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EarMobPodcast Ep. 27 I Read It On The Internet So It Must Be True w. Joseph Matheny

p. 27 I Read It On The Internet So It Must Be True w. Joseph Matheny. Joseph joins us to discuss Ong’s Hat, and how the Internet caused his social … Continue reading EarMobPodcast Ep. 27 I Read It On The Internet So It Must Be True w. Joseph Matheny

Ongs Hat Compleat – Official Soundtrack

LINK: https://polypores.bandcamp.com/album/... 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 … Continue reading Ongs Hat Compleat – Official Soundtrack

Ong’s Hat: Compleat

Where to get it PDF only on Google Reviews Joseph Matheny’s Ong’s Hat Compleat, a combined text and audio book was excellent, and I loved how he mixed the two … Continue reading Ong’s Hat: Compleat

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

Heute die Vollversion vom Interview mit Joseph Matheny. Wir reden über Ongs Hat, Lovecraft und das Nekronomikon, Wandern und andere spirituelle oder psychedelische Reisen, das Künstlerdasein, die App Randonautica und … Continue reading Interview mit Joseph Matheny – Ongs Hat, Nekronomikon, Randonautica, UAPs, KI, Dimensionen, Künstler

Keeping up to date

If you subscribe to this site via email or something like WP Reader, I wanted to let you know that I only update it with major announcements. Those would be … Continue reading Keeping up to date

This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell (Ong’s Hat History)

This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. LINK: https://www.audible.com/pd/This-Is-No... This Is Not a Game is the … Continue reading This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell (Ong’s Hat History)

The Mauve Zone #012 – The Great Media Brain Drain, Insight Roles, and Canadian Conspiracies

***Begin transmission Joseph Matheny, David Metcalfe, Willow Truman and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone. How idiots became ‘intellectuals’, The Queen of Canada’s Conspiracy scene, how to … Continue reading The Mauve Zone #012 – The Great Media Brain Drain, Insight Roles, and Canadian Conspiracies

This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell (Ong’s Hat History)

This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. LINK: https://www.audible.com/pd/This-Is-No... This Is Not a Game is the … Continue reading This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell (Ong’s Hat History)

A bibliographic archeology of game-like conspiracy narratives: examining the Ong’s Hat Incunabula catalog

James A. Hodges (School of Information, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA) Journal of Documentation ISSN: 0022-0418 Article publication date: 21 April 2025  Abstract Purpose This paper aims to reframe contemporary research on … Continue reading A bibliographic archeology of game-like conspiracy narratives: examining the Ong’s Hat Incunabula catalog

The Mysterious Egg in Ong’s Hat – The First ARG

Ong’s Hat is a real place.  But the stories about it aren’t.  That didn’t stop tales about a dimension hopping, scientific, transcendentalist, sadomasochistic cult from spreading across the early internet.  … Continue reading The Mysterious Egg in Ong’s Hat – The First ARG