The experience of the House of Mystery is a guided tour through the vortex area which is a small circular area located in the middle of nowhere in southern Oregon. Whether the vortex is real or just an illusion is ultimately for you to decide, all I can offer to you is an account of our experience at the vortex that fateful, hot afternoon in July which indeed was quite mysterious. On the day we visited the vortex one of the first things I noticed was how many insects were flying around and then I realized why for as we proceeded into the wooded area of the vortex, there was not a single bird in the trees above us and in fact we didn’t see or hear any animals in the vortex area during our tour that day. However legend has it that long ago Native Americans deemed the Oregon Vortex as a sort of sacred ground as their horses refused to ever enter the vortex area. These optical illusions skeptics claim are created by the natural landscape in the location and the angles of the structures built upon it, creating distorted backgrounds which in turn lead to people experiencing a forced perspective, or in simpler terms, a manipulation of a person’s visual perception. Now skeptics will say that these unexplainable and mysterious occurrences are the result of optical illusions instead of mysterious magnetic forces. A few of the experiences people have when they are there include watching objects, in our case a glass jar, roll uphill, a broom stand on it’s own and unexplainable height changes meaning depending on where you are standing in the vortex you may find yourself suddenly much shorter or much taller then you were just a few feet before, a sort of Alice and Wonderland effect if you will. Now I say claims because like most supernatural and awesomely strange places, the Oregon Vortex and House of Mystery have their fare share of skeptics. ![]() ![]() The Oregon Vortex is one of a few vortex’s around the world that claims to be a place where some of the rules of the natural world, such as gravity for instance, change because the latitude and longitude of its location is said to create strong and strange magnetic forces in the area. ![]() After a few wrong turns and creative detours we finally came upon a large sign pointing us toward our destination, a place I had been meaning to visit for years, The House of Mystery! The House of Mystery is every bit as cool as it sounds and originally was an old gold assay office built in the early 1900’s, right, smack dab in the middle of the Oregon Vortex. Our next destination required us to take a little detour off I-5, winding through the gravel roads that snaked back and fourth through the hills of Southern Oregon. Although John and I would have loved to spend another day in Ashland, Oregon I had planned for us to make a special stop on our way to Portland which unfortunately meant we had to hit the road.
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