An Interdimensional Traveling Hat?
Cracking the EGG
Hello Fellow Conspirators!
Inter-dimensional travel? Government attacks? EGGS?! All of this and more today - let’s dive in.
“You would not be reading this article…
If you had not already penetrated half-way to the ICS (Institute of Chaos Studies.)”
This is the opening line of Ong’s Hat: Gateway to the Dimensions, a brochure for the Institute of Chaos Studies and Moorish Science Ashram. The goal of the institute, which fortunately (unfortunately?) no longer exists, was “the enhancement of consciousness and consequent enlargement of mental, emotional and psychic activities.”
Wondering what the heck’s going on? Me, too. Let’s keep going.
May your hats fly as high as your dreams (Michael Scott)
The quick & easy legend of Ong’s hat is this: rich dude (Jacob Ong) tosses his fine silk hat into the air due to frustration with a lover. Who hasn’t, am I right? However, Ong is never able to recover his hat.
Maybe it got caught too high in a tree. Maybe Ong was lazy. Or maybe… it traveled to another dimension.
Nevertheless, in the wilds of New Jersey, the town of Ong’s Hat was formed. It was founded in 1778 but by 1936, it had basically ceased to exist...
Okay, enough with the ellipses…
Here’s the good stuff: Frank & Althea Dobbs, twins, settled in Ong’s Hat after leaving Princeton, where they had submitted their PhD on a topic called “cognitive chaos.” Joined by a nearby mystic named Wali Fard and a growing group of followers, the gang merged pursuits, combining physics, meditation, alchemy, etc. to “manipulate the quantum underpinnings of reality itself.”
After years of work and many failed experiments, they finally developed “The EGG” (followers of their work dubbed themselves ‘eggheads’.) The EGG was a pod and during testing of its 4th variation, it disappeared. Then reappeared. And the young man who had been inside claimed he had traveled to another dimension.
Considering the disappearance of not only Ong’s actual hat but also the town that once existed, the area had already been rumored to have “weak” barriers between dimensions. Due to the EGG and its continued experiment, further rifts were created, and a permanent portal opened. They named this portal “The Gate.”
Unfortunately, a nuclear “accident” at a nearby military base both drew attention from authorities and threatened the ICS group with radiation poisoning. According to believers, one by one, the group used their newfound technology to escape to another dimension, leaving only a single structure to designate the Gate, for those who might want to follow.
Stranger things?
The truth of the matter may well be resolved with a Mr. Joseph Matheny. Matheny picked up on the fledgling pieces of story surrounding Ong’s Hat and bolstered it, creating false interviews with residents, connecting with actual physicists to solidify his ‘science’ and then, dangerously, linking up with hardcore conspiratoralists.
This made things a tad murky, forever blurring fact and fiction surrounding the tale. Even after Matheny admitted what he was doing, certain individuals decided “it doesn’t really matter if it’s a game or not” and many followers have refused to believe any of the story was a hoax.
“You have been searching for us without knowing it.”
- The brochure’s prophetic claim
Undecided about the truth for this one? If you’re feeling bold, here are some further insights into this story.
Related resources:
The book by the man himself Joseph Matheny
The full story
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