Here's an article I found at
http://www.oregon-coastdirectory.com/ci ... vortex.htm
The House of Mystery
World Famous
Open to the Public Since 1930
THE FAMOUS CIRCULAR AREA WITH IT'S UNIQUE PHENOMENA
The OREGON VORTEX is a mysterious area in the southern part of the STATE OF OREGON that American Indians called "the forbidden ground." Strange things happen to you in that place. It can make you feel real peculiar.
The OREGON VORTEX, a spherical area encompassing about 3/4-acre, dates back before recorded history of the area. American indians avoided the area; so did birds and other wildlife.
In spite of rumored inexplicable occurances, the Grey Eagle Mining Co. built a gold assay office on the site in the 1890's. The area hasn't changes much, except for the boundry fence and the various platforms and tools installed to demonstrate the exceptional things that happen there. The old assay office is now known as the HOUSE OF MYSTERY.
When the mining company erected the building, it was plumb and level. Sometime in 1910, during a particularly heavy rainy season, the building rode a mudslide down the hill, coming to rest against the side of a maple tree. Which is where it still sits. No longer plumb or level, the house is awkwardly skewed. Feeling of uneasiness or disorientation increase inside the house.
The VORTEX opened as a tourist attraction around 1930, with guides explaining the unusual conditions as they escorted groups through the area. Visitors are still awed by the phenomena.
Take the "North-South perspective." The tour guide directs a group to two poles rising vertically from either side of a narrow wooden platform. Though the tour guide claims the poles are of the same length, the pole to the right (north) appears several inches shorter. The tour guide Guide measures a metal rod to show the group it's exactly 7 feet long. She holds the rod up against the right (north) pole. Same height. As the guide drags the rod across the platform (which she has already proven level with a carpenter's bubble level), the rod appears to lenghten until it seems to be the same height as the left (south) pole. The poles are of identical height, although the south one appears much taller.
Next, the guide asks two people to step onto the platform, stand facing each other at the poles for a moment, then exchange places. As the move twords each other, pass and continue to the opposite pole, they appear to either grow or shrink in height, depending on which way they are walking (north or south).
Scottish scientist John Lister visited the VORTEX area in 1913. After performing more than 14,000 experiments, Lister concluded the VORTEX acts like a giant refracting lens, bending the light in a circular, or vortical motion. He thought of the effect was an optical illusion. The VORTEX staff disagrees.
Use your camera. You can prove it's no illusion. Stand at one pole and take a picture of someone at the other pole. Then trade places and take a second photo from exactly the same distance. After developing your pictures, place the photos side by side and measure the height and shoulder width on both. In the photo taken at the south pole, the person will actually measure taller and broader in the shoulders. If it were an optical illusion and not a physical change, there would be no change on your photographs.
Next a visitor 5'8" tall stands in the center of the platform facing the group. The tour guide stands 5'10" tall. When the taller tour guide stands on the left (north) side of the visitor--they seem of a height shoulder to shoulder. The guide then moves to the right side (south) of the visitor. Though the visitor has not moved, the tour guide now towers over the visitor and has to reach up to touch the guides shoulder.
Albert Einstein developed the second theory about the VORTEX. He thought the phenomenon was more than just optical, that it was something we could also feel. Because the VORTEX actually expands and contracts as much as 19 inches several times daily, Einstein thought a persons molecular structure also expands or contracts as they walk through the area, keeping the same proportions as before.
Neither theory explains all the strange phenomena. Such as why anyone inside the VORTEX feels compelled to lean as much as 7 degrees twords north instead of standing straight up. Or why camera light meters tend to read darker inside the area.
Courtesy of:
http://www.oregon-coastdirectory.com/ci ... vortex.htm
I'll post more articles and links later
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here's another article I found at
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/SCIspots.html
Mysterious spots pockmark the tourist landscape, promising to show Nature and Physics gone berserk. Mystery Spots offer an amazingly similar menu of wall-walking, seat-balancing, body-shrinking and -growing tricks; most are placed suspiciously near interstate interchanges and bloated tourist meccas.
The drama of the unexplained is best conveyed by an old codger, wise to government coverups and the shifty vagaries of science. Listening to the ravings of the expert at the Mystery Spot Santa Cruz, CA, is half the fun. Unfortunately, many mystery spots fail this crucial test, employing 14-year-olds to convince skeptical summer visitors of their spot's veracity. "Scientists think it's caused by the 'igmmeous' rock in the hill, I think . . . " offered one bored, gum-clicking expert.
For our money, America's premier mystery spot is the Oregon Vortex near Gold Hill, OR, open to the public since 1930. Tennis balls really do seem to roll uphill here, brooms really do stand on end. After subjecting many spots to rigorous, very scientific tests, our Mystery Spot Test Kit TM indicates that the Oregon Vortex is the most disturbed.
What causes the mysterious goings-on here? No one knows. One theory is that a great beam of "high velocity soft electrons" exits the earth through the vortex. Another claims that a giant underground device produces the weird effects.
A broom stands on end at the Mystery Spot in Blowing Rock, NC.
And there's always a new theory on the gift shop shelves, the latest explaining how TIME speeds up and S-S-L-L-O-W-W-W-W-S-S-S down in a vortex, depending on where you stand and when. One man who apparently knew the secret of the Oregon Vortex -- John Litster -- studied its effects first-hand for more than forty years. He even corresponded with Einstein on the subject. What he uncovered no one will ever know, for he burned all his notes before his death.
"The world isn't yet ready for what goes on here," he warned.
(The Mystery Spot: 1953 Branciforte Drive, Santa Cruz, CA)
(The Oregon Vortex: 4303 Sardine Creek Rd., Gold Hill, OR)
Courtesy of
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/SCIspots.html
"The world isn't yet ready for what goes on here," he warned.
Wow thats scary. I think it might be one of them time-continumum vortex thingamajigs, that can take you back in time.
Here's some links
http://robbecher.www4.50megs.com/Oregonvortex.html
http://www.ontheroadwithdavid.com/On%20 ... ge0001.htm
http://students.washington.edu/beautron ... border.htm
http://www.tangledforest.com/states2/oregonx.html
Post any links you have!
Some things like rolling balls what looks like down when your really rolling it up. When you roll a ball down one plank it looks like its going down but because its on a slope the angle is really going up so the ball rolls what appears to up, defying gravity! Don't be fooled by that.
Check out the link in the second article, there's some pics there.
Growing and shrinking several inches from one spot. Two people about the same height standing at a "North pole" and a "South" pole look different heights. The person at the North pole is always taller, you can even measure it in a photo. I think you can do it with a ruler too, but it might grow with the person. Since everything grows proportionate you can't tell its happening.
I don't think aliens have landed or anything!
, never been there though