Recently, chaotic systems with hidden attractors and multistability have been of great interest in the field of chaos and nonlinear dynamics. Two special categories of systems with multistability are systems with extreme multistability and systems with megastability. In this paper, the simplest (yet) megastable chaotic oscillator is designed and introduced. Dynamical properties of this new system are completely investigated through tools like bifurcation diagram, Lyapunov exponents, and basin of attraction. It is shown that between its countable infinite coexisting attractors, only one is self-excited and the rest are hidden.

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