![]() ![]() ![]() Speculation is part of the fun at this roadside attraction, and scientists are not exempt. Left: The entrance to the Mystery Spot, located in the redwood mountains outside Santa Cruz ( Sanjay ach/CC BY 3.0) Right: Not all things are as they seem at the Mystery Spot in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Then there are those who cite supernatural forces haunting the surrounding forest. Others say it’s simply a natural magnetic anomaly, perhaps a quantum wrinkle that can’t be explained. Some have claimed extraterrestrial interference, with unidentified craft causing an anti-gravitational pull. Indeed, in places, small persons appear large and large small, depending on where they stand.Īnd the curiosities continue, while fascinating theories abound as to the reasons behind all this madness. Balls appear to roll uphill chairs stand up straight on the walls and bodies lean to impossible angles without falling down. Once inside the circular twilight zone, spanning 150 feet (46 meters) across, one will observe a wonky wooden cabin with people feeling lightheaded, nauseous, or woozy inside or struggling to walk and stand up straight. Visitors come from all over the world to experience the strange topsy-turviness of this supernatural-seeming wonder, though logic and science have yet to fully explain it. But it’s no children’s fiction novel you’re in, for there is a real place called the “Mystery Spot,” where things are not as they seem, where the law of gravity appears to not apply. If you stumble on a certain neck of the woods around Santa Cruz, you might think you had wound up in Alice’s Wonderland.
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