Kevin Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2005 03:04AM
America's premier mystery spot is the Oregon Vortex near Gold Hill, Oregon,
open to the public since 1930. Tennis balls really do seem to roll uphill here,
brooms really do stand on end. After subjecting many spots to rigorous, very
scientific tests, our Mystery Spot Test Kit TM indicates that the Oregon Vortex
is the most disturbed.
What causes the mysterious goings-on here? No one knows. One theory is that a
great beam of "high velocity soft electrons" exits the earth through
the vortex. Another claims that a giant underground device produces the weird
effects.
And there's always a new theory on the gift shop shelves, or the latest
explanation of how TIME speeds up and S-S-L-L-O-W-W-W-W-S-S-S down in a vortex,
depending on where you stand and when. One man who apparently knew the secret of
the Oregon Vortex -- John Litster -- studied its effects first-hand for more
than forty years. He even corresponded with Einstein on the subject. What he
uncovered no one will ever know, for he burned all his notes before his death.
"The world isn't yet ready for what goes on here," he warned.
Kevin Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2005 03:10AM
cut and paste postings are fun!
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2005 08:02AM
same stuff even the description is found in wisconsin dells... such a tourist
crap
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2005 02:09PM
What's the big deal? They're on a hill.
Kevin Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2005 03:07PM
click the link and read
Kevin Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2005 03:14PM
Here's a little more:
The Oregon Vortex is a location in southern Oregon, near Jacksonville. It was
made famous by an English Engineer named John Lister. Lister arrived in Oregon
in 1929 to conduct mining surveys, when he discovered a dilapidated log cabin
that had been an assay office for a turn of the century mining camp. Lister
noticed that there were some strange anomalies in the magnetic field in the
vicinity of the old cabin. He felt that this field, or vortex of energies went
so far as to warp the fabric of space/time. He set up a series of displays that
he felt might illustrate this.
At the same time as Lister was charting the Oregon Vortex he set up displays
outside and inside the boundaries to show observers its effects. This includes
having two people of different heights standing on a concrete slap. One person
is inside the vortex, the other person is outside. The person standing inside
the vortex is always shorter than the person standing outside the vortex. When
the two people change places, the person who was inside the vortex (and shorter)
becomes taller than the person who outside the vortex (and formerly taller).
There is a large collection of photographs that show strange light effects on
film that were not visible to the photographer when the pictures were taken.
According to the staff at the Oregon Vortex, this phenomenon is different than
that encountered by visitors in the old log cabin.
As an engineer Lister was familiar with the effects of light and complex angles
on people's vision. He set up a series of complex optical illusions inside the
log cabin. These optical illusions include standing a broomstick upright, at an
angle and rolling a bottle uphill, among many other visual effects. These
illusions have been copied by numerous amusement parks since Lister's death in
1959.
Even skeptics would enjoy a visit to the Oregon Vortex to try and
"discover" the secrets of some of the visual effects or explain the
apparent expansion and contraction of people when entering the vortex. I have
practiced with optical illusions myself over time, but if all of this is a
trick, I don't see how it was done. If someone has an explanation, I would be
interested in seeing how it was done myself.
Another interesting note about the Oregon Vortex, it is haunted. Several
visitors to the vortex have seen Lister standing at the top of the sloping floor
of the old log cabin. He is usually seen resting against the wall, laughing and
plucking his eyebrow. The visitors have asked the guide the identity of the man
who somehow got ahead of the tour. One tour guide looked inside and recognized
Lister from an old photograph. After the quick look, Lister disappeared. When
the other tour guides have looked inside the cabin, there was no one there.
Anyone leaving the cabin by the back door would have been seen.
Kevin Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2005 03:22PM
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