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Tour guides explain the havoc to its architecture as caused by powerful vortex forces. The wood two-room cabin is twisted, its beams and floor tilted. Today, that's where visitors see a slanted shack (a structure endemic to locales where gravity has gone haywire). Prather claimed to have detected magnetic anomalies during his property survey - a perturbed 150 ft. Earlier, he'd visited the Oregon Vortex - coincidence perhaps, or catalyst for the attraction he opened in his own hometown in 1941. The spot's "discoverer," George Prather, sensed more than just unexplained forces at work in 1940, on the three acres he bought from Leighton Newcomb.
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But as we've pointed out before, who really enjoys a road trip with a skeptic? Skeptics snort derisively that it's all muddled magical thinking and illusion. Of all the gravitational vortices we've visited, the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot provides the most atmospheric beginning to a journey of suspended disbelief.Ī mystery spot is a type of tourist attraction where the forces of nature are claimed to be scrambled - a gravitational vortex causes water to run uphill, compasses to misbehave, and objects and people to change size. Just minutes from Pacific beaches, along a drive curving into the Santa Cruz Mountains, billboard signs warn of imminent discombobulation at the "Mystery Spot." The narrow entrance road is darkly canopied by coast redwoods, an eerie fairy tale forest. Mystery Spot: regarded with wonder and wariness.