In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Grey Eagle Mining Company built a gold assay office just up the hill from where the placer mine tailings were slowly shoving Sardine Creek westward. Gold Hill, Oregon, was aptly named. Within twenty years the building stood abandoned. Intense rain triggered a mud slide that carried the building down the hill and left it lying twisted and tilted up against a large maple tree. Visiting it today, you might notice what remarkable shape it's in, despite a hundred years of insults and countless visitors. There's a reason for that.
Early this century the commercial potential of a twisted and tilted fun-house was recognized by forward thinking entrepreneurs. All it took was some judicious preparation, possibly the embellishment of oft-told Indian legends, and dropping a mysterious circular sphere of inexplicable influence dead center on the "Fabulous Oregon Vortex," which included the newly-minted "House of Mystery" (1). This roadside tourist attraction opened for business around 1930, and has been raking them in ever since.
"So," you say, "surely there is something more to such a long-standing attraction then mere illusion?" If the terrain within the 165-foot circular area possesses paranormal phenomena, they weren't apparent last September (1997) when three members of Oregonians for Science and Reason (O4SR), Ted Clay, a skeptic from Ashland, and Josh Reese and myself, both from Salem, visited the site.
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Grey Eagle Mining Company built a gold assay office just up the hill from where the placer mine tailings were slowly shoving Sardine Creek westward. Gold Hill, Oregon, was aptly named. Within twenty years the building stood abandoned. Intense rain triggered a mud slide that carried the building down the hill and left it lying twisted and tilted up against a large maple tree. Visiting it today, you might notice what remarkable shape it's in, despite a hundred years of insults and countless visitors. There's a reason for that.
Early this century the commercial potential of a twisted and tilted fun-house was recognized by forward thinking entrepreneurs. All it took was some judicious preparation, possibly the embellishment of oft-told Indian legends, and dropping a mysterious circular sphere of inexplicable influence dead center on the "Fabulous Oregon Vortex," which included the newly-minted "House of Mystery" (1). This roadside tourist attraction opened for business around 1930, and has been raking them in ever since.
"So," you say, "surely there is something more to such a long-standing attraction then mere illusion?" If the terrain within the 165-foot circular area possesses paranormal phenomena, they weren't apparent last September (1997) when three members of Oregonians for Science and Reason (O4SR), Ted Clay, a skeptic from Ashland, and Josh Reese and myself, both from Salem, visited the site.
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