Originally heard on Radiotopia's Showcase, The Polybius Conspiracy tells the story of a mysterious arcade game from the '80s whose alleged existence in the Pacific Northwest is fueled by a blending of fact and fiction.
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A message from the makers of The Polybius Conspiracy... BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds host The Incident at Ong's Hat, a new audio drama created from the creators of The Polybius Conspiracy and Passenger List. Our final episode airs live next Friday (2/24) on Radio 4, but you can download the entire series now by going to the BBC Sounds' Limelight feed…
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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 schoolteacher 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 ex…
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Episode Seven: The Final Level
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Fact, fabrication, history and hoax converge as the search for Marc comes full circle.Door The Digital Campfire
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Questions about Bobby result in a surprising lead, as Rubin comes to believe he's cracked the code on Polybius.Door The Digital Campfire
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Episode Five: The Seller
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New clues about the whereabouts of Rubin's missing partner shed light on secrets Bobby might prefer stay hidden. The team looks into how one might go about vetting the authenticity of a Polybius cabinet.Door The Digital Campfire
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Episode Four: The Rewind
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Sometimes journalists pursue a mystery; other times, it pursues them. An unexpected phone call from Naomi Halbrook leads to more revelations, while a competing documentary project about Polybius leads to conflict.Door The Digital Campfire
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Episode Three: The Cassette
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The search for answers leads the team to a retired journalist with a bizarre connection to Coin Kingdom, and unsettling allegations of abuse at an international youth academy.Door The Digital Campfire
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Episode Two: The Missing
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As a man comes forward to potentially corroborate Bobby's story, the path forward plunges into the darkness of another Oregonian legend: the infamous Shanghai Tunnels.Door The Digital Campfire
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An investigation into the origins of the Polybius legend leads to Bobby, who claims the game was responsible for his abduction as a teenager. In the thirty-five years since, Bobby has remained steadfast with his story, going so far as to organize a for-profit walking tour while obsessively searching for the one person he believes could corroborate …
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The Polybius Conspiracy is a seven-part series, originally heard on Radiotopia's Showcase in 2017, which tells the complex story of two men united by a decades-old urban legend. Polybius, a mysterious arcade game from the '80s whose alleged existence in the Pacific Northwest is fueled by myth and an obsessive online fan base, and which may have fac…
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