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Radiotopia Presents: Red for Revolution

Introducing The Incident at Ong's Hat

Radiotopia Presents: Red for Revolution

Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Fiction

4.4989 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Ong’s Hat is rumored to have once been the site of a gateway to another dimension. After meeting on a forum devoted to the urban legend, yoga instructor Sarah Larsen, and academic Charlie Brill, go on a road trip to the New Jersey Pine Barrens where a group of renegade Princeton professors had once conducted quantum physics and chaos theory experiments to discover a new theory for dimensional travel. When Sarah disappears, Charlie finds himself at the center of a mystery.

Corey Brill (The Walking Dead) stars in this docu-thriller for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds from the makers of The Polybius Conspiracy and Passenger List.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A new podcast from the creators of Passenger List and the Polybius Conspiracy.

0:05.0

I am posting this message and can't believe it's come to this, but I'm posting it in case something happens to me.

0:11.0

On September 25th, Sarah Larson was officially acknowledged by the

0:15.5

Albany Police Department as a missing person. What was initially believed to be

0:20.4

a routine case quickly yielded, if not unbelievable accounts of what may have led to her disappearance.

0:27.0

Her way in to this, these crazy ideas and theories being put out there was through meditation.

0:35.0

Serra was a prominent figure in an online community devoted to the urban legend

0:40.0

Ong's hat, a forgotten ghost town and the Pine Barons of New Jersey, where a group of scientists

0:46.0

are rumored to have opened a gateway to another dimension, and the secret documents they

0:50.5

left behind, purporting to train others and how to follow them to other worlds.

0:57.0

The emotion behind these stories were so tangible, there was this feeling that people were having experiences that

1:04.0

defied any sort of rational explanation.

1:07.2

And now there's this real life tragedy that sort of overshadowed everything.

1:11.6

Sarah left a scant trail of evidence in her wake. everything. the people who knew her best and the theories of what happened to her, some tragic, others remarkable.

1:28.0

One in one still equals two.

1:30.7

You have one burglary and now you have one missing person.

1:34.0

In what was taken from her house, these books,

1:37.0

quantum mysticism and urban legends,

1:40.0

I just thought something was off.

1:42.0

Is hers the story of a crime of passion?

1:44.7

I became enamored, I guess.

1:46.2

Smitten.

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