bought over 200 acres of forested land and set up an ashram. This ashram was built for seekers of spirituality, politics, tantra, and psychopharmacology. The ashram was a place for Princeton physicists, among other accredited scientists, to perform experiments involving interdimensional travel. It was rumored that they were trying to train the human mind to manipulate quantum physics and reality itself. A device called The Egg was developed in the late 1980s by these scientists and physicists. This device was created as a variation of a sensory deprivation chamber, and it was used to help them determine when a wave becomes a particle. However, during a test one day, something unexpected happened: it disappeared. A young man who was inside the Egg when it disappeared explained that in the seven minutes the Egg was gone, he had traveled to another alternate dimension of the Earth. This other Earth was exactly the same as our Earth, however, it did not contain human life. Throughout the years, they continued their experiments. However, when military efforts threatened the research being done by these physicists and scientists, they had to move their site somewhere else. Piece by piece, they moved their ashram to the other Earth. They left behind only the house where the gateway between worlds is held. The only time the people who live in the ashram return is when they need to restock supplies. See also Creepypasta The Blair Witch Project Church of the SubGenius lonelygirl15 Fakelore SCP Foundation The Slender Man Notes Further reading External links Ong's Hat: The Beginning, a range of materials to download including the original book as well as graphic novels and CDs. Gizmodo- Ong's Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real Slate- Decoder Ring: The Incunabula Papers Slate podcast feature about the origins of the Ong's Hat Project The Surprising Online Life of Legends GAMES™ INVESTIGATES ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES AND WHAT THE FUTURE HAS IN STORE FOR THE CURIOUS EXPERIMENT An interview with John Tukey at Princeton University on 11 April 1984 Includes references to an earlier Ong's Hat story Transmedia storytelling Alternate reality games Internet hoaxes