@hh_matt

Chronologically: Stockboy to server to business owner to poker player to cabbie to social worker to Pulitzer finalist & award-winning journo.

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Joined April 2012
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New Hampshire's hottest town is Grafton. This place has everything: survivalists, bottle rockets, llamas fighting bears, a mail order bride business owner, greazzing. Greazzing? It's that thing when you guzzle old french fry grease. #Stefon @atavistmag bit.ly/2LJZbZb

Barbearians at the Gate - The Atavist Magazine

A journey through a quixotic New Hampshire town teeming with libertarians, fake news, guns, and—possibly—furry invaders.

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Scanning reviews of my book (don't judge me) and found a gem: "... you will find fun and infuriating profiles of modern alternative medicine peddlers written by a man with an irrational hatred for the film The Polar Express." This guy really gets me. amazon.com/If-Sounds-Like-Qu…

If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

It's no secret that American health care has become too costly and politicized to help everyone. So where do you turn if you can't afford doctors, or don't trust them? In this book, Matthew Hongolt...

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"Hongoltz-Hetling reports on the misadventures of the KRI with affable indulgence, like a favorite uncle playing make-believe with his nephews and nieces.[Then] a tarot-card reader who’d visited the KRI brutally tortures, rapes, and murders a UNH college student." 1/
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My full review of Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's Ghost Lab: 2/2 thegospelcoalition.org/revie…

Don’t Look for Bigfoot When You Need the Church

‘The Ghost Lab’ can help church leaders understand how to meet real spiritual needs in in an uncertain, confusing, and demon-haunted world.

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How about just the mean tweet?
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@townhallcom22 Aug 2024
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: "I don’t know about you, but I could go for a mean tweet and $2 gas right now."
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I've enjoyed @FrankBruni's annual list of some of the best sentences of the year. So you can imagine how excited I was this year to learn that my sentence is on it! nytimes.com/2025/12/29/opini… Such an honor.

Opinion | The Best Sentences of 2025 (Gift Article)

Savor the words that made sense of our world.

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Hey friends! I'll be in Concord, NH in a couple of weeks, if anyone wants to come say hi.
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Jose Mansilla@antroperplejo14 Sep 2025
Replying to @Capitan_Swing
Yo creo entre las mejores cosas que habéis publicado para entender la complejidad de lo que significa los USA esté libro de @hh_matt
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Replying to @listenherefat @youwouldntpost
A /fabulous/ read if you haven't already consumed: hachettebookgroup.com/titles…

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear

How the tiny town of Grafton, NH, became a radical experiment in small government--until the bear attacks started

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Honored to be a part of @MorePerfectUS and their unveiling of the political operation that hacked the wellness industry to wreck the left and tank government. One well worth watching. youtube.com/watch?v=CSVL8Vn7…

What the Antivax Movement Doesn’t Want You To Know

Make America Healthy Again and the wellness-to-woo pipeline may see...

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More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS4 Aug 2025
NEW: To show how easy it is to shill supplements, we made our own. Really. Introducing Deep State Detox, a freedom-loving powder designed for cellular rejuvenation in a world of heavy metals, seed oils, and wifi signals. Does it work? Legally, it doesn't have to.
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Hear me talk medical freedom with Dr. Andrew Wilmer: youtube.com/watch?v=F1cYKA-a…

"If it Sounds Like a Quack"-new book by journalist Matt Holgotz-Het...

Many thanks to Matt Holgotz-Hetling for joining me on this episode ...

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An amazing review. This guy really gets me.
Nemo C. Mörck@n_morck31 Jul 2025
Prof. Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl has kindly reviewed The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science, by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, for the @SPR1882 website: spr.ac.uk/TheGhostLab
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Center for Inquiry
@center4inquiry23 Jul 2025
Ghost hunters. Bigfoot bros. UFO grifters. @PulitzerPrizes finalist @hh_matt joins us live to explain how paranormal belief is evolving into a full-on worldview. 📅 July 24 | 7PM ET 🎟 Free @SkeptInquirer Presents stream, reg req’d: ow.ly/nlhf50WtJ8Q

The Ghost Lab | Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling | Skeptical Inquirer Presents

Science has advanced enormously in the past 500 years, guided by experimental tests of theory and practice.  In that same time, science teaching and education—guided primarily by tradition and...

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Hey, New England peeps: On Sunday at 2 p.m., I'll be speaking about ghosts, aliens, and the potential collapse of our democratic experiment at the Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH. Would love to meet you there. waterstreetbooks.com/event/2…
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@center4inquiry18 Jul 2025
Alien whisperers. Mediums w/ merch. When ghost hunters have more cultural capital than scientists, we’re in trouble. Investigative journalist @hh_matt joins @SkeptInquirer 7/24 to explain how paranormal peddlers are ruining science + what to do about it: ow.ly/O3yx50WrARs

The Ghost Lab | Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling | Skeptical Inquirer Presents

Science has advanced enormously in the past 500 years, guided by experimental tests of theory and practice.  In that same time, science teaching and education—guided primarily by tradition and...

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Skeptical Inquirer@SkeptInquirer17 Jul 2025
Don't forget to register for our next FREE Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling on July 24. skepticalinquirer.org/video/…

The Ghost Lab | Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling | Skeptical Inquirer Presents

Science has advanced enormously in the past 500 years, guided by experimental tests of theory and practice.  In that same time, science teaching and education—guided primarily by tradition and...

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Matt HongoltzHetling@hh_matt13 Jul 2025
Hey Friends! Please join me Thursday at this gem of an independent NH bookstore. I'll tell you why that guy you make fun of for hunting Bigfoot is actually the key to saving (or is it now restoring?) science and democracy.
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We speak with @hh_matt about the war inside MAGA over the failure to release the Epstein files as promised and try to understand why Trumps base is bothered by not providing the "smoking gun" that proves the "Deep State" is run by a cabal of pedophiles. soundcloud.com/user-83044263…

The War Inside MAGA Over Not Releasing the Epstein Files

July 15, 2025 - Matthew Hongoltz-Hettling backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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PublicAffairs@public_affairs15 Jul 2025
The Gospel Coalition (@TGC) calls Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's (@hh_matt) THE GHOST LAB "an alternately fascinating and disturbing portrait" on the relationship between conspiracy theorists and science. Check out the full review → bit.ly/4kxDDOK
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Hey Friends! Please join me Thursday at this gem of an independent NH bookstore. I'll tell you why that guy you make fun of for hunting Bigfoot is actually the key to saving (or is it now restoring?) science and democracy.
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