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a.saccus:
DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THIS IS?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_fe_st/wonder_spot


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8|:shock: If I lived closer, I’d go check it out. :P Any ideas? :/   

:cool: P.S. -- And thanks, Joe, for the neat SMILES CATALOG. :cool:

Bluelamp:
I suspect it's one of those optical illusions where they mess your brain up by making the angles not 90 degrees.  He's probably selling cause it won't work in 4th density :)

Annette1:
http://www.mysteryspot.com/index.html

You may want to visit this site.  Last I looked they had an article that explained the whys and wherefores of the Mystery Spot.  Basically, it's an optical illusion from my understanding. There are several around the country if you want to check one out.  If you are anywhere near this particular site another interesting place is the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California.  The link is for the mystery spot located in Santa Cruz, California.

Alana:
Actually there is a road on the mountains in Cyprus where you can stop your car completely and the car goes upward by itself, instead of downwards! I don't know if it's the same thing though, and when i experienced it, i thought, cool! but never looked more into it.

rs:
I have been to the Mystery Spot and I assume the Wonder spot is the same thing.  The Mystery Spot is a cabin deep in the woods on the side of a hill where the construction of the interior plays serious games with your sense of direction.  Basically your eyes tell you one thing, your balance organ tells you something else, and the whole time this guy is going through this well rehearsed patter about mysteries and gravity and metaphysical mumbo jumbo and other such nonsense.

It is a Load of Hooey and if the guy giving the patter is any good (like when I was there) it is a whole lot of fun and worth the few dollars and the hour it takes.  Plus you can get some great pictures out of it (like one where you are standing at an impossible angle) to freak out your friends and family.

Its basically a tourist trap and whether or not you will enjoy it depends on your sense of humor and how willing you are to go along with ridiculousness in the name of a grand joke.  I thought it was great fun - but I am easily amused. ;)

The Winchester House is another tourist trap well worth the effort.  This was the house owned by the wife of Winchester of "Winchester Rifle" fame.  She felt guilty making all of this money off the blood of those killed and had these seances where she would ask the spirits what to do to allay her guilty conscious.  They told her to do all of this stuff to her house like put a door in the second floor which simply goes out the side of the house to nowhere.  All of these things she dutifully did.  The result is mind-blowing.

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