Disrupt Your Reality at WeirdFest 2026!

Hear about us on 99.5 The Wave? Get your TICKET TO ADVENTURE at WeirdFest!

The $10 Reality Disengagement Manual (RDM) is your official Alternate Reality Game (ARG) zine and ticket to WeirdQuest at the fest, but supplies are limited! No more will be produced. Ever. When they’re gone, they’re gone!

Pre-orders are now closed; however, we will have a limited supply of RDMs for sale on site at WeirdFest in our Planck Length Publishing booth in the Skull-astic Book Fair and at the central WeirdFest Help Desk while supplies last.

  • September 19, 2026, 5 – 10 PM

  • Free to explore, browse local authors, and witness the Riftwear Runway!

  • Upgrade (and support local lit) with the $10 RDM – Your Official ARG Access Ticket – to unlock live character quests, hidden clues, and alien mini-games.

Experience TIME TRAVEL, FLYING SAUCER TRAINING, and SO MUCH MORE! Strut your stuff on the RIFTWEAR RUNWAY! Take a SELFIE WITH SASQUATCH! Pitch a business idea to a GORILLA!Experience TIME TRAVEL, FLYING SAUCER TRAINING, and SO MUCH MORE! Strut your stuff on the RIFTWEAR RUNWAY! Take a SELFIE WITH SASQUATCH! Pitch a business idea to a GORILLA!

Rift Activation Zones

For one night only, Professor Hacker’s Lost Treasure Golf, the familiar Salter Path amusement park, becomes a full-fledged alternate reality game (ARG) where WeirdQuesters with our official RDMs can play through Lost Treasure’s previously unexplored Rift Activation Zones.

Encounter aliens, cryptids, and secret missions sponsored by our Big Time Weirdo Sponsors!

Flight  Permit

Avoid the space squid!

Riftwear Runway

Strut your strange style!

Time Travel

See the future!

Big Time Weirdo Sponsors

How It Works

Step 1 

Come to Lost Treasure Golf in Salter path ready for adventure and a strut on the Riftwear Runway on Saturday, September 19, from 5-10PM!

Step 2

Purchase your $10 Reality Disengagement Manual (RDM) from the Planck Length Publishing booth in the Skull-astic Book Fair or at the official WeirdFest Information desk while supplies last.

Step 3

Explore rift activation zones (RAZs), collect quest evidence in your manual, help pen a community poem, take a selfie with Sasquatch, parlay with picturesque pirates, etc.

Step 4

Leave weirder than you arrived. Like, significantly weirder.

Interdimensional Fine Print

*The Trans-Dimensional Registrar of the Carteret Cluster Slipstream (TRICCS) is the bureaucratic body responsible for documenting, monitoring, and occasionally authorizing limited public engagement with layered realities in and around the Carteret Cluster of the multiverse.

WeirdFest has been sanctioned as a one-time, controlled access event due to a rare confluence of dimensional overlap across Base Dimension CC-000-975-976, with partial bleed-throughs from the Outer Banks Subreality Bubble and other adjacent anomalies.

Engagement with the slipstream is time-bound. After September 19, 2026, all cross-dimensional access points are expected to reseal until further notice.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM PLP’S MANUFACTURING DIVISION

Pre-Order Window Now Closed – Pick Up Your $10 Copy While Supplies Last At WeirdFest

Due to supply chain instability across several timelines, please note that production quantities for the Official Reality Disengagement Manual (RDM) are limited.

Components currently impacted include:

  • SC-1 VANTA-LITE™: A proprietary non-reflective substrate used in the manufacture of the TRICCS-issued Specul8™ Quantum-Vision Glasses.

  • Temporal Mylar: Used in the binding to allow time-anchored page flipping.

  • Null-Ink 404™: Ink that only reveals its contents under specific dimensional frequencies.

  • Stabilite® Sheathing Threads: Required for the Interdimensional Containment Sheaths to prevent spontaneous phase leakage.

Our pre-order window is now closed. A limited supply of fully authorized, dimensionally stable manuals will be available for purchase at WeirdFest.

The Anthology: Why We’re Doing This

WeirdFest is a fundraiser for Weird Tales from Waves End Retreat, an upcoming anthology of Weird Lit by various authors, inspired by the beachside trailer estates of the Crystal Coast, edited by Planck Length Publishing.

By participating in WeirdFest, you help us publish stories that bring our coast’s folklore, monsters, quantum anomalies, and haunted histories to life.

Be Part of the Weird

Help us make reality a little more interesting. Partner with WeirdFest and show your support for local art, storytelling, and community imagination.

Bring your books, art, curious creations (or even your freaky food truck) and share your weirdest work with a crowd hungry for the extraordinary.

Step behind the scenes (or into another dimension) as an official TRICCS agent and help craft an unforgettable day of mysteries, monsters, and multiversal mayhem.

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