The Incident at Ong's Hat: 1. The Incunabula Papers
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Larsen, a yoga instructor, and her friend Charlie Brill went in search of Ong’s Hat, a fabled gateway to another dimension. Now Sarah is missing, and maybe this urban legend isn’t a legend at all…
Cast: Charlie - Corey Brill Sarah - Avital Ash Rodney Ascher - Himself Det. Stecco - James Bacon Casey - Hayley Taylor Ringo - Benjamin Williams Kit - Randall Keller Denny Unger - Himself Joseph Matheny - Himself Newscasters: Elizabeth Saydah, Dean Wendt
Created and Produced by Jon Frechette and Todd Luoto Inspired by Ong’s Hat: The Beginning by Joseph Matheny Music by Blue Dot Sessions, Jon Frechette, Chris Zabriskie, Anthéne, Alessandro Barbanera, Blanket Swimming, Macrogramma (under Creative Commons) Editing and Sound Design - Jon Frechette Additional Editing - Brandon Kotfila and Greg Myers Special Thanks - Ben Fineman
Written and Directed by Jon Frechette Executive Producer - John Scott Dryden
“Ong’s Hat Survivors Interview” courtesy of Joseph Matheny Visit thegardenofforkedpaths.com and josephmatheny.com
A Goldhawk production for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.2 | Two nights ago, I came home from the supermarket and someone had broken into my house. |
| 0:20.8 | She was just a thumbnail on the web the first time I saw her. |
| 0:25.1 | Her name was Sarah, but online she went by Miss Meditation. |
| 0:30.2 | There's been a lot of conversation and fear-mongering around people that are out to get us. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm not hosting this to encourage conspiracy theory discussion. |
| 0:40.3 | I want to make that totally clear. One or some or several of you from this community are coming after me. |
| 0:47.8 | This is starting here. |
| 0:51.1 | Sarah led virtual meditation sessions on a website called The Garden of Forked Paths, |
| 0:57.7 | a kind of proto-reddit where people came to learn about and share experiences and theories |
| 1:03.2 | on everything from past lives to alternate dimensions, the latter of which Sarah claimed |
| 1:09.7 | she could train meditators to travel to. |
| 1:13.6 | Now, as unusual as that might sound, it was really just the tip of the iceberg, because what |
| 1:19.6 | Sarah had gotten herself mixed up in proved to be far stranger than just some mystical |
| 1:24.5 | hockham on a forum. For reasons I eventually came to understand, |
| 1:30.4 | the community she found on the forked paths turned against her. |
| 1:34.7 | I know some of you have my personal information, |
| 1:38.2 | and I'm pleading. |
| 1:39.9 | If any of you are talking to anybody on here |
| 1:42.4 | and they're saying things about me, |
| 1:45.5 | my DMs are open. |
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