Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz: photo of the Mystical Spot, history, legend

Gravity is perhaps one of the most interesting and mysterious phenomena that everyone faces all the time. Everything around is under its influence and it seems that there is nothing surprising in the fact that objects should fall down, supports and buildings should be located strictly vertically, and it is easier to stand on a flat horizontal surface than on an inclined plane. And this is undoubtedly correct, but nature loves to present surprises and contradict its own laws. And in order to see this, it is not necessary to rise into space and experience the feeling of weightlessness, it is enough to visit one place located in the United States of America.

The history of the “enchanted” place

In California, not far from Santa Cruise, there is a forest in which there is a place with a circumference of 46 meters, where the laws of gravity, formulated at the time by Newton, Einstein and other physicists, do not apply.

A very long time ago, scattered tribes of the Oloni Indians lived here, who were famous for their shamanistic rites held in this place. But after the Spanish missionaries came to these lands, the Indians were first forcibly converted to the Catholic faith, and then partially exterminated, some died themselves from such European diseases as measles and syphilis.

For a long time, no one knew about the enchanted place, but at the beginning of the twentieth century, the American entrepreneur George Prater bought part of this territory in order to build a house in which he could relax in the summer with the whole family. The place was very picturesque, the air was clean, the silence was broken only by the singing of birds and the buzzing of insects, in a word, George decided that this paradise was simply created for him.

Having ordered the project of the house, and having hired workers, he began to look forward to the completion of construction, but, having arrived once again at this place, he found that the house was strongly skewed to one side. Attributing this to the lack of professionalism of carpenters, Prater hires a new team, but the effect is the same. Over time, the house completely “slid” down the hillside, like a slow turtle. That's when rumors spread about a mysterious place where water can flow upwards, and trees grow almost in a horizontal plane.

Tour of the park

Enterprising Americans immediately realized the benefits, and in 1940 this place was fenced and named Mystery Spot. Since then, the flow of tourists here has not stopped. Each person wants to independently feel the magical properties of the anomalous zone. A ticket to this park costs seven dollars, and if you come by car, you will have to pay an additional five dollars for parking. The entire guided tour takes about half an hour. During this time, you can see everything, listen to an interesting story of the guide, take pictures and “walk the walls”.

And so, the tour begins. Passing through the even even gate, you run into a path leading to a hill, the slope of which is densely overgrown with forest. If you climb it, you can see the very hut that George Prater tried to build in the thirties of the last century. The building squinted so much that there is a feeling that you are about to become a witness to its last moments. However, it is not. Going inside, you understand that this house will withstand more than one generation of tourists.

A horizontal bar hangs in the hut, hanging on which the body deviates from the vertical axis at an angle of 40-45 degrees. At the same time, it is impossible to explain what force makes him perform these movements. All objects in the room are located at an unnatural angle of inclination, not moving and falling to the floor.

And in general, there is not a single vertical support or wall in the house, even the shelves here do not hang parallel to the ground. If you put a ball on such a shelf, then it will roll not down, but up, causing surprised exclamations of tourists. The walls are specially equipped with stairs that you can walk on at an angle to the floor. Photos in this position look very impressive. Another oddity is the optical effects. If you look at the people in the house from different points, then their growth either decreases or increases.

All visitors are shown a broom, which stands in a completely unnatural position, almost at an acute angle to the floor.

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Mystery Spot phenomenon

It is worth mentioning right away that none of the versions put forward has been proven by scientists and has not been confirmed by scientific research. But at the same time, the number of people who want to explain the Mystery Spot phenomenon does not decrease.

According to one of them, it is in this place deep underground that a tectonic fault passes, affecting gravity. Another version says that all this is the work of (or whatever) alien aliens who have created their hidden bases in this place.

Some are inclined to a pragmatic explanation, suggesting emissions from the earth's crust of carbon dioxide in this place, which causes mass hallucinations.

Skeptics insist that this is just a skillful engineering move. That is, all objects are located in such a way that the illusion of the inclination of the human body itself is created.

But why look for explanations for something that can simply be surprised? Indeed, in life there are not many reasons for sincere surprise and admiration. Although this is a controversial issue, because every sunset or dawn of the sun, every smile of a child, every drop of dew on a fresh flower in the early morning, and even our every breath is a miracle that nature gives us, but which we, unfortunately, already stopped paying attention.

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