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Feb 26, 2024 · Many new forms of entertainment emerged, including mystery spots. Although only a few people were familiar with these places, some of them still remain popular today. In this post, we’ll be taking a closer look at a well-known mystery spot, officially known as “The Mystery Spot,” located near Santa Cruz, California.
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- The Bermuda Triangle. As far as mysterious places go, the Bermuda Triangle must be the most well-known. Covering an expanse of 500,000 square miles, the Bermuda Triangle is rumored to be smack bang in the Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Miami, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda.
- Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania. Until pictures of what looked like a UFO hovering started circulating back in 1968, Hoia-Baciu Forest was still relatively unknown.
- The Tower of London, England. Set in the capital of England, the ominous Tower of London once served as a place of gristly torture and execution. Considered the most haunted place in the UK, the tower is said to be home to tormented spirits who roam its dark stone passageways.
- Area 51, United States. This place is a conspiracy theorist’s dream come true! Steeped in mystery, Area 51 is no doubt one of the most peculiar places in the United States.
- 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...
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So, those are some of the top mystery spots all across America. Just another way that Stuckey’s is helping make road trips fun again. Stop by one of your nearest Stuckey’s locations today on your way to or from a mystery spot today.
Jan 14, 2020 · Millions have visited the Mystery Spot over the past 80 years and many continue to come back to witness the weirdness and solve the mystery. Even after advances in science, no one has solved the ...
Jun 22, 2020 · 1 / 26. William Whitehurst/Getty Images. Mysteries around the globe. There’s nothing like a good mystery, especially when it’s been unsolved for a very long time. These places are full of...
Sep 26, 2021 · The Mystery Spot is open 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased in advance at the Mystery Spot's website.
