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Oregon Vortex

A roadside attraction at Gold Hill, Oregon, opened to the public in 1930, where people seem to change height and balls appear to roll uphill inside a tilted shack. Promoters called it a magnetic or gravitational vortex.

1930 CE · 42.49, -123.08 · status: explained

The sceptical view

The effects are optical illusions caused by the tilted building and sloping ground with no level horizon.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Oregon Vortex
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