Why Did the Scientists in This Remote Cabin Disappear?

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Writing: David Elliott
Editing: Alex Brown

[doit]

Two twins and an eccentric grifter living in a house in the woods with a secret lab containing a gateway to another dimension? This is literally the plot of Gravity Falls

[RelativelyBest]

*Scientist:* So you're telling me that on this alternate Earth you visited, there are no people at all?
*Test Subject:* Right.
*Scientist:* And you were able to come to this conclusion just from walking around in a forest for seven minutes?
*Test Subject:* Yes.
*Scientist:* Seems legit.

[homehandywife]

I'm a born and raised NJ resident and I remember the "Ong's Hat" thing getting started as a rumor when I attended college in Princeton.
As layer on layer of "facts" started piling up it actually became a topic in my Psychology class related to socialized responses.
The "New Age" movement crashed into the "Satanic Panic" of the 80s just as alien movies (close encounters, ET, Cocoon, Aliens, Predator, Terminator etc) were hitting the big screen, and then the Three Mile Island nuclear plant meltdown.
And of course the ever present NJ criptids of the Jersey Devil, Big Foot, Mothman, and so on.
Choose your own adventure books and Dungeons and Dragons games became text versions of Computer games that sprung up on the monochrome screens of TSR 80s and first generation Apple computers (on floppy disks) just hitting the market. Then AOL and Web Crawler were born.
Those all merged with the ever present right of passage in NJ of the road trip. You know, like you do if you are a bored teen with no money, a friend with a car and live in NJ.
And the Ong's hat "Urban Legend" was an original hoax to go viral. Half old school paper and half electronic. Genius, for the times.
The entire Weird New Jersey franchise was born of the NJ teen need to drive somewhere mysterious or dangerous and try to make it back alive.
Lol - and we were those teens. And most of us have ghost hunting, cryptid or mysterious content channels today thanks to people like the creators of Ong's Hat. 🤣

[Fairly-odd-kel]

"A strutting peacock of a man" is now my favorite description of someone ever

[spasticcreationist]

You know the best aspect of this channel, he doesnt have a single ‘part 2’ of any video, each one has its own topic

[coyoteartist]

Ong's Hat, I think is one of the best collaborative fiction stories of the internet age. The fact that it holds up in peoples minds to this day is a testament to that.

[dylanross]

After living in New Jersey I can understand why people would be willing to travel across dimensions to escape New Jersey

[ashscott]

Man, the old school conspiracy theories are SOOO much more fun than modern ones

[Aramis]

Just the way you said, "EGG SHAPED TARDISES AND OTHER WEIRD SH*T!" cracked me up!

[minkminky]

Why is everyone so psyched to go into another dimension !? Have we learned nothing from The Twlight Zone? ?

[petemartin]

I prefer the homer Simpson statement" I reject your reality and substitute it with one of my own making".

[vicarious]

Although Ongs hat it an actual place in the pine barrens, the story he speaks of is from a science fiction novel called Ongs Hat. Being from south jersey and having spent many days hiking and camping in the pines, I've read the book.

[fallinshort]

This channel should have suspenders and shirt merch, So we can all have the maximum intelligence perk from our clothing

[sandyj]

You are one of the best story tellers in this dimension :)

[nangma]

I go through periods of really bad insomnia and I'm so glad to have your channel to listen to, it makes the hours go by a lot quicker. Thank you. ❤️🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👵

[finster]

I grew up in the New Jersey Pine Barrens (until I was 12) and remember Ong's Hat as a kid. Obviously not the crazy hoax part... it was a real place with a couple houses near 4-mile circle that had a little vegetable stand and ice cream stand off the highway. My friends and I would ride our bikes there in the 70s and early 80s (it eventually had a fullsize restaurant there). In the early 2000s when I lived on the West Coast, I was on a ghost town kick and looked up Ong's Hat on the interwebs to see if it was counting as a ghost town... couldn't believe how much came up! Oh and the story about Ong was that he declared that he would build his house on the spot his hat lands. When he tossed his hat, it got stuck in a branch.

[sandmanbub]

There's a large group of people who'd rather believe the illusions over reality and once they've decided something's true, there's almost nothing that can be done to convince them otherwise. This is a very strange phenomenon and probably has been studied extensively and taken advantage of by the few who understand and know how to use it to their advantage.

[JoshsTechWorkshop]

2:25
For anyone curious; those spiral images on the left of the pamphlet are from something called the Mandelbrot Set.
Look it up; it's a very fascinating bit of mathematics.

[ofskittlez]

You know, I always maintained a small amount of hope that John Titor was a real time traveler. But here's the thing: never once did he say, "Oh and by the way, there's a huge giant pandemic in 2020."

[Oddie]

The entire village was turned into Titans by Zeke's spinal fluid, that's why they disappeared