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The Mystery Spot

State Parks, Historic Sites, and Museums need your help.

Throughout the country, important state parks, historic sites, homes, buildings, and museums are in trouble. Because of the recent rise in gasoline prices and the general world-wide financial collapse, state parks, historic sites, and museums are in danger of closing. Some are being forced to sell off artifacts and property. Most operate on a thin margin and will not weather these hard times without your help.

Places Earth recently encountered closed state parks in Arizona and California is threatening to close all state parks. The story is similar throughout the country.

Places Earth urges everyone to support these vital and important public resources any way you can. Please find a worthy local or distant historic site or museum that is in financial danger and donate your treasure, time, and talent. Write to your governor and other elected officials telling them to find a way to keep these parks open. It will be your loss.

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The Mystery Spot

Water flows up hill. People change heights. Pendulums spin. Levels aren't. Strange things happen at The Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz, one of only a *few places in the world where physics doesn't work. The 150 foot diameter Mystery Spot was discovered in 1939 and opened to the public in 1940. A redwood forest surrounds this site a little north of downtown Santa Cruz. No one can explain this unusual place. UFOs and natural causes have been attrributed to the strange forces some have experienced.
Open daily, see the official web site for exclusions. During the busiest seasons, reservations are recommended.
465 Mystery Spot Road
Santa Cruz, California 95065
Directions are tricky. See the official web site for map and directions. 831-423-8897

The author has also been to mystery spots at Calico Ghost Town, Knotts Berry Farm, and hopes to visit one in Oregon.

The tour begins with a bubble level that proves that something strange is happening here.


A steep trail takes visitors to the center of the Mystery Spot.

This stair is easier to use than it looks.

The ball rolls up hill on this board.

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This page last updated: Friday, 24-Apr-2009 16:35:24 CDT

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Places, Earth The Mystery Spot

State Parks, Historic Sites, and Museums need your help.

The Mystery Spot

This page last updated: Friday, 24-Apr-2009 16:35:24 CDT

Places, Earth
The Mystery Spot