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Open to the public since 1930. 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.
- Road Map
Road Map to The Oregon Vortex. Hover your cursor over a road...
- Visiting
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- Scientific Info
Scientific Information. The Oregon Vortex is a spherical...
- Area History
History of the Area. The House of Mystery itself was...
- Driving Directions
Follow Sardine Creek Left Fork Road 1.3 miles to The Oregon...
- Back Yard
This is one of the phenomena that occurs at the The Oregon...
- North End
The Famous circular area with its unique phenomena. It's...
- Contact Info
The Famous circular area with its unique phenomena. It's...
- Road Map
- Santa Cruz Mystery Spot
- St. Ignace Mystery Spot
- Cosmos Mystery Area
- Confusion Hill
- Mystery Hole
- Oregon Vortex
- Spook Hill
- Mysterious Road
- The Uphill-Downhill Road of Ariccia
- Magnetic Hill
Location:Santa Cruz, California 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. Mystery houses are essentially rooms or houses built on slants of at least 2...
James Marvin Phelps, Flickr Location:St. Ignace, Michigan—Upper Peninsula Mystery spots typically come with their own origin stories, and there seems to be a formula to the history, exemplified by the storytold by the owners of the mystery spot at St. Ignace: “In the early 1950s, three surveyors named Clarence, Fred and McCray came from California ...
Location:Rapid City, South Dakota The Cosmos Mystery Areavaries the narrative behind its attraction slightly, saying it was discovered in 1952 by two college boys looking for a place to build a summer cabin. They decided to set up shop in an old house where they felt the most off balance. The gift shop at the Area sells “the famous crooked Cosmos s...
Wikimedia Commons Location:Piercy, California The Campbell Brothers of Confusion Hill add a dash of the mythical to their mystery spot’s lore with claims that the elusive (and extremely fictional) Chipalope(half chipmunk, half antelope) originated at Confusion Hill. According to the Campbells, there was a magical accident that combined two happy ma...
Wikimedia Commons Location:Ansted, West Virginia While other mystery spots acknowledge they’re not really pulling the wool over anyone’s eyes, the quaint Mystery Holeof 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 a...
SloopRiggedSkiff, Flickr Location:Gold Hill, Oregon The Oregon Vortex—home to the House of Mystery that was once a mining company assay office and a curios shop—amps up the pseudo science behind its spot with an explanation that connects the Oregon Vortex to all vortices in the universe and alleges that its force is strongest when the moon is full....
Richard Elzey, Flickr Location:Lake Wales, Florida Spook Hillof Lake Wales, Florida, claims, according to local legend, that its gravity hill (an exterior optical illusion created by the land surrounding a road) was created by the ghost of either a huge gator or a Native American chief who fought each other in an epic battle that formed the lake at...
Location:Jeju, South Korea With the horizon obscured from view (making it impossible to gauge an accurate level), trees leaning toward sunlight, and the surrounding land actually going downhill, a slight downward slope can appear as an upward slope at a gravity hill. And that's just what's happening at Dokkaebi Road or Mysterious Road on South Kore...
Google Street View, via Atlas Obscura Location:Ariccia, Italy The magnetic hill at Ariccia outside of Rome offers the same phenomena. Hills like these don’t necessarily come with an outlandish story, since the forces that trick the eye and defy our sense of equilibrium aren’t as visibly manufactured as the sideways-leaning mystery spots. It’s confi...
Location: Black Rock, Australia The large red magnet sculpture on the side of a public dirt road in rural southern Australia indicates the location of this magnetic hill—one that legend says can trace its discovery all the way back to the 1930s when the site was known as Bruff’s Hill. Former farmer Murray Catford says an acquaintance driving his ne...
- Joel Arnold
Aug 8, 2022 · Opened in 1930 by John Litster, the Oregon Vortex and House of Mystery is a roadside attraction on Sardine Creek in Gold Hill, Oregon where gravity-defying oddities occur.
- The Thing.
- The Mystery Spot.
- The Oregon Vortex/House of Mystery.
- Cosmos Mystery Area.
Apr 18, 2007 · Americana Through the Years is a series of archival photographs, snapshots, slides and postcards from classic American roadside attractions. Wonder spots, mystery shacks, vortexes, confusion...
Fun pit-stop, well worth finding! The Oregon Vortex and House of Mystery was a fun one hour (almost) roadside attraction. The phenomenon is interesting, somewhat complex and definitely difficult to explain! The House of Mystery has a lot of optical illusions, but the Vortex is eerily unexplainable.
