The Oregon Vortex is a glimpse of a strange world where the improbable is the commonplace and everyday physical facts are reversed. It is an area of naturally occurring visual and perceptual phenomena, which can be captured on film. No matter your education or profession you will find a challenge to all your accepted theories.
The Oregon Vortex is a roadside attraction that opened to tourists in 1930, located on Sardine Creek in Gold Hill, Oregon, in the United States. It consists of a number of interesting effects, which are gravity hill optical illusions, but which the attraction’s proprietors propose are the result of paranormal properties of the area.
Oregon Vortex is also famous for “height change” as the apparent relative height of two people varies, depending on where each stands. The explanation for the strange phenomena is that they are caused by optical illusions. Distorted backgrounds induce a forced perspective, as with an Ames room. The Oregon site also exhibits phenomena similar to those perceived by visitors at the mystery spot located outside St. Ignace in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
The House of Mystery itself was originally an assay office and later used for tool storage, built by the Old Grey Eagle Mining Company in 1904. But the history of the surrounding area, The Oregon Vortex, goes way back to the time of the Native Americans.
Their horses would not come into the affected area, so they wouldn’t. The Native Americans called the area the “Forbidden Ground”, a place to be shunned. Many years before The House of Mystery was built it was noted that unusual conditions existed there. However, it was not until well into the 20th century that any effort was made toward a scientific analysis of the disturbance.
John Litster was a geologist, mining engineer, and physicist. He developed the area in the early 1920’s and opened it to the public in 1930. He conducted thousands of experiments within the Vortex until his death in 1959.
According to en.wikipedia.org; oregonvortex.com. Source of photos: the internet
