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"The Oregon Vortex is a spot about 165' in diameter in which gravity appears to play strange tricks. Roughly in its center is an old wooden shed, once an assay office for a gold mining company-now called the House of Mystery. People who enter the building find themselves leaning at an angle of about 10 degrees toward the center of the 165' circle. A 28-Ib. ball hangs at an angle from a chain hung on a beam in the shack.


Other weird things happen in the vortex. Cigarette smoke makes spirals. If an empty glass jar is placed on a board sloping uphill, toward the center of the circle, the jar will roll uphill. Compasses don't work in the vortex. A light meter will register different readings within and outside it. Birds won't go within its limits. Trees growing inside it have limbs that droop and lean toward magnetic north, and visitors entering the area assume a posture that inclines toward magnetic north. If 2 men of equal height stand a short distance apart, and are viewed by a 3rd observer, one will seem to be taller than the other. According to a guide: "As another person retreats from you toward the south, he becomes taller. This is contrary to the laws of perspective, and must be seen to be believed." -trivia-library.com