Steal This Show with host Jamie King Part 1- THE DIGITAL UNDERGROUND: WITH THE GREY LODGE’S JOSEPH MATHENY The Grey Lodge was an underground private torrent tracker used by millions of people per month in their quest to uncover the esoteric, strange and the downright weird. In this episode we hear from Joe Matheny, one of the founders of the site, about how it kicked off in the very early days of BitTorrent, online culture in the...

Joseph Matheny speaks to “Rupert” and “Abel” about their alleged upbringing in the Ong’s Hat Ashram and their witnessing of the alleged delta force raid. 1 https://archive.org/download/survivors-pt3/survivors-pt1.mp3 2 https://archive.org/download/survivors-pt3/survivors-pt2.mp3 3 https://archive.org/download/survivors-pt3/survivors-pt3.mp3

An interview with Joseph Matheny, recorded 08-07-03 from Radio Alchymy- KPFK – Los Angeles. Radio Alchymy https://archive.org/download/JMatheny080503AnInterviewWithJosephMathenyRecorded08-07-03FromRadioAlchymy-KPFK-/JMatheny08-05-03.mp3

A rebuttal on the site josephmatheny.com regarding a recent podcast and article that ran on Skeptoid, by Brian Dunning. An excerpt: There’s a podcast/website called The Skeptoid that is run by one Brian Dunning. The website seems to consist of a collection of transcriptions of the Skeptoid podcast, links to the podcast and a personal vita … Continue reading Repost: CORRECTIONS TO BRIAN DUNNING’S SKEPTOID PODCAST ABOUT ONG’S HAT →

A rebuttal on the site josephmatheny.com regarding a recent podcast and article that ran on Skeptoid, by Brian Dunning. An excerpt: There’s a podcast/website called The Skeptoid that is run by one Brian Dunning. The website seems to consist of a collection of transcriptions of the Skeptoid podcast, links to the podcast and a personal vita … Continue reading Repost: CORRECTIONS TO BRIAN DUNNING’S SKEPTOID PODCAST ABOUT ONG’S HAT →

A rebuttal on the site josephmatheny.com regarding a recent podcast and article that ran on Skeptoid, by Brian Dunning. An excerpt: There’s a podcast/website called The Skeptoid that is run by one Brian Dunning. The website seems to consist of a collection of transcriptions of the Skeptoid podcast, links to the podcast and a personal vita … Continue reading Repost: CORRECTIONS TO BRIAN DUNNING’S SKEPTOID PODCAST ABOUT ONG’S HAT →

A rebuttal on the site josephmatheny.com regarding a recent podcast and article that ran on Skeptoid, by Brian Dunning. An excerpt: There’s a podcast/website called The Skeptoid that is run by one Brian Dunning. The website seems to consist of a collection of transcriptions of the Skeptoid podcast, links to the podcast and a personal vita … Continue reading Repost: CORRECTIONS TO BRIAN DUNNING’S SKEPTOID PODCAST ABOUT ONG’S HAT →