

Inside, it’s like a two-room fun house, with tilted walls and an angled floor and ceiling. Then the tour makes its way up a hill to a crooked wooden cabin, where things get even stranger. People seemingly growing and shrinking is just the start. It should come back in a couple of days, don’t worry.”

“You can see you have grown a little bit. The man is definitely taller than the woman - right? Well, Oberto makes them trade places. “So as you can see, you’re looking at just about the top of her head, and you’re looking at about his bottom lip,” he tells them. She’s standing just outside the invisible border of the Mystery Spot. A man and a woman step forward onto level concrete slabs and face each other. Trees grow in warped shapes, people lean at unnatural angles and animals keep their distance.įirst, Oberto calls for two volunteers. The tour takes visitors through the small piece of hilly forest, less than an acre in size, where strange phenomena seem to occur.
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He leads a group of a dozen skeptics through a series of demonstrations, which are clearly meant to hush the naysayers. “My name is Rob, and I will be your tour guide today. “Welcome to the Mystery Spot, you guys,” says 20-year-old Rob Oberto. Ever since, tourists and locals alike have felt the pull of this self-described “gravitationally anomaly.” The quirky roadside attraction first opened its (crooked cabin) doors in June of 1941. The Santa Cruz Mystery Spot has been defying the laws of science and puzzling visitors for 75 years.
