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Whatever these unidentified effects may be, they are believed not to be a serious threat to those searching for fun and excitement.” Good thing, too. We have noticed that the highly educated folks do ask more questions than the lesser educated ones do. Whoever wrote the description clearly had a great time doing it, almost daring city folk to come by and just have a good time: “This MYSTERY HOLE thing seems to affect different people in different ways depending on whether they cling to the new style education or stray to the plain old C.H.S. Very often keys get locked in the cars because the occupants are too anxious to see the MYSTERY HOLE.”

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While other mystery spots acknowledge they’re not really pulling the wool over anyone’s eyes, the quaint Mystery Hole of Ansted-which features a gorilla statue on its roof, a Volkswagen Beetle sticking out of a wall, and a series of slanted underground rooms-admirably embraces its tourist trap roots and has no qualms building up the fantastic qualities of its attraction: “One lady said it changed her husband from an old grouch to a nice sweet person, and some have even complained that the admission price is too low and insisted on giving a tip … have gone away so bewildered that they've headed in the wrong direction and became lost.

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Visual cues counter to reality often help convince and disorient, so trees and windows are placed on a slant, and the supposed phenomena is demonstrated by balls rolling up the floor and chairs staying put halfway up a wall. Mystery houses are essentially rooms or houses built on slants of at least 20 degrees, engineered so that a person standing in the space orients themselves to the slanted room-and not to ground.

One of the most famous mystery spots in the United States-and one of the best at selling their brand-this mystery spot found in the redwood forests outside Santa Cruz boasts a gravitational anomaly that, in reality, is a trick of perception. Proprietors claim their mystery spots sit atop areas where the normal laws of physics don’t apply, and they invite you to experience the phenomena (usually created by rooms built on a slant) by walking up walls or witnessing water flow uphill.Įxplore the science, myth, and kitsch of the mystery spot in these 10 sites around the world. The draw is the mystery, and the mystery is usually gravity, or the lack of it. Tourist traps that they may be, mystery spots date back to the Great Depression, extant pieces of Americana from a bygone era reliant on old-fashioned optical illusion to amaze and intrigue.

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Painted roadside signs often with prominently-displayed question marks advertise a local oddity you can pay a small admission price to explore-and maybe check out their gift shop, hay wagon ride, or zip line too. If you've ever taken a road trip across America, you might be familiar with the hokey tourist attraction known as the mystery spot.