Multidisciplinary Artist | Liminal Fiction | Alternate Reality Games
Ever start telling a story as a joke and it gets out of hand? People believe it no matter how much you swear you made it up and try to … Continue reading Ong’s Hat: Eggheads, Gov’t Shills, & The Internet’s First Hoax | 323
The last of the raw interviews From the Substack Today’s raw recordings are the final two for the Behind the Scenes series. This is a single file containing Denny Unger, … Continue reading Behind the Scenes of the Incident at Ong’s Hat Episode 4
Warning, large download From the Substack Here is a 5.5-hour collection of recordings I did in preparation for the BBC podcast series The Incident at Ong’s Hat. This is part … Continue reading The Incident at Ong’s Hat: Behind the Scenes- Episode 3
LINK TO ORIGINAL POST In the 1980s, a writer and transmedia artist called Joseph Wayne Matheny, who was born on Christmas Eve in the early sixties, wrote The Incunabula Papers, … Continue reading The Ghost Of Ong’s Hat by Nigel Roth
Someone sent this to me recently. It’s an interview Don Webb did with me in 1994 for the legendary Fringeware Review. I had almost forgotten about this. After reading this … Continue reading Fringeware Review Interview with Joseph Matheny
Is BTS an ARG? (and other not so pressing questions) From the Substack Today is the day that the broadcast of the series, The Incident at Ong’s Hat, on BBC … Continue reading Launch Day For “The Incident at Ongs Hat” and Episode 2 of “Behind the Scenes”
Ong’s Hat: The Beginning (Authorized Version) Reissued, authorized, and final version, 2021. Available as Kindle, Print, and Audiobook Free versions on Archive.org and Lib-Gen ONG’S HAT FAQ REVIEWS “…a bizarre … Continue reading Ong’s Hat: The Beginning (Authorized Version)
The Liminal Cycle, an interdisciplinary media experience. It is presented in three acts across multiple mediums. Part 1 Liminal: By Cameron A novella presented as a movie treatment for a … Continue reading The Liminal Cycle (A Trilogy) by Joseph Matheny
The Origin Story of Joseph Matheny and the Ong’s Hat ARG I sat down with Jerry Gaura of TOOWi Arts to discuss the origins of me as an artist and … Continue reading Information Golem: New Mini-Series from TOOWi Arts
Behind the Scenes Episode 1– David Metcalfe From the Substack A new series will premier on BBC 4 Radio Limelight on air and then as a podcast after every Friday … Continue reading Announcing the Incident at Ong’s Hat & Behind the Scenes Episode 1
As is my custom, after a year of making Xen: The Zen of the Other audio drama commercially available, I am releasing the entire bundle for free on Archive.org and … Continue reading Xen The Zen Of The Other – The Audio Drama, Free Version
Tonight we just have some things to discuss about upcoming investigations, and look back on what we are truly grateful for. Especially ‘You’ our viewers. Added to this is some … Continue reading ONG’S HAT SQUATCH TALKS PODCAST S3 / EP43
Alternate Reality Games have existed for far longer than most people realize, I just wanted to talk about some of the first ones. (the outro has all the music used … Continue reading The Birth of Alternate Reality Games
Lots of people wholeheartedly believed Titor while other people obsessed over errors and inconsistencies, becoming online detectives trying to uncover his truth.A multimedia artist said that the John Tritor story … Continue reading SPLINTERED STATES I ‘traveled back in time from 2036’ – the US capital will change after America breaks into 5 during a second civil war
Slide 8 Located in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Ong’s Hat was listed as a town on early maps of the area. It may have been the site of a … Continue reading Lifehacker-11 Famous Places That Don’t Really Exist: Ong’s Hat
Ong’s Hat and Weaponized ARG’s: A Conversation w Joseph Matheny, Ong’s Hat Creator & Transmedia Artist | RSS.com The Prop Anon Podcast explores the life and work of American novelist, … Continue reading S01 E01 – Ong’s Hat and Weaponized ARG’s: A Conversation w Joseph Matheny, Ong’s Hat Creator & Transmedia Artist
I had a wonderful conversation with Gabriela L. Laracca of Asbury Park Press which was a rather atypical interview about Ong’s Hat because it focused on one of my passions, … Continue reading Take these eerie, haunted hikes in the Pine Barrens, Jersey Shore
In this week’s Episode of The Subliminal Deception Podcast, Cody and Phil discuss what has been called the Internets first Viral Creepy Pasta, the legend of Interdimensional Travelers previously based … Continue reading Subliminal Deception: A Conspiracy Theory Podcast- Ep 173: Ong’s Hat and the Birth of Creepy Pasta’s
Go to download We discuss an early example of the Alternative Reality Game genre of multimedia participatory “fiction.” Page for show: https://www.ivoox.com/en/ong-s-hat-alternative-reality-games-are-not-games-audios-mp3_rf_93239217_1.html The Long Seventies Podcast is an in-depth historical … Continue reading Ong’s Hat: Alternative Reality Games Are Not Games
A rundown of the John Titor legend from one of my favorite Youtube Channels The Why Files. The part about yours truly starts at 23:42 or just watch the entire … Continue reading JOHN TITOR: Soldier from the Future | Can this time traveler save us from destruction? (The Matheny/Ongs Hat Connection)
New Jersey is one of the most historic states in the U.S.; because of this, it definitely has its fair share of abandoned and forgotten communities. The village known as … Continue reading Most People Have Forgotten About this Creepy Abandoned Town in New Jersey
Muchas teorías sugieren la existencia de realidades alternativas y que, en ocasiones, estas se conectan. En este punto, los viajes interdimensionales también son posibles a través de portales. Una de … Continue reading PORTAL EN ONG’S HAT: UN MISTERIOSO SITIO DE “VIAJES INTERDIMENSIONALES”
ONG’S HAT and the construction of a suspicious model readerJorge Flores [PDF] Abstract. In the late 1980s, an art collective led by writer Joseph Matheny created a multimedia narrative eventually … Continue reading Hortus Semioticus 9/2022 – 07 – Ong’s Hat
LP is in Aruba…so Joe Conte keeps his chair warm while KP tells Kahuna and Joe about the mysterious abandoned town of Ong’s Hat, NJ….ghost town, time portal…work of fiction…government … Continue reading Ong’s Hat: Abandoned Town or Time Portal?
Sometimes the fabric of our world thins out, and people slip through – either from another dimension or into one. So some people think, while others claim it happened to … Continue reading You Can Leave Your Hat On – Joseph Matheny, Ong’s Hat and Alternate Reality Games
Diversas teorías pretenden comprobar la idea de que existen numerosas realidades y dimensiones de forma paralela a la nuestra, y que de vez en cuando estas realidades se solapan. Aquí … Continue reading PORTAL EN ONG’S HAT HISTORIA REAL SOBRE VIAJES INTERDIMENSIONALES
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